 The GM for a weekly tabletop game I'm in uses a free online tool to build our campaigns. Their SSL key expired and he can't access the site. He asked a couple of us who are programmers if there was something he could do -- one person noted: "the domain is registered to someone in Minsk and this person probably has more pressing concerns than updating their SSL keys right now" I remember our family got a 286 IBM-compatible PC when I was maybe 9 years old. It came with some pre-loaded software, including something I think about from time to time, which was a DOS program that displayed a rotating, photorealistic (possibly ray traced?) can of Jolt cola. I don't *think* it was a demoscene type demo, I think it was like, a commercial graphics demo. I went searching for it but couldn't find it. Anyway, it mesmerized me to see something photorealistic on a computer screen 
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 Haven't read the whole thing yet but I appreciated this excerpt from this podcast about the rise in pedestrian deaths. (via gregbrown on Twitter) https://newrepublic.com/article/165661/rise-traffic-deaths-car-crashes-pandemic-stress   @darius omg strong towns. fuck. those guys. wow. okay I have Opinions about them but it's like, leftist infighting kinds of Opinions, but I have to point out that they are all guys.  @darius jogger killed here last night in just such a place. Is there something like Yahoo Pipes (RIP) but for piping text between standard Unix shell programs? I mean a visual interface like Pipes had and then it executes everything and also generates a shell command you can copy and paste for further use.
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 The "automator" app that comes with macOS is kinda in that direction but not quite According to a VP of Engineering at Google: "Fun fact. 15% of the searches we see every day have never been Googled before." This is extremely counterintuitive (and therefore interesting) to me I do wonder if this is a 24-hour window, so like if 10,000,000 people googled "ukraine invasion nuclear plant" and its variants yesterday, would that have been 10,000,000 "never googled before" or just idk 1000 for the 1000 different ways a person could phrase that  @darius naive guesses at contributing factors: I don't know if it's a purposeful design or some kind of flaw that manifests in a pretty way but I love the colors on this neon sign. @darius Antique store feels like the least appropriate business for a neon sign.  I'm glad for everyone who is looking forward to Elden Ring but my calendar currently has 12 hours blocked out next week for Triangle Strategy π
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 @darius Iβm having this exact debate with myself right now. Iβve never gotten really into From stuff and feel like this could be the one to turn me around, but I _know_ Iβm gonna be into Triangle Strategy. Canβt wait to unearth the rank deception in my lordβs demesne, or whatever the hell is going on in there Now seems like a good time to repeat something I saw online that has become a mantra for me: Just because one government is bad doesn't mean an opposing government is good Specifically to US leftists: you can believe that the US is a bad, lying, imperialist nation and hold room for the idea that Russia also is a bad, lying, imperialist nation. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is not good long term analysis.
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 The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, but they may be my temporary ally, and itβs usually really nice to watch them fight from a safe place with popcorn. π @darius @alpine_thistle The Clash explained this in Washington Bullets with guitars. Co-signed. People on infosec Twitter keep saying it's extremely bad that lots of people scanned a random QR code. But I'm genuinely not sure how it's different than clicking on a link? My understanding is the flow for most users goes: - take picture with phone Is the issue that the preview step doesn't exist for a lot of people? Otherwise it seems similar to being presented with any url at all.
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 @darius I had assumed it's because QRs can do a lot more than visit URLs - send text messages, place a call, add a contact, link to an app, etc - and that a lot of folks don't expect that and it could be used for nefarious purposes if not careful, especially at a large scale with unexpecting folks. but, vague!  This is an incredibly good article about the TED talk era. Incisive analysis and critique.
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 I watch these things & always wonder if anyone involved has ever had real interaction w/any human being outside their own well-appointed social circle. At day's end, TED is just another global old-boy network. But perhaps w/a few less boys. A more erudite & personable version of the average PBS panel from the 1970s and 80s. In which a few suits talk coolly about what's best for a group of other people who they don't know & who will never be let on the air to speak for themselves. I watch these things & always wonder if anyone involved has ever had real interaction w/any human being outside their own well-appointed social circle. At day's end, TED is just another global old-boy network. But perhaps w/a few less boys. A more erudite & personable version of the average PBS panel from the 1970s and 80s. In which a few suits talk coolly about what's best for a group of other people who they don't know & who will never be let on the air to speak for themselves.
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@danbruno this first track could absolutely be a "daily life" track in any kiseki game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcU7ZlnJFPE Hey #hometown users! I am pushing out a new version this evening (my time, so in like 8 hours) to keep us up to date with the Mastodon patches.
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New #hometown version is out! v1.0.5+3.4.6: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.5%2B3.4.6 No new Hometown-specific features, but it incorporates critical security patches from Mastodon v3.4.6, so if you run a server, please update ASAP.   Thanks @darius looks like I have a project to entertain me this evening! Heads up to my homies potential glitch alert some time this mountain-zone-night... absolutely fucking cursed (8 is the number of hours offset my local browser's timezone is from UTC)
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@darius do not use the JavaScript Date type under any circumstances. It is a fractal of brokenness. Also do not use any library that uses the JavaScript Date type. They might claim not to be broken but they're all broken. |
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