Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@mejafoss He may well have done us a favor. Now it's on us to keep this place nice.

@KE0FFT Yes, good signal but with selective fading here in Northern West Virginia.

@SexyCyborg Uh, oh. Naomi is powering up "The Machine".

The intense focus on Covid there must be stressful. I'm not sure what's worse, though. Here there is NO focus on Covid, RSV, or flu, all of which are running rampant. Pediatric ICUs full. I just got over RSV a few days ago. It went the full 14 days and there are still lingering effects. Nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. smh.

@Robmccallum I did this a lot in my teens and early 20s. I knew it and I broke the cycle. How? Tell no one about what you're doing until it's done. This worked for me.

@DeliaChristina Ah, well, different management. Can't be offending the racists.

They've become a lot more sensitive over the past 30 years as they've learned, to their shock and dismay, that racism has no basis in science.

@olavf Welp, I guess the next step is to DM the admin of your instance and ask. Sounds like you've done everything from your end.

I know nothing about Mastodon's code but I would guess it runs a task that checks verification links periodically, like once a week. But I'd expect a change to trigger an immediate or slightly delayed check.

I dunno.

@olavf Hmm. I put mine in the footer, Footer C I think. And it worked right away. It seemed that putting the Website link in my Mastodon profile triggered the server to go look.

If you're sure the link you put in WP is correct, you might change the Website link in your Mastodon settings to something else and then back again to tell the server to go look.

https://shuttersparks.net/

@mikemadrid Haven't been back in five days. Oddly, I don't miss it. Not even a little, which surprises me.

@PieterPeach @syed It is. There's an example of it going on right now.

Yesterday I decided to learn the golang programming language. I've been writing software since 1968 so learning another language is something I've done countless times. So far I really like it.

Anyway, I like TUIs (text user interfaces on a console or terminal) and for many years I've used something called ncurses. As my first venture into learning golang, I decided to use ncurses to build some windows on the screen and put stuff into them. That all went fine.

But while ncurses works fine it has little foibles and weirdnesses I can do without. I like certain things to work differently, there are inconsistencies so I have to keep looking things up in a manual, and I don't like the default colors. So I'm now writing, in golang, a sort of wrapper layer that's much smarter and easier to use than using ncurses directly.

Some people might say, "Gee, that's kind of an ambitious first project." But I don't see it that way. I expect to use golang quite a lot in the future and the time I invest now will not only force me to flesh out my knowledge of golang but all future uses of ncurses will be trivially easy.

That's what I mean by "constructive laziness". hah.

@theropologist @popeawesomexiii I remember riding it with my grandmother before it was shut down. (I'm olde).