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in reality, pulling everything into the computer does empower people to some extent, but the reason corporations want to do it has always been so that they can impose their own new constraints in the new context. the goal is not for humanity to solve its problems, but for corporate entities to be in charge of the problems and profiting by them.

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The Suble Art of Shutting The Fuck Up If You Haven't Done Your Research

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are there any games where you're an employee of a theme park

I guess there are some for the food stalls but I don't think Viscera Cleanup Detail: Theme Park That Is Operating Normally exists

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Like, I don't have a problem with people just... not engaging with an issue that does not directly concern them, you can't be worrying about everything at once.

But if you *are* going to engage with it, don't do a half-assed job of it, and actually take it seriously

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Like, I don't have a problem with people just... not engaging with an issue that does not directly concern them, you can't be worrying about everything at once.

But if you *are* going to engage with it, don't do a half-assed job of it, and actually take it seriously

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Very tired of people insisting on Having Opinions about sensitive political issues without doing the work to understand the background needed to assess them

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Ansible: *sinks Synapse for a bit as it's restarting the container*
Element: now that is an Avengers level threat

Oh and also, Dewey, and anyone else who needs to hear this...

Starting HRT is not an irreversible leap off a cliff. If you wanna experiment with hormones for a bit, and decide you don't like them, that's absolutely 100% chill and no trans person that isn't a sucky truscummy piece of shit is going to be mad at you about that.

These are different things with different levels of urgency for fucks sake

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It continues to immensely frustrate me how Element shows a disconnection in the tray icon with the same visual language as an outstanding notification, which itself is the same as an unsent message

Somewhere in the space between Yahoo! and AOL., CompuServe dot com still exists somehow.

For my first project in circuit networks, I ended up building a fully automated order-picking train station (that works with logistic trains), with a resettable counter of picked items, because that is totally a beginner project

General announcement for contributors and users: registration is now open for the governance proceedings! You can participate if you have at least one contribution (of any kind) to NixOS or its ecosystem. :boost_requested:

Instructions here if you use Github and that is where your contribution was: github.com/NixOS/foundation/is

Or otherwise, instructions here (approval may take a bit longer): discourse.nixos.org/t/zulip-fo

While I do not want to declare victory prematurely, the successful operation of the NixOS governance talks so far is an extremely big deal to me, for personal reasons that I don't quite want to go into *yet*

The thing that surprises me the most about Timberborn is how many ways different mechanics interact. I'm16 hours into it now and I've multiple times discovered things that completely changed how I approach solving problems in the game.

If you care about community governance topics, then you should probably be paying attention to the governance talks right about now :)

so I just realized I did a sizable project and never posted about it publically

last year I spent a few months on and off reverse engineering Pinball Fantasies (a 1992 video game; originally for Amiga, though I was reversing the more polished DOS port) with the intent of doing a game engine recreation, and then rewrote the logic as a Rust program

you can grab the result here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/ ; if you're interested in the internals of a 1992 DOS game written by demoscene people, I wrote down some (rather incomplete) notes here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/blob/main/TECH.md

I'd also like to thank @domi for porting this thing to browser environment with WASM, and hosting the result: https://pfr.sakamoto.pl/

enjoy!
a short trans person doing things, call that a microtransaction

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a couple people have sent them to me so just a psa that the songs on that "ObscurestVinyl" channel are ai-generated. the person writes the lyrics and then has ai generate the music. (the "my arms are just fucking stuck like this" song etc)

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