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Computer Programmers Labor Union
I had a page on here with that title, and it got a little traffic. This was back in the 2000s. Times have changed a bit, and there are now a lot of programmers with union contracts. Here’s a…
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Rabbit Hole – the Western Fascination with Asian Fascism – Trans and STR8 WMAF Fetish – Racist Mass Murder – and the Rosemead movie
I’ve marked some of the links on this page with Trigger Warnings for Extreme Racism (TW:EXR) and Racism (TW:R). Reading these can be emotionally disturbing. Take breaks if you’re reading the links. This past month, I stumbled into a…
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
Symptoms: The earpad came off. The rubber peeled off, and a lot of facial oil was in the earpiece. The foam part slipped off, and underneath, there was a lock ring, which holds the earpad onto the earpiece. Explanation:…
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
This is the best DIY dustpan video so far. He makes it from a canister, and cuts the canister in a way that will take advantage of the bends and corners already molded into the canister. He uses wood…
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
Meta was barfing, so I turned to Claude, to help with something I’ve never been good at: Gutenberg Blocks. I asked it to make a block that writes the shortcode. I guess it did exactly that, but that’s not…
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
I gave Meta AI a break, because I had to do most of the refactoring and debugging by hand. I lost track of time, but I’m guessing it was 4 or 5 hours work, because I had a typo…
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
I upgraded my MINT 20 install to MINT 22, and everything ended up a bit of a mess, because so many things were updated. Normally, it’s easy to figure out the situation, but I couldn’t find docs to get…
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
At 1:10, you can hear the bell. That’s a Teletype, a remote controlled typewriter from the 1930s. It has an actual bell inside! Originally, teletypes were used like telephones. Two teletypes were connected together, either by wire, or by…
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Directory Structure Checking Script
This is a script to check if my photo archives conform to my naming rules. My archives look like this: Right now, it’s approximately 65,000 files totalling 96GB, so it scales up okay for me. It might not work…