Pretty sure my ISP's been rate limiting specpfic traffic again. Connecting to a VPN shouldn't increase my connection speed. I suppose it could be a weird routing issue, but this is far too regular an occurrence.
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Fiiiiiine. I'll wash my hands in the kitchen sink.
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I love how the weather went from needing to wear a winter jacket over top of a sweater to needing to hook up the air conditioner in a span of like two days.
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Well this movie sure does not waste time getting into the action #monsterdon
Did he just pull a "that's a lovely family you've got. It would be a shame if something were to happen to thrm"? #monsterdon
Wait, why do they all have purple hair? And what's with the mesh uniform shirts? #monsterdon
The purple wigs are basically hey it's the future,
I love that everyone pronounces UFO as yoo-foh. #monsterdon
I don't know what the movie is, but that sounds like a 70s thing. ;)
With all those blinking lights, you know this stuff is high-tech. #monsterdon
These aliens can cross interstellar space and they're still using plastic? #monsterdon
"Everything seems to add up to a dying race." See, I told you. Ditch the plastic. #monsterdon
"Oh no! It's on a collision course. What course should I take?"
You're a fighter pilot in space! I'm sure you've got room to maneuver on your own in an emergency. #monsterdon
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Here in Canada, we have very sturdy trees. #monsterdon
"He appears to be humanoid and very intelligent."
You can tell that just by looking at him? #monsterdon
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His eyes. So dreamy...😍
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How exactly are they talking while wearing respirators? #monsterdon
How are we respirating while they're talking! That's what I wanna know.
@Paco Hope I guess it's super classified technology.
I never knew a giant stationary moon base was so hard to hit. #monsterdon
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They Didn’t Tell Me This!!! RFM: 458 – Radio Free Mormon
They Didn’t Tell Me This!!! RFM: 458Radio Free Mormon
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I am not against AI, because "AI" is such an ill-defined term as to be nearly meaningless, so being either for or against it would be nonsensical.
That said, LLMs are a cancer. I am very much against LLMs.
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Moroni As A Treasure Guardian – Radio Free Mormon
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I just discovered #Krita's colourise tool... and here I've been colouring the fill bucket and touching up with the brush like a sucker. 🤦♂️
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The Hidden Cost of Mormon Belief: Conditioned From Childhood – Radio Free Mormon
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What the hell was that balloon filled with? Hydrogen? #monsterdon
that was my guess too... probably the first thing to come to a writer's mind when you need an explosive balloon
Or maybe methane idk
@David Zaslavsky Would methane float?
good question... a quick web search suggests yes, it's about half the density of air
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Oh, I can tell bybthe preview, we're in for a treat tonight! #monsterdon
The professor is weirdly intense, isn't he? #monsterdon
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@Jonathan Lamothe the professor is already my villain of the movie
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They pretty quickly went from "get the hell out of here" to "come have some iced tea". #Monstedon
"Fame and fortune" are clearly more important than measley human lives, obviously. #Monsterdon
Just how many rolls of film did this guy bring? #monsterdon
"Just remember that you're all illegals and I'll report every damn last one of you!... and the fact that I've been breaking labour laws by hiring you while I'm at it!" #monsterdon
Why is everyone so casual about the number of "accidents" on this site? #monsterdon
I love that this guy's evidence for this theory is "some guy told me this story." This is of course #monsterdon so I know he's actually right, but you can't blame anyone for not buying his story.
This explosion is throwing cars around, but the people who were standing right next to it are somehow fine? #monsterdon
"You're my creation! I made you!"
No you didn't, and even if you did, do you expect it understands English?
Oh, the aliens do speak English, so maybe the dinosaur does too? #monsterdon
Surely it's afraid of your measley pistol. #monsterdon
"Of course you've never heard of us. We're a level five classified government agency. Obviously you can just take my word for it." #monsterdon
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You know, that was a weird angle for a satellite feed. Just sayin'. #minsterdon
"We can't use our fancy new laser. It's not safe!"
Yeah, because the rampaging monster is totally safe.
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I want a jet pack! #monsterdon
I guess stop drop and roll isn't an option when you're flying on a jet pack. #monsterdon
See? The monster was just misunderstood. #monsterdon
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If the aliens had these weapons they could just use from orbit, why didn't they just use them to begin with? #monsterdon
I love how brittle these buildings are. #monsterdon
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Mormon Bring Knife To Gunfight! RFM: 457 – Radio Free Mormon
Mormon Bring Knife To Gunfight! RFM: 457Radio Free Mormon
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Upon updating to the latest version of Luanti, it seems that the teleport pad mod is now broken, causing the server to crash. For the time being, I have disabled the modpack.
The issue responsible for this was apparently reported to the maintainer about two years ago and there appears to have been no development work at whatsoever done on that mod in all that time, so I am not hopeful that there will be a quick resolution to this, though I have updated the bug report. It was just a warning at the time.
In the meantime, I will search for an alternative modpack. If I fail to find one, I may be forced to fork the mod.
Got an unexpectedly quick response from the maintainer. The issue has been resolved.
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I've been down a YouTube rabbit hole working on improving my art. I've always been somewhat decent at replicating something I can see, but when I have to draw something from my head, the poroprtions always looked kind of off.
I've watched a bunch of videos by a couple different artists, but I've found this one who has a whole channel teaching in a way that seems to work for me. My anatomy drawing (which has always been my Achilles' heel) has rather vastly improved in a remarkably short period of time, and I've been happy with the progress... at least until I compare them against the artist's examples. Hers are way better.
Then I have to remind myself: I've been at this a few days. Of course the professional artist is going to do a better job than me.
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I really wish #org-mode would allow me to specify a manual UTC offset in my timestamps.
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My lousy depth perception strikes again. I was putting my glasses in the ultrasonic cleaner and was trying to fish a cat hair I saw on the surface of the water. It wasn't in the water, it was stuck to the power cord that was hanging in front of it, about 15-ish cm away.
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It feels wrong to be reading the documentation for
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Fantastic...
...and I'm sure this system will be properly secured and won't be abused at all. 🙄
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My doctor has a fancy new on-line booking system. Trying to set myself up an appointment to follow up on some blood work, but the system tells me he's booked solid for the next two months and won't even let me look at the schedule beyond that.
I guess I'll have to call the office to book the old-fashioned way.
So it turns out he's on vacation until July.
It's gonna be neat when my ADHD meds run out.
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#Monsterdon root post
Well, the first thing I notice about this movie is that I used to work for the company that did the closed captioning. I'd recognize their style guide anywhere. 🙃
#monsterdon
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@R.L. Dane 🍵 The immediate telltale sign is that every time there's a change of speaker, the caption group starts with hyphen, space. Whenever I see that, I find that every other rule from their style guide is followed as well. You usually don't see that.
Ah, I've seen that before. Helpful when reconstructing a script from the captions.
I'm no crime scene analyst or anything, but that didn't look like an accident to me. #monsterdon
What happened to the motorized wheelchair? That thing was kinda cool. #monsterdon
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I've gotta say: the special effects are... something. #monsterdon
Bet you wish you hadn't kept the game going now, don't you? #monsterdon
How exactly did he get up there in the first place? #monsterdon
Can you at least take the tie off properly? #monsterdon
Who exactly is this mob looking for? Isn't everyone still looking for a human? #monsterdon
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I think they were looking for a human. I'm not sure why they decided that searching the woods at night was the best plan to find their proposed target.
This werewolf sure seems to like hiding. Why are you hiding? You're a freaking werewolf! #monsterdon
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Well, that went well. Who'd have guessed assembling an angry mob could go badly? #monsterdon
If he didn't need a wheelchair before, he may be in extra need after riding this thing... #monsterdon
I have to admit, the eye patch does help with the bad guy look. #monsterdon
The bridge is unsafe and condemned, but not a barrier to be seen. #monsterdon
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Well known fact that everyone is 100% obedient of signs in small towns. Yep. Well known fact.
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"I would never willingly hurt a child... you know, except for all those times I tried to kill you." #monsterdon
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Don't you need a search warrant for that? #monsterdon
Badges? We don't need no steenking badges.
Did the stream just drop? #monsterdon
is there enough silver in that thing for a bullet? #monsterdon
Is there anything this guy can't either make or have made? #monsterdon
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"Don't let any trick-or-treaters in."
Why would that even be a thing you'd have to say? #monsterdon
I've gotta say, Uncle Red's faring better against this werewolf than pretty much anybody else in this whole damn movie. #monsterdon
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...and how exactly are they going to explain the dead naked reverend in their living room? #monsterdon
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Dead priest? you call a “fixer”
The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work.
Vincent: A please would be nice.
The Wolf: Come again?
Vincent: I said a please would be nice.
The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick.
Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.
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TIL that
ed(1) requires me to escape (, ), {, }, <, and > in a regex to not use them as literal characters. This is the exact opposite of what I would expect.like this
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Basic vs. Extended regular expressions.
sed (and evidently ed) use basic regular expressions
awk uses extended regular expressions.
grep defaults to basic, with `-E` using extended.
Since those characters are also special to the shell, you might see them escaped from that purpose, even when they appear in a sed/grep command line.
@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. This applies when I'm using
ed in interactive mode, no shell involved.
Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.
Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).
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Mormon Gets Creamed In Debate: RFM: 456 – Radio Free Mormon
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A poorly coded bot—supposedly named %fname% %lname%—keeps trying to request registration on my server. It's sad, really.
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onpoli, healthcare, security breach
Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.
Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.
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Got a request from @Katy Lamothe for my next drawing. Of course she would pick a picture where I'm wearing an intricate graphic tee. Here's a preview.
#krita #drawing
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Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
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Somehow the drawing seems more attractive than the real thing. I love Krita but I used to stick to vector and Inkscape was my favorite, but then I started to play with a pen in an AOC screen and Krita shined to me.
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@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
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Also, what the hell is that weird line beside my nose. I must've accidentally drawn it and not noticed.
Anyhow, I'll fix that and start doing the shirt artwork on a separate layer so that I don't have to commit to it just yet.
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I’m in team artwork, otherwise that part of the image looks kind of bland
@Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 I am too. Problem is, I'm also in team lazy. 😅
So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
Me: I don't like that gap in the line art between my arm and the shirt. I'm just gonna make my arm a little wider to close the gap so I don't have to deal with it.
Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
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I like the first version the most. The artwork is great but drags the viewers focus away from the guy and the cat.
Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
The things I do for my art... 🙃
Also, I took the liberty of correcting the colouring mistake in the original art in the tshirt because I can't add a [sic] tag to a picture.
We won't talk about the myriad of new mistakes I added in the process that you can find if you look closely enough. 🫠
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Have you been testing adjustments to the Spread and Grow Selection options for the Fill Tool? I think limiting the Threshold value might make the tool more forgiving about the tiny missing lines.
@Maddie I should look into that, yeah.
Got some shading done, but I still have to figure out what to do about the acoustic panels on the wall. I haven't even really attempted that yet. I have some ideas about how I might try to go about this, but despite any appearances to the contrary, I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just kinda making it up as I go along.
#krita #drawing #art #cat
#krita #drawing #art #cat
The only thing I think is bad about the shirt artwork is that the text is not in a position it can be easily understood. Other than that it looks good to me.
If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth.
Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth.
Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
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Why Is The Mormon Church Suing John Dehlin? RFM:455 – Radio Free Mormon
Why Is The Mormon Church Suing John Dehlin? RFM:455Radio Free Mormon
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Mormonism’s Mountain Meadows Massacre – Radio Free Mormon
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@bobjonkman that'd make a nice stained glass design!
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •This has been my experience with Northeastern University (Boston campus), and I never considered they could be throttling traffic, it always looked more like dropped packets, and so I assumed it was a problem with their Wi-Fi/lack in fiber, combined with how UDP is a bit more robust to dropped packets
I'll see if I still have some data on that after a nap
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Op-ed: Northeastern’s wifi needs to be fixed
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in reply to Maddie • •@Maddie It's a thing ISPs here in Canada were doing a bunch until the CRTC (our equivalent of the FCC) told them to stop.
A lot of them kept doing it though because proving they were was difficult.