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@John Nephew I somehow just sent $30 to Atlas Games in order to finish my unknown armies collection because I'd backed a kickstarter at the Deluxe level.
And all of this because of spending $200 at a spring cleaning sale.
This has to be a plot!
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“You must rotate your credentials every 60 days.”
*takes USB-C YubiKey out of slot*
*turns it upside down*
*plugs it back in*
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I just saw someone talk about their mechanized X-card for the Cipher game Flesh Pit
They were like "you can spend an XP and the scene is over" and explicitly called this out as their version of the X-card
GROSSGROSSGROSSGROSS BLAHBLAH FUCKING FUCK
throw gamer safety in the trash
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Not trying to be mean
Both you and the baby aren't stupid (if you do this), theory of mind is literally empathy so if you misunderstand chatgpt as human-like, that's probably because empathy.
But if you make fun of babies I will cut you
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@Resuna Man - I've not used qmail in a decade and never want to again
I've been OpenSMTPd enlightened but I bet I can get postfix to do something stupid more easily
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About 5 years for me.
GitHub - resuna/amber: A greylisting tool for qmail
A greylisting tool for qmail. Contribute to resuna/amber development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
So I use castget gratuitously to the point of madness. But my biggest problem with it is that sometimes people completely garbage out their RSS feed and it detects as all new.
This isn't CastGet's fault - and this isn't a complaint.
I just downloaded The Exploding Helicopter Podcast to the start of history and am sad
A knight is, at their core, a student, a lifelong learner undergoing a journey of many phases, however it isn't until they achieve a certain understanding of gallantry that they can take the final step to knighthood
This final act of knighthood is formally known as the Dub Step
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If you achieve the Dub Step you can start a House
Wizards don't follow that process they need to enter a Trance
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So we have to do a bunch of security trainings again in August or whatever - and I know I hate all of the security trainings - but I was wondering about fairly seriously suggesting doing an Engineering Wide "Watch the training and mock it" session
The actual goal being to have people discuss the modules and what we think is good and bad about it - and why we think things are bad/irrelevant in a productive way, with an informal feel - in order to get real security awareness training done but without making it feel as bad
How do you feel about that?
Well, I just made this suggestion to my other half in management and see if I can get this to be formal policy
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We don't *make* security training
We make FUN of them
I feel bad for the security training companies - they're impossible to do a good video for, it's an impossible job, and I'm sorry this is my best solution to make it engaging
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In a conversation on reddit today someone asked if other languages have phrases like "rightie tightie, leftie loosie" to remember which way to turn screws/lids/etc. And one person answers that in Spanish, the phrase is:
"La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera."
or:
"The right oppresses, the left liberates."
(Now I kind of want to put this on a t shirt)
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Honestly, "Rightie Tightie, Lefty Loosie" is terrible, because there is still ambiguity. Right from the top of the bolt, or the bottom of the bolt? From your face, or the bolt's face?
There is generally a better frame of reference: Clockwise (and Counter Clockwise), since it's defined already by a standard.
Thus is born, CCW = OFF, CW = ON (unless you have an infernal left-handed screw, but those are quite rare).
Three years ago I made this.
If you want to translate it I can put somewhere the Inkscape SVG file.
[EDIT] Since this toot is more boosted than the last of the thread the SVG is here:
cicles.cisti.org/v/aYVjHjM66k/…
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Got a bunch of stuff from a contractor, including a blob of terraform.
TIL that RFC 1918 lists 100.0.0.0/8 as a private IP block!
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You mean 10.0.0.0/8 as a private IP block, right?
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…
RFC ft-ietf-cidrd-private-addr: Address Allocation for Private Internets
This document describes address allocation for private internets. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.IETF Datatracker
Fun fact: the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer can't use a real-time operating system.
This is because it's Io bound.
I thank you.
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Ok - so full disclosure - I hate American Gods - it's a Bad Book (imo)
But I read up to the end of the City of Glass issue yesterday, and I feel like Neil Gaiman's Sandman is just... trying to shock me repeatedly, and its calls to empathy refuse to not try to make me feel bad for my empathy by revealing a secret that the person I was empathizing with *suuuuuucked* retroactively. "You think this woman is bad?! Well she's a lesbian! HA! You empathized with her for being a lesbian! BUT SHE'S PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE HA!", and like, that's bad empathy, and bad storytelling, and it's not *fun*.
And uh- question - Morpheus definitely is implied to have forced himself on Nada? Right? That's what the closing paragraph says? I'm supposed to like this shitty person? Or like, at least think he's worth following?
@The Corodon alright, the second half of Volume 1 had things I didn't like, but I loved most of it
The resolution of the Doll's House arc kinda made me trust more
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I am running a Cyberpunk game where a corporate has their headquarters outside a city, but few onsite apartments, so the people who are *in power* all do what is known locally as The Commute, a two hour traffic jam.
The world is making it clear that there's off-road public transit available, and there's an economy of people doing bike food deliveries, prostitution, and busking along the track for the four hours a day people are spending in traffic.
All for the right to drive to work in their own car.
And - Cyberpunk hurts me
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@Darcy Casselman No no - these are VPs and stuff the CEOs are just flying
And yeah - there's a room in the basement where people do offsite meetings.
Meaning yes, these people are commuting 2 hours to be in the office to work remotely
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@Darcy Casselman Definitely! (Shadowrun - all cars are self driving, so all applies)
The PCs are meeting their contact in their car during his commute, because they can pose as delivery people, and it's a space he can trust!
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To my players, "Yeah, looks like his headware was installed before he was grown enough to not have it hurt him. Kinda like a 10 year old who has botox scars from beauty pageants."
My players didn't know how toxic pageant parents are...
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Here is a must-read post from children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall on how Scholastic offered to publish her book — all she had to do was remove all mention of racism.
Sure, they're banning books in Tennessee and Texas. But it's not just the books that get published and then banned from the library. It's all the books that don't get published in the first place.
Those banning books know publishers like Scholastic pull this cowardly bullshit. It's their game plan.
prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4…
Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain
Recently, I got an email with an offer from Scholastic’s Educational Division to license Love in the Library for an AANHPI narratives collection, I was thrilled.Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Pretty Ok Maggie)
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Followup story in the New York Times.
Paywall-free link: nytimes.com/2023/05/06/books/s…
Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused
The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.Alexandra Alter (The New York Times)
The whole "Gex X, Gen Z, millennial" thing is stupid. I've never liked it. I find it to be divisive and not only unnecessary, but I believe it also creates unfair stereotypes.
And the way people treat it like it's some kind of "science" annoys me to no end. These terms were invented by JOURNALISTS. Not any social scientists or historians. REPORTERS who were writing an article and came up with these arbitrary names on arbitrary dates.
I don't use them. It's toxic.
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Hey #OpenBSD people - are you getting perl errors after upgrade to 7.3?
I've upgraded 3 servers successfully so far, but bringing up my webserver gives me:
web$ sudo sysmerge
doas (silverwizard@web.obscuritus.ca) password:
web$ sudo pkg_add -u
Zlib.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got first handshake key 0xec00000, needed 0xeb80000)
web$ CPAN and CPANm both give me the same kind of errors. perl-migrate-modules gives a similar error. I rolled back the update and pkg_add work, and I ran perl-migrate-modules to try to get XS versions and things correct, and then I ran the upgrade again, with same issue.
web$ env
_=/usr/bin/env
LOGNAME=silverwizard
PWD=/home/silverwizard
HOME=/home/silverwizard
MAIL=/var/mail/silverwizard
PATH=/home/silverwizard/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games
TERM=vt220
SHELL=/bin/ksh
USER=silverwizard
web$ My env is pretty empty, and I've tried deleting my perl5 directory, and other site packages (pkg_add explicitly no_libs them but you know).
Anyone else seeing this?
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@Andrew Hewus Fresh yeah, Perl migrate modules is for migrating your installed modules to a new Perl binary apparently, but yeah
Yeah, I nuked my perl5 dir and it definitely no_libbed
It definitely is weird because Zlib wasn't there but I've installed three servers successfully from this install73.iso (but used the http mirror to get the files... On all servers), and it's persistent on this server and only this one...
It's super odd
They didn't invent words for how much I love being a dad and love my kids
I can be a grumpy nerd with a beard at computers, but kids never!
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@Toot Uncommon As Finland learned, the main barrier to addressing the underlying problems homeless people have ... is that they don't have a home.
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@pamela :flan_butterfly: I know that on the legal end it's entirely about locus of power and racism. But I just got an email from a Security Company telling me that TikTok is fine (I am on too many Security Company Spam lists that I can't leave...)
But yeah! it would be so nice if this unified with the privacy law work being done!
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I love the actor Nigel Bennett! But basically everything I've seen him in is real bad.
It's very frustrating
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This is unacceptable - right? This article existing proves that AWS isn't a serious product - right?
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@Rivetgeek Good - I am just .... so frustrated - I don't want to change everything in my new job - but Datadog is so bad
I have CloudTrail for logs - and I wish we'd either double down on it, or stop using it. But I really wish I wasn't getting garbage shoveled into a slack channels without a link to the actually actionable information damnit.
I wish... I could just... get alerts that meant there was a problem and had info about where
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Introducing my competitor to LLMs: SKM
The Small Keysmash Model will generate bespoke keysmash with almost no overhead!
It's a neural network I trained on me keysmashing once.
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@Andreas vom Zwenkauer See I have a hard time taking these sets with a very low price per part seriously, in part because they're standing on the shoulders of the elephant in the room. For example, I sold today a couple of LEGO sets that were released in 1993, so 30 years ago, and not only the parts I found for these sets in the bin I sorted were in great condition (albeit a little dirty), I was able to replace most missing parts seamlessly with much newer parts. These for me are proofs of an ongoing quality commitment dating back at least 30 years that none of the newer LEGO-compatible brick ventures, however well-intentioned, can ever claim to match.
One of the reasons the LEGO second-hand market has always been very strong is the normalization LEGO introduced in the 70s (!). As a result, LEGO parts always have been a known quantity, and you can build a business based on trading genuine LEGO parts because of this ongoing trust in the product itself. Is LEGO overcharging for new sets? With such an incredible engineering legacy for what was considered like mere children toys until very recently, they damn well can, and I'm absolutely not ready to quit this field because of outlandish price-per-part claims.
Let's talk about the BlueBrixx second-hand market in 30 years, shall we? 😄
Let's talk about the BlueBrixx second-hand market in 30 years, shall we?
Yes !
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You guys! It's here! It's finally here! Party like it's Y2K38! 🎉
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Easter Sunday 2025 Australia - When is Easter Sunday?
Want to know when it is Easter Sunday in 2025. Find here the exact dates for Easter Sunday for any year.www.calendar-australia.com
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