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some people's parents bring them computer problems

my parents message me with DeltaChat to tell me SSL is broken and I realize someone *else* deleted the nonprofit's DNS entry for their domain

https://tann.itch.io/slice-dice

an indie game that works perfectly in my brain is awesome. I want the devs to do more so pay them for me!


Slice & Dice by tann

Roguelike dice tactics game
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Fuck - I hate job hunting
silverwizard
silverwizard  

@jhx Luckily I have a job. I just had the meeting that was "Oh, oh no, this meeting's topic is that I need to job hunt"

So yeah - thanks

@jhx
jhx
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Ah, gotcha.

Yeah... the day did not start quite so good.. meeting was rather annoying

Oh well, life can be fun sometimes 😂

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The amount that Absinthe tastes like a burny delicious liquorice all sort is probably bad for me

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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Patch Arcana That makes a lot of sense, my previous weakness was sambuca
@Patch Arcana
I love this keyboard so fucking much

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m8ic621
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That's a awesome keyboard

whats the switches and keycaps or is it custom from ground up?

silverwizard
silverwizard  
@m8ic621 it's just this https://www.maxkeyboard.com/max-nighthawk-z-104-key-custom-backlit-mechanical-keyboard-top-print.html a very boring build, but I wrote some magic circle generating code and got glowing magic circles and I love it
@m8ic621
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

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My Burning Wheel party failed a navigation roll and stumbled into the wrong magical ritual of demon summoning
Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard Maybe the real treasure is the daemons we summoned along the way?
@silverwizard
My kids don't believe that being an Alumnus makes you garlicky
Becky
Becky  
@silverwizard that will definitely work on vampires, right?
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Becky 4 year degrees, three year degrees aren't strong enough
@Becky
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ICMP application containing random images as payloads

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First post from a Unihertz Titan, the only phone I've ever thought was cool
Pokeball Casemod
Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard This is unhinged, and likely if Pokemon was real. How would you know your catch chance is lower than you expect?
@silverwizard
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silverwizard
silverwizard  

@Hypolite Petovan Listen - I parent by playing Pokemon with a 4 year old. I had to name two pokemon "y67u" in order to make him happy. My mind wanders!

But yeah! You sold pokeballs painted as ultra balls, no one would know

@Hypolite Petovan

Microservices where every service is just different inputs into the same container, and if any of them fail, it's just a blank screen.

I love microservices, but we need to stop making that

Why have I been sick as hell since September when my first kid started school?!
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@j_angliss nah, my kids have been sick as hell. Poor kids
@j_angliss
j_angliss
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oh man, that sucks too. Speedy recovery for all of you.
Important language question:
If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?
Craig P
Craig P  
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a house Santa would be a felis navidad
I see so much bafflegab about how Mastodon DMs are readable by admins, do people not think that's true of Discord and Meta?
Ji Fu
Ji Fu  
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@silverwizard I don't host my own, but I do have my own domain. I often get people thinking I'm backwards on my actual email when I tell them its [organization]@[myname].com
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu I... don't understand the value of this really - right? This feels like it strongly values an attack by an ephemeral attacker? I guess?
@Ji Fu @Nick | OneThingWell.dev
I found a band I love (https://thebeths.com/ - very much Love At First Note of Expert in a Dying Field! Check it out!), and now I need to wait to find out if there's gonna be any more Bandcamp Fridays :'(
I wonder what the hardware cost of Miro and Slack are in terms of companies who need to increase the RAM and CPU of their hardware orders due to knowing their employees will run Slack so can't just work from a raspi.
silverwizard
silverwizard  

I know that the only things I do at work that wouldn't run on the first computer I ever bought (in 2002) are:
1) use Slack
2) use Miro
3) use Kumospace (a video chat hellhole)

Everything else would have been just as easy on that old Pentium 3

I ended up grabbing a serial to USB adapter while sick to the point of sleeping 16+hours in a day

In order to call in sick to work

(My router just.... stopped and didn't come up, luckily before I got my energy together from panic, it came up)

The problem with having 10+ highest priority items is that I just lock up and do nothing
Martijn Vos
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@silverwizard Then decide on whose opinion you care about the most. Or who you care about the most. Or pick a different issue that you do care about.
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Martijn Vos Ah, but you could also do my trick! Lock up and do nothing!
@Martijn Vos

Well, uh, I guess Dell just burned all of their good will.

They place a meeting in my calendar, and then when I rejected it, they did it again. Tried to claim we already had a business relationship.

silverwizard
silverwizard  

@Patch Arcana Yeah, but I don't think this sales person *wanted* that relationship.

And yeah - their email is /dev/nulled

@Patch Arcana
Lego is just pixel art for statues
I need to write a novel called Do Not Wear Your Body To The Internet apparently
I need to be better about buying merch from my favourite bands
I was trying to explain a security situation to a coworker in order to design an auth flow, and I got to send them the security incident response from 1password to the Okta breach, since it was exactly the kind of issue we were attempting to prevent. So thanks so much to 1Password for publishing
Keeping a Root Cause Analysis a Blameless Root Cause Analysis sucks, and stopping people from blaming *themselves* is included in there
Friendship ended, now my kids only love typewriter
So I think I can combine my two current projects and get Hannah Montanna Linux up and running and use that to play qSpaceHulk
I feel like I'm the only person on earth who puts their laptop to the right of their monitor
Rivetgeek (He/Him)
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@silverwizard Miner is to the right, but it's in a vertical laptop holder because I have two monitors.
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Rivetgeek Yeah - that's a different beast! One day I'll be all monitors no laptop
@Rivetgeek (He/Him)
My discord friend just pointed out that Scott Pilgrim is Night In The Woods for people who graduated

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silverwizard
silverwizard  

@taco, bird/cat :verified420: you're allowed to like both

But I think there's some level of empathy with Scott that gets lost if you didn't spend your whole life stuck in school until 22, Scott's inability to be a whole adult feels very tied up in that, and I think a lot of people kinda mess that up trying to empathize with him

@taco, bird/cat :verified420: ❄️

I just got an invite for a meeting at "Wednesday 10-11" and I was like "wait, isn't that in the past.

The fact that it was next week dawned on me a second later. That tells you everything you need to know about my meeting schedules

The true value of being a Sysadmin these days is that your job description is futzing with broken crappy software, so you get paid for it rather than have it block your work

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My 4yo is stressed out about The Princess Bride, I'm worried I did a bad dad

This is approx the age I saw it, but

Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard 4 seems a little early for me, we watched it with my kid when she was 7. At this time she was already jaded outside of incomprehensible Minecraft-themed comedic shorts on YouTube.
@silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Hypolite Petovan we have been managing Youtube fairly responsibly, watch a lot of content about pokemon, but very little "kid mush", but he's more upset by the tension than the fear
@Hypolite Petovan

Made mini loaves of bread and whipped cream into butter for lunch. Added some brie and cheddar and some basic vegetables.

Next time I need to whip in some garlic to the butter

My least favourite trope in media is that you need a more powerful computer to hack something.

"I need a half billion gigs of RAM to hack this system!"

helle 🐈 (stray cat girls) 🔄🇩🇪
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I mostly seem to need small devices with a hardware keyboard to hack systems. Come on get me a new Nokia N900 replacement, netbooks or even just a cheap transforming tablet.
Lester Ward
Lester Ward  
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“I need a much scarier-looking rubber hose to hack this system!”
Hide and Seek strats:
turn on music on a speaker in another room

@Titan Up the Defense You brought up the Unwear On The Outside thing on a recent episode

Somewhere in this channel https://www.youtube.com/user/skunkap Chris told me that it was because it made Superman look like a Circus Strong Man, and the strong men wore them because when lifting big heavy things their pants split a lot.

Imagine you were lifting a tank over your head and your pants split!


ComicTropes

Analysis of comics, both good and bad. Primarily I look at the recurring elements that creators or characters use. It's all just an excuse to drill down on various techniques and comic book history.
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@Titan Up the Defense
Titan Up the Defense
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That actually makes a lot of sense! Thanks!

I bought a lightbulb with a speaker in it, and it's amazing

I am annoyed it's this good

silverwizard
silverwizard  
If you aren't buying golden fuckin' HDMI cables for audio, I bet most daily audio can be handled by this thing, it seems pretty simple
Craig P
Craig P  
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if you do buy golden cables, buy white ones and set the light to yellow. It's cheaper!
Why is there a Mario Kart LARP?

Has anyone written a Magical Kitties Save The Day hometown for Gabny's Doll House? Asking for the kids in my life

@John Nephew
#MagicalKittiesSaveTheDay

#MagicalKittiesSaveTheDay @John Nephew

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I feel like there's new bad movies I should watch but I don't have time to watch *movies*. I watch TV shows while I do projects in the evening sometimes, but that's it.

I still haven't seen any Neil Breen

silverwizard
silverwizard  

@Craig P I am a pretty seasoned bad movie type from my 20s, but kids killed it.

But yeah, I'm excited to be able to get a bad movie group together again in my life

@Craig P
Craig P
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IMO, this is the only true use of voice chat.
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