my rare (not hot or cold, just rare) take is that will wright was right, more games should proudly be called (themselves) digital toys specifically about the ones that aren't much about winning/losing but basically systems for you to make your own fun by interacting with
we care for your privacy and choice, that's why there is a button to accept all cookies, and a button to open a sub menu where you can uncheck each of the 6 partner cookies, then you click the "save my preferences" button that opens a pop-up, and can click the "confirm my choices" button that's just to the right of "accept all cookies anyway"
I could not find my multimeter. Looked everywhere I could think of. Eventually, gave up and sat back down at my desk… and immediately found it. It was right next to my left elbow.
With a piece of paper on top of it.
The 3.6V battery I wanted to test in fact read about 2mV, so yes, replacement ordered.
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It's frustrating that the UK is trying to follow in the USA's political footsteps…
#USPol
#UKPol
(Not sure who to credit for the artwork.)
I just tried to tell my dad what I'd achieved today, and had one of those "first create the universe" moments. I pretty much ended up describing (simplified) the whole technical history of my hosting network, what BGP, OSPF and VRRP do and how they fit together, how my router setup has evolved over time, and quite a few sidetracks too, to explain that what I'd done today was to complete a script that sets up Linux "virtual MAC interfaces" for the VRRP implementation I'm hoping to soon migrate to, because the vrrp keyword built into the ifupdown2 package I've been using doesn't do a few things quite exactly the way I need and it's easier to reimplement than to fix.
Explaining all that took probably an hour and left my throat really dry and with the realisation of just how *much* technical stuff I have to look after to run a whole hosting ISP single-handedly. I really *really* ought to actually try to get some more customers in - pretty much all the customers I have, I got by accident.
FYI I do server colocation in London, UK, plus most of the other stuff a hoster does: domains and DNS, email (well, not really at the moment, email's one of the more horrible things to host and the current setup is very old and crusty and needs modernising before I'll be happy taking on email customers), web hosting, virtual servers, etc. My main selling points are service and reliability - if cost is your main factor in choosing a host, you might want to try elsewhere. ;) If I haven't scared you off and you're interested, feel free to ask.
Hmm, wow. A small language model that fits in an 8-bit Atari! But browsing through the training data (a single 13KB text file) I'm getting serious ELIZA vibes - seeing such a stripped-down language description is a good reminder just how non-intelligent these language models really are.
🕹️ Is this the smallest language model in the world? I just managed to squeeze real artificial intelligence into 30 kilobytes, running on a 1979 Atari 800. A fully generative, deterministic langu...
Is this kind of stuff of use or interest to anyone? Any of it likely to be worth archiving in some way, or are all these sort of things typically on a publically accessible archive already? (This is a random selection of some of the disks my aunt has been dumping on me as she's spring cleaning stuff my late uncle used to carefully store away - there are more.)
I’d say any piece of software like this is absolutely with archiving. Not only for historical interest but also for historical information as a snapshot in time.
Definitely worth checking archive org and other such places to see if there’s already a copy up on there, and getting things up if not.
If they’re otherwise getting thrown out, I’d certainly be interested in some of those!
there may also be different versions of the "same disc" which can also be worth archiving, IA might have a copy that's newer/older/different region, but perhaps not the exact one
Anyone interested in old old monitors? They'd need collecting from East Hampshire (or I could bring 'em to ConFuzzled). I can't vouch for their electrical condition as they've been in a shed for many years and might not even work (I haven't tested), and also I (probably inexpertly) repaired the 15" Iiyama many years ago when a solder joint on the PCB on the back of the tube cracked and the red channel stopped working, but I'm guessing a retrocomputing enthusiast might be able to get them safe and working again.
Happy birthday @pamiiruq.bsky.social , hope you have a good day today! (ft. @fibrekitty too) 📸 - @bartonfox.bsky.social #Fursuit #furry #mascot #cosplay
aaa studios will pour billions into the biggest game with the fanciest graphics, then put lots of repetitive shallow missions for that content, and need day 1 patch to even be playable
then indie devs will go and casually make a game where the demo of the beta version by itself is a whole game worth of fun
Phaze the snep and Dev the arctic fox, they are just the right match, both happiest fluffs with their natural coats for where the air is cold. Kind of funny they requested me this in the middle of the Dallas heat at Texas Furry Fiesta.
First picture I did during TFF's Artists Alley Traditional. Markers and colored pencils.
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Swapped is a buddy comedy about a small woodland creature, voiced by Academy Award winner Michael B. Jordan, and a majestic bird (Juno Temple). When these tw...
People tell me there's no chance that the thylacine still exists. And I get it, we haven't seen any direct evidence in a long time. But then I see things like this, and I'm reminded that a species of rodent we thought went extinct 11 million years ago is still here. So really are we that sure the thylacine is gone? It's only been listed as extinct since 1936.
You can have your ADHD medication, but only after completing a series of increasingly complex and life-threatening challenges, your pharmacist has announced.
i never got favs for being silly. so i stopped. i'm not going to be silly for silliness' sake! i need signs of salience! otherwise i'm thinking i am making a big mistake! why am i yelling!
Surely goodness and silliness shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Silly forever, Wearing a fake mustache and horned rimmed glasses and carrying a whoppe cushion, Because why not?
While the excellent points in your post, Alice, may be suggestions elsewhere, I for one, am of the opinion that here on the Fediverse, they are the law.
@lanefu Yeah, that's why you gotta work at it! it's too easy to slowly lose your silliness as you age, so you gotta fight it. You gotta work on keeping your silly around, or you'll wake up one day and you're 70 and it's been gone for decades
Nah. Sometimes you gotta just put on your shoes and go. This is how to optimize life silliness-don't be a little silly all of the time-find places where you can let that out to its fullest extent
When I was a kindergarten teacher I never told the kids not to be silly. Why not? Well, it's a miserable old world if you can't be silly when you're only 4 years old. Sometimes I would join in being silly with them. Silliness is a kind of creativity. #silliness
I am simply over the moon to have received this reference sheet from @vincehooves earlier today
This marks a new chapter because despite being linked to the furry fandom since 2008 this is the first time I've truly seen how my fursona properly looks
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was great on many levels but one of the greatest things about it is that they boldly, unapologetically put Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, right in there in big letters and dared you to have something to say about it... and THEN had the audacity to give this utterly ridiculous character one of the most gut-wrenching, emotional line deliveries in the whole movie.
"I’m a photographer for the Daily Beagle. When I’m not pooching around, I’m working like a dog trying to sniff out the latest story. I frolic and I dance and I do this with my pants--"
