Brinens and Things

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges) Making your home's heating robust against electricity outages. (Despite what you might think, having a natural-gas furnace is actually pretty useless for this.) [three comments]

[cw: corporate bullshit] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea) Tips on wresting control of your smartphone back from the corps.

[cw: poverty, (arguably) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by spacefroggity) Is the availability of cheap gemstones (thanks to lab-growing techniques) good? Depends on what jewellery is for.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges) Getting used to OpenStreetMaps.

[cw: poverty, homelessness, discourse (earlier in thread)] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by muchnerve; in response to togglessymposium) What would a world that outlawed long-term rental of living space look like?

[arguably cw: poverty] [Modern FImily; Wayback] (OP by Court and Adam) Self-knowledge is key to a fulfilling life.

(I mean also I kind of *do* feel deprived, but largely because I'm not saving *enough*, seeing as how it's not mathematically possible to save enough when you're only making like ten grand a year in the first place. But that's another matter, and not something I really wanted to get into there: I basically wrote that comment in character as probable-medium-term-future!me. And I *am* better off than in, like, 2017, so there's that.)

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[arguably cw: amnesia] [Medway Music; Wayback] (by Steve Cole) A guide on how to preserve your local music scene using the Internet Archive.



There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.

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Comments on my own posts:

[cw: poverty] Even industrialised, winter is a lean season [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The relative difficulties of various imaginary senses.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The appeal of lottery tickets.

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Links:

[Mastodon; Wayback (on the Wayback version, you must open the image in a new tab to get it to display properly)] (by DialMforMara; h/t cryptovexillologist) Menorah alignment chart.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by sidelinesofcode, but read the whole thread) Elemental-pod memes.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[WordPress; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

I say that with no animus towards Star Trek – I too love roughly 50% of the original series, exactly five seasons of TNG, DS9 and four or five Voyager episodes, like everyone else.

[cw: politics]
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I've had this sitting around in a notepad draft for maybe a year, and today I'm finally going to add in the links/quotes and post it (now on a different platform than the one I originally wrote it for).

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[cut, just in case anyone cares about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 6 spoilers]
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Okay, folks, let's get this show on the road.

The one in which I get IP-banned from Tumblr [comment 1]

The one in which I get IP-banned from Tumblr [comment 2]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] No, Dreamwidth is not just as prone to linkrot as Pillowfort.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by nightpool) Another post on ArchiveTeam's Tumblr-scraping project.

(Re: the ArchiveTeam thing, I gather that some people are [viscerally horrified by the idea of] or [otherwise don't want] their Tumblr ending up on the Internet Archive. While I do not remotely grok this feel--surely the viscerally horrifying idea is that of your Tumblr *not* being archived?--I will note that the Internet Archive accepts takedown requests at info@archive.org.

Also, the Tumblr project is ongoing: while it's too late to save the NSFW *images* of the remaining sex blogs, they can still save the other posts (and let's face it, almost nobody trusts Tumblr not to eventually purge the rest too, either through censorship or through just pulling another Geocities). And even after the Tumblr project either completes or is forced to stop for good, ArchiveTeam has several other projects running, and I for one intend to continue helping out now that I know that's a thing.)

[Tumblr; Wayback] (in response to dreamwidth-help) The backstory behind my "How to Backup Your Dreamwidth" post.

[cw: apocalypse] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by femmenietzsche) The Sentinelese guard us against God.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by oligopsony) Competitive RTS (Real-Time Strategy) players give a new-to-me perspective on the genre.

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[Tor; Wayback] (by Michael Livingston) A sporking† of Braveheart.

[Y Combinator; Wayback] (OP by user patio11, but read the whole thread) Starfleet as an in-universe LARP. (Note: the canonical 47th Rule of Acquisition is "Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own", which is...actually not entirely unlike "never, ever, ever bet against the humans", particularly given that the thread is emphasising how vast the resources and power of the Federation are.)

[cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (I know who wrote this, and it's not a *secret* per se, but I'm not sure if he wants his identity to be *obvious* either) A review of virtual-reality porn, written by an asexual.

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†We're on a Livejournal fork, everything old is new again, I can call it a sporking if I want.