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... which is a good reminder going into the winter months: if you use vitamin D supplements or sunlight lamps at home, this is roughly the difference you need to account for when doing so.

Remember those solar panels we installed here a year ago? Here’s what a year of sunlight looks like from Renton, WA:
https://awoo.space/media/x7yRLQcBDfjG3YM9U0M

@orrery Also, adopting the dissident playbook is probably appropriate. I feel it’s especially imperative to get folks off of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram for organizing protests (etc), since those platforms are not trustworthy in how they disseminate or share their information.

@orrery Given we’re at the point that the admin and its machinery values human lives in dollars and says the quiet parts out loud about oppression, civil disobedience and grievous political costs are necessary to bring them back to the bargaining table for democracy. So, yes.

@typhlosion Headcanon: everyone is actually the Tourist class and is faking it very convincingly with their given starting equipment. (Which would help explain weird rules like the knight’s move jump ability.)

@mawr In that book, Sally and Ken rewrote the JLS from scratch and step you through why they made their decisions. It actually makes sense, giving necessary context to why Java does what it does. Sally also has course notes posted online that pair well with the book.

While I’m unfortunately no longer on good terms, my previous roommate had Sally G as a professor, and may have more info that I do not. But even without that, the book is amazing.

@mawr The JLS is extremely good. 💜

Also, strongly recommended supplemental reading if you can find time for it: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Structures-Algorithms-Chapman-Applied/dp/158488455X

Which I suppose is a good reminder that engineers are still human beings, despite how hard faceless megacorps try to brand themselves otherwise.

Although I think NordVPN is still winner in this regard, when an engineer pushed “hi” to their production push notifier for everyone.

Sadly, it didn’t include “1N (no subject)” to make it perfect.

Seriously though, I’d love to know how birdsite ended up pushing internal state into iOS’ notification API. I know folks external to Twitter won’t get a full accounting, but I bet the internal postmortem is amazing.

(This isn’t an ask for internal info, btw. I’m just really amused watching the reports of that bug.)

Also, please have a plan of action if you’re harassed at your place of polling or if the data you provide is doxed by government employees. We shouldn’t even need to think about these things, but I put nothing past these people.

If you live in a state that does in-person polling and need to, bring a friend. Stay hydrated. Plan to get there early. And know your rights for leaving work to vote: https://aflcio.org/2016/11/5/know-your-rights-state-laws-employee-time-vote

I know things look pretty dark right now, but as a reminder: please vote.

Even if it looks corrupt or like they’re tampering with the voting rolls (or worse), they’re counting on people not showing up much more than any overt tampering efforts. The only way we stop them short of things getting _really_ bad is to show up at the polls.

Please make sure your registration is still valid. Please make sure you have a plan to get to the polls. And vote. It matters.

@qdot Ahh, I see they finally moved to GPG messaging like everyone hoped they would. 🙃

While perusing discount exploration games on Steam, I ran across a perfect dragon game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/331870/AER_Memories_of_Old/

Its a short game where the protagonist can shift from human to bird and back again instantly. Deceptively simple, yet I’ve never seen it done so fluidly or able to capture the visceral feeling of flight quite so well.

There’s a plot, and it’s decent, but I spent most of my time careening through the air at unsafe speeds. Recommended. 🐲👍

@Aradia “I sense a great disturbance. It’s as if thousands of megabytes were malloced and never freed.”

@Taylor I think the easiest way is to create a Twitter account built for the purpose, then to use a Masto cross-poster that scrapes the account for new posts.

At least, that’s how I’d do it, since trying to hijack Twitter API calls isn’t easy, unless Nintendo does TLS wrong.

I wonder if there’s a tabletop version of this. Betrayal at House on the Hill and the Quiet Year are close, I suppose, but this blends the two nicely.

While nosing through my Steam collection, I realized I had bought and never played The Yawhg (https://store.steampowered.com/app/269030/The_Yawhg/) several years ago. So I booted it up.

After a slightly mediocre first run (“mediocre” involving animate furniture, eldritch horrors, and at least one grisly murder), I accidentally rolled a vampire and a werewolf that fight crime and save the town together.

Huh.

@Oasus@snouts.online Huh, it kind of does. Once seen, cannot be unseen.

I also initially thought this meant something else, but I totally see it now.