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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I find one line particularly powerful, and it’s been used in a couple famous songs.


    Jenny Lou Carson (1944), made popular by Willie Nelson (1966)

    I’d trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday For what good is life without the one you love I’d trade all of my tomorrows, they’re worthless anyway If my arms can’t hold the one I am dreaming of

    Just an empty world is all I have before me I’d give anything if you were with me now I’d trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday I don’t want to live without you anyhow


    Kris Kristofferson Me and Bobby McGee (1969)

    And I’d trade all of my tomorrows For one single yesterday Holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose Nothin’ left is all that Bobby left me.






  • In the US, a University is usually a collection of colleges. Each college has a somewhat independent structure from other colleges within the University, and each is led by its own Dean. Each college has different requirements of entry and provide rules for what it takes to get a degree from that college. But ultimately, you get a degree from something like “The University of Whatever, College of Engineering”. All the colleges have some certain amount of oversight and guidelines set up by the overall institution.


  • You can blow out a candle

    but you can’t blow out a fire.

    Once the flames begin to catch

    the wind will blow it higher.

    … And the eyes of the world are watching now.

    They are the last lyrics of Biko, by Peter Gabriel. The way he sings those lyrics as the song builds toward the end hits me every time I hear it. The last line is sung after a slight pause, and it sounds like a veiled threat to the leaders of South Africa that killed Stephen Biko. Also, it didn’t take a long time for change to happen in South Africa after the event, but when he wrote the song it was still several years away. So at the time it was still wishful thinking that “the wind would blow the flames higher”.









  • I was using one of the various publicly-hosted teddit sites (like https://teddit.privacytools.io/, which is currently rate-limited). It is pretty easy to import your Reddit subscriptions into one of these instances and have it show just your normal subscription content. You can’t comment, but it was nice for lurking while Lemmy content was still coming up to speed.

    I was able to easily launch a Teddit instance on my Linux server yesterday for my own usage using the Docker instructions on this site. It’s not rate limited because I’m the only person using it.

    https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

    I just saved that example into a file called “teddit.yml”, and made the changes that they mention for non production usage:

    Change ports: - “127.0.0.1:8080:8080” to ports: - “8080:8080” Remove DOMAIN=teddit.net, USE_HELMET=true, USE_HELMET_HSTS=true, TRUST_PROXY=true

    Then I just ran this command and I can use it on my home network.

    sudo docker-compose -f ~/docker/compose/teddit.yml up -d

    I just access it with a browser at http://192.168.1.6:8080

    For getting your Reddit subscriptions loaded into it, there is a trick to get a text list of your list of Reddit subscriptions, which you then just paste into a .json file and import into any teddit instance from the webpage. See the bottom of this post.

    The .json file just contains this, with your list of subscriptions in a comma-separated string with double quotes: {“subbed_subreddits”:[“AskReddit”,“LifeProTips”,“Music”],“theme”:“dark”,“flairs”:“true”,“nsfw_enabled”:“true”,“highlight_controversial”:“true”,“post_media_max_height”:“medium”,“collapse_child_comments”:“false”,“show_upvoted_percentage”:“true”,“show_upvotes”:“true”,“videos_muted”:“true”,“domain_twitter”:“”,“domain_youtube”:“”,“domain_instagram”:“undefined”,“domain_quora”:“”,“domain_imgur”:“”,“prefer_frontpage”:“true”,“show_large_gallery_images”:“false”,“default_comment_sort”:“best”}

    ----------- Downloading your Reddit subscriptions as a text string ---------

    1.) Visit this site in a desktop browser while logged into your account: https://www.reddit.com/subreddits

    2.) Paste this into the address bar, but don’t press enter yet.

    javascript:$(‘body’).replaceWith(‘<body>’+$(‘.subscription-box’).find(‘li’).find(‘a.title’).map((_, d) => $(d).text()).get().join(“\”,\“”)+‘</body>’);javascript.void()

    {I’m not sure if the formatting of that command always displays properly on Lemmy or your app. The part in the join() section is: doublequote backslash doublequote comma backslash doublequote doublequote}

    3.) You might have to manually type the “javascript” text at the beginning of that command in the address bar because I found that Windows or the browser ignores that part when you paste.

    4.) Press enter, and you should get a text list of your subscriptions displayed in your browser that you can copy and paste into any text document, like the above-mentioned.json file. Just manually add a leading and trailing double quote to make it work with that teddit.json format.