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You may fail with an error
You may succeed

But you cannot do neither

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Ok - does anyone else remember this movie

IN THIS MOVIE THEY MADE A SUPER VIRUS! BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO CURE A SUPER VIRUS!?

CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS LOGIC?! It has been bothering me for 22 years!


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Toronto Police Service Guns Seized #offthestreets

2022-08-22 15:22:32


#offthestreets this week

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Listen - you ever heard of a sea change?!

What if that Sea Changed into some sort of Deep Sea Magic weapon

I just had a user tell me that their Mac got pushed an update, but it's probably not the high priority update I mentioned he should install

The fact that people don't know what an update is bothers me. And it's annoying that I know that the confusion is intentional.

I just started dreaming of gluing one end of an SSH tunnel to a socket
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Like - with current SSH or just like, as an extension to SSH?
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WHOA I DIDN"T KNOW THAT! THAT MAKES THINGS SO MUCH BETTER!

Turns out I like music the most when the song is designed to attack me.

It's funny because I love songs that call me awful and super melancholy music, and I am neiiiiiither of those things outside of music.

@silverwizard just reminded me of that d&d campaign I was in where an owlbear attacked and I fed it a bunch of goodberries so it wasn't hungry anymore and so was happy and stopped attacking because I was playing an animal loving druid.... but then the same thing happened with rats, and a giant squid... and just kept happening because the gm just kept motivating our enemies with hunger... eventually he stopped but it happened more times than I expected that goodberry just worked
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The worst part was the gm was progressively more frustrated every time it happened but I'm pretty sure it was a default reaction to make hunger the motivation...
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That GM also loved set piece fights as the big moment.

So having a cool fight with an octopus in the sewer was 100% a thing he thought was cool. But then we just gave the octopus a goodberry and moved on.

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Last Sunday:
DM: You see a great elk in the clearing you need to hunt, do you set traps or try to shoot it from where you are?
Me: I use my paladin power to abjure it, making it frightened, and then I walk to it and plunge my great-sword between his eyes.

Thankfully the DM was delighted by my “solution”, DnD is stupid but fun when you take it as a puzzle board game.

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Meanie, hurting animals ;)
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We needed a great elk heart (among other things) to allow a druid ghost to prepare a potion to heal a treant!

It was force majeure!

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Guess we didn’t have Becky on our team 🤷‍♂️
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I 100% agree, but I have only ever really done ttrpg with Sean and that's always been his approach

Plus my first game was fate, which fits that so well imo

Amazon's IAM permissions are very strange. I like the amount of granularity - but things like "You can't delete a key if you can't list all keys, even if you specified the key ID in the delete action" is really frustrating and makes the granularity not work.

I hate the feel of keyboard wrist rests. I hate them generally and they annoy me.

But my new desk hurts my arms, and a wrist rest hates it - and it's annoying

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@GordSpence Yeah, my keyboard is already a little low so a tray would make that worse

I might want to do a slightly raised keyboard and then a mat underneath

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@HippyWizard That'd probably do it... or adjust your chair haha

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A part of me feels like I shouldn't have to be stressed to talk to certain friends of mine because they want to hang out more and don't necessarily understand my 'extreme' caution around covid because of my children.

I want to be clear that I've been careful in who I've let in and these are all people who I appreciate greatly and have no interest in not having in my life, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, I'm just a bit tired of the anxiety I get from expressing my needs around it

I feel like most people have moved on because their circumstances are different and they don't necessarily understand why I haven't yet

The modern day parable of the Crustpunk Bartender and the Neo-Nazi

Why the hell is there a knowledge base without a search function?!

Just smashed a potion flask, leftover from doing a ritual from The Golden Dawn during a vampire LARP, while cleaning my office

Maybe my dad was right and D&D would get me into the occult

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Gotta admit, I'm a *bit* relieved it wasn't the food ones for our non alcoholic mixed drink parties...

Still sad tho

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Your parties sound fun, and I hate parties.

Picked up rainbow temporary tattoos from the local toy store and Shæ and I are living our best lives (I don’t think Ro has realized he has one yet)

Explaining to support the way we fixed the problem last time:
I bought LinkedIn Premium and cold emailed my counterpart at the client's CASB vendor since they would only ever call us

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace"
"Mummy, what's a gigantic nuclear furnace?"
Uhhhhh

I managed tho

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Yeah! 🥰 I love when I get to explain things and teach about the world

Parenting during a pandemic is all about scamming children

My son just found out what a hotel is and wants to go to one. So my wife is taking them to a campground to go around trails and look at campsites and "Car Hotels" ... aka RVs

Adding a .php-info.php to my webserver, but it's just an incorrect static page

Just to annoy people

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Yes, our locally patched build of PHP really does have a version number that's 8 kilobytes long and contains valid amd64 instructions, why do you ask?
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That just seems natural. It also contains javascript to make it not display if a human reads it, why do you ask?

If I spin up an LTO-6 drive in my home, that's a problem - right?

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Hey - this is important, especially if you use twitter anonymously or you feel threatened by people learning your twitter account

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@HippyWizard not to be pedantic/blame-the-user type but anonymity shouldn't be expected out of a service that monetizes its own user base. either you accept the defeatist "yea it is what it is" stance and post cats or you go find somewhere that respects yr privacy. greasy move either way tho

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@HippyWizard we're already on to fighting to preserve pseudonymity, even

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As a parent I'm seeing the fucking Jeanette McCurdy thing and fuck.
Why are people so focused on what kids owe their parents and not what parents owe their kids.

Parents fail kids
Kids don't fail parents

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@HippyWizard Jennette fulfilled every dream her mother ever had for her. It's really easy to see which of them failed the other, you know?

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@HippyWizard Kids def fail parents. We can acknowledge both without acting like one doesn’t exist

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@trustinSelf19 you seem like a bad person, based only on that comment

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@HippyWizard @trustinSelf19 Probably either a performative contrarian or an estranged parent whose kid no-contact'd their ass.

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@HayashiPatrick @HippyWizard You’re the kid that disappointed their parents and is using this status to justify it huh?

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@trustinSelf19 @HippyWizard If that's what you want to tell yourself to make yourself feel better, go ahead. Kids don't fail parents when they never even asked to be born. 😂

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@HayashiPatrick @HippyWizard I’m neither weirdo. Just someone who can recognize two truths can exist.

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@trustinSelf19 @HippyWizard There is only one truth. You can't disappoint someone who never asked you for your consent to be born.

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@HippyWizard @trustinSelf19 You seem like a fuckin idiot based on yours. So even?

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@dariusMckoy6 @trustinSelf19 @HayashiPatrick
This is why you block socks - they grow like fungus

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@HippyWizard @dariusMckoy6 @trustinSelf19 Imagine needing a sock to deal with someone you'll never meet in real life. That's sad.

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Do people really think sending a screenshot of a terminal is a good idea?

Imagine the roll playing plot arc of a murder mystery where twin peaks meets pretty little liars tho

Ok - so - when I run D&D I tend to tell my players "Vote when you wanna level, if everyone agrees you do". And people tend to level when they're bored of their current power set and want new toys.

So many people tell me they'd go straight to level 20, but I've never seen it.

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@HippyWizard I like about level 4 to 8.

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@HippyWizard Honestly one of my biggest gripes about D&D games is that I'd prefer if I could have level 6 numbers and level 20 features.

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@PunishedLorelai Yeah, that's a totally valid! The cool powers are fun - but the high level numbers break down very badly! And D&D puts its coolest powers in its most badly made places.

And honestly, I am a 12-15 range for games, but 5e wasn't made for over level 12 it feels!

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@PunishedLorelai But I also think that it says something that so many people can say this about D&D. If D&D is fundamentally about zero-to-hero play and leveling up - why do so many people *have* a favourite range that isn't 20?!

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@HippyWizard I've barely played 5e. I will say that the numbers seem to stay pretty small, except for health.

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@PunishedLorelai They seem small, except for how easily they breakdown.

My players got mad at me when I made an NPC with +17s... using PHB only.... At level 12...

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@HippyWizard That does seem pretty strong.

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@PunishedLorelai I mean, I usually had that at level 1 back in 3e days, so it's probably an improvement...

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@HippyWizard That *definitely* seems like a lot at level 1.

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@PunishedLorelai I have a power gaming problem. I can't quit

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@HippyWizard Straight to level 20 would be a nightmare. It would be like back when I was playing wow and you'd encounter somebody at max level who had clearly bought their character. Nobody would know how the fuck to play their class at that level

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@PizzaFacts2go New plan
everyone is level 20 and the enemies are bouncy balls that travel a number of squares equal to damage dealt in a random direction whenever you hit one, when they hit a wall they bounce randomly, and they deal 2d8 damage to a player when they hit them

2000 HP per ball

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@HippyWizard I like it because it brings back a reason to use miniatures to dnd

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@HippyWizard For all my quibbles with your system I know that RPGs give you verbs over time for a reason.

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@HippyWizard Granted this would be way more of a problem in like Pathfinder than 5.0

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@PizzaFacts2go Yeah - I love adding new verbs - but lots of people hang up on them.

I'm working on a system where characters are made of cards, and there's shopping-based-nerdery - and I'm hoping it allows very complicated characters without causing too much of that problem

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@HippyWizard Being obsessed with caves of qud lately I feel you and love the idea of that. Super modular. Super customizable. Interactions

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@PizzaFacts2go I really need to set aside time to play Qud...

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@PizzaFacts2go If I say "I've not had time to play Qud because I'm too busy Net Hacking" understand that I'm not playing a roguelike...

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@HippyWizard I refuse to understand. I will make it an awkward misunderstanding every time. I will get excited and ask how far you've gotten them get all quiet and disappointed when I find the truth

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@PizzaFacts2go I got to the Lair with a Gnoll Skald

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@HippyWizard Gotta crawl before you can walk

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Eric Capuano ⬡ @eric_capuano@infosec.exchange

2022-08-05 04:17:18


Yikes Slack 😬

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Trying to envision an MMO RPG where players can set a bunch of variables for their characters. But like, mechanical vars. So set how much ore you get a from a mine (but not related to recipe costs), or XP to level, or whatever.

Literally let people pick the game speed.

Trying to microwave a pogo and off of a sudden I find out what Bohemian Rhapsody meant by "Very Very frightening"

So I guess I need a new microwave

Dan Tootill

2022-08-04 10:26:04


RAID 0
Striping

RAID 5
Striping with parity

RAID 5.1
Striping with parity and a subwoofer

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If you're gonna paginate a list, let people know how many pages there are, and let them skip to any item.

If I need to click an arrow >400 times with a 1 second delay between them, I'll assume you're as bad at your job as an Amazon engineer

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Seriously! Let the browser do the work! But noooooo
Need a *desgin system* and a standard javascript button which loads a blob of WASM or whatever!
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Yeah, I'm really offended by the whole concept though.

I set my browser up to work for me, why do they do extra work to make it not work as well! Just because they dislike that I might like something different than them?!

I blame Steve Jobs and his obsession with everything looking the way he wanted

Ok, so, uh, Jade has forced me to think about finishing the things I've been writing. But - LOOK AT THESE COVERS! HOLY SHIT!

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Yeah, now I just need to make book contents that are worth like half of these!

I guess my day is just spending the whole time waiting for datadog metrics to show up

The difference between working with kids and without is that if you don't have kids, and you didn't sleep, it's probably your fault. If you do have kids, you might have woken up at 5 am and just... not had the chance to deal with that fact.
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Damn - at least it's consistent!

My 3 year old is anywhere from 7 to 10 am, but my *1* year old is like "Could be 5? Could be 6? Could be 7? Don't know!"

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I don't know how to make x11 use okudagrams
I just want to access and retrieve from a library like I'm on the Enterprise damnit!

I've been using Kumospace for a few months now - and I'm officially unsure why it's made so badly - but I'm assuming it's because they want to record me at all times. It's the only reason why I can envision them keeping my mic hot even when muted, and disabling noise cancelling.

My Dream Youtuber Patreon Unreachable Goals:
Moving from weekly to every two week videos
Swearing in the damn video
No sponsors that are scams
Paying rent

JUST GOT SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE

I'm pretty damn excited

The sorcery rules, after getting 5 minutes to skim them, are entirely perfect

There are no notes. This is the perfect sorcery system.

In a game with the perfect setting.

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Dial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*
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The closest I ever got to playing a tabletop RPG was merely owning the Shadowrun 3rd Edition Rulebook. I loved the artwork and the setting, but I was in a very nerd-starved region as a kid.

I love game mechanics generally, and it's cool to hear about elegant rules like this. It's what drew me to the Baldur's Gate PC games as a kid. The magic system was so different from all the JRPGs I was used to.

I need to find a group that plays games like these.

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Yeah! I am currently overbooked with games :( but I know that Roll20 does like "Meet a group" stuff, and meetup.com is where people meet each other for games in person usually.

But I also understand both of those are hard...

I *love* Shadowrun so really respect it as a choice!

I haven't played RPGs in person in years

And that sucks

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I wont know my dice anymore! I need to get to know them!

I need to read The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum again - I just need a dose of Eco

I really wanna play some new RPGs, which seems weird because I'm in an RPG group for playing new RPGs. But we've spent a year on Blades >.>
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