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Gamedev peeps! You should go give Soupy a follow! Fantastic designer from OG Infinity Ward/Respawn; he made Rust in COD MW2 (2009), he made Into the Abyss (the factory level) in Titanfall 2 (among other things), he's done a GDC talk (youtu.be/CkHGuHd9BgU), and he somehow has under 100 followers here
Looks like someone in the community wrote a custom integration for Bluesky last year, but it only looks at Bluesky and doesn't even have feature parity with the Mastodon integration: github.com/ScreamingToa...
It's very similar to IFTTT but FOSS, self-hosted, and much more flexible. You can write very complicated automations using YAML For example, the Mastodon integration exposes your total following, followers, and posts, updated hourly. You can use it to automatically make posts if you wanted to
Ah, so Home Assistant already is a service in the background (although you typically use a Raspberry Pi for it). It "talks" to different services and connects them to one another. For example, "Blink my office lights when I get a work email". It also optionally can expose sensors for dashboards
I just wish there was a way to avoid IFTTT as a service. I stopped using them the day they started to paywall everything. ...I wonder if @home-assistant.io has an ATproto integration nowadays? I know they have some stuff for Mastodon
I wrote a second designy bloggy thing. It would seem that I'm in coincidence territory! www.fairlysoupy.com/bloggy/devma...
When that song was first released, management freaked out and tried to ban skippers from making jokes about how much they hate their jobs, haha. Technically the rule is still on the books but it's probably one of the most broken rules in the skipper rulebook
Some memorable films: * The Jungle Cruise A-lead did a shot-for-shot remake of "Never Gonna Give You Up". Includes blooper where Anaheim PD asked what he was doing * A trainer left Disney to become a realtor IRL, so he made a film where he sold the Jungle Cruise (complete with "For Sale" sign)
Fun fact: every year, there is a skipper event called the "Golden Mics". It's a night where the skips all get together after hours and celebrate being skippers. Usually involving silly short films, awards (of course), and every year there is also a sing-along to Skipper Dan
Whenever you posted anything on the subreddit, it would be auto-removed. Then if the mod liked what you posted, they would repost it on their account and farm karma off your link. They had a few million karma. They also banned words like "Florida" and anything that criticized Gavin Newsom
I am so glad that the mod (singular) of the California subreddit was finally kicked out. It was them and a sockpuppet they ran that were the mods of a ton of subreddits. All the other mods listed had no perms and couldn't do anything. Reddit admins finally got wise to it and kicked him off the team
Cool, if you don't like candidates you support being subject to caustic rhetoric, maybe don't support those candidates! And if you support them anyway and they lose, maybe blame yourself for supporting a loser rather than blaming folks that tried to warn you! Hope this helps! :)
By necessity, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, etc. own a LOT of crypto. It is in the best interest for the techbro owner class to break the traditional banking system and make crypto a currency by average folks day-to-day. Forcing it for day-to-day transactions for LGBTQ folks etc. is the first step
I don't think that's an accident: * www.paypal.com/us/digital-w... * corporate.visa.com/en/solutions... * www.mastercard.com/global/en/bu... * stripe.com/use-cases/cr... Them "holding" crypto for you means they're the ones with the crypto wallets and can stake etc. with it
I feel like those trees must've grown since then! I wonder if the peak is even still visible
For your consideration: bsky.app/profile/karr... Another thing you can do is when you see a sportsball pundit, search 'em up on clearsky.app and see what lists they're on. Then you get a whole list of people you can mute lmao
He also cheated on his wife with her IIRC!
(You have to upload them as a video unless they're on the little GIF button)
I mean the photo was taken by a Getty Photographer today: www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
"He discussed this plan with his realtor, who reassured him that it’s a brilliant marketing move." Was his realtor ChatGPT perchance
He believed in the heart of the cards
I think we're saying the same thing. He's spiteful BECAUSE he knows the DNC will defend him and because he isn't scared of losing his seat. He's mad at people being "annoying" by attempting to hold him accountable, and he is accountable to nobody. Hence he punches left to try to shut them up
Is he going to sing?
Honestly it will never be a good time to take time off. At a certain point you just have to say "this is how it will be, and you can either figure out how to cover me or not". That was a super important lesson working at Disney taught me, because they will ALWAYS claim there's business needs
It wasn't until week 3 that I really felt the anxiety leave. Then I got SO MUCH done around the house that I had been putting off. I didn't even realize how badly putting off that housework was messing with me mentally. Took me a month to get back into work but then I felt great again
Make sure you're taking care of yourself, man! I took a month off a couple years ago and it was great. I forced myself to not care about who was doing my work while I was out, muted notifications and uninstalled Slack on my phone entirely until I was back
See also: corporate.visa.com/en/solutions... www.mastercard.com/global/en/bu... stripe.com/use-cases/cr... It's all connected
www.paypal.com/us/digital-w... PayPal and the techbro owners of PayPal own a lot of crypto. It is in their best interest to destabilize the traditional banking system and make crypto a currency by average folks day-to-day. Forcing it for day-to-day transactions for LGBTQ folks etc. is the first step
Politicians should be scared of their constituents. Schumer should be scared of enough Dems not showing up (or voting third-party) that he loses his seat. He's not scared, because the VBNMW "movement" has said a Republican can run with a (D) next to their name and you are OBLIGATED to vote for them
The evils of Vote Blue No Matter Who. Schumer doesn't think someone will be able to run against him. If he gets primaried he thinks the DNC will destroy any challenger. In the general nobody in New York will vote for a Republican. He is accountable to nobody and acts like it. That's caused by VBNMW
Moo on this #caturday
We truly live in the cyberpunk future
Oh look my state senator is being an asshole again. I wonder if she's still taking bribes from the LA County Sheriff
This book is so unrealistic, that's less than an hour a day. Is the game that bad that only one person has bothered to do their dailies (and even then not daily)
But he has a (D) next to his name!!! Surely he can do no wrong
We got microplastics poisoning instead!
I usually look 'em up on clearsky.app and see what blocklists they're already on. They're always on a few. Then I mute the list, double-check my follows to make sure it didn't catch anyone I care about (some lists are malicious), and if I'm satisfied I change it to block
Chuck Schumer on C-SPAN in 2016, talking about how great it is they're choosing Hillary Clinton as the nominee: www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
Ooh! Ooh! This is actually a famous logic puzzle! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqI7...
* Embrace * Extend <- You are here * Extinguish
Newsom is also just as happy to send a militarized police force into cities to combat (non-existent) crime, buying into the right-wing narratives. He is no different than the folks in charge right now; he has a (D) next to his name but the policies are the same bsky.app/profile/joey...
I feel like this makes over half of Blizzard unionized now? There's like 3-4 unionized teams there now, right?
I have a second Proxmox node on an old PC, and that one runs all my Docker containers for Home Assistant etc. Both the Proxmox nodes are able to talk to each other without issues, so my NAS is "just another hard drive" to the main node basically. It's probably overkill but I have no complaints
I had a QNAP NAS which was... fine. A little annoying needing to always use their first-party stuff, but it worked. I took the hardware and installed Proxmox on it, and then TrueNAS on top of that. Haven't had any issues
yaaaaas we love us a qween who will seize the means of publication
As a former Tiki Host myself I'm pretty sure that this has the tell-tale markings of someone deciding it's fun to play with the hands on the clock rather than it being an accurate show time 😉
But again, he has a (D) next to his name, and those hashtag BlueCrew hashtag Resist folks are called "Blue MAGA" for a reason - they don't care. They aren't intelligent enough to care. They just shout "ENJOY THE CAMPS" as they vote for someone who would be MORE than happy to throw people into camps
That law is the law of the land. There was no legislation passed that repealed it. There is no court ruling against it. By not to enforce it, Newsom is effectively ruling as a dictator. And it gets brushed under the rug because "who cares?" But when he's President, we will all suffer
Here's an example from lower in my thread of what I mean. Newsom: * Campaigned on plastic being a problem * Got it passed * Signed the bill * Decided he wasn't going to enforce the law because he/his buds didn't like it bsky.app/profile/mont... How is that any different than what Trump is doing?
I thought this was on the list but it wasn't - he literally, physically destroyed folks' lives by taking all their belongings and throwing it in the trash with his own hands. Memories, medications, everything - for the crime of not making enough money to have shelter www.foxla.com/news/newsom-...
Like if he wasn't trying to be politician in California, Newsom would absolutely be a libertarian techbro. He has a (D) next to his name not because he believes in any of the values of the Democratic Party; he has it because he lives in California and wants the power associated with politics
The short version: * Newsom hates anyone he sees as lesser than him and actively wants prisoners to suffer (this is not a joke or exaggeration) * He will accept bribes and has no morals * He campaigns on lies and finds excuses later, his words mean nothing * He is a big fan of AI, crypto, etc.
Newsom has been a dick for a long, long, long time. Anyone who has paid any attention to California politics knows this. Newsom's only concern is what is best for Gavin Newsom. When I was on Reddit I started making a list; I've ported that list over here: bsky.app/profile/jays...
And for some reason when my local area puts out an Amber Alert or Extreme Weather Warning, the link they send to every phone in the county is a Twitter link
Mastodon doesn't have this issue - but only because each Mastodon instance is a server run by a human in their basement, basically. If privacy is your goal, using Mastodon may be a thought - you'd just need to trust the one person who owns the hard drive your posts live on
This is why there's (currently) no private accounts. Even DMs are technically implemented "off-protocol"; i.e. they're a temporary stand-in until the real on-protocol system can be built. You have to assume everything you share is open and posted forever.
Bluesky is designed from the ground-up to be billionaire-proof. It is designed such that if Elon bought the site, other people can make their own Bluesky and it would be identical. Part of that means that it's difficult to have truly private data, because then Bluesky is the only place with the keys
You can look at the Bluesky firehose itself and see every post on the network, no matter what: blueskyhose.rickt.dev There's almost certainly somebody archiving all of them. You can see delete requests too, so you can theoretically make a Bluesky appview that only shows deleted posts
Technically the "only allow logged-in users to see my posts" is a suggestion, not a rule. I think Bluesky itself even mentions that. The reason being that anyone can host their own Bluesky relay, and if they did so they'd need to know your post existed so they can let people using the relay see it
Cloudflare had to add a special setting to block AI crawlers because they ignore robots.txt and will constantly crawl every single website on the internet www.wired.com/story/cloudf...
And then if you kill one of 'em and cast Revifify, you can do it again!
Any news on the progress towards Bazzite GDX? I noticed the image selector still only shows DX, and I'm not sure if it's stable enough to rebase onto yet
Alt: A black and white video showing the underside of a bed. A small tuxedo cat wanders into frame from the left. She is carrying a large stick toy. She drops it next to the camera and paws at the camera slightly. She makes small meows while she does so
I had a camera on the charger and it fell under the bed. We kept it there because the kitties sleep under the bed and it's cute to watch them. Sometimes we talk to them through the camera. I think Togepi has realized we can see/hear her and that we are "in" the camera
Lmao, if you're going to split it needs to be everything north of Monterey - Fresno, not "the cities vs. everywhere else"
"Did they crawl forums where people encourage others to harm themselves?" They absolutely did. They hoovered up as much text data as physically possible. If it's been posted online, they have it.
And almost definitely because they are a monopoly which needs to be smashed to bits. You can sideload ReVanced Manager, which lets you patch the YouTube app to remove ads in a very reliable way. This is Google trying to protect their bottom line, nothing to do with security
Isn't there a fun sandbox area too where you can place a bunch of random props and fuck around? I spent so long doing that
Man, I remember seeing this screen so many times because I kept failing. I think I eventually did beat the whole game though
It is quite literally fascism - not hyperbole, not metaphorically, I mean it is definitionally fascism, as stated by the inventor of fascism, Mussolini. "Private enterprise would control production, but it would be supervised by the state" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_c...
Yep, this is the way. It's important that you observe but do not interrupt or give advice during Kleenex testing, as seeing players struggle and get lost is the most helpful part. Usually the player is asked to record their playthrough (with a microphone) and say their thoughts out loud
And to the person who was blocked: you KNOW that they can do more. Something. ANYTHING. And they absolutely CAN use House and Senate rules to do so. You're looking at the current crop of punch-left Dems and think "this is the best they have?" But you're clearly arguing in bad faith, hence blocked
Looks like you don't have your DMs turned off - if you wanted to, you should be able to adjust who can DM you in the settings menu from the DM screen
$10k fine per user per violation. And if it holds up in court, then Bluesky is on the hook legally
But also I just... don't go into kid-friendly spaces at times where there is a high chance that I'd have to deal with kids? Getting dinner after 7 is usually too late for the youngest children who I have a problem with. And if they're well-behaved I don't have a problem with them anyway!
I will say I don't want to be around BABIES, nor do I want to be around young children with irresponsible parents. Like, I don't want to be in a space where I can't hear someone over a crying baby, and I don't want a toddler kicking my chair or trying to stand on my table
💯 I actually started this thread years ago on Reddit because I've disliked the greaseball since the day he won the election and his victory speech rubbed me the wrong way. Then news started coming out and dislike turned to hate, and eventually I started writing it down: bsky.app/profile/jays...
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The worst part is not only does it suggest wrong code, it also tries to finish my comments for me mid-comment, and I lose my train of thought while I parse what it thinks I should say. Literally the only thing it's good at is the mind-numbing repetitive tasks like adding variables to replication
Here are the same charts, but with gold. You see the same behavior - up 34.09% in USD, up 27.41% in EUR. The percentage is higher in USD because the USD is losing value. Note the spike in USD in April when rich people started getting worried about the US economy
This is actually a really bad sign for Americans. Ethereum is going up because the US Dollar is losing value. Compare these charts. Ethereum went up 27.8% in Europe but 44.4%(!) in the US. That's the dollar going down. I'm no crypto fan; you see it in gold, too. It's just easier to see with crypto
I am no fan of crypto myself, but it's important to know that this is happening and why it's happening, rather than dismissing it out of hand
Compare these 2 charts. ETH went up by 27.8% if you measure in Euros, but by almost double that (44.4%!) if you measure in dollars. This is because the dollar is now worth less than it was early this year. It takes more dollars to buy the same thing, since people are losing trust in the dollar
Right now the price is rising because so many people are afraid to have dollars in their bank account with the worries about the US economy and possible mass inflation. You also see the price of gold going up. But if the value of the dollar goes DOWN, crypto/gold will (theoretically) stay constant
Rich folk have a lot of dollars, and one easy way to get rid of dollars is by selling them in exchange for cryptocurrency. You're also seeing rich people using dollars to buy gold; same concept. As the dollar gets weaker, the price of crypto will go up for Americans but stay the same for Europeans
Cryptocurrency is now also being used by banks, especially banks that don't want to have a lot of dollars. The US economy is doing badly, which usually moves people to buy US government debt. But people now think the US won't pay back that debt, which is causing the dollar to be worth less
So what this is basically saying is that Ethereum as an alternative to Bitcoin is doing well. It's still a cryptocurrency, and it's still basically gambling as it has no value other than what other people agree it has. Bitcoin is also doing well, FWIW, largely because Nazis love cryptocurrency
Basically, you don't need a fancy GPU to mine ETH anymore - you just need to own ETH already and be willing to use it to help out the network by basically double-checking receipts, like at the exit to Costco. In exchange for double-checking these receipts, you get paid a small amount of ETH
Ethereum (or ETH) is a cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin (BTC). The main difference is that ETH can be programmed in ways that BTC can't. You can program contracts that force ETH to be used a certain way (this led to NFTs). ETH also now doesn't use as much power as BTC, as of 2022
Lmao I forgot about this one. It's a good thing those tariffs went away and never came back??? Right?? Chuck clearly won and "TACO" (god I hate that stupid nickname) backed down!!! It's not like Americans now have to deal with an $80+ charge on anything imported now bsky.app/profile/schu...
Withhold unanimous consent. Gum up every. Single. Vote. Don't allow recess. Force every parliamentary procedure. Force sessions over the weekends. Make life miserable for everyone in Congress. If Tuberville can do this, the whole Dem party can, too. But they prefer their comfort to your safety
Team Fortress 2 and Portal as well
Supposedly this is why they buy yachts. Millionaires can own fancy property and have butlers etc. But they can't afford a big yacht, plus the docking + maintenance fees for it
I have a slice of elephant trunk skin! My lead gave it to me on my last day. I also have a tiki room feather that fell off the Birdmobile
Someone needs to fill potholes, sure. But a pothole on the freeway should be filled by the same entity that will fix a pothole at the signal half a mile from the freeway onramp. The freeways are built now; hand them over to local control like regular roads
Seriously, let's just stop putting money into highway projects, period. Highways are the past. Highways divide communities and contribute to climate change. If local cities/counties want to fund their highways, let them. But the state and state agencies should focus on rail
I don't know why Michael's doesn't just copy Hobby Lobby! Why is Michael's so much worse??