HarkMahlberg

While trying to wrap my head around the concept of the Fediverse, I made this map. How did I do?

This carpet took years off my life just looking at it.

Like I'm pretty sure this is the color of the blood that Akira Kurosawa used in Ran. It's fucking haunting.

Masks are out at In-N-Out after burger chain bans employees from wearing them in 5 states (apnews.com)

In-N-Out will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor’s note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media last week.

RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll (thehill.com)

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to pull more support from former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new…

HarkMahlberg, 4 months ago to random

Christmas liveblog

1/never

Universal under investigation after it trimmed trees that shaded SAG-AFTRA protesters | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

The Los Angeles City Controller’s office is investigating after NBCUniversal severely trimmed a row of trees outside its studios where members of SAG-AFTRA were picketing company executives, eliminating shade during a searing heatwave.

[News] Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision (apnews.com)

With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.

HarkMahlberg, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to citiesskylines

#citiesskylines2 I think I figured out how to satisfy low density residential demand in the game. It basically operates on the concept of Induced Demand. Just like adding a lane to a highway incentivizes people to use the highway more, leading to the same congestion problems. If you constantly zone low density residential in an attempt to "chase the demand bar," what you're doing is increasing the supply of houses. Meaning, driving down the COST of housing. Meaning more citizens can afford a house, meaning they buy up that supply, so they demand more... it's a feedback loop, like acquiescing to a child who only ever wants to eat chocolate.

So, counterintuitively, you need to IGNORE their demand. By keeping the supply constant, and with demand increasing, the cost of the housing goes up. This prices out some of your citizens, and so they will begin demanding lower-cost options. Enter, medium density housing. You start with row housing, then medium density, then mixed-use. This doesn't happen fast, let alone instantly, so you kind of have to plan this strategy from the founding of your city. At one point I had a 15k pop with almost exclusive demand for medium density housing.

As your citizens get more educated through college and university levels, they'll be able to afford those suburbs again, and the demand will return. But they'll also be young enough that living "in the big city" will be desirable and they'll start demanding high density apartments close to shops and offices. Beware the Low Rent zoning type! Despite being high density, if your citizens are too well educated and make too much money, they'll abandon these buildings the moment they can afford nicer places. But I guess they're a good stopgap measure between medium density and regular high density.

So Induced Demand is a double edged sword: you want to avoid inducing demand for low density suburbs, and purposely induce demand for higher densities.

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to kbinMeta

So funny thing about #kbin. I post a photo thread. I go to my profile and see the thread. I click on the image preview icon. I immediately get sent to https://kbin.social/u/undefined. Not only is Mr. Undefined a real user, hello @undefined, but somehow my image now directs to his profile.

As I dig into Firefox dev tools to find out why, I see that uBlock Origin has blocked the request for my image. But that's odd, I have no specific blocking rules for kbin, and kbin.social doesn't run ads. What's up?

So it turns out my image got uploaded to the following URL: https://media.kbin.social/media/ad/b2/adb203028331eada7f99f2b4547cbc0a7efc0ba4e203a71d9d193c02d38aa4f1.jpg

.../media/ad/... That's what uBlock was upset about. So by blocking that request, the target of the AJAX fetch is... undefined. Hence my trip to a random user's profile. XD

HarkMahlberg, 3 months ago to random

Rereading Solo Leveling and I must have missed how it is buck wild. It's an unapologetic power fantasy, but it absolutely owes me an apology.

HarkMahlberg, 8 days ago to programming

Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow?

[Folding Ideas] This is Financial Advice (www.youtube.com)

Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the shares...

Blocked users who move instances don't stay blocked

Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all....

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to fediverse

Oddly, I don't feel disgusted about having a robust list of blocked users, communities, and domains on the fediverse. Instead it actually feels like I have some level of control over what I see, rather than say, "suggesting" to YouTube that I don't want to see more neo-nazi propaganda and hoping it actually listens to me.

HarkMahlberg, 9 months ago to random

Good to see people rejecting the X and still calling it Twitter. But why stop there? Call it Facebook, not Meta. Call it Google, not Alphabet. They can't hide behind a new coat of paint.

HarkMahlberg, 9 months ago to fediverse

I want to hear from people who have two ActivityPub instances running in Docker containers, on the same Docker network, and have them federating with each other.

This pine tree in my yard partially collapsed. Probably have to take the rest down. Can I make anything out of it?

Games that Don't Fake the Space (www.youtube.com)

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HarkMahlberg, 9 months ago to random

How do we build "this is not a place of honor" signs for the internet for future generations?

HarkMahlberg, 9 months ago to random

I enter my local Savings & Trust branch by the grocery store. I wait in line while those ahead of me dejectedly sign up for a 30-year 10% APY mortgage. I finally get to the front of the line. The bank manager is working the teller line today. This is a dark omen, she hates me for some reason. I think she assumes that I don't know what Escrow means. "ID please." I provide her my driver's license and begin to state the reason for my visit. "It seems like my mortgage was double paid for the month of August. Would it be possible to-"

"I can't find you in the system sir." Excuse me? I've been a customer for 10 years here. Every time I provide my driver's license, you bring up my accounts without issue. Why did that change today? "Is your address 101 Blueberry Lane?" No... flip over the license. I've been at a new address for 3 years now. They should know this because they hold the mortgage on the new address. 1/

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to gaming

Alright I'm liking Baldur's Gate 3 so far. The facial animations are very expressive, but does anyone notice the characters in a conversation kinda teleport around a lot? Is that just me?

#baldursgate3 #bg3

HarkMahlberg, 8 months ago to infosec

I've been reading the discussion around this EFF article all day and it's fucking exhausting.

[News] Dianne Feinstein, longest serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90 (www.npr.org)

Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco when two other officials were assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.

[News] House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown (www.nbcnews.com)

The bill now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it before Friday's deadline. It would keep the government funded through early next year while Congress debates spending.

HarkMahlberg, 6 months ago to random

Is there a word for the feeling you get when you hear something or read something so insanely wrong that it reveals a level of ignorance you didn't think was possible?