@joepie91 outside of SQL :p
oddly relatable Dwarf Fortress bugs selection
- dwarves stuck on loop repeatedly picking different boots and socks when they should just pick one and go
- dwarves leaving their clothing articles all over the place
- 'elven spies do not respect visitor cap and I currently have 180 of them, all claiming they came here to "relax"'
- Trade wagons (made of wood) become horrified at violence and spontaneously explode
- cannot order drink at my own fort’s inn—tavern keeper claims “I don’t work here”
- farmer walks to furniture stockpile, picks up an entire bed, walks to farm plot and plants the bed
- magma crab drowns in magma
- dwarves indifferent to being set on fire
- the dwarves who are indifferent to being on fire want to drink from (highly flammable) alcohol stockpile
- tamed wild animals who have killed dwarves in the past continue to kill them and do not act tamed at all, but dwarves still believe them to be pets and ignore the attacks
- animals can develop religion and then get depressed due to unfulfillable need to practice it
- NPCs will drink anything at all that is inside a mug if you offer them a mug of something. including non-liquid objects.
- scouters who are secretly vampires brag about their past kills while scouting
- when a mayoral mandate is not obeyed in time, mayor sentences themself to physical punishment
- babies ride mothers like horsies. as in, they steer them. because babies have no survival instinct the rider and steed just wander around until they starve
- "is it better if they're carried in the front?"— mothers not wanting to abandon their babies would charge into battle with babies on slings. (does not end well for babies.)
- if a building destroyer monster finds a door jammed open by an object, they will politely wait for someone to close the door before proceeding to destroy it along with murdering the dwarf
- dwarves become raving lunatics due to extreme mood swings caused by going outside in the rain
- dwarven poets overuse caesuras and reverse syntax
- babies are born with a strapped knife
- composing music and poetry ignores surrounding enemies, therefore magically teleporting you away from attacks and back to the map screen
- some children have negative age. they're shown headless in the autogenerated portraits, and are impossible to hit due to having negative size. once they age into 0 years they become normal babies
- tutorial mode does not check randomly selected embark location for safety. it's not unusual for first time players to spawn right in the middle of a cursed acid mist or something and die immediately at the "welcome to the tutorial!" window
- dwarves failed to care if you melted down their masterpieces
- musicians never get to playing the costly instruments installed at taverns
- when a musician drops an instrument mid-performance, dwarves never interact with that instrument again
- farm animals do not breed due to being "unwilling to commit to marriage"
- ghosts count as fortress members if everybody else dies. since ghosts only go away if the living memorialises them and there's no more living citizens, this results in an unkillable non-interactive fortress. visitors come hang out with ghosts while plants grow wild.
- ghosts unintentionally make post-mortem citizen petitions that can be accepted. if you put them on a squad their colleagues keep trying to spar with them and repeatedly get disappointed to discover they're intangible
- dwarves get depressed without alcohol. vampire dwarves cannot drink alcohol, only blood. so they grow ever more sad and lethargic as the years pass. (this has been declared not a bug and is now officially part of vampire dwarfdom.)
- mountains wanted to make music, but cannot because they have no instruments and no singing voice. as a result, the universe explodes
The plant table is done and installed! Quite happy with the result, considering that it was a practice project and all the wood involved was crap 😄
We hope everyone enjoyed our April Fools' joke. Torment Nexus is, of course, not going to be worker-owned.
A note to our employees: your level of enthusiasm for this idea was noted, and will be discussed at your next performance review.
I can genuinely say that no piece of portable hardware I've ever owned has got as many questions or compliments as my @mntmn Pocket Reform.
I've also finally installed a garden hose box, because I am sick and tired of my garden hoses laying on the ground outside and getting damaged and needing replacement all the time (storing them inside is impractical because of frequent use and being wet)...
"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.
Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.
That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.
Also, you know, the classic thing of Consent and Control.
I consent to joining a voice chat. I control when it ends.
A phone call either happens to me with limited if any warning or I call someone due to some need. And I can't really get out of it without specifically establishing both sides have fulfilled their criteria *and* I can't be explicit about my desire for its termination.
I've also finally installed a garden hose box, because I am sick and tired of my garden hoses laying on the ground outside and getting damaged and needing replacement all the time (storing them inside is impractical because of frequent use and being wet)...
How can one engage in algorithmic sabotage to poison "AI" scrapers looking for images when one is running a static website? Thanks to @pengfold, I've implemented a quick and easy way for my own blog:
https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/
Also thanks to @rostro & @asrg for the pointers and discussion!
🪭what IS the fascist line here?
“It wasn’t a filibuster, it was just a long speech”
What is the fascist line in general?
“Nothing you do matters”
“You do not matter”
“Protesting doesn’t help”
“Only Trump and Musk matter”
“The world is whatever we say it is”
“Nobody cares about anyone else”
“The people you trust will betray you”
“You are a disgusting freak for being different”
“Hopeful people are fools”
Social isolation. Social isolation. Be anti-social. Social isolation. That is the fascist line.
Do not believe the fascist line.
Do not repeat the fascist line.
Do combat the fascist line!
Go write your own story!
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.