Ok - someone has stolen a cool fucking WorldCoin orb - will you send it to me? I wanna make it a server.
Fuck - I want a spherical server forever
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So I have a Shadowrun GM who wants to run deep political intrigued and complex cons
But he's absolutely awful at it
So he trying to run a political grift that we're opposing and we found why the politician who had backed down, they had received a note saying "Change your vote, or else"
And I was like "ok, but this is a grift, what the fuck is actually happening, we gotta figure out why nothing made her fold" and then the GM was like "oh, it had an explicit death threat"
And I think I'm offending him because I keep thinking that "a politician receiving death threats" wouldn't even crack the top ten surprising things that had happened to her in a day. But he keeps saying how this is deep politics and no hints we have to figure it out.
"Or else" isn't very specific. At the very least include a photo of the politician's children at their school or something. That's what makes a threat at least somewhat credible.
I'm also running a somewhat political game, but it's not that deep. I'm mostly following the SRM4 adventures, fleshing them out a bit more here and there. I want to do a bit more with the corruption around the Backhaven administration, but I'm not sure how. It's mentioned a lot in various sources, but never very fleshed out.
@Martijn Vos yeah that makes sense!
And yeah! It is a very minor unactionable letter with no proof they can *do* anything. As I read it, it's a violent person blowing off steam, sure, it could be a problem, but that's why you have security!
I was expecting some level of:
inside person who was leveraging a weakpoint to talk her into being stressed out and afraid, balanced by threats and perhaps demonstrations, but apparently not
Wife's birthday is Saturday
I think the cake plan is a Queen Mother Cake, a nougat middle layer, a peanut butter frosting, and then cover that with the standard queen mother hard chocolate icing
Going for a "chocolate bar but it's a cake", as was the request
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Youtube is a weird fucking beast.
It's a first class media type. It is definitely the new Television. But no one is making money from youtube ads, and external services (sponsors, patreon, and so on) is where the money is. But the *value proposition* of Youtube is supposed to be money.
But the value is obviously discoverability. Not even just the recommendation engine, but because if you search for a thing, Google will give you YouTube links early in the listings, and lots of people search for media on YouTube first. To the point I suspect it's the most popular music, book, video, and podcast platform.
There's literally no value to youtube basically. But because of how centralized everything got, it's nearly impossible to break out of. We *just* need better tools to search the web. It's literally all we need. And because of that, they're all getting incredibly bad.
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@Hypolite Petovan It does fucking look like it doesn't it.
I'm so fucking annoyed. This is three times I've put together a valid zpool and then booting from it fucked up. On three HBAs and two chassis. I've also replaced all but 3 disks
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@Jay Hannah oh - is that because it's good or real bad?
I am trying to write a card game for fun - but in order to do that I wanna put routines on cards, so that means objects. But uh.... blah
Conway's OO Perl book from 20 years ago was AWESOME at the time, changed our code very much for the far better. :)
Nowadays OO Perl is Moose https://metacpan.org/dist/Moose/view/lib/Moose/Manual.pod or one of it's many lighter-weight alternatives (lightweight is unnecessary for your use case).
~Soon-ish OO Perl will probably be Corona, but it's only (partially) in bleeding edge Perl for now, if I understood correctly. Check out @ovid for his many posts about that if you care about bleeding edge Perl stuff.
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@Jay Hannah @Curtis "Ovid" Poe ok yeah, I've used moose a lIttle, not sure what edition my OO Perl book is (again, bought as joke), but I think I saw Moose in it
I am kinda... anti bleeding edge, I like stable and boring.
But thanks!
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@deafferret Be aware that it's still experimental not not complete! `perldoc perlclass` should tell you which features are implemented.
The MVP for the core itself is here: https://github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/master/rfc/mvp.md
You can use the latter to see what will be coming up. @leonerd is doing the implementing, so he might have an idea on the time frame (though I don't think there is one)
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Also, for a more realistic view of what can be done now, check out @perigrin 's Roguelike Game Tutorial using the new syntax. He's up to part 6 now.
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Well fedilab still says pending, but I'll have to get on a computer at some point and look there.
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@ovid huh. I thought github used to render POD? Did they stop? Is there a HTML render of this anywhere? https://github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/master/pod/perlclasstut.pod
(This is the landing page for people (like me) who want to learn how to use Cor?)
(Apologies for calling it Corona, that was NEVER the name. Whoops! 🙂)
@deafferret I drank a Corona last night. Perfect for hot weather, so I've no complaints about that mistake :)
Yeah, github not rendering POD there is disappointing, so I created a better version a while ago: https://gist.github.com/Ovid/4cc649c1eb3142b6a856d94c54b1d4ed
I broke a coffee mug over the weekend, it was new, I wanna fix it.
Looks like stake of the art is Epoxy and most epoxy isn't food safe?
Art Resin brand Resin is FDA certified food safe (they say FDA certified and in Canada and Great Britain and 13 other countries, which is a claim you can't make without getting in very fraud, but also worthless), but it only allows up to 50°C before that's worthless.
The MSDS on other resins and epoxies seems to be not food-safe?
Anyone know how to fix a coffee cup?
Was thinking maybe finding some non-PB tin?
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Elon is mad that Jack is considered a better twitter CEO than him, so he's trying to wipe Block off the earth.
I assume.
@Hypolite Petovan Elon Musk has stated (a few times) that Twitter will be removing the Block feature since - Elon is bad
Block, Inc is another dumb rebrand of the company Square where Jack wanted to do more Blockchain
So it's just a dumb pun about Jack and Elon
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I am starting to get auditor questions like "Do you use any cloud computing". And this is super frustrating. These are mostly banks asking if we use offsite stuff like AWS or Azure mostly I think. But I need to be like "We manage code in BitBucket?" because what even is The Cloud.
When legal and financial teams adopt your buzzwords without defining them then you've made it as an industry I guess?
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My favourite acronym is GAI for Generative Artificial Intelligence
It's good for discourse and 100% not designed to fuck up the world
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not really my jamLast night I was trying to debug an issue with upgrading Ruby, so I spent an hour *causing* the issue somewhere else, and then had to go to bed.
Meaning I spent all my debugging time causing the problem I was fixing.
Aw computers
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I just found this on Newegg
We have strayed from the light of electronics that don't start fires
https://www.newegg.com/p/17B-0461-00011
SUPERDANNY Power Strip Surge Protector with 22 AC Outlets and 6 USB Charging Ports & 1 USB-C 1875W/15A 2100 Joules, 6.5Ft Flat Plug Heavy Duty Extension Cord for Home, Office, Dorm, Gaming Room, Black - Newegg.com
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Been playing Baulder's Gate because BG3 was just released and reminded me I have the game
And the fact that my travel is like "1 day" and I travel and show up at the dungeon and my characters are like "I'm so tired" - fuck - camp while you travel
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So thinking about https://openai.com/gptbot-ranges.txt
Hear me out:
We need to make a project to make a site with infinite links all of which are autogenerated garbage, just for those ranges
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@Hypolite Petovan yeah - basically
In university I wrote a tool called The Eye of Argonizer (makes text more like The Eye of Argon) and a wikipedia dump and the Eye of Argonizer ported out of ancient java, easy to do
Put OpenAI on a tarpit that serves the Eye of Wikipedia on the fly, and and distribute it as a plugin service
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Fuck - holy shit - Datadog! Don't rescale my percentile graphs!
If I suddenly see a DB capping out utilization I *panic*.
If I realize a second later it's because the Y axis tops at 50% I am so angry.
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I should do the courses, become a certified SOC/ISO/whatever auditor, and then dye my hair blue
I have some of my most fun work conversations with auditors - but ... uh... the auditor stereotypes always make me laugh
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@Hypolite Petovan It's just
I love talking to auditors, they seem so refreshingly dedicated to work. And yet whenever I talk about audits people are like "auditors are boring" and so ...
I would make a normal audit person - right? Make people being audited explode
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One thing I am noticing in my auto-complete location bar, and my searches, is that top level pages are getting ignored.
If I go to "example.com" it will show "example.com/blog_post" but will only fill example.com at the last minute.
It feels like we're being dragged by automation toward the less Destination Web and more the Search Web.
(to be clear this is with DuckDuckGo and Firefox not even with Google/Google)
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Ug, I wrote an #UnknownArmies module about a group of ex-coworkers from <closed news service> infiltrating a rave run by a cult in order to out magic for a <billionaire trying to drive traffic to social network>, but uh, Sleepers, Cultists, and personal Drama.
And then I never got to run it!
I've washed more Yubikeys in the washing machine than I have been attacked by SIM swapping attacks. Has anyone dealt with this as a security question yet?
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I'm An Idiot And So Can You:
A Guide For Homelabs
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I am the office Windows expert. Also the Office365 expert.
This is maddening, strange, and annoying.
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Ug - I need popup blocks for the web.
Why the fuck did JS thing drawing over a page was a good thing to allow?!
It's the whole history of the web.
SGML was intended to overcome proprietary file formats for documents, marking text semantically, leaving it to the user to decide how to display it. HTML was originally an instance of SGML.
From the beginning, people were trying to thwart the design of HTML to force people to see pages specific ways. The early books on web design were mostly about how designers could abuse the standard with "tricks" to control the experience of users.
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Wikipedia deleted their article on dolphins disappearing
Every claim was marked [Cetacean Needed]
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•my middle one listens to audiobooks for bedtime when he’s with his mom.
When he’s with me he always wants to listen to that one episode of a podcast about war history where the hosts decided to talk about Warhammer 40k lore instead…
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