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One of the weird missteps of early computer UI design was a distaste of âmodesâ. Everything was instead supposed to be direct and immediate. Now in hindsight we know that modes are an awesome way to simplify things. I donât wanna take a shower in the kitchen.
Followed four hours of #boatmode D&D (they specced Sending so they could start calling up Captain Xendros and check out her catalogue) we played three rounds of Turncoats. We won a game each! So far this game keeps growing for me:
Is Spike happy? I donât know. Itâs luck-heavy and itâs pretty vanilla area control. But Iâm loving it.
I have a weird thing about theme, and Iâve never ever been able to explain this to anyone in a way that theyâve understood it but here Iâll try again:
When I play a classic game with classic-looking timeless pieces, I get super into that feeling and it feels like every time Iâve seen that game played in a book or a movie. A great chess set with red and white pieces like Breaking Dawn, or a checkers set where a missing piece has been replaced by a button like in Winnie the Pooh, or a wooden Scrabble game like Calvin and Hobbes has, or a set of Bee playing cards like in Kakegurui, or a game from books or comics like Swords & Stronghold or Tak. It takes me right there. I feel like Iâm Beth Harmon, Hobbes the tiger, Mary Saotome, not that I am them exactly but all the things that I think are cool about them, I get to feel like weâre having all the same fun. Maybe thatâs a liâl childish but this aesthetic is something I hugely appreciate in board games. I love when games have the aesthetic of games. I feel like Iâm taking part in something timeless.
With itâs classic-feeling look and pieces, Turncoats does deliver in that regard. It feels like it belongs right there with Nine Menâs Morris or Checkers, that we could be playing this in a salon in the 19th century or in a field in the medieval times.
Minis and art is a completely different aspect of âthemeâ. Do I really need to pretend that the liâl plastic skeleton is a real skeleton? This sense of theme is appealing too but much less than the first kind of game-qua-game aesthetic. Donât get me wrong, I can get into it. I can play Betrayal on the House on the Something Something in a dollhouse style pretending that the liâl figures are the real peeps, make-believing like a liâl kid (or the way we used to do it when I was a kid, not sure if kids these days still use their imagination like that). Just today we were playing Radlands and I was cheering when I sent my Scientist into the Octagon for a deathmatch! I was holding up the card making liâl walking and fighting motions as if the card was a puppet đ€Šđ»ââïž
Here, Turncoats canât measure up to a game with more full fledged art or minis but you know what? Itâs enough here too. The three armies of Waves, Flowers and Grass; when they go on the march it does feel like they go on the March, when they fight it does feel like they fight, when they recruit it does feel like they recruit etc. Itâs enough to pull it over the edge and into making my imagination feel like these really are three liâl lands at war.
Finally, onto a third dimension of theme that we rarely get to see outside of maybe Napoleon at Morengo. One type of pretend-play I can indulge in with Turncoats is that weâre in the war room planning out our troop movements using these counters on a map. Itâs chromeless enough, and detailed enough with the liâl regions and lake, to trick my head into making that fantasy work.
And yes, Iâm sprawlbrained enough to make all three fantasies work at the same time making it just a wonderful time. Weâve taken to refering to the negotiation move as âIâm willing to go to the negotiation tableâ. The game is a liâl difficult to teach but once everyone knows it, it flows great.
After the three sessions of Turncoats we played one game of Ticket to Ride. I lost huge đ€Šđ»ââïž
I made one iffy play but even if I hadnât done that, I wouldâve only had 24 points more (a seven point swing for the ticket + I wouldâve gotten shared Globetrotter bonus). Maybe the most fun thing that happened was that at one point the market row had only green train cards. Weâre using the Nordic map and I got it into my heads that orange cards are by far the best and most important color.
Then for the first time we playtested my 3P variant of Radlands. Worked great!
Everyone selects two camps out of four, places one in front of themselves and one shared with the player to their right.
Start player gets 1đ§, second 2đ§ and from then on everyone gets 3đ§ as normal. It goes clockwise.
You have sole control of your own column and shared control of the columns to your left and right. Those shared camps also give you starting hand cards.
Thereâs no player elimination, one player wins when the three camps they donât control are destroyed (the two opponents sole camps and their shared camp).
You can use the people placed in your shared columns no matter who played them. They become ready at the start of the turn of the player who played them though. But you can sacrifice them to Mulchers and Blood Banks and such right away.
Cards that say âof your opponentâs choiceâ, like Raiders and Octagon, they work like this: First, the two opponents get a chance to agree, if they do agree on a card then thatâs it. (And in our playtests, that always happened.) If they canât agree they must rock-paper-scissors over it.
You can not shoot your own shared columns with offensive cards like Railgun or Holdout even when youâd tactically want to do that.
We played one game this way, that particular game worked great, was fun, had some shifting tides and ended in about the same amount of time as a normal 2p game.
Then one dork left and we played four more games of Radlands. Fun games! We went 2-2, alternating wins. This time it was definitively more about the camps and less about the characters. Maybe the most fun character thing that happened was how Karli Blaze showed up at the Oasis and could fire right away (and then I had another here, Magnus I think, who could bring out a punk to protect her). Then the next round, the Exterminator could haste in and immediately nuke four enemies thanks to Blazeâs ability. Then Karli Blaze died but at least she got to do the thing! Another very snopen win I managed to get was that I had a Command Post (no punks) and a Railgun and there were only two camps left, both damaged. A High Ground resolved, and I junked the Silo and a second High Ground for a total of five water so I could fire from both camps in the same turn, for the win.
If it seems odd that in March 2021, a charity ostensibly devoted to fighting climate change would be raising money by auctioning NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain, well, good news - we agree. [âŠ] Iâd imagine that if the market wiped $1.5 million off my fledgling charityâs books, Iâd want to reconsider whether or not markets are the best tool for driving sustainable environmental and social progress
Great article!
Filed under âinventions by and for guysâ since everytime I go on IRC I get tons of randos who wanna sext. I shudder at the thought of them being able to book an entire half hour đ
Den hĂ€r lagen Ă€r sĂ„ fel đ
ALLA MOT ANGIVERI - Civil Rights Defenders
with really poor discovery isnât a long term proposition.
I wanna be a liâl cautious here.
Many times whatâs seen as âgood discoveryâ is promoting some posts at the expense of other posts, a zero-sum game where for every winner thereâs a loser. For everyone whoâs shouting the loudest, thereâs someone else who got drowned out. Thatâs also one of the unethical aspects of SEO.
Now, there can be genuinely good organization of information and communities so that people do find what theyâre looking for. Forums and groups are good examples of that. Thatâs fine.
What I hate is stuff like Mastodonâs explore tab. The way Mastodon (and clones like Akkoma) didnât push posts algorithmically was one of the things I really loved about it.
Re: Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isnât
Oh, OK, birds donât eat them, wasps do. So even wasps are useful.
I saw these at Tanto:
Bird-cherry ermine - Wikipedia
It was pretty spooky, they had covered a huge tree and several nearby smaller trees and bushes and even boulders. The big tree, all the leaves were dead. All wrapped in this silk, full of crawling larvae.
Donât mess with birds because this is what happens!
The Mystique/Destiny wedding special was so awesome.
Itâs now maybe my favorite among all the comic books Iâve got
So cheap, but so validating and sanity-inducing to watch, like rain in the desert:
Fox on Hunter Bidenâs Verdict But Make The Footage Trump | The Daily Show - YouTube
(A fake video where the Fox News hosts are speaking honestly about the Trump verdict, created by audio from them speaking about the Hunter Biden verdict but with photos of Trump.)
Komi makes sense in a tournament setting but between two long-time rivals, itâs fun to fight for the right to use the white stones and it make sense that defending them should be a liâl bit of an uphill battle. And if white keeps winning, maybe itâs time to give black two or three stones.
Now this hatred of Pixar films do not extend to movies like Tangled, Frozen etc, which I love! Theyâre so much more âall heartâ. But they arenât Pixar!
OK so I hate Pixar films except for Inside Out, which I love, and Soul, which I donât love, I just donât hate it as much as the typical cynical Wall-E, Toy Story, Finding Nemo type fare.
I had decided to not see Inside Out 2 but then I happened to walk past a cinema just when it was starting and I couldnât resist and I ended up loving it. Turns out there were some new lessons left to teach in the land of psychology. This is all stuff that Iâve hopefully figured out by now (đ« ) but Iâm so grateful that this format can teach it clearly and easily to a wider audience.
I dreamt that I was in a taxi and the driver didnât use formal royal address (i.e. he didnât say âyour majestyâ) so for some reason I started looking between the seats to see if I had lost it there. As if it was a piece of paper đ€Šđ»ââïž
Finally managed to send in my string as a suggestion and it turned out that lots of other people had found that same error and had left similar suggestions. đ°
Rotting on the vine. đđ
The story of how I died:
Project: Has typo in a UX string
Me: âGreat, Iâll send a patch!â
Project: âWe use Transifex!â
Franska Republikanska partiet uteslöt sin egen partiledare efter att han uttryckt intresse för att samarbeta med nassarna. Det Ă€r rĂ€tt. Medan Sverige vĂ€ltrar sig i ett motbjudande Tidöavtal đ€Šđ»ââïž
This episode of the Acolyte reminded me of one of the drawbacks of non-linear storytelling. We had already been told what happened and now we got to see it for ourselves in a flashback. A pretty good episode but it wouldâve been much more interesting if we didnât already knew everything that was gonna happen. The worst example of this is that old 21 Grams, one of my least fave movies.
When non-linear storytelling is done poorly, I go from confused to interested to bored. I dunno. They managed to use this mystery as a tension driver for the first two episodes and that did work pretty wellâat the expense if this episode which was more dull for it, but maybe that was worth it.
Me and Halo were out of sorts and were visually hallucinating and so we obviously decided to take a trip to the lands of Rad! Apparently I could navigate the chaos a liâl better because I won 3â1 (Halo won the third of the four games) and then we played nineteen nineteen âȘïžâ«ïž where I fell way behind early on but then managed to kill an entire corner + side + center and ended up with a 37 point win (kifu cam says 44.5 but thatâs with 7.5 komi, I forgot to tell it that we donât use komi). We were both completely in space, seeing ataris that werenât there, missing snapbacks and oiotoshi etc.
It was our first baduk game in a long time. Fun fun funâ„ïž
Radlands was even more fun, such a great game, I just hate the theme. The MVP card today was Rescue Team, what a great card. It can drive, it can heal, it can shoot, it can give water, it can turn punks to cards, with a Holdout it can help trigger Nest of Spies etc.
DĆgen does not conclude that the past and future are simply linguistic conventions. In fact, quite the contrary is true: because they are linguistic conventions, they cannot simply be symbols but must be the symbolized itself.
Thatâs from the conclusion of Vorenkampâs essay, but the section it rests on (âfirst tenetâ) I felt was a liâl sloppily argued. The map is not the territory, the cave-wall shadows donât have individual bat signals, the teapot doesnât clear its orbit, and thereâs not necessarily a Christmas pony. Signifiers donât imply referents.
His main source for this is DĆgen:
If the Buddhaâs speech is shallow, turning the flower must also be shallow. If the Buddhaâs speech is only letters and sounds, that is not the words of learning the Buddha Dharma.
Saying that thereâs a dharma beyond speech doesnât imply that all speech has something behind it, thatâd be fallaciously affirming the consequent. All poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles.
Teaching the dharma through speech is a perlocutionary act. Expressing temporal relational predicates are not perlocutionary speech acts.
Because of temporal asymmetry (i.e., time always âflowsâ toward the future), it is the effect-to-cause aspect of that bidirectional relationship that causes the problems.
But whatâs perceived as temporal asymmetry might be an artifact of subjective experience of time đ€·đ»ââïž
The Fraggle Rock episode with that song is a good synthesis of the block view and the stream view with the whole âthe water was once an oceanâ etc. The old âItâs all the same water in different formsâ gem.
The not-so-wonderful world of competing by harming the other contenders. Business is more like death rally rather than a race apparently.
If theyâre in a position where they can legislate Nazi behavior (or I believe itâs CCP that theyâre targeting here), just ban âem entirely.
I hate all cars but I hate fossil fuel cars more so adding a 38% tariff on electric cars seems a liâl unâthought-through.
EU considering a tariff on electric vehicles đ€Šđ»ââïž after years of subsidizing fossil fuel industries.
Fraggle Rock loves the stream metaphor:
Fraggle Rock - Just a Dream Away (Mudwell) Lyrics - YouTube
I feel like the stream image doesnât really contradict the slices-of-an-amber-rock model of time. We never see the same river because our view of time changes like a slice of clay in a strata-cut animation.
Strata-cut animation - Wikipedia
Sometimes it feels like DĆgen had the entire block universe idea seven hundred years early and other times it feels like heâs saying the complete opposite, coming across as if time were a running river.
Hereâs someoneâs 1995 attempt at sorting all of this out in the context of McTaggartâs âB-seriesâ description of the block universe:
B-SERIES TEMPORAL ORDER IN DOGENâS THEORY OF TIME
Interesting take.
Speaking of time, back in the day people thought that kinda hard wrapped ASCII would last forever. Turning that into an epub was a liâl bit fiddly:
vorenkamp-b_series_in_dogen.epub at Idiomdrottning
âCanât you see the image? Try your phone, or a browser.â
đ€Šđ»ââïž
Transformative justice - Wikipedia
Transformative justice is a spectrum of social, economic, legal, and political practices and philosophies that aim to focus on the structures and underlying conditions that perpetuate harm and injustice.
I know the player 1 character in Clu-Clu Land is called Gloopy or Bubbles but whatâs the player 2 character called? The green fish.
AlltsĂ„ staten behöver gripa in i vĂ„rdstrejken och ge vĂ„ra vĂ„rdhjĂ€ltar allt dom begĂ€r (dvs rimlig arbetstid) för det finns inte en suck att regionerna kommer klara av det sjĂ€lva đ€Šđ»ââïž
Och ju fortare desto bÀttre obviously.
I told someone the other day about how these conviction had been overturned:
And they got really angry at me, saying I was lying or repeating fake news.
I can sorta understand that reaction.
Wim wrote in saying that that means no sensor is connected.
Ăr tacksam för att Expressen börjat kritisera SD. Har varit rĂ€tt bitter mot den tidningen eftersom dom var bland dom första som normaliserande röstande pĂ„ det partiet med intervjuer som ârandom SD-röstare: Ă€r precis som alla andraâ osv. Det var fel och gjorde stor skada.
What is âTsensor 1 Temperatureâ?
CPU Temperature: +57.0°C
CPU Socket Temperature: +44.0°C
Motherboard Temperature: +48.0°C
Chipset Temperature: +56.0°C
Tsensor 1 Temperature: +216.0°C
CPU VRM Temperature: +43.0°C
CPU VRM Output Current: 6.00 A
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Tctl: +57.2°C
Tccd1: +49.8°C
For some reason the phone I helped make got a very belated review on âGood E-Readerâ:
Mudita Pure â Pure Bliss or Hype: A Review - Good e-Reader
Now, this phone is EOLâd and unsupported so I donât get why theyâre reviewing it now. I keep mine in a drawer as a spare. It never worked very well since calls often wouldnât get through, making me miss deliveries and emergencies. I also couldnât hear very well what the other person was saying. Maybe the SAR was too low. I contributed to the OS side of things. I havenât started it in years.
»Vi kommer att avbryta kolexporten till Israel tills de stoppar folkmordet«, skriver Gustavo Petro pÄ X.
Dom borde helt sluta grÀva upp kol eller om det nu Àr trÀkol borde dom grÀva ner den. För klimatförÀndringarna Àr ingen leksak.
Demonstranter i Israel har fortsatt att krÀva nyval.
Polisen i Tel Aviv anvÀnde vattenkanoner för att skingra demonstranter.
Ja, det Ă€r viktigt att komma ihĂ„g att mĂ„nga Ă€r mot kriget. En antisemit hade klottrat âBomba Tel-Avivâ hĂ€r. Det Ă€r samma handstil, eller liknande i alla fall, som ocksĂ„ skriver Free Assange đ€Šđ»ââïž Ironiskt val av stad eftersom det Ă€r dĂ€r det största motstĂ„ndet Ă€r.
PĂ„ samma sĂ€tt som nĂ€r det kommer undersökningar om att 70% i Ryssland tycker Putin Ă€r bra sĂ„ betyder det ju ocksĂ„ att 30% inte gör det. (Ja jo jag vet att dom ocksĂ„ sĂ€ger att över 90% tycker heterotvĂ„nget Ă€r bra. đ)
Gantz, oppositionsledare och minister i krigskabinettet, har hotat med att avgÄ om Netanyahu inte godkÀnner en efterkrigsplan senast 8 juni.
Bra! Den hÀr snubben kom igÄng lite vÀl sent sÄ han har definitivit fördömda flÀcken pÄ hÀnderna, men sen han vÀl började veva har jag för första gÄngen fÄtt lite hopp om fred.
Det Hamasstyrda hÀlsodepartementet uppgav att minst 210 palestinier dödades och 400 skadades i samband med israeliska attacker i NuseiratomrÄdet. Det var i dessa omrÄden som IDF fritog fyra ur Hamas gisslan.
Döda 52 personer för att rĂ€dda en. Tur att dom kan Ă„beropa âpsychic harmâ sĂ„ det ser proportionerligt ut, eftersom psykiskt lidande Ă€r bara nĂ„t dom sjĂ€lva kan ha eftersom den andra sidan knappt rĂ€knas som mĂ€nniskor enligt dom. đ€Šđ»ââïž
Gantz hade i sitt ultimatum bland annat stÀllt krav om att fÄ hem alla ur gisslan senast den 8 juni.
Det var vĂ€l lite vĂ€l optimistiskt. Det finns en aspekt av den inhemska fredsrörelsen som handlar mer om att fĂ„ tillbaka gisslan Ă€n att fĂ„ behĂ„lla sin egen mĂ€nsklighet. Det kan jag iofs förstĂ„. Det Ă€r hemskt att folk saknas. Och det Ă€r Hamas och deras allierade som tog gisslan, nĂ€r nĂ„gon tar gisslan Ă€r det alltid gisslantagarens fel nĂ€r nĂ„t hĂ€nder med gisslan, det finns ofta en sjuk bad-cop/âgood-copâlek dĂ€r det Ă€r âdet Ă€r ditt fel att hon blir skadad, om du bara hade lytt mig hade allt gĂ„tt braâ.
SÄ för oss hÀr utanför isbubblan Àr det ju för deras egen mÀnsklighet som dom inte borde kriga och massakrera. 2014 gick Israel in i Gaza och dödade över 1400 civila, mest kvinnor och barn. (Det var en hÀmnd för att tre personer hade dött.) Men vÀrlden började inte begÀra Israels utplÄnande sÄsom mÄnga pÄ det amerikanska kongressgolvet har begÀrt Gazas utplÄnande nu. Ingen borde dö! Jag Àr mot kriget och mot krigshandlingar frÄn bÄda sidor!
Och ja jo jag vet att det Àr lÀttare att sÀga det utanför isbubblan, media dÀr inne Àr helt sjuk. Det Àr svÄrt att sÀga mot en monokultur.
Det Ă€r dĂ€rför SD lĂ€gger sĂ„ mycket krut pĂ„ att ta över media, ffa nymedia. đ°
Ȉ ker L ur EU-parlamentet lĂ€r partiets anti-SDâfalang vilja förklara det med SD-samarbetet«, skriver SVT:s inrikespolitiska kommentator Elisabeth Marmorstein.
Ja, no shit! Det Ă€r dags att lĂ€gga ner L. Helt obegripligt att det partiet sprattlar vidare. Jag Ă€r inget fan av den sortens marknadsliberalism som var partiets grundpelare innan dom gav sig in i den hĂ€r geggan men nu har dom ingen kĂ€rna alls, dom Ă€r en amöba utan ryggrad. Det Ă€r bara hockeylagspolitik kvar, âdet vi gör vad det Ă€n Ă€r bra för det Ă€r det rĂ€tta laget som gör detâ, det Ă€r âmin fiendes fiendeâ. Ja jo V har ocksĂ„ lite unkna ribbentropstinkande rötter men hotet frĂ„n SD Ă€r hĂ€r och nu.
Skulle ha velat se en enig cordon sanitaire mot SD men nu Àr det kanske sÄ att KD och M har geggat ner sig för all framtid.
Volvo tvingas Äterkalla 72 000 ex av nya elbilen EX30 i Sverige och övriga vÀrlden, rapporterar sajten Carup.
Bilarna kan ha ett fel pÄ mittskÀrmen som gör att hastighetsmÀtaren inte visas. Enligt Volvos PR-chef Magnus Holst berörs ca 5 000 bilar i Sverige, uppger Vi BilÀgare.
För att ÄtgÀrda felet krÀvs en mjukvaruuppdatering.
Att ofria appar har tagit över samhÀllet till den milda grad att nÄn behöver göra sÄhÀr Àr en tragisk förlust för oss FOSS-nördar. Ist för att bara kunna lÀgga in en patch sjÀlva sÄ mÄste hela bilen fraktas. AppsamhÀllet Àr sÄ sjukt ogenomtÀnkt. SkrÀckexemplet nummer ett förblir fortfarande medicinska implantat som har slutat fungera för att företaget la ner produktlinjen, men det hÀr bilskrÀllandet Àr illa nog.
Det var pÄ fredagseftermiddagen som propalestinska aktivister barrikaderade sig inne i ett rum i studentkÄrens hus pÄ KTH:s omrÄde. Efter ett par timmar tog sig polisen in i rummet och grep aktivisterna.
âYttrandefrihet för mig men inte för digâ som vanligt.
Borrell menar att president Joe Bidens fredsplan Àr »vÀgen framÄt«. Den Àr uppdelad i tre faser. Den första fasen innebÀr en fullstÀndig vapenvila i sex veckor.
Den Àr lite konstig eftersom den kommer frÄn en snubbe som har skickat lassvis med vapen till kriget.
Dagen före EU-valet har SD skickat ut ett mass-sms dÀr partiet angriper TV4.
Statsminister Ulf Kristersson (M) lÀgger ingen större vikt vid SD:s sms.
âSverigedemokraterna verkar hata TV4, Socialdemokraterna verkar hata Sverigedemokraterna. Jag försöker Ă€gna mig Ă„t sakpolitik.
Att hans brunskjortiga vÀnner skickar mass-SMS till befolkningen med lögner Àr pÄ sÀtt och vis sakpolitik skulle jag nog sÀga, Ätminstone i det hÀr mcluhansamhÀllet, men OK.
Det Àr ocksÄ otroligt giftigt och strategiskt att dom kallar reportaget för just en pÄverkansoperation trots att det Àr ett rÀtt lÄngsökt namn för det, eftersom det vattnar ur ordet för det som dom sjÀlva hÄller pÄ med.
Det som har hÀnt i kölvattnet av det hÀr, att SD snarare har vÀxt, det förvÄnar mig inte men det Àr samtidigt sÄ tragiskt. Hat och lögner har slagit fÀste i folkets hjÀrtan.
â#nyhetsplock
I got into âsocial mediaâ (meaning IRC, Gemini and Fedi) out of sheer desperations four months into the pandemic. This capsule goes back way longer, but I was only making a few posts a year.
I actually did have a microblog at one point, a few months, just some liâl web+atom thing. But I flinched and removed it. Writing without any feedback didnât work for me. I donât need a big audience, just knowing that thereâs someone there. Otherwise, just shouting in the wind, that felt embarrassing.
I dunno, maybe thatâs a good thing, maybe me writing all this stuff doesnât carry its own weight, doesnât do more good than harm. I write to get things out of my head. Thank you for reading.
As a teen I went through a couple of years where I got increasingly desentisized and I could read gory comics without flinching or play games like Outlaws where youâre shooting other people (in the game). I wondered if that was a never ending path towards more and more cynicism and cruelty but it wasnât. I regained my sensitivity. Reading the news makes me cry so much my eyes hurt.
Iâve seen the first two episodes of The Acolyte.
The Acolyte (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
So far Sol is the selling point of this show; what a performance. Iâm happy theyâre doing High Republic era stuff since that way they can avoid clobbering Legends too much. Overall I donât love the show; Iâd place it above both Obi-Wan and Ahsoka but down in the same tier as them, D-tier. With Andor being A-tier.
Super preliminary ranking. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the show.
While D-tier might seem harsh, Iâm still more into it than 99% of other shows. Iâve watched almost no television lately outside of late night political talkshows and breadtube, but Iâm really in the mood for Star Wars and Iâm grateful that thereâs a new show.
Re: @michael 2024-06-07 16:34 +02:00
Youâre right, looking closely there are several other tinylogs I follow that arenât in there. But thatâs one of the charms of smolnet. đđ»
Debian has a new bitlbee out. Their bitlbee doesnât support OMEMO so apt source the bitlbee-libpurple package, apply this patch (originally written by Kevin Velghe):
Are we OMEMO yet? | Tracking the progress of OMEMO integration in XMPP clients.
GitHub - paretje/bitlbee: An IRC to other chat networks gateway :bee:
lurch-omemo.patch at Idiomdrottning
and run dpgk-buildpackage.
You also need this plugin: GitHub - gkdr/lurch: XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption for libpurple. (which hasnât updated in two years so I dunno).
Bitlbee might be held together with chewing gum and wire hangers at this point, but itâs still awesome.
GitHub - gkdr/lurch: XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption for libpurple.
Finale of Checkmate, Lincolnites is out:
THE CORNERSTONE OF JOHNNY REB - YouTube
Havenât seen it yet because the yt-dlv is four and half gigs so Iâm waiting on that. Thatâs over three thousand floppies.
I guess itâs fine. Itâs because mine is more of a linklog than reporting on actual status changes. When I save bookmarks, that get posted to my tinylog.
Seems like itâs mostly me:
Tinylog timeline generated by gtl
For some reason I feel guilty and ashamed over that. Like opening my eyes at a party and finding that everyone else left.
FairEmail will send the Autocrypt header for use by other email clients, but only for signed and encrypted messages because too many email servers have problems with the often long Autocrypt header.
I donât use Posteo, but I wish Posteo users would do this:
publishing-public-pgp-key-for-posteo-email-address at Posteo
WKD is great!
Re: @michael 2024-06-06 12:45 +02:00
Just understanding what you asked seems difficult, let alone doing it. đ° What is sed and how do I get rid of it?
Goop infecting Wikipedia URLs:
Elizabeth Taylor FTW!
Elizabeth Taylor Said, âThere Is No Gay Agenda. Itâs a Human Agendaâ? | Snopes.com
When I started reading Snopes over RSS I was scared I was gonna wanna post every singe article but itâs like 95% complete nonsense over there, and itâs almost as bad as clickbait sites since they donât show up front whether a rumor is true or false unless you visit the page. But this one was a gem
Quick public domain hidden roles game for three:
A writing and drawing with a straight-forward file format, in Löve2D.
Zelda 3 ported to C. Not clean room, they used dissemblers and stuff, but useful & awesome.
The Matrix federation in ejabberd is live now:
Matrix gateway setup with ejabberd / ProcessOne
Iâm still on Prosody so I havenât tried this out; not sure how the bridge handles encryption.
Iâm so frustrated with Matrix and how it pushes out other networks like IRC, email or XMPP.
Great overview:
Generating and Using Identifiers
At this point, any new project I create would be based on UUIDv7.
The most banned book in the US:
Gender Queer - A Memoir (2019) â GetComics
Free speech for me but not for thee as per ushe.
My older self understands what it is to be a teenager and pressing outward against societal mores, but thereâs a way to do it without, you know, being a bad fucking person. Maybe I need to leave neocities. I just want to write my sad entries in peace.
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This URL was a liâl misleading. I thought the article was gonna say that âCory Doctorow stories are a fuggly hackâ:
Cory Doctorow: Stories Are a Fuggly Hack
Jag Àr sÄ frustrerad med den osolidariska mediarapporteringen kring vÄrdstrejken. Arbetstiderna Àr ju för lÄnga. Helt vansinniga och dom Àr det pÄ ett sÀtt som försÀmrar vÄrdkvaliten.
Det Àr jÀtteviktigt med fungerande vÄrd sÄ gÄ med pÄ kraven genast. Det kommer behöva betyda att stat, kommuner och regioner ökar anslagen.
Att SVT Text Àr urdÄliga pÄ arbetsrÀttsliga frÄgor Àr inte nytt, det Àr en lucka hos dom.
Det finns en granskningsnÀmnd som kan granska TV4 men ingen som granskar SD. Quis custodiet ipsos asinos?
âYttrandefrihet för mig men inte för digâ som vanligt nĂ€r det kommer till ubĂ„tshögern.
Oh that was an awesome novel đ
Apprently Johnny can also cool things.
Conclusion: Reed sucks
Sueâs forcefields can do anything Reed or Ben can do, except invisibly, and anything Johnny can do except cold as ice and silently.
Last Week Tonight joked that it was difficult to eat mangos.
Hereâs how I do it:
1. Slice the mango into three pieces, trying to make the center slice as thin as possible while also containing all of the pit.
2. Score the non-pit slices like the lead cenobite. I like scoring with the blunt side of the knife so I donât cut the rind. Then the rind can easily be flipped inside out and the mango pieces be cut off with the sharp side of the knife.
3. The center slice, hold it steady to a cutting board with chopsticks or a fork and cut all around. Only cutting off the rind here. I usually just hold the knife steady with the tip all the way through to the board and instead rotate the mango slice.
4. Now thereâs some fruit stuck to the pit. Wittle it off or gnaw it off.
I probably got this method from Bittman but I dunno.
Girls just wanna sublimate & validate
Feeling stressed, worried, afraid and sad. I know! Letâs put Stranger in the Alps on album repeat and sit down to read Han Kangâs latest (ìëłíì§ ìëë€). Thatâll cheer me right up đ€Šđ»ââïž
I might like it more if I play it more but the first two plays started out really fun but then got more frustrating towards the later rounds.
The tattoo prevalence was 21% among cases and 18% among controls.
Thatâd be 1.17 but the study says 1.21 for matched groups and 1.18 for unmatched. I need to get better at understanding this math stuff đđ»ââïž
Also, hooray for CC-BY research!
Iâm looking for monster lists for Journeys through the Radiant Citadel.
Like, for each of the planes in there, hereâs a list of appropriate monsters. Itâs OK if theyâre fan made. Itâs not always clear to me exactly which real-worldâculture is the basis of which plane (maybe thatâs in the book or maybe itâs supposed to be vague), but thatâs fine, I think these settings look awesome, but one of the main thing missing to easily expand them are encounter tables, which I could throw together if I knew like âOK, on such-and-such plane there are owlbears and stirgesâ or something like that.
I finally got to play Quacks of Quedlinburg (with Simon), a push-your-luck bagbuilding game that won the KdJ in 2018. But I was a disappointed; I guess I had hyped myself up too much.
The art and components are so cool, it feels like being in a picture book, and what you do in the game is fun (I like push-your-luck games).
But like Cubitos and Dominion, itâs a âsolve this kingdomâ type game. Iâm more into games that are more endlessly variable the way they already are, like how in Go every game is wildly different to the point that it almost feels like a completely new and fresh game every time, over games that rely on a plethora of powers and combos. Thereâs also a huge runaway-leader feedback loop with some weaker catch-up mechanisms pasted on.
Runaway leader is a property of many otherwise good games, and Iâm usually not one to complain about that, but it felt like such a huge part of this experience. I lost both games and it felt like I kept falling further and further behind.
Maybe Iâll change my mind with future plays. For now Iâll rate it a 3.6 on BGG. Somewhere between a 3 and a 4, leaning slightly more towards 4.
Even on the smallest common Go board, 9x9, there are 81 possible initial moves.
Thanks to symmetry there are 15 possible initial moves; for the very first stone, a play in one corner isnât much different than a play in another corner.
Thatâs why some play groups like to designate a âtriangle of politenessâ for that first play; close to the opponent.
This time I remembered to grep my essay archive for the word âegoismâ to see if Iâve already written something similar to this post. (You know how some people keep telling the same stories? I keep writing the same gemlog posts.)
But I found zero matches. I canât believe Iâve used the word âegoismâ zero times before, as much as I love to rag on Atlanta Hope and her sneezing Telemachus.
Maybe other people arenât as tangled up in wrappers around wrappers around wrappers around toot as I am but if anyone else is, here you go. This is great for finding the local id of a remote status:
toot search --json url://to.remote/status|jq -r '.statuses[].id'
Thatâs been a missing puzzle piece for me for so long.
Israeli Soldier Posed in Front of Burning Books at University in Gaza? | Snopes.com
And people think itâs weird that students are protesting.
I love that birds are dinosaurs! I think about it every day đïž
Real Gigantic, Dinosaur-Like Bird Claw? | Snopes.com
(Not sure I like using a = sign. Would you write poodles = dogs or potatoes = food? Itâs not the identity relation, itâs hyponymy. All birds are dinosaurs, all dinosaurs are reptiles, all reptiles are fish. Some fish are reptiles, some reptiles are dinosaurs, some dinosaurs are birds, and some birds are liâl magpies! Watch out for them! But I still love them!)