Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat is talkative tonight.

Changed out my falling apart backpack for a lightly used bag I got at an event to use for carrying the laptop around. It's not ideal, but good enough until I decide what I want to do.

Getting in some good book edits today. While I do think that taking this release once it's ready approach will result in a better and more useful book, I am eager to have this done so I can move on to the next project.

I know nothing about this game, but the trophies look like an interesting mix. https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/11037-crypto-by-powgi

@fribbledom Most of that seems like it could be pretty thin wrappers/adapters and there are indeed some neat possibilities for hooking all sorts of stuff into that. The gaming use case is compelling, but I think the easier it is to self-host as much as possible, the more control everybody has over their own experience. I remember when networked multiplayer was modems or LANs. Those games still work in contrast to too many examples where someone else controls the servers that got shut down.

@fribbledom If everybody hosts their own personal social network, what would anybody need a Facebook or a Twitter for?

Another online order came in today. Normally I'd pack that up and carry it to the post office. There's a chute through the wall where boxes with postage can be dropped without having to interact with other humans, but that lobby is no longer open 24/7 and is closed today so there's no point to dealing with that today except to take the money a day earlier so I'll just wait. If more orders come in I'd rather deal with them all at once.

Drinking a tasty coffee from Yemen today. Prior to getting this, it had been a long time since I'd been able to source a good Yemeni coffee. War is bad for supply chains.

@soapdog I would consider reading that.

Someone lost their phone outside my shop a couple days ago and it would be nice if someone called them so we can figure out how to get that back to them. Instead we just know that people ring their doorbell a lot because they have some "smart" doorbell abomination that notifies the phone every time that happens.

@goat@hellsite.site Do the werewolf one.

@Satsuma They were being stored there in preparation for a zoo fundraiser that got cancelled and I guess they've decided to just keep them on top of the frozen food aisles. So, yeah, a whole family of them.

cat: *hunts pie*

Cat is trying to fall off the couch.

Grocery store had a pack of kids awooing near the life size inflatable lions.

@soapdog That last one could be fascinating.

Printer: I'm ready to print.
Windows: LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU!

There's a Windows machine at the shop that pretty much only gets used to print labels, but it's so bad at it. If the printer ever reports any kind of error condition, the computer is like, "I tried and I'm never trying again." Out of paper? There's no way a printer could ever recover from that. If you can find the right service to restart, it'll notice that it can resume printing, but it's faster to just reboot the whole computer and I'm just like, how do you screw up printing that badly?

This mostly only happens over the phone because the beard is usually enough of a hint for people to get it right in person, but the name should also be a pretty good clue if you're going to make a guess. (Or, you know, you could just not use gendered pronouns where they're not needed or if you must, ask?)

Well, it's been a while since I was mis-gendered, but that just happened. Ugh.