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I'm just mainlining the Cardigans tonight.

I'm still unsure that there's a band that specifically captures the kind of melancholy which is both sad, joyful, and empowered at the same time.

I think Jaya the Cat is the closest I can find - but that's definitely different

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clacke at libranet.de is my main
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Less joyful sad but also that quirky Swedish brand of melancholy: Have you tried Kent?
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silverwizard
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Yeah - the is one of the cases where my ear damage is 100% holding me back - I need a lot more lyrics forward for good music - since musically just doesn't work for me, and Kent's lyrics (seem to me) to be more to merge into musical motifs, which just sound like soup to me
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Yeah, their lyrics seldom has any clear meaning, it's more of an ambience or a mood.

And I haven't listened to their two English-version albums, so I don't even know how well they managed to translate that.

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Come to think of it I did listen to "If You Were Here" and it immediately annoyed me that they had the line "If you were here, if I was there" when it should have been "If you were here, if I were there" to match the Swedish text's intention. Doesn't bode well for the translations overall.
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silverwizard
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Yeah - I think the sound is more important, and I'm very ok with that. But it's definitely a place where I'm gonna continue my Hedonistic Melancholy surge though
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clacke at libranet.de is my main
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Ah, you mean you need to song to stand out more clearly and Kent's messy guitar sound just comes out as noise for you?
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silverwizard
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I can't really do that style of music, since, uh, ear damage.

I need strong beats and lyrics, because more complicated musically tracks just don't work for me. I can't distinguish notes because my ear drums are a mass of scar tissue and I've lost huge amounts of cilia to stuff.

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clacke at libranet.de is my main
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For melancholy sounds and crisp lyrics I can recommend Hellsongs. They sing AC/DC, Iron Maiden and other metal covers in a melancholic and light melodic way, and for me it's usually been the first time I actually heard the lyrics. 🤣
They call it "Lounge Metal". Richard Cheese, Paul Anka and Dick Brave have done that genre too, but Hellsongs do it in that kind of Cardigans, Pomplamoose singer-singwriter way instead of a more Big Band Jazz direction.
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I kinda hated Lovefool as a teenager kinda on principle, and, fuck was I wrong

It's been a while, I've been hiding out away from people because of covid, had mostly toddlers for company, and watched as abilify tanks my ability to read (and watch tv and anything that requires staying still) and it's really messing with me. I just want to be able to think and talk about interesting things again

@raspberrypi@raspberrypi.social did the SanFran killer robots use your platform too? Or just unwanted and illegal spy cameras?

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Is raspberrypi.social just gone? Or is it just overwhelmed?

Raspberry Pi supporting surveillance and burning their entire reputation in a single day wasn't even on my 2022 bingo card.

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Spencer
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Oh dear. I'm out of the loop, but that ain't great at all. 😬
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Don't worry, its been like a day. RasPi went from badass heroes to monsters over the course of a day

At this point, why isn't there a pokemon MMORPG?

Me framing this gingerbread house
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Work of the Framers

A construction tribute to every framing crew that said screw it to using their level or laser and gave the other trades job security. The Work of the Framers D G D We’ve all met together, the bluepr
SoundCloud

Stealing every scrap of voice assistant data from Apple and making a Linux assistant called DB-9

Are there any good Linux Piñata simulators? (The Piñata simulator's genre definer is Diablo 2, a genre where you hit things until candy falls out)

Spent all day doing anarchism*

*Baking for a struggling single mom

Apparently Starbucks just puts caffeine in there drinks and today I learned a drink I thought was just juice that I sometimes give them in their sippy cups has caffeine in it.... like lots 😶😶😶😶
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Becky This reminds of Bullfrog's Theme Park (1994) in which you can control the amount of caffeine in the coffee sold to park visitors. I liked to crank it up to the max, which made the visitors who frequented the coffee shop zoom around the park much faster than the others.
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Becky
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Lol!

Honestly the fact that I never noticed additional energy.... but my kids are already busy I guess 🤷‍♀️

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard There are absolute gems and few games have since managed to be both light-hearted and engaging economic simulations. Theme Park, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper are a holy video game design trifecta in my book.
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I didn't realize Dungeon Keeper was them, I need to play that more

I got CorsixTH running once and then never really went on, I should do that again

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard It’s technically Theme Hospital but not in spirit. Interestingly the open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe has maintained popularity, probably because there wasn’t much design magic to the original game, and a purely technical port could preserve the game’s interest.
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silverwizard
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Wait - what's missing from it?!

TTD is a game I never played but definitely know people love OpenTTD

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I wouldn’t be able to fully describe it. The intro cutscene, the weird animated main menu, the thoughtful level progression. CorsixTH faithfully reproduces the core gameplay loop but the original game was much more than it.
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard Even Theme Park starts out smallish, you have to pay to open bigger and more challenging locations.
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silverwizard
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Oh, wait -CorsixTH takes out all the progression? Just free for all?

My CDs were buried and I'd only tried the demo when I tried it, though I did find my CD

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I take that back, they have the original campaign, but not any of the cutscenes (intro, game board movements, main menu). It is a very neat port with modern screen resolutions, but if you have the original game handy, I'm not sure what more it brings to it, especially since the GOG version still runs on modern machines.
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Becky
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I just got a brief description of Theme Hospital.... and yet... it sounds like my kinda jam lmao
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Becky It can be anyone’s jam. It’s fun and straightforward during the first few levels, the PA jokes and the illness descriptions are still chuckleworthy.
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If bipolar disorder is so good, why isn't there a Bipolar 2?
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Yeah, that's the entire joke
Basically Becky and I were talking about Bipolar 2 and I said this, and that was all

Titan Up The Defense

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Image: a long haired hacker in a black N95 mask with a tablet next to him on a fancy couch

Not in image: Mechanical Keyboard

I feel like a happily out of place hacker in this setting

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That would a made it cooler, the starships are on the ceiling downstairs

Shæ had a stuffed frog that his mom told him would scare ghosts if he squeezed it, so he put it beneath him to always be squeezed

I hereby declare him a hacker

Okay, not in the least bit relatable but when I was pregnant with a baby due June 1, I had morning sickness until February (I also had multiple Mallory Weiss tears)

Just talked to a friend due may 27th. I'm very excited for her!! But also somehow she's already over the morning sickness phase? Is that what pregnancy is just like sometimes? Where you don't vomit multiple times a day for what 5 months? 🤯

For the first time in my life, awk was easier to figure out than cut

I feel like I ascended

Thinking about boundaries and frens I gotta say nothing makes me less inclined to want to be around you or help you with problems than repeatedly asking me if I'll do something I've already said no to a dozen times. This has happened far too often this pandemic (why yes, I am talking about indoor activities with kiddos)

"It's not pedantry, it's fear!"
-- RPG quotes

Custom GoToSocial instances for RPG Streamers where they can post in-character, but it can be a little walled garden for the stream's identity.

Time to start asking the GPT Stack Overflow thing "Does this program halt?"

#7FilmsToKnowMe

Baraca
Lord of the Rings
Mary Poppins
Mad Monster Party?
And then there were none
Pan's Labarynth
How to train your dragon

#7filmstoknowme
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Becky I have 0 confidence the list of the 7 films who impressed me the most would help anyone know me, let's see:

  • The Fifth Element (1997)
  • The Fast and the Furious (2001)
  • Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Jurassic Park (1993)
  • Antitrust (2001)
  • Swordfish (2001)


Let's throw Memento (2000) and Mission: Impossible (1996) and the only thing you can reliably know about me from this list is that I was a teenager in the late 1990s.

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Becky
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I didn't choose ones that impressed me as much as chose ones that represented different facets of my taste, but I think it's cool to see what people choose anyway 😊

I considered princess bride too 😊

The biggest mistake in git was commit messages
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Dave
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I mean, that's also pretty easy to fix:

#!/bin/sh
# git-mcommit - commit with a default message
exec git commit -m "$(git diff --cached --stat)" "$*"

#bin/sh
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silverwizard
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Yeah, but the problem is that people build workflows around commit messages. So you get a git log containing "Just committing this for the evening" and "FUck, I think this was right? Lemme send it to you" but then people want to take those events and process them. We need to have *merge* messages

Midterm 2 marks are posted. If I get a weighted average mark not less than -8.6% (yes, that's a negative minimum value) on the remaining coursework, I get to graduate on the Dean's Honour List.

(This update also includes reweighting the first two assignment marks, since assignment 4 did indeed happen. A3 marks are not out yet so not included here.)

We're mostly only meeting people outside rn because of covid but it often feels like we're one of the few left

In a few weeks tho, we're going to visit my sister, and she's taking all kinds of extra precautions to make sure it's safe for us to go and we're even doing a few too just to make extra sure

Anyway, I talked to another friend who lives in Ottawa for an outside playdate and it turns out that they're doing a lot of things similar to us and it just.... it doesn't feel like we're the only ones anymore (even though looking online I know we're not but it's different knowing someone irl).... and that's really comforting in a I-was-feeling-al9ne-in-this-but-now-I-feel-solidarity way

I have a file in my home bin called clipscrip and it's literally:
`xclip -i -selection clipboard
xclip -o -selection clipboard`

On MacOS it was
`pbcopy
pbpaste`

And it's useful so much of the time, basically similar to tee

Somebody stop me from thinking too much about LiveJournal style moods and their value in a social network
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Darcy Casselman
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You can kinda do moods on Facebook but nobody does and it's dumb. Nobody does icons.
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silverwizard
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Yeah - a lot of "mood" isn't just a mood post (hell, everyone does something like Mood now), it's more about posting with specific style, and I dunno

I am really happy that I've gotten to the point where I have the stuff done in advance to be able to make these in 10 minutes (plus 20 minutes cook time).

Homemade bread, homemade pizza sauce, vegan pepperoni, and a stick of cheddar, inside. Parmesan grated over top

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silverwizard
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Huh, that's an interesting view. That makes sense - but huh.

I don't really know what the root pepper sausage that pepperoni and pepperettes are modified versions of....

My media diet is so bad that @Becky isn't surprised I watched a nearly two hour video on Highschool Musical
@Becky

My underdesk bike officially no longer maintains a pedal for more than 10 minutes

Any recommendations for desk exercise gear?

Dropping a branch on my coworkers where everyone wants to make some comments, but no one is willing to actually push approve
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silverwizard
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I am good at regex *imo* - but I kinda refuse to be forced to read a non-trivial regex
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silverwizard
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Ug, I wish there was more research on reading non-phonological languages!

A friend of ours brought us a plate of cookies like, a year ago, and there was a Pikachu on the plate. He has been a little obsessed with every single Pikachu he's seen since, and sometimes just wants to see Pikachu.

Pikachu was basically the great piece of Brand ever.

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silverwizard
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Fuck - words - he was my son in this context >.<
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard Did you know you could edit your posts with Friendica™️?
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silverwizard
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Yeah - but if I do that it doesn't really get refreshed into feeds where the sudden addition of context may make the earlier post suddenly meaingful
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard Do you think anyone who follows you for any meaningful amount of time would actually be confused?
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benis
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that was a cute bit of surreal literature
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silverwizard
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The only thing you can call my brain in the morning

Fuck - it has been a fuck of a week, and I am terrible at email this week

According to my notes, a 60% on the midterm I'll be writing soon will bring the weighted average future mark I need to pass the course (and thus graduate) below zero. Based on the priors, I have a reasonable expectation of clearing that bar with plenty of room to spare.

Why has no one made a deck umbrella with solar panels and a USB outputting battery?

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silverwizard
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So my theory was:
3 panels that can be folded into a single rectangle, per panel of the antenna.

Cord from the panels to a base. The base containing the battery, and the USB ports.

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