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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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@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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@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
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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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@Allen Stenhaus

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

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@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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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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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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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...

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pronavigator.ai/careers

apparently they aren't posted yet - but we're looking for a Director of Development and a Senior Developer

We do NLP and search on large piles of documents. Mostly trying to make the gross badly organized SharePoint everyone be accessible and usable to a person on a phone trying to answer an annoyed person's questions

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Kicked over to XMPP


Can someone make an instance for all the Animals Daily and Hourly Animals accounts so I can fediblock it?


Trying to replace work slack with DeltaChat to piss everyone off


Making git less elegant would make git less painful to use


Hey all, it's winter

So this is me sending vibes of love and kindness and vitamin d your way

And reminding you that if you have vitamin d in the house you can take it during the winter and it might help. Or if you have a full spectrum light bulb that can help even more ❤️

Now that December is over, it always hits me harder too, so take care and stay safe and know I'm wishing you the best



Trying not to get obsessed with new hobbies forever is..... very challenging. I need to pace myself, but slowing down my brain is a challenge even if I have a lot of skill and practice at it


Kubernetes is the worst thing that ever happened to docker

Docker is the worst thing to ever happen to LXC

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lxc is the worst thing that happened to plan9 process namespaces.
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I thought Solaris Zones were first?

And a fat layer on top of chroot is kinda valuable

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i'm far from an expert on this but wikipedia claims solaris containers/zones were circa 2005. i also kinda remember hearing about them at the time. rfork and plan9 namespaces predated me by far and according to this (doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_editi…) they were published around 1993. :). of course the scope of isolation that they offer is different. and you can argue that solaris was a "production system". Plan9 just seems to have tried to address the problem in its design.
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I don't have the lack of headache required to separate these Plan9 namespaces from a good ol' 1979 chroot and then the later intro of zones
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@silverwizard oh gosh I understand this and now even a significant part of the responses (but not all!) 😶😶😶
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@Becky @silverwizard I understand even less, which is a compliment to Sean's teaching abilities.
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@firefly_lightning I dunno what LXC is so I'm gonna be here looking impressed :flan_ooh:
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LXC is just the linux container thing - it's a thing docker wraps

Basically LXC is jails to docker's iocage if you know what that is (you being a BSD person instead of a Linux person I assume the different knowledge base is there, but I dunno)

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I've had a jails lesson... but container-y things are not anything I get to play with :flan_laugh: ​ duckduck set me right. Sounds like you two have been having fun, that's cool stuff to learn about!
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@pamela@silverwizard @pamela I thought lxc was purely userspace stuff? don't it and nspawn and docker and etc directly use the various kernel features under the hood?
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@silverwizard @pamela :flan_butterfly: @Neko McCatface v2023 :verified::makemeneko: I've only just kind of decided I want to learn more but I keep asking questions like "how does wifi work" and then we end up talking for like 3hrs.... and I keep doing that... it has been fun tho, and hopefully I'll actually know some stuff soon. I'm appreciative I get this chance to learn...
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@firefly_lightning @roboneko@bae.st @silverwizard that's what Kurt and I did! He's especially great at walking through how stuff developed over time. Such an excellent way to learn, hearing how stuff works combined with the bits that the other person finds interesting and wants to share
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@pamela :flan_butterfly: @silverwizard oh, that's awesome! In your posts you seem to know a lot too, and it's cool to see someone else who has done the same thing as we're starting to do xD


Ug - if anyone is looking for VP of Engineering role or a Senior Python/JS Dev role - let me know - I want to replace my manager (and a major peer) with someone I trust

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1) No idea what that unicode tombstone is
2) Don't know what to call "a person I work with a lot"
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@silverwizard It's a saluting emoji: emojipedia.org/saluting-face/

It's a joke I learned in How I Met Your Mother, every time someone uses either "major" or "general" you salute while repeating the hypothetical officer name.

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@Liwott Are you supposed to salute Privates? Or more like a general "Thank you for your service, Private Property".
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@Hypolite Petovan In HIMYM they do at least one with "private" (private joke, I think), and now that you mention it maybe someone replies that one does not salute a private
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I found this out recently and it completely blows my mind that it is not common everywhere and it most places (perhaps even all? Idk...) that aren't Canada you can't just email other people you personally know money. How does that work? Do you just have to carry cash? 😭 I would be constantly anxious any time I had a lot on me for whatever person I got it from or needed to get it to
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It's a private service provided by the banks, but Canada only has a few banks and they all do it
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Yeah, my friend told me about it after I posted this just this morning... I'm glad, that makes me happy 😊! I just uh... wasn't really online today, I get like caught up in the hubub of childcare and forget to post about stuff


For the last week I have tried to read more to the kids. This was a mistake because once I tried to read for like an hour and I started to get way too sleepy that I started missing words by the end 😞.... I think I may need to go to bed earlier


I am still upset that Discord is Slack For Gamers
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I use Discord as a concession to group chats for those that refuse to use XMPP or Delta Chat

I use Slack because work and it's not really my choice

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Oh, they can refuse to use DeltaChat by just... not using DeltaChat and only doing email - and me not wanting to be a jerk - since DeltaChat does a lot of things like "sending Message Read notifs" and stuff, which is real bad.

But also - my sister isn't using it so she just gets spammed by my family group chat and keeps up via email. But DeltaChat is kinda too feature creeped to be a good experience out-of-app



My grandma made us dozens of costumes over the years, and now I have them for my kids, and I am so happy every time my child yells "I want my jaguar costume", it makes me feel part of a family


Been watching Forever Knight (a vampire show from the 90s about how cops are perfect, especially when they are attacking queer people, that a bunch of people have told me is really good, and I'm not feeling it, but keeping watching since possibly first season blues...)

And the beginning of every episode they're like "He wants to emerge from his World of Darkness" in the least trademark infringing way possible in 1992.

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uh... ummmm.... my Emby server.... ...

But it looks like Apple and Amazon have it streaming

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It feels like a show that's perfect for anyone who knows what "Afters" is for in a diner at 2 am without ever getting drunk. Someone who remembers looking up pricing fangs and going "nope". And anyone remembering fighting about when to Roll Frenzy.

All of which I 100% do.

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the 90's were a great time for TV like that. Highlander, Forever Knight, Silk Stalkings ... USA Network. Heck there was even an Aaron Spelling Kindred show based on V:tM !
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I own Kindred the Embraced on DVD!

I love the Highlander Show - the basic premise of the Immortal Western with a weird strict moral core and a focus on home and family is just so tense as a theme, it really shouldn't hold together, but somehow it just does!

I don't know Silk Stalkings... But yeah - I love what I've heard call the "90s DoGooder Show". There's a mostly normal world with a single magical thing who does good.

I feel like Buffy and then Supernatural really changed that entire genre to make it not really the specific thing it is. But you can super see Arrow or The Flash in Forever Knight, and that connection is fun.

There's a Live Action Witchblade show which uh... confounds me but definitely is on my to-watch list.

Unfortunately 2 kids mean I watch shows at approximately 1 episode/week.

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There's an episode called 1966 and the time difference is longer. Just had one of those "Oh yeah, time exists" things