Internet was dropping packets like crazy (up to 50% packet loss). My ISP's tier-1 tech support didn't even know what the ping tool was.
I've worked tech support for a telco before, I know what the quality of the training is like because of the ridiculous turnover, so I get it, but geez...
Fortunately, it's all been resolved now.
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tho, for situational awareness, the fash have been known to put razorblades and other harmful objects behind their posters.
Please exercise caution and wear PPE if you engage in this activity.
razorblades were discovered behind fash posters at a station just outside London a few weeks ago (a lot of fash are also "tradmasc" types so may be buying the blades anyway for the "grandad" safety razors they like using)
There are also various scrapers you can get cheaply (sold for removing stickers from car windscreens) which can be used to attack suspect stickers without putting yourself in danger..
@vfrmedia This is good to know, because I haven't seen any nasty stuff like this yet, but I'd probably reach out with my bare hands if I hadn't just been warned. 😅
Incidentally, I'm super lefty and I use an old steel "mid-century" razor with double-sided blades myself, a choice I made some years back to avoid putting all those plastic disposables into the landfill. 🪒
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I'm so fucking sick of these attacks on human rights.
I propose the following course of action:
We pick a specific target and trash its value.
- Do whatever we can to make it lose money, customers, resources, employees, reputation.
- Do our best to make it toxic waste that investors won't touch.
- We make it easy for anyone to join the carnage.
- We keep hammering it until it dies or we get protections
Then we collectively pick another target and do it again.
And again.
Until the dying screams of US corporations reach the ears of those with the power to call off the attacks on women, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and everyone else this administration is going after.
When they stop, we stop, negotiate, and stand ready to start again if they don't follow through.
I suggest Tesla be the first to burn.
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@angelastella @lednaBM I love the smell of a win~win in the morning. I mean the Europeans are ahead of the curve here, but it appears like this idea is already being implemented.
i’m open… ?
i’m in so.cal. we are awash with horror. what should we try this coming week?
@melioristicmarie
ima bit worried that some of this might recoil on electric cars as a whole, i'd rather people deface property than block chargers, for example (esp since tesla chargers are also usable for others these days)
but, putting graffiti/stickers on them that say something like "by charging here you support viral disease" or something...
i’m a fan of projecting images on the store fronts at night. i’m hoping more of this too.
also gumming up recharge stations. block access, etc. there’s a lot there for multi pronged approaches.
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Divide and conquer, 
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That lets us focus the laser power much more intensely.
Again, it's perfectly OK to target Musk himself with angry crowds. Too bad we don't have any billionaires paying people to do this the way the christo-fascists do. This also tells people a lot about the sociopathy and hoarding money disorder in the 100 millionaire plus community. No human should be worth that kind of money. Assets should be deflated. And, a wealth line should exist akin to the poverty line. Nobody goes below poverty, and nobody goes above wealth.
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R'amen! I remember just putting a small Biden/Harris sticker on my car in 2020 and got people flipping me off and screaming pro-Trump slogans at me while driving, getting honked at in parking lots from idiots with the huge Trump flags in the bed... and one night I had one of those big trucks practically on my bumper on a dark stretch of road while heading home from work.
Only had it 3 weeks. I wanted SO badly to put a Harris yard sign in my yard for 2024, but I don't have the money to maintain, let alone repair, anything that's damaged if someone objected. I am a blue dot in a county so red that many local positions have been unopposed on the ballot for over 20 years. Many flag-waving Trumpers around here. Sucks. My pro-science and nerdy bumper stickers get me plenty of side-eyes as it is.
@CaffeinatedBookDragon sounds like a perfect environment to slap #FuckElon / #FuckTrump bumperstickers on a lot of big trucks there.
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(Not my invention! But I think it's a very good idea.) Make them easily removable so you can't be held liable for damage. But have so you can do it again, and again, and again, and again.
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We have provided you with many cat toys that you may play with any time you like.
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I jusy fixed a seam that was going in one of the pairs of sweatpants I wear for bumming around the apartment.
Was it a neatly done fix? No.
Will anyone ever see it though? Also no.
Hoping to keep working on stupid little stuff like this with the sewing machine to build up my confidence/skill to be able to tackle stuff that actually matters if it's done well.
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Been looking for an alternative to Google Maps. Organic Maps (OpenStreetMap) is great, but it doesn't know the bus routes in my city.
I remembered that the GRT (local transit) website had a trip planner that I used to use in the pre-Google days. Decided to give that a go again.
Turns out they're just using Google Maps now. Understandable, but disappointing.
@Brian Sullivan I'll have to have a look at that. I wonder of my city is big enough to make the cut.
Edit: They seem to think I live in Toronto (which is news to me) but they do seem to have the local transit routes.
The Transit app is good, and while closed source is Canadian.
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If you’re in #Ontario make sure you register to vote or you won’t get your voters card in the mail apparently.
F*ck off Doug Ford.
Edit: Multiple areas of the elections ON website say registered voters need to confirm to get their ballot. Unsure if it’s legit or if it’s poor marketing materials. I know it’s not Fords fault exactly, but I’m choosing to blame him. He called this snap election lol.
Edit 2: thanks to @CStamp we now know it’s poor marketing.
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worth noting that the voters database doesn't seem to synchronize with other Ontario data, as we moved five months ago, and updated our healthcards and drivers licences, but the voters list still had us at the old address.
@mariellequinton Right, plus registering is a convenience, not a requirement. If you’re not registered, you can still go to the site in a few days, enter your postal code to find out your polling place, and show up on voting day with ID and you’re good to go.
Having said that, my newly-18 year old twins were excited to go register over the weekend…
@WhistlingStella That's how it has always been. You're automatically registered to vote and your card goes to your last known address. They've now just made it super easy to update it if you've moved.
Your voter registration card also doubles as a proof of address if you need one. It's handy.
@WhistlingStella I know the people who work at Elections Ontario (and who build their website), and I really can't imagine that they'd do this on purpose. They'd likely quit before they'll be a party to voter suppression like this.
Much more likely to be bad messaging.
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Also, do lists in #Python seriously not have a .map function?
Edit: Ohhh... I expected it to be a method on the list object itself.
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@flyingsquirrel Yup. And there's a multiprocessing version which can be useful if you're doing a very large csv but you probably want imap() for that one.
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If you're looking for a function that applies another function to each element of a list and aggregates the results, it'd typically be done with a list comprehension:
[your_function(item) for item in your_list]
But you can also use list(map(your_function, your_list)) if you want. Basically, it's a built-in function rather than a method of the list class.
There's also a whole discussion to be had about lists vs generators and why you often wouldn't even need to make a list in the first place, but I won't get into that unless you want to know more.
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I use
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all the time for switching back and forth between two branches. Mind blown now that I know you can also do:
git merge -
to merge your previous branch into the current branch.
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LB I do not understand at all how people are arguing this is GTS behaving badly and not scrapers like...
FediDB: how many users do you have
GTS: I'm not telling you don't crawl my page
FediDB: I'm going to do it anyway how many users do you have
GTS: Fifty billion
FediDB: okay thanks
FediDB: hey wait you lied to me!!!
Like idk sounds to me like you should have walked away at "don't crawl my page" and if you get the wrong numbers after that that's on you
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Honestly looking at FediDBs GitHub there's a lot of complaints about it's scraping behavior in general. Like it will keep repeatedly hitting domains that don't even have fedi servers anymore
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And with a server as big as Universeodon missing how good are these stats anyway?
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Ultimately the real problem we aren't discussing though is that Dansup is accusing the GTS devs of doing this "for clout", when they are doing this for "leave me alone", which is the opposite of clout.
It's complete bullshit and he should be embarrassed to say it.
And if his accusation is that this completely optional feature was added with "suspicious timing" to hurt him specifically
Then he's probably being overly optimistic about how quickly people update GTS
I'm definitely many updates behind because I am:
- lazy
I also chose GTS in the first place because I am:
- lazy
And it seemed like an easy install (and largely was)
@linuxfiend the only reason I even feel like I need to update is I want post edits lmao
But god it sure is effort id have to expend
i said this before on a standalone post but if theres one thing he could learn from his idol gargron is to shut the fuck up and actually work on his bullshit software (that doesn't even do its job properly lmao)
seriously say what you want about website boy but at least he was smart enough to back off and do his shit instead of acting like the next jesus christ
@chkdsk it's funny because about a month ago during a meltdown Eugen literally told him DIRECTLY and PRIVATELY "hey man quit posting right now you're not doing yourself any favors" and he proceeded to post that message and keep posting for a bit and making everyone mad before he finally listened
A ton of his recent posts, including this GTS one, are full of nothing but people trying to tell him "hey man please stop posting this it's such a bad idea"
he just had a post that was like "my project is only popular because I post"
Edit:
And here's the thing I don't think that's true. I think people want Instagram and TikTok alternatives and are willing to give it a try.
personally while an instagram-like service has its use (visual artists would like it a lot) even though just making an alt frontend for mastodon/other existing softwares would do the job as well...
loops was a fucking grave mistake. not only because that form is an evil product of modern internet designed specifically to addict you and worsen your attention span, but also it just Won't fucking Work. tiktok is a cash cow because it has an algorithm designed to keep you sucked in for hours
so its just a dumb fucking thing that makes no sense. and i think posting short vids on existing microblogging side of fedi software is good as is
@gildilinie oh I've been into commune people on and off since well before Cohost the problem is you have to find the ones that spend enough time online that they post enough about it that you get the details
Luckily these days more and more ill advised communes are being started by tiktok people
@chkdsk
When you formulate it like that, yeah. You're right about loops.
I care more about Instagram because I've got artist friends who rely on Instagram for studios sales and courting galleries, and I mostly just want institutions and artists to be off big tech.
I've got a Pixelfed account on the flagship instance that I'm migrating now (didn't realize Dan never worked on meaningful export functionality until I went to use it).
I do like having a photo focused account/app separated from the microblogging one.
@jeremiah @chkdsk I keep wondering why we need servers dedicated to image posts instead of like...front ends
Maybe there's something I'm missing but it feels like you could just have Mastodon or GTS or whatever and just have a front end that filters down to just image posts, or a front end that shows your posts in a portfolio view
you see
anyone with a brain would apologize for being stupid
meanwhile dansup would start doing olympic grade mental gymnastics just to make it like he was right
- start any project
- make drama
- pose as a disruptor, opposed by various groups
- inflate own audience numbers
- sell
I don't run a fedi server, but I do run a regular website and any crawler that disobeys my robots.txt gets severely mistreated by me, without shame. If you break the well-established convention that robots.txt represents -- I don't care why -- then you get what you get.
This feels very firmly like the FO side of FA, FO.
@lnklnx ironically FAFO is what he posted in what I think is yet another deleted post about how he was going to "spill tea" about what GTS is doing
Unfortunately the reactions so far have been people going "Dansup this seems fine why are you assuming malice here"
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It haunts me that he didn't even say that, he said "spread tea," this language is so appropriated he doesn't even know how to work it properly.
Altho, speaking of language, he calls this an "inconvenience" here, when instead it's "lack of interest in shared values including on technical basics so basic even I, who doesn't touch computers, knows is basic."
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@Gargron but the real problem isn't what the software is doing, it's the extremely public accusation that another dev was acting maliciously at him personally
That's worse behavior than anything else here
A great conversation in the supporter Discord/Matrix reminded me that it's about time to share this fantastic item by @heydon.
Anyway, yes HTML is a programming language and folks who argue with this statement in my comments will be muted, blocked, defederated, or all three.
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The question of "is HTML a programming language" is never about definitions.
It's about excluding a group of laborers from receiving equal compensation to others, as well as a means to justify not teaching engineers how to center web content without several frameworks.
I will not be taking questions.
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I've never viewed this question from a social equality perspective. I've only ever taken it from a technological perspective, and one of the lineage of HTML from SGML->XML->HTML.
Of course the social aspects of equality for labor goes without saying. No argument.
I couldn't care less if HTML is or isn't a "programming language"...
What I do know is that developers who write HTML are programmers, and their skills and efforts are extremely valuable. They deserve to be appropriately compensated and respected for their knowledge and work.
I didn't know that question was a matter of labour rights. (I'm not anywhere near that industry, though) Good to know!
I definitely thought it was some pedantic/academic watercooler conversation.
This recent talk from Felienne Hermans (“A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design”) points in a similar direction: a hard-to-learn language is “more like programming” just because it is… harder to learn (than spreadsheets for example).
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Like I wrote on my wiki:
HTML is a programming language. There, I said it.
It's a programming language because it lets people tell the computer to do cool stuff. In this case, show all kinds of things on screen. That's not much, you say? So what. It's fun. Meaningful. Often even useful.
So, you can't use HTML to perform computation. Big deal. It's been a long time since computers were all, or even mainly, about computation. Deal with it.
that's one way to see it. but web developer and trucker were the two number one jobs in the US, and nothing drives wages down like too many applicants.
HTML/CSS is definitely a programming language though.
Have to confess I was in the “no it isn’t” camp for a long time. Not out of a sense of superiority (or insecurity), but on the question of Turing completeness. But I can relate to the idea of a declarative DSL, and tip my hat to those who have mastered all of the complexity of HTML and CSS across the fragmented browser landscape.
Thank you for sharing this link.
i think a good counter-example to html/css being "just markup" is all the cool stuff people on cohost came up with back when it was still around
here's a list of many of them, there's a lot of really cool stuff there (it's all inline-only css and html):
cohost.org/YellowAfterlife/pos…
i've made a few as well - for example
this is a 3d first person game with free movement and interactive elements: cohost.org/rebane2001/post/791…
and this is a blackjack implementation that implements randomness, and does math and logic to figure out what the card totals are and who won the game: cohost.org/rebane2001/post/563…
i don't think you need an example like one of those to call something programming, but they are pretty effective at demonstrating being "more of a program" than most landing pages programmed with a js web framework out there
i think the argument is dumb anyways because it's usually not brought up to help someone, but to instead make them seem inferior for not using "a real programming language" or to just be annoying about it
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I think human tendency to shorten things is the problem. When people ask "is it programming language", they don't usually mean THAT, but "is it Turing-complete programming language". In other words: "Can I port Doom to run under it?"
Not that there aren't surprises there too: in that specific sense PostScript, LaTeX and Minecraft are "(Turing-complete) programming languages", while regexps, SQL and HTML aren't.
The term shouldn't be related to their market value, though...
@Veronica Explains As a former proponent of "HTML is not a programming language", I can state that this video makes a compelling argument to the contrary.
I was wrong.
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You could make an argument that using Word could qualify as programming if you use advanced features like document-internal hyperlinks
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
#retrocomputing #unix #vintage
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writing a guestbook entry on a pdp11 isn't something you can do every day.
Great idea 👌
@mvilain I'd never heard of this, and DuckDuckGo isn't telling me much. What markets did the DECDataSystem target?
(I used 11/70s early in my career, though. RSTS/E and 2.x BSD.)
Just beautiful. Great reminder how pure and powerful Unix once was.
Thinking about it, my first serial-line terminal login on a SysV machine was back in January 1990, eons ago. It was a big tower case server with a 68020, and even then it was considered an older machine for legacy projects and unimportant enough to let newbs like me have a go at it. Your machine is about a generation or two older, and still running strong. Great job!
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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Have you investigated interactive fiction? The game that has stuck with me as a good introduction to the medium was Photopia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
There are likely many other on-ramps to text adventures, probably newer and better games, but I just thought that one had pretty colors 😉
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Greed - catb.org/~esr/greed/
CurseofWar - a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwa…
Liberal Crime Squad - lcs.wikidot.com/start
StarLanes - github.com/mmpub/StarLanes
chroma - level7.org.uk/chroma/
pokete - lxgr-linux.github.io/pokete/
There are a few different tetris, pacman and sokoban clones.
GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.
A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses. - GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.GitHub
gitlab.com/esr/vms-empire
Games of No Time To Play
So much fun can be had with a scripting language and a terminal emulator.ctrl-c.club
I believe old versions of Dwarf Fortress have an ncurses mode which runs in the terminal. Dont think its supported anymore on the steam/itch release though, sadly.
(I hope DF doesn't count as a roguelike or dungeon crawler 😀 )
GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully.
A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully. - GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot '...GitHub
bsdgames, but I wanted to specifically recommend hunt from there as a multiplayer shooter. Surprizingly fun for what it is. Only works in multiplayer though.
I think I have this in acceptable condition for someone else to try it... git.sr.ht/~rlonstein/wordwhiz-…
A rewrite of a little word tile game I first wrote in 2011 inspired by the Wordsmith game in my first Tivo.
exceptionally cursed but: I once hacked a ncurses TUI display mode into a Gameboy emulator, using half-height unicode blocks to get 2 square-ish pixels per text character. worked badly, but worked nonetheless
unfortunately I don’t think I still have a copy I can share, but if you have the time and the know how it is both possible and very funny
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21 Peerless ASCII Games - LinuxLinks
Text-based games are often forgotten and neglected. However, there are many ASCII gems out there waiting to be explored which are immensely addictive and great fun to play.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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Tech: Your connection seems fine on my end.
Me: It can't be. I'm getting about 25-50% packet loss.
Tech: How do you know that?
Me: The ping tool.
Tech: What's that?
After a long pause, my response was "a very basic network diagnostic tool." That came across more condescendingly than I had intended, but I couldn't come up with a better way of saying it.
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