🚀 u/clseibold
I only intend to use this accunt for the misfin subspace (and answering questions if I feel impelled).
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On Labels — This feature has apparently been added to various sites over the years, often called badges or flairs, and I just wanted to take a detailed look at reasons cited for why this feature is often added, and why I feel the are overall horrible and extremely unethical when used as forms of punishment or a labelling of other people. The Benefits of Badges Labels and badges can be useful for identifying roles or characteristics about a person that this person wants to share with the...
Creating a Mythopoeia for a Fantasy World — I started reading Tolkien's Silmarillion, and was deeply inspired by his legendarium which attempted to create the mythology that England never had, but deserved (I especially LOVE the creation story, Ainulindale, and the way it beautifully uses music to depict the harmonizing of distinct voices, including Melkor's!). So, I decided to create my own queer legendarium and fantasy world! :D I'm not very far into it, but the following are my notes so...
Poem: Deviant — A poem that I finished recently: I enter the Whirlwind between despair and shame, overlooking the winds that war and the stormy waters preferred: I'm not what they want me to be, but what I am, what I think I am. What is normal here is deviant there. If You formed my inmost being, [1] why knit me for condemnation, bearing me as an outcast, left in the darkness? Your designs proclaim my unnatural status; [2] I am abandoned, lower than ashes. My family and friends have forsaken...
Haven't been on here in a while. Might be done with programming altogether, I'm not sure. But I've tried to keep my Search Engine and capsules up and running. I'm pretty sure WikiGem was still broke after having thought I fixed it months ago. Don't really want to fix it, to be honest. Especially when the library I'm using (go-git) is halfassed and doesn't have the things I need to make the wiki work properly when submitting simultaneous edits. In other news, I'm writing a little bit more, and...
I've been playing around with Lutris on Linux, and I've got a lot of games running. It's quite a bit of work tweaking with settings, inputting wineprefix paths, and all of that nonsense. Sometimes I even have to go into winetricks to download openal or vcrun2022 to get some games to work. But I'm having a much better experience with it than the last time I tried to use Lutris. The automated scripts are cool, but aren't available for everything. Also enabling gamescope works only about 25% of...
I believe I have just fixed WikiGem so that edits actually work again now. It was a permission issue.
Finally got new headphones! I got the Soundcore Life Q20, which I had before and loved. Decided to get them again after I tried a different branch with my previous ones because these are just better. They have really good ANC, support AUX and Bluetooth, and they hold up pretty well. They were also $10 cheaper refurbished, which is pretty cool. My only main critique of them is the ear cups don't hold up nearly as well as the rest of the headphones. But at least the cups are replaceable.
AuraGem and AuraSearch should now be back up. I've temporarily disabled the radio/music service for the moment. But everything else should work as expected.
NOTE: All of AuraGem will be down for the next two days for server maintenance: I'm moving away from Ubuntu Server because it's crap and I hate it, lol; I'll be moving to Fedora Server.
I'm like 85% sure now that there is a memory leak in AMD's linux graphics driver(s). I was using it for many months, and my memory usage would skyrocket, filling up all the swap that I had (if I had any) and then *crash my system.* But since switching to *Nvidia only* (disabling AMD integrated graphics in UEFI), none of that happens. My system doesn't crash, my non-cache memory remains *stable* and my swap doesn't fill all the way up. I can actually use Fedora without crashes now, lol....
If you are a volunteer and have to complain that you have to do voluntary work, then maybe you shouldn't have chosen to become a volunteer in the first place. You literally chose to do the job of volunteering. Yes, I'm looking at you, Fedora volunteers.
I've just started a WikiGem page for the new season of Big Brother (US):
Apparently I can't talk about how I expect Linux to not break due to one non-essential entry in the fstab being invalid without getting hate. Some of you Linux people are so damn fickle and fanatic. Get over yourselves. Nobody gives a crap that you like how abusive the Gnome developers are. People are still going to complain when Linux breaks, just like they complain with every other operating system that breaks. Linux doesn't get special treatment just because you think it should be *revered*...
Major bug in AuraSearch's crawler was just fixed: the robots.txt parser. When the crawler can't find a "User-Agent" string in robots.txt, this caused crashes before, so a long time ago I added code to prepend "User-agent: *" to assume that whatever follows applied to all user agents. And since most robots.txt files use robots.txt for Disallows, it would disallow the crawler from crawling those paths. Hence, the crawler takes a conservative approach when the robots.txt is improperly written....
Watching Zack Snyder's Justice League for the first time. I never realized how much Joss Whedon butchered the first-released version of this movie. Wow. And apparently he's a massive dick too, and tons of actors will never work with him again. He literally cut some of the best most emotional scenes of this movie. And apparently he took The Avengers script and just rewrote it without contacting the original writer. Many of the Justice League and Buffy actors all agree that he was abusive. So...
I've just started the Gemini Protocol section of WikiGem:
Launching WikiGem — I started a general wiki, called WikiGem! Anyone can edit, and it's backed by git, so everything is version controlled, and you can see the commit history of the wiki. Reverting commits will come soon. In the future people will also be able to clone and pull from the wiki to create their own fork, if they desire. This will probably be my last gemini project for a long while, as I'm taking a very long break, after I...
Hytale Mismanagement, Apparently — Just found out Hytale is being cancelled, and pretty upset by that. This reeks of insane mismanagement. Apparently, one of the former developers, DevSlashNull, came out and said the problem was not Riot (who bought Hypixel Studios in 2020), but internal problems to the Hytale team specifically. Additionally, Simon, one of the cofounders of Hypixel, blamed the producers. [https link] Hytale Collapse Blamed on Hypixel Studio's Leadership, Not Riot Games Here's...
The New AuraGem Ask — AuraGem Ask's overhaul is about 95% complete, but it's done enough to announce publicly! AuraGem Ask is basically like Stack Exchange, but for Gemini. You can post questions within specific topics, people can post answers to those questions. Users can upvote answers they like, and the person who posted the question will (in the future) be able to select their preferred answer. Aside from UI tweaks and the switch from...
I've been working on completely overhauling AuraGem Ask. I'm very close to being finished! It's a lot of UI and UX improvements.
I've just added a *very* experimental AI detector to my search engine crawler. Unfortunately, it's *extremely* slow, so I will have to find a different solution for ai detection. I will probably have a separate process that just goes through the entire db and runs the ai detector on everything, at least to get every row filled. After that's done for everything in the db, I will just run the ai detector only on pages that have been detected as having changed. Idk... we'll see. I also need to...
AuraSearch Issue Tracker — I now have an issue tracker here on BBS for my AuraSearch search engine. I've also fixed the feed aggregator so it only crawls new urls from gemsub feeds, improving its total time to crawl significantly. And I've just fixed all of the publish dates in search results and the aggregator so they display in UTC.
AuraGem Search Improvements — The recent changes to the AuraGem search engine and crawler have now doubled the crawling speed and made searches consistently take up less than 1 second of time! And the memory usage is no longer excessive like it was before. So I would say the change was very successful! Backlinks and the feed aggregator are messed up atm, but other than that, it seems to be going great.
Changes to AuraGem Search — I'm currently in the process of moving my search engine database from Firebird to Postgresql. The entire search engine crawler data will also be rebuilt from scratch. The process is almost complete, I just need to move over the actual search querying sql code to postgresql's version of searching. I will also be completely redoing a lot of my crawler code to make it more memory efficient. Previously, the crawler would store GBs worth of crawl data (URLs of pages...
So, I went to my first Pride parade. It was small, like 500 people max. It made me realize something - that people who get upset at a Pride parade are literally mad at what was, for my city, a 15 minute walk down about 3-4 blocks in the downtown area, where everybody wears rainbow, and passes out candy to children. Just think about that. People get mad at a 15 minutes a year event. 15 minutes.
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