luciole

luciole, 11 days ago

Oh thank the gods for UTF-8

luciole, 18 days ago

I have played some of the Avernum games. In my opinion it’s peak Jeff Vogel. If you’re fine with the graphics, you’re in for excellent writing, nicely done non linear exploration and original world building.

luciole, 18 days ago

Siralim Ultimate is a very special monster collector. The sheer amount of everything is delightfully overwhelming, the depth is nonsensical and the grind is real. I love it.

luciole, 16 days ago

What has baffled me the most since yesterday was a vox pop airing on a local (canadian) channel. The journalist had travelled shortly south of the border to Plattsburgh, which is historically blue but has recently been more tight. How the casual Trump supporters remained unfazed was chilling.

One slick office lady explained calmly how the recent judicial events did not relate to Trump’s proposed politics and that therefore it didn’t change her voting intention. Another woman would explain how she prefers to vote for someone honest who speaks his mind, someone that was never involved in politics, so that’s why she’s still intending to vote for Trump (her husband had voted for Biden last election and had apparently regretted it).

It’s somehow way more shocking to witness some very average sounding and looking person make so little sense. Is it the average American news sources messing with people’s minds that much?

luciole, 8 days ago

I’d be happy to see Beehaw become more active, but not at the price of compromising the place’s ethos. That’s the whole point.

To be honest though I’m not sure what kind of thread would be nice to have in this format. It’s a difficult question.

luciole, 18 days ago

The .io TLD has been the subject of controversy for a number of years despite (or because it is?) being hijacked by tech.

EDIT: More about it

luciole, 18 days ago

Just please don’t be smart ass and choose a non relevant top-level domain because it looks cute. .io is for the British Indian Ocean Territory. .af is for Afghanistan. queer.af actually got taken down by the talibans.

.com and .org are both open TLDs and totally fine. If you’re afraid to be understood as organization, you can go for .com. It’s the default of the web by now.

If your service can be understood as some kind of web application, you could look into .app as well.

luciole, 17 days ago

No, .com is not meant as commercial anymore and it was always open to everybody. No matter how easy the domain resellers are making it, picking TLDs has some implications: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_Internet_top-level_domai…

luciole, 10 days ago

This is delicious and I didn’t even have a bite.

• “nasty wickedness”
• “a disgrace to the state of West Virginia”
• “deviancy at its finest”
• “Dogs are not gay.”

You can’t make this stuff up. Chef’s kiss

luciole, 7 days ago

A certain morwen_v shared it a few times on Instagram as well. It mostly looks like a Gustav Klimt pastiche to me. I’m wondering if this wouldn’t be generative art based on Klimt to be honest.

luciole, 11 days ago

Mon employeur a des politiques assez progressistes, mais il a une règle explicite pour interdire aux employés d’être sous l’influence du cannabis ou de l’alcool durant leur prestation.

Il y a pourtant un différence entre une consommation festive et thérapeutique. À ta place, je n’aurais pas honte de l’utiliser comme tu le fais. Par contre, sois prudent avec cette information, car la substance est toujours stigmatisée dans la sphère professionnelle. De toutes façons, à mon humble avis, c’est pas leurs affaires ce qu’on prends pour rester équilibré.

En passant, je suis content de savoir que tu as trouver quelque chose qui aide.