Brinens and Things

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: discourse, (arguably) apocalypse] The one about AI artists [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by mindstalk) Old kitchen appliances (and when to replace them); the wonders of mosquito nets. [two comments]

[fairly mild cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by mindstalk) Optimal potato baking.

[arguably cw: discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Anonymous; partly in response to jadagul) The unrelatability of complaints about modernity (or at least these sub-genres of complaints).

(Update: writing that post inspired me to give warc2zim another try, and this time I successfully got it working! (The Linux port of Kiwix can't *directly* display warc2zim files, but it turns out there's a workaround: activate local-server mode and view the file through your web browser.) Mobile access, baby! (*And* it's even slightly more space-efficient!))

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by transgenderer) How to send and receive SMS messages from your laptop.

[fairly mild cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by camwyn) Dutch has some amazing profanity.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by camwyn) The wonders of mosquito nets, disability edition.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by doctorwhoisadhd; in response to itsbenedict) How to play Character Opinion Bingo.

[arguably cw: unreality] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by seat-safety-switch) Solar phone charging, the easy ways.

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Links:

[My Modern Met; Wayback] (by Larisa Crowder) The technology behind heated car seats, now wearable and reversible (that is to say, it can also do cooling). (Kind of expensive and hard to get, but I suppose new devices usually are.)

[cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by the United States Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate; h/t siderea) How to disinfect monkeypox fomites, and how not to.

[arguably cw: venting] [The Millions; Wayback] (by Rebecca Steinitz) A personal view of anosmia. (I came across this link buried in an old email, where I was recommending it to others. It's interesting to look back at it now, having developed a very different relationship with anosmia.)

[Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Jonathan Lamont) Payment-method optimisation is about to become *even more* complicated. My parents can't keep up as it is.

[Imgur; Wayback] (h/t Marri) Ordinary office worker in the streets...

Laugh rule:
[cw: illness] [Jenneral HQ; Wayback] (by Jenn)

Relatedly, as a #millennial, the whole #supportlocal lifestyle where I go to 4 specialty grocers for specific ingredients instead of one (1) Loblaw is very appealing to me.

(...I admit that this line is significantly less funny after I looked it up and discovered that the singular of Loblaws *is* sometimes "Loblaw", and not *always* also "Loblaws".)

Comments on my own posts:

A major overhaul of the respirator guide, integrating new things I've learned.

The one about vacations from prioritising

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by magnetictapedatastorage) How to analog-hole. [two comments, sort of]

[arguably cw: war, discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Anonymous; in response to mitigatedchaos) How to set up a society with the network power and carlessness of large cities but not the sensory overload or vulnerability to bombs; probably not actually feasible from here, but great to steal for worldbuilding purposes.

[arguably cw: scrupulosity] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by worldoptimization) Effective altruism and its compatibility with self-interest.

[cw: medical, discussion (but not inclusion) of infohazards] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by garmbreak1; in response to the-dao-of-the-zerg) Why not to play music in public.

[cw: aging, medical, (fairly mild) illness, (fairly mild) injury, (arguably) venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by paradigm_adrift) Not all health changes are negative.

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Links:

[University of New South Wales; Wayback] (by Neil Martin) A proof-of-concept of infrared solar panels. The headline calls it "night-time solar", but the real killer app here might be devices (particularly medical implants) that run on body heat.

[Pompeii in Colour; Wayback] Virtual museum exhibit: "A Roman Home".

(previously on)

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The Youtube auto-transcriber now gives you the option of seeing the entire transcript at once, rather than having to wait for each line of caption to pop up: click on the three-dot menu (next to "Save"), then click "Open transcript". And yes, that podcast I was looking at earlier has a Youtube mirror now.

The main downside is that it doesn't distinguish between different speakers. That's fine for one-person speeches, but gets a bit confusing with a three-host podcast. There's also still some issues with homophones, obscure proper nouns, and occasionally mistaking obscure words for more common ones that aren't *quite* homophones, but it's pretty easy to figure out what it meant on those.

It was interesting to note that the auto-transcriber *does* know how to spell "nanowrimo", and knows that a string of words occurring after "you can also find us on twitter or instagram at" should be run together into one word.

I felt an urge to draw last night, which is not something that happens to me much lately. I didn't have time that night with New Year celebrations, but it was even stronger this morning, and I figured I should go with it. I thought I'd share the results with you.

[cut for length and images: about 5.5 MB worth, if you're deciding whether to use metered data on it]

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[cw: apocalypse (in links)]

Reading this, this, and this in the same span of time sure is a trip, huh.

In which *some* but not *all* podcasts use auto-transcripts, so you can't immediately disregard something for being a podcast.

I was hoping Just Plain Wrong had a text version. :(

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Listen Notes informs me that Google is willing to run their auto-transcriber on anything played through Google Chrome (not just Youtube videos), but 1: fuck Google Chrome, and 2: it sounds like it only *captions* rather than transcribing per se, so a 36-minute episode would require 36 minutes of hanging around watching for each new word/line to pop up (as opposed to dumping the audio into a processing queue, going off to do other things, and getting all the text at once later).

Mom's gotten a dose of Moderna!