AJ Jordan alex@pump.strugee.net
Seattle, Washington
20. FLOSS zealot. GitHub fan. Ultimate player. Stack Exchange addict. UNIX philosophy subscriber. Sysadmin. Conference attendee & speaker. Freshman in college as of fall 2017. I am the primary maintainer of pump.io, the principal author of StraticJS, and a comaintainer of PRISM Break.
pump.io meeting, 2020 edition (today!)
2020-12-18T11:53:10Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
After a LONG hiatus we're having a pump.io meeting TODAY, 2020-12-18 at 20:00! Details (including the agenda and how to connect to IRC/XMPP) are on the wiki as usual: https://github.com/pump-io/pump.io/wiki/Meeting-2020-12-18
Feel free to edit the agenda if you want, or just stop by and say hi. See you there!
tenet
2020-11-25T09:05:57Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
whelp, so far #Tenet has:
- instantly made me want to watch it again as soon as the credits rolled
- pulled me into it like no other movie ever, thank you very much IMAX
- made me cry after drinking wine (technically this was THE PROTAGONIST on the soundtrack but still)
what's next
Supernatural realism
2020-10-17T04:23:02Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I've been rewatching some Supernatural and honestly I have no problem with the demons and ghosts and stuff but what I find really unrealistic/have the most trouble with is that no government knew about them? like if everything in this show was real CDC would be telling everyone to get an anti-possession tattoo along with their vaccine for tetanus and whooping cough (i.e. at 12) and people would be like, did you hear Sue doesn't have an anti-possession tattoo? she's an anti-vaxxer too
and somewhere in NYT, not on the front page, there would be some headline like "Experts Worry As Another Cluster of Shapeshifters Surfaces in Reno" with a subtitle about how it was the fourth cluster found that year
(bad?) joke
2020-07-17T08:44:20Z via Puma To: Public
the SARS and MERS coronaviruses be lookin at SARS-CoV-2 like https://youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs
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genie
2019-08-24T16:36:40Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Genie: "you have freed me. What will your one wish be?"
Me: "The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119..."
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(Inspired by yesterday's xkcd, of course...)
lol
2019-06-10T00:17:44Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
@BankofAmerica any plans to support Webauthn for Bank of America logins? Webauthn is a new industry standard for security and helps prevent phishing attacks. As a customer I am concerned about my account security and want to use my new Yubikey with BofA.
Make ReCaptcha's "I'm not a robot" accurate
2019-04-24T05:03:54Z via Pumpa To: Public, Evan Prodromou CC: Followers
forgot to put this on social media but I finally released my browser extension to "fix" ReCaptcha's text! here's a blog post about it with the motivation, a screenshot, etc.: https://strugee.net/blog/2019/04/make-recaptchas-im-not-a-robot-accurate
shoutout to @Evan Prodromou for the idea!
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terminal day mode
2019-04-15T04:46:49Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
"that's why I'm so confused about that code. like, did you turn on day mode?" - my resident looking at another resident coding with his terminal set to black text and a white background
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GSoC 2019
2019-04-09T18:15:16Z via Impeller To: Public CC: Followers
Whelp, I applied to GNOME for Summer of Code 2019. Fingers crossed!
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I thought you had better taste 😎
Home from LibrePlanet
2019-03-26T06:50:51Z via Impeller To: Public CC: Followers
FINALLY made it home from LibrePlanet, after 7 hours of driving... and some engine trouble 20 minutes into the trip to boot. But it was all worth it. I'm a broken record but thanks one last time to the @fsf staff who worked so hard behind the scenes at making it amazing - and to friends new and old!
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LibrePlanet meetup idea
2019-03-25T04:32:38Z via Impeller To: Public CC: Followers
Idea from today's unofficial LibrePlanet meetup: a website just for wholesome stories about tech stuff you did as a kid. E.g. me running around the house installing everything I could because I thought that was super fun.
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Not bad 😄
I just realized I didn't cite my sources (oh no!) - shout out to Kat Walsh for this *excellent* idea
GPG smart card suckiness
2019-03-21T01:00:38Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I'm losing my mind trying to import a backup of a GPG key on my lost smart card. even though GPG clearly imports the whole key, it still "helpfully" insists on a smart card.
out of all the bad user experiences in GPG, this is probably the worst so far.
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Matrix sequels
2019-03-10T08:55:30Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I just keep thinking like... what if they made the Matrix sequels over again, but like, didn't make them suck. they could actually be pretty good
funk
2019-03-08T07:14:01Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I think I'm in some sort of funk. I dunno, the last couple weeks have just been terrible. maybe I need to cut back on activities or maybe I just really need spring break. :/
$5 for publishing a Chrome extension
2019-02-28T08:48:20Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
current mood: very annoyed that the Chrome Web Store (@ChromiumDev) is apparently going to charge me $5 to distribute a dinky extension I wrote in an hour for free. I just want to have some fun man
Publish it for Firefox and don't help the new IE 😎
JanKusanagi at 2019-02-28T13:14:54Z
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@JanKusanagi I thought about it but it's making fun of Google so I want it to be available in Google's browser :P
Opportunity FOIA
2019-02-26T02:08:10Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
someone submitted a FOIA request to NASA asking them exactly how they broadcast music to Opportunity as it was dying: https://space.stackexchange.com/q/34185/889#comment107090_34185
I love Stack Exchange
also as a side note when reading these Q&As and also when writing this post I honestly legitimately teared up, we miss you Oppy <3
2019-02-20T06:30:54Z via pump@steevie Web To: Public CC: Followers
@congressdotgov there's no "Get Alerts" button on https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6714 …. it's not documented anywhere and I can't find a contact email address. help? is there a bug tracker or something where I can report this?
There wouldn't be any alerts right now. Currently we're in the 116th Congress and, per that URL, that bill is from a congressional session that has expired.Stephen Michael Kellat at 2019-02-21T03:30:48Z
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@Stephen Michael Kellat oh, interesting. If it was reintroduced then, would it have to get reintroduced as a brand-new bill, with a new bill number?
Yes, it would have to be reintroduced.
There is no public bug tracker to the best of my knowledge. The response form you seek is http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-webcomments.html
Stephen Michael Kellat at 2019-03-02T17:03:45Z
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@Stephen Michael Kellat thank you! That's very helpful.
FOSDEM hotel
2019-02-20T05:32:37Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I just got an email from the hotel that I stayed in for FOSDEM two years ago and it made me smile :-)
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Dijkstra quote
2019-02-14T06:29:52Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
"The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making." -E. W. Dijkstra
Yeah, we really nailed that one...
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