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zalasur, 2 days ago to random

The electricians are here and they are going to replace the base board heaters upstairs. After they are done I'll move my desk back and get my computer up and running again. We might have a stream tonight yet, if I feel up for it.

zalasur, 2 days ago to random

Welp, my upstairs computer is unplugged and my desk moved to the corner. I am on my regular laptop now. I has a sad.

zalasur, 4 days ago to random

My observations of a certain segment of IT:

Infosec Professional, 2023: I am an expert with years of experience who understands best security practices and the most urgent vulnerabilities plaguing the Internet in the modern day and age

Infosec Professional, 2024: This is my farm. I grow potato. I do not live within a five mile radius of a power line or any other functioning electronics.

zalasur, 5 days ago to random

So, about the StackOverflow/openAI announcement:

I'll be honest: SO's utility has, along with a number of online resources for technical information, degraded considerably in recent years. It's hard to put my finger on when this started happening, but the days of "I just copied the code off of SO" are years behind us.

Partly this has to do with the proliferation of web platforms. When everyone was using jQuery it was easy to consolidate common questions and answers. Not so much anymore.

zalasur, 6 days ago to random

One of my favorite things about Discord for Ubuntu is how it now makes you download and manually install a new deb file twice a week. "Today's you're lucky day!" Is it, Discord? Is it really?

zalasur, 6 days ago to fediverse

One thing I wish #PeerTube did was post a federated announcement whenever I went live. Right now I have to post things manually just like I did on Twitch which sort of defeats the purpose.

"But you can just create a new live video every time you go live and it will federate that" Do you know what a pain in the ass that is?

zalasur, 6 days ago to random

OMG

Gummy bears, but the bears are actually tardigrades.

zalasur, 7 days ago to random

I'm going to try to get that technical stream going today. One thing I need to be a bit careful about is hooking up my S3 bucket in the CMS config. I want to try to avoid exposing my credentials so I think I'll work on that before going live.

If it turns out I can't get around to it today, I'll do another Dwarf Fortress stream instead.

zalasur, 8 days ago to DwarfFortress

This weekend I have two streams planned.

Today: #DwarfFortress Volcano Embark, but with economic milestones cranked up to 10x their original values. This will likely make the game a little unbalanced, but that's OK. This is Dwarf Fortress. Unbalanced is how we roll.

Tomorrow: I have a technical stream planned. I'll be setting up a CMS that will be adding support for ActivityPub this year and I want to see how it works.

Let's play!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#Stream #Streaming #PeerTube

zalasur, 9 days ago to random

Photobucket is really getting kinda pushy here.

zalasur, 9 days ago to random

What if Microsoft released an operating system and nobody cared?

zalasur, 9 days ago to Rabbits

A new friend has arrived. They like to hang out here for some reason, though it's been raining this week so they've had to hide elsewhere when the water is pouring out of the downspout. I guess he's just the right size to hide in there in case one of the neighborhood cats comes a-prowling.

#bunny #rabbit #bunniesofmastodon #rabbitsofmastodon

zalasur, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

Enough with the serious crap. Now on to more fun stuff.

How to you pronounce "GIF"?

zalasur, 11 days ago to random

Everything is SFW as long as you do it on your personal phone.

On mute.

Don't forget that part. Trust me on this.

zalasur, 14 days ago to DwarfFortress

SUNDAY SNEAKY STREAM!!!

It's Dwarf Fortress again. We're going to try a volcano start again, but this time in an ancient world (2000 years). This embarkhas tons of tetrahedrite so we'll have plenty of copper and silver. Maybe we can get an obsidian farm going here while we're at it.

I'll also try some experiments with Adventure Mode on this map so we'll see how that works out.

Come join the fun!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DwarfFortress #Stream #Streaming #PeerTube

zalasur, 15 days ago to fediverse

Today it's a technology stream! I'll be setting up a Synapse server and will try to get it federated.

Once we get this done, my next stream will be.... drum roll Dwarf Fortress!

https://video.surazal.net/w/5S7FPXJMZh1i1eqZLY9mcV

#PeerTube #Stream #Streaming #Tech #Technology #Synapse #Matrix

zalasur, 15 days ago to random

Of course! The mic stand that I use for my downstairs desk was being kept in the most logical place: in my upstairs desk.

zalasur, 16 days ago to random

That moment when the two bunny picture profiles you follow on the fedi turn out to be different people and you see them talking to each other in your TL. 🤯

You means there is more than one bun?

zalasur, 16 days ago to random

I've got this knack for discovering amazing people who are also pop culture phenomena several years after they've passed on.

It all started with Mitch Hedberg when learned about him way back in 2010 😅

zalasur, 17 days ago to random

My problem with the term "tradwives" is that it sounds just like something Margaret Atwood would have invented in one of her cautionary tales.

zalasur, 17 days ago to random

Oof, so I did a dirty deed today.

We have rabbits that like to hang out in our back yard. They are a pair we see quite often and a few days ago I saw one of them gathering grass over on the side of our house.

Neat! They are building a nest!

Not so neat: they popped off the cover of our window well leading to our basement and dug a hole under there. I would have missed it had I not been looking for it. It looked like a small pile of grass until I pulled it back and saw the hole (cont'd)

zalasur, 19 days ago to Matrix

So has anyone had experience setting up a #Matrix server using #Synapse? The platform itself seemed pretty straightforward until it got to the part where I needed to configure a mail server. What solutions do people use?

I want desperately to set my own server and ween myself off of Discord soooo badly. 😅

zalasur, 21 days ago to DwarfFortress

We have a fort humming along just nicely. The undead creatures are mostly keeping to themselves but they do occasionally harass the visitors. Our axe dwarves are pretty good at keeping them down though the severed parts like to reanimate occasionally.

After a couple of healthy migration waves we need to set up a proper home now. Hospital, temple, and a tavern are on the list, but also bedrooms. Time to get settled in!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#DwarfFortress #Stream #Streaming #PeerTube

zalasur, 25 days ago to random

"This meeting could have been a chatGPT prompt."

(Use this for when you really want to punch your coworker in the gut)

zalasur, 27 days ago to mastodon

Me: Doing my timesheet

Also me: Oh I just thought of a funny toot I can post in lieu of working on my timesheet right now.

#Mastodon #Winning #Productivity