Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

My workflow is such that I like to keep manual profiles to isolate different use cases for the browser, but firefox profiles are too cumbersome to switch between, and Multi-Account containers just don’t work well for me, so I end up with Firefox as my “open any link” browser, and Chrome as my “different profile for each different service” browser (e.g. twitter has one profile, github has another, and LinkedIn is always in incognito windows on a dedicated “clear everything” profile — and even then I think to myself I should probably only be accessing that website via Qubes OS or something).

I can’t tell if this is a good time for this to happen or a bad time for it to happen, because I just found this: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

Which, if I can get FF working again, could make it possible for me to give up Chrome entirely.

Man, #firefox crashes on launch every time, and #thunderbird doesn’t launch at all (thunderbird & just hangs on “Using nsImapService.cpp”, then segfaults when I Ctrl+C after 24 hours…).

I have no idea what happened here and I don’t feel like I have time to mess around with it too much right now. Very disappointing.

Also if someone has a better version of this please let me know I am not interested in maintaining any kind of shell code.

Any #bash experts out there have an idea why this function isn’t working well with ps? If I pipe df -h into it, it works fine. If I redirect the out put from ps -aux to a file, then cat that file into it, it works. When I pipe ps -aux directly into it, I only get the header.

https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles/pull/2/files

The Japanese version of Jeopardy! is basically exactly as I expected (though I didn’t think they would have more than 3 contestants)

(Note: I am watching a different episode than the one I linked)

They seem a little looser with the rules, too. At one point there is a question about Batman where one contestant answers, “Poison Ivy” and the host is like, “No we want the actress” and the guy says, “Uma Thurman” and gets it right.

Later on no one buzzes in on one of the questions and after the host is ready to move on one guy tries to hit the buzzer and the host is like, “Oh hey you want to answer?” And the guy gives a response.

In the late 90s there was a Mexican version of Jeopardy!, and for some reason they decided to add dancing girls to it: https://youtu.be/P0DUhx0avLw?si=9-eF21sIIsSz68eF

I did not expect them to dance for quite so long at the beginning there…

Another good bit of grammar from Esperanto, the preposition je.

These are just two of the affixes, by the way. I really liked the whole system of them, it makes it pretty easy to quickly build a big vocabulary, and it’s very expressive: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Esperanto/Appendix/Table_of_affixes

-ul = person characterized by (juna = young, junulo = a youth)
-ej = place characterized by (lerni = to learn, lernejo = school)
-ilo = instrument (skribi = write, skribilo = writing implement)

They can also be used by themselves, like:

iĝi = to become
ulo = dude, chap
ilo = tool