Scott Ellis

Native of San Diego, and don't ever want to leave. I'm just a guy, trying to share stuff and learn things.

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-24

Excited when I updated to the latest client and found it officially supports now. I'm still struggling with the USB service working on , but it was a pain even with the old client.

On clients, I'm getting double characters when a meta character (e.g., shift) is also pressed. Ugh. Back to the old version on Windows.

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-23

I think I have a good fetchmail/exim/gmail-api-transport system setup now that would make the demise painless.

All contingent on how often makes me reauth for an API key/token. "Never" would be a pretty good answer.

Does anyone have a good way to send an email alert when the token soon can't be renewed? (I think I know how to do this with AWS, but haven't looked into it with GCP)

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖anna_lillith@mas.to
2025-12-22
If every adult in the US moved just one $40 gift from Amazon to a small business this holiday season, that would be $10.32 billion redirected to small businesses
Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-22

Ya know, the "App Verification" thing is just BS. All I want to do is use two Gmail APIs with my own account, using my own credentials.

Sigh.

Ranting over.

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The Conversation U.S.TheConversationUS@newsie.social
2025-12-21

Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefings aren’t just spin – they reflect what George Orwell warned about: lies divorced from reality, and the use of “doublethink” to have a word (like “transparency”) mean just the opposite. A historian who studies Orwell explains:

Thread ⬇️ theconversation.com/karoline-l

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-20

Decided to have help me solve my problem of going away by writing a tool to submit messages to via their REST API.

So far working okay for me. calls it for some specific delivery needs, and poof, message shows up in Gmail, filters applied and everything.

github.com/ScottESanDiego/gmai

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-19

@rajah I thought this was a good newbie demo, then saw it was actually . Wowsa.

Great job.

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-19

@rajah I thought this was a good newbie demo, then saw it was actually . Wowsa.

Great job.

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-19

@rajah I thought this was a good newbie demo, then saw it was actually . Wowsa.

Great job.

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Alice McFlurry :bc:Alice@beige.party
2025-12-18

The worst thing about talking on the phone without headphones/earbuds is not being able to use the phone to look at other things so you can ignore whatever is being said on the phone.

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James Gleickgleick@mas.to
2025-12-17

“Despite its name, this National Security Strategy is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note. If the ideas within it are really used to shape policy, then U.S. influence in the world will rapidly disappear, and America’s ability to defend itself and its allies will diminish. The consequences will be economic as well as political, and they will be felt by all Americans.”

@anneapplebaum

theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/

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2025-12-15

(How it's going...)

Cartoon nu met: veel meer vrolijke kikkers zitten samen in de poel “Fediverse”; in de pan “BlueSky” staat het vuur hoger en twee kikkers zweten zichtbaar; in de pan “X” zijn de achtergebleven kikkers boos en onaardig.
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GeePawHillGeePawHill
2025-12-14

Please do not come to the US.

It's okay. I know you know that our government is not us. I know you know that we love you. I know you know that we are in a terrible place.

But please don't come here.

I can not guarantee your safety.

I am horrified to be saying it, it feels awful, I hate hate hate it, but the simple truth is that I can not guarantee your safety.

There is no rule of law here. Our government is led by people who do not believe in any of our shared values.

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-14

Today was @rxmel74 's yearly holiday party for her friends. She did all the work, but somehow I'm also tired? I don't understand how that works.

(Not pictured: me, although many of the cookies are now in my belly)

Counter with lots of cookies in itDining room and people gathered around tables Kitchen with people milling around
Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-14

@ravelin @hetisniels @jellyfin Yeah, I thought for WAS the main project!

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2025-12-13

⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.

There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.

Real admins will NEVER ask you to do this.

You can see examples of this scam in the thread at ohai.social/@redsad/1157080301

(Thanks @markwyner for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips

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2025-12-13

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy reports from Kupyansk, where Ukrainian forces conducted successful counterattacks. Nevertheless, it is quite a move.

That man has balls of steel.

Scott EllisScottE
2025-12-13

@Tendar What? He's not out golfing?

Clearly not a real leader.

!$&#'ing USA is run by idiots. I'm sorry about that.

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