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zalasur

@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net

I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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zalasur, to random
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I've just been thinking and musing, and I want to share my uninformed opinion. 😅

It's kind of interesting that while this platform (Mastodon and the fediverse at large) is far more vibrant and bustling than it ever has been in any point in its history, people feel obligated to post about how this place is bad and it's dying because it's bad or the people are bad somehow.

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zalasur, (edited )
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I've seen a lot of this after the initial Twitter Exodus waves died down. A lot of people sort of demanded the same level of clout or engagement they had (or imagined they had) of their prior platform.

And some complained. Maybe they complained about the fact that they no longer had as many followers or that it was missing key features or whatever. So they came and left, and quite a few of them went back to Twitter or went somewhere else.

zalasur, to random
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Me: "Ah, time to install a new package via homebrew."

Also me, who just realized he hasn't run "brew update" in over a month: "Oh no."

zalasur,
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Seriously why does it take like an hour to upgrade 8 packages!?

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Was typing an email to my organization's CEO and Board of Directors, and Fishy somehow managed to walk across the keyboard AND press send. 10/10 he is a very productive cat, definitely has upper management potential.

My tuxedo cat Fishy looking up at the camera, he is a handsome devil.

zalasur,
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@lowqualityfacts No CEO before Cat 😂

zalasur, to random
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zalasur, to random
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I solved this JoWordle 499 with 4/6 attempts in 48.1 seconds. Can you do better?
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zalasur, to factorio
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Getting ready to play some ! Come join us on ! https://www.twitch.tv/zalasur

zalasur, to random
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Running through some Steam updates, some quite large (looking at you, KSP2 -_-). After that I will be kicking off a stream. Factorio? Yes, Factorio.

zalasur, to random
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Historically speaking St Petersburg has been a great place for Russian leaders to hide out while political turmoil rocks the country.

zalasur, to random
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The people living in Kyiv must be looking at the situation unfolding around Moscow and thinking to themselves, "SUCKS, DOESN'T IT"

augieray, to random
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3.5 years of constant caution and sacrifice, withholding dinners at restaurants & concerts, and I let one professional event encourage me to take needless risks. I spoke in a room with 80 people without a mask. I asked the event planner to have air filters in the room, but she said "their effectiveness for Covid prevention is limited," which is, of course, BS, and that should've been when I withdrew from the event. I let my guard down, and now I have my first infection. Be safe out there!

zalasur,
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@augieray Here's to hoping for a quick recovery. Take it easy for a few weeks. Best advice I took to heart when I caught it last August was to embrace your inner potato.

zalasur, to random
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I solved this JoWordle 498 with 4/6 attempts in 2:03 minutes. Can you do better?
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zalasur, to random
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Some online interactions you just gotta nope tf out of.

dugglebutt, to random
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My dog had to spend 2 days in the Veterinarian ER which completely sucked but the doctor gave me this medication for her and these are the instructions:

should I call my pre-med biochem professor from college or…?

zalasur,
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@dugglebutt "Get in the RV, Jesse. We're going cooking."

glassbottommeg, to news
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Woah, they're doing a coup in Russia. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/23/russia-war-ukraine-based-on-lie-yevgeny-prigozhin/ (EDIT: non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/zdagh )

Wagner's chief (aka the only remotely good military over there) is moving against Putin. This being the same "elite military" branch that Putin basically sent out to die in Ukraine, so, um, I imagine they have grievances.

EDIT: The people replying to this are much smarter about tank-and-gun stuff than I am, so for better context of what's tanking and gunning over there please see replies, heh

zalasur,
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@glassbottommeg They were the ones the Ukrainian military chewed up in Bakhmut for several months. They just sent waves on men in there and few of the men left that area alive.

KelsonV, to Minecraft
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Lemmy.world appears to be backfilling posts from remote communities I'm subscribing to. One post from a few months ago:

"Why did we stop building with dirt?"

And all I can think is "Because creepers can blow it up too easily."

zalasur,
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@KelsonV Endermen will take them apart, too... eventually

mordremoth, to random

Internet search sucks now.

Making a classic "search engine" requires obscene amounts of money and resources, so creating direct competition is not a realistic option.

But what if we had a way to each take our own personal bookmarks and link collections, and share them, using a federated protocol?

My fifty sites, your sixty-five links, some friends and their contributions... All hand-selected and vetted, manually tagged and organized by real people... Hosted on small, volunteer-run servers...

What if web search results were organized not by "how many ad dollars did this site generate for the search company" but rather something like "someone you know directly tagged this site, and someone twice-removed tagged this other site so it's lower priority"?

zalasur,
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@mordremoth Back in the day (the 90s) they had a name for this. It was called a directory. IIRC it's how Yahoo got its start.

I for one wouldn't mind seeing a revival of this reinvented for the modern federated web.

zalasur,
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@mordremoth I will delete my comment. My apologies.

StefanThinks, to random
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I'm doing my part to save the planet. (Using dark mode to extend my phone’s battery life.)

zalasur,
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@StefanThinks The hero we deserve

rockmastermike, to random
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welp. made it 2 blocks and then got a flat tire

I guess that's my hint to stay home

zalasur,
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@rockmastermike That's a pretty convincing message from the Universe

Juju, to random
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It's Friday after 4 pm, why are work people trying to contact me?

zalasur,
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@Juju Uuuuugh nooooo

fasterthanlime, to random
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I'm sorry, Ubuntu 23.04 ships with neovim 0.7.2 ??? (from June of 2022)

zalasur,
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@fasterthanlime I'll have to double check what I used for my neovim setup on Ubuntu. I remember running into this problem, too.

ai6yr, to Titanic

gCaptain: Debris Field Confirms ‘Catastrophic Implosion’ of Tourist Submersible https://gcaptain.com/debris-field-found-in-search-for-missing-titan-sub/

zalasur,
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@mjf_pro @ai6yr It would have been swift. An implosion like that would have meant instant death. They would not have suffered.

Chrishallbeck, to Funny
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Questions.

zalasur,
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@Chrishallbeck Ah, he committed the classic blunder. Everyone knows if you mean to type something sarcastically you should always use cHiCkEn sPoNgEbOb nOtAtIoN

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