Spaceship pilot, BattleMech driver, pusher of buttons.
Bearly sentient most of the time. Often grumpy.
So far on the spectrum, even Captain Scarlet wants me to calm the hell down.
@sidalsolgun@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange
Kinda. It's because we appear, to them, to be oversized cats that are a bit dim and very crap at hunting for food.
They're trying to teach you how to hunt for prey the same way their mother did (or they did for kittens).
We humanise them... they catify us.
Ok, how many people would buy the "ultimate" physical edition of a given game if it didn't come with a statue but instead had the ship blueprints/coins/printed manual/etc. of the old big box games from the 90's?
I keep seeing something called "Dog Stars" and my brain instantly goes "they did a remake of Children of the Dog Star"? I'm in.
Then the trailer plays and its some shitty thing utterly unrelated.
Looks like Bash Back, a UK based Trans rights protest group is about to be declared a terrorist organisation in the same way Palestine Action was.
Cool, Glitch put out the trailer for Ep2 of KoG.
I'm ready to get lost, as it were.
Starcraft 2.
Even given its age it's very old fashioned isn't it? Limited build queues on production buildings, individual units rather than squads, low unit cap, no territory control type stuff, and a non-stream economy.
Maybe I've been spoiled by Dawn of War, Homeworld, and the god hammer that is Forged Alliance Forever but.... this is really like playing a slightly upgraded version of Dune 2.
Or am I doing it wrong going marine, marauder, medic?
"You're a horrible person"...
*looks around*
Bitch I'm not even the hero of my OWN story let alone yours.
Watching Disclosure Day...
this is a bit shit really isn't it?
In some respects not wanting to deal with NTVDM64 is rather a rod for my own back...
End of an era... just shutdown my Plex install.
Jellyfin can take the load instead.
YouTube is, for obvious reasons, throwing a lot of NMS content at me.
You can tell who flies in 3rd person and who doesn't... cockpits put where you can't see out of them.
The third (fourth?) heat wave hasn't officially started yet and it's 31c at 84% relative humidity in here.
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*leans closer to screen*
Oh fuck me....
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I guess I do need those new glasses.
Ok, that's kind of odd. For giggles I decided to google "Hayway Shoes" a UK shoe company that closed in the late 90's and did a brisk trade in "over sized high heels" *knowing nod*
Ebay advert for one of their flyers/order forms from the 1970's/80's. It's Ebay Australia. It's the same place, with the same address.
How on earth did that get all the way out there?
The other half:
@TinaStormcaller@icosahedron.website
Keeping this separate in case someone wants to retoot my shit without my castles in the sky floating past...
There are some REALLY good reasons I'm working on this BBS and those are the same reasons I'm throwing as much odd bod connectivity at it as possible.
The powers that be have already come for the kids, now they're working on the adults.
And I'm glad I'm not one of the good ones.
New rule change on bsky.
It's OK for a group of cis people to tell marginalised communities to "enjoy the camps".
It is VERBOTEN for a trans person to fire that back at an individual engaged in dogpiling said trans person.
This from the Head of Trust, Safety, and liking 'barely legal' porn on the work account.
The room I'm in is a heat trap, which is why despite it being 16c elsewhere it's 28c in here.
I'm wondering if an inline extractor fan would help... I just need to dump the hot air outside... so bolt it to the failed portable aircon's existing pipe and let it run?
Might be worth a punt on a £30 device before spanking £500+ on a split A/C unit and installation.
*cracks knuckles*
28mm Reaver Titan...
Something's got to keep Zoidzilla inline.
Kind of funny that I'm arguing on the most pointless of platforms (YouTube) that a character in a show (Jax, Amazin Digital Circus) which goes out of its way to hammer that this character is trans with a bunch of cis guys who are adamant she isn't.
I'm sorry but that show was as subtle as a sledgehammer about it, someone would have to be deliberately missing it to be arguing Jax is a guy.
For giggles I've been playing with Desqview, it's good. It's really good. No it's not perfect and I'm sure a good dose of RTFM would help...
It's just that it finally clicked why, in so many FILE_ID.DIZ files you'd see mention of memory footprint.
I can see people driving themselves absolutely insane min/maxing their conventional memory to squeeze just a little more for multiple sessions.
And of course I get why it's mentioned in so many BBS docs.
Right, looks like all the mesh stuff is in python which is a bit of a pain.
OTOH if I'm brushing up on my C... maybe I should give python a whirl as well?
I'm thinking various shims to make a mesh "BBS" pull from ProBoard's usual files... pretty sure the file formats are all documented so shouldn't be THAT hard... right?
How it'd go about doing filereq stuff remains a mystery.
The real annoyance is that the Photon's software won't fire up in Wine (or Proton) for some ungodly reason, so I'm bashing away at it over RDP.
Weird thing is I'm pretty sure I saw it install a bunch of QT libraries so it'd be easy enough to do a *nix version, maybe?
*shrug*
Keep chugging little i3, I'll decom you eventually.
Theory: The world would be a better place if the song "If you tolerate this then your children will be next" had never become a hit.
Set an upper file size limit (for sanity), zip the absolute tits out of the file, uuencode it, chunk the output in to 200b chunks, fire chunks at node.
Node deals with getting the text to a file, decoding, etc. A "not my problem" solution.
Set an upper file limit at 1.44MB give or take, that'd be about 4min at 38k4 although about 8 hours at 300baud which is a potential worst case.
And the files will be substantially smaller than that
@nini@oldbytes.space i just find it absolutely hilarious that this was going to be their crypto/AI playground and they've never forgiven us for getting their first and setting up camp.
Although the sheer number of white cis 'liberals' getting in trans peoples faces to vote for X or die should have American PoC absolutely shitting themselves.
Me
Everytime a Giant Robot video passes my youtuvbe feed about "rare" or "lost" media...
I've got it on my media server and had it there for years.
Today it was Buck Rogers from the 70's.
Do I need to upgrade to some sort of RAID setup or something?
One thing that pissed me off, when I'm surfing the news on the pocket sized internet, is websites saying "Apples 3 part series" or "Amazons 8 part series".
They aren't "parts" a "part" is an individual episode not a complete season.
They remade The Thomas Crown Affair... a second time.
I should stop looking up old school friends to see what happened to them.
The main answer seems to be "in prison".
One nod I will give Microsoft is that Windows 10 looks a lot better at 1280x1024 on my 4:3 monitor than it ever did at 4K with its scaling thing turned on.
Hey, remember that claymation devil that scared the shit out of you in the 80's and you can never remember the name of the show/movie?
It's "The Adventures of Mark Twain" here it is on YouTube, with a 4K remaster, for free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKU5cxq7xUs&t=2s
Go scare the shit out of your inner child, you know the little git deserves it. :D
Booo!
No Mans Sky won't let me name my ship "The shitbox in bay #1" even though it is both a shitbox and in bay 1.
Watching the shit heel in charge of putting copilot in to Word getting a drubbing...
Well done, you made leaded petrol... now where's the big stick?
Well I put a test print through my rebuilt Photon M5(S? it's the first auto-levelling one).
I'd forgotten how much resin stinks lol.
Looks like YouTube is doing its usual random unsubscribe thing.
Already found two it'd quietly dropped me from.
Well that's sodding useless. The sticky magnet of the wambam has come unstuck.
Tomorrow, me, it, scrubbing brush, sticky tape/super glue.
Don't mind me... just swearing like a one eyed carpenter about any version of the esp32 compiler newer than 3.0 causes segfaults with the PS4 controller library.
Compiles fine... just makes the actual thing shit itself.
I had forgotten how much resin stinks. No, it's not in the room with me but still.
Windows are now open though.
Finished Disclosure Day.
That was some Fire in the Sky meets E.T. type bullshit.