I just read a post by a professional formatter of manuscripts that aimed to convince authors that they shouldn't tackle the job on their own. It was very good, detailed, and informative, not only identifying the problems but how to solve them.I have learned all of these tricks over the years (and a few more), and I have the software to pull it all off, so I really should do it myself, but the prospect of making hundreds of pages glyph-perfect seems so mind-numbingly tedious to my AuDHD brain that I will happily hand the job to someone who can hyperfocus on it.

It is 2am. The time has arrived where my nightly backup starts. I have my machine set to shut down as soon as it completes, to force me to go to bed at a reasonable (for me) hour.Good night Mastodon, it's been as addictive as usual!

@LJ Perhaps unsurprisingly, these things work well in cells and "short hops" all you have to do is get word to someone a mile or two down the road who you know will get word to someone else another mile or two down the road. There are some other resilient technologies like walkie talkies and code-words, or spread spectrum radios that should offer dome level of security. Hell we can go back to waving coded flags.

I have an application for a LLM AI (non-generative). I follow a RSS blog feed that mixes the occasional bit of really useful information with (20%), buy my stuff (60%), and utterly useless posts (subjectively speaking. Think "ate a sandwich, drank a beer, good day, going to bed." end of post.)I think maybe a LLM filter that just highlights the useful information and trashes the rest might work. But for a start maybe "word_count<250 => chuck it" is a lot less resource intensive, even if there's a few false positives.

@madgeface I have a detailed plan to swap Windows out for Linux in the near future. I've been neglecting Substack a bit, as they seem to be burying people who don't charge for subscriptions, thus limiting the network effects that had attracted me to the platform.

If you can't boost my toots yet, you can still toast my boots.It's a [rationally] free country.

I think everyone should refer to the US Department of Defense as the Department of Wore, just to bug people.

If memory serves, the WaPo showed what it was really about during the last election, and the WSJ is owned by the same people who bring you Fox News.Why the intersection set between subscribers to these publications and liberals (other than journalists & analysts) is not empty is completely beyond me.

@Alison Thanks! I'm trying to find my stride with those things, but the idea of doing it on some sort of regular schedule still seems like it will never happen (save for a promotional/celebratory burst when I actually have a fucking book in hand).This one felt pretty good. hopefully it's a trend.