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b4ux1t3

@b4ux1t3@hachyderm.io

Software Developer, dad, animal person. Maybe not in that order? #opensource

You'll mostly see me posting about #TTRPG, #GameDev, #Programming / #SoftwareDevelopment (primarily #DotNet, #FSharp, and #FunctionalProgramming, but also lots of others!), #parenting, and a little bit of #Woodworking.

I also post about #HamRadio over on https://mastodon.radio/@b4ux1t3!

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bhawthorne, (edited ) to random

How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?
Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.

So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.

I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.

[ Edit: Since others have mentioned the possibility, I should mention that some of these sites may have been SEO-generated/altered and not generated by an LLM. However, even if that is the case, the fact that the sites are as bad as and indistinguishable from LLM-generated sites means to me they are just as bad and just as likely to be have only a loose resemblance to reality. There are many ways to be a fancy stochastic parrot. ]

b4ux1t3,
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@grumpasaurus @bhawthorne Oh! https://based.cooking found it!

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm not distracted, I'm on a side quest.

b4ux1t3,
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@RickiTarr had a friend who always got lost when she was driving.

"I'm not lost, I'm exploring!"

Same mood. :)

ned, to random
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Nevermind me, just getting some water...

b4ux1t3,
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@ReverendMoose @ned my coworkers wouldn't find it all that off putting.

Probably because my coworkers are two cats and two babies.

b0rk, to random
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just noticed that almost 11,000 people are subscribed to get comics from me every saturday! who wants to help us get over 11,000?

you can sign up here: https://wizardzines.com/saturday-comics

b4ux1t3,
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@b0rk This is an incorrect characterization of what my inbox looks like.

Looks more like this:

(note the star)

b4ux1t3, to random
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I get why Discord ends up being the defacto place to put stuff around a community.

You start there because it's free text and voice chat. You use it to play games together, and then you need to start sharing news, so you make a channel for that.

Then you have stuff you want to distribute to people, and you already have discord, so, why pay for another service?

Resist this urge. Discord is not yours. It's Discord's, and that's okay for ephemeral text messages. Use it for that.

Own your stuff.

b4ux1t3, to wordpress
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I've never much cared for . I'll admit it's purely from early experiences with it, and a year of my life spent on a contract attempting to secure an instance (which was hampered more by ridiculous requirements than wp itself).

That said, I'm seriously considering going from static generation to wordpress, purely for the implementation.

Are there other good ActivityPub-aware platforms? Preferably with flavored editing.

b4ux1t3, to random
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I've released an update for every day this year. . .maybe I should just do that instead of . 😅

You can now embed HTML into the entry pages, except for img, script, and iframe tags. Really, all I did was loosen the sanitization around HTML tags. This lets you do things like color text with spans.

b4ux1t3, to DnD
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I want a race of chicken folk for , so I can play an artificer with it.

He would refer to himself as a "technical fowl".

b4ux1t3, to random
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Look guys, accessibility, internationalization, and UX design are expensive. There's no denying that.

You know what else is expensive?

Missing out on customers who are blind, deaf, speak a different language, or cannot/will not use a UI they don't immediately understand.

b4ux1t3, to linuxmint
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This is officially the first toot from my new Linux workstation. Hello from !

Took less than three hours to get things swapped over, and installed, all that jazz. Of course, my dotfile Makefile helped a lot.

b4ux1t3, to opensource
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In about an hour (9 PM Eastern), I'll be continuing my quest to build a character generator in !

We'll probably start out by wiring up the die rolls we modeled with the random table types we modeled.

Come join in on the fun at https://twitch.tv/b4ux1t3

b4ux1t3, to random
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Get you a man who looks at you the way my son looks at peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

b4ux1t3, to random
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I just gotta say this. Maybe it's the eclipse pre-maturely plucking on my mind waves (or... Some other astrological nonsense).

I love the community on this platform. You're all a bunch of beautiful, weird-ass nerds, and I've never felt more at home, heard, and comfortable than on Mastodon.

Keep the fediverse weird.

b4ux1t3, to random
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I need to get in the habit of writing long mastodon posts as blog posts instead. As @shanselman says: Own your words

(If you're not familiar, this is very well worth a read, and still very applicable twelve years later: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/your-words-are-wasted)

b4ux1t3, to dotnet
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Aaaaaand my server supports arbitrary files (within reason)!

I think I may actually put this online before the weekend is up.

(Can I really call it that when the protocol is as simple as this?)

b4ux1t3, to random
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Figured I'd share this very important bit of information.

b4ux1t3, to godot
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GOING LIVE! Building the camera for my Stormlight Archives-inspired fantasy real-time strategy game in !

https://twitch.tv/b4ux1t3

golgaloth, to worldbuilding
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Your character likes to read. What is it about your world that makes that difficult? (Please feel free to substitute how your world makes it difficult for your character to to whatever it is they like)

(Packhorse Librarians, also known as Book Ladies, used to deliver books to remote communities in America.)

b4ux1t3,
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@golgaloth I have seriously considered integrating book ladies into a campaign setting of mine. I may revisit that, now that you've reminded me of.

Re: the prompt

The world is dying (some say it's already dead; their equivalent of the "glass half full" idiom), and the books are among the first things burned for warmth.

Some cults think this was a Good Thing™ and burn all books on sight, with their readers.

He keeps a trove of books in a cleared-out sepulchre, not daring read them in public.

b4ux1t3, to godot
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GOING LIVE! Working on my Stormlight Archives-inspired RTS game in !

Let's see if we can fix the camera, and then start adding resource generation to the game!

https://twitch.tv/b4ux1t3

(maybe)

b4ux1t3, to hamradio
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Just TXed my first ax.25 packet, and even RXed it (no back and forth yet, due to a hardware issue).

The inimitable @xssfox was instrumental in this with her excellent YouTube videos on the topic.

There really needs to be more hands on, nitty gritty content about this on YouTube or, if it does exist, it needs to be more discoverable.

b4ux1t3, to godot
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Okay, since #Godot does not like spawning processes. . .and #Rust would mean GTK. . .

#Raylib it is. This is good, because I don't have to re-implement my #DotNet code in Rust.

b4ux1t3,
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@janriemer Oh, the last bit of context is that I'm working with a home-grown Pipewire utility, because the pipewire-rs package is literally broken (at least for me), so, like, I've lost a lot of what was pulling me over to the rust side for this particular project.

b4ux1t3,
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@janriemer Since I am just not super comfortable with Rust in the context of multi-threaded applications, I decided it'd be best to just not have to re-implement all of the radio-specific bits in Rust and go with a framework I'm more comfortable with, so, Godot, but that doesn't shell out. . .so, Raylib.

At this rate, I may end up making a stupid web server and serve a webpage.

2/2

b4ux1t3,
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@janriemer ha! I forgot to reply to my thread.

I'm building a ham radio control app, not a game. I was using Godot simply because I already have a lot of the bits written in C# (pre-existing project), but it turns out that audio is. . .tricky in C#, and I thought Godot would be better.

It wasn't.

I was also trying to stick to things I am somewhat familiar with. I write Rust a fair bit for CLI apps, and I've used GTK a lot in the past, so I thought maybe it'd be a good fit. (1/2)

b4ux1t3,
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@janriemer That said, I've been looking for an excuse to try Bevy. I may have to give it a couple hours-worth of try this weekend and see if it's worth porting my radio bits over. :D 3/2

b4ux1t3, to hamradio
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Man, I wish I had, you know, friends.

Or at least friends who are close enough to me that I could use this feature, and who are actually into , and own a radio with the pager functionality. . .

What would be extra super cool would be if you could have a function that would look for traffic from a list of contacts, and leave a bell if it noticed anyone transmitting.

Maybe that's a feature in pricier C4FM transceivers?

b4ux1t3,
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As an aside, I had the idea of making a "voicemail" a little while ago. Essentially , set up an SDR to receive on certain frequencies, and ping you via a text or whatever letting you know that audio had been received. Maybe store a recording of it.

Combine that with CTCSS tones, and you'd have a pretty effective tool for leaving messages amongst ham radio (or, hell, even GMRS) users.

I'm sure this has been done before, but I can't seem to put together the right search.

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