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WordPress block themes have grown on me.
Spent a couple hours this weekend sprucing up tcpinball.org. Found this lovely block theme and it all came together quite nicely.
Had a strange bug where the Navigation block stopped working on certain pages. Didn’t find the actual cause but it fixed itself when I disabled the Gutenberg plugin.
I’ve gotten sick of explaining why matrix is bad over and over so I’m gathering my thoughts and some points here and publishing it so i can link to it.
I’ll update this later with more info when i can.
Here’s an excerpt from one of the times we’ve complained about it on tilde.chat:
15:25 <remyabel> their reference client is slow, had an unnecessary/confusing rename and you can't delete your account
15:25 <remyabel> you can only "deactivate" it
15:26 <Shell> also on a technical level it's just an /awful/ protocol
15:26 <~ben> extremely disruptive 1way bridging
15:26 <Shell> with a huge amount of weird bugs as a result of the fact that the devs... just have no idea what they're doing
15:26 <~ben> completely nonexistent abuse mitigation
15:26 <Shell> and haven't for years
15:26 <~ben> _huge_ resource hog if you want to try to run a server
15:27 <Shell> and yes, the approach to bridging is basically to leech off everyone else, demand huge amounts of support from volunteers who never agreed to it in the first place, and give nothing back.
15:27 <Shell> Matrix literally wouldn't have a userbase if it wasn't for IRC.
15:28 <~ben> they only care about usercounts
15:29 <Shell> they have, at various points, refused to employ people to work on the IRC bridges, while the bridge was horribly broken and led to security breaches and ban evasion, while simultaneously advertising them as a primary reason to use Matrix
15:30 <Shell> and it's not really an "open project" as the words "Matrix Foundation" would have you think - the entire thing is driven almost entirely by the Matrix.org people, anyone else's input into the project is largely ignored in place of the Matrix.org roadmap.The connection to amdocs is FUD and not worth discussing
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I finally got sick of some outstanding bashblog bugs and decided to rewrite my blog with hugo
There are several major bugs in bashblog that I haven’t had the time or interest to fix. Luckily, I have my blog source in a git repo, so the messed-up files are relatively easy to fix up.
My theory is that the cognitive load of dealing with those bugs has been preventing me from writing any new posts… (among other current events).
Plus I guess I just needed a project!
It was a bit of a struggle to get my blogposts converted over to a proper format.
bashblog maintains the tags with a plaintext link line at the bottom of the file and keeps track of modify dates on the filesystem using date -r and touch -t to keep them up to date.
This makes it hard to work with the blog in any place other than where it’s already deployed live. Additionally, parsing the tags to another format was a bit of a headache…
I ended up writing a little script to pull the timestamp from bashblog’s generated html since I no longer had the original file metadata.
I’m always tempted to play with the publishing process instead of actually writing.
We’ll see how well I can avoid the temptation now!
A common and seemingly reasonable argument for white pride or white nationalism is: why can’t I be proud of my culture?
Well, you can. Always have been able to. We have Irish pride celebrations, we have German drinking festivals, we have Serbian food festivals. Any European culture you can think of has multiple organizations in North America dedicated to taking pride in their heritage and NO ONE gives them shit for it.
But, you see, when you start talking white pride, that’s not a culture. That’s a skin color. There is no white culture, never was. There is no pan-European culture, never was. Europe is a continent, not a culture or ethnicity.
Now, some of you are probably about to go, but wait! Black pride! How is that okay? Well, easy. Go find a black person and ask them if their ancestors were slaves. When you find one who says yes, proceed to ask them what country in Africa were your ancestors from? Do you know what their answer will probably be? I don’t know. This is because their culture was taken from them. It was beaten out of them. They were enslaved, Christianized, and then white washed. The one unifying feature they have as a people is that history of slavery and that history of being black. They cant have Liberian pride, or Congolese pride, or insert African country pride because they have no fucking idea where their ancestors came from other than the broad region of West Africa.
Meanwhile us white people can often trace our ancestors to specific cities and regions. I can trace my mothers maiden name to a single fucking village in Ireland. I know where I came from. I don’t have white culture, I have Irish culture.
So that’s why white pride makes you an asshole but black pride actually makes sense.
Sorry for the blast of posts. I recreated them from a wordpress blog on motd.org.
I plan on posting some random thoughts here from time to time. Thanks for checking in.
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment.
For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong.
In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies.
We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite.
So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there.
Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder.
In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality.
I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things.
It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric.
I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness.
You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.
Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn’t take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once.
It’s clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts.
You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother’s mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
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Something that struck me as absolutely outrageous (more than other things that I’ve seen this week) was the connection of the roots of the Republican party to the modern Republican party.
While it never hurts to be proud of where the party comes from, it is completely unreasonable to claim that the modern-day party stands for the same things it did when it was founded.
The Republican party was founded in 1854 on an anti-slavery platform, where it filled in the power gap in the north left by the collapsed Whig party. It saw strong support in the north of the US, where Republicans fought to end slavery. Abraham Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president in 1860.
When Lincoln ended slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation, Democrats in the south resisted, sometimes violently, and sometimes with laws, known as Jim Crow laws.
Eventually, northern Republicans made rich by civil war industry grew tired of supporting the rights of freed slaves in the south. These rich white men became party officials and did not want to give up any of their power. The aimed to protect their own interests. In this manner, the Republican party became the party of big business.
The parties as we know them today were solidified in the ’80s.
It’s entirely inaccurate to claim that the Republican party of today resembles in any way the Republican party at the time of its founding.
I was inspired to write this article by mention of this idea at the convention, as well as this Vox video.