fluffy 💜 ✪▾̫✪ @fluffy@awoo.space

having one of those days where i'm barely capable of doing anything including feeding myself ugh

I'm finally on season 8 of Regular Show, and it's a bit funny how the episodes where they're in outer space are some of the most grounded stories in the whole series.

There's an arborist taking down a tree a couple houses over and Fiona is watching with great intensity. Every time a branch comes off she gets really excited.

I mean one of the things I want to do is start building my own custom cabinets and when I do that I can make something better-suited than what I have now

ugh my living room is still such a disaster Sokoban game. I have no idea where to put my gigantic collection of vidya games, and I'm having trouble finding better furniture for organizing it than what I have. Makes me wonder if I really need to have all these games at the ready anyway, maybe they should go into the basement like my CDs and DVDs all did. What good does it do to have my entire game collection on display?

I mean I guess it's fun to peruse it especially when folks come over, idk

okay, switching to the YouTube data API wasn't that bad and it turns out they give you like 100 requests per day for free. The developer docs fucking suck though, especially when it comes to using an API key instead of oauth.

oh wait looking further into my logs it looks like YouTUbe has actually actively detected "unusual activity" from my bot... which, y'know, makes one request per hour. Oy.

Oh, huh, turns out YouTube's been having lots of outages where it responds 429 to everyone. https://piunikaweb.com/2021/04/26/youtube-down-and-not-working-for-many-server-throwing-error-429/ Guess there's not a lot I can do about that except continue with the current failure mode of just not providing a video if none comes up.

So it turns out that the overnight gaps in @lofibeats's YouTube thing is YouTube going into HTTP 429 mode. Presumably the problem is other machines from my VPS provider hammering the APIs, because I can't see my one-request-per-hour causing any rate-limiting problems!

Maybe I should look into using the proper search API, just to be a better neighbor. Google charges money for that though. :(

Windows: the “I can’t reboot because this thing is asking if you want to reboot” operating system

/r/seattle was pretty bad, and then there was a schism, and /r/seattleWA was supposed to be the better place but it's like... way worse? Like, every other post is some sort of rabid anti-homeless rant

I don't even remember what the community schism was about but both subreddits are pretty awful now

ugh, and while investigating this the redirect somehow got completely messed up and now I can't turn it on again for another 20 days, wtf

why the hell does mastodon not let me actually look at notifications coming to my old account when it's redirecting here? like I can just imagine that someone's tried mentioning @fluffy@queer.party without remembering I moved instances and it's just going into a black hole

I updated the search mechanism a bit to try to get better results, and also made it prioritize videos it hasn't posted already. Whee!

FYI, @lofibeats has a bunch of new genre terms, and also it'll try to find a YouTube video for each one of its ridiculous suggestions. The latter aspect is quite experimental and it's possible that it'll bring up things that aren't music. As always, please let me know if it posts something inappropriate!

I mean they should be happy, obviously someone as mentally-ill as myself shouldn't be allowed to breed anyway, think of the children. 🙄

If they had posted a comment or sent an email to me my response would be, "Don't want a nullification? Don't get one. I am absolutely not saying this is appropriate for everyone."

The "think of the children" angle of course comes from a really weird stretch of logic, namely:

1. I sought this out myself with 100% informed consent
2. While getting information about surgeons other than the one I went with, someone mentioned someone based in Oregon
3. Oregon has a statute that allows kids to seek out gender-confirming medical procedures (meaning puberty blockers and maybe hormones) at 15
4. Therefore (in their argument), my experimental/non-mainstream surgery is intended SPECIFICALLY FOR 15-year-olds

And of course in plenty of their discourse they talk about how much of a shame it is that doctors were willing to throw away perfectly-good genitalia and there was also a lot of implied "this person is mentally ill" talk, because obviously I did this thing that NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would do.