Rose here. Also @umbraroze for non-kbin stuff.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I watch a lot of “lost media” discussion channels.

    There’s been a lot of lost media searches where the people looking for the thing suddenly found a crucial hint when someone who worked on the project posted a 2.5 second clip of the thing in question in a video cv / showreel.

    Expect a lot of that in the future. Except about media that probably didn’t even get released at all in the first place.


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    7 months ago

    Kids these days get worried about computer noises???

    I slept for years with my Linux desktop/server next to my bed, running 24/7, with a hard disk drive and cheap-end cpu/case fans. The only time I was bothered when the original case fan went bonkers and started making hell of a racket.

    (I don’t use that thing any more, because it got way too obsolete, but I still have a NAS box with a fan and hard drive and it’s not bothering me at all.)




  • Yup. The robots.txt file is not only meant to block robots from accessing the site, it’s also meant to block bots from accessing resources that are not interesting for human readers, even indirectly.

    For example, MediaWiki installations are pretty clever in that by default, /w/ is blocked and /wiki/ is encouraged. Because nobody wants technical pages and wiki histories in search results, they only want the current versions of the pages.

    Fun tidbit: in the late 1990s, there was a real epidemic of spammers scraping the web pages for email addresses. Some people developed wpoison.cgi, a script whose sole purpose was to generate garbage web pages with bogus email addresses. Real search engines ignored these, thanks to robots.txt. Guess what the spam bots did?

    Do the AI bros really want to go there? Are they asking for model collapse?



  • There are as many types of gaming as there are categories of clothing and apparel, then.

    …Hazmat gaming: 1) (console gamers) doing couch co-op on someone else’s couch and you really don’t want to think about the condition of the couch in question. 2) (PC gamers) gaming while doing Half-Life cosplay? Dunno? Something???




  • We don’t really have this whole tipping thing here.

    I’ve had coffee in two places recently. One was in a hypermarket. I don’t remember what the coffee costs there, because it came free with the meal. If the restaurant staff feel they don’t get paid enough, I don’t care if they get inspiration from France and torch every car in the parking lot. You see, I go to the hypermarket by foot. It’s not that far away.

    The other place I had coffee recently was in the train. 2.80€. I certainly hope the restaurant car staff gets paid well. They’re technically railroad employees, after all. You don’t fuck with railroad workers.









  • I’m from Finland. This is how it usually goes in the winter:

    During the 2 hours of daylight we get at this latitude:

    • Ooooooh this is pretty
    • Bet I can get some nice photographs
    • …or I would, if the sky wasn’t overcast goddamn it

    Other times:

    • Rummaging through the closet for wool socks and more clothing
    • Put on the headphones, hit the metal music collection on my Nokia, and face the Darkness with a grim stare
    • Would hit the beer, but not in this economy




  • Funny thing, in ISO 8601 date isn’t separated by colon. The format is “YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+hh:mm”. Date is separated by “-”, time is separated by “:”, date and time are separated by “T” (which is the bit that a lot of people miss). Time zone indicator can also be just “Z” for UTC. Many of these can be omitted if dealing with lesser precision (e.g. HH:MM is a valid timestamp, YYYY-MM is a valid datestamp if referring to just a month). (OK so apparently if you really want to split hairs, timestamps are supposed to be THH:MM etc. Now that’s a thing I’ve never seen anyone use.) Separators can also be omitted though that’s apparently not recommended if quick human legibility is of concern. There’s also YYYY-Wxx for week numbers.