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binaryphile

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:golang: :neovim: :android: :bash: :bitcoin: :ethereum: :fosstodon: :git: :ruby: :python: :signal: :ubuntu:

He/him

There are 10 kinds of people in the world...

I follow easily but unfollow and mute just as easily. No offense

Progressive father and husband, software developer in his 50s

Avatar is the robot Bender from the animated show Futurama, on a background of ones and zeroes.

Profile splash graphic is the cover of the boardgame #ChicagoExpress, a favorite board game of mine.

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iain, to boardgames
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Seas of Strife (aka Texas Showdown)

Card game where you want to avoid tricks. You must follow suit, but if someone discards another suit, you can follow that suit too. The suit with the most cards determines the winner. If you play the highest card of the suit, the suit no longer counts.

This sounds confusing, but it's straightforward and smooth in practice.

We played with 6 and it worked very well, although you'd have more control with fewer players and a larger hand.

binaryphile,
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@iain A favorite trick taker of mine at higher player counts. I'm partial to the original western theme, I must say.

Richard_Littler, to bluesky
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Jack Dorsey is furious that has attracted "very very common" people. He also doesn't like the idea of moderation tools facilitating the banning of racists.

All these tech billionaires are like a version of the movie Big, in which a pre-adolescent boy wakes up in the body of an aging Howard Hughes. Or Colonel Kurtz. Or a sardine.

binaryphile,
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@Richard_Littler And let's re-appreciate this gem from Dorsey's BS last year: https://www.engadget.com/bluesky-allowed-people-to-include-the-n-word-in-their-usernames-184049864.html

Nonilex, to Law
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Tuesday 7 May 2024 ๐Ÿงต

Is Expected to today

Daniels, who received $130k in to keep silent about her story of having had sex with , is at the center of the case against him.

binaryphile,
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@Nonilex I'm sorry, how does the presence of a condom go to motive? To be honest, seeing the prosecution eliciting specific graphic details like that makes me far less confident in the job they're doing. Whatever nails him legally will be mundane details. This stuff just gives shrift to the defense.

BoardGameBeans, to boardgames
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What is everyone's favorite roll-and-write games (Or flip, spin, or whatever other mechanic exists)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/291845/three-sisters

We've just played Three Sisters and had a great time! While I didn't win, I did ended up getting that fancy tractor ๐Ÿšœ.

Still got Cartographers to try, and Fliptown is on its way which I'm excited for.

๐ŸŽƒ๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿซ›

binaryphile,
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@BoardGameBeans Been playing a lot of High Season, the Grand Austria Hotel roll and write. It's a quite good simplification of it's parent. Highly recommend.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/398898/high-season-grand-hotel-roll-and-write

binaryphile,
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@BoardGameBeans Doesn't matter, in fact the roll & write is a good intro to the parent and probably makes sense to play first.

18+ preslavrachev, (edited ) to golang
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Which one is your least favorite?

โ€”
#golang #programming

binaryphile,
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@orsinium @preslavrachev ๐Ÿ‘ That looks like a very nice implementation, good stuff.

binaryphile, to boardgames
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Lovely game of 's this evening at (sorry no picture). Played it a few times over the years, am starting to appreciate the mechanics while not being good at them. The Impulse where each player adds actions to be taken by all players on their turns is tasty. How can I add actions which benefit me more than my opponents, while also synergizing with the existing actions. Nobody even got to start a "plan", the mechanism for private actions.

binaryphile, (edited ) to random
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Incredible game of by and tonight, involving a four-board map and 27 units on one side and 42 units on the other, under two commanders each. Mortars, tanks, armored personnel vehicles, bunkers, trenches, wire, mines, smoke, flamethrowers, artillery, the whole shebang. I played the Russians this time, and surprisingly, they were effective. 1/

binaryphile,
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Unfortunately, there wasn't quite enough time in the evening to come to a decisive conclusion. The scale of the map and sheer number of units meant a protracted game in the first place, but my Russians also had 17 units/mines hidden across the board, meaning I had to constantly re-memorize my units' locations. I was up to the task, but it did hurt my ability to simultaneously strategize. Fortunately for the Russians, by virtue of them being on defense, they mostly needed to sit in wait.

binaryphile, (edited )
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While the Germans quickly took out my tanks and left me without much firepower against armor, the plethora of hidden units were able to backstop by getting proximity to the Germans as they passed unknowingly. Hop out of cover into short or close range and pop them in the flank and you could just be back in business, armor or no. I also caught a card for each commander that grants extra command points, particularly useful for the Russians, who lose troops and their associated CAP quickly.

binaryphile,
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A lucky artillery strike on the overly-clustered Germans netted a bunch of points as well. In the end, however, I think the Germans took the day after all, because I left the big cluster of control points undefended by nearby troops, providing a chewy center for the first mobile German troops that made their way past the crunchy exterior. Some really lucky tiptoeing around my mines didn't hurt either. A game worthy of the four hours we spent.

Nonilex, to Law
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lol. Per Lisa Rubin: #Trump keeps nodding off again in court today. Canโ€™t wait for the drool to kick in.

#law #criminal #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #TrumpTrial

binaryphile,
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@Nonilex This is what happens when they take away his Adderall

anderseknert, to random
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#Hashicorp sending their lawyers on #OpenTofu feels like the last chapter of what was once a great open source company. Oh well, the claims look baseless, and like pretty much any move Hahicorp made this past year, this will only hurt themselves.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/opentofuorg_opentofu-project-was-recently-made-aware-activity-7182147077496344576-jsDQ

binaryphile,
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@anderseknert I hope Mitchell got paid for selling his reputation.

binaryphile, to random
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Happy "conservatives complain about Easter not being supreme over all other things while they unknowingly celebrate a pagan fertility goddess' day and roundly ignore the instructions of their proclaimed leader and hate on trans people like it's a sport, because for them it totally is" day.

tess, to random
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If someone is claiming that any bad outcome is the result of DEI they are saying that they think Black and brown people and women are inferior to white men.

There is no other reasonable way to interpret those statements.

binaryphile,
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@davidhmccoy @tess oh my god. wtf is wrong with people.

unicorndeburgh, to politics
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Senator Fetterman is considering voting with the GOP against reducing car emissions. If you care about climate change, yell at him here: www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/

That quote is from https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/03/21/bidens-newest-democratic-worry-00148357

#politics #climate

binaryphile, (edited )
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@unicorndeburgh Is Fetterman pulling a Sinema now?

gzt, to boardgames
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played a few games of "For Sale" on BGA. I have no idea what I'm doing in the first stage, but I'm actually doing really well anyway since apparently I'm good at the second stage and a lot of people are miserable at it. Elo is near 300 after a handful of games, but it hasn't stabilized yet. Seems like it'd be fun in person.

binaryphile,
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@gzt An all-time classic for me.

train, to ipv6
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Damn #ipv6 you just keep coming back up in the #homelab!! Can we make a ipv5.5432 or something that I can wrap my head around this shit easier! It's the adkjlfa;dljfklad:adlkjfal;dkfja:a;lkdjlfkjfjd:123:1233435:3434:22123233 that throws me off. Then here comes them network heads be like.. You dummy the fuck wrong with you that's easy as shit to see.. It's the 3rd semicolon from the back.. you ass hat.. ummm what! ๐Ÿ˜

I just want a static ip gawd damit ๐Ÿคฃ..

#networking #dns #selfhosting

binaryphile,
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@train Yeah, I wince whenever I have to look at them too. That's the very real downside of having an address space that large. I asked ChatGPT to characterize the size of it and it said if an address was 1 milliliter of water, it would fill billions of Earths. That sounds about right. 1/2

binaryphile,
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@train
They're still an eyesore but it's good when there are long stretches of 0s at a time, since those can be skipped showing by "::" instead, but what the address contains usually isn't up to us (although maybe you can use DHCP to force assignment of some hand-picked addresses that are short because of zeros). I feel your pain.

tsyum, to random
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Ignoring the label, does anyone know what this type of is? This style of ?

Iโ€™m sure theyโ€™ve been around for decades at least, but Iโ€™m borderline obsessed and want to know where I can find more ๐Ÿ˜‚

binaryphile,
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@tsyum Some portable versions of come in these, usually from Germany. I have a game called Pickomino, but in original German it's Heckmeck am Bratwurmeck. Apparently the German name for the tin is "metalldรถschen", but I don't know how specific that is.

martijnbraam, to random
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Creating chroots without root is pretty hard

binaryphile,
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@martijnbraam proot worked a treat when I needed a regular-user chroot, but it's fairly slow.

https://proot-me.github.io/

AmishSuperModel, to random
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Should you answer a rhetorical question?

binaryphile,
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@AmishSuperModel Rhetorical Jeopardy is played by showing blank clues and the first one to ring in asks, "Who came up with this game, anyway?"

lordsplodge, to boardgames
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Hive mind. I want some new โ€˜small box*โ€™ games for me and Mrs to play in the pub. We like the Ganz Schรถn series, Isle of Trains, Harbour, Qwixx, Flip City as examples.

  • I mean proper smoll. Ideally they can fit in a baggie in my coat pocket. The original Isle of Trains does this. The new version does not. I have a โ€˜manbagโ€™ for slightly larger games if needed.
binaryphile, (edited )
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@lordsplodge

julesh, to random
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Theory and practice are like 2 tunnels dug from opposite sides of a mountain that don't line up by 1m

binaryphile,
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@julesh One of my favorite sayings is "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't."

binaryphile, (edited ) to boardgames
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Personal record play of 's with 102 points for me tonight!

Two imperial tribute events early meant a money-heavy strategy, which translated into favors and fan ladies early as well. The rest of the game was managing three palaces and keeping my head above water otherwise while the end of round points rolled in. Pow.

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