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it has free entry, and there weren't many people there, so you'd think i could just walk up at the desk with my gf and ask to go in? or get a ticket at the desk?

ahaha, no.

i had to scan a qr code to get to a website where i could book a ticket…

… for which i had no mobile connection because i was indoors at the museum, so i had to walk outside first. then i had to fill in my legal name and email address… twice, with copy-and-paste disabled…

but then it'd just give me the ticket, right? no :)

… i get an Email. telling me i have ordered a ticket. and i wait a minute or so to get a second email telling me i have now actually received it. but then it's attached to the email, right?

no! i must now log into the account i just created!

which is just a tap, right?

…nope. i have to go to the website. and then enter my email again. and then choose the option to log in without a password, which i never created. and then confirm i want to do that. then i must open my email to get the third email, providing a link that lets me log in…

…at which point, I just have a ticket? no. i must now explicitly accept the terms and conditions of the service i have apparently been forced to just sign up to.

and then, finally, my ticket is right there… inside a pdf, which i must download

lmfao

oh and that's forgetting to mention the worst part! you can't book tickets for two people at once! my gf had to go through the same excruciating process herself, repeating every single step! a true bureaucratic experience

so today i visited https://www.insm.de/ 's neoliberal agitprop project, the “bureaucracy museum”. it has no actual exhibits, it's all… anti-government vibes expressed through cheaply produced art. no surprises there.

what's hilarious though was the bureaucracy they put me through to get inside!

These are the new Draconian laws to enter a #library in #Idaho. Apparently libraries are extremely dangerous to the status quo.

@KeithDJohnson @glyph it’s… pretty much as bad as it sounds, though it’s the library doing what they can to work in a hostile environment

seems Idaho decided that if a minor checks out a book their parent doesn’t like, the library can be held legally liable, so the unrestricted card is the library making the parent say “I consent to my child checking out anything they want”

(some more info, because it’s even worse than I made it sound: https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/)

On google was meaning to search for "hydrocarbon" but accidentally typed "hydrocabron" and now I'm wondering what that would be. A guy who's at the lake with a jetski and he's bullying all the swimmers? Like just driving way too close and splashing them with the wake and the swimmers are all like tu puta madre! and he's like jajajaja

I haven't printed labels yet so the keys are not properly labeled but it's mostly together now

fun thing about this keyboard: I designed it on my laptop, which is currently stuck at work unpowered. I never shared the files anywhere, so I'm currently at home and can't program the keyboard because I have no idea which pins are which... unless I REVERSE ENGINEER MY OWN KEYBOARD!

For anyone on the Contacts team at Apple…

FB14170572: Add "Date Deceased" field to Contact records

I think one thing I'm learning about my preferred computering style is that, even though it can be really helpful when a computer guarantees you have done things The Right Way, I prefer being able to build slapdash solutions on the fly, as I need them.

Nushell and Elvish with their structured data is just too annoying to me for a shell. Give me the rawness of text streams.

I actually really love Rust and its algebraic type system, that's an incredibly satisfying way to write. But it also makes it hard to interact with existing libraries in languages with fewer guarantees, which makes you really dependent on cargo and crates.io. Give me the rawness of C or the expressive potential of Lisp. (Though if I could have both, I would love that. Sadly they are mutually exclusive.)

I love Guix, it's beautiful and clean and fun. Being able to roll things back, guarantee reproducible package management, it's all wonderful. But give me the raw systems of Arch or FreeBSD where I can just clack out a few reconfiguration commands with no build step.

I must move slowly and fix things, but give me tools that let me break things, because sometimes the safety just isn't worth the guard rails.

2014: How do I get robots notice my website?

2024: How do make my website impossible for robots to survive?

Breathless wall to wall coverage of transphobia from Sunak, Starmer, and Farage, but nothing at all on the trans kids protesting their exclusion from health care.

Same link I shared yesterday. Pleas spread it far and wide.

https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support-grows-as-teenage-trans-activists-enter-their-third-day-of-protest-at-nhs-englands-headquarters

Do you want to live under alt-right dictatorship?
[Yes]
[Ask me 4 years later]

Once again and all too soon, pride month is over. Once again, it's time for the next month in the LGBT year.

Do you associate each Unix command line tool with a specific sound in your head so that grep | sort | cut | uniq | head goes blurp wibble snick fleep wuff or is that just me?

worldbuilding a dystopian future where Earth is divided into six numbered regions, and seeing how long it takes people to realize they’re DVD regions

Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish peom: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.