I have seen the greatest minds of my generation copied, co-opted, ripped off, written over, memified, stolen, and misapplied whenever they put their best efforts into the work they post on the internet. I have no illusions that my own work has become grist for the mill. I’ve seen it. Most of my readers are …
Category Archives: Software
Mastodon Test, Formatted
So, I changed the ActivityPub plugin format type back to “Note”, have enabled Media federation, and am testing the conveyance of formatting to Mastodon. This block of text is in bold. This block is in italics, but not because it’s Italian. In Spanish, that’s called “letras bastardillas“, but that says nothing about its parentage. Don’t …
Handset Snips Music at the Ankles
A few days ago my Pixel 4a phone, running Android 13, started exhibiting a problem where I can play music in VLC, pause it with my Bluetooth headset, wait a few minutes, and when I unpause with the same headset, I get no response. Crickets. No music plays. So I wake up the screen, see …
There’s an App For That
A bit of a test
Forced Hands
Testing to see how Android is fucking up firefox. I mean, it looks right so far, but jesus christ is it laggy. Android has some hate for FF. Like, Facebook text entry box gets the letters scrambled if I type too fast, which is just fucking astonishing. I’m really starting to hate the future. Ok, …