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morix

@morix@loci.onl

Geeky, politically lefty, queer, sometimes occultist, roleplayer, unix sysadmin type woman.

Alleged cat girl and occasional werewolf.

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morix, to shitposting
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So with the upcoming UK general election I got inspired to make a fun little toy:

https://github.com/twitchy-ears/2024-uk-general-election-bingo

Basically its some PHP that generates very simple/awful web pages with a CSV file as a data source (yeah it should be an SQLite DB or just statically generated data - I know) to act as random bingo cards to play along with the election, cross them off as they lose their seats :)

rysiek, to random
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Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔

So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯

It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️

👉 We could call them: textcasts!

And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss

morix,
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@rysiek urgh, less charming, more awful

morix,
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@rysiek but would you include awkwardly worded sponsorship adverts as obvious inserts halfway through each "episode" (script?) of your textcast?

morix,
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@rysiek I mean that's very effective but there's something I find charming about some of the absolutely cheesy wooden reading of adverts in podcasts and I was wondering how best to replicate this level of "Oh look I want to talk about my favourite <checks notes> toothpaste <checks notes> Colgate which <checks notes> always helps keep my teeth in good shape" its just like absolute chefs kiss levels of - someone paid for this? Does it work???

aral, to random
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Spare a thought for this poor little one tonight. He had a lump removed from his leg today. It’s breaking my heart to see him like this.

Close up of the bandage. The vets were lovely and made him a blue band with a red heart on it.

morix,
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@aral That is one of the saddest looking dogs I've seen in a long time :( I hope he has people giving him sympathetic pettings

morix, to shitposting
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Based on the famous XKCD "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/) I am now proposing the inverse idea - every day there are also an unlucky 10,000 - those people who find out about something absolutely fucking cursed that day and their brains are made immeasurably worse by having the knowledge they now possess.

morix,
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@anthracite eesh, I was just thinking about horrifying TERFery and channer shit (as that sort of nonsense is what came up in conversation) I hadn't thought of the kinds of things you must have seen from people who were very enthusiastic and happy to share.

Also I now kinda want to ask about that but also I really really don't.

morix,
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@anthracite thank you, I figure my brain will stop thinking about "what is the cursed knowledge?" in a few days which feels like a merciful blessing in comparison.

smitten, to random

can you write a macro that runs vim inside of emacs?

morix,
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@smitten (I know this is a shitpost but also for anyone reading it https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil is really rather good)

morix,
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@timorl @smitten true true, although I've never really tried it much

morix, to music
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAPxtxyri94 Apparently Dolly Parton just covered "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This" and its really rather good :)

inthehands, to random
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For the past year or so, I’ve been using and enjoying the search engine Kagi. Its search results are…fine, no worse than others, and it’s ad-free, stated privacy as a primary goal, and seemed to have a better ethical sense than its competitors.

Or so I hoped.

1/

morix,
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@inthehands I just got inspired to meme by this awful statement.

morix, to keyboard
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Fedizens! Now in this darkest time of the year it is the time I urge you to give any keyboards, mice, and other input devices you have laying around a bit of a clean if you feel they need it. We use them every day to communicate with the wider world and we deserve to have the nicest user experience we can give ourselves and that includes nice clean boards and mice :)

morix, to shitposting
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Tag yourself. I think I'm mostly oscillating between True Baby, Cat, and non malicious Rat Bastard because biting people.

morix, to DOOM
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John Romero (the man, the myth, the legend) is once more returning to Doom level creation.

His first large return was Sigil I, released 2018 for Dooms 25th anniversary, and now freely available https://romero.com/sigil - and now he's following it up with Sigil II for Doom's 30th.

It's getting released on 2023-12-10, a little after midnight, and costs €6.66 for the digital edition, including soundtracks by THORR and James Paddock.

https://romero.com/shop/games

morix, to solarpunk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s DamiLee who does architecture and design stuff doing a video on "SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?" which is a nice overview/summary including the interesting point that cyberpunk has a well known core brutalist aesthetic which, along with our negativity bias makes it easy to latch onto as a future, but Solarpunk is more individualised making it harder to spread as an easy idea to imagine in the future - kind of an interesting point maybe?

morix, to Wikipedia
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Maia Arson Crimew delivering once more (holy bingle!)

morix, to shitposting
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I've asked this question in other places but I feel like the fedi may have some good answers:

If a strawman argument is arguing by constructing a false and over simplified representation to knock down - whats a "Wicker Man" argument?

#Shitposting #Question

morix, to animals
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Today in this particular cutie refuses to sit in my lap when I'm at my desk, but she'll sit in a box on my lap

morix, to shitposting
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Just getting this in now, I figure it'll make me look like fucking Cassandra in a couple of years.

#Shitposting

morix, to DOOM
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https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140438-dbp62-haunting-hollow/

Just been playing "Haunting Hollow" this morning, a cool gothic doom2 level set. So far its very fair and balanced, really nice little reveals, clever layouts, and I just played level 4 (Sinking Tower of Jdjrklgufitwhtyugofplmuilginsynopdkzdnhtmksld♥ugngdmdjsdrbfnunrkdyvmfdck) and honestly it was amazing, just beautiful level design around a simple concept.

Highly recommended so far.

#Doom #Gaming

morix, to emacs
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Did a quick lunchtime hack of making a spoopy Emacs zone mode that randomly inserts halloween related emojis into the buffer.

Is it probably buggy? Yup I'd guess it probably is.

Is it rather cool and seasonably appropriate? Also yes, for sure

https://github.com/twitchy-ears/zone-pgm-spoopy

#Emacs #Halloween #Tech

morix, to tech
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Got reminded of Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324) and how I actually have some servers that return "418 I'M A TEAPOT" when not serving data the way you've contacted them.

Then I thought about Charlie Stross's (@cstross) Laundry novels and the implication of having servers all shout I'M A TEAPOT into the void in unison whenever they deny you something.

Are... are we invoking something we shouldn't?

#Tech #Shitposting #Laundry #Bookstodon

morix, to gaming
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Looks like someone leaked the source for wipEout at some point in 2022, this apparently lead to a small team rewriting it for more modern systems and creating a version that can run on Linux, Mac, Windows, or in a browser thanks to WASM

https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite

There's also a lengthy blog post linked from there with technical details.

#Gaming #RetroGaming

morix, to animals
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Today one of my precious idiot kittens decided she needed to fight string instead of napping, and then had a great time doing it and was far too adorable to not share.

A tortoiseshell cat laying in a gray basket, she is flailing and chewing on a dangling piece of string with her back paws claws extended sticking up showing off her toe beans

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