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zalasur

@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net

I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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zalasur, to random
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Me: Boosts the toot
Also me: Sees one of my mutuals boost the toot five minutes later
Again, me: Yes. YES!!!

zalasur, to random
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Hey, Saint Paul resident here.

I see a lot of calls to "burn it all down" with regards to the pro-Palestinian protests.

We had the George Floyd protests here a few years ago. There was, indeed, a fair amount of burning it all down, much of it caused by outside agitators but not all.

This does not hurt the people you think you are hurting. Arson tends to hit small businesses owned by minority owners. Some are still recovering.

So yeah, cool it with the arson talk, even if you're "joking".

garius, (edited ) to random
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Well that was fun. One of my sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 just nuked itself on stream.

Good job I speak BIOS beep. Now limping along on a single stick.

What DDR4 are the non-cool kids buying these days?

(EDIT: I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X on a Prime X570-P for reference)

(Because the cool kids mostly prefer shiny to good)

zalasur,
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@garius It really depends on what your motherboard supports and whether speed or size is more important. Once you define those parameters then the options kinda narrow themselves down pretty quickly.

zalasur,
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@garius Mine is a Ryzen 7 3800X on an ASRock x570 Pro4. The RAM I got with that is listed as "Crucial 32GB 16x2 D4 3200 C16BSLT". It was the fastest RAM I could buy at the time to get me up to 64 GB. I had the option to go up to 128 GB (2 64 GB sticks) but I would have taken a huge hit on performance.

This was like 4 years ago so I imagine there have been updates to the available models.

zalasur, to random
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We've been troubleshoot my coworker's laptop for several weeks now as to why a certain node dependency was not installing and the problem turned out to be the install script running the incorrect version of Python.

https://xkcd.com/1987/

flexghost, to random
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Wait. You’re telling me a bigoted antivaxxer who only goes on right wing media and is supported by thought leaders like Joe Rogan and Rob Schneider isn’t taking Dem votes away?

Ya don’t say…

zalasur,
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@flexghost They thought his last name being Kennedy would be all that was needed to take votes away from Biden. They literally thought we wouldn't be able to help ourselves. 😂

KelsonV, to random
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ugh, how did I not notice that typo until now

zalasur,
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@KelsonV 14 boosts and 30 favorites later...

zalasur, to random
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It's sort of interesting though a little disconcerting that a lot of people on this platform wished it behaved more like a closed forum site than a social media microblogging platform based on an open protocol that encourages interoperability with other platforms.

And then they spend their time bullying the author and maintainer of the software they are posting from.

It's everyone's right to take their ball and go home with it, but the unwarranted accusations and conspiracies seem a bit much.

zalasur, to DwarfFortress
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SUNDAY SNEAKY STREAM!!!

It's Dwarf Fortress again. We're going to try a volcano start again, but this time in an ancient world (2000 years). This embarkhas tons of tetrahedrite so we'll have plenty of copper and silver. Maybe we can get an obsidian farm going here while we're at it.

I'll also try some experiments with Adventure Mode on this map so we'll see how that works out.

Come join the fun!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

zalasur,
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I'm back with more shenanigans. We found enough dirt to plot our farms, but how we need to pen our llamas underground. Gotta keep them safe! Also, we need to get our industry up and running. So much to do, so little time!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

CodingItWrong, to random
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Does anyone happen to know what years local storage and service workers were added to browsers?

zalasur,
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@CodingItWrong This link (at the bottom of the page) has it broken down per browser.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage

zalasur,
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@CodingItWrong Proving my memory isn't all that bad, it entered widespread usage around ~2010 (give or take a few years) just as I recalled.

zalasur, to random
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Two years ago today I announced I'd be shutting down my Twitter account. I'd been meaning to do it for quite some time but I finally decided to make the jump because Elon Musk was all but certain to take over the site after months of saying he'd do it and then he wouldn't do it, but then getting sued so that he finally was forced to do it anyways.

I'd already been on Mastodon for a year-ish by that point (I was still on mastodon dot technology). That made the transition a lot easier. 😎

zalasur, to DwarfFortress
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All right, tomorrow I will stream some Dwarf Fortress. I generated a 2000 year old world and found a pretty sweet volcano embark. I tried using the same seeds as before but there have been some changes to world generation since the last patch so I got a different map. There are still plenty of good spots, though.

It felt good to get the evil embark done though. I'll know what I'm getting into next time.

annaghughes, to random
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Hey it's me, the character about to get hit by a car. I'm just going to walk backwards into the road while we continue this conversation

zalasur,
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@annaghughes They are related to the person who drives their car talking to their passenger and spends more time looking at the passenger than they do keeping their eyes on the road.

Then you hear the truck horn...

zalasur, to fediverse
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Today it's a technology stream! I'll be setting up a Synapse server and will try to get it federated.

Once we get this done, my next stream will be.... drum roll Dwarf Fortress!

https://video.surazal.net/w/5S7FPXJMZh1i1eqZLY9mcV

zalasur,
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So good news, the stream from my laptop to peertube was successful with few technical hiccups.

I wish I could say the same for the Synapse install. Out of memory issues and really slow loading times led me to the conclusion that I should probably explore alternatives. I have some ideas but I have to think about it for a while. I'm leaning towards Conduit but we'll see when I can try that.

zalasur, to random
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I was watching a video, and stupid YouTube plays another ad. But this one is a Coco Chanel ad that has a disco song playing. It sounded pretty good so I replayed it and listened carefully to the lyrics. I did a bit of digging and found the song (it was "Follow Me" by Amanda Lear).

I scrolled down and the first five comments were pretty much "I'm here because of the Coco Chanel ad".

Welp, that's definitely not the worst thing. I got to hear Amanda Lear so I won't complain. 😉

zalasur, to random
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"Technically," mused Neil DeGrasse Tyson as he watched Netflix, "this is a depiction of a Four Body Problem."

zalasur, to random
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Of course! The mic stand that I use for my downstairs desk was being kept in the most logical place: in my upstairs desk.

zalasur,
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Microphone has been set up. For some reason I had to recreate the old microphone profile in OBS along with the filters to cut down on background noise to make sure I could be heard.

I did log into my remote server to see what state it was in (it was still working). I might need to clean up some old logs and free up some disk space, but I think I'm ready to start this after lunch.

Synapse, here we come!

CodingItWrong, to random
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Putting together a timeline of the history of the web, and I'm not seeing much (in the categories I'm looking in) since 2017. What since then have been the main advancements in the web platform, in your opinion?

zalasur,
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@CodingItWrong

Obvious answer: ActivityPub (2018) 😉

Older technologies that I'm starting to see starting to make a big impact on recent years are web components and WebAssembly. These are pre-2017 but I'm starting to see them gain some significant steam in just the past couple of years.

eniko, to random
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of course rust isn't the perfect language for game development. that would be qbasic

zalasur,
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@eniko Gorillas, the world's most underrated classic

zalasur, to Matrix
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I might finally do a technical stream this weekend. But instead of coding the goal for me will be to set up #Synapse and hook up to the #Matrix. I tried this before but got stuck on the mail server setup step, but I've been told there are other options so I guess we'll give this another go.

Will I finally divorce myself from #Discord? Probably not, but this is a good first step and if I can get this to work, then I can finally delete my server from that cursed network! 😂

palafo, to random
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In an interview with Howard Stern, President Biden says he'd be "happy" to debate Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/biden-debate-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU0.Hpie.Gp9jWNqERNEQ

zalasur,
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@palafo That first debate was...

Well.

The candidate who blurted out "Will you shut up man???" was the more civil of the two people up on that stage.

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