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  • In the Golden Dawn tradition (if I read and recall correctly) you start with 1 to 2 if invoking and 2 to 1 if banishing (which is probably the more common of the two)! Yay knowledge no one asked for 🤣

  • What's your hot sauce of choice?
    • Melinda's ghost pepper sauce (kinda my default)
    • Tobasco scorpion (another default)
    • yuca tecca reserve (for tacos usually with another sauce for more heat)
    • trappey's tobacco peppers (for hot dogs, eggs, and chili)
    • Melinda's ghost pepper wing sauce (for nuggies)
  • What's something you enjoy eating that other people think is super weird?
  • Yes, they are super tasty! My parents grew up in the state of Georgia. But I moved to California as an adult and no one here has even heard of them. I get strange looks when I make them (homemade is best!) but I force people to try them and I've never had a single person or walk away impressed.

  • TIL Sweden and other countries removed the text "causes cancer" from the packaging of snus (an oral tobacco product), claiming a lack of scientific evidence.
  • I think they meant that in Sweden they removed the cancer labels? Here in the States (California specifically) at least, General Snus (made by Match) simply has the warning "may cause mouth cancer." Camel Snus on the other hand has no cancer warning at all just "may cause gum disease and tooth loss."

    Like you said regulation is the final say in whether it's on the label or not but these two warnings seem like the States (again at least CA) are taking the harm reduction into consideration as the labels aren't as severe as they are on dip or cigarettes. Sorry if this is incoherent I'm typing on a phone while being talked at by a toddler who says he's seen bigfoot.

  • Sumerian -> Akkadian Dictionary
  • It's crazy to think scribes would have still been learning Sumerian at the time; the wiki page says it was found around mid 1st century BC and at this point the Assyrians and Babylonians had shifted to almost all Akkadian and Aramaic (iirc) and Sumerian would have been a rare thing to study (Ashurbanipal had bragged about having studied the language as if it was a rarity for anything other than perhaps royal priests) but maybe it was still being used in the South even that late?

    Thanks for sharing, very cool!

    Edit: If it matters, I may have misattributed the linguistic boasting to Ashurbanipal; in hindsight I think it was his father Esarhaddon...I feel like I recall reading that he may have been educated in priestly duties and letters because he wasn't expected to have succeeded his father Sennacherib.

  • What are your favourite extensions?
  • So just as a caveat, I imagine Tridactyl would really mostly be appreciated by those with a modal, and specifically Vim inspired mentality; its mission, after all, is to bring vim-like bindings and workflow to Firefox. This is mostly to say, it may not appeal to you otherwise (but who knows!)

    If you are already familiar with how key bindings are set in vim you'll hit the ground running. In fact, many keys are pretty intuitive since they match vim, eg, scrolling up/down is controlled with j or k.

    I may not use every single function built into Tridactyl everyday, but as a person who likes to reduce his reliance on a mouse, I can easily navigate both a page and the web at large entirely with my keyboard. Typing f puts a hint at every link that you can follow by typing the letter in the hint. ]] or [[ can auto increment pages on forums (eg going from page 2 to page 3). I can quickly traverse my history, bookmarks, etc with a command prompt that can also access nearly every feature of Firefox. I often use a binding to pin tabs or close them, etc.

    On a regular day that might be all I do.

    On the other end of the spectrum, I'll give a more extreme example. A friend needed help with his company's wordpress site. They had a couple hundred articles that needed a uniform change. While there was probably an easier and smarter way of doing it, I used Tridactyl (with a healthy dose of pyAutoGui) to automate it. I made a couple of commands in Tridactyl to do things like open certain links as new tabs, navigate to each tab, open the WYSIWYG editor for each page, locate particular text, delete and replace it), save, and move to the next tab and repeat. I was able to do this with about 10-15 articles at a time...I got paid to press a couple keys, walk off to do something with my kid and come back to check on it from time to time (I added in fail-safes for when it needed manual intervention). Admittedly, this did go beyond the scope of Tridactyl, but it was an invaluable part of the whole deal.

    Another time I was doing a data entry job and needed to transfer both the hyperlink of, and several pieces of info, into a spreadsheet. It occurred to me that it would be nice to grab the URLs of all the pages I had open at once instead of manually going to each tab copying the url, alt-tabbing to the spreadsheet and pasting just to alt tab back to FF going to a new tab copying the url and so on.

    The creator of Tridactyl helped me write a command that allowed me to open as many tabs as necessary, and copy to the clipboard every URL of each tab open from the one I was on until there were no more tabs, each separated by a comma to easily paste into the spreadsheet. Saved me so much time and carpal tunnel.

    Ultimately, describing a few things I've used it for is a disservice because if you ask the next person, they'll use it completely differently.

  • Every day.
  • Like as in you traveled across the country to see them? If so, that sounds fun. I've driven across 3-4 times (assuming you mean the US) and it's been a lot of fun each time.

    It would be really great to see them for me this time since they are playing with the Descendants (the two were my introduction into punk music)!

  • Every day.
  • One of my favorite songs of all time. I revisit it once a year or so but have to be careful because as much as I love it, it can put me in a dark place. I've urged a lot of friends to give it a listen while paying attention to the lyrics but that seems to be quite a commitment for most people 😂

  • What VPN would you recommend for torrenting?
  • I haven't looked thoroughly because at the end of the day I have like ..another 2 years of airvpn credit and I'm happy enough with them that I could make a separate server for a website....maybe with the rock pi 5a I bought that I haven't touched. My current server is mostly for media and...uhh...sailing, as well as syncing devices (sync thing), running a telegram bot, etc. I could use the pi for more public stuff. And not use a VPN.

    If you find a solution though, let me know!

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