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Dreamwidth is my favorite, because it is a continuation of LJ.
The codebase for it is possible to understand some day. There are still some things to get it functioning well in mobile browsers.

For the most part, Dreamwidth still has a desktop bias. It retains the look and feel of the web 2.0 era.

Today's screens have higher resolutions, so text and menus appear tiny.
Some of the site adapts to mobile screeens. Icons appear way too tiny.
SVG might help, but personally I find it bloated. Github or Gitlab impose a custom font where icons are glyphs. I'll need to look into it.

HTML5 support... A recent PHP standard. It's very overwhelming how much needs to be done.

Technology is incredible! You can now write journal entries to share with others on a social internet!

Current Mood: contemplative

bc86s

Marquee! Marquee! Look at me! Look at me!

BLINK TAG

Rah! Woo-hoo!

The tag tag might be gone, so the stuff will only hold still.

Current Mood: bouncy

elainegrey

Quick proof of life post.

Sister's life seems to be on the road to some improvement, although original issue of concern hangs out there still being a concern.

Dad has had a terrible viral infection. Saw him a week ago laying in bed and was taken back to when his mother was in the same bedroom dying. Saw him on Saturday and he was better. Sister saw him on Sunday and observed how terribly he was doing, which was still, per departing brother, better. L-- took him to the transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) and found he was supposed to be monitored 24 hours after, so he stayed with her.

Brother traveled on Sunday to take the California Bar on Tuesday and presumably failed. (He kept explaining he wasn't getting studying done, it was all about memorization, nothing he works on is covered, and he was definitely going to fail.) Yesterday he found a dear friend died of a heart attack.

Excellent kitchen adventures included steam juicing (although the instant pot got in some confusion about depressurization and lied about keeping the lid locked) and making bay scallop egg rolls with bits of veggie bacon. Also had made blueberry sheet pan pancakes which i took to my Dad and brother on the Saturday.

Christine and i have made reservations for a vacation. We haven't been on a vacation in ages, since the 2017 eclipse. And haven't been to the beach together since ... a Monterey Bay trip? Was that a wedding? Wow dim recesses of memory.) For Reasons i am both looking forward to it and also tempering my expectations. And it may be rescheduled if Dad has medical needs. Still, it was a reach for something positive.

Weather has been dreadfully horribly humid and sauna-like. My temperature sensor in the part of the yard that gets full sun much of the day recorded a heat index of 135°F. No movement on fixing the fence that is a prerequisite to getting kittens (also, we won't get kittens before going on vacation). Contractor we hoped to work with on the barn isn't available/responsive. So on to a random person, i guess.

Continue to escape to novels. Much left undone.

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Today's internet has gone the way of newspapers and radio: dead mediums that once had something, but died of ads and religion. Dead mediums could be brought back if they had something, but the bourgeois class always does this. The tracks show the same pattern as before: A medium of expression that once had things that resonated with people is turned into spammy mcspam, rendered useless by advertising, and is abandoned for the bigots to spread their ugly religion.

Advertising is what capitalist death smells like. Everything they touch turns to ads, religion, and finally dies.

That is the way the internet is going. We used to hope it would replace the bourgeois mass media, because it was empowering. The internet today isn't even called an internet anymore. It's referred to as some sort of cable box with a few channels called "social networks" ... The bourgeois class bought it all out. Google and others changed their search engines so that only a few websites ever show up in a search. It is becoming entirely ads and misinformation. A diseased mass of damned lies.

This time, there's nothing to replace the internet. No new medium to migrate to. And, this has been the story of our time. Of migrating away from ruined platforms. We spend maybe no more than several years on a platform, it gets popular, the advertisers track us down and we have to move to some place less popular where the imbeciles can't find us.

I hear the Marxists over at the RCA have revived newspapers, and even let working class people write articles in it.

Current Mood: sad

elainegrey

Happiness yesterday -

Christine and i took my brother N, his son D, my dad, my sister L and her daughter E out for lunch. It was pleasant and cheery. D goes to Florida on Monday to see his brother Z.

L & E had joined us after L had initially waved off doing anything because the air conditioning is out on the second floor of L's house. She wanted E to stay at my Dad's. Her son W is working at a fried chicken restaurant in Chapel Hill: he will have spent the night at Dad's, too. L wrote in the evening that positive progress has been made on her distressing situation, and she feels hopeful. My delight at this news is tempered by a suspicion that this is going to be a long road with layers of issues being exposed and (hopefully) resolved.

Christine and i talked about kittens, but have resolved no kittens until we repair the fence and replace our temporary-now-year-old installation with a permanent solution that includes the angled inward fence. It stopped Marlowe from climbing out when she was young: it needs to be there for new young cats.

We also talked about the barn we need to build, a budget, and a first step discussion. Getting the barn built has been a goal for years, and in late May i was almost ready to start (after realizing the significant concern i had around finding someone i might trust) and then Carrie was bit. So next step is talking to a potential builder.

For dinner we had a caprese meal with home-grown Early Girl tomatoes, pesto with basil and walking onion topsets. Satisfying.

Friday night i had stripped dried elderberries off stems. (I'm going to buy some sifting screens because that took too long.) The dried elderberries have a remarkable sweet aroma. The audio book i was listening to had a long description about harvesting and indulging in honey so i don't know if the honey-like notes to the scent were from listening or accurate. I have a pint and that was just a few of the clusters that had ripened early. I'll reconstitute syrup from them.

I've a quart of dried mulberries and took this week off collecting them. I guess i will start again. I have a hard time imagining shaking the tree to harvest. It seems too solid.

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