Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Seeing headlines run this morning confusing Barr’s letter as total exoneration, which... it... doesn’t... say? It’s as charitable a read of a document we haven’t yet seen as possible, and its purpose was to set a preferred narrative.

Not that the distinction between “no evidence” and “not enough evidence to prosecute matters”, or knowing where things fall between them matters to the health of democracy, or anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@salameleon@snouts.online You can, but it’s not as easy to do as it used to be. One simple(ish) way is to convince browsers that you live in the EU, since GDPR mandates very specific data practices and bans certain tracking patterns.

But outside of relying on the side effects of foreign law, you basically need a full anonymizer stack at this point (randomized IP, header scrubbing, denial of tracking pixels, etc). Which isn’t easy on a smartphone.

At scale, search is indistinguishable from social engineering.

... huh.

@Balinares BABA is WIN
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... is really good. I get a definite Subnautica vibe from it, and I've stopped and gasped at the scenery several times now.

It's also letting me build sustainably without messing too much with the game's (very, very, very pretty) ecosystem, which I was hoping for and greatly appreciate.

I play a lot of games that focus on optimizing resource harvesting/extraction. Lately, I've been much more interested in "builds that take just enough" and give back to the simulation than builds that optimize on maximum strip mining rates.

I guess it's a good way to tinker with how these builds might work in practice -- and I kind of translate it into real projects around the house here, including our solar panel, 3D print, and plant projects.

I guess I never mentioned that we now have the ability to recycle plastics entirely on our own here at home, powered by the sun. I should document that sometime.

This looks like a game I will play, but I'm not digging the "strip mine the planet for resources" aesthetic promoted by the trailer: https://www.satisfactorygame.com/

I think I'm going to use it to simulate solarpunk and augmented/hybridized nature builds to see how those pan out.

Last month was house repairs, houseguests, and snowpocalpyse parts one and two. This month is travel, in which I'll be flying out to the mothership for $JOB tomorrow. Between both of these have been cooperative and builder videogames to manage stress, which seems to be a usual pattern for me.

I will never stop having the urge to build and create, even when circumstances feel demanding or doomful. In a way, it's comforting. I need to figure out how to share more of that here again, at some indeterminate time when I have enough spoons again.

Doing my best to keep it together while the world seems much too scary. It isn’t much, but it’s something.

Keep warm out there. It’s cold and stormy and gray right now. Share the warmth, if you can.

@Aradia Our tulips have also started to come up, so it seems to be a quorum.

@Kyresti In all seriousness however: I can see why BD spends so much on their fab and has a dedicated medical grade silicon supplier. None of that stuff is cheap. @..@

@Kyresti One of the amusing sliders to play around with: upload a model to Shapeways, then see what it’s like to print in their most expensive materials.

Not that I recommend printing in copper, solid gold, or reinforced steel fill (ow, ow, oww), but they’ll happily quote very high numbers at you for what it would cost.

@zetasyanthis @Soreth (💜)