Cursor is not quite the Whispering Earring croissanthology.com/earring

When you read a story aloud to children, you adopt the voice of the narrator

Actual hot take: I think The Giving Tree is a really good way to identify how someone views the purpose of kid lit, including oneself. If you think it's horrible, it's likely you believe the role of children's literature is model good behavior and identify bad behavior.

I am a rando guy yes, but this seems somewhat tangent to my pretty simple numbers I present in my blog all quoted from recognized authorities like the LBNL. Nowhere do I claim to have discovered anything new about data centers. This is oddly credentialist.

I have to say, Sechs is really starting to grow on me

World of Dungeons is a PBTA game with only one move. While this is a great example of minimalism, it seems to lose a bunch of value from not having any specific moves with worked examples of partial success

JSON as a generic data format is way more successful than prior options, like XML or S-expressions. I wonder why

Risus is a great RPG and is the one to beat. If your RPG isn't better than just running Risus, what are you even doing?

Apparently Hytale's server is written in Java, but the client is written in C#. That's a pretty cursed tech stack

That's MY misery! You can't put me out of it! This is outrageous! Unhand me! I have tenant rights!

@moderation.bsky.app marking accounts for being rude or threatening violence for thee, but not for me?

Seems a little late. Is there even going to be a war? If they can just do the thing and be done, then by the time you know what to protest, it's too late

Good job for the UK on this. And everyone arguing about things on the internet, remember that other countries can serve as valuable alt-history experiments

Media about MMORPG players: "These people are crazy bloodthirsty murderhobos, they'll gut you if you hang around in PVP areas!" MMORPG players: "Haha look I synced up the dance animation to the other dancers, fuck yeah this rocks!"

Small follow-up on this: After subtitle headers exposed Crunchyroll's use of AI service Ollang for dub closed captions, a lot of episodes were released with manually "scrubbed" subtitle headers like this. Most likely an order came from above about it, giving further credence to Ollang use being real

Friendly reminder for anyone who makes YouTube videos to make sure you disable auto-dubbing and whatever the "quality enhancements" are. These got enabled automatically after I already disabled them some weeks ago....

in honor of Linus Torvalds' birthday please take your Arch user outside to play. if you have a NixOS user please euthanize them

One last thing about this is that I think that this guy replied like this because on Bluesky, you're expected to reply like this. Sorry but, Twitter is not like this.

It's interesting and confusing to me that this is what pushes him over the edge. He's deep enough in the computer history that his work has probably been used to kill people. (Military drones or similar.) It surprises me that it's AI spam that makes him mad

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry "things published in 1930 will enter the public domain in 6 days." itch.io/jam/gaming-l...

CHARLES DICKENS: Marley was dead, to begin with TWITCH CHAT:

Happy 35th Birthday WorldWideWeb – the first browser! On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb. Try the browser emulator worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ #InternetHistory

huge

If coding speed runs became a thing, what would the run categories be? Like, center a div any % no exploits

I own a lot of Middle Earth books, but not this one

The Grinchess Bride

No idea how my FLGS stays in business. Charges $5 to play in event; gives free booster pack to participants that's priced at $7. Makes no sense

The Rascal saga ends next fall!

We need a single, succinct word for "X is closer in time to Y than it is to the present day" because that is just a horribly inconvenient way to explain that

After four decades, the end of an era ...

I'd like to know how a certain post showed up in my notifications. I'm not tagged in it, it's not a reply to a thread I was in and pdsls doesn't show any hidden links that I can see. (But I am no expert on the at proto)

My local game store has Pauper MTG events, so I've started doing those. It's amazing how many key uncommons got reprinted at common in Modern Masters. Might as well call it Pauper Masters.

Is there, in fact, any isekai anime that is complete?

Those of us who never started using Server Functions are vindicated

{extremely guns n’ roses voice} 🎶welcome to the jingle we got one horse sleighs🎶

So I had a video I had legitimately bought on iTunes. Tried to watch it, but I can't. Some DRM bullshit means the file can't be used without Apple's ongoing consent. So I pirated it. Because that's the only way to actually get media that works

Let's be honest: I would watch TV all day and swiftly slide into depression

I'm also a bit anxious about a Jevon's paradox situation. I.e Code is cheaper, so we make and use more of it, which is likely to lead to more issues. Most of the cost of systems is in maintenance not build. We will see, if it was going to have a huge impact we should be seeing it.

If a parking spot is empty on Black Friday, it never needed to be built in the first place. Today is an opportunity to document the physical footprint of excessive parking requirements while you happen to be out shopping.

Not really getting the Bluesky bluecheck. Having DNS for user names seemed like a better option, and I don't see what the value of a checkmark is compared to that

I wonder when the #QuestWorlds printed books will be available. Did I miss them? @chaosium.bsky.social @icooper.bsky.social Do you know?

France's cybersecurity agency was previously actively using GrapheneOS. They helped us by auditing our code and submitting bug reports such as this one: github.com/GrapheneOS/h... They also made suggestions for security improvements to improve protection against exploits.

Please listen to this podcast about ANOM: darknetdiaries.com/transcript/1... The FBI ran a string operation in Europe where they created their own 'secure' phone and messaging platform. Their OS used portions of our code and was heavily marketed as being GrapheneOS or based on GrapheneOS.

just learned that the internet archive lets you play flash games inside the wayback machine now

After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.