Do people generally consider it useful when someone you want to follow has multiple topic-oriented accounts?

I know I've wished for the ability to follow e.g. "this person's cool projects but not their streams of 40 consecutive shitposts in five minutes" before, but kind of dropped the idea after deciding most people wouldn't tag their posts well enough for a feature like this to work.

(Context: considering swapping out mastodon for gotosocial, and in the process maybe splitting out @'projects/@'catpictures/@'inane_shitposts.)

protip: if you're running one of those fancy future window managers that auto-reloads its configuration immediately when the config file changes

and you're also the kind of person who instinctively saves files every few seconds because you remember a time when the computer could BSoD at any time and you'd lose anything unsaved

and you're also the kind of person who edits config files with any sort of modal editor, in which you really need to know where all the letters are to accomplish basically anything at all

be very careful when copypasting bits of config into your config file to use as a template

for example, if you do this with the section of the niri input configuration page that demonstrates how to change your keyboard layout, intending to take just the line that enables ctrl:nocaps but selecting just a bit too much, you will accidentally change your keyboard layout to colemak mid-edit and have to pull up a picture of a keyboard on your phone to recover

"i have located my genome and am now waiting for it to copy over wifi"

normal sentences from the future

the nerd urge to replace my phone with every sufficiently tiny linux computer that comes out, and just shrug and declare it a feature when voice calls break

boomer audio amplifier (detects songs 70-year-olds would like and plays them louder)

Time for another "Emily wants to buy a device that may or may not exist" thread!

I'm in the US. I have some ungrounded 3-prong outlets, where there are two wires running to each outlet and the ground pin is not connected to anything. I have a device (cheap treadmill) that builds up large amounts of static charge in normal use, expecting to dissipate it to ground. I would like to connect the two together in such a way that the static charge is dissipated somewhere.

- In the US, ground is a separate wire that connects to neutral at the main panel.
- The correct way would be to run new and correctly grounded wiring, but effort, and we're selling this house soon and I would prefer this to be Someone Else's Problem.
- The definitely-not-NEC-compliant-but-would-technically-work way would be to connect ground and neutral together inside that one outlet.
- It's my understanding that adding a GFCI adds protection for the case where you have a short circuit that can't dissipate through ground, but doesn't actually add a ground, and so wouldn't solve this specific problem where the dissipation is specifically static electricity and not leakage from mains.
- There are things like GE 14404 that give you a place for a grounding screw, but I don't think this would work here since the screw would also not be grounded.

Can I buy a thing like GE 14404 but that connects ground and neutral together internally, without expecting an external ground?

I am aware of the reasons for the rule against doing this, and have examined the specific device in question and determined that it is safe in this specific case. Please do not explain electricity or the electrical code to me. I just want to buy a cursed adapter.

landed on a forum with a logo that is simultaneously very cool tech zone and very 1990s google and i cannot decide how i feel about it

I thought `unless` and postfix conditions (`return if blah`) in Perl/Ruby were kind of pointless when I first saw them, but honestly I'm kind of finding myself wishing more languages had them?

I don't know that they should be broadly used outside of a few specific cases (where the LHS is something very short where you won't miss that there's a condition at the end), but e.g. `return unless condition` seems like a nicer way to write the very common `if (!condition) { return; }` form. (Early returns of this form are good and teaching students not to use them because they're supposedly confusing is actively harmful. I'm glad most people who were taught that seem to eventually realize otherwise.)

I also find myself wishing for something like `continue iff condition` as a synonym for `return unless condition`, but `continue` already means something else. (I kind of like `next` more as a keyword for "skip remainder of this loop iteration", but not much else outside of Perl uses it.)

Maybe `require condition` as an assert, and `require condition else return` as an early return?

... also I should learn Raku

getting really tired of people calling bad cars "lemons"

lemons are delicious and do not deserve this slander

just in case anyone needs a ublock origin rule for ebay sponsored item listings:

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(i got offended enough by their persistence that i took it as a challenge)