In the 90s my mom bought of super 90s wireless headphones (INFRARED) in order to watch TV while washing dishes
And as a parent - that's a decision I completely understand now
And as a parent - that's a decision I completely understand now
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People often say "I'm gonna go play rust" and I'm like "Oh! I'm writing a webserver in that"
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This company's support team is making me go use the Internet Archive in order to explain that their statements have changed since last year
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Claws are White Claws, kinda the worst beer
And yeah, the Wilhoit thing is incredibly funny, you need to attribute it to "American Composer Frank Wilhoit"
And yeah, the Wilhoit thing is incredibly funny, you need to attribute it to "American Composer Frank Wilhoit"
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The import thing is that I associate White Claws with 20-30 year old white men, and 18-25 year old white women
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I feel like a lot of people don't differentiate Buzz Words and Jargon, and I think that not knowing the difference is a giant communication problem
@silverwizard it isn't an organic problem, though, it is very intently cultivated by people who stand to gain from the confusion.
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Thinking about a tabletop RPG where the attributes are roles.
So - basically take the Leverage (RPG) model with Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief, Mastermind and then use that in place of like, Strength, Dex, or Intelligence and so on. I would probably use a die pool system since I love it, and so you'd end up with Role + Skill.
And then I think the secret sauce is that you set the consequences of failure based on the Role used. So a Hitter failing generally is hurt, a Grifter is identitied, and a Thief is seen.
If you have each role be attached to a specific kind of health bar - it can incentivize changing roles and so on.
#TTRPG #RPG
So - basically take the Leverage (RPG) model with Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief, Mastermind and then use that in place of like, Strength, Dex, or Intelligence and so on. I would probably use a die pool system since I love it, and so you'd end up with Role + Skill.
And then I think the secret sauce is that you set the consequences of failure based on the Role used. So a Hitter failing generally is hurt, a Grifter is identitied, and a Thief is seen.
If you have each role be attached to a specific kind of health bar - it can incentivize changing roles and so on.
#TTRPG #RPG
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Yeah - so Wizard Climbing might be Flying and Wizard Swordplay might be Mordenkanen's Sword
I just always worry about that kind of thing where, why would a Wizard main ever roll Rogue, if Rogue can pick locks, but a Wizard can magic them open
I've not seen enough Dragon Prince to know if you can, say, detect the workings of a wizard or whatever
I just always worry about that kind of thing where, why would a Wizard main ever roll Rogue, if Rogue can pick locks, but a Wizard can magic them open
I've not seen enough Dragon Prince to know if you can, say, detect the workings of a wizard or whatever
I think I am becoming an Absinthe Dude and
I am not ready for that level of selfparody
I am not ready for that level of selfparody
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In which case ... did you know that "absinthe and coke" somehow manages to kind of work? Now you know.
Tattooing a QR code on my forehead decoding to "Ce n'est pas un mark of the beast"
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Recipe: no flour? No problem!
Also Recipe: put oats in the food processor until powder
This recipe doesn't get No Flour at all
Also Recipe: put oats in the food processor until powder
This recipe doesn't get No Flour at all
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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!
Apparently, no?
Damnit?!
Don't become a father just months before a deadly global pandemic!
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I have multiple working pages and CSS for my statically linked website working
Soon my terrible idea will bear fruit
Soon my terrible idea will bear fruit
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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.
so firstly - right now it's just me doing:
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.
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.
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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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...
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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
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
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?
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?
I just filled in the final values, closed the file, and things started working .... uh... hopefully?
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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!
-profit games thread, and now that I have enough money to make mistakes, let's spend that money on people doing cool shit!
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@silverwizard Sounds like Netflix's Basilisk at the moment: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/01/17/netflix-has-created-a-self-fulfilling-cancelation-loop-with-its-new-shows/
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@Hypolite Petovan yeah, but that's an allusion and not a pun on Roko ;)
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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
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
@Jonathan Lamothe Yeah - mksh, nvi, and so on.
I'm currently considering using edbrowse but too busy to onboard a new simple tool
I'm currently considering using edbrowse but too busy to onboard a new simple tool
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
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
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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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
And uh - I feel like no one knows about Ambrosia
@silverwizard @nora tindall is 🏳️⚧️ I'm reading that the Ambrosia startup was founded without Thiel's involvement and it somehow makes it even worse?
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@Hypolite Petovan @nora tindall is 🏳️⚧️ Yeah - Billionaires don't even have their own cacklingly evil ideas
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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
@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
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Character FoRKing Child Rearing to convince a nascent Volcano god to not explode everywhere
#BurningWheel
#BurningWheel
@Hypolite Petovan lol, I am nearly dead, being silly for a 1 year old, but in a very Discordian way
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Kubernetes is the worst thing that ever happened to docker
Docker is the worst thing to ever happen to LXC
Docker is the worst thing to ever happen to LXC
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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 (http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/names) 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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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)
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 
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?
@Neko McCatface v2023 :verified::makemeneko: @pamela :flan_butterfly: I.... have no idea
I do containers under protest only, and mostly spawn VMs and chroot processes - Becky just asked the question "what is docker"
I do containers under protest only, and mostly spawn VMs and chroot processes - Becky just asked the question "what is docker"
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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
"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?
"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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@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
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
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.
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
But it looks like Apple and Amazon have it streaming
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.
All of which I 100% do.
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 !
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.
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.
There's an episode called 1966 and the time difference is longer. Just had one of those "Oh yeah, time exists" things
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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But I am not confident in that assertion
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