Remy Rose

I just HAVE to share this silly story somewhere, and this seems like the most reasonable place. The Fediverse is absolutely wild lol, and exploring how the platforms interact is one of my very favorite parts of it.

So, I use the Fediverse’s book review platform (BookWyrm) for all my book tracking stuff. Recently I started reading a book, whose author I knew to be a Lemmy user. Obviously I tried to tag them in the status when I marked the book as “currently reading”; why wouldn’t you, right? At the time I had no idea A) whether you could tag people in a BookWyrm book status update, or B) whether it was interoperable enough with Lemmy to federate there. I clicked post, and the “@” never became a hyperlink so I assumed it had failed somehow or other. No big deal.

The next day, I get a comment on that status, from a Lemmy user. Not the tagged author, not even on the same instance as the tagged author! I’m like, ok, are Lemmy users following my BookWyrm account? Can they even? Did my tag work afterall and just wound up at the wrong person somehow? But no, not exactly…

What happened was, the author I tagged ran a community under the exact same name on the same instance. Within Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed/etc that just works I guess, because they’re differentiated by using “!” vs “@”. But anyone who’s tagged a community from outside Lemmy knows you use “@” there. So, long story short, I accidentally let the author’s entire fanbase know I started reading their book.

Exactly lol

Oof, that went from exciting to ominous so fast

!soulism@multiverse.soulism.net

I don’t totally get it (other than the anarchism ❤️🖤), but hell yeah more Piefeds!

Omg, this is extremely timely for me, thanks!

The computers l let my patrons use at work are too old for windows 11. They’ll riot if I keep trying to make them use Linux (I know, whhyyyy…), so my plan was to set up ephemeral windows qemu VMs with gpu pass through. But that’s all over my head, so this’ll help a lot.

I think the stuff i post is pretty neat… Ben Glish is on there now too, that’s cool!

I love GIMP in general, and I usually don’t mind learning new layouts and workflows and stuff. However, I am perplexed by GIMP’s default keyboard shortcuts. Like, shift-B for bucket fill, because they needed B for… paths? Scale is shift-T because they needed shift-S for shear of all things? Is shear a way bigger part of your everyday workload than scale? Also 3 different keys is entirely too many for the “Fit image in window” and “select none” shortcuts, I use those all the time.

I’m just picking for fun though, GIMP is awesome and nothing could make me go back to Adobe lol

I see ReactOS I upvote

I found this out when i updated last night, it was a nice surprise for sure!

I’m on Endeavour, so i need the Arch socks except with those old lady help-you-pull-your-socks-up thingies attached

Awww, that’s unfortunate… Are there any BSD flavors offering LXQT? by default? Maybe that’d be a reasonable alternative

Oooooooh… 👀

I just started using LXQT on one of my work computers, good timing!

If I’m mot mistaken, it’s a cool character English USED to have for the “th” sound. Would be neat if it came back, if that’s the goal 👀

Finally wrote it up: https://text.tchncs.de/the-rose-garden/cooking-the-thicket-bean

WriteFreely is federated so potentially this would work too: @the-rose-garden@text.tchncs.de

Using the incredibly scientific method of… assuming the level of bitterness roughy equates to the amount of toxins left lol. That, and the most typical toxins in this genus usually present symptoms within a few hours, which didn’t happen (luckily). And yeah, I went all-out on this batch. My hope is I can dial back on each until i find the bare minimum required amount/type of processing.

Well my particular interest is edible plants that are roughly native to my region, and it turns out there’s just not a huggee selection of beans in that category? There’s a couple Strophostyles species here that are tastier as faux green bean pods than they are as dried beans. There’s at least one native Lupinus whose edibility is even more questionable than the Thicket Bean, and likely requires weeks of brining. There’s Amphicarpaea bracteata, which is easily the tastiest AND simplest of the bunch, but culinarily they’re really more akin to peanuts than pintos. There’s Apios americana, which has DELICIOUS tubers, but it doesn’t really super want to produce beans even though it can. Finally, there’s Desmanthus illinoensis, which… actually that one’s very productive, easy to grow, AND easy to prepare? Honestly I should have just stuck with that one lol.

My hope for all the complicated ones is that, once a process is ironed out and simplified, it’ll get easier? We’ll see. Just trying to do my part to broaden the number of species humans subsist on really.

The longer post? I definitely will once it’s written, sure thing

Pretttyyy sure lol. Although if I had, it’d certainly save me a lot of time and energy on preparing them so thoroughly

I replied from Pixelfed but it doesn’t seeem to have federated through, sorry!

Phaseolus polystachios. Same genus as most of our common beans in the U.S., but the only one that’s native I think? And it’s perennial. It’s more closely related to lima beans than any variety of vulgaris though, despite looking more like the latter than the former.