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silverwizard 13 hours ago friendica

2020-07-02 17:43:22

This is what I don't get. Why should we need to use an app simply to upload a video and share it with your friends?

What you're looking for is a hosting service, not an app. We. Don't. Need. An. App.

And the same goes to all the websites that require you to install an app to use them.

Sharing and reading data shouldn't require to execute arbitrary code on your cellphone.

silverwizard 19 hours ago friendica

I gotta say again that @CTropes is easily the best comic youtube
Consistently kind, well researched, and loving comics as both art and stories

YouTube: How Distribution has Saved and is Now Killing Comics (ComicTropes)

@ComicTropes

silverwizard 1 day ago friendica

I hate cats
Having animals live in my house is terrible

silverwizard 2 days ago friendica

Thundercats prepare to transform and ReBoot

silverwizard 2 days ago friendica

I apologize in advance

silverwizard 2 days ago friendica

Drew DeVault

2020-07-03 12:59:41

"we value your privacy. Don't believe us? Just check our privacy policy! Under section 184.2-B we explain how the personal data we've collected about you is a part of our company's valuation and will be sold to the highest bidder in the event of an aquisition!"

silverwizard 2 days ago friendica

Playing an RPG, I was banned from asking if my character's general knowledge on gnomes could be "someone who has been Sean for 32 years"

silverwizard 3 days ago friendica

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.html I feel this in a way I've felt little else

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Alexander 3 days ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

It is not really economically efficient in the long run. Bad things happen, even without something as drastic unexpected disaster recovery is very costly and often nullifies all the cost-cutting (unless it can be offloaded to someone's else).

Basically this sort of approach is not about efficiency per se but replacing long term planning with short term.

silverwizard 3 days ago friendica

I think that's the article's point
We keep squeezing costs out of our economy, until they can no longer withstand shocks

silverwizard 3 days ago friendica

When I was in university - I put "ping -c 5 google.ca" into my fingers as a way to test my internet.

Is there a sensible replacement for Google for this?

silverwizard 3 days ago friendica

I couldn't remember which IP the server coming up grabbed normally

for count in `seq 1 100 `; do for ip in 192.168.90.182 192.168.90.183 192.168.90.189; do echo $ip; ping -c 1 $ip; done; done

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

One day I am going to watch a TV show without spending half the runtime looking at the fan wiki, wikipedia, or IMDb pages related to the show

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Hypolite Petovan 2 days ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

Watching professional esport games with commentary has been my preferred form of passive watching.

silverwizard 1 day ago friendica

Yeah, I 100% can't do it
I do mostly watch shows since they are easy to passive, but eeports just make me border

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/JuliaMinamata/status/1278402248595451904]#IndieWishlistWednesday Good afternoon! Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 The Crimson Diamond is my colourful, retro-inspired text parser mystery adventure game set in Northern Ontario, Canada! Here's a screenshot not in the demo, a bit of Canadian Shield! store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/Th…

The Crimson Diamond on Steam

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the fictional ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!

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#IndieWishlistWednesday

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/Lexi_the_Fae/status/1278324368834277377]DM's Guild takes 50% of the creator's income.
DTRPG takes 30-35% depending on exclusivity.
Steam takes 30%
Itch lets the creator decide how much they take, but they default at 10%

If you plan on buying anything from an RPG book PDF to a video game, check to see if it's on itch[/bookmark]

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/shelbyspees/status/1278385845808984064]one point from today's incident review "what went well" section:

> [employee]felt empowered to say "I'm parenting" and not step into the incident.[/bookmark]

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

It would be super nice to see Linux die and that energy move to the more elegant places
[bookmark=https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1277929458809344001]'It's really hard to find maintainers': Linus Torvalds ponders the future of Linux

'It's really hard to find maintainers': Linus Torvalds ponders the future of Linux

Will code move on to a language such as Rust? 'I'm convinced it's going to happen' says kernel colonel

^reg.cx

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Christoph Bugel 3 days ago friendica (AP)

Seriously? You want to see linux die? Or are you joking

silverwizard 3 days ago friendica

Linux is definitely the least well done of the free operating systems, and putting the energy into less toxic cultures and nicer code bases would be better

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

mx. no fuck

2020-07-01 17:22:11

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

The actual trick is: more than doing it outside the cloud, but someone will aspirationally price it cheaper
[bookmark=https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1278351432274579462]“This thing that I refer to as the ‘cloud paradox,’ the fact that if somebody comes to you and says, ‘How much will it cost me to do this thing in the cloud?’ And you literally can't tell them.” —@getwired, research analyst @DirectionsOnMS

Have a listen: lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scream…

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/untying-the-gordian-knot-of-cloud-spend-with-wes-miller

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@Wes Miller @DirectionsOnMS

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/notthebc/status/1278315481955356674]#CanadaDay2020

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#CanadaDay2020

silverwizard 4 days ago friendica

josef

2020-07-01 12:46:42

if the device enumeration subsystem detects that usb has been inserted correctly on the first attempt it alerts the network administrator to the presence of a Hacker

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1278108757122142208]Riverdale and Game of Thrones have the exact same plot.[/bookmark]

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/kefimochi/status/1278056365773033474]You're more than green squares on GitHub 🌱[/bookmark]

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

hey! If you work on #AWS frontend
I hate your work, and it is bad
I don't care that this is combative, but if you work on #AWS, please quit in order to make the team collapse.

#AWS

Alexander 5 days ago friendica (via ActivityPub)

I blame lack of experience primarily of course but still every time I there to try something I find it plain antihuman. It isn't even too bad function wise or reliabilty-wise but it looks like they just hate people as species.

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

That would make sense. But it feels like someone, just... hasn't done the job

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

Playing a lot of Shadowrun these days means that I am thinking about how Shadowrun rejects the Minigame as a component of play - when it's explicitly a game about minigames. I don't know how to handle this

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silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

Burning Wheel does the "lots and lots of complexity" well, while also having a lot of minigames. But nowhere near the complexity of Shadowrun.

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

People doing single hyphen longopts for shell tools makes me assume they just don't know existing tools

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

I want more horror RPG scenarios which reject the Campaign mindset. I also think it would be great to do more scenarios where you can't control your character creation (since, it makes horror easier)

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silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

I *did* start writing a setting that I need to work on more, where the PCs are the leaders of the team of colonial marines coming onto ships that are in the wrong spot. You see, the FTL method was bopping through Hell, which goes wrong is Event Horizon kinda ways.

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silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

All of this came out of thinking about Haunted Houses - but obviously - derelicts are haunted houses IN SPACE

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/RyanTylerThomas/status/1277859110893977600]@DrsDefundPolice How many crimes do they prevent perday?

Would it be easier and cheaper to give everyone about to "do crime" one hundred bucks to no do crime at this point.

At 5,000ish per 100,000 people, it might be.[/bookmark]

@Doctors For Defunding Police

Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/mwlauthor/status/1277659480294129664]I just spent forty minutes troubleshooting a routing problem caused by me transposing two digits in a number. I've been in this biz for over a quarter century.

It doesn't matter how much experience you have: always check the very basic basics. #sysadmin[/bookmark]

#sysadmin

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kat 5 days ago gnusocial

@silverwizard only 40min! ... that kind of shit normally needs a new pair of eyes to fix.

@silverwizard

silverwizard 5 days ago friendica

[bookmark=https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1277648152468901888]if you watch the Internet backwards, the nerds kick the corporations out and simplify the communications protocols until a single person can understand everything at once[/bookmark]