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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · 4d ago

Replying to @Axolotl1@gaygeek.social

saying I pulled out of my ass Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social That's not bad advice, actually.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026

It looks like gtkpod isn't being maintained anymore. Since I upgraded to Trisquel 12, it's no longer in apt. I could compile it from source... maybe...

For now, Rhythmbox is a good way to get songs onto my old iPod. Now I can continue listening to these Redwall audiobooks.

Redwall! Woodland critters! Cozy cooking! Murder!

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026

ffmpeg is a good way to convert audio files from one format to another. https://www.linux.org/threads/using-ffmpeg-to-convert-audio-files.54583/

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @cazabon@mindly.social

@cazabon@mindly.social I must say I am very pleased with Codeberg, and I'm glad I migrated my repositories there.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026

I finished watching the first season of Blue Eye Samurai tonight. I highly recommend it. It's some good samurai revenge drama, with very memorable characters and creative action, and a top-notch villain.

How good is this show? Let me put it this way: every time I finished an episode, I thought "Dammit, I have to watch the next one!" It was 11 PM, then it it was 12 midnight, then it was 1 AM... you get the idea.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 26, 2026

Some of today's work:

- I captured the video footage from last weekend's trip to Delta H Con in Houston. Yes, you can still capture MiniDV on Linux in 2026.

- I stained the inside of the back yard fence. That was a lot of paint, but it looks very nice now.

- I tried putting my giant CRT television on a coffee table, but I was warned against doing this.

- I continued my refresher study of algebra. So far, I'm up to long division of polynomials.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 26, 2026

A friend and I were discussing LLMs today. He mentioned a recent news story about Claude making headway on a famous unsolved math problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_conjecture

If there is anyone in the math(s) field who has heard about this, I'd like to try to understand what's going on. It is difficult to find any information about this news that isn't from the "AI" hype crowd.

en.wikipedia.org

Jacobian conjecture - Wikipedia

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 26, 2026

I'm having trouble finding a TV stand big enough for my 36-inch CRT, so I thought I'd use a coffee table.

Several people told me it wouldn't be sturdy enough.

The CRT is back on my moving cart for now.

A few options: find the actual stand for this TV, build my own stand, or keep it on the cart.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026

I am going to post a big "L" here. I hope I can save someone else from this embarrassment.

Beurre de barratte is *not* cheese. It's a butter. I am still learning French, and boy do I know what 'beurre de barratte' means now.

I don't know why it was put in the cheese section.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 13, 2026

Replying to @jbaty@social.lol

@jbaty@social.lol @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk Yes, that was Nobody Home.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 10, 2026

Replying to @superball@norcal.social

@superball@norcal.social @MamaLake@beige.party @Unicorn@pagan.plus I look forward to reading it!

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 09, 2026

Replying to @ifixcoinops@retro.social

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Not sure if @amin@polymaths.social's clew would do this or not...

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 06, 2026

Replying to @diazona@techhub.social

@diazona@techhub.social How does this compare to Eight-Legged Freaks? That's a fun bad movie. That's one where I think they were trying to make a throwback to old monster movies, and it worked.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jul 06, 2026

Replying to @Taweret@timeloop.cafe

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe The same reason all birds in Westerns sound like a red-tailed hawk.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · Jun 16, 2026

Replying to @cR0w@infosec.exchange

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Following the Robert Pirsig tradition!

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 18, 2026

Replying to @bt@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@bt@mastodon.bsd.cafe I've heard good things about BSD! I know Leah Rowe of the Libreboot project has a very high opinion of that OS.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026

Replying to @gclef@social.vivaldi.net

@gclef@social.vivaldi.net I wish there had been a trail cam or a nature cam set up. We've had one meteorite impact captured on a Ring camera, we can hope to capture one of these megatsunamis.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 13, 2026

Replying to @tombofnull@voidwood.online

@tombofnull@voidwood.online The texture in this is really cool.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk Here's what I don't understand: don't they know any better? They can see all the problems LLMs are causing? Some options I see: 1) They don't care. 2) They think the problems are beneath their worrying about them.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @jonobie@social.coop

@jonobie@social.coop @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Have you read The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle? One of the top-ten mystery short stories of all time.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

Redwall is interesting. It's partly cozy fantasy because it's about mice and other whimsical creatures who enjoy lavish feasts and the ol' nut brown ale. Then there's a hare who feels like he came out of a cartoon. At the same time, there's siege warfare, some straight-up cold-blooded murder, and other gnarly deaths.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

Replying to @amin@polymaths.social

@amin@polymaths.social I was thinking about when you asked what 'Pulp Fiction' was.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

Replying to @nantucketlit@mastodon.social

@amin@polymaths.social I especially appreciated the descriptions of insects in the wilderness: clouds of flies and mosquitos that almost eat you alive. This is one part of the wilderness that is not pretty. Brian becomes quite rugged during his ordeal, learning to hunt and all that, but the insects bring him to his knees. The only thing that keeps the insects at bay is fire. I appreciated this accurate detail

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

@amin@polymaths.social has written about a number of movies he hasn't seen. I will try to put myself out there in the book department.

I had never read the novel Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, until tonight. You might ask how I can be a 90s kid and never read Hatchet, and I'll take your jabs. When I was young I didn't follow a lot of trends, for good and for bad.

I very much enjoyed the book. It's a short book, but by Crom is it a page-turner. You really get a sense of survival through logic and perseverance.

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

You may guess what book I am currently reading. It is from a popular YA novel, before 'YA' was even a marketing term. No cheating by feeding this into a search engine!

"Never. Never in all the food, all the hamburgers and malts, all the fries or meals at home, never in all the candy or pies or cakes, never in all the roasts or steaks or pizzas, never in all the submarine sandwiches, never never never had he tasted anything as fine as that first bite.

First Meat."

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Nantucket Lit @nantucketlit@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

I've updated my page for First-Class Fiction, with a list of all the postcards mailed out so far. https://nantucketlit.com/postcards

You can also sign up or subscribe on that page.

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