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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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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

zalasur, to random
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One downside of working remotely is that when you have a day full of meetings, you still end up doing your job while attending the meeting because most meetings are 80% fluff you can ignore. But if you're in-person you have no choice but pay attention.

I say this is a downside because if you're not paying attention then you can miss that important 20%. And it's extremely stressful. 😅

mwl, to random
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I was specifically told that billionaires just rise to the top if they deserve it.

zalasur,
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@mwl Trickle down in action (to the Mariana Trench)

zalasur, to random
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I sort of feel like the web outside of social media would be a whole lot healthier if everybody's frikkin' blog and website didn't pop up one of those skeezy "Subscribe to our newsletter" dialogs five seconds after loading up the page.

Like, when the hell did that become the norm? Do people actually think interrupting someone while they are reading your content is somehow supposed to boost engagement?

andrewt, to random
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you are old

zalasur,
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@andrewt I know

zoomar, to random
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The NTY has an article about why CEOs want to return to in-person work and how they are accomplishing it. The first CEO they quote basically says they had to return to the office so he could go back to interrupting people. On Zoom, you have to hear people out.

Seems like a great place to work.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/business/return-to-office-remote-work.html?unlocked_article_code=doGU6_Pi9DMeK-yoth3eq_hdQCLhEsmLJI1eCRDvjrJdG82ItyygBylSd2c-8AWOMxZ5TfMuxeQfek4rB3GstzdT4D_9cGJdU31XiiEqRV2rctYRWHtRi187bjyvKARnE2Fyr3bz9druAaxSDFAcZLHxz6YLKf1834Jt3ftF1B0u7sqmaAIGRT7XoM_e2C9zqGCE59PSH8YKv4zWFd_m8_RQStL4iE4y0Ch3TLlI6WE9oyOJxH6mdp9Fi0jzEWjxXxWORwN8tQxTZ_mlncsEq-4U2ctsEuZoEO_KSmd65bhC2qzkss8aWXeiqcNpnFXm6LhSR2XhXz_MHekgn_esIIWJU2EmdUU&smid=url-share

zalasur,
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@zoomar It's sort of felt like this push by CEOs to have people return to the office was less about productivity and has always been about control, or at least the perception of control.

FOSSingularity, to reddit

Sooooo, wtf is / is up with lemmy ? I've seen discourse abt how to creator of it is like, an open fascist????
And yet pages on here that change their logo to rainbow for just june are boosting the shit out of every mention of it.
(This is a callout of corporate fakeness during june, not my queer mutuals :P)

Is lemmy made by a person who sucks ass?
Followup, should people be promoting it how they are?

Followup to the followup, if it is made by a terrible person, and ppl do know that, than why are they still giving it all this publicity??

zalasur,
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@FOSSingularity I've looked around and I haven't really seen any mention of this. All of the Lemmy accounts I could find are mostly release announcements and product discussions, so I guess I must be missing something?

Could you provide some insight to where we can find out more?

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I solved this JoWordle 493 with 4/6 attempts in 49.2 seconds. Can you do better?
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zalasur, to random
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Oh god I just read that article (I'm not linking to the New York Post so you'll have to find it if you want to read it) about what people will look like in 2100 AD if we keep working from home.

And, well, look for yourself.

faho, to random

"Average person has 7 fedi instances" factoid actually just statistical error.

Instances Jeff, who has seventeen billion instances, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

zalasur,
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@LeDiva @faho "Jeff" in this context is an actual person who does in fact host a bunch of different instances on the fediverse, but is also known for being one of "those guys" who believes that being defederated from other people's instances as some sort of violation of his free speech or something to that effect.

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I solved this JoWordle 492 with 5/6 attempts in 2:07 minutes. Can you do better?
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