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• Post #2589337

  Infrastructure going down for maintenance. Wish me luck. Finally formalized an update procedure covering the variations over all my FreeBSD hosts, to be spun into a set of scripts at a later point.

• Post #2589336

  Updates finished. Everything up again. I also finally deployed Anubis, which should protect against "AI" crawlers. Previously I was forced to enforce logins on my gitea instance, otherwise "AI" bots would just straight-up cook the CPU. "AI"-bros forced me to lock down access to the tech I develop for our commons and that still pisses me off to no end. Thanks to Anubis, it's all publicly available again. Doesn't seem to ge...

• Post #2589335

  POV: You find out your friend lives in a goddamn postcard.

• Post #2589334

  My journalism pet peeve: Teleconferencing has made interviews objectively worse. Interviews with shitty audio are now the norm and I fucking hate it.

• Post #2589333

  Do I know anyone with (ideally active) #graffiti contacts in #Vienna? I'm explicitly *not* interested in the gentrification clusterfuck of legal graffiti-as-a-service crews. I'm interested in trying my hand at long exposures of pieces during their creation – specifically so that the writers aren't identifiable.

• Post #2589332

  Just ordered a couple batteries for my new camera. Because of availability, sadly from Amazon. Accidentally clicked the confusingly labeled button that immediately subscribes you for a trial period to Prime (which would automatically be followed by a paid subscription). Cancelled that shit so fast the unsubscription mail arrived before the "Welcome to Prime" one. ¬_¬

• Post #2589331

  Managed to scout out the petrochem thing yesterday. Only got one shot I actually like out of it, but the company owning it does outreach and tours, so I have some hope of gaining access *without* trespassing. :thounking:

• Post #1949313

  Look who I met. Some of the local corvids seem just as curious about me as I am about them.

• Post #1900831

  Are third-party laptop cases a thing? I don't mean a hardcase with foam to put your laptop in, but like actual laptop bodies you can put components from other laptops in so maintenance isn't a complete clusterfuck… I just want a laptop that's 90s-levels chunky so I can actually maintain the damn thing without losing my sanity. I want easy keyboard replacement from the top, easy display replacement and screwless quick-access hatches for component slots like RAM and NICs.

• Post #1699159

  #gnupg is a pain for me as a developer. #gnupg is a pain for me as an administrator. #gnupg is pain. life is pain. #gnupg is life.

• Post #1322509

  You might have heard about the #StopKillingGames campaign in the last couple months… today, the EU petition finally dropped! Explanatory video by Ross Scott, who initiated the campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI Petition: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en Guide to ensure valid signature: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

• Post #1112604

  Predator Badlands is a Marvel movie and I mean that in the most insulting way possible.

• Post #1112603

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcB4zu4KX10 Vita – Merz Leck Eier #np

• Post #1112602

  Messed around a bit with Faust ( https://faust.grame.fr/ ) today. One neat thing is that applying an LFO onto anything is literally just multiplication – you can apply it to an arbitrary number of signals with just `:> _ * os.osc(lfo_freq)`.

• Post #1112601

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfoJUeyMsOE Rone – Bye Bye Macadam #np Timeless tune. :3

• Post #1112600

  Oh no, I now have a DSLR and I'm going to use it – in all the WRONG ways! 🫨

• Post #1112598

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPslvBVqJp8 Knife Party – Internet Friends #np #dubstep All the way from 2012, this music video wasn't even official and yet it's iconic as fuck and hasn't lost one bit of its relevancy – best cokehead Zuckerberg on the market, accept no substitutes.

• Post #1112597

  Did my first excursion with the DSLR tonight. I apparently suck at focusing (no wonder, got pretty bad astigmatism) and I didn't really do much in terms of composition, but I managed to do proof-of-concept shots for a few things I wanted to do for nearly 30 years now.

• Post #800179

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dka4mcVQ4mA Ah yes, another climate tipping point we might've already sailed past. What is it, the second? Third? I think at this point it's simply factual to make the case that eco-terrorism is morally good, at least from an utilitarian standpoint.

• Post #800178

  Chorus is a decent arcade space sim with a stellar soundtrack and the most stupidly pretentious writing I have ever witnessed. It's like a physical manifestation of what a westerner having an "epiphany" while backpacking in India is like. The protagonist literally kills billions of people before the game even starts.

• Post #800177

  Thunderdome is a criminally underrated concept and we should be bringing it back big-time. Messy social conflict in your hackerspace? Thunderdome! Beef with a colleague at work? Thunderdome! Political debates? Nah, bruh, just put them fuckers in the dome. Two politicians go in, one politician comes out – THUNDERDOME! \o/

• Post #496356

  Recently, I began retreading the #Gothic series. Played through the first game, finished the second one for the first time and am now at Gothic 3, finally having beaten that first fight (which isn't nearly as awful if you deactivate the gameplay "fixes" of the community patch). Then I went up the lighthouse in the starting village to take a look around and this starts playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha4zdr1_ht8 If you listen closely, you can hear Kai Rosenk...

• Post #496355

  Gothic is kind of the Trespasser of RPGs. You know, the kind of game your average gamer never heard about but which inspired the developers behind a vast array of their favorite games. Without Gothic, we wouldn't have STALKER. More to the point, without Gothic, we wouldn't have The Witcher, the third installment of which is commonly argued to be *the* best RPG, period (tho I hear BG3 is giving it a fair run for its money these days).

• Post #496354

  There's like 10cm of snow outside of my window and that's more than I've seen in like 2 decades – are we sure the AMOC hasn't collapsed yet with this just being the first sign? :thaenkin:

• Post #496353

  Bürgis, ich werde euch nie verstehen…

• Post #496352

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpA23XqUnq0 "Hunted by Moonlight" Holy shit, this is probably the most gorgeous piece of paleo media I've ever seen.