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Life got in the way shortly after I started reading this book, but I picked it up again a couple days ago and it was a very enjoyable read. The only thing that bothered me was the fact that that they clearly stated that they couldn't send the refugees to Kota for Prime Directive reasons, and then just... never followed up on that.

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Shadows Have Offended

The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony.
Cassandra Rose Clarke

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I just wanted to make some #pixelart and this little #88x31 button came out :blobcatderpy:

Edit: You can now find it at my website's footer if you wanna snatch it up!

#pixelart #88x31
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Isn't ADHD wonderful for productivity.
All you need to get things done is have something else you don't want to do.
...
Anyway, that's why I spent the last three hours finally replacing the drain in my kitchen sink.

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He almost has his Emacs set up the way he likes it.
thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tu…
#emacs

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#emacs

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The difference between Canadian and American children’s PSAs

🇨🇦:
-I’m a robot, watch me get dismembered by flying saws in a horrifying torture playground. If you lose an arm it’s gone for good, so don’t play in dangerous places.
-🎶an abslute ear worm. It’s never going to leave your head. ever. you are thinking of it right now 🎶 PS, if you aren’t sure if something is safe to eat ask a trusted grown up.
-here is a video clip that claims in an authoritative voice something you know can’t be true. Please consider if the media you are watching/reading is trying to manipulate you. Yes even if they are acting from authority

🇺🇸:
-if you a try single marijuana cigarette you will literally die.
-always trust authority figures. always. or you will literally die.
-never trust strangers. ever. or you will literally die.
-here is some vague morality segment attached at the end of a 20 minute toy commercial.

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Since the lead developer of #Reticulum and #NomadNet has been too overwhelmed as of late to take on feature requests, I'm releasing my fork as it now contains some useful non-trivial enhancements.

Details at: rns.recipes/forum/showcase/add…

#reticulum #nomadnet

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I just looked on YouTube and it doesn't seem like anyone has made a Dwarf Fortress theme park. At least not and put it on YouTube.

It seems totally possible to make a theme park fortress. Minecart roller coasters. Make rides using gears, giant corkscrews, and pressure plates. Magma tunnel of love. A haunted ride or two would be nice.

All doable.

I don't think you could necessarily make the dwarfs understand what these things are for. But you might be able to trick/force them through a couple of rides.

I however am not the person to do this. It's beyond my patience and cognitive energy. (I never even had patience to design my own coasters in the Rollar Coaster Tycoon games. I went with the prefabs.)

But I want somebody to do it.

#DwarfFortress

#dwarffortress

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Deeply upsetting to think anybody would consider me pro-AI

fuck all that. Boost if you agree.

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I've never encountered an actually revolutionary technology that people had to be forced to use.
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No Fate: Butlerian Jihad Now

@d1
Aaand got blocked for my (I think very reasonable) response (or the other one) by D1. 🤷‍♂️

I mean, how thin skinned can people be? First replying with a diatribe on the problems of hardware attestation and then 5 mins later without waiting for a reply, blocking.

Already makes me regret wasting my time talking to them. Which is likely the purpose of such a block.

I wonder, why one would then not add "I don't like to talk with poeple" to their profile.

@Owl Eyes Hoo

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One of the features I'd like to add to my #NomadNet fork is the ability for the user to change the default keymap. Unfortunately, with the way the code is organised, this would be a rather involved change. I'm sure I could do it, but then it would be a tremendous PITA to keep my fork in sync with the upstream repo. #reticulum
#reticulum #nomadnet

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more reticulum stuff

Couldn't sleep with this thing so close to finished, so I just kept hammering away at it until I got it working. I'm going to play around with it a little in the morning to be sure I've not missed anything important, but it looks like my #NomadNet client now has a working "find in page" feature, even if it's slightly janky.

Next on the docket is fixing a bug that causes my client to crash when I try to edit a backbone interface config. I'm 99% certain I know what the problem is, and it shouldn't be difficult to fix. I doubt if I'll have to change more than one line.

#reticulum

#reticulum #nomadnet

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Sooo... #NomadNet seems to have this catch-all exception handler where it just calls nomadnet.panic() and terminates with exit code 255.

This is all nice and good, except that the feature I'm trying to add is crashing and I can't get a damn stack trace to work out why. 🤬

#reticulum

#reticulum #nomadnet

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more ranting about reticulum
...except if the exception gets thrown inside the rendering engine. Then it gets caught and the error message is displayed in the browser... but without a stack trace. Good thing I'm (hopefully) done with my edits to that part of the code. #reticulum #NomadNet
#reticulum #nomadnet

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Uh-oh... I've screwed up managing my meds. It was a bit of a perfect storm that caused my system of redunant reminders to fail me.

I have one day of #ADHD meds left, and I run out of one of my other meds in less than a week.

Gotta call the pharmacy to tomorrow to get refills. I hope there isn't still a shortage, if so, I'm gonna have a bad time.

#ADHD
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I have a business idea.

These Waymo and robo taxis are terribly expensive. The vehicle is $100,000+, you need a big lot for charging and cleaning, all these programmers for the software and billion dollar data centers.

Why don't we give a person a $20,000 used car and a radio, have a person with a phone in your city. You call the phone person, request a ride, they radio the driver to pick you up and give you a ride to your destination.
Much cheaper and lots of local jobs.
#robotaxi #waymo

#waymo #robotaxi

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the people who are operating a technology that hit its fundamental limits a couple years ago and any progress since has been a patchwork of slapped on systems to vaguely correct errors are advocating for an AI development slow down

but it's not because their technology has plateaued or anything

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Now that I've successfully made some small tweaks to my fork of #NomadNet. I'm working on adding a conspicuously absent feature to search the text of the open page in the browser for a user-supplied string.

I've been informed that this has been an oft-requested feature that nobody has currently found the time to work on. Considering I've never really worked on a large #Python project before, I'm happy with the progress I'm making so far.

#Reticulum

#python #reticulum #nomadnet

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Hi, I'm Nat. I draw silly, little comics about my life and things I find important. I'd like to give the Fediverse a try because I'm tired of fighting predatory social media, algorithms, and poop-faces of tech bros.

Let's hang out and be nice to each other. :BlobhajReach: #Introduction

#introduction

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I've made my first tweak to #NomadNet but have nowhere to submit a pull request.

Details: rns.recipes/forum/general/noma…

#reticulum

Update: I submitted my PR to the lead developer over LXMF. He's going to review it, but there are others queued ahead of mine.

nomadnet improvements - General - Forum

I've really been enjoying nomadnet, but I've found some rough edges here and there. I know that Mark isn't in a position to be taking bug reports/feature reque...
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#reticulum #nomadnet

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@Michel 🪱 Fortunately things are named well enough that I can mostly work out what everything does. He has made some... interesting choices though. I want to do a bit of a refactor and have offered to send my changes upstream for review. I know he's not doing feature requests these days, but nothing stops me from implementing changes and fixes, even if only in a private fork.
@Michel 🪱

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@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) Have you ever encountered this lock? It seems pretty interesting.
youtube.com/shorts/rPmypttutJk

Can I Crack This Lock?

YouTubessa voit nauttia parhaista videoista ja musiikista, ladata alkuperäistä sisältöä ja jakaa kaiken ystäviesi, perheesi ja koko maailman kanssa.
Vsauce (YouTube)
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Look, you are not required to put sharks in the swimming pool.

But nor are you prohibited from doing so.

This swimming pool is entirely neutral on the issue of sharks in the swimming pool. Sharks are beautiful and graceful creatures.

If you do put a shark in the swimming pool, the shark is your responsibility.

Oh, and you don't have to tell anyone if you are putting a shark in the swimming pool.

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Just saw a YouTube video where a guy took some wood ash, water, and a bunch of other common ingredients and made soap with it. That's cool and all, but then he said it was "chemical free".

Setting aside my typical argument about how a "chemical free" product is objective nonsense... my dude, you literally just made lye, which is a pretty harsh chemical.

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Strypey

This is one of the many reasons why the Titter-style microposting medium was probably a bad idea.

A group of people who are familiar with each other can use jargon terms in context, and add clarification when they know some participants are new to their specialist usage. When the potential reader is 'anyone', context collapse is inevitable.

(2/2)

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White nationalists are always allowed to "protest" without being arrested or called terrorists and that's how you know which side the government is on.

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We're still here. Tornado risk is gone, but we've been wothout power for the past two hours, the server that hosts my usual account is down.

No word on when power will be restored, but we're otherwise okay.

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As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."

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Ottawa has an app called "Collection" where you can check what kind of trash is supposed to go in what kind of bin, and get a schedule tailored to your home address that will notify you when it's time to put your bins out or when your pickup will be affected by a holiday. It's great, albeit, an app when I'd prefer less of those in my life.

But ... in the last 6 months or so (probably around when the recycling pickup was outsourced and some people's schedule changed) people were upset about missing pickups in my neighbourhood facebook group, so now someone posts a screenshot of what the next day's pickup will be in the facebook group each week, which by nature of facebook, appears in my feed some time in the several days following when the pickup has already happened....

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