TIL that #Emacs' built-in web browser is named eww.
That seems an appropriate name for a web browser, tbh.
One of my favourite marketing weasel words (weasel phrases?) is "clinically studied".
It really means nothing.
"This product has been clinically studied.""Neat, what results did those studies yield?"
*crickets*
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We have a word for someone who pursues their own obscure, non-prosocial goals while skillfully pretending to be a prosocial person. That word is “psychopath”.
When we make anthropomorphic AI agents, we’re making psychopathic systems.
Worse, these systems do not fear the retribution of society like human psychopaths do.
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So the folks who send folks unsolicited dick pics must think, "If you block me, it means that you want me so baaaaaaaaaad!"
And then they can boast about all the folks who blocked them as their harem of people who want them so bad but cannot have them because they blocked them.
Or something... 
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I learned that in elementary school.
So blocking is like a substance that absorbs the thing they want to bounce off you. Or something like that...
I also preemptively block ppl whom I observe being annoying on others’ posts. Saves me from 75% of professional trolls!
I usually preemptively block people who announce that they've blocked people.
If I see a post like
"Bye, and you're blockedy-block BLOCKED"
I just block them, without using my energy to craft a whole blocking-reveal social event.
"if you block you are blocked, either they are right or they hate facts. Which did you actually do?
Remember: Just because 'the internet said so' or 'but I wanna' is not a fact. News is facts. Encyclopedias are facts (yes, wikis can be facts--check the citations). Dictionaries are facts. Science is facts. Verified scientists and legit human rights groups are facts. Getting mad at those are the opposite of facts.
People shouldn't need reminders of what is a fact.
Same here. I cheated and checked the citations and wrote those down in my bibliography.
Now, too many people don't even know that word from elementary grades, yet somehow are triggered by it.
This (their version of 'you block me means I'm right') ... Doesn't even make sense, at the dumb level.
Why would I block someone I think is correct? Usually, that complete with my own beliefs (which are presumably correct, at least to me) so I'd have no reason to block them... For being right?
Make it make sense.
Full agreement here though, blocking is just fine for " I'm not enjoying this conversation". No further reason needed
@catsalad oh, it hadn't occurred to me that people might be talking about blocks in the Fediverse. I guess I'm lucky here.
Less lucky elsewhere. Sigh …
So it means I am not right and they aren't enjoying harassing me anymore with their bullshit.
"I don't justify blocking for any reason" good for you, then don't block anyone.
"I can't see any good reason why you need a block function" I'm thrilled you've never been in a situation where you found blocking necessary! That's not the case for everyone though.
"I want you to justify why you block" shut up. I don't take homework assignments from strangers.
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$500 per toot lesson would be a bargain. 😄
It is insane that some idiots on the Internet believe you aren't allowed to decide who can make text appear on your screen
"I have produced a very bad film and if you do not watch it that is a violation of my first amendment rights!"
It's my feed, I control it, end of story 😀
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a) Do you use an emacs mode for moo programming such as rmoo (though I don't think it's been patched for emacs recent yet)
b) Did you figure out a scheme to collaborate with tramp and orgmode? #emacs
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TBH, most of the moo programming I do is directly through tintin++. I'm considering switching to using emacs as a moo client, but I'd have to find a way to port over the rather heavy customizations I've made to tintin++. Things like managing the sushi bar are done via local scripts.
The org-mode stuff I'm doing right now is kind of separate from moo.
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Links to a lot of the background on the many, many discussions that happened around the GFDL and its compatibility with the DFSG:
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;; to the first question: not to show completed to-dos in agenda view
(setq org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t)
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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 😉
XorCurses - github.com/jwm-art-net/XorCurs…
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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in reply to uoou • •@buoou There it is.
...wait, you've been awake since Thu 31 Aug 2023 23:45 BST? 🙃
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Yup, it's been a long day 😢
Honestly, I have a script that tells me when I should be tired. And it was pulling from that online data. And I was without internet for a while so I made it all offline and forgot to get back to uploading.
Was only really useful for people who can just ask me anyway 😁
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