Profile for chris
- Display name
- Christopher Snowhill
- Username
- @chris@losnoco.net
- Role
- admin
About chris
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- website
- https://kode54.net
- 💞
- @kevin
- pronouns
- he/him (they/them okay)
- Discord
- https://discord.gg/4A6mrhtfAz
- Github
- https://github.com/kode54
- age
- 44
Bio
kode54 / kuroshi, primary maintainer of Cog for macOS.
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Happy New Year, West Coast!
Night-night, fedi
Hmm *sees UK Online Safety Act* looks like the correct solution is for most of the internet to just blackhole the UK and stop doing business there. ezpz with a Cloudflare geoblock
Parents semi-rant, Bigot Bucket mentioned
My mom gave a check to the Bigot Bucket because they were “really good to her” in San Francisco in the 1960s, and she swears they were being nice to gay people she knew back then. They rewarded her by sending her an envelope and a form to request info about a “Capital Gains Bypass Trust” that the “average” family can tax dodge their $2MM into. God I wish we had $2MM. On that same note I still can’t convince my dad that Joanne Rowling is an Awful Person. Or that trans people using bathrooms being a problem is in the imaginations of assholes. He seems to be coming down from it slowly, though, except I can’t seem to stop him from reading “news” sites when he’s not playing Solitaire. At least he isn’t spending all day on Facebook any more.
Like, does anybody out there know who will do at-home pickup of toxic waste and/or dead batteries, including UPS lead acid cells? Asking because I don’t want to have to explain to an Uber driver that I’m transporting such things as that in their car. And I’m the impossible American who doesn’t drive.
Congrats to the new Twitter for handling the load. #bluesky #blueskydown
God fucking DAMMIT. Why did nobody tell me the 10G ethernet in the Mac mini was so goddamn flaky? It drops for 3-6 seconds at a time every few minutes. Unlike every other 2.5G device on my network.
That Mandela Effect moment in the making, where you suddenly think of a place called Vembria, then go Googling, find a supermodel, eventually find the keyword "Soviet", then find that you were actually thinking of Thembria from TaleSpin. Man, I haven't watched that since it was originally running on Disney Afternoon.
what the hell is this crap sent to my dad? must be awful urgent, it even has a "tracking code" ... printed on the mass printed envelope
Please, more #apple #mac reviewers, consider using #amorphousdiskmark in your disk benchmarks instead of either BlackMagic or AJA.
*cues up streets.mid from Duke Nukem 3D*
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce,
Special orders don't upset us
Why the hell do fruit cups have to be in syrup? If they can make them with noxious non caloric sweeteners / laxatives, why can't they make them without?
Actually, I quite like having zero barriers to reach my eyes and ears. I'll miss my hourly bot posts.
Why are we using scare quotes on "M4" when talking about new Macs? Are we still too terribly pissed that new CPUs are only incremental improvements over last year's models? Who gives a fig, it means we can finally stop lockstep upgrading constantly as technology slows down.
I carved a virtual pumpkin! You can grab this and carve one, too! https://adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver #halloween #pumpkins
subtoot: why does the same person keep calling some computer a "M4 MB(not really)P" ... is it not really a MacBook? or are they implying they're not really for professionals? ¿Por qué no los dos? I guess I'm not really into Apple hate. Then again, I thought M4 hadn't launched in anything but the iPad Pro, so I guess I don't know, either.
Random fact: I've done about 1.3 TiB worth of WAN traffic in the 6 days 22 hours my router has been up.
Long winded Mastodon client rant
Does anyone know any #mastodon clients other than #tuba or #tokodon for #linux #desktop that can be similar to the #icecubes client for #ios/#iPadOS? These two desktop clients are sort of okay, except they tend to decrease my usage of the services terribly, frequently due to limitations.
Tuba works fine, and picks up all my notifications, but doesn't support more than a single account. Plus its spell checker seems to be going haywire here. It's highlighting the capitalized Tokodon, iPadOS, and in this paragraph, it's underlining the "doesn" of the above contraction. The "Check Spelling" feature also doesn't appear to indicate any idea of what it's offering in correction of the misspelled words, only a red underline to indicate an error.
Meanwhile, Tokodon doesn't have a spelling checker that I know of, but does break notifications in fantastic ways. Any time my boyfriend shows up in my notifications timeline, the timeline ends just above his post. If he's the most recent post, the timeline is empty. Great going, I can't track his posts at all with it, unless I happen to see them go by in the busy normal timeline.
At least both of these clients are better than some of the ones I've used that don't even observe your instance's posting limits and impose the upstream defaults regardless of what the server reports.
What is with #uber always directing drivers to use the freeways? At least where I live, the freeways are constantly bumper to bumper, with a huge number of trucks delivering crap to all the warehouses around here.
Just had a food delivery take a 20 minute detour across a quarter mile of clogged freeway before they got off to take the service roads for another 20 minutes.
politics
Subtoot: "The Tories just changed from blue to red"
Is this some "both sides are obviously the same" bullshit?