ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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linux follows the "forest fires are actually good for the forest" model, instead of having a registry which accumulates cruft and gets more and more fucked up, you have all these dotfiles in random locations which get set on fire every 2-5 years
@tcql why??? Was it a test fight of some kind? Accumulating hours in the air so might as well?
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Undertale + Spec Op The Line spoilers
One thing that I still really appreciate about UT was the story's explicit understanding and integration of player control. Something SO:TL and UT share is that they both make commentary on your actions as a player, and how you are complicit in the violence depicted. However, SO:TL takes a sort of... easy road. You have no other choice except not play the game. And given that it costs real world money? That's just a copout, I'm sorry.
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It’s the regular npm security bullshit that we all know and love:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901566
An app named “cross-env” is typosquatting a popular package named “crossenv” to gobble up your environment variables (where people tend to store their most sensitive token credentials you can’t include in your source code).
While I’m no pro at npm, you can start by examining your global packages with `npm ls -g` and grep for `cross-env` or your OS equivalent for grep.
@MissMacSee@mastodon.social glhf
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The moral: Metadata is data. Treat it as important - just as important as your primary data. If it's the user's, on no account delete it without their permission. Also, don't trust any third party to maintain it for you - even if it's in their commercial interest to do so.
Your entire information infrastructure may break without it.
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This sounds obvious. But a classic example of 'not getting the importance of metadata' is Gnome Rhythmbox and its default treatment of music playlists.
By default (if the behaviour hasn't changed) it stores all your playlists in its own, hidden (dotfile) configuration folder. The user is never expected to look here.
This is fine until you migrate your system and whoops, didn't copy the invisible config files and all your playlists are gone.
Because they were 'just metadata, not documents'.
Subtoot from birdsite re arguing on the internet
Nothing gives me more respect for politicians than arguing for one quick thread with somebody who I agree with on 99% of everything.
It's stressful, I can't finish the conversation and drop out, and that's with somebody who I basically have no fundamental disagreement with, with nothing real on the line.
I can't imagine what it must be to have to discuss bills that might end up the law, and millions of people are watching and will comment.
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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home wants you to know that she "takes your privacy very seriously"
this is what Google/Facebook spokespeople sound like
@Mycroft Made a questline out of my characters' desires.
In the campaigns I've been in, character backstories have been just backstories, and the real questline is just whatever the DM says it is, and any vaguely good-aligned party could have been plopped into it. Save the town, defeat the demon/wizard/goblin king/bandit lord. And I've always kind of wanted for the adventures to feel more personal, but both as player and DM haven't known how to make that happen.
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@enkiv2 The biggest political 'tell' to me in this whole (now-linked) soup of UFO and Christian conspiracy mythology is that the Enemy is *always* the 'one-world government'.
I mean, everything, absolutely everything in the multiple incompatible multiverses of the conspiracy zoo can be swapped out - and is - EXCEPT that.
That's what this has always been about. Fear of 'the Beast'. Fear of 'the New World Order'. Fear of 'the Illuminati'.
It all == fear of world socialism.
@verydumb@witches.town oh no you have more checkmarks than me you're more legit
tennis
Improving is hard :( I've reworked my forehand and stats say I'm playing halfway competently, my scores against good opponents aren't terrible, but I just feel SO FRUSTRATED and have no confidence or feel in it.
I hate missing shots for no reason. Hate hate hate. Now I get how people feel when they smash racquets or whatever. I'm now one of those guys that swears on court, until I get my fucking forehand in order...
@amsomniac@witches.town The paper only came out last year and has now been cited a few times, which is pretty reasonable, it takes a while for other people to spin up new research efforts that use the latest stuff that comes out. There's a long, long road from "here's a new physical phenomenon that, in principle, could be useful" to something that is actually practical. .
@amsomniac@witches.town I suspect that what happened is that someone was overenthusiastic about putting things in wikipedia.
I don't know the science behind this paper specifically, but I've written my share of paper that have phrases like "and in principle, this could be used to cure intractable diseases" and "in principle, this could allow better materials against biofouling" and stuff like that. It's a long-term justification for why this research is interesting, not an engineering spec.
I've given into the mastodon fad! Using duolingo to brush up on my French before my trip to Paris in september.
I'm not sure whether I should be amazed at how much I can remember of French from school, or amazed at how little that actually is. Anyway, it's fun. I have a streak going.
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Saw a shipping company called "Midas" yesterday.
I'm disappointed that it wasn't a refrigerated one, and that it didn't say "Everything we touch turns to cold" on the side.
@smays@mastodon.technology my thoughts are probably more boring than my boosts, not sure if I want to dilute my boosts of all the wonderful people out here with my lame posts
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
