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What a terrifying time to be a minority US American
Saturday, 31-Oct-20 17:45:49 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser Don't worry. Compared to the rest of the world the US is a minority.
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@adiwan I'm not sure what positive to take away from that being in Europe as a US minority.
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Well it was early in the morning, I was tired, thought to myself, "I really hate myself, I'm going to upgrade the production servers from Ubuntu 18 to 20 LTS". Backups, who needs backups, I don't think the dependencies have changed in this version release.
Wednesday, 28-Oct-20 22:17:33 UTC from web-
@oracle I'm crazy with my "rolling release" Debian Experimental. Any time used *buntu and dist-upgraded it was always a hell and ended up in a complete re-install for the sake of saving time fixing each issue individually.
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@adiwan I know what you mean, the LTS releases bundle too many programs together in my opinion. In my f-up, it was the upgrade to python 3.8 that caused most of my problems.
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@oracle My upgrades aren't peachy either. Often I have to manually handle a less than fortunate set of dependencies due to conflicts or just unavailable packages. I don't mind that as I make a little game out of it and the frequency of those problems is not that bad. Strangely most of the time samba and python are the cause of an issue.
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The game jam rankings are published https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/vaguely-named-horse-game Not too bad from 3206 entries. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875651
Wednesday, 28-Oct-20 14:04:26 UTC from web-
@scribus Overall top 8.3%! I'm more proud of the "Fun" category, which is in the top 2%. The Overall category is wishiwashi and undefined.
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So uh, how long has registering new users been busted? It's fixed now.
Monday, 26-Oct-20 01:55:31 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark You call it busted. I say it's an effective anti-spam-account measure.
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@ceruleanspark I mean I haven't registered since day one so
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https://linuxreviews.org/Apple%27s_CUPS_Repository_Has_Died_A_Quiet_Death
I don't know where I found this link, but it's important news: #Apple's main #CUPS repository (on #GitHub) has very few commits since the main dev left late last year. There's a new CUPS fork at OpenPrinting.org
#IPP- xrevan86 repeated this.
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@devurandom A mundane result of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
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Great! From formerly 4 Corona-infected it has jumped up to almost 80 in my area. 0.032 % of the local population.
Sunday, 18-Oct-20 09:15:09 UTC from web -
@mangeurdenuage @icedquinn @coolboymew No, but there's stuff to implement.
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Damn. I bought another 3D printer.
Wednesday, 14-Oct-20 10:06:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan @scribus Not much of a point either, since we already have metal 3D printing in the shape of 4+ axis mills. You just put in a sufficiently big piece of metal and load the 3D model to the CNC software and let it work.
Mill of hot extrusion, metal printing will stay too dangerous and expensive for domestic use for at least a few decades I think. Most homes don't even have the space to fit the machinery or the wiring to run it. -
@nerthos Oops, *mill OR hot extrusion
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My company laptop is so configured that it automatically locks the screen after 15 minutes of inactivity. There is no way to alter its behaviour because this was set by the admin via a policy. HOWEVER I used a AutoHotkey script that wiggles the mouse by one pixel back and forth once every 14 minutes.
Tuesday, 13-Oct-20 09:33:14 UTC from web-
@scribus I'd say it's a creative workaround. I also could use a slightly flaky optical mouse that glitches from time to time and moves the mouse cursor slightly despite standing still.
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> That supports ostatus, but not ActivityPub
@celesteh @kyzh Items a pity I can't write you this message I just wrote to you. -
@mur2501 @doubleplusgood Rarely such policies are written in such a way that they bar from immigration people like Alexei Navalny.
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I'm somewhat unhappy with Unity's HTML5 WebGL export. I have exported my game jam game https://adiwan.itch.io/lasso-loop-whiplash-webgl and it has ugly z-fighting and weird lighting issues at some overlapping geometry. I looked into everything I could, like adjusting the far and near plane or all shadow and lighting settings. I'm stumped. The compiled versions are fine.
Thursday, 08-Oct-20 14:23:23 UTC from web-
@scribus There has to be some limitation beyond the obvious. I had to change the color range from linear (HDR) to gamma because it was a hard requirement for that. My developer friends are also stumped and cannot help me with educated guesses other than what I've already done.
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Damn I think I do need a webcam after all
Wednesday, 07-Oct-20 15:50:51 UTC from web -
My game jam game is finished https://adiwan.itch.io/lasso-loop-whiplash
Tuesday, 06-Oct-20 16:32:50 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@adiwan The "natural" approach makes sense, too. If I'd come to it fresh, it may have been different. May have a totally different experience going back to it
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@scribus The "natural" approach always has some baggage to it. If you're used to drive a lot of remote cars/planes/boats you're fine with tank controls. Some games work better using a mouse pointer to command the character to walk to (Diablo or any good Point & Click adventure). Such decisions are huge and always wrong (for some people).
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Also I have a bad habit of giving my victim really wicked altitude, which of course means he ain't hitting things on the ground, lol.
Tuesday, 06-Oct-20 18:28:40 UTC from web-
@scribus That's a "problem". It is fun but it ain't helping. I already put 2 times the gravity onto him (the hips). Putting more would create too much friction and force making the physics more unstable.
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@clacke @matt Speaking of Russian and Chinese, in Russian the expression is "китайская грамота", i.e. "Chinese writing".
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@devurandom MS-DOS was initially a clone of CP/M.
CP/M got renamed as DR-DOS.
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@mangeurdenuage "Wait, English speakers know what smetana is? Ah, no, never mind."
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I don't know if dude meant to do it, but he ended up making just about the best possible fan video for "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)" https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1300976651380109313?s=20
Friday, 02-Oct-20 20:54:38 UTC from web-
@scribus Impressive. Too bad there are a ton of cut-off faces (chin). With a little bit more care in the selection of source faces it'd be a lot better.
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@adiwan Yeah, it was an experiment at this point, but a dang promising looking one! You know, if you disregard deepfakes and just think of neat computer morphs for their own sake, or improving movie CGI FX.
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For the self-reported healthiest and smartest (don't call him that) it's highly sus.
Friday, 02-Oct-20 14:36:46 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oh. That's a bit of an overreaction? I don't know.
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@scribus It'd be very ironic if he died from COVID. Who would be the one running for the presidency?
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@adiwan By my understanding, Pence, by default. If Pence is unable, and the Party wins, or if the Party wins and then the candidate is rendered unable, then the Party gets to just appoint someone from their ranks. I think? Never really been in the position, myself, haha
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Wednesday, 30-Sep-20 17:37:40 UTC from web
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@adiwan Indeed, I suppose I could "catch it live when it airs" or source an "alternative" "home media" . . . :p
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@scribus I have, for the most part, no other choice than to get those "alternatives" when it comes to getting the original English audio, or even for seeing the newest episode on day of release.
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As you may have guessed from the fact that the bill keeps getting paid, I am in fact, still alive.
Monday, 28-Sep-20 22:26:35 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Finally, good news in 2020
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@ceruleanspark huzzah
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