annathepiper

annathepiper, 11 months ago to random

HELLO, this is interesting, Paramount has decided to make the entire first season of Strange New Worlds available to view for free (but with commercials) on their YouTube channel!

I quite liked SNW season 1, so for my fellow Trekkies out there who don't have a Paramount+ subscription, now's your chance to actually see this particular flavor of Trek. :)

https://www.tor.com/2023/05/31/you-can-now-watch-the-entire-first-season-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-for-free/

annathepiper, 8 months ago to Starfield

Just as a general reminder, whether or not I wind up buying #Starfield will depend upon the outcome of Leona Faren's suit against Zenimax/Bethesda. This has new information, too, out of Ms. Faren's lawsuit: to wit, after she was basically railroaded into resigning with the promise that her healthcare coverage would continue, including the costs of her transition care, that coverage was retroactively yanked. Leaving her to have to foot the bill.

https://www.themarysue.com/we-cant-ignore-this-transphobia-lawsuit-in-the-excitement-for-starfield/

annathepiper, 12 days ago to random

I'll take "Things I Absolutely Do Not Want My Phone to Do EVER" for $200, Ken.

(And just to be clear, the part I don't want my phone to do is "AI listens to my calls" because PRIVACY IS STILL A THING and I don't need Google or anybody else monitoring every single goddamn phone call I might happen to make. FUCK THAT.)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-wants-ai-to-listen-to-your-phone-calls-detect-scam-callers/

annathepiper, 1 year ago to random

Gondor calls for aid!

Y'all, I have been informed that my current contract, which has been running since 2019 and throughout the pandemic, now finally has an end date: 5/30/2023. Which means I will be available for work starting in June.

If anybody out there has a need for an experienced SDET, I'd love to hear from you about your position. My current active skillset includes Swift, Xcode, Postman, and Cocoapods. Resume and references available upon request.

Please spread the word! Thanks!

#GetFediHired #FediJobs #LookingForWork

annathepiper, 9 months ago to random

This just in: I have an interview tomorrow. With, as it happens, a contract from my previous employer, who literally just laid me off. Apparently they had a new contract come across their radar that they thought I might be a good fit for, so they reached out to me.

It'd be kind of hilarious if I got picked up again by the exact same employer.

But we'll see if the client thinks I'm interesting. Interview scheduled for tomorrow morning. Wish me luck, y'all.

annathepiper, 6 months ago to random

Roughly 40 minutes until movie riffing floods the #mastoween hashtag y'all. This is the last of the October special use of the #mastoween tag, but a lot of us are also in the habit of posting to #monsterdon anyway.

So just to be safe y'all might want to filter BOTH tags if you don't want to see us going to town!

Or, y'know, you could join in, if you like. :D

We're doing The Beast Must Die from 1974 tonight!

annathepiper, 6 months ago to random

Don't ignore the pupper like that! HE HAS A QUEST FOR YOU! If a dog follows you like that he TOTALLY HAS A QUEST! Don't you play adventure games, Rich Dude? Sheesh. #Mastoween

annathepiper, 5 months ago to Skyrim

A walkthrough post for what I did to install an unofficial patch to FISSES, one of the mods I'm using in my modded playthroughs, which allows certain mods to have access to the file system so that you can save out settings for things like RaceMenu, A Matter of Time, and other mods you want to save custom configs for.

Hopefully useful to any other #Skyrim players who are using FISSES in their load orders!

I can confirm that this unofficial patch did resolve the last error I was seeing my modded playthroughs throwing on startup, following the recent update to the game. So I hope this helps somebody else!

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2023/12/10/howto-patch-fisses-in-vortex-after-recent-skyrim-update/

annathepiper, 3 months ago to random

SDET still on the job market, looking for positions that will allow me to work by remote and write test automation. I'm comfortable testing web page front end UI, mobile front end UI, and backend APIs. I'm comfortable working in Windows, macOS, AND Linux. My current tool skillset includes Python, Java, Swift, Xcode, IntelliJ, Pycharm, Postman, Git, Cocoapods, and Docker. Anything I don't immediately know or haven't worked with recently, I can pick up.

My track record with sticking with a contract is strong, and I'm regularly told by devs that I'm one of the best SDETs they've ever worked with.

If you have a position I might be a fit for, talk to me! Resume available upon request.

#GetFediHired #FediJobs

annathepiper, 22 days ago to fallout

My Fallout 3 character is now out of the vault, which means I was able to take some screenshots! And now Kimberly has a playthrough page up.

As noted before, while my site IS primarily an Elder Scrolls playthrough blog (the name of the site IS after all Anna Plays Skyrim), Fallout is going to get its own section just because hey, Bethesda game.

Interested parties can follow Kimberly's playthrough here:

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/kimberly-playthrough/

#Fallout #Fallout3 #AnnaPlaysSkyrim

annathepiper, 2 months ago to Skyrim

In which Kendeshel defends a mad mage in the sewers beneath Solitude; also fights off two different dragons in the city; marries Rulnik Wind-Strider in Riften, and settles her family at Proudspire Manor; helps the East Empire Company reclaim Japhet's Folly; and acquires the Arms of Chaos to display with the relics in her museum.

#AnnaPlaysSkyrim #Skyrim #LegacyOfTheDragonborn

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/03/13/in-which-kendeshel-gets-married-and-fights-pirates/

annathepiper, 6 days ago to random

My money's on OpenAI not revealing the name of the actor who voiced their "Sky" product because the actor does not fucking exist, and they just trained their damned product on a sample set of Scarlett Johansson anyway to get around the whole thorny problem of, y'know, paying her.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161253/scarlett-johansson-openai-altman-legal-action

annathepiper, 26 days ago to random

In which Kimberly, child of James and Catherine, grows up in Vault 101; and in which she receives an unpleasant surprise when her father mysteriously disappears.

(This being the first post of my Fallout 3 playthrough, which I will document on my blog even though it's mostly an Elder Scrolls blog!)

#Fallout3 #AnnaPlaysSkyrim

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/04/30/in-which-kimberly-grows-up-in-vault-101/

annathepiper, 28 days ago to random

"I wonder what they were like!"

"Judging by this statue, frigging enormous!"

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 21 days ago to random

1977. This was the same year Star Wars dropped.

@RobynGoodfellow just wondered if there was anyone who was all "Eh, who wants to see that sci-fi crap, let's go see Kingdom of the Spiders, that's gotta be a better movie."

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 14 days ago to random

Hans: You will owe me SO MANY SHEEP. Let's DO IT.

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 11 days ago to random

THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE.

Money quote: "An AI’s difficult relationship with the truth is called “hallucinating.” In extremely simple terms: these machines are great at discovering patterns of information, but in their attempt to extrapolate and create, they occasionally get it wrong. They effectively “hallucinate” a new reality, and that new reality is often wrong."

STG you guys, if a real actual physical person was regularly hallucinating, you wouldn't trust them to do their job, would you? So why on EARTH is it somehow "better" when it's a computer doing it?!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong

annathepiper, 6 days ago to random

Unusually high number of jobs applied to today, by which I mean, nine.

Because hi, yep, still unemployed over here, and still needing SDET work.

Let's see if any of this week's round results in anybody wanting to talk to me.

annathepiper, 7 days ago to random

"Is it possible I'm doing these things? While unaware? To punish myself?"

"Well, sir, we ARE in a Vincent Price film and you ARE Vincent Price..."

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 1 month ago to ElderScrollsOnline

In which Marwyth settles a feud between vampires in Wittestadr in Eastmarch; helps an Argonian Dreamwalker and gains his aid in curing the ailing King Jorunn; frees Jorunn from his enforced dreaming; helps Walks-Softly of the Thieves Guild steal back keepsakes held by a childhood "friend"; and takes on her first heist with the Thieves Guild.

More ESO catchup from early January.

#AnnaPlaysSkyrim #ElderScrollsOnline

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/03/30/in-which-marwyth-quests-through-eastmarch-and-aids-a-guild-compatriot/

annathepiper, 1 month ago to random

"I'll do it."

"Good boy."

<bark>

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 1 month ago to ElderScrollsOnline

In which Marwyth aids a fellow Dunmer in Blackwood, and helps Mirri Elendis rescue her brother; helps the Ebonheart Pact reclaim Skuldafn; vanquishes Fildgor Orcthane and turns him over to Jorunn Skald-King for justice; aids mages under attack by their own shadows; and learns of a threat to the Clockwork City.

ESO catchup post from mid-January, for my Ebonheart Pact character Marwyth.

#ElderScrollsOnline #AnnaPlaysSkyrim

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/04/22/in-which-marwyth-saves-eastmarch-and-discovers-a-threat-to-clockwork-city/

annathepiper, 14 days ago to random

"I should've married her, Mister Frodo!"

"Welp, guess you're going to have to marry Hans instead."

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 28 days ago to random

Fish! Plankton! Sea greens! And protein from the sea! And then it stopped coming, and they came instead!

Box always wigs me out a little every time I watch this movie. He's great. :D

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 14 days ago to random

"We had provisions for sixty days..."

By which he meant, "we planned to cook Hans as soon as we ran out of trail mix."

#Monsterdon