@raspberrypi@raspberrypi.social did the SanFran killer robots use your platform too? Or just unwanted and illegal spy cameras?
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Johnny Mnemonic introduces TLG to replace TLS
Transport Layer Gun - when in transit if the data is intercepted, the interceptor is shot
Transport Layer Gun - when in transit if the data is intercepted, the interceptor is shot
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The moral of the story is that TLG has a far slower throughput *and* latency than TLS
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Thanks! That's what I've gathered: kids just get things. I'm excited to meet my kid and show them the world.
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@silverwizard She keeps being invited to often secluded places with a random group of people, and one of them inevitably dies.
That is a way better description of Jessica Fletcher than "Cabott Cove is the murder capital of the world"
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This has actively been one of the worst weeks
@Becky and I are never aloud to have dad related crisises at the same time
@Becky and I are never aloud to have dad related crisises at the same time
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My dad gets psychosis sometimes on account of refusing to take medication and there's not much I can do about it, but goodness I wish *I* didn't get wrapped up in his paranoia and unreality because I need half an ounce of trust to help him out of this wretched situation that I literally could have completely solved for him if he'd let me in any earlier at all...
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To be fair, the issue *was* pigposting
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversyThis cracked me up
The Computer Company Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop, And People Are Pissed
“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.Chris Stokel-Walker (BuzzFeed)
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It's not just about the cop. I can totally understand hiring him if he's got the skills they want. The issue is firstly how they present him ("look at all this cool privacy-invasive spyware you can make") and secondly how they respond to questions from the community ("bye bye" *block*).
And then claiming it's about pigs in a blanket without a content warning. It's a completely surreal level of denial. I don't understand how anyone can double down on a relatively minor mistake in such a totally destructive manner.
It's not just about the cop. I can totally understand hiring him if he's got the skills they want. The issue is firstly how they present him ("look at all this cool privacy-invasive spyware you can make") and secondly how they respond to questions from the community ("bye bye" *block*).
And then claiming it's about pigs in a blanket without a content warning. It's a completely surreal level of denial. I don't understand how anyone can double down on a relatively minor mistake in such a totally destructive manner.
Yeah - it's definitely just a completely bonkers conspiracy theory rather than checking your team for actual problems
This rubber fingertips for going through large stacks of paper would be awesome for makers who wanna hold down a loose wire with their finger directly to the battery
The thing that fucks me off about substack is that I wish I could just pay someone money and they send shit to my email. But instead I need to sign up for a thing.
Can't they just make a shopify store or a WooCommerce store and send emails to my email?
Can't they just make a shopify store or a WooCommerce store and send emails to my email?
To be clear here: The issue is signing up to Substack, I understand I need a bearer token or cookie for a few knobs to twiddle
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
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Cw mh, vulnerability
I don’t know how it's even possible but I keep oscillating between being okay talking to nobody, being completely fine with nobody being available to chat some days and then others being a complete wreck of loneliness that it hurts
At least it's not depression, right?
I don’t know how it's even possible but I keep oscillating between being okay talking to nobody, being completely fine with nobody being available to chat some days and then others being a complete wreck of loneliness that it hurts
At least it's not depression, right?
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
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
Less joyful sad but also that quirky Swedish brand of melancholy: Have you tried Kent?
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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
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.
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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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
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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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.
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.
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.
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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Me framing this gingerbread house
https://soundcloud.com/user-310458959/work-of-the-framers
https://soundcloud.com/user-310458959/work-of-the-framers
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 blueprSoundCloud
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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@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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Lol!
Honestly the fact that I never noticed additional energy.... but my kids are already busy I guess 🤷♀️
Honestly the fact that I never noticed additional energy.... but my kids are already busy I guess 🤷♀️
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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
I got CorsixTH running once and then never really went on, I should do that again
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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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Wait - what's missing from it?!
TTD is a game I never played but definitely know people love OpenTTD
TTD is a game I never played but definitely know people love OpenTTD
@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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@silverwizard Even Theme Park starts out smallish, you have to pay to open bigger and more challenging locations.
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
My CDs were buried and I'd only tried the demo when I tried it, though I did find my CD
@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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I just got a brief description of Theme Hospital.... and yet... it sounds like my kinda jam lmao
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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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Yeah, that's the entire joke
Basically Becky and I were talking about Bipolar 2 and I said this, and that was all
Basically Becky and I were talking about Bipolar 2 and I said this, and that was all
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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
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
I hereby declare him a hacker
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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? 🤯
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? 🤯
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For the first time in my life, awk was easier to figure out than cut
I feel like I ascended
I feel like I ascended
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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)
#7FilmsToKnowMe
Baraca
Lord of the Rings
Mary Poppins
Mad Monster Party?
And then there were none
Pan's Labarynth
How to train your dragon
Baraca
Lord of the Rings
Mary Poppins
Mad Monster Party?
And then there were none
Pan's Labarynth
How to train your dragon
@Becky I have 0 confidence the list of the 7 films who impressed me the most would help anyone know me, let's see:
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.
- 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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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 😊
I considered princess bride too 😊
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Sadly, I don't think real computers actually do this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBAijg5Betw
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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
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
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
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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.)
(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.)
Somebody stop me from thinking too much about LiveJournal style moods and their value in a social network
You can kinda do moods on Facebook but nobody does and it's dumb. Nobody does icons.
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
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