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kyonshi, to email
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trying to get #uucp running with @lkh (still!)

now I know why SMTP is called the Simple mail transfer protocol

#email #smtp

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi @lkh I will suggest it the next time I hear people have problems with nfs.

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi @lkh

I'm not sure it's a serious alternative in this day and age, but it for sure will shut someone up, if that's the alternative. ;)

Seriously, I find it kind of fun to imagine uucp as a file server.

rivetgeek, to random
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I guess aren't OSR unless they come from the Lake Geneva region of Wisconsin, otherwise they're just sparkling retroclones?

AndreasDavour,
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@rivetgeek I think you will find that people who mention those three letters and state "how things are" , are jerks better avoided.

craigofinspiration, to DnD
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hey spell casters, dungeon delvers, and adventurers

what's your favorite d&d class, any edition?

AndreasDavour,
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@craigofinspiration I find I am attracted to the ranger, but for no game mechanical reason.

AndreasDavour,
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@Tim_Eagon @craigofinspiration maybe there's a reason I also find druids to be kind of cool. I have never played one, though.

chgowiz, to random
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The original 1997 Fallout is quaint, but not easy!

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss @chgowiz I have been trying to stay away from spoilers for Zork since I first tested in in the 1980-ies. Sometimes I take a stab at it again, but never get far.

It's generally how I attempt those kind of games, I drop it for a while when I get to a puzzle I can not crack. A year or five later I try it again, having forgotten how I got as far as I did the last time.

Maybe I should just read some hints?

syntaxseed, to martialartsmemes
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Kids, husband & I are going for our belt testing this afternoon!

Youngest is aiming for orange belt & the other two are aiming for their blue. Husband & I are currently unranked although we have been in class for two years so... it will be nice to see how our sensei ranks us.

But damn if I'm not hella nervous!! 😬

AndreasDavour,
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@syntaxseed It's good to be a bit nervous, it keeps you on your toes! ;)

Enjoy your practice!

kyonshi, to DnD
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looking towards adapting City of Carse for my games. I've had it for ages, but when I last checked it it didn't suit my campaign's mood.
Now I think I am going to have a look at it again.

Will have to remove the Midkemia references though.

By the way, did you know that Reymond E. Feist's Riftwar novels started out with a campaign (which crossed over with ?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Carse

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi I read a few of his books for the Tekumelian connection. I felt it gave a pretty good feel for how a Tekumel game might work. Decent enough introduction to the setting I felt.

kyonshi, to linux
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hmm... so systemd and pulseaudio both were created by Lennart Poettering?

That... disturbingly makes much more sense than it should.

I guess you can sometimes recognize the writer's voice even in software design.

(they both replace services that worked fine with "improved" services that take hours of tinkering to get running as they should)

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi you didn't know? It's been a running joke for years.

While I'm as keen as the next guy to harp on Lennart's faults, I actually don't think the linux audio system was that great before pulseaudio. It has always been something of a mess. I do have some hope for PipeWire, though.

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi I sometimes forget not everyone works with the stuff everyday...

lispm, to Lisp German
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A few years ago I have created a visual overview of (mostly) Common Lisp related books... Good thing: even the older ones can be useful, given that the core language hasn't changed that much over the last years.

AndreasDavour,
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@lispm Where would you place "The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms"
by Michał "phoe" Herda?

amoroso, to Lisp
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Common Lisp Quick Reference is a nicely designed, comprehensive, and handy Common Lisp cheatsheet. It's available in different PDF versions for printing as a booklet or online browsing, as well as LaTeX source.

http://clqr.boundp.org

AndreasDavour,
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@amoroso that's an awesome resource in all senses of the word. I had a print printout of that one around every computer I hacked lisp at.

kyonshi, (edited ) to random
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Ha. Turns out my incoherent rant about actually got a response from Lennart Poettering, which I didn't see because he's on mastodon.social.

not that it helped because he went all "that's not a systemd issue"

(sure it isn't but as I mentioned I actually solved the issue with the variables. The issue now is that the stuff still doesn't actually start because... what was it this time? It closed with an exit code? The reset counter is too high? Or something about the wrong folder?)

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi I have heard some people claim the biggest issue they have with systemd is actually more about Lennart.

Personally I find it ok to work with, and while it feels a bit more complex than it has to be, it does its work.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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I swear, every time I boot into Windows, it does an update that reactivates some bullshit that gives me grief in Linux.

This time: It auto-re-enabled "Fastboot", locking my backup drive to Linux until I went back in, hunted it down, changed it back.

Such utter nonsense.

AndreasDavour,
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@LeviKornelsen there's a lesson there.

vwbusguy, to Matrix
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For some reason not all of my conversations show up in so I end up having two versions of installed on my phones which is not wonderful for battery life and data usage. Element X should have been branded as Element Beta or something along those lines.

AndreasDavour,
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@vwbusguy I'm pretty underwhelmed by Matrix in general to be honest.

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