poznámkový software #turtl má jednu skvělou a asi unikátní vlastnost: vedle toho, že jsou poznámky na disku šifrované, tak nabízí možnost ty citlivé na zobrazování jednoduše skrývat, podobně jako třeba hesla v HTML

dovoluje mi to tak mít všechny důležité informace k projektu/serveru na jednom místě, a přitom nemuset někomu ukazovat/sdílet všechno naráz

typicky hesla na roota u každého serveru ideálně nejsou nikdy vůbec potřeba, a zároveň nejsou tak jednoduše zneužitelná, takže ve správci hesel jenom zavazí

mám ale problém najít obdobnou funkcionalitu mezi aktivně vyvíjeným softwarem

#Obsidian má šifrovací plugin přes PGP, což je velice spolehlivé UNIXové řešení, ale taky zbytečně komplikované, protože mám šifrovaný disk i zálohy

za uspokojivé řešení nabízím 3,2 internetových bodů (možnost osobního předání v Lbc)

Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (web-goddess.org/archive/11192) where I talked about making the mittens, I said:

I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)

You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (developers.googleblog.com/en/g…) as of August this year.

Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery. web-goddess.org/archive/56383

I see Sting's been messing around in the library again 🎶

Credit irl => Orkney Library

In the old #ASCII days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with #Unicode code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa #newzealand

A man (30s?) is shepherding four small humans (3?) in fairy costumes down the street. It's starting to rain, and he's trying to huddle them all under a pink unicorn umbrella, but they're having none of it. Nothing's gonna dampen their sparkle!

In a cafe: A server (20s?) asks a woman (50s?) in a red hat if she's ready to order.
Red Hat Woman: "Definitely! I'm hungry enough to eat the arse out of an elephant!"
Server (Sighing tragically): "Sorry, we sold out this morning."
Red Hat Woman: "Damn! How about a coffee then?"

Three post-apocalyptic punks (late teens?) in vintage leather and top hats decorated in found objects walk into a bubble tea cafe. Two of them order milk tea. One goes for lychee. They huddle up, chatting and laughing around a tiny table.

A man (70s) is talking to a friend: "Interesting fact! Pink Floyd used to travel with all the gear to do a gig anywhere." He smiles dreamily. "Imagine that. It's 1975 and you see them doing a gig on the side of the road. It'd be magic. Just... magic."

In a cafe: A woman (80s?) offers to show some small humans (2 & 4?) how to make pirate hats while their mum feeds their new sister. She soon has them folding paper, picking pirate names and going ARGHH. She says: "I was a school teacher for 40 years. You never lose it!"

Any typos spotted in this post are trying to make a pirate hat. Their pirate name is Captain Umlaut Ampersand, Scourge of the Qwerty Keyboard. (ARGHHH)

I watch the little creatures around my house. They don't seem to care where the world is heading.

The blackbird is tweeting tirelessly, as if it's never heard about X. The squirrel is looking for its bitcoin wallet, buried somewhere in the back #yard. The ants are teaching a chatbot to read pheromones.

I shake my head and get my gardening tools out before the day gets too hot.

#wss366 #microfiction

💡 Insight of the day 💡

Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

andymasley.substack.com/p/indi…

I think more people need to hear this! Especially here on Mastodon.

#ChatGPT #Enviroment

Resigning in the age of LLMs.

2023: you type a polite resignation letter into your email client and click send.

2024: you type “polite resignation letter” into an LLM. Paste the output into your email client and click send.

2025: you type “resignation letter” into your email client. Click “polite”, click send. Recipient’s email client summaries the letter back to “polite resignation letter.”

2026: you type “polite resignation letter” into your email client. Click send. Your sentiment is sent directly without first being inflated by, or recompressed by an LLM. We simply communicate in prompts.

“Goodbye, jovial, dystopian.”

Can I just say I HATE the prevalence of video-only patterns for knitting/crochet these days?

GUYS. If you just show & tell w/out including written instructions I CANNOT DO. I’m not rewinding every time I start a new repeat! I need to check the pattern! We have great tech for this IT IS CALLED TEXT.