trysdyn

trysdyn, 11 days ago to random

Naw, I'm not gonna let that sit there and confuse people.

If anyone saw that and was asking what "Didn't render": nothing. It was a bad trashpost :P

trysdyn, 11 days ago to random

I think it's really weird Mastodon won't render .

Like is a super common thing in formatted text. Why would it just strip it?

trysdyn, 15 days ago to random

I didn't think I'd have to say "If someone says they're muting a thread that does not mean 'make sure to mention them off-thread to call attention to your reply so they do not miss it'" but I guess I do.

trysdyn, 23 days ago to random

Responses to Hades 2 so far remind vee of A Valley Without Wind. Basically no one likes both AVWW 1 and 2. People either absolutely love 1 or love 2 and think the other is a giant mistake.

I prefer AVWW 1. Dunno about Hades. Haven't even finished 1 to decide to try 2.

trysdyn, 30 days ago to random

Stop normalizing that you need to go find an alternative to a FOSS project the very hecking moment it goes into maintenance mode/read-only/archival.

Good gods people are already going "Neofetch is dead what's the alternative". It still works fine!

Normalize the idea that software can be "finished" and not be updated until a major feature shortfall or security issue arises, then someone can fork it. Or fork it now, I'm not your mom, but the original is still okay.

trysdyn, 1 month ago to random

There needs to be a level of explanation of permacomputing between "We start by making slower computers and powering them with solar" and "I built an OS where you bitbang the SATA controller in Forth"

I'm struggling to pivot discussion of the Voyager 1 fix and how we updated a 46 year old computer from 2b miles away into "We can be more resilient and mindful of waste at home too" without falling down the yawning chasm between the two.

trysdyn, 1 month ago to random

Gods I love the feeling that comes from someone talking about a technical problem and being able to go "I wrote a silly thing 5 years ago that would solve this here you go"

You look like some time-traveling wizard.

trysdyn, 2 months ago to random EN

Anyway the entire ops/dev world just dodged (we think/hope we dodged, anyway but are not 100% sure) the biggest supply chain attack in history that would have screwed absolutely, literally, everyone.

This needs a giant f**king industry-wide post-mortem once we're sure we're not all doomed.

trysdyn, 2 months ago to random EN

The era we're living in is one where anyone trusted with data has to constantly make will saves against taking a risk of alienation to pivot into datasci/AI/etc and for many orgs it might be fiscally worth the risk.

You suddenly start slurping data up into a model or DWH trying to develop a new tech, piss off all your customers, but they "signed" the TOS change. You have their data. If you actually disrupt something you strike it rich.

There's not much more dangerous than a corporation in a trusted position that's decided pissing off all their customer at once is worth it.

trysdyn, 2 months ago to random EN

It's possible to play a Balatro hand that scores naneinf because Balatro is written in Lua and the exponential mode score display creates itself with naive string interpolation.

In Lua if you perform an integer overflow you don't lose precision or crash, the Lua core simply renders that value as inf. Yes this is incorrect to do. As part of deriving the coefficient then, a div from inf results in a div by 0 error that produces nan.

So then you interpolate naneinf. Typically trying to perform any math or comparison on nan will result in a crash, so I imagine Balatro has an error handler here that says if the score contains a nan or an inf just declare the blind won because fuck.

trysdyn, 2 months ago to random EN

Is there anything more iconic than the "Your prescription is ready, lol j/k no it ain't come back in 4 hours" bait and switch?

trysdyn, 2 months ago to random EN

Yuzu is the winner of the "Stuck up too far and got the mower blade" award this quarter I guess.

From a legal standpoint they had it coming. Your entire legal lifeblood as an emulator dev is being able to keep on the table the idea that you don't deliberately promote or support piracy and they uh... profiteered off it.

I'm also reading a lot of people who tried to archive Yuzu did so with shallow forks, which uh... sucks.

Citra's gone too because they were the same people. Sigh. Yuzu at least had a pretty workable alternative.

I'm glad they settled. They were dead. Completely dead. This keeps the argumentation out of the courts and off the books at least.

trysdyn, 3 months ago to random EN

"Cryptocurrency that tries to base on proof of contribution to open source projects sparks wave of bogus pull requests" isn't the headline I expected to see in the--

No actually, I expected this from the moment I saw it, because we had the exact same problem with something far more trivial: a t-shirt for making a contribution.

When are we gonna learn that "Go make a PR, any PR, get a cookie" is a net loss for effort put forth for project maintainers and this must, absolute must, be opt-in?

trysdyn, 4 months ago to random

I'm begging folks: if someone panic-bombs about "This completely asinine law is getting passed", please at least look up the bill number and make sure it even lands in the same ballpark as what people are reporting it does.

I just got to the bottom of "Oklahoma is banning furries!" reported in like 10 newspapers to find the House Bill Number and legal section the "bill" claims to reference are completely fake and it's a draft PDF sitting on some college server somewhere that's never touched the Oklahoma house floor.

It might in the future, but it sure as hell hasn't yet and no one knows for sure who even wrote it.

trysdyn, 4 months ago to random

The 737 MAX 8 has a FCS issue that can cause "unintended altitude loss".

The MAX 8 and 9 have faulty cabin doors and a spot inspection found last week's incident isn't a standalone.

The MAX 7 is being held up in production because its engine housing can explode.

The new 747 Boeing provided the US Government to transport the President isn't airworthy and won't be for some time.

I'm not too keen on the idea of giving Boeing less oversight rather than more, TBH.

trysdyn, 5 months ago to random

If you ever think you don't know what you're doing more than others, just stop and think about Discord's algorithm to decide where to stop scrolling in a chat you haven't looked at for a minute.

trysdyn, 5 months ago to random

Most of my GtS bug reports start with "I made a post"... and I'm wondering if maybe the fix for every bug ever is to just stop posting. 🤔

trysdyn, 5 months ago to random

The last time Facebook embraced an open federated standard they did it for precisely long enough to saturate server-to-server contacts between an already existing userbase and their stuff, then shut off that federation and told anyone cut off by it to just come to Facebook instead.

This is literally something they did. This is in their playbook.

The people running the stuff behind the scenes were blindsided by it; it was an executive decision. Those people wanted to build the thing in good faith and the Business Plan was to let them until the time was right to strike.

That we're again going "It seems to be done right, let's give them a chance" is a little infuriating considering I was pretty impacted by the fallout of the last time.

trysdyn, 5 months ago to random

Oh lovely. The new Discord update can mistarget image uploads and send them to an unintended recipient.

So if you use Discord for mixed purposes uh... be extremely, extremely wary of that. 🙃

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/18dfkkf/pictures_sent_in_server_are_going_to_my_last_dm/

trysdyn, 5 months ago to random

Reminder if you run arch on a server, to actually inspect what pacman -Syu wants to update and if it wants to move your DB (postgres and maria at least) across major versions, you will have extra work to do, be at risk of data loss, etc etc.

Check your backups.

Apropos of nothing, Postgres 16 just landed in arch main and the migration process not being performed correctly has already nomfed one instance.

trysdyn, 5 months ago to random

People conflating the rollout of WebExtensions Manifest V3 with "Killing adblockers" is doing such a disservice because it gives asstroturfers the easy out of just saying "But Firefox is moving to Mv3 too!"

It's not the Mv3 that's doing it. It's the deliberate limitations on the API endpoints used for the filtering that are baked into Chrome's handling of it. Limitations Firefox has already removed.

trysdyn, 6 months ago to random

Step 1: Find bug in project that is blocking your ability to use it
Step 2: Visit source repo to file an issue
Step 3: No issues links... huh
Step 4: Dig through multiple layers of a docs/ directory to find "Join our discord to report issues"
Step 5: Join, ask about bug
Step 6: Get screamed at by dev and four mods because "We heard this 100 times, we know, leave us the fuck alone about it" then being banned

If only you had some way to publicly disclose what issues you knew about and what you were working on...

trysdyn, 6 months ago to random

Graphviz feels a lot like the kind of tool where someone looks at it and goes "Oh neat I don't have to draw these by hand" and then 4 weeks later they finally got the graph out of it they wanted by tinkering with 40,000 ill-documented knobs and playing with RNG seeds and think "Okay the next time I need to do one of these I have the tools for it" and then congress bans flowcharts and UML graphs the next day.

trysdyn, 6 months ago to random

"If you ever see a black light but the bulb itself glows blue: that's not a black light but an unshielded UV lamp" is not something I thought would have to be survival knowledge but here we hecking are I guess.