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Devs: We should add a kiosk mode to make the application safer.
Manager: No time for such nonsense, deploy it now.
Manager: No time for such nonsense, deploy it now.
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A BILLIONAIRE
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
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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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Just gotta deal with
1) putting some HTML in a rust binary will probably end up with a 2TB file
2) figure out how to easily serialize an image into a rust binary
1) putting some HTML in a rust binary will probably end up with a 2TB file
2) figure out how to easily serialize an image into a rust binary
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@silverwizard This is perhaps terrible, but could you not just create a program that you could pipe an arbitrary binary file into it and it would output a rust module that defines an array of bytes that matches what was fed into it?
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.
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🙏may your home projects all require just the one trip to the hardware store🙏
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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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Your periodic reminder that DNS over HTTPS does nothing for your privacy.
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ODoH does not help either, because you can’t verify that ODoH is being used; it’s just as worthless as the provider’s pinky swear not to store anything.
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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"When It Comes to Twitter, Mainstream News Outlets Should Take a Cue From Fox News. Seriously."
Must-read piece from @parkermolloy about how news outlets have bowed down to Elon Musk's tyranny instead of using their considerable power to push back against his war on journalism.
As Molloy points out, Fox once stopped tweeting for 16 months in protest. Of course, as an information warfare outlet, Fox understands how this stuff works! Legit news outlets must learn...
https://www.readtpa.com/p/take-a-twitter-lesson-from-fox-news
Must-read piece from @parkermolloy about how news outlets have bowed down to Elon Musk's tyranny instead of using their considerable power to push back against his war on journalism.
As Molloy points out, Fox once stopped tweeting for 16 months in protest. Of course, as an information warfare outlet, Fox understands how this stuff works! Legit news outlets must learn...
https://www.readtpa.com/p/take-a-twitter-lesson-from-fox-news
When It Comes to Twitter, Mainstream News Outlets Should Take a Cue From Fox News. Seriously.
Fox once abandoned Twitter for 16 months in a vague, nonsensical protest. News outlets with legitimate grievances didn't even wait until their reporters were reinstated after being wrongly suspended.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
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Roku's Basilisk is an AI that will torture a future copy of you if you don't watch enough TV
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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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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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Very much a librarian joke. Or else it's just me to who finds citation humor hilarious.
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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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@silverwizard Might be worth looking into. I do like the concept of using the simplest possible tool (says the Emacs user) though, I do like bash's Emacs-style keybindings.
@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
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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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Well, I'm uncomfortable with this kind of thing but I'm looking to get myself #FediHired. I'm a Senior SRE for a relatively major content platform company looking for full-time remote work in #Canada. I eats my veggies and was chief-Cassandra-wrangler for a while; what gets me excited to work on in industry are Disaster Recovery, documentation, RCA, and design for resiliency. #Fedihire
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@smartwatermelon Oh trust me, I would be thankful for that; I've had my fill of US federal projects already managing our FedRAMP-related compliance efforts.
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
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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?
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@Hypolite Petovan @nora tindall is 🏳️⚧️ Yeah - Billionaires don't even have their own cacklingly evil ideas
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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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You need to go back to bed to recover from all the sleep. It's the only logical choice.
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"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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I mean if they already understand photons and electromagnetism, you're doing something right.
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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
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.
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I was just fired. If you know someone hiring staff level software engineers, preferably in a #sre, #devops, or #PlatformEngineering space, I'd love to talk.
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Honestly, I should thank my old CTO for ambushing the department with his ridiculous quarterly roadmap bullshit. It means I spent all week having 1:1s with my fellow engineers to make sure I understood their priorities, instead of doing something useless like programming.
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.
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.
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