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feld, 2 hours ago to random

So tired of fake car safety activists screaming about how touch screens are inherently dangerous when they don't spend any time experiencing what it's like to switch between car manufacturers because they live in a world where they e.g., only buy Fords so nothing ever changes in their view and everything is familiar

I'm on a vacation and my mother in law who has been driving for 40 years can't figure out how to get her Nissan into Reverse because they made the shifter bizarrely complicated for no good reason at all

I'm driving this piece of shit to pick up some necessities and nearly getting killed because there's a million buttons and lights everywhere unlabeled, all the steering wheel controls -- of which there are far too many to be safe -- are in a completely different layout than every other car I've driven.

This shit complete lunacy. The problem isn't touch screens, it's familiarity. If you want cars to be safe you need to mandate a standard layout of all buttons and controls in every car. Zero deviation. Every car should be identical.

Give me back my Tesla, a car that's actually safe to drive and has as minimal of an interior as possible

sun, 4 hours ago to random

Deleted everything on my IBM Cloud account

hrefna, 9 hours ago to random

Thunderstorm outside and my brain goes "I wonder if the thing about not showering during a thunderstorm is true and, if so, what's the actual injury rate from that?"

I found a meteorologist who estimated it at 10-20 people through all fixtures per year… but they didn't have any hard data to back that up. Several other experts in various fields who all said it was possible and definitely happened… but outside of a few instances on ships I couldn't (at a glance) find any likely candidates.

realtegan, 23 hours ago to random

For Americans looking at people posting in Celsius temperatures: don't try to convert, just remember this...

Zero is freezing,
Ten is not.
Twenty is warm and
Thirty is hot
(And forty is DAMNED hot)

feld, 1 day ago to random

@coffeegeek plz review the SYNESSO ES.1

I miss my MVP Hydra from when we owned a cafe and I've been lusting over this

zakalwe, 1 day ago to random

"I paid off MY #student #loans myself! Why should these kids get theirs #forgiven?"

Dude. You had $3,000 in student loans. Some of "these kids" graduated from college $70,000 in debt for the same degree you got, now they're earning half as much as you did for a comparable job and they have no expectation of any retirement benefits, and they've been paying on that loan for fifteen years and owe more on it now than they did when they started paying it. They are being ruthlessly exploited by student loan management companies whose entire business model is based upon gouging people who are struggling to pay off their student loans.

Would it fucking KILL YOU to show a little compassion and understanding?

feld, 15 hours ago to random

Brother in law: liberals aren't gonna make ME eat fuckin bugs

Brother in law at the jerky store: dude they have spicy crickets and scorpions here you gotta try them!!!!

NEETzsche, 2 days ago to random

So, I wrote the first thing for Balormo's backend tonight. I wanted to do dice rolls, or really RNG (random number generation) broadly, and in this case I wrote the simplest form of it in the TTRPG space: rolling XdY, take the sum.

I did not write an FE for this yet. That's because I want to discuss the way I designed it. Now would be the time to refactor things or change around how it's structured. This is backend proof of concept phase.

For the time being, you can use curl to try it out once you have an account on dev.iddqd.social:

curl -X POST "https://dev.iddqd.social/api/v1/statuses" 
    -H "Authorization: Bearer REDACTED" 
    -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" 
    -F "status=Rolling CON for AD&D 2e style" 
    -F "source=Pleroma FE" 
    -F "visibility=public" 
    -F "content_type=text/plain" 
    -F "balormo[rng][system]=dice_sum" 
    -F "balormo[rng][denomination]=6" 
    -F "balormo[rng][quantity]=3"

You can find my commit for it here: https://gitgud.io/thestranjer/balormo/-/commit/483800ea9c2e5f913ecc5f1523625c9ad535917d

Unfortunately, Soapbox and Pleroma seem to drop the balormo object in federation. However, quite fortunately, it delivers the Object URL, which does retain that information:

{
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    "https://dev.iddqd.social/schemas/litepub-0.1.jsonld",
    {"@language": "und"}
  ],
  "actor": "https://dev.iddqd.social/users/NEETzsche",
  "attachment": [],
  "attributedTo": "https://dev.iddqd.social/users/NEETzsche",
  "balormo": {
    "rng": {
      "denomination": 6,
      "quantity": 3,
      "results": [1,1,6],
      "sum": 8,
      "system": "dice_sum"
    }
  },
  "cc": ["https://dev.iddqd.social/users/NEETzsche/followers"],
  "content": "Rolling CON for AD&amp;D 2e style<br/><i>Rolling 3d6, taking the sum.</i><br/><b>Results:</b> 1, 1, 6<br/><b>Sum:</b> 8",
  "context": "https://dev.iddqd.social/contexts/c2ceeca0-5369-41b9-8be7-2d0a647a7907",
  "conversation": "https://dev.iddqd.social/contexts/c2ceeca0-5369-41b9-8be7-2d0a647a7907",
  "id": "https://dev.iddqd.social/objects/48f97fc0-5a63-406f-8822-3ea4493713d9",
  "published": "2024-05-10T09:13:21.883623Z",
  "sensitive": null,
  "source": {
    "content": "Rolling CON for AD&D 2e style",
    "mediaType": "text/plain"
  },
  "summary": "",
  "tag": [],"to": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"],
  "type": "Note"
}

The way I wrote this is you just add more fields to the /api/v1/statuses endpoint and give it extra fields. In this case, the system field can be changed and the pattern matching will pick up on the right one and then generate dice rolls etc in the right fashion. For example, I might write a Shadowrun dice roller that rolls d6s given only a pool value and re-rolls 6s until you don't get anymore.

The reason to bake this into the protocol is so that you can manage the data better and change the way it's displayed in the future. The appended roll text to the status will be put in a <div> with a class on it that's invisible for the FE.

Thoughts on how to improve this before I move on to the FE?

@sun @p @jeffcliff @rees @crunklord420 @caekislove @mint @LukeAlmighty @lain

sun, 21 hours ago to random

I got a Dominos pizza last night and it SUCKED ASS

zorinlynx, 22 hours ago to random

It's funny how some people utterly LOATHE the last sip of french press coffee that has a slight sandy texture from the grounds, but I freaking love it. It's like MAXIMUM COFFEE DENSITY in that last sip.

ivan, 1 day ago to random

Every time I’d reach for xargs in a shell pipeline crunching a lot of inputs I’d always worry about there being too many arguments and blowing past the system exec limits, and manually try to limit invocations with a guesstimate of how many max args to use

Except I just learned that xargs can not only inspect the system and figure out how many args to use safely, it does it by default!

Easily one of my favorite utilities that went up in my list today

feld, 22 hours ago to random

The Federal Reserve has not been able to keep track of how many dollars exist since 1982

mathiasx, 1 day ago to solarpunk

In #solarpunk news, there’s someone locally on our Craigslist selling used 315W solar panels for $80 each. They have 30 of them — that’s 9.4kW! I just don’t have the space to store them, nor a vehicle to move them; and we already filled our roof with solar. I don’t think our tiny urban lot can host more large panels, just some small accessory lights.

feld, 1 day ago to random

This is what the future of "fruit" will be and I want to cry