not exactly “a” building, but i live around 20 minutes from a copper mine which was in active use from around 900AD to within my lifetime. it’s a museum today.
not exactly “a” building, but i live around 20 minutes from a copper mine which was in active use from around 900AD to within my lifetime. it’s a museum today.
i mean yeah. for them it was just that they made a big deal of refusing to even talk to SD as little as four years ago, but that all changed when they dropped in the ratings.
on the flip side, “weird” things have been coming from SD the more mainstream they’ve become. following internal pressure from their gay and minority members (i know right?) their policies on things like gender issues have moved leftward, at least on paper. of course, the purpose of the system is what it does, so i don’t trust them to actually do anything of that, but it seems that some people in there actually care about the politics.
compared to most of Europe’s right, they have historically been pretty moderate. but then last election cycle they opened the door to collaborating with the far right because they would have lost otherwise…
is this a good time to remind everyone of the horrific implications of cars 2?
you’ve gotta adjust some parameters, man, that’s horrendous.
well in my language they’re “runners” so i guess i should have thought a bit harder there…
my patreon bill is about $100 a month, I have a nebula subscription, and i pay for dropout, so yes i do.
and i pay those people if i engage with their creations. i still get ads in their videos, so i use sponsorblock.
advertising is emotional manipulation that i do not wish to be subjected to when not actively seeking it out. doesn’t matter if it’s done out of necessity, give me as a viewer a way to support you directly if that’s the situation.
jesters? they’re bishops…
all ice cream vans in my country play the same, bespoke song
Oxygen Not Included. it’s taken over my brain.
i’m a plan 9 from bell labs fan. Imagine how excited I was when wsl used 9P for its plumbing. then they scrapped it all for wsl2.
just, the power they managed to get out of those union mounts… your application wants access to the mouse? sure, here’s a file named “mouse”. it’s got the coordinates in it. you want to draw to the screen? here’s a file called like “bitmap” or whatever, just write to it. you want to start a process on another machine? just cd to it and start the process there. want to have the UI show up on your machine? symlink your bitmap file to that directory.
I also wish early web composability could have stayed and expanded. like, the old vlc embed player, which would just show up in your browser and could play any file inline? great stuff. Imagine if every application composed with everything else, like the android Activity and Intent concepts but for anything, just by virtue of living in the same os. need an image? just ask the os and it will present the user with many ways to procure an image, let the selected one run , and hand you back an image. you don’t even have to care where from. in a way, it’s what the arcan guy is doing with his experiments, although that’s more for stitching together graphical pipelines.
sorry to tell you this bud…
let’s get rid of the inverse square law. falloff is now linear.
learn kakoune or helix, become even more entrenched.
i vastly prefer the object-verb keybinds to vim’s verb-object, but now i can’t even find bindings for other editors so i’m permanently stuck now
i fixed an old mod i published on steam years ago.
i randomly got a ping on a workshop item for tabletop simulator that i hadn’t touched in aaages. in 2019, someone in my friend group had the idea to replicate the TechDif “Two of these people are lying” format, so i hacked together writeable and shuffleable note cards we could use to play online. a week or so ago i got a ping on that item, it was someone asking if they could ask me a question (never ask to ask, kids). this made me realize that it had hundreds of downloads, which made me a bit self-conscious about the code. looking at the other comments, i found some years old feature requests which i stayed up all night implementing.
the most interesting part (or gross, depending on your pov) was the request to make a card read-only. there’s no way to mark a text entry box as read-only, but i found out that they are only interactable on one side. so i added a toggle that rotates the text box so the back side faces up, and sets the scale to -1 which mirrors the whole thing.
if donations aren’t enough, scale down until they are. if that’s not an option, then we let those instances die and set up new ones.
this is a network for people. if someone is not enthusiastic about running an instance, they don’t have to.