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Sometimes I wonder if I am insane or the world is insane.
Sunday, 25-Sep-22 19:55:12 UTC from web-
@adiwan We're currently going through the once-a-century social hysteria so at least one of them is true, the other requires more study.
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I-66 coming out of Washington had a bunch of construction being done on it tonight which meant I couldn’t get into any of the exits leading home. The result is that I had to drive through the dying rural part of Northern Virginia to get home. Two lanes, one in each direction, on a winding, narrow, wooded road in a “The Hills Have Eyes” looking area, critters everywhere, ominous glimpses of dilapidated ranch-style homes with pickups and Trump 2024 signage, and just when you thought it couldn’t get any spookier, a decapitated deer laying in a pool of its own blood that I had to avoid running over. Jordan Peele couldn’t have depicted a more uncomfortable drive.
Thursday, 29-Sep-22 07:26:11 UTC from web-
@zeldatra this sounds like a genuinely exciting roadtrip, it needs spoopy music
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I spoiled myself with a game treat and bought the game Tunic. It's a fine game. It is a cross between Zelda and Dark Souls. I had quite some fun but oh boy it is hard. Thankfully there is an accessibility option to make it easy. I used it only two times because my thumbs were already hurting enough and I didn't want to start a boss fight 100 times over. It is best to get into the game blind. I do admit that I looked up stuff at the end of the game because the puzzles to get the true ending are hard as heck and I have a life beyond that game.
Monday, 27-Jun-22 20:04:49 UTC from web-
@scribus It looks damn good but I'm not really in a mood for a brawler. Back in the day I played more Power Rangers The Movie on SNES because I didn't have Turtles in Time (only played as a rental at a friend's house).
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it is kind of a long shot, but are any of you nerds good with that Julia programing language?
Wednesday, 30-Mar-22 14:17:33 UTC from web-
@mushi I know a guy who's been using it for a few years. What do you need?
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@vernandex i literally need everything xD.
I accidentally ended up on a course on it and it is my first contact with coding and i'm screwed xD -
@mushi ...well, here's everything: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/. Have fun with programming, I guess.
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ay do site managers still come on here from time to time?
Saturday, 02-Oct-21 18:40:26 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Awesome! Is there any way to chat privately?
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@feelsbadman Yep. You should be able to DM me with the “Message” button in my profile.
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@ceruleanspark Sorry to bother, did you get my messages?
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anyway, i bouth my 18th console recently. I usually dont like digital only stuff, but this gens been looking rater boring so far, so i only wanted a cheap gamepass machine. currently playing bug fables http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875991
Thursday, 02-Sep-21 23:30:36 UTC from web-
@scribus ew, i hate games
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Is this thing on?
Sunday, 15-Aug-21 18:35:48 UTC from web- Griffin likes this.
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@scribus I mean last week I managed, using only apt-get upgrade, to uninstall grub from the server, so this is way more "on" than it was
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@ceruleanspark Oh. Missed that, then.
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@ceruleanspark Maybe I should finally look into why my personal dot com is 50x-ing me....
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So has anyone ported Doom to the Virtual Boy, and do they make a good VB emulator for a VR headset yet? !vgp
Sunday, 01-Aug-21 17:44:27 UTC from web-
@scribus There's actually a VB emulator for the Oculus Quest 2. It's called "Virtual Boy Go".
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@ceruleanspark Hmm... I could sure go for a round of Teleroboxer again...
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I'm not big into LEGO but somehow I want a Star Wars Clone Wars Gunship set.
Thursday, 15-Jul-21 19:19:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan I hope they've revised the design since I tried to build Gherkins old one. That build is an unfun nightmare and produces the flimsiest model.
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@ceruleanspark From what I've seen is big and sturdy. But I can only say that as an opinion without much insight and experience with big LEGO builds. I want it but I am aware that these sets are luxuriously expensive. I rather buy new Winter tyres for that kind of money.
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@adiwan Gherkins was one of the first-gen models from the AOTC era, so it's entirely possible they've made the design slightly less likely to just explode on contact with a stiff breeze.
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E-mails asking me if I wanna be harder and longer, meanwhile I've been hard long enough and just wanna mellow, man....
Friday, 16-Jul-21 18:06:17 UTC from web-
@scribus Are you sure it's not Daft Punk emailing you because they're bored in their retirement?
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So, i'm in my PhD now, i got a cotutelle scholarship with the university of Lorraine, in france (i speak nearly nothing of french tho, so my first time going to france qas a hell of an adventure. Brazil is even messier than before and i might have gotten even more reclusive than before (though now i'm much more well paid :'v )
Friday, 11-Jun-21 01:55:19 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah,maybe i can even get vaccinated when i go to france again in september xD
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My bois
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 04:33:09 UTC from web-
@zeldatra same tbh
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@scribus To answer the question I just got via email, the server is a basic digitalocean droplet. The $20 one. Depending on how much traffic you're expecting, you could easily run a couple of instances on there.
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 22:48:40 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Groovy, thanks. I have a couple $5 ones for some blogs I wanna keep IP isolated, and was eyeballing a $10 for startup. Good to know.
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i logged out for like 8 months and now email notifs are working again
Sunday, 21-Mar-21 23:40:46 UTC from web-
@tiff It's probably because I stopped paying the company who does it for me, so they fixed it so they could hassle me to pay them again
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@ceruleanspark don't give in
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@tiff They're like "our free offering only lets you send 10000 messages a month though!"
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Playing Metal Gear Solid again... I bodyslammed Meryl while she was disguised because I recognized her walk cycle and I wanted to see what would happen. Nothing happens, she just sprints into her next cutscene to prevent you from impeding her any further. And then she still claims to have gotten the jump on you.
Tuesday, 23-Mar-21 08:21:12 UTC from web-
@scribus This is why I always enjoyed the mostly-unscripted nature of the later Fallouts & Elder Scrolls. New Vegas particularly introduces you to a major antagonist (or ally, if you choose to go that route...) fairly early on, while you’re on your way to a story quest, and you can just let him do his thing, or, if you have the firepower, you can just FrankerZin shoot him and he won’t appear again for the rest of the game. (And then you can shoot his replacement later, too!)
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DON'T EVEN TRY SUGGESTING DUCK DUCK GO, I AM INFURIATED ENOUGH WITH THEM ON A GOOD DAY
Wednesday, 23-Dec-20 06:45:22 UTC from web-
@scribus God I tried them for a while, but then I got sick of never being able to find anything
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@ceruleanspark I've just decided to convince Google that I must have a pack of unruly children by searching "poop" followed by "pooop" "pooooooop" and "puup"
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@scribus There used to be a browser extension for that.
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@riddhik Bring it on I love black magic
Tuesday, 03-Nov-20 02:43:58 UTC from web -
Was anyone on here named Adam Hussein?
Tuesday, 27-Oct-20 23:53:32 UTC from web-
@oracle No, Saddam posted for a bit under his post-fake-death identity but hasn't been around in a bit, he's old now.
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Naruto: Five Characters That Joe Biden Could Beat (& Five He Couldn’t)
Sunday, 25-Oct-20 08:29:23 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@mrmattimation What level of sharingan Biden are we talking about? is he pre or post timeskip? does he have access to malarkey senjutsu?
Matt likes this.
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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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Meanwhile, in Murrica: "The seven-day average of new cases has climbed above 56,000, a level not seen in the past 12 weeks, and is 14% higher week over week, according to John Hopkins data." https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
Monday, 19-Oct-20 16:40:08 UTC from web-
@scribus Majority infection will be the eventual outcome, slower or quicker.
There are two ways to beat a virus: you either completely isolate every infected individual and anyone who is physically capable of contracting it for at least twice the lifespan of the virus, and I'm talking full lockdown, napalmed when opening the door; or you wait until almost the entire population has been infected and developed herd immunity, at which point new infections become very rare if the virus survives at all to mutate over following years.
Full lockdown wasn't done in time and in any case it is impossible considering the social paradigms of any western country, so the option that remains is the latter. Containment can only be reasonably used to slow spread to a rate to which the health system can handle it, but won't stop the spread, no matter how much a government insists on it. And it also vastly increases the number of deaths from existing conditions untreated due to lockdown.
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It's been a minute, how's everything/everyone holding up around here?
Wednesday, 03-Jun-20 13:40:01 UTC from web -
And I feel like the asshole for sitting here and watching them, after first shouting, then yelling, then cursing, then fuming, then apologizing, but I swear to god I have tried to grow something for years with setback after bullbanana failure and right now these goddamned gourds are about the only thing I have going for me in my life and I swear if anything happens to them I will jump in the pool wearing ankle weights
Saturday, 30-May-20 15:24:13 UTC from web-
@scribus Do this with a few wooden poles or metal tubes and some wire. You can also use it as a support to lay a nylon or wire mesh on top if you expect hail. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875532
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@nerthos Yeah, I'd thought about it for shade, but it didn't turn up necessary. Now that they're done, I expect that's it. They basically butchered the trees. :-/
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@nerthos But ultimately, the question is, is it so goddamned hard to look where you're dropping kiwi? Or keep your customer's mess in their yard? Basic respect. Show one move's worth of forethought for those around you.
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Disney+ has a collection titled "The Simpsons Predict the Future", which includes episodes of The Simpsons in which they make jokes that later became fact. One such episode is "Bart to the Future", in which Lisa mentions "President Trump", and "The Serfsons", where they predicted the ending to Game of Thrones, and "The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson", where... uh...
Hey Disney, what the mangoMonday, 27-Apr-20 06:29:58 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation And the Lady Gaga episode, iirc, which uuhhhmmm.... evades me, at least.
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@scribus Lady Gaga's performance in that episode was really similar to a halftime show that she would do after the episode aired so i'm assuming that's why that's there
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@mrmattimation Ah.
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whoops i'm playing fallout 76 again
Sunday, 19-Apr-20 08:09:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation What platform do you play on? I need someone to die for me (PS4)
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@mrmattimation That's probably for the best. My PS4 is frequently on the verge of achieving flight when trying to play it.
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Fluffle Puff it, I'm turning the search off.
Friday, 17-Apr-20 08:55:45 UTC from web -
I optimized the database for the two of you. Just shows I still care~
Thursday, 16-Apr-20 21:52:45 UTC from web -
Like I said - I have no reason to believe I’ve got it other than this cold, which is also going around right now. No fever, no headaches, nothing. Just congestion.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 19:31:33 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser But, the Carnegie and Rockefeller and all those families, they used to do public works and stuff. They may have been hoarding the wealth, but not damn *all* of it. Their flash contest was at least servicing the greater good as a side effect of the ostentation. This new crop seems more about raw, bigly yuge numbers, and hoarding, like a dragon (or a priapism). But, again, this is all coming around to perception. . . .
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@scribus I mean, there's Bill Gates and whatnot. On the other hand you get people like this guy, who think it's an okay idea to keep making electric cars at a moderately high risk of illness to his employees with no one to buy them. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875471
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@thismightbeauser @scribus That is indeed the case, a lot of rich people have middle class cars and discrete houses and do their best to keep people from knowing how rich they are, due to the general sentiment of "wealth equals evil"
You can't blame them really, if the mob will hate you just for managing to make good decisions and earning your family big money. I'd probably do the same if I couldn't simply relocate to a fortified compound with a minefield around it. It makes no sense to feel empathy for a group that has none for you, for whom you'll always be the bad guy regardless of what you do or don't do, that openly talks about how good it'd be if you died.
The ones that show off are the sociopaths, politicians and entertainment industry guys, who by default are crooks as that whole industry is built on crime and debauchery.
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So, no. I do not have goddamned nginx figured out, and no, the Pleroma 2.0 launch has not made this any less goddamned infuriating.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 04:19:48 UTC from web-
@scribus The installation of Pleroma comes with an NGINX config file located at /opt/pleroma/installation/pleroma.nginx copy it to the NGINX sites-available directory, change your server names, then symbolically link it to the sites-enabled path
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@oracle I had done that previously and it still wasn't working. The directions said to name it a certain thing, which was not the usual Nginx method of naming it the same as the URL is supposed to be. Might that have been my problem? The second time around, I did try modifying a default, instead of copying the provided one, so obviously that was the error, there. :p Thanks.
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@thismightbeauser Well, my latest (balls-deep-in-failure) attempt is on Ubuntu 20.04, and nginx is 1.17.10 (Ubuntu)
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@mrmattimation This seems like something you might find interesting: https://bluwingskitty.tumblr.com/post/613056765209214976
Friday, 20-Mar-20 08:18:58 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Dude that orcamaid picture is sweeeeet
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@ceruleanspark thank you
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