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Someone just used the words "tinder box" in the context of tech things.

And my first thought wasn't "thing that burns" but something much worse



Last night I dreamed I did a git pull on Friendica for the latest develop and it ruined everything

So that's a fucking weird dream, and means I care too much about this



cw privilege, groceries, mh
This is such a privileged position, I know 😔 but our grocery order left out over a dozen items that are payed for and not delivered.... so I spent over an hour on the phone and got a refund on those items and now I have to go grocery shopping anyway.... which I hate because it eats up my entire evening.... and I'm just feeling dejected about it ( I already struggle with cleaning and tonight I was going to get an area done before it gets really out of hand but it doesn't look like I'll get to do that)... sigh
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Becky
I appreciate you saying so. It's not just me 😓❤️


Tattooing a QR code on my forehead decoding to "Ce n'est pas un mark of the beast"

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Wound

Somehow my pantleg wore the skin of my leg off
Like, literally, actual large cut on my shin

And it *fucking hurts*

Sorry



The important thing about Wizards creative commonsing D&D is that it's a trick to make you pay micro transactions for D&D


Recipe: no flour? No problem!

Also Recipe: put oats in the food processor until powder

This recipe doesn't get No Flour at all



It is just me or is NextCloud always super fucking slow no matter what?

#NextCloud

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silverwizard

Ok good

No matter the cores or ram I throw at it, it seems to suck



I am so tired my eyeballs hurt, and I thought I'd caught up on this year

Apparently, no?

Damnit?!

Don't become a father just months before a deadly global pandemic!



I have multiple working pages and CSS for my statically linked website working

Soon my terrible idea will bear fruit

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silverwizard
Yeah, basically a makefile that runs markdown on the file, makes HTML, then objcopies the html and images into a rust file, and then populates the valid pages header with the list.
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silverwizard

so firstly - right now it's just me doing:

pub static {
 index: &str = "<html>...
</html>"};

The next step is all the objcopy shit - mostly because I don't have a sense of how to do what I want to do in rust yet, since I've probably written a total of like... 2 hours of rust.

And right now the code just sits on my laptop, sorry. I'll probably open it once it's in a reasonably acceptable place.



started writing rust in order to be the actual worst - and... I'm having fun

Damnit

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Oh. I'm at it for a few weeks now, some evenings. Definitely a steep learning curve and a reminder of how much, for me, programming is about being familiar with a language and not constantly having to look up basic syntax...


Can you seriously replicate indexes but not analyzers in OpenSearch?! WTF?! What's even the point?!


I'm trying to stay still to heal the pleurisy I developed and I think that means it's a day for research 😄🎉


Paying a sysadmin by the hour is like a reverse swear jar
Put in a buck and they get one more swear word into their rant

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Fuck - random file got truncated in my friendica config and completely trashed it last night. Queues going a little berzerk this morning
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@silverwizard Living on the edge of the develop branch, huh?

The weird thing isn't that it was truncated, but that it wasn't filled with the actual node configuration values.

Were you able to restore it?

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I... uh.... made a bad choice a while ago and never got back on the release train

I just filled in the final values, closed the file, and things started working .... uh... hopefully?



Who called it a citrus battery and not a lemon current muffin?


Roku's Basilisk is an AI that will torture a future copy of you if you don't watch enough TV


@Spencer how do I get an android core set for two people?

I am thinking of trying it

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Sounds good. If you want to stay on top of things, we've got a Fediverse presence: @Null Signal Games . We'll make a lot of noise when the remaster is live!
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@Spencer @Null Signal Games cool - thanks - I was reminded about it in the non+
-profit games thread, and now that I have enough money to make mistakes, let's spend that money on people doing cool shit!


I hate how Substack just got to reinvent the blog and call it a newsletter and pretend it's not just a blog

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This is why I don't use IDEs
I type some stuff, realize that JSON wants the thing to be a string, so I add a " to the end of the line. The IDE adds two "s instead of one.
I notice after I go back to the beginning of the line, and have added a " at the beginning of the string.

Fine.

I go to the end of the line, and I remove a "

I run the thing

Turns out the IDE removed both "s

Because fuck you

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silverwizard
@Jonathan Lamothe I'm a "does less fancy shit" type - but mksh on Linux and oksh on MacOS, and of course, ksh on OpenBSD is my ideal shell
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silverwizard
@Jonathan Lamothe Yeah - mksh, nvi, and so on.
I'm currently considering using edbrowse but too busy to onboard a new simple tool


Computers are a whole thing, as I'm learning

Also that Sean does some terrifying breakity potential stuff with them



Thinking about a tabletop RPG licenses CC-BY-ND, imagine how fucking bonkers that would be!

You can give away the book, and make supplements, just not use verbatim text *if and only if* it's in a supplement.

It would be so good. It would be literally worth it to just... bundle the entire game *as an appendix* for each 3rd party supplement



Thinking, as I collect the information to enroll the oldest in kindie, about my unusally bad school experience and I want to honour the vow I made to myself to find alternatives if things go badly for either of the kiddos

My mom was supportive in almost every way but she couldn't afford alternatives and so I had to go. But I think if my kid calls home every day, something is wrong and I have better opportunities than she did to do something about it



Trying to figure out how something works, and I dig into my email for instructions, I find them and I say "What the fuck have I done" out loud
in reply to silverwizard

To be clear - the project was *my* idea, my plan, and my execution


Everyone who asks me about ChatGPT gets the response "I do not use projects made by people who want to eat the blood of children".

And uh - I feel like no one knows about Ambrosia

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@silverwizard @nora tindall is 🏳️‍⚧️ I'm reading that the Ambrosia startup was founded without Thiel's involvement and it somehow makes it even worse?


Can I just take a moment to comment on how I don’t understand people wanting to live in the past. Even if there weren't mental institutions which would harm me specifically, people would do stuff like use a sword to cut off the end of a campaign bottle, whose failure state included some less than great situations to end up in
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@Becky The champagne cork removal is a suspiciously specific example, what event prompted you this thought?
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@Hypolite Petovan Sean found a sword online for this purpose while looking for something else and a few of us that know each other from twitter were talking about it


Character FoRKing Child Rearing to convince a nascent Volcano god to not explode everywhere

#BurningWheel





"Daddy I'm afraid of ghosts!"
"Well, some people think ghosts are electromagnetic phenomenon, so you could use other em waves to beat them, like a photon, do you have a device that shoots photons?"
"I can't find my flashlight, can I use my crane?!"
"Yeah, your crane has a magnet in it, so it disrupts emfs, which is Electromagnetic Fields, and magnets change those!"

Am I a bad dad or a wizard dad?

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silverwizard

@Allen Stenhaus

This is 100% correct - I respect the dad hustle!

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silverwizard

@Jonathan Lamothe He's 3, gotta make sure he's learning *something*

He has a book that blinks LEDs via a light sensor, and we've done some mirror experiments and stuff to explain that light must be real



I think I am becoming an Absinthe Dude and
I am not ready for that level of selfparody


D&D streams this year:
Brands have been omitted to protect a company from profits


Fuck

I just realized that WoTC did this right before releasing a D&D movie

Idiots



It's funny, just the other day someone was smugly being like "Nah man, spying doesn't matter. Microsoft already key logs you", and yet, today, Microsoft finally decided (correctly) to mark all of their own software as a trojan.

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The most annoying thing about the current "wizards of the coast is evil" debacle is that this like.... like... uh... our third rodeo? This century? Just from Dungeons and Dragons?
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silverwizard

Sorry, I'm trying to make the larger point.
There's a company called USAopoly that just... makes knockoff Monopoly, because Parker Brothers owns the pictures of a train and the free parking picture, not the rules of Monopoly.

The main thrust of this is basically, "Wizards barely owns shit, and they're throwing a fuck of a fit over how they wanna get paid more"

I think we're saying the same thing but not quite getting it, I dunno. It's when you say "Public Domain" which this isn't even, this is freer than that.

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silverwizard
OK - sure - yes - everyone should be not playing D&D - that has been the case since TSR.


Remembering that time my friend made a meme for me based on my personality and I feel called out

An adorable cat with the words "You think I'm cute" at the top and "I'm sorry" at the bottom

Also, did alt text work? Can anyone let me know?



I wish modern RPG books came bundled with a Quick start PDF if one was already made, just to be able to be like "here, make a character"
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silverwizard

I also bought a half dozen copies of Fate Accelerated when it came out - something to give everyone - but Fate also has a *wonderful* character creation engine for letting people do the work quickly.

Also - Fate is also definitely a gold standard for that.

Unrelatedly: I think that SRDs are layed out for referencing a known system - I want a document for onboarding a player who is making a character after a GM has already sold them on the game.



*I'm okay*, but fighting the urge to never say another word is like a full time thing sometimes (despite everything)


Don't get your security advice from me, since I'm not an expert....

But thinking a lot about how you need to place your trust somewhere for the web to work, and what seems really important is in deciding who and where to place your trust.

For this and many others, I really need to find a way away from Facebook and Google (personally don't hate Netflix yet although willing to listen, and already migrated away from Apple and Amazon). I am determined too, just slow moving



Our tuesday night ttrpg online is slowly losing players but now it's down to 3 of us, and all people that my character doesn't have conflict with so last night felt incredibly seamless and that was really nice 😊
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To be clear, my character is a pacifist.... in a ttrpg...