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Oh god I didn't directly interact with systemd for one month and I totally forgot the difference between these five options in the meantime

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$ sudo -u someuser systemctl --user restart --now pds
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

The systemd error messages are!!! Really just so bad!!! Like half of them reference a "bus" but do not tell you what you are supposed to do!!! I don't know what to do with the bus!!!

mcc, to random
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"npm ERR! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'matches')"

Gosh, sometimes I just really hate workign with js tooling

mcc, to random
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Another bit of indie game news: Lena Raine who you might know from the Celeste soundtrack has announced a 2D pixel RPG with elements of BULLET HELL and also EMOTION (possibly FURRIES, unconfirmed) https://cohost.org/ANOTHEREAL/post/6081598-anothereal-fact-shee

So far it's just a trailer and a Steam wishlist opportunity.

I really liked the BBS singularity visual novel Lena made ( https://radicaldreamland.itch.io/esc really interesting experience, visual novel with an emphasis on "novel" ) so I'll be looking forward to this

"You're gonna see a lot of these scary guys comin' at you" (Pictured: Little ghost dude)

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It suddenly occurs to me that tremendous amounts of programmer culture are just various, mostly-failed attempts at managing the work associated with keeping pace with a changing world. Specifically: SemVer, LTSes, “commercial support” funding models for OSS, Win32’s “Old New Thing”-style compatibility, SaaS interface versioning, and, arguably, the popularity of the x86/amd64 architectures themselves are all aspects of a fantasy world where you build something once and have it work forever.

mcc,
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@glyph I wonder how well microservices actually help with this.

mcc,
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@glyph Oh, I'm curious about this, will read this later.

mcc,
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@luis_in_brief @glyph THAT MOVIE IS REALLY GOOD

suricrasia, to random
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wild thunder in toronto just now

mcc,
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@suricrasia and now sirens? did it hit something?

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Hey so @Nifflas 's game "Uurnog" is on steep sale RN and I really highly recommend it https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Nifflas/112520440316710187

IMO one of the most underrated games of the last decade, especially for those of you who are game medium deconstructionists. It's surface-simple but has a lot of strange, surprising thoughts about "what is a Video Game and how do you interact with it?" simmering just underneath… it's very good at finding ways that simple mechanics can combine in ways that really surprise you.

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Shorter summary: It's Mario 2 basically

Person is running around and picking up boxes, things are exploding, there's a little boxy dog tied to them following them, a lot's happening

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(Oh and by the way this game does one very mean thing to new players, which is funny if you realize it in time but can lead to progress loss if you don't; if you are going to play the game and want a spoilertexted Hint, let me know.)

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I like this album's cover https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/disconnect

mcc,
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@qdot Oh, is this the same The Bug who collaborated with Earth?

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@mcc wait. Did Youtube kill their games lineup, and then bring it back (so that they can kill it again)?

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-playables/

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@rotopenguin I think that they didn't ever kill it, they were just running it as a limited-audience experiment and they shut down the experiment and shortly after launched it for the general public.

mcc, to random
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I thiiiiink that all this email actually means is "Find My Device will now include bluetooth devices at their location last seen by an Android phone, which means that if your phone is disconnected from the Internet but Bluetooth is on then Find My Device can still find it if another Android device passes nearby (unless you disable this feature)".

But uhhhh wow Google used some pretty alarming language to describe it

mcc,
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@aadmaa Google has several options for the PIN including a long text password.

But even with a long password, consider Claire's question here: https://social.sitedethib.com/@Claire/112519638647135227

mcc,
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@tojiro I guess the question is, does changing your level of participation in the network change something on the server side or on the device side. Ie if you've chosen only to participate in certain areas is the BTLE-while-off still on, it's just the reports aren't forwarded?

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@tojiro (Among my many questions here: It seems a potentially useful way to use this feature would be a mode where Find My Device is not participated in, but BTLE-while-off would still be on to the extent a device in the environment with an appropriate knock would still be able to find its position. But if Google isn't even clearly disclosing the existence of this BTLE-while-off feature in support documents, that implies not much user control either.)

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@thomastc Yeah. "Not available to Google" clearly means something very specific and since they don't disclose what it's hard to say if it's reasonable or not

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@tojiro Thank you, I will read this

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@sjjh @Claire The HSM is a chip in Android phones, right? So it seems like this still doesn't explain Google's claims about "compatible earbuds"!

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@sjjh @Claire No, that makes sense. Although among the things I'm wondering are "what are the battery and manufacturing costs associated with adding this feature to earbuds?". I don't know what I'd do with that information, but I'm curious.

mcc, to random
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Okay. Lately I've been asking some cursed MSBuild questions. I now ask the cursedestest. I could ask this question to ways:

  • In MSBuild, how do I split a string into a list?

Or, in more detail:

  • I want to put a newline-separated list of filenames into a text file, and then have both CMake and MSBuild (vcxproj) interpret the text file as a list of files to compile. How can I do this on the MSBuild side?

(Things I've tried, which didn't work, below:)

mcc, (edited )
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Since I was talking about this last week:

Say you have a C++ project, you want to build it with Visual Studio on Windows and CMake elsewhere (say the usual process of CMake generating vcxproj is not just then convenient) BUT you want to have the ability to share information between CMake and Vcxproj.

I found a solution where you can write a newline delineated file which both your CMakeLists and your msbuild script can import as list variables, and I posted sample code:

https://github.com/mcclure/vcxproj-cmake-sharing-example

mcc,
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In the sample code above I use this to make a shared list of filenames which both the CMakeLists and the vcxproj independently compile, but you could imagine also sharing things like preprocessor definitions this way.

There is a very specific platform which the ability in the above sample code is actually very useful for, due to on that platform it being seemingly impossible to generate working VCXProj's from CMake, but… because of an NDA I cannot elaborate lol

mcc,
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@shanecelis Sometimes people are like "how do you get into these weird tech situations!" and I'm like I don't know what you're talking about, I use computers in a very normal and straightforward way, and then … and then I catch myself writing MSBuild XML files by hand, and I'm like, okay, okay maybe THIS is a little terrible

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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc,
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What I'm listening to today: "Desmorph", AcidTonic

Made on one of those wall-sized modular synth racks, the artist describes the video with "Loose ended live improv. First take."

A chill but determined groove undergirded by erratic drums, with a sense of low menace starting to creep in in the second half. Good zone-out music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkh9xgNaplU

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