Currently reading: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Lessen the Google Maps flashbang severity

When pulling it up in a new tab, GMaps shows a bright nearly-white gray placeholder during its initial loading phase. (For me, anyway; I dunno what it might do in Chrome because I don't use that crap.) As someone who (a) runs everything in dark mode and (2) tends to leave GMaps in satellite mode, getting blinded by a blank loading page got annoying. I'd expect the relative darkness of natural greens and blues and such only to have my eyeballs assaulted by off-white.

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Testing my inorganic replacement

For some time now, measured in years by this point, I've had a task buried in my digital notebook about finding and figuring out some kind of "room layout" software to allow me to test where furniture "should" go in my house's various rooms. Physically moving stuff is painful enough as it is let alone when it ends up being for naught. It'd be better to move pixels at the proper scale.

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Weekly releases of new TV episodes is outdated and bad

In July I wrote a ranty little three-parter on Bluesky about my frustrations in trying to enjoy Apple's show Silo ⸺ specifically the new third season that started its release on July 3. By the fourth episode, released July 24, I was rather annoyed with the process of waiting a week between episodes. The next day I condensed my feelings into a few skeets:

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Honey, an infamous Paypal scam, finally sees consequences

A year and a half ago I put up a post about how how Honey is scam, referencing research done by this YouTube guy called MegaLag. I started but never finished a follow-up post when said guy made a second and third video. I titled that still-drafted post "Calling Honey a scam is a disservice to scams" because what MegaLag uncovered was absurd.

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Disconnect IMDb from Amazon

I never created an IMDb account for a reason. I just want to look stuff up there sometimes, not have my viewing habits tracked and sold to data brokers. I noticed recently, however, that I was being logged into IMDb through my Amazon account ⸺ something I never would've okayed had I been given a choice. But I wasn't; they took it upon themselves to create and connect my accounts for data-selling purposes.

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Resize images and strip EXIF data with PowerShell

Part of this dumb blog "project" of mine was writing a plugin that would disembiggen uploaded images and strip EXIF data from it. The idea was to drop HIEC photos from my phone into the plugin's form so I could then upload the the resultant JPEG to Bluesky. The new images would be much smaller in terms of file size but also safer from any data hoovering that might be going on behind the scenes.

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Begone, vile man. Begone from me.

Elon Musk is a neo-Nazi. Anyone still denying it at this point is a fool who can't be convinced by reality slapping them in the face and/or balls. "Just because he supports neo-Nazis politically, constantly interacts with and retweets neo-Nazis on social media, and threw neo-Nazi signs on a world stage while high on ketamine doesn't mean he's a neo-Nazi!" Sure, guy. Sure. I guess that Kool-Aid is delicious.

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Write in Google Docs without blinding yourself

GDocs, at least on desktop machines, somehow still refuses to offer a dark mode to its users. It's black text amongst a sea of white and that's it. Yes, you can change the background and foreground colors, but these are "destructive" operations that directly affect the document. When you go to export that document it'll have those colors for everyone else to see. Uncool, bro. Uncool.

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Disabling HDCP and forgetting about it

Apple recently alerted me via push notification that "Silo" hadn't been killed off and was in fact returning for a third season. While the show may not be too highly rated overall, I remembered enjoying it. Since I could only recall tiny bits and pieces, I decided to rewatch the first two seasons as a refresher. I knew, however, that there was a problem with this PC and Apple's content being an unwatchably low resolution even when downloading it.

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