A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
I went to your site at https://simulacrum.party/, as advertised in your profile, to see what your interests might be, with a view to making a sensible suggestion. It returned a 404. So, you know, maybe tech is hard?
Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@jeremycherfas I know how that goes. I’m having some issues with my site too. Timestamps are all off, but unfortunately where it’s hosted, there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it, because the time zone is set to accommodate one of the corporate applications that is also hosted on there.
, Dec 19 2020 on micro.blog
@cambridgeport90 And you cannot override it? I thought there was a setting in WP to do that.
, Dec 19 2020 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas I should be able to. That's the odd things about it. Then again, I think the time zone is off on purpose for some reason. I forget why. My site is not the only one up there, and it is certainly the least important of the applications hosted
, Dec 19 2020 on micro.blog
Also on: @EatPodcast
I have Chrome installed for one reason only: to chat with a good friend who won't use anything else. I used to use Adium, but it won't do it any more. What are my alternatives to interact with Google Hangouts?
I too have been ignoring Spotify's apparently magical Discover Weekly these past several weeks, not because I was feeling algorithmicly manipulated, but because I've just had more of a hankering to listen to whole albums. Unfortunately, unlike Phil Gyford, even when I was doing Discover Weekly regularly, it didn't seem to surface anyone in particular for me. Maybe I should try again.
Watched The Right Stuff, which I had never seen, for the obvious reason, and was very pleased to have done so. 🎥
I was tempted by a fully electric car earlier this summer, but the cruel fact is that in a city or apartments, in which we have no access to a garage (or "box" as they are known here) there just wouldn't be any way to re-fuel. So I got a hybrid. Then, over the past few weeks, the city has been hard at work installing two charging stations on the corner. Currently they are not yet functional, and occupied by gas-guzzling SUVs.
When they are functional, I wonder how the city plans to keep other cars from occupying the spaces. I suspect they won't.
Jeremy Cherfaspublished this
@jeremycherfas ICEing is a problem until there are more space with than without EVSE
, Dec 11 2020 on micro.blog
@jeremycherfas Sad but true, Here on Hawaii Island, retail stores and the county electric utility company have done a better job of installing in chargers with specially marked stalls.
, Dec 11 2020 on micro.blog
I have not yet been bitten by this particular version of helpfulness gone awry, but I am aware it could happen, and I agree with Peter that there really ought to be a simple way to indicate that someone is no longer available to be shared with.
The past month of micro posts served to reinforce my belief in my need for extrinsic motivation.
#mbnov
Crossing pedestrian off my list.
#mbnov
I absolutely refuse to be bullied by a “random” word generator into using a word like mask. #mbnov is a hoax.
Dilemma is one of those words that never looks correctly spelled to me. I dither between dilemma and dilemna for reasons that escape me.
#mbnov
Well, true, but if I cared more about publishing than building a website I wouldn't be running the site off a VPS that I use for a bunch of other things that occasionally conflict with the website and wouldn't have this issue. I'm calling myself out too!
simulacrum party, Dec 19 2020 on twitter.com