ltriant

ltriant, 13 days ago to random

I also took this photo of the night sky last night. Playing with longer exposure times was a lot of fun. Now I just need a tripod to keep the damn phone steady, although I feel like I did a decent job without 😂

grtcdr, 19 days ago to random

I feel so awkward explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse to people who have no prior knowledge of either.

I've used phrases like: "imagine if you could run your own Facebook (ew) for your friends and family or join an existing community of like-minded people".

I've explained all of these concepts time and time again, to people from various backgrounds, those in software engineering for example find the concepts of federation and decentralisation really interesting. Some find these concepts hard to grasp, while others find the extra step of finding the right community cumbersome.

I understand that "X" social media platform is where people are, but, in the Fediverse, where people are can be any one of Y, Z, or whatever; all of us can communicate under different jurisidictions.

I'd really like to know the examples you've used to introduce the Fediverse to your peers and friends.

CultureDesk, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to movies

20 years ago today, "Shaun of the Dead," the world's first rom-zom-com, got its full theatrical release in the U.K. GQ talked to director Edgar Wright, star/co-writer Simon Pegg and co-star Nick Frost about George Romero, cricket-bat-swinging, record-hurling, and whether they'll ever get the band back together. This is the movie that started the Cornetto Trilogy. We want to know, which is your favorite of the three?

https://flip.it/zp12k8

#Movies #Cinema #Film #ZombieMovies #ShaunoftheDead #CornettoTrilogy #UnitedKingdom

evacide, 2 months ago to random

Listen, I understand that people believe I exist in an endless state of incandescent rage, but they are going to have to invent new words for how angry I am about Glassdoor adding real names without users' consent.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/

evacide, 3 months ago to random

I'm just going to leave this right here and have you imagine the reality-rending shriek that has just left my body:

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202402/facial-recognition-service-says-it-is-for-suspicious-lovers-not-stalking

ltriant, 6 months ago to random

Watched Trick r Treat last night.

I still love this one. It's got excellent spooky Halloween vibes, and fun deaths. And I love anthologies, especially in horror. I just wish it went for longer.

🎃

ltriant, 7 months ago to random

On this Friday the 13th, we’re watching Friday the 13th part 6: Jason Lives

I’ve never actually seen this one, so I’m excited!

🎃

#FridayThe13th

ltriant, 8 months ago to random

PB+J on a pancake is damn good

ltriant, 8 months ago to random

After not touching it for a few weeks, I had some ideas about the problems with the rendering in my emulator, and ooooofff, it's so close now.

Proper frame position ✅
HUD looks right ✅
Sprite positions ❌
Weird off-by-one 2/3 across the screen ❌

#EmulatorDevelopment

video/mp4

ltriant, 9 months ago to retrogaming

Uhh Atari went and re-released the 2600 with HDMI ports, and widescreen TV support.

https://atari.com/products/atari-2600-plus

Yes pls.

#RetroGaming #RetroComputing

ltriant, 9 months ago to typescript

Learning the hard way about async/await footguns.

Lesson learned.

Don't use:

foo.forEach(async (f) => { await ... });

It doesn't do what I thought it would do. The closure will return a Promise, which we're never resolving, so the code is getting executed in another thread concurrently eventually, but it's still wrong code.

Instead, to do it all sequentially, this is the way:

for (const f of foo) { await ... }

#TypeScript

ltriant, 9 months ago to random

Wow.

Having not been on the other site for some time, I'm only just learning about what's recently happened to Naomi Wu.

It's not terribly surprising, given China's actions in the past, but it's still disturbing how little coverage there has been of a prolific tech personality mostly disappearing from online life.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

ltriant, 9 months ago to random

After taking my sweet ass time, I finally finished reading Dune while we’re away on holiday… immediately went and picked up Dune Messiah at the next book store.

The thing I’m finding hard to get used to is in other books it might take 10 chapters to get through a battle — looking at you A Song of Ice and Fire — whereas in Dune a major part of the plot is done in a few pages 😂

Next book isn’t even 300 pages. Should be done pretty quickly!

mcc, 11 months ago to random

Super Mario Galaxy >
Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island > Super Mario World >
Super Mario 3D World >
Super Mario 3D Land >
Super Mario Odyssey (After "winning") >
Super Mario 3 >
Mario Vs. Donkey Kong >
Super Mario Sunshine >
New Super Mario Bros. >
Super Mario 2 >
Vs. Super Mario Bros >
Super Mario Land 2 >
Super Mario 2 (Japan) > Super Mario 64 >
Super Mario 1 >
New Super Mario Bros. U >
Super Mario Galaxy 2 >
Super Mario Bros. 35 >
Super Mario Odyssey (Before "winning") >
Super Mario Land >

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eniko, 11 months ago to random

I'm curious, what's the most relaxing video game you've played?

paigerduty, 11 months ago to random

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recursive, 1 year ago to random

a cool thing about lifting weights is that now the 40 pound bags of cat litter feel so light I was lifting two at a time off the shelf at the store