A large repository of useless knowledge and consummate polymath. I love learning new skills and knowledge and try to apply them throughout my life.
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Last Notes npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…d6ag I read Kingett's (who is blind) commentary on it at https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117031884001259326 and basically stopped paying attention to it. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 That looked interesting when I saw it earlier. Thr markup seems somewhat complicated, more or a latex era than markdown. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 That is one of my biggest frustrations with most subscriber platforms (and diabetes management for me lately, and we were talking about ebook vendors), they want to be your One And Only in that they can connect to other system to consume it, but they do everything you can to make sure their data can't be consumed by others. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 No ebook1 vendor has an API for retrieving sales, much less the other bits. It sucks. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 Depends if you want to cater to the bigger houses. For indie authors, most of them don't have geographic restrictions and don't need DRM. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 One of those sites is on my list of "I want to write" but I need finish some of my projects first. :) npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 Eh, Thunderbird will line wrap for you so I don't worry about it. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 "Super green." npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 I'm using the feeds from https://www.eff.org/rss in Miniflux, or are you using looking for something else? @nprofile…eexk npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 That's one reason I don't put people on pedestals. He says some good things, and his thoughts on Big Brother's copyright had done a lot about my view of distributing my writing, but eventually fame spoils my would-be heroes. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…u76z Every time I get stuck watching a long train pass, I look at every car in hopes that it contains a hidden message that I'll finally understand that will lead me to the supernatural underground and I can have a glorious adventure. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 It requires too many people to look away from prosperity gospel and the belief that only bad people are poor (or healthy). And so many people have their entire belief structures that earning their money (be it via birth, extracting rent, or crime) is somehow better than the people they are preying upon. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Things school don't teach these days and I wish they would: npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 I'll have to check it out. I like using it's ancestry when Phany tries to do too much. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…d6ag I'm really looking forward to the day GoToSocial has automatic post deletion. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…atnr What's the DRM? Direct download EPUB or going through Kobo? npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…atnr @nprofile…pdft @nprofile…7t4r @nprofile…fc7p It was an nominal post that had some vaguely interesting points. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…u76z I like it. Plus there is one episode that majorly influenced my writing which just follows some garbage men through B5 while the main cast are running around in the background. :) npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…atnr Night Calls by Katherine Eliska Krimbriel. Still looking for Child.0's Kobo but this works well for being attached to my phone. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…awd8 That was a joy to read. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…d6ag The "unique user names" is a great idea, but so many sites require emails to use and then prevent you from using "plus codes" to create a distinct email. It is frustrating because I like using [email protected] as my email but so many places say the +ba49d4bf is invalid. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Figured out how to get a Radicle node set up on my servers. I was surprised there was no human front end in NixOS, but I don't see a lot of directions of how to get the explorer working on either NixOS or Arch (which is where I got most of the directions). I'm assuming that and radicle-desktop just haven't migrated over as packages. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…u76z @nprofile…d6ag You two are destroying my dreams, or at least that vague hope of finally being "good enough." npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…lx0q These days, I use VS Code1 for most of my writing (including novels and stories). Those are saved in a text-like (Markdown), but the same principles work for pure text files. There are plenty of options there for "snippets" (auto-complete or abbreviation) which might work for you. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…lx0q What text editor do you use today? npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…7vxc I kind of feel that the "!A" and "!J" would be confusing looking at that documentation. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Yesterday, one of my dad's fellow scientist was doing a major update on dad's code. He sent me an email giving my condolences and talked a little bit about how dad's programs are still in use at the APS program at Argonne. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…q5wq A glorious solution to a problem. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…q5wq Still hard to get the year to date invoice? I used that a lot. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Git For Authors (v0.0.2) npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…q5wq Whenever you say "sausage", I think about walking through O'Hare and seeing the military folks coming home with those tightly packed duffle bags that felt like rocks when they were accidentally swung into my head. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire This is an #amwriting type of question, but what is a good way of finding beta readers? I don't have that much of an audience (though anyone who follows me is welcomed to raise their hand) but I'd like a few folks to give me an alpha read (before the editor) and give me rough ideas if the plot and pacing work, if the characters are interesting, or the "broad strokes" are right. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…pye9 @nprofile…g2yn It's been almost ten years since I wrote my last blog post about using Git with writing projects and it references a forge that has since betrayed me (Gitlab). npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…pye9 @nprofile…g2yn I go one step further and use Forgejo actions to build my books and to publish to my website as soon as I git push. (And use convention commits to version my books.) npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…pye9 @nprofile…g2yn I like seeing different takes on publishing, plus I like the build style projects as opposed to the wysiwyg style programs. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Wow, moving from Nix 24.11 to 25.05 was relatively simple. Only had to change a couple entries, everything built, and it seems to work. I updated all eleven nodes last night. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…3sf2 I wonder how the decepticon slurpers handle the various zero-width spaces and invisible hyphens. Sadly, I suspect that if you put a Markov chain generator, Amazon would claim you are artificially padding your book length and burn you. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…3sf2 It sucks that there is no way to unslurp a book either. :( npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…j0he I'm leveraging @nprofile…96u7 Markdig for doing all the Markdown processing, I'm just overriding their renderers to produce Gemtext which means my work is not that impressive. :P npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…j0he Oh sure, it's in my C# monorepo: npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…j0he I love seeing how people use Markdown like this. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…7dzf We are the "inflatable dragon" folks in our neighborhood. We found out that a couple families like to photograph their kids underneath them. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Unrelated to my previous toot, my younger brother is pressuring me to get my mom's library as soon as possible. Right up into the nagging level as he got it into his head that it is something that needs to be solved "now". npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Today's half hour standup took 1.8 hours. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…q5wq Hey, we make lawsuits and intellectual property. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Writing Mannerisms npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire There are so many US politic posts I want to retweet, but they aren't tagged and I won't intentionally boost a non-topic post about politics. And since I don't have quote retoots and don't have the spoons to summarize them... just gonna favorite and move on. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…pye9 It would be a bummer that you can't subscribe to a single work. There are a few fics that only post a few chapters a year that I follow, but I have to remember to check them when I remember. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…pye9 Awesome, thank you. I didn't mean to lazysearch. I was hunting it down after I responded, but got distracted by Partner walking in. Mostly I was surprised because I never saw the buttons for it, because there are a bunch of ones I'd be subscribed if I did. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…3sf2 I know, but it is also clear that they don't give a shit about what I think or my opinions, so it feels like a pointless endeavor since they've pretty much went on record saying they don't care. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…3sf2 I got really discouraged with my congress critters when their staff just laughs at me and hangs up. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…3sf2 But more eyeliner means you are turning more evil. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire @nprofile…pye9 And subtitle generator that actually syncs with the video for us who are hard of hearing. :D npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire Well, probably should do a self-promo post since it's been... half a year or so. npub13w48m44q3nt6j7adytnduw6nekcn5zv9vuxqfr0rkrs4cn3k7s8sacn44v D. Moonfire While formatting Minion of Evil, I finally realized why @nprofile…pye9's post keep causing a disassociation when they show up. Shannon Ryan's website is https://weirdauthor.com/ and while I have many weird authors in my circles, those two names keep making me think I'm referencing the wrong one.
