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Ok - so - I am finally watching The Mandolorian and holy fuck.
I went into Season 1 trepidatious and the show sold me on its visuals and picaresque style. But now I'm on Season 3 (after a detour through Boba Fett), and I gotta say, if I was handed the script for S3E6 I would have stared across the the fucking desk and fired the writer. Just instantly.
@Abbie Normal The cthulhu looking alien was called Captain Shuggoth, the pleasure planet was called Plzir-15, the drug is nepenthe but does not cause or remove sorrow, and the red herring was Jack Black going "Do you like secretions? Also! I used to be imperial"
The action scene was just Mando kicking battle droids until one attacked him, then deciding to run away through a crowded market instead of anything else. And then it turned out Christopher Lloyd signed his name on all the drugs (it was nanorobots so they checked with a microscope) so they caught him, because he had no other plan. I... don't really even get its purpose.
Thinking about #BSDCan abstracts and falling into analysis paralysis, I've no idea what an abstract *looks* like for this con. How many words? Do you want the talk outline? The topic and that's it?
I dunno - AP is setting in - I want to give a good idea without accidentally writing the entire talk?
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@Hypolite Petovan @pamela Ok so the talk abstract is basically
My goal with computer is to be as stupidly boring as possible, let's talk about how BSD enables that, and what I am currently doing.
The problem is that... that... I don't know. Giving more context is way too much, but it's also not much there.
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@silverwizard A good abstract is like good slides, they give the direction of the talk but not the details.
You aren’t trying to get clicks so you should state bluntly the context of the talk and its conclusion, this lets people gage if they are interested in the “in-between” part.
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I was running a D&D module (Grasp of the Emerald Claw) in #BurningWheel, and they failed a navigation roll, so I rolled on the Random Encounter Table.
It is now over 6 months later and the aftershocks of that random encounter are still pretty major to the campaign.
Dice are wonderful.
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Product Name: TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI)
Version: Rev X.0x
and I want to see what kind of idiocy I'm going to be able to push through it (I think it'll handle 64GB DDR4), but like - no one ever has used this product for anything *useful*
People brigading @Cory Doctorow because he supports a thing they don't like.
I get why people proping up bluesky sucks, and why people are mad.
But fucking. Ok. If there's anyone who has earned benefit of the fucking doubt it's Cory Fucking Doctorow. And if you believe he made a bad call after reading his piece on it, I get it, but imagine dismissing him this hard for one bad take. Damn. Fucking bonkers.
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@Hypolite Petovan I mean - the war between millionaires and billionaires is a pretty complicated thing going on.
I'm in a situation where I'm going to become a millionaire at some point by dint of birth, and it's weird, I feel a lot of guilt about it. And despite this - I don't feel any kinship with the idea of a billionaire. Billionaires are these weird *monsters* - they don't feel like people anymore, they're just these warps in reality that reshape our fucking world to their (somehow always Nazi) whims.
But yeah - like - Mark Ruffalo does not have any sort of world shaping money - but has enough to try to make a new social media company - it makes sense - but like - yeah - Mark Ruffalo probably shouldn't be the place we put our trust in our digital future.
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Working on a Kubernetes project for the first time in forever, and I forgot how fucking awful this environment was for people shipping their internal scripts as documentation and being like "any other way of cluster management is not supported"
Use Argo? Fuck off
Use kustomize instead of helm? So?
Don't use EKS? Not our problem, the terraform says you do now
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@Becky and I are rewatching The Gathering (Babylon 5 pilot) and she doesn't remember a lot of it since she's not seen it in years.
There is a hole in her mind.
A fun and weird tech change is that all teams in movies need to have "A Drone".
A Drone is just useful enough it's impossible to not want. And it exists as an object that's pretty easy for anyone to get (if they have access to TV resources) while feeling higher tech than most people encounter day to day.
So:
Heist team of kids: Drone
Wildlife Survey: Drone
Marines storming a base: Drone
High Tech Bounty Hunters: Drone
Cyberpunk Weirdness: Drone
Humourous Impromptu Team Of Comedy Bros In Trouble: Drone
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A weird bit of the LLM future is that the people using LLMs are only credulous dupes who think they are useful. This means we only see times when they are good, or times when they are so bad even credulous dupes can see it's wrong.
This leads to a dangerous narrative that LLMs aren't wrong in smaller less obvious ways. People say to factcheck - but they don't often know what the contours of that are.
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How the heck to I send rendered HTML to a unix pipe?!
I know I can use w3m/lynx/elinks - but I want to take a "screenshot" and send it to a unix pipe. Is this a thing anyone supports? Do I have to pull out a text mode rendering engine and make a weird curl wrapper?
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Trying to talk to devs about questions like "What kind of string is this? What kind of thing has handled it"
I am constantly surprised how much people don't know about what a data type is
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@Hypolite Petovan I KNOW RIGHT
This stuff is so important and so thorny!
Also - I feel for you, this madness is wonderful, isn't it
I am watching The Mandolorian season 2, and it feels like the fight scenes haven't been directed
Has anyone else noticed this?
Just there's no sense of flow or reason in action. There's a bunch of cool moments, but no flow if more than 2 people are present
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The amount of ink spilled by Hachydermians about #Fedipact being an overreaction should be interrogated. We should all think about how giving fascists the benefit of the doubt is fucking stupid.
Hello Hachyderm! Thank you for your patience as we gathered the necessary data to write our announcement blog post regarding Threads.The short version: Hachyderm has defederated from Threads.
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Please Please Please - if you don't have a good reason
NEVER SEND ME A VIDEO OR SCREENSHOT of your terminal.
Copy/paste the text. BAAAH
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Bwahaha!
I remember being asked to migrate the Linux documentation for the Windows-centric MSP that had acquired a former employer.
I spent a fair amount of time making sure all was correct, well formatted and had plenty of examples.
It came back to me with the comment that there were no screenshots.
So you want terminal screenshots as documentation for command-based processes?
Of course I maliciously complied :D
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@Kicou Fuck - I hate it. That's so annoying.
I recently had to send a video to a support chat - rather than copy/paste them the error message. The video was of the error message.
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I guess we're fucked an linux is going full Windows 11?
Systemd takes steps toward a more secure boot process [LWN.net]
lwn.net/Articles/1001730/
Sometimes, systemd adds features, which are not embraced uniformly across the entire Linux distro ecosystems. Hopefully this is one of them...
ALSO luckily there are a few non systemd linux distros still hopping.
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between ClassDojo doing AI collection, and School Days not having a proper privacy policy, I wonder if @404 Media has ever looked into the shady School Records Management industry
Edit:
corp.school-day.com/en/privacy… looks like School Day fixed their privacy policy so it exists now
My church is the kind of church where people test their home made life sized BB8 models after the service to make sure the magnets hold the head on when the body is rolling.
I am still somehow the local DNS and email expert
these skills are considered lost art, and are way too young to have that distinction
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These kinds of articles are starting to make me itch.
Computers *are not people*. Computers *are not like people*.
Stories need to be able to grapple with computers as computers, and readers understand computers as computers. If you, as a writer, want to write about people and slavery, the time to call computers just like slaves is past, unless you lampshade and highlight it hard. It is now the writer's responsibility. Computers are part of our lives, and they are not slaves they are tools. And anthropomorphizing them is the dangerous action.
Getting angry because your audience sees computers as tools not people is annoying, because a very large problem in our society is that people see computers as people not tools.
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@silverwizard I agree with the sentiment and I would refine the conclusion further: a very large problem in our current society is that people see computers as responsibility-proof people, not tools which design can be criticized.
1970s science-fiction authors couldn’t know better because the technology in their books had to be entirely made-up. It is telling for me that we got to human likeness in chatbots way before we enacted any sort of global computing law that Isaac Asimov envisioned for robots.
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@Hypolite Petovan yes! We waffle around computers. They're tools so we can't punish them, but they're independent so their users can't be held responsible.
We need to stop treating computers as special and magical, and viewing them as human suuuuuuuuuucks.
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Boxing day dinner
Dessert is served
A google employee, an amazon employee, an openai employee, and a venture capitalist are standing by the dessert table, talking about running GPT on the Boston Dynamics Spot robots and how cool it would be
Needless to say, I got dessert late and had to text my wife I was in hiding
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If Luigi wrote words on his bullets, doesn't that mean that those bullets are speech?
Please help, I don't understand US law, but bribes are speech? Why aren't words in any medium?
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@silverwizard It's almost as though it's not actually about speech or something.
Huh.
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- sometimes it's words; once thought to be powerful, they are surprisingly impotent because any rando can spout nonsense
- sometimes it's not baking a cake because you don't like who might eat it
- sometimes it's not paying for certain kinds of healthcare for your employees because you think your sky friend wouldn't like it
- sometimes it's bribes; this is a very powerful form of speech in US politics. mostly used by the wealthy.
- sometimes it's lead; even more powerful than money; the government thinks it should be the only one to use speech of such finality
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Last night I made pong in Scratch for my 5yo. This morning we modded it together, we made a colour selector for the paddles and made you able to move the goals.
He's now making sprites and adding code. He's not able to read and refusing help, so he's mostly throwing things to the right, but he's getting there!
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@Jonathan Lamothe Part of the issue is just that I don't like sitting there for 8 hours in a mask - but that's not a terrible plan
The library near me is pretty small though - but I should think thoughts
My son has a much loved audiobook that he listens to every night. But. One of the line reads in it scared him sometimes, and he sometimes fears to listen because he's worried about it.
We talked, and we're experimenting with a version of the story where the line is said in my voice, I opened the file, cut out the scary line, said it instead in my voice, and left the rest of the audiobook intact.
Talk to me again about DRM.
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@Mister Spinalzo yeah! I 100% paid for the book for my son to enjoy! The line reading was great! But sometimes the line read of "a dragon surprises the main character" is too scarey for an anxious 5yo!
Thanks for writting books it's important work!
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