Why did I watch all the way when I knew where it was going

I had this realization when I thought of disk images. A disk image is a file ergo everything that can be on a disk necessarily has to be a file of some kind.

It’s more like data is data is data to me but that’s so far from descriptive it’s like saying matter is matter.

Just so I understand, since I was looking into using ZFS for my storage before hard drives went up by like 400%: you set up things in an obtuse way and you got a failure that can’t be recovered from?

I somewhat wrapped my head around how ZFS data storage itself works, and was feeling relatively confident that it’s what I’d use.

What were they making before this thing?

The silly sounding answer is that you just have to try stuff. You won’t know what you’re into unless you go look for it.

I also suffer from looking at other people enjoying things and thinking “that’s great for them but I don’t do that stuff”. You’ll always have the time for indoor time wasting when the weather/budget/whatever is in the way.

It’s very easy to feel zero urgency to go out and do stuff and to look back and think “huh did I waste two months I don’t remember anything happening recently”. Just look up events and meetups and hobby clubs in your area, you can just check it out and leave without losing anything. Sadly corporate social media is where a lot of stuff gets posted, but you can find a lot of stuff just fine without an account.

You can also think of not just what the “event” is but also what kind of people you think would go. I’m not necessarily that interested in TTRPGs but I know those events would attract interesting people I have common interests with.

I remember looking into this, the number of books I have that I’d like to scan are not enough to justify building one of these unless they can be folded up and passed on.

Might be best to just get a plexiglass slab with some kind of anti glare covering and try to get flat pages

I think those are where it started from but the BIFL sub degraded into a community built around obsessive buying of the “right” stuff.

I have a cheap nonstick pan. I use it like five times a year. I’m fine with that. Regular stainless pots and pans will last well over a decade unless you start dropping them on the floor twice a week, even if they’re not as fancy as the stuff that gets advertised as BIFL. It’s not that complicated

It’s very unintuitive but Barber Beats and plunderphonics in general are very effective at inspiring me to mess with making music

Oh you like homecooked meals from a person instead of fast food? What, do you think McDonald’s is served flash frozen by a robot?

Folding@Home being built into the PS3 might have been one of the last tech-utopian hurrahs I can think of experiencing. As opposed to everything tech now feeling too dystopian for one of any number of reasons

Especially with the World Cup stuff that you can turn off with two clicks. Everyone and their dog watches football, this is the single most uncontroversial thing the nerd browser can add to appeal to new people

I never finished it but I jump into it every five or so years. It still gives me a bit of that open world magic that I used to feel. The world is just full enough of stuff to do without feeling like cheap padding, and the atmosphere is really nice. It just makes me feel like how I want these games to make me feel. The graphics and physics are dated but they are all I need for this atmosphere.

I think like a lot of people I wasn’t as enthused about the uniformed police missions. Especially because of the setting. The protests in Beirut and in HK had a lot of overlap so there was a lot of “tried and tested” safety measures we were getting directly from what was happening there. It’s not quite copaganda so it’s fine

Maybe I should make an effort to finish it already. I can’t keep relearning the combat every few years.

S(he) be(removed)ed 😔🙏

It was periodically backed up to the repo. The file has the same name. I just downloaded a few different versions of it from the file’s version history on the db0 fork, and decoded them by pasting the plaintext into a web page that does the decoding on-device. I wasn’t in the file on date A and was in it on date B, I found that by trial and error.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it

Oh I was wondering if I could see the date I was added. Where can I see the commits?

So I figured it out. The original repo got nuked ish but the db0 fork keeps the commit history (I know nothing about git) and some trial and error leads me to understand I was added between March 27 and May 30. Interesting. I wonder what post it was.

Proton has dodgy dealings too. This whole situation sucks

I’m genuinely curious to know how those people end up in those coms or on the Fediverse at all. I don’t get the impression they keep tabs on this part of the internet.

Back in the day, random people falling into random internet corners was a product of boredom and a relative openness to trying out new Internet forums, I feel like most non-techy people just would not step anywhere outside of like eight walled gardens now

Just skimming this thread (I don’t even know what Zig is) and this automatically flagged something in my mind. Ugh. Make it fucking end already

I remember GPT2TC, LLMs were a very interesting niche little proof of concept software area for a few years before <incoherent exasperated gesticulations>

I know but I mean a literal 1 in 1 out female-female Ethernet box that is triggered by a dumb remote. I err on the side of dumber is better.