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I convert coffee to code.

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I've been looking around more recently, and the only local FOSS I've found that looks **maybe** good uses playwright and chromedriver, and attempts to fool the anti-scraping measures. Now I'm thinking about writing a script against the APIs myself.

03.02.2026 04:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That was my reaction, too. Last time I did a big burst of eBay purchasing was 2020 or 2021. The story then, as far as I could see, was that all the sniping packages out there were foiled by eBay's changes to require oauth for their APIs + some anti-scraping measures.

03.02.2026 04:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whereโ€™s the CBS News town hall focused on the Democrats assassinated in Minnesota?

04.12.2025 21:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 2644 ๐Ÿ” 744 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 126 ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

Even if this was actually a war, and only Congress can declare war, federal law still applies.

If you believe otherwise, Iโ€™m going to call you a Nazi.

03.12.2025 14:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 836 ๐Ÿ” 147 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

It's all just coincidence, I'm sure... ๐Ÿคฎ

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

03.12.2025 14:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Put differently: Donald Trump was too weak to stand up to Putin on behalf of our Ukrainian allies.

24.11.2025 19:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
the log lady from twin peaks

the log lady from twin peaks

never skip log day

24.11.2025 12:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 91 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Foreground - a breakfast burrito. Behind is the dog poking her snoot at my face

Foreground - a breakfast burrito. Behind is the dog poking her snoot at my face

The burrito inspector has arrived and has some concerns

07.11.2025 16:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 891 ๐Ÿ” 25 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done

07.11.2025 16:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2211 ๐Ÿ” 464 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

Youtube TV: "if we can't reach an agreement and their content is unavailable for an extended period of time, weโ€™ll offer our subscribers a $20 credit."

The reason I have YoutubeTV is for live sports. You missed an NCAA Football Saturday. That is ~25% of the month, which should count as "extended".

02.11.2025 15:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bug 252111 โ€“ Mailer defaults encrypted mail to unencrypted when responding

I gave up on Evolution for privacy reasons after this bug sat unfixed for so long:

bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi...

(I think it took ~10 years for a fix to land.)

19.07.2025 16:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey @socialistdogmom.bsky.social ... can you say what happened to part 2 of the Curtis Maynard episode? It seems to have disappeared from the places I usually get my pods, and my podcatcher didn't cache a copy.

07.03.2025 17:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the event you ever buy ads for SaaS pegasus, "because inspiration is perishable" might make a good slogan.

19.02.2025 12:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I forget who now, but back when I made desktop things for classic Mac OS, an acquaintance used to say something like "If I have a cool icon and a nice about box, I can do anything." A good domain name is that for me today.

And I never thought about it before, but that's the truth about inspiration.

19.02.2025 12:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I haven't given cursor a fair shake yet. It's on my list, but I've been procrastinating on it. Editing much with anything that's not a good vim drives me a little crazy. (I consider JetBrains' IdeaVim to be a good vim.)

14.02.2025 19:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

... where to color in your boilerplate ...

I'm having some great luck feeding it a models file and an html template that's similar to what I want, and getting something that I just need to tweak back. If you could get it to do that with the whole boilerplate, it'd be pretty interesting.

14.02.2025 19:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think there's a real opportunity for you if you can find a good way to integrate something like Sonnet with Pegasus project generation. If you could feed user input (I want an app to track X, Y and Z with ...) *and* tell it where to color in your model so that what resulted was coherent.

14.02.2025 18:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The 2018 Nationals had six players whose next long-term contracts would combine for $2.015 billion: Soto ($765M), Harper ($330M), Turner ($300M), Rendon ($245M), Strasburg ($245M) and Scherzer ($130M).

09.12.2024 04:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 463 ๐Ÿ” 89 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
Date and time are in bottom left corner.

Date and time are in bottom left corner.

You don't gotta hand anything to them, obviously... but is this something that's in A/B testing? When I hover over the date on that site, I see the time too.

And when I visit a specific post, I see date and time as well.

06.12.2024 20:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jorge Luis Borges, 1941, tells a short story that describes something very close to how my relationship with the web has evolved.

sites.evergreen.edu/politicalsha...

01.12.2024 01:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Devil Works Hard but the Passive Voice Works Harder Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

inthesetimes.com/article/comi...

27.11.2024 13:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It Is Journalismโ€™s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

This should feel more like parody than it does.

theonion.com/it-is-journa...

27.11.2024 05:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Howard.

Howard.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ho...

24.11.2024 07:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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They keep using that word "Black Friday". I do not think it means what they think it means.

21.11.2024 14:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Demon Ghoul Alex Jones Sues Sandy Hook Parents No. Bottom.

This article is completely unfair.

abovethelaw.com/2024/11/demo...

@lizdye.bsky.social calls Alex Jones a "sentient shitpost" without evidence that he's sentient. Then she says he's becoming a case of "explosive diarrhea" without acknowledging that diarrhea is much more pleasant than Jones.

20.11.2024 21:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you. My default assumption was that it was a (possibly not-yet-known-to-you) limitation of the software you chose as opposed to a real expression of intent. Feel free to have your tech folks contact me for help testing/narrowing it down. bsky is a good way to reach me lately.

19.11.2024 20:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
My enabled Safari extensions

My enabled Safari extensions

My Safari install is almost vanilla. It almost has to be DuckDuckGo privacy protection. See the screenshot. Sorry to reach out in public over Bluesky... once I got blocked, I couldn't find any other obvious contact info. If there's a better channel to work with you, please point me that direction.

19.11.2024 18:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@boingboing.net

I'm sorry to stop reading you after your recent tech changes. Your anti-adblock script is mistaking my safari configuration for an adblocker (it's not... it only blocks trackers) and won't let me read. And I can't give money to substack. Thanks for years of wonderful things!

10.11.2024 18:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thread of comical/worrying dog crossbreeds:

28.07.2024 14:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 767 ๐Ÿ” 357 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52 ๐Ÿ“Œ 117
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Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it โ€”ย and they deleted everything.

The 'ol SI ain't what it used to be.

futurism.com/sports-illus...

27.11.2023 21:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0