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RogerBW

@RogerBW@emacs.ch

#Emacs, #Perl, #Rustlang, #PostScript, #Linux sysadmin, polyglot programming, #boardgames, #RPGs, too many #podcast s, 3d modelling and #3dprinting.
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RogerBW, to books
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Doing Time, Jodi Taylor https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Doing_Time__Jodi_Taylor.html

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Sounds like my computer use in about 2000, 95% Linux but occasionally reboot into Windows for the one thing that needs it.

maccath, to random
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Anyone know any nice, peaceful offline Android games that aren't full of ads or competitive nonsense?

I really enjoyed playing I Love Hue and I Love Hue Too, but I kinda completed them both a long time ago and have never quite found a replacement. 😔

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zutgames.ilovehue

RogerBW,
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@maccath May not be the sort of thing you're looking for, but:
net.pyrosphere.lazors—puzzle game, you can in-app-purchase hints but I did it without and I'm no genius
name,boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles—Simon Tatham's puzzle collection

BigJackBrass, to random
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I do think that this café might be laying on the British nostalgia theme a wee bit heavily.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass "For extra authenticity, a corgi will bite you in the ankle then steal your lemon drizzle."

BigJackBrass, to random
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?

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass @pauldrye "Ah, yes, uncle Henry. Jungle rot got him, y'know."

shimminbeg, to random
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I would like to assure my case officer that these searches for "how long building burn down" and "security arrangements prison" are entirely innocent but it does look bad, I'll agree. @RogerBW @DarkestKale

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale "how much gasoline consume human body" (see Ribbon of Memes Promising Young Woman)

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @shimminbeg I've said before that the fact that I didn't get a door knock after researching Meltdown & Fallout suggests that;

  • They aren't paying attention; or
  • They have dismissed me as a harmless nutter (heh, heh, heh).
RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm starting to think of skills as indicators for social entrées too. I have lots of Pistol, I probably know at least one local range where I practice and keep my skills up, and I know some of the people who go there. I'm an expert in Writing, chances are I write for various publications and I can talk to editors and fellow writers. And so on.

RogerBW, to books
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A Study in Death, Anna Lee Huber #Books #Mystery #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/A_Study_in_Death__Anna_Lee_Huber.html

mjg59, to random
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I'm still curious whether the Free Software Definition's choice to require the ability to use free software for any purpose is entirely deliberate - is there any writing on why free software must permit being used to restrict people's ability to exercise the four freedoms?

(I agree with the argument that it would be extremely difficult to write a license that enshrined this without restricting legitimate use cases, but if someone were able to do so, /should/ it be free software?)

RogerBW,
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@mjg59 I am distinctly tempted to release software under a You May Not Use This Software For Any Purpose licence just to see if anyone even bothers to read it.

alicemcalicepants, to random
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Today in 'Alice is ridiculous': the book I'm reading refers to 'Friday 16 August 1995'. 16 August was a Wednesday that year 😤

RogerBW,
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@alicemcalicepants One Of Us, or at least One Of Me.
Don't get me started on phases of the moon. I'll forgive not looking up where the moon was on a specific date, though we can do that now; but if the moon is full, it's opposite the sun in the sky, it's not on the horizon at midnight. Etc.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Is it "unjust" and "mean" to not let Pica lick (but not even eat) my mozzarella sicks?

Facts:

  1. She has done this before
  2. She won't even eat them, just mouth them.
  3. She has a strong opinion about doing this.
RogerBW,
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@futurebird If you weren't mean and unjust she might have nothing to complain about, which would be terrible.

sheepnik, to random
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Speaking of Storygraph, what is going on with this graph? In March, April and May to date I have read the same number of books, so the line between the dots for those months should be level. But no.

RogerBW,
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@sheepnik "But smooth curves look prettier!" (And really it should be a bar chart with bars one month wide.)

Lana, to random
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If the first Alien movie was released today the right wing incels would hate it. A female cat lady over 30 in an unflattering jumpsuit beats the aliens while all the men die? Impossible. More woke Hollywood nonsense!

RogerBW,
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@Lana The thing I particularly like about it is the way she wants to follow the book while the captain wants to be a valiant space hero and therefore lets the landing party back in.
But "nobody listens to the woman, and they all die of it" is a good ongoing theme.

tkinias, to random
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A rough thing about being stuck at an airport for going on nine hours is the constant noise.

I just want to be somewhere quiet.

Quiet and cool.

RogerBW,
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@tkinias I was meeting someone off a plane at Heathrow T3 yesterday, and ended up spending 90 minutes there. It wasn't as overheated as usual but I was still dripping sweat because there was no air movement.

RogerBW,
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@tkinias British airports in general seem to be a combination of run-down grim and desperately commercial. London City is the best of the London ones because you aren't there long enough for the hard sell. (Also I used to live a pleasant cycle ride away from it.)

rrwo, to random
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WTF is this tech bro obsession with Scarlett Johansson?

This goes back years.

In 2016 somebody made a robot version of her https://www.vulture.com/2016/04/engineer-built-a-scarlett-johansson-robot-hm.html

It's beyond creepy.

RogerBW,
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@rrwo Somebody else said she was the most beautiful woman in the world, therefore if I act as though she is the most beautiful woman in the world I am a normal person.

futurebird, to random
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Imagine architecture for creatures who easily climb vertical surfaces: a main entrance for a building could be in the center of the 2nd or 3rd floor— heck, you might not have floors, rather a system of depth: the number of major chambers from the main entrance— Theater ‘in the round?’ Try theatre in the sphere! Meeting rooms would have ceiling seats for the interns…

(If creatures are climbers & have fair sight the tension between natural light & space-efficiency produces incredible spaces)

RogerBW,
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@futurebird Possibly avoid seating directly over the stage (I dropped my aphid during the big soliloquy).

futurebird, to random
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E-bikes are very cool and I'm glad they are getting popular.

However.

There is a big difference between a crash at 12mph and one at 20mph.

Your ebike can give you injuries normally only found in motorcycle accidents. And there isn't enough advice on what constitutes sufficient maintenance for ebikes.

If you don't get balding tires fixed on a regular bike you could fall off and bruise or break a leg.

At ebike speeds that same fall will shatter your leg in dozens of pieces.

BE CAREFUL

RogerBW,
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@futurebird ke = ½mv², it's not just a good idea it's the law. 😅

RogerBW, to books
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Dark Matters, Michelle Diener #Books #Romance #ScienceFiction #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Dark_Matters__Michelle_Diener.html

MaryAnnJohanson, to random
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A real war photographer seems to agree with what I said about , that “its pretense of ‘objectivity’ is unfair to the journalist protagonists the film thinks it’s championing.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/20/civil-war-garland-movie-war-photojournalism-wrong/

RogerBW,
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@MaryAnnJohanson You could say…
[dons sunglasses]
a real journalist is "biast"?

shimminbeg, to random
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@DarkestKale I have been off sick today and I was not kidding about the Avestan.

Will they have any idea whether anything in this handout is plausible? No. Ah, but will the use of semi-authentic linguistics and analysis substantially influence the nature of the scenario? Also no. Nevertheless.

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale But you will know that it's right.

leonerd, to random
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I have a .profile that sets up PATH and some other environment variables. It applies fine when I start a new ssh login. But it doesn't appear to take effect for my X session, so window manager etc.. can't see the extra PATH entries.

What's the solution here? How do I ensure X desktop (XFCE in my case) actually sees it?

RogerBW,
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@leonerd Yeah, the last line in the .xsession invokes my preferred window manager When I started using X, that was the way one did it..

RogerBW, to books
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Thorn, Fred Saberhagen https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Thorn__Fred_Saberhagen.html

RogerBW,
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@GoblinQuester I fear a lot of it (across multiple hobbies) comes down to sone variant of: I have learned about this stuff, that gives me status here, and the more people care about something else the less status I have.

GrimmReality, to random
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Murder, She Wrote ran for 264 episodes, which means that lady who wrote about murder saw at least 264 murders over the course of TWELVE years, and you have to think, man, that's worse than most homicide cops see in the most fractured forsaken neighborhoods of the oldest cities, and I kind of want there to be a scene somewhere in a vault of Angela Lansbury, ravaged by PTSD and propped on a bar stacked with empties, inveighing against the cosmic worth of her species and slurring bitter regrets at a life's work of effectively being a janitor in an abattoir.

RogerBW,
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@GrimmReality "Also, weren't you a guy when you poured me these drinks?" "Yeah, Dave went out for a smoke break. In fact he ought to be back by now…" "Oh no, not again."

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