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What habits do you have to protect your privacy?
  • I configured the newsboat rss reader for my youtube subscriptions, but you may want to configure another reader that allows you to download/watch videos. An alternative to @[email protected]'s javascript code, you can go onto the homepage of a youtube channel, open up the page source and search for "rssurl". That will give you the rss feed for the channel.

    A lot of readers can do this automatically. It really is nice to watch videos without any of the suggestions or ads. Also, if you use mpv to watch the videos, you can install a sponsorblock script that does away with the paid promotions in the video.

  • UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened
  • The Republican party has led the initial charge, with a series of claims about extraterrestrial life that, until recently, would have been seen as career-ending.

    LOL, more distraction from one party's inability to do their freaking job. It's funny that 1) alien visitors cross unfathomable distances using what must be technology far, far, in advance of anything we have, yet "crash" and 2) These "crashes" only happen in the US, or the US quickly swoops in to take all evidence of this from foreign countries.

    tl;dr Americans are so self-centered and narcissistic it's painful at times.

  • I Compiled the Linux Kernel myself for the first time
  • That just brings me back to starting the compile, getting something to eat, doing chores, and whatever else. Then when it was finally done, booting it up only for it to not boot because I forgot some checkbox. Repeat a couple of times. Nights getting the thing working. And then on the next kernel release, trying to make sure I remembered all the checks because it didn't let you export the current config back then.

  • I had ChatGPT write a userscript that lets you block posts using keywords
  • This is annoying. Still didn't work for me. But I uninstalled violentmonkey (not sure why I picked that one years ago, but I hadn't had any issues before. I installed tampermonkey and it seems to be working for me. Thanks!

  • Why are so many TV shows trying to be "meta" these days? I think it's lazy writing.
  • I thought it was an OK show. Seth can't act his way out of a paper bag, and he insisted on having these awful heart to heart serious talks all the time which just accentuated his inability to act. But I did like everything else having to do with the show.

  • Falling into tight places

    My Grey has taken to "falling" into tight places and it's kind of freaking me out. Clothes hamper, newly emptied trash can, behind the couch, etc. I've had the thing for 25+ years and this is new behavior. Although to be honest, like most of what he does, it's kind of funny.

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    So frustrating

    I'm trying to set up ledger. I have three accounts from my bank. I exported the transaction history, massaged it a bit, and it seems to work fine. I can't for the life of me figure out how to set initial balances without causing more noise.

    I guess I'm just doing this for fun and because I generally like text-based utilities over GUIs. Not sure if I will keep trying. Seems like all the docs, even the get started docs, are for intermediate to advanced users. I can't even get past the "set my fucking balances so they are correct" stage. shit.just.doesn't.work for me.

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    Using at command

    A lot of people haven't heard of the at command, and I just figured I'd post up a little bit about it. I use it as a semi-alarm clock type reminder.

    Structure of command the way I use it:

    echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 'YOUR URGENT MESSAGE'" | at "2pm Jun 18"

    I actually wrote a tiny function so that I don't have to remember the -u critical -t 0 part. That is to keep the notification box from timing out. Now tomorrow (June 18th) at 2pm, a message box will pop up with the text "YOUR URGENT MESSAGE".

    There are options for running commands (like cron, but you don't have to edit, then delete your edit after running). It is great if you don't want to mess with cron, or another utility for a quick reminder.

    My quick little function looks like this:

    notify_me () { if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then echo 'Usage: notify_me "message" time/date' 1>&2; echo ' make sure to enclose message in quotes' 1>&2; echo " also enclose date if it's more than just a time" 1>&2; return; fi; echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 '$1'" | at "$2" }

    So say I have to remind myself to call the wife when the work day is over. I'll do something like:

    notify_me "Check with the ol' ball and chain" "4:45pm"

    I'm sure if you wanted to, you could make a very quick zenity (or whatever you like) gui for it, if that's the way you roll. Now I'll get a nice little pop-up 15 minutes before I check out. Tiny little things like this are why I enjoy the command line so much.

    For more uses, check out the man page, or the tldr. It's not complicated and I find it useful.

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