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I have now read the original works for 5 of the 50 aliens in Barlow's Guide!

spacewizard ,

@epidiah Now do the Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Races!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacefarers_Guide_to_Alien_Races

http://www.theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=181988

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I guess Safari is the only major browser not owned by an advertising company now?

How can I get that thing to run on Linux?....

spacewizard OP ,

@epidiah Oh yeah, epiphany aka "Gnome Web"! I always think of that as "that thing that is there by default in Gnome until you install a real browser" :)

I'm not going to jump ship from Firefox right now, though, seriously, I've got a LOT invested in Firefox. I use firefox sync to move from computer to computer and keep all my stuff, I use Firefox plugins for different stuff, I dunno. I'm extremely Firefoxy right now....

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah fuck! Stupid Linux.

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah I know that these days Mint prompts you to set up TimeShift and back up old versions of the operating system you can restore to. I suppose you've already tried backing up to better days, that way?

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah well ain't that a revoltin' development.

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah I'm really unimpressed with Ubuntu for letting that out there in the world. :( They're a Big Important Distribution, and they're pushing kernel updates that blank screens?

    On the other hand, they stopped giving a shit about desktop users long ago.

    (I'm blaming Ubuntu because standard Mint is based on Ubuntu)

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah The Mint people are distrustful of Ubuntu these days. They're working on an alternative version of Mint that's based on Debian instead of Ubuntu (Linux Mint Debian Edition) in case they eventually decide they need to just give up on Ubuntu.

    Unfortunately there's not really any possible direct upgrade path from the one to the other. :(

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, E.

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah bone and horn dice I got somewhere. Another pair of bone dice I got at the merch tables at a pow-wow. I think these are my favorites though: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1422641660/fablestone-dice-bone-origins

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah you can dig 1000 holes, but you need an LLC to fill a grave

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah 🙏

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah You have RAVENS? We don't have ravens!

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah I prefer domesticated to wild rats, but cool. All we've got is crows here.

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah Oh, THAT's what the results of Fudge dice are called mathematically!

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    @epidiah unhelpful

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah there's the Gemini people but I don't know if that's going anywhere

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    @epidiah oh yeah we live in a world where you can't buy a gumball without being asked whether you would recommend gumballs to your friends

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    Good morning.

    The Adobe PDF reader on my phone is taking up screen space trying to get me to use their "AI Assistant."

    I'm tired.

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah Made a character for The Pool last week with the trait "Tired +1". Don't know why I blew a precious pool die on that, it was one of only 2 traits that had dice. I don't know how I ever expected to use it. But it seemed like the right thing to do at the time

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    There are only 4 types of conflict:

    • Man vs. Anti-Man
    • Man vs. Herself
    • Godzilla vs. Gigan
    • Peter Falk vs. Patrick McGoohan
    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah Man vs. Astro-Man?

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah Saw them in Carrboro, NC back in the mid 90s. They rocked. :)

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah Random powers are also a delight in original Villains & Vigilantes. With the best-ever alternate system: "just pick whatever powers you like, or make up new powers that aren't in the book. If the GM signs off on it, it's all good."

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah just read a post by @ernie about the problem of the entire web being written for google instead of humans, and an unusual news site that doesn't do that

    https://tedium.co/2024/04/09/sherwood-robinhood-post-seo-news/

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    Okay.

    FINE.

    CSS is fun when it works with you.

    Whatever.

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah I did a thing recently where I wrote up a little something in Markdown, like you do, and I wanted it to be a PDF. I ran it through an HTML-izer so I could then convert it to a PDF, and the HTML looked like shit and so the PDF would look like shit. I eventually just opened up LibreOffice and made it look OK via WYSIWYG.

    But if I was a CSS wizard I bet I could have dropped in a few lines of CSS and made that HTML (and PDF) look gorgeous!

    But I'm not

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah check out the sites "better motherfucking website" "even better motherfucking website" (I apparently am not allowed to look at those at work so you'll have to google them up).... they have a few lines of CSS in the head tag and they look good.

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    Next level "supply chain attack" - post a lot of subtly compromised code on github, let Microsoft train copilot on it, wait for developers around the world to cut and paste the compromised code in their own projects.

    (as pointed out in https://www.404media.co/the-xz-backdoor-highlights-the-vulnerability-of-open-source-software-and-its-strengths/ )

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah ..... I don't know, man. I understand the attraction. But I'm skeptical about gratuitously turning html into something that isn't html. I'd rather let hypertext be hypertext than deal with it as a parsed abstract syntax tree in some programming language.

    Reminds me of haml, which also represented HTML in terms of a data structure (in this case, a yaml like one). all the rage in days when rails was the hippest thing in town. Now just seems like "why did we do that".

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah apologies for the yum yucking, I do understand the yum though, it's valid, and the yucking is just a bit of "old man yells at cloud."

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah well, I'm not the best at it either. It might be some influence from the htmx propaganda machine to treat htm(x|l) with respect! And as a first class citizen and not just an implementation detail... but arguments can certainly be made for bringing everything into one place and when that place is lispy, maybe that's even more of an inducement to do so.

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE I AM. I need a course that happens to cover only the things I happen not to know already.

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah do you do much with the browser's developer tools? Specifically the inspector and the tabs that analyze/display styles? They can often answer questions like "why was this text ever centered in the first place." They're not super easy to understand or deal with IMHO but they are where the answers are.

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah CSS understanders are wizards.

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    #DnD magic-users cast a spell & forget it. Folks like to point at this and say that makes D&D's magic Vancian.

    This bugs me for many reasons I don't care to enumerate. I encourage you to read some Jack Vance if want to know more. It's all in books.

    While this cast and forget quality is a delightful constraint in Vance's fiction, it's an awkward trope in D&D's pastiche. The latter does not feel like the former. So I'd like to humbly propose a new term for D&D's version: Regexian.

    Hear me out!

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah "write-only" magic!

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah searches finds I'd never heard that story!

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah they should have done s/\bmage/wizard/. (Wait.... then magenta objects might become "wizardnta"... I guess s/\bmage\b/wizard/... then you miss plurals... You can probably get around that with lookaheads or something but I never cared enough to learn about those, so just do s/\bmage\b/wizard/ and s/\bmages\b/wizards/ and be done with it. Maybe two more to handle capital M/W. I dunno.

    s/\bmage(s?)\b/wizard\1/ with a backreference? I'm not sure how to match capitalization though.

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah love the graveyard though

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah

    Indieweb.org screenshot, saying: Why you should write your own CMS for your personal web site, in short: • Scratch your own itches • As long as people are posting to silos instead of posting to their own site, we lack good CMSs, and you should help by starting with your own. • Make it as awesome / beautiful or more than any silo you currently use • Nearly all existing CMSs suck at Ul/UX compared to silos.

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah I wonder what ai image generators would do if you asked them to produce an image of a "vegan ___"? Like if you ask them for a "nerdy __" they put glasses on it, even if you ask for a "nerdy ___ without glasses"

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah reject modernity, return to tradition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah or just put files on public FTP sites.

    Or... hear me out... we all buy modems and landlines and start calling dialup BBSs

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah good times.

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    Got called a fascist by a Biden supporter for..... saying I support Biden?

    Lesson of the day: Sometimes you just need to take a deep breath, put your phone down, and remind yourself that you simply cannot win on social media.

    Me: That is exactly the problem I am trying to point out here though. It has become impossible to make the smallest criticism about one party without people instantly accusing you of supporting the opposing party. I support Biden, I am going to vote with Biden, and I think it is very problematic when people become afraid to criticize parts of a thing that they generally support. Someone replying to my above comment: Okay fascist, get the fuck off my timeline
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    spacewizard ,

    @lowqualityfacts for what it's worth, he is not a Biden supporter. He probably called you fascist because he thinks Biden is fascist as well as trump.

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    Tutorial: This is remarkably easy to do. The first step is to install this distro of Linux in a virtual container...

    Eppy, slowly backing away: I'm sorry. I, uh, made a wrong turn. Like, in life. I think maybe I was meant to be the outdoorsy type? You know, chopping wood and foraging for Fritos. That sort of thing. But good luck with whole (vaguely waves his arm around) technology thing. I hope it works out for you. Hope those virtual containers really set you up on Easy Street.

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah lol what needs that

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah do what you must

    epidiah , to random
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    You're a member of space biker gang:

    • What's they gang called?
    • And why are you beefing with the Hearts of Orion?
    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah We're the Legion of Super-Delinquents, and Antimatter-Drinker Lad heard one of the HOOs make a crack about Uranus Girl's name.

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    Interesting.

    So you're telling me that if someone bought the bundle of all 11 issues of Worlds Without Master—which includes issue 3, the one with Swords Without Master in it—today, then I'd be able to get a new journal before I completely fill up my current one?

    That's got a nice sense of dramatic tension to it.

    https://www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/bundle-issues-1-to-11

    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah this sounds good in general but I think I don't want any record to exist of the sort of things I regularly eat

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    spacewizard ,

    @epidiah you could do that. Or you could download the upgraded version on a USB stick, boot to it, and see if your keyboard still works. If so, do the upgrade at your leisure. :)

    (What kind of fuckup could disable keyboards on the brand of laptop which is probably the most popular ever with Linux users????)

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