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+    title: "Inconspicuous Update"
+    permalink: '14-inconspicuous-update'
+    date: {m: 6, d: 13, y: 2017}
+    categories:
+    - 'text'
+    - 'dev'
+
+---
+
+# Inconspicuous Update
+
+Writing about the things I've done is fun, and maybe even interesting to some,
+so since I wrote a particularly in-depth entry for today's occurings, I figured
+I'd share that. Onwards!
+
+---
+
+* I read about Twitter's lovely new "shadow banning" feature. Essentially it's
+  this new automated mechanic that blocks Twitter accounts from being seen by
+  others, without telling anyone. You can imagine the trouble this would cause
+  when somebody's following someone else, and they aren't getting notifications
+  for the mentions written by a person they're following..! There's a whole lot
+  of other gook related to the issue;
+  [this thread was informative.](https://twitter.com/Aichmomanic/status/874160155960647681)
+
+* I worked on my English course. I'm done The Old Man and the Sea; now I'm
+  learning about writing a biography. It's not going to be an /auto/biography
+  (that is, I won't be the subject); I'm not sure whether that'll make it
+  easier or not. The assignment lets you pick whoever you want. (In fact,
+  that's essentially the entire current assignment - pick somebody!)
+  I picked AntVenom, because, unlike most other YouTubers, his life on the
+  YouTube website has been somewhat tumultuous. (To be fair, the assignment
+  didn't ask for a YouTuber specifically; but AntVenom works well since his
+  life has been somewhat more interesting than the usual (or is it conceptual?)
+  rainbows and sunshine filled career.)
+
+* I worked on my Khan Academy algebra. I'm not sure how much progress I
+  actually made - it looks like I mostly did things I'd already practiced
+  before - but hey. It's good to keep the mind fresh by revisting old things.
+
+* I experimented with my Raspberry Pi; this time I configured it to not use
+  the somewhat bloated desktop environment, in favor of a simple console-only
+  display. I'm not sure if that's actually improved much performance-wise,
+  but intuitively it should, and at least I don't have to worry about there
+  being some gigantic UI sitting around not being used when I'm only SSHing
+  into the device!
+
+  (I also tried out tmux; it's as slightly confusing as it's always been. I
+  tried the Lynx browser, but it seems to be missing some basic browser
+  features on the surface, such as scrolling by a single line rather than by a
+  whole page; and naturally it doesn't work perfectly with every site. On
+  another note, I figured out how to get my stupid gray ethernet cable out of
+  whatever device it's plugged into - you only need to push down on its grip
+  part and pull out! That should have been obvious from the start. Oh well; at
+  least I know now.)
+
+* I read about the
+  [C Seed 262-inch TV](http://uncrate.com/article/c-seed-262-inch-tv/).
+  It's quite the large TV..! Too bad the only pictures of it didn't compare it
+  to, you know, an ordinary-sized room. It's not as easy to get a sense of how
+  huge it is when your only reference is a few couches and a table.
+
+* I took a look at some old Scratch projects that I favorited on my original
+  Scratch account. Hm, did I say something about keeping the mind fresh by
+  revisiting old things..?
+
+* I made [a tiny music visualizer](https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/165923925/)
+  in Scratch.
+
+* I got a bit of an idea on using microphones and speakers to communicate
+  between a DS and a Raspberry Pi. The basic concept is that the DS has a
+  built-in microphone, which we can use to send data to the DS, and an
+  auxiliary output cable slot, which we can use to get data from the DS. Then
+  we can make the DS and some other device (like the Raspberry Pi) talk to
+  each other! (Too bad it's not wireless. It seems like it should be possible
+  to dos something like this wirelessly, since the DS does have some sort of
+  Wi-Fi support, but it doesn't seem to really be standard. Apparently it
+  requires some Nintendo service to be online, which hasn't been since 2015..?)
+
+* I considered printing all of
+  [Piers Anthony's newsletter](http://hipiers.com/backissues.html). I'd love
+  to have it all as a book; it'll take a ton of work, if I do decide to do
+  that, though! (In theory it'd be best to just automate the process, but then
+  you run into issues such as - what if there's a table embedded? What if
+  there's something that simply NEEDS human notice to be dealt with well? So
+  doing it by hand is kind of required. It also seems like there's just a bit
+  of merit to going through all of his posts by hand; though I'll mostly be
+  copy-pasting. Or who knows. Maybe I'll go and type it all out manually. Wait,
+  no, that's a terrible idea - each of his posts are several thousands of
+  words long, and he's written well over a hundred and fifty posts! Yikes.)