#had a two hour mass 😞

[zaddyazula]

school year is finally done

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27 March 2023 5:38 pmpdt Monday

in 2018? I tried looking on the internet for all hit and run occurrences. It was difficult for me to find. 5:40 pmpdt

diarrhea feeling 5:40 pmpdt 😞😖😭

28 March 2023 Tuesday martest

7:47 pmpdt tried to add something about 1-2 hours ago but it would not save. Read previous? Post. I think a piece was deleted or I accidentally forgot to write. The part below my waist- groin/pelvis/hips/butt bones part seems to have gotten smaller. 7:50 pmpdt I’ve heard a story of a 17 year old exposed himself to maybe a little girl around the age 4-6 years old and possibly locked themselves in a bedroom together. And intentionally left out the sister who was probably around 8 years old. I tried to search for it online and I found in the search but didn’t open the page that a 14 year old boy did something to an 8 year old girl. With dugard & Ramsey stuff, we don’t know where Levine & carter draw the line. 7:54 pmpdt last year I thought the incubus was hinting there was a s*x video of the two of us he’s circulating to a mass of people but he did not show it to me and it seemed like I was imagining it until I read some stuff online. Maybe it was one comment that I thought might have alluded to it but I’m not sure. (Vag acid? Pain 7:55 pmpdt) maybe it’s another trick to make me look crazy. And if he really did what insurance would I have if he planned to kill all those people soon? Why would he give me a sign when I was around 13-14 years old to remember and interpret now that he was going to lie about it but then seemingly take it back? With the s*x tape? Was it a deep fake? Is he really trying to con me now? But needs an alibi? So people don’t think that he did something to Ramsey and other little girls when he was teen and older? 8:01 pmpdt still torturing me making it harder to breathe and stealing my bones. 8:01 pmpdt if he was s*xually interested in behati when she was 11, where would he draw the line now? When I was 13-14 years old, it was 1998-1999. 8:03 pmpdt

1:21 am pdt 29 March 2023 Wednesday I don’t have children and I don’t have a husband left hip bone pain 1:22 am pdt and I don’t expect any favors from anyone. It’s not nice to be lied to in that way. Even if there was a warning. It seemed to be though something I had to figure out on my own Bcz the incubus flip flops all the time and he set up a situation in which he can never be honest 100% of the time. I’m anticipating having a bad fall and. Cracking open like Humpty Dumpty🍳🥚 or getting hit by a car🚗 or dying in a plane ✈️crash.or maybe dying of heart ♥️ failure bcz I can’t breathe 🧘🏻‍♀️ half the day every day. 1:27 am pdt

1:48 am pdt incubus was extremely harsh in punishment to me after I posted the photo links. He hinted at it after toying 🧸 with me all my life and toying 🧸 with my feelings. I think 💭 what he did to me was a 1000% wrong and unethical to do to me. I disdain him and Q for doing what they did to me. I think they are the worst people in the world 🌎. 1:50 am pdt. I hate incubus. 1:51 am pdt

Bcz of what they did to me I will never forgive them. 1:52 am pdt I think 💭 they are 1000% unethical and selfish. 1:53 am pdt

[fahrni]

Saturday Morning Coffee

As I’m getting started it’s a nice crisp 27F outside just before 8AM EST. The sun is out and will be all day. We’ve had a very mild winter this year, with the exception of that polar blast around Christmas, and I don’t expect us to get any snow.🌞

My coffee is in hand, time to get started. Hope you enjoy the links. ☕️

Reuters

A gunman opened fire on Monday night on the main campus of Michigan State University, killing three people and injuring five, before an hours-long manhunt for the suspect ended with his death, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said.

It’s the guns. I don’t know what else to say. Over and over and over again we see this and do nothing. A truly American thing and not one to be proud of. 😞

Chicago Tribune

Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl for the 2nd time in 4 years, beating the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 on a FG with 8 seconds left

I’m happy for the Chiefs and their fans. It was a great Super Bowl, a nail biter, not a blowout. Oh, and the Mahomes to Kelce connection is without a doubt the best in football and one of the best ever. If Patrick Mahomes can stay healthy and have a 20-year run he’ll break all kinds of records and win some more rings.

Macworld

Just short of the 10th anniversary of that first Mac Pro misstep, Apple is now late in concluding its processor transition by shipping the first Apple silicon-based Mac Pro. What’s worse, reports from Bloomberg suggest that the company has ditched the next Mac Pro’s highest-end processor, calling the computer’s entire purpose into question.

Given Apple’s new chip architecture with memory and processor built into the chip I have a difficult time defining what a pro machine should or would be. Maybe you have to accept a new definition? Maybe it doesn’t mean a flexible and expandable architecture?

What I’d like to see is Apple give the Professional computing world a way to use their current investment in Mac Pro a way to replace the x86 based Xeon chips with Apple Silicon. Of course Apple would never do such a thing because money. 💸

Linode

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15, 2022 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world’s most trusted solution to power and protect digital experiences, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Linode, one of the easiest-to-use and most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers.

I follow a number of indie software developers and they tend to use Linode for their service backends. Two that come to mind are Micro.blog, the system I use for publishing my blog, and Overcast, the indie podcast app for iOS. I’m sure there are many more out there I don’t know about. I’ve never done any large scale backend work for my indie endeavors but if I did I’d most likely choose Linode because they’re inexpensive, reliable, and have great customer service.

Hopefully they don’t start hiking prices, laying off people, and becoming a terrible place to host. 🤞🏼

Semafor

Spotify’s podcast push began in earnest in 2016, when Ek invited audio executives including higher ups at Gimlet to the company’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden to explain the emerging American podcast market.

Spotify calls their recorded audio podcasting. It’s not. Podcasting is the audio plus a delivery mechanism in the form of RSS. Yes, you can have a podcast as I’ve defined it behind a paywall. They just want to lock you into their app with their advertising and try to upsell you on other things. That’s fine. It’s their business but don’t call them podcasts. Ok, off the soap box. 📦

I was listening to the Pivot Podcast last night and Scott Galloway point out that very few podcasts make a profit. That’s true of what he defines as a podcast. Remember, this started as an open technology built by Dave Winer and Adam Curry. It was used and loved long before businessmen decided they could monetize it. Just like blogging. It’s was and still is a way for us mere mortals to communicate to the outside world, even if we’re not paid a dime to do it.

Oh, and I have a feeling some of the small podcasting shops are doing just fine, but they do things differently and have well loved shows. They’re just not exclusive to Spotify or Apple or whatever Big Co place you get your podcasts. They’re fully open and downloadable using your podcast player of choice because they’re built on top of RSS as the delivery mechanism.

The key phrase to listen for when you hear a podcast advertised is ”Download wherever you get your podcasts.” Then you know it’s a real podcast.

Crooks and Liars

The hearing got incredibly creepy when Arkansas state Sen. Matt McKee asked a trans pharmacist if she had a penis. “Do you have a penis?” he asked the woman, who seemed stunned at the question.

Unbelievable. I wish we could get past this and so many other things. So many people want to control how others behave and how they live their life. Often times based on some form of religion they’ve twisted to support their hate, disdain, or jealously of others.

Let people live their lives. Show them respect and grace as fellow human beings. It’s not our job to tell folks how they should live. That goes for women, brown skinned people, and the LBGTQ+ community. ❤️

Doctorow

After half a decade of sedate, steady growth, Mastodon suddenly surged, from 600,000 daily users to 2.6 million in the space of months.

Some folks are already writing off Mastodon. Silly people. If you’re looking to get a huge following and interacting with movie stars, influencers, government officials, and the rich and famous, don’t expect that from Mastodon. It’s not built for that. It’s built like your everyday neighborhood for us commoners to engage in. It’s real people carrying on real discussions. Sure, there’s gonna be some hate but there are mechanisms in place to take care of that crap. I love it and I’m excited to see it grow. There’s no algorithm to encourage you to follow people or corporate master to satisfy and no need to grow to billions of users because of it.

It’s like blogging. It’s all open and up to us, everyday people, to keep it. ✌🏼

New York Times

Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of a proposed high school course in African American studies, is a long and complex series of debates about the role of slavery and race in American classrooms.

Talk about hateful, mean, and unsympathetic to fellow human beings. DeSantis is an authoritarian who wants to mold Florida into his own disgusting image. He doesn’t want you to think for yourself or question authority, no sir. He wants a bunch of dumb drones serving the rich and powerful.

Get out if you can. It’s a terrible state. If you can’t, or don’t want to, I wish you luck and hope you find a way to help change the state. 🍀

Joseph Heck

In the past couple of years, I’ve had the occasion to want to make an XCFramework – a bundle that’s used by Apple platforms to encapsulate binary frameworks or libraries – a couple of times.

I don’t know Joseph personally but I’ve interacted with him on the NetNewsWire Slack and Mastodon and he’s a really kind, thoughtful, selfless man. He’s given me feedback on Stream and Mac programming questions. All that to say he’s one of the good ones.

Anywho, this is a great piece on how he built an XCFramework with a Rust core. Rust has become the new, safe, language for creating highly performant software and being able to use it natively on iOS or Mac and integrate it right into Xcode is wonderful. 🧰

Cory Doctrow

Mobile tech is a duopoly run by two companies – Google and Apple – with a combined market cap of $3.5 trillion. Each company uses a combination of tech, law, contract and market power to force sellers to do commerce via an app, and each one extracts a massive commission on all in-app sales – 15-30%!

Web tools continue to improve to the point that native apps may become a thing of the past for many companies. Of course folks like me will continue to do native iOS, and hopefully Mac, apps for as long as we can, but the writing has been on the wall for a long time. Native apps are becoming less and less important with each passing day. Learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

New York Times

Over the past year, we have seen a sweeping and ferocious attack on the rights and dignity of transgender people across the country.

A really great piece by Jamelle Bouie. Please, go read it if you can.

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