Bash’s treatment of empty associative arrays when set -o nounset is in effect is infuriating.

Worked around it by putting a bogus value in the array so that it is never empty.

Spent a few minutes finding all the status pages for all the services I use so that I don’t have to find them later when I’m having issues.

systemd enable is such a misnomer.

Barely set up box keeps defaulting to using nano and I’m confused as anything.

📷 Loop support

1. Screenshot list view a page at a time to clipboard.
2. ⌘-N to create new document in Preview.app, which uses the image on the clipboard.
3. Use text selection to do the OCR.
4. Paste into text editor and massage into CSV.
5. Repeat until complete list copied.

Yeah, one could try to hunt down the SQLite database and reverse engineer the schema, but it isn’t worth it for a once-per-year thing.

Woman making announcement at a concert in the desert:

Can the girl who brought Redd Kross here come up here? Caroline or whatever?

(pause)

You got lost with us.

(pause)

My acid is in your car. It’s an emergency.

(from Desolation Center 2018)

Personal state of streaming at the end of 2024:

• Dropped Disney Plus and Curiosity Stream.
• Continuing Criterion Channel, WOW Presents Plus, and Nebula.

📺 Breakmaster Cyliinder - “Mad Max: Fury Road Rescore”

The iconic chase with the soundtrack completely replaced by a mashup artist.

📺Abandoned - Soviet Space Shuttles

The old Buran program craft remnants continue to decay.

Just watched They Drive by Night (1940).

A really wandering plot. Criterion labelled it “noir”, but I don’t know that I would consider applying that label.

I might never think of automatic doors the same way again.

Recreating approximately 15 years of accumulated mail rules is not fun.

Glad that I was forewarned so that I could save a webarchive of my old rules.

Today’s fortune(8) is another fine Zippy the Pinhead quote:

I HAVE to buy a new “DODGE MISER” and two dozen JORDACHE JEANS because my viewscreen is “USER-FRIENDLY”!!

Watched Arrival (2016) again.

It is so good, but 😭.

Today I learned that Slack has a per-person limit of 23 reactions per message. There can be more than 23 reaction “reacji” on a message, but they’ve got to be from multiple people.

RISC V continues to progress in measured steps.

I find the existence of the yes command to be a failure.

yes | sudo unminimize

🙄😞

Finally learned how to get Zsh help to work properly. Had to do a bunch of other stuff to get HELPDIR set appropriately for my setup, but, finally.

Sticker graffiti got me to go to a band’s Bandcamp page and listen to them. Unfortunately, from their YouTube channel, they broke up last month. (No, I’m not going to link to them.)