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asmodai

@asmodai@mastodon.social

Professional problem solver; DevOps; buddhist, dreamer and sometimes thinker

You cannot solve social problems with technology.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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pervognsen, (edited ) to random
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Had a very weird first 24 hours back in Europe until I realized (after noticing this for two different kinds of bottles with screw-off plastic caps) that the plastic caps don't detach anymore from the collar. That's new since last year. EU regulation apparently?

asmodai,
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@pervognsen Yep! Reducing plastic litter. Also, many countries now having or introducing deposits for small plastic bottles and/or aluminium cans.

In other news, Tetrapaks that moved from just folding to open to plastic caps seem to move back again in at least my country, but possibly others as well?

asmodai, to random
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Sheesh, even Tango Gameworks?

I don't get Microsoft. They piss away more money on things that ultimately never see the light of day, but sure, let's close down a succesful studio.

asmodai,
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@pervognsen @Sharlock93 Hi-Fi Rush seemed like the typical game for the platformer and speedrunner crowd. I am sure that that could've been a promotional angle as well.

asmodai,
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@pervognsen @Sharlock93 Ah, I had only seen a few trailers, and it seemed more like a Metroidvania-like platformer over a DmC. But still, solid crowd for that kind of game to play and speedrun. :D

asmodai, to random
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Fucking hilarious:

"Russia warned Britain on Monday that if British weapons were used by Ukraine to strike Russian territory then Moscow could hit back at British military installations and equipment both inside Ukraine and elsewhere."

They pull all kinds of dirty moves themselves and cry foul when the UK effectively tells Ukraine it's okay to punch the bully a bloody nose, back on its own turf.

Fuck you, Putin.

asmodai, to security
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Are you passwords in the green?

https://www.hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green

Really stop using MD5 already for passwords.

asmodai,
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@pervognsen I had something like that and fully relied on muscle memory. Apparently one day it failed. Thankfully I had a laptop where I still had a logged in session. Needed to export every entry by hand, nuke the vault, and reimport. So yeah, that sucked. And lessons were learned.

asmodai, to random
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"Todd Howard reckons he knows why Starfield was so divisive: It was too 'different than you've seen from us in past'"

No, Todd, it's because you've stripped yet more from what made these games great and all the systems have barely evolved in all these years. It pales to your previous games in many respects.

asmodai, to random
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I seriously don't get why some people like TOML, but dislike YAML. TOML is such a worse format, and it's especially syntatically noisy.

asmodai, to random
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TIL about the Poison Book Project

It doesn't surprise me though. Emerald green, also known as Schweinfurter, Paris, or Vienna green, is highly toxic due to its chemical makeup:

Cu(C₂H₃O₂)₂·3Cu(AsO₂)₂ - copper (II) acetate triarsenite

Invented in 1814, they even used this pigment to dye candy wrappers in those days.

https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/

asmodai,
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@peturdainn Haha, fair. Aside from the time period difference, the poison used in Eco's story is most likely a plant-based poison.

Interesting read: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34431644/

asmodai, to IBM
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Holy shit.

Unsure what to think of IBM holding two of the most used configuration management/infrastructure as code tools organisations in their portfolio.

So that really only leaves Pulumi as an indepedent player?

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm

asmodai, to Futurology
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The surprising mental impact of seeing your own face on [video conferencing] calls

Viewing one’s own face during video conferencing calls leads to mental fatigue, according to a study of brain activity, which found equal outcomes among men and women.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/video-calls-zoom-face-fatigue-b2532581.html

asmodai,
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@pervognsen Yeah, I have to say that I feel less fatigued myself in calls the last few months due to some laptop troubles stopping me from using my webcam.

I like it. 😂

asmodai, to space
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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/22/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-cause-fix-scn/index.html

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.

lritter, to random
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disable webgpu https://www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/services/news-stories/media-service/singleview/article/sicherheitsluecke-in-browser-schnittstelle-erlaubt-rechnerzugriff-ueber-grafikkarte

asmodai,
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@lritter It's missing a dedicated website and a logo. :D

jpmens, to random
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    asmodai,
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    @jpmens Looks like a container-related env var:
    https://github.com/search?q=GNUPG_EXTRA_SOCKET&type=code

    Unless they all blindly followed the same advice. 😂

    asmodai, to FromSoftware
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    Bloodborne Cut Content - Underground Library Deleted Lore - Development History

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ATsaKIA6jA

    asmodai, to Amd
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    AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code

    "[..], AMD now says they will be releasing documentation followed by the source code for their Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) IP block found within Radeon GPUs."

    Note: towards the end of May

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code

    asmodai, to random
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    Well, that didn't take long. Bing's Copilot added ads. Including in the on-hover references to sources.

    If this is the experience you are getting in Windows 11 and beyond, well, even more reason for me to stick to 10 on this desktop.

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    In a new study published in the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, researchers investigated sexualized content on Twitch.tv [..]. Their analysis of approximately 2,000 livestreams reveals a concerning trend: women are more frequently and intensely self-sexualizing than men, hinting at a broader pattern of ‘pornification’ in digital content to lure audiences.

    https://www.psypost.org/researchers-uncover-pornification-trend-among-female-streamers-on-twitch/

    RYStorm, to random
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    I see a lot of imposter Stroopwafels in the US. They are never as good as the real thing. Don’t believe their lies.

    asmodai,
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    @RYStorm Obvious sign: the capital v of Van, we would never write it like this!

    asmodai, to random
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    Jesus Christ, Capcom.

    "Obtain an item that allows the Arisen to edit their own appearance or the appearance of a pawn. It can be used only once when visiting a barberie." - € 1,99

    Or 500 Rift Crystals for buying it from the Pawn guild.

    Because lord forbid you can just adjust your appearance in-game in a, mostly, single player game. Why is this even a thing?

    asmodai, to random
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    I still don't understand how YouTube cannot have a bot detector for commenters literally lifting existing comments and adding one spam word to it.

    asmodai, to TrueNAS
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    TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

    Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux.

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/truenas_abandons_freebsd/

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