birdsite deletion habits
9 times out of 10, my deletions are jokes that i'm not 100% sure 100% of people will interpret as one
it bothers me a *lot* when i can't get my meaning across, literal or not, and even the slight risk of it happening with a joke makes me feel like it's not worth it a lot of the time
but why do i only worry about that specifically online there? i tell plenty of extremely bad jokes irl
i think it would be really cool to finally be able to articulate myself outside of small chats
hee, it's such a tease. i'll get there though..!
oh yeah! i guess i should mention this is for wsl_proxy!
it's a thing i'm making that lets you use wsl command line tools as if they were windows programs
always happy to come across another situation that's "not such a big deal because it's simply a contrived problem which you'll likely never encounter."
it's unfortunate that i'm relying on base64 existing in any wsl that this is used in, but i guess i'm already relying on bash as it is anyway, soooo....
i did figure out a way to do it though! and that way is very bad, hee
i base64 the whole command line, and run it in a subshell, because that doesn't require any double-quotes or escaping magic cmd-side
i even wrote a C# program to use its built-in argument parsing, so *it* could figure out passing that as a single argument to wsl bash
it couldn't do it either
TIL escaping things for cmd.exe is sometimes impossible
like, if you have a file:
C:\folder with spaces (And parens)\fancy!!! chars'`@;,[]{}().txt
the only way to get that escaped as a subshell in bash is like:
cat "$(wslpath $'C:\\folder with spaces (And parens)\\fancy!!! chars\'`@;,[]{}().txt')"
and i'm trying to write something that will throw this into bash.exe -ic, but how the heck do you escape it?
backslashes won't do it, carets don't do it
looking it up, turns out you can't??
the other use; the times we use it on ourselves, is mostly being apologetic about the things we've already determined are more important to us in the immediate term
and that's just us feeling bad that our priorities don't line up with someone else's too, isn't it?
re: mh (+-) birthday
i did get some slippers a day early, which i'm grateful for though!
i'm even happy that happened a day early because it means i can write off the entire day that followed without including that bit
mh (-) birthday
gosh, that was a really emotionally draining birthday, and i feel horrible
the highlight of my day was literally when a video game noticed it was my birthday and did something kinda neat--because that was the first thing that happened that wasn't oppressive, uncomfortable, or outright cruel
oh hi! i do computers, and sometimes draw stuff~ i like lo-fi things and cute aesthetics!
i also probably like you
(also, tagged #abdl ahead, soooo 🔞)