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<p>After that, I went to try some apps again. I was able to log in with the <a href="https://otto-aa.github.io/solid-filemanager/">Solid file manager</a>, but because I had been using the localhost IP when I created my user in the web interface, the file manager kept throwing errors. I had to delete all my data and start over from the beginning. And by delete all my data, I mean running <code>sudo rm -rf ~/Solid/*</code>, deleting the Docker images, and then re-downloading the Docker images. Turns out this is a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123022111/https://github.com/CommunitySolidServer/CommunitySolidServer/issues/1394">known problem</a> that the developers don't feel like solving at the moment:</p>
<blockquote>The account system is still quite rudimentary and does not include account deletion yet. To delete the accounts on your server you would have to delete the <code>.internal/accounts/</code> folder on your disk.</blockquote>
<p>After the full reset, the file manager then worked as intended, and I was able to create folders and upload files.</p>
<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/asuka_on_web3.png" alt="screenshot of a browser showing an image of Asuka eating a Happy Meal" /></p>
<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/asuka_on_web3.png" alt="screenshot of a browser showing an image of Asuka eating a Happy Meal" /></p>
<p>I thought about self-hosting the file manager, but I looked at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123020213/https://github.com/Otto-AA/solid-filemanager">Git repo</a>, and apparently it's unmaintained:</p>
<blockquote>NOTE: This project has no active maintainer. It may or may not be working, and from time to time stuff will probably get fixed.</blockquote>
<p>As for alternatives, <a href="https://archive.ph/s82eL">Penny</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123023441/https://github.com/jeff-zucker/solid-content-manager">Solid IDE</a> are actively maintained, and the UI for Penny is nicer. But Penny constantly sends HTTP requests every time you do <em>anything</em> in the window, which could easily overwhelm a server if you have more than a few Pods hosted on it, and the hosted instance of Solid IDE linked in the Solid app listing 404s, so I couldn't test it.</p>
<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/jett_via_penny.png" alt="screenshot of Penny showing an image" /></p>
<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/jett_via_penny.png" alt="screenshot of Penny showing an image" /></p>
<p>I thought about <a href="https://archive.ph/UEf0r">deploying Plume</a> on my Pod since my whole reason for exploring web3 is to find new and creative ways to host my website, but the guide links to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123020854/https://github.com/happybeing/solid-plume/releases">an empty Releases page</a> on a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221123020600/https://github.com/happybeing/solid-plume">Github repo that's been abandoned since early last year</a>. Not exactly reassuring.</p>
<p>Next on my list of apps to try was <a href="https://archive.ph/oJb3P">Notepod</a>, a notepad application (also with an abandoned Git repo, this time from 2020). But after I entered the URL of my Solid provider (solid.letsdecentralize.org) and clicked "go"... nothing happened. Docker showed a few HTTP requests were being made every time I clicked "go":</p>
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<p>And here I was, saying that I wouldn't do free labor for cryptobros... Payment for the editing is welcome, PokedStudio. Fiat only. <a href="../../../identity/index.html">You know where to contact me.</a></p>
<p>If you want to do something other than buy expensive images, there are nine projects in the "Social" category. As my patience was starting to wear thin, I decided to try the first one listed: a Reddit clone named <a href="https://dscvr.one/">DSCVR</a>. But I wanted to be prepared before I dove in, so I went to the "Wallet" category and installed the first one listed, <a href="https://archive.ph/nztaK">Plug</a>. I mean, if web3 is all about cryptocurrency, then it makes sense that you'd need a wallet, right? I clicked on the extension icon once it popped up by the address bar, and I was immediately met with this sleep paralysis demon:</p>
<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/plug1.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot with the text 'create password for Plug' underneath" /></p>
<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/plug1.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot with the text 'create password for Plug' underneath" /></p>
<p>(For those not familiar with zoomerspeak, "frfr" is short for "for real, for real".)</p>
<p>It prompted me to create a password, so I gave it a fourteen-word-long passphrase made in KeePassXC. Then it gave me a recovery phrase to backup... and whatever the hell this is:</p>
<p class="center"><img src="../../../img/plug2.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot saying 'keep this sh*t safe, forreal'" /></p>
<p class="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/plug2.png" alt="screenshot of a creepy plug mascot saying 'keep this sh*t safe, forreal'" /></p>
<p>I get the feeling that the people at Fleek (the company that made Plug) don't take professionalism very seriously. Which is all good and fine when you're a Broke Dumbass like me who just wants to snark at everything, but when you're a company dealing with financial assets... well, a mascot with a creepy face who swears at you during the onboarding process doesn't exactly reassure the user that the company won't lose all the customer's assets.</p>
<p>Once I'd suffered all the way through the Plug setup, I went back to DSCVR, now ready to sign in. The homepage immediately blasted me with a post where... <a href="https://archive.ph/orEH0">Christians were arguing over whether Christ had a vagina</a>. (DSCVR also seems quite hostile to being archived by both the Wayback Machine and archive.md.) I was expecting the usual NFT hype to clog every post, but this time I had to actually scroll for it. I'm still not sure if I'd prefer the NFTs or not.</p>
<p>On your first visit, a welcome popup appears offering a site tour. Page one of the tour (there are six in total) is about receiving NFT airdrops... and so is page three. Page five says you can make <del>subreddits</del> "portals", and then paywall them by requiring certain NFTs to visit. I don't have any NFTs, and I don't have any interest in <a href="../../2021/december/copywrong.html">paywalling my content</a>, but I forged ahead to the login page anyway.</p>

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<h1>Uterus Pin Perler Bead Pattern</h1>
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<p>Something was wrong with the milk machines at Hell College. Skim milk tasted like literal cow water, and the 2% milk made me want to puke. The chocolate milk dispenser was alright, but since my main source of milk meal-wise during my stay at Hell College was at breakfast for cereal, that would have been <em>too</em> much sugar at once for my poor body.</p>
<p>Thankfully, due to the high volume of lactose-intolerant and vegan students on campus, there was a regularly-restocked soy milk dispenser. It was delicious, which is a shame because I don't remember what brand it was and I have yet to find soy milk that tastes just as smooth. The cooks- and even a campus administrator once- ran out of the kitchen multiple times during my year there to yell at me for taking so much. I think once they purposely didn't refill the damn thing until noon because they knew I was coming to drink it all at breakfast. So, just for that morning, I was forced to use the almond milk dispenser instead. Maybe it was starting to go bad, or maybe almond milk just naturally tastes <em>rancid</em>, but I never tried that again.</p>
<p align="center"><img class="big" src="../../../img/AlmondMilkMeme.jpg" alt="meme where a dude does an online quiz to tell him what the next five years are like, and 2019-2022 is a bunch of pictures of Hell and 2023 is a meme about almond milk" /></p>
<p>Which is why, when I look at the calendar and see that the Year of the Almond Milk is upon us, my hope is that it means this is the year where I close the loopholes that men keep using to cause me pain, just like how I eventually stopped eating cereal at Hell College so the cooks would stop threatening to beat my ass for the crime of... drinking milk. (Have you ever had hash browns covered in hot sauce at six in the morning? Religious experience right there. Highly recommended. Alternatively, get a bunch of noodles in alfredo sauce in a take-out box, put some chicken tenders on top, and let it sit in the fridge overnight. The food is the only thing I really miss about Hell College.)</p>
<p>Dammit, I'm digressing again.</p>
<p>Wanna know one thing the cooks <em>didn't</em> do? Keep harassing me after I left Hell College. Exactly zero of the cooks stalked me after I left the campus and never returned. Not a single one gave me unsolicited passive-aggressive "career advice". <strong>Not a single one sicced their friends on me to leave nasty misogynistic screeds in my inbox, email or IRL, after I got COVID-19.</strong> I can't think of a single one who went out of their way to bypass my elaborate server filters just to tell me to kill myself. (I wish Zoho's web admin panel had an <em>actual</em> mobile version. Too much pinching and zooming for my bleary eyes.) I left Hell College, and they forgot about me, and we went our separate ways. Maybe it helped that all the cooks I remember were female. I mean, Ovarit was <a href="../../2022/october/ovarit.html">full of shitty people</a>, but I haven't received even a single <em>peep</em> of harassment from them since I left. I wish I knew exactly what it is about the Y chromosome that makes men <a href="https://archive.md/tHVeh">Behave Like That</a>.<!-- https://www.tumblr.com/r4dioe/704642314862215168 --></p>
<p>So, as the first post of the Year of the Almond Milk on this blog, let me remind everyone who this website is <em>really</em> for: on Christmas, instead of pretending to be a Christian, I sat in my grandmother's basement and designed from scratch a uterus pin. There were existing designs already on the Internet, but they were either too simplistic or too oblong and likely to have dangling pieces chip off when actually used as a pin.</p>
<p>I don't have a PO box to ship these from, so I currently have no way of safely selling them on Etsy... so apologies if you wanted one Certifiably Made By A Madwoman. As recompense for a crime not committed, here's the pattern. Use the "mini" bead size for these. Good luck, have fun, and may your first womynstruation in the Year of the Almond Milk be light and pain-free.</p>
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<h2>2023</h2>
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<li>January 1 - <a href="./2023/january/UterusPin.html">Uterus Pin Perler Bead Pattern</a></li>
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