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Sunday June 6th 2021

  • this'll be a short one because i only have until tomorrow to unlock the chicken costume in Fortnite and I'm still 3 levels away
  • i've been looking through old eating disorder-era recipe books for ideas
    • i've eaten a lot of bacon, egg and philadelphia
  • i smashed my laptop off a door after being frightened by a wasp
    • it's been taken away to a Lenovo Repair Centre, which appears to be administered by IBM??
  • found this in my notes: "album idea: texas school book depository"
    • there are no further details
      • however it is a good idea
  • there was a mouse just sitting on the bathroom floor, completely still
  • three asterisks in a line is called a dinkus ***
  • i've been kind of sick for days, maybe just getting used to the new diet
  • i'm getting vaccinated tomorrow
  • ok, i gotta go drive from durr burger to pizza pit
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Sunday, May 30, 2021

  • trigger warning: diet, weight, eating disorders
    • it was 2017 when i last lost a huge amount of weight. i lost about half my weight.
      • i used keto
      • eventually i realised, sometime in 2018, that thinking about food all the time and counting calories in an app was disordered
        • i've struggled with bulimia in the past, and various other mental and dietary issues
          • i was sectioned a number of years ago, so i try to be careful about cultivating new and interesting disorders
      • i decided to stop dieting, to let myself gain weight and not feel bad about it
      • i have a blood test from 2018 which shows my blood sugar was fine
      • so now i know that giving myself a break has literally given me diabetes
      • and the way to live with diabetes is to go on a diet almost identical to keto
      • what an exciting new challenge
      • what a depressing, yet thematically sound, series of events
  • i've been sick most of this week
    • physically
    • though mentally i am not doing well
      • i am not looking forward to the next part of my life
      • i don't know how to cook for myself without rice
      • i don't know how to be alone
      • sometimes i have this warm and comforting daydream where i die in my sleep
  • i set up backups on my laptop and the snoot.club server this morning
    • i'm using borg

      • because fox told me to

        • basically borg and restic is where the deduplicated encryption backup stuff is at Foxboron

      • it is a cool piece of software though

  • i was going to look into adding a gutenberg sidebar for the indieweb Post Kinds wordpress plugin this weekend, but instead i closed my laptop and had a lie down
  • i bought the Besley* and Jost* variable fonts from indestructible type* for my weblog
    • Jost* is the variable futura of my dreams
    • here is another great font: https://www.dafont.com/w95fa.font
      • i'm using this as my system font at the moment. it looks great.
        • screenshot of my computer with a retro windows-like theme
  • remember when they reanimated bob monkhouse's ashen corpse so he could appear in an advert on terrestrial television
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Sunday the 23rd of May 2021

  • released unidentified
  • i first read about "alt+tab" in a physical paper book called something like Windows 95 Tricks & Secrets
    • i ran over to my computer, which was running the Windows 98 beta that I got given on a secret CD
      • my father obtained it through his contacts in The Industry
      • i lent it to 1 of 100 english army boys called Matt who lived down the street
        • i don't believe i ever got it back
    • i actually remember the feeling, it was like "how many more are there like this?"
    • i'd uncovered a secret interface
      • maybe i'm embarking on a new journey where i would learn hundreds more
      • i'm just now lighting my torch in this dark cavern
    • there were exactly 0 more
  • on Wednesday abe and me got tacos in a real life restaurant
    • it's called DF Tacos
      • they do really good tacos
        • i really like tacos
  • i don't really remember the rest of the week

    • photo of chee rabbits wearing a calyx t-shirt

      i got this calyx institute t-shirt

    • you know, they run a free vpn and a free xmpp server

  • i have a vaccine booking for early june
    • they're going to inject me with 5g and make me a magnet
    • i wish i could choose which vaccine i'm getting
      • i want the russian one
        • it's one and done
      • or one of the cuban ones
        • one of the cuban ones is a spray that goes up your nose
        • help them out
        • let's move to cuba

          • Dr Gerardo Guillén, who heads up development of two vaccines at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, is a chocoholic who has had to do without his favourite fix for over a year (there is none in the shops). His £200 a month salary is a hundred times less what he could earn abroad.

            “We do have offers,” said Dr Mitchell Valdés-Sosa, “but we prefer to stay because we feel a commitment to the development of our country. We’re not working to make some chief executive obscenely rich; we’re working to make people healthier.”

          • like wtf

    • the thing i remember to comfort me that they aren't going to inject me with 5g and make me a magnet is that if they really wanted to get something inside me they would simply put it in the water supply
  • anyway i need to make coffee now. please enjoy unidentified
    • if you listen with your eyes closed it's the 14 minute first half of a story of first contact
      • musically speaking, i mean. it's not like a word story. just pure vibes
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Restoring from a SeedVault backup stored in Nextcloud

On Android there's a nice open source backup tool written by the cool folks at The Calyx Institute, called SeedVault. It backs up your apps and all of their settings, and re-installs your settings when you re-install an app. It's cool, it's good.

You can store your backups in a few different places: the phone, a usb stick plugged into the phone and Nextcloud.

On CalyxOS, GrapheneOS and LineageOS there is a section of the install process that offers to let you restore from your Seedvault backup. However, you don't have Nextcloud installed yet when you're at that part of the install. The installer promises to let you install Nextcloud, but it seems to try to do that using Google Play, which you don't have. So instead it just crashes. And when you continue the install you can no longer restore from the back-up -- going into the settings and selecting Backups starts the process of creating new backups.

So, here's the process:

  1. Install GrapheneOS
  2. Skip restoring from backup
  3. Download and install F-Droid
  4. Install Nextcloud from F-Droid
  5. Log into Nextcloud
  6. Enable Developer Options on your phone
  7. Enable USB Debugging, and allow your phone
  8. From computer: adb shell am start-activity -a com.stevesoltys.seedvault.RESTORE_BACKUP
  9. On the phone: tap Nextcloud
  10. Watch "Looking for backups" for a while
  11. SeedVault appears to exit, but do this again: adb shell am start-activity -a com.stevesoltys.seedvault.RESTORE_BACKUP
  12. Now you should be able to enter your backup passphrase and enjoy all your apps coming home again
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Sunday, 16th May 2021

  • On Monday i talked to the doctor about parts of my body going numb (peripheral neuropathy)
    • They were a little mocking and weird about it when i asked if it could be diabetes (because it seems to happen when i eat stuff that would raise my blood sugar)
    • They issued a blood test
    • Abe collected it on his way home, also bringing taco ingredients
    • My body hurts
  • most meals this week have been tacos
  • in this clip from True Detective, when McConnahuey says "Again, and again, forever" he has Simon Legg's exact mannerisms and facial expressions
  • added indieweb features to my blog
    • it turns out there's a bunch of wordpress plugins for indieweb
    • and i don't have to do any work to support things like Webmentions
    • and there's a theme that adds a bunch of semantic html to post types. it's amazing
      • i've forked that theme; "rabbit sempress" is what i'm using here
    • i informed my RSS subscribers that the feed may get more noisy
    • and now i can replace Telecam and chee.party/audio with wordpress lol
      • also if i ever stop being a weirdo about social media then i can feed those RSS feeds to stuff like Twitter and Instagram
    • using "post own site, syndicate elsewhere" (POSSE) turns social networks into nodes
      • i post something on my blog, it gets syndicated to Twitter
      • you like it from your site. the like gets syndicated to Twitter
      • the like is then picked up by something like Bridgy which sends a Webmention to my blog
      • Our nodes have used Twitter as a node to communicate
      • Social networks no longer the network, now nodes on a wider network: the web
  • On Tuesday, I had the blood test
    • the person said "I am a student: is it OK if I take your blood?"
  • PSA: You should stop using AWS in your personal projects
  • Abe woke up in the middle of the night and said

    • "Hello! I'm looking at the lights-- Not the lights but the reflectives. They store the energy???"

    • and then went back to sleep

  • On Thursday I got my blood results
    • My average blood sugar has been over twice as high as the top-end of "normal range" for at least a month
    • screenshot of a photo of a woman eating salad captioned "Type 2 Diabetes Prompted This Woman ot Give Up..."
  • On Friday night we opened booking.com and filtered "Greater London" by "has bath" and booked the first result
    • We're in Harrow now
    • It's cute here
    • We got a bunch of bath products like radox, and bath bombs, and bubble bath and a bunch of masks (face, eye, hair, boob & bum)
      • i am so clean
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sunday, 9th may 2021

hello

  • This is a great read: github.com:dekuNukem/bob cassette rewinder
    • epic v apple is exciting
      • google v oracle went quite well
        • it's annoying to have to wait around until some rich prick decides to pick a fight
  • it's strange that the mac app "Preview" is called "Preview" and not "View"
    • pre- what?
    • what happens next
  • we spent all day yesterday playing Detroit: Become Human
    • one of the branch nodes is named [KARA](https://ghost.computer) BECOMES DEVIANT
    • my ps4 controller's sticks were drifting so i poured alcohol into them and squeezed them and spinned them around
    • so many problems can be solved by pouring alcohol on them
  • working on an album of ufo music
  • keep starting and stopping projects over the last few weeks. can't seem to keep to one thing
    • think it would be helpful to know when i'm going to die
  • we're in the park today. it's cloudy and nineteen degrees.
  • im sleepy
  • it feels like things could get better, doesn't it? feels weird