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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

So in Nik's route, the 3 of you encounter something that sounds like a little girl but is definitely not. He insists that you should try to help it and sounds like the biggest too-dumb-to-live rube on the planet.

In Murdoch's latest update, Nik is running through the mines alone and runs into a couple of genuine alive little girls down in the mines and thank goodness for that because he'd be toast if he encountered the other thing by himself.

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• TSR screencap of Nik's Route. Nik and Yao outside at night. Dialogue box says, "Nik: ...I just think that if somebody is forcing young girls to wait in the mines, then I think we should find a way to help them."
• TSR screencap of Murdoch's route. An underground passage with some natural light filtering in. Nik in center, dressed in mining gear, looking shocked. Dialogue box says, "Nik: Little girls!?"

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Also: subway entries are a great example of how few points can piece together an alarmingly invasive picture. Just a few days of travel can reveal a daily schedule, where a person lives and works, whether they are sleeping at home, etc

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

By necessity, most people hand over credit card info to all sorts of counterparties throughout the day. That's "okay" because it's relatively easy to detect and resolve fraud — but the MTA using the info as a private key where abuse won't be detected is a huge huge problem

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

The NYC subway's fare system website lets you track a rider's movements with only their credit card info. Huge possible abuse vector, great reporting by @josephcox at 404 https://www.404media.co/i-tracked-nyc-subway-rider-home-omny-mta/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Outside of more directly problematic things like bigotry or being a jerk, few things make me want to unfollow someone faster than posts ogling expensive luxury items.

Where some people have appreciation for fancy cars and watches and stuff like that, I just have nothing but repulsion.

If it makes you happy or makes other people think you're cool, go for it I guess. It just makes me think you're probably kind of a dick.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘…Grant’s army, on April 3[ 1865], occupied Richmond. Blacks thronged the streets, dancing, praying, singing “Slavery chain done broke at last.” The next day, Lincoln, heedless of his own safety, walked the streets of Richmond accompanied only by a dozen sailors. At every step he was besieged by former slaves who hailed him as a “Messiah” and fell on their knees before the embarrassed President, who asked them to remain standing.’

— A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner
https://a.co/0FOeq0n

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘In 1864 the Senate had approved the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the Union. On January 31, 1865, by a margin of 119 to 56, the Amendment won House approval and was forwarded to the states for ratification. “The one question of the age is settled, declared antislavery Congressman Cornelius Cole. But like so many other achievements of the Civil War, the Amendment closed one issue only to open a host of others. “What is freedom?” James A. Garfield later asked. “Is it the bare privilege of not being chained? . . . If this is all, then freedom is a bitter mockery, a cruel delusion.”’

— A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner
https://a.co/h0ycX1I

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Eliezer Yudkowsky thinks he's Dr Strangelove. He's not entirely wrong about that.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/30/so-a-few-billion-people-die-its-just-a-number/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBEmLhO4KO4

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

kastelpls@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Kastel") wrote:

someone uploaded *Consider the Consequences*, the first known book that uses a choice-based narrative, onto internet archive.

it's really amusing since you have to decide not between fantasy enemies or romantic encounters but ... would you rather live in poverty with your loved one or marry someone who's financially stable but boring? https://archive.org/details/consider-the-consequences-1930/page/n1/mode/2up

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

If I pay enough attention to the trials of insurrectionists, maybe I'll eventually learn Latin.

Nah, not worth it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/30/i-learned-some-latin-this-morning/

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• Mark Meadows' mug shot (remote)

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Fairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support

The Fairphone 5 will keep on trucking until at least 2031.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/fairphone-5-sets-a-new-standard-with-8-10-years-of-android-support/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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• 9e71243335b41a60.jpg

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stubbornella@front-end.social ("Nicole Sullivan") wrote:

Bravo Firefox! Nesting has landed in all 3 browsers! This thread gets into details of the API and some ways to polyfill it for older browsers. HMU if there are any features we should add to the API! https://x.com/wesbos/status/1696201171587809761?s=46&t=oG6Hyn69g2FX74ihz1ak4g

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

As evil as the government of Florida is, the citizens don't deserve Hurricane Idalia. DeSantis can go play outside, but the rest of you…batten down the hatches.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/30/uh-oh-florida/

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• Satellite view of Hurricane Idalia (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

They're really playing me like a fiddle with Nik's whole character concept.

- gentle giant
- a sentimental attachment to a specific small, cute kind of animal
- quietly shouldering some immense but as-yet undefined grief
- wants to buy out the contract of the prostitute that he loves, just like in my Edo-era bunraku tragedies
- lighter fur on his crown suggestive of early-stage male pattern baldness

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• Screencap of The Smoke Room. Scene: a bar called The Stag, at night. Nik is center frame, blushing and shyly averting his eyes. Dialogue box says, "Nik: I do not know if I should be happy that you are here, but my heart keeps filling up."

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night, @bcantrill and I were joined by @kelseyhightower to talk about open source anti-patterns.

Kelsey hit on the theme of being explicit and intentional about the direction. It’s okay to steer an open source project according to your needs and your vision, but you’ll poison your own community if you’re not transparent and all they hear is “no”.

It’s fair to say we all got a little fired up when it comes to violations of the social contract of open source! Enjoy:

https://youtu.be/13ctYOu8TsA

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"When I talk to ChatGPT, I am talking to an NPC. What's going to be interesting (and perhaps scary) is when AI becomes a first person player."

-- Joscha Bach

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

So between builds 28 and 29, they've modified a line in the job interview for the mines.

Build 28: "You're close with the immigrant Nicholas Krol, yes?"
Build 29: "You're close with the immigrant Nicholas King, yes?"

I haven't gotten to this in v29 yet, but Nik has a thing where he talks about how his parents would have called him Mikołaj if not for "Rus" conquest. I think they're developing that theme by having him go by a completely anglicized name at work now.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Backyard denizen

#darktable

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• A plastic pond sculpture of a praying toad standing in the garden among the river stones at dusk.

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

split@coolviruses.download ("split :NikoOwO:") wrote:

i still think this is the funniest block reason my school has ever set

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• Page Blocked mastodon.social/ Access to the requested site has been restricted due to its contents. Description: Friendship (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

underlap@fosstodon.org ("glyn") wrote:

@b0rk the user, because without users, what's the point?

the specifier. "what is X?"

the standardiser. "Wouldn't it be great if some implementations of X were consistent?"

the employer. "Let me pay you to build X."

and finally, let's not forget who's below:

the library developer.
the compiler writer.
the operating system developer.
the hardware developer.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I've already passed through the stages of grief at this point but when the Roisin shit hit a few days ago I was surprised at how hard it tanked my mood.

There were just a lot of layers to the bad feelings it inspired. It really reminded me of being a teen, constantly braced for someone who was otherwise cool to suddenly say something really homophobic

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

some douchebag was piping noise over top of the Hurrican Watch Net Control (K5WAN) #AmateurRadio #HurricaneWatch

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

mjk_4mjk@mastodon.ie wrote:

Previously, Don Lemon (a gay Black man) fact checked the lying idiot Ramaswamy regarding a statement he made about Blacks on CNN. Zaslav's (Zaslav loves right-wing garbage) CNN then fired Don Lemon. Blacks who have experienced the kind of racist hatred that the KKK embodies, were called Grand Wizards of the KKK by Ramaswamy. The only good thing about the Republican Party is that it exposes the idiots (idiot Republicans) that exist in America. https://www.theroot.com/ayanna-pressley-and-ibram-kendi-school-vivek-ramaswamy-1850784121?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-08-29

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

listening to Hurricane Watch Net on 40 meters (7.268MHz LSB voice) 📡

#AmateurRadio #HurricaneWatch

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

barb@activism.openworlds.info ("Barbara Dees") wrote:

Georgia judge orders Trump-implicating special grand jury report publicly released - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-grand-jury-report/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:

Thank goodness they caught that and now we're safe from online disinformation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/technology/meta-china-influence-campaign.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

listening to Hurricane Watch Net on 14.325MHz USB voice (WX4NHC) #AmateurRadio #HurricaneWatch

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

getting set up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB #AmateurRadio

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cedx ("Cédric Belin") wrote:

#Firefox 117 was released... and with it: #CSS Nesting!
https://developer.chrome.com/articles/css-nesting/

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Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:

It’s weird how before the internet when you had an idle thought like “I wonder how many episodes of Happy Days they made?” you would just carry on with your life instead of getting trapped in a 3 hour deep Wikipedia hole.