Woozle Hypertwin @woozle@toot.cat

#introductions I don't know what I am, but I'm here.

I write a lot about feelings (especially grief) and dissolving the plutonomy. I code; I record original music; I build shelves; I pull out wisteria; I parent; I friend.

In suspended transition from 2000-2016, struggling towards transgirl since then.

I need to put a message about this on our signup page (which means I need to figure out how to do that), but I thought I'd mention it:

Microsoft's servers almost always reject our mail, and there is no clear process for resolving this. We recently went to the trouble of setting up DMARC (which I still find baffling), but apparently they're still blocking us. I set up SPF years ago, too.

Microsoft's email services include hotmail.com, outlook.com and apparently even some university systems (an email recently sent to uga.edu showed that it was handled by a couple of subdomains of prod.outlook.com -- claiming that had been delivered, but probably to a spam folder).

(Also, just... don't use Microsoft products if you can avoid it.)

Moog Opus 3, digitally enhanced

purchased new in early 1982 or so; now very dusty and mildewy and in need of some TLC

So, upcoming dental expenses have combined with a reduction in income to create a looming fiscal crisis here at Hypertwin Manor -- so I thought I'd better do one of these: https://www.gofundme.com/f/woozle-teeth-repairs

Boosts welcome.​

G%^&$*^&MNIT #GIMP I JUST WANT TO CROP THE LAYER I'M LOOKING AT, NOT BOTH OF THEM.

#softwareGripe

Nominee for the 2021 Buggy Awards, in the Most Useless Error Message category:

Nextcloud, for:

Failed/pending restart (211)

Critics had this to say:

"Restart what? How? Can I tap this thing to retry? [taptaptap] Apparently not." -- Peggy Kass, Aquarian Weekly

"So what am I supposed to restart, and since it's Nextcloud at both ends, why can't it do that automatically?" -- Tom Poston, The New York Times

"Like so many user interfaces I can't understand, Nextcloud left my fingers tapping for more!" -- Kitty Carlisle, Easy Coder

Ladies, gentlemen, and other genders, please remain perfectly still! The software you are using is not written by satanists, sent to lure you into attempting things you already know won't work! ...well, okay, actually it is.

(apologies to TMBG. I'm sorrynotsorry.)

#softwareGripe

Someone needs to file a ticket to have the "no content description for the visually impaired" notice not pop up when the upload is, you know, an audio file. #softwareGripe (minor)

While looking for something mostly unrelated, I came across some old recordings of mine that @Harena had stashed on a hard drive which was backed up on another hard drive.

I think the emotional distance from the headspace I was in at the time has helped me appreciate them a bit more.

This one was recorded on an actual grand piano (but with a tape pre-echo effect) at Guilford College, sometime during the 1982-3 school year.

Okay, what the heck am I doing wrong?

I've tried:

local/*
/local/
**/local
**/local/*

(3^rd one is almost exactly an example from the official docs)

...and yet the folder named "local" is still being included in the commit.

Is this messed up or is it just my brain overlooking something blindingly obvious (yet again)...

Also, I would like to see step-through debugging of every configuration file. Do you think your associates could arrange that for me, Mister Morden.

Web server configuration question -- this has to do with stuff that happens at config time, i.e. when the server reads the config files. For Apache, this happens when you do service apache2 restart or apachectl configtest.

I would like to check for the existence of a file without actually including it. There should be an error identifying the file if it isn't found.

Does either Apache or Nginx support such a thing?

TIL: Ubuntu (or maybe Debian) keeps all of /etc/ in a local Git repository -- presumably so that it can merge changes from upstream without overwriting local changes.

Apparently everyone is ok with the fact that the supposedly-open C++ standard is behind a $175 paywall?