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   :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:47 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

   Good morning folks

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:39 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Reading responses to that 'Rewild the Internet' article (my thoughts on that article are still very... hrmm), and someone has literally said 'You can host your own websites with github pages!' and...

     What the fuck are you doing, sweetie?

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     'We want to move away from corporate walled gardens!'
     'Yeah!'
     'We should host our content on our own sites!'
     'Yeah!'
     'We should do that... by... using... github...'
     'The fuck?'

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:39 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @DarkestKale nerds would rather go to therapy than deploy Gitea?

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:40 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     I put in Grey's Anatomy and Crossing Jordan, and... well, ok then.

     Yep.

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     Actors appearing in at least 4 shows:
     Lee Garlington: Friends, The West Wing, Psych, Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan
     Christopher Michael: Friends, The West Wing, Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan
     Ken Weiler: Friends, The West Wing, Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan
     Scott Michael Campbell: The West Wing, Psych, Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan
     Don McManus: The West Wing, Psych, Grey's Anatomy, Crossing Jordan

     Hrmmmm.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:40 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Putting in the NCIS shows is interesting, because... well.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:41 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Hrm.

     While this page is certainly not issue free, it... has a point.

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

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     Side note, you remember me talking about that whole cast-member overlap?

     Actors appearing in at least 3 shows:
     Lee Garlington: Friends, The West Wing, Psych
     Jane Lynch: Friends, The West Wing, Psych

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     That's out of The West Wing, Sherlock, Game of Thrones, Psych and Friends.

     2 people.

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     Sherlock's not a great one for that list, being British, etc, blah.

     I thought the AI put in Elementary, not Sherlock. That's my bad.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:42 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Bad enough I've got Pycharm constantly yellow-lining stuff and like 'NO YOU NEED A SPACE AFTER THAT COMMA'

     Fuck you.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:42 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     I actually looked at some open-source project the other day and it had a big, bold, MASSIVE TEXT note at the top saying 'if you try to commit something that is just code cleanup/reformat/style, we will fucking ban you for two years'

     ... because all you're doing, largely, is:
     * making DIFFs with older versions fucked
     * invoking a style war, which is entirely the same sort of shit as 'is it potato cake or potato scallop'

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     'I really should implement X, but it'll take ages and I'll just keep doing <repetitive task> instead for now'

     *finally does X*

     Oh, ok, that took... twenty minutes.

     Fuck.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:43 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     I love the concept of #opensource / #foss, but I do not have the mental bandwidth nor the time to deal with the constant preening and fuckery that comes with other people poking at your code.

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     'No, it's fine, just use X service to do Y'
     *a month later*
     'X has had a data breach, and...'

     Fuck off.

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     There's maybe five people in the world I'd be happy to share my code with, and at least two of them would be like 'yeah, ok, I'll do the 10% to make this available to the public'

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     One particular model, her left ear?

     It's always recognised as a face.

     Fuck knows why.

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     'Why do you want an AI assistant, Kale?'

     Well, for one thing, so they can scan a news website and tell me stuff without me having to struggle through their advert-soaked, malwareish shit websites.

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     'Would you ever open source <xyz>, Kale?'

     No.

     Because:
     * I'm not a good coder
     * I'd probably leave something personal in there
     * I'd have fuckheads constantly telling me I hadn't done something to the latest ballkick-yourself standards that I don't care about

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     'You shouldn't hard code your credentials'

     Sure, I agree, but since that code's not going anywhere except to me, I don't give a fuck

     Also, let's say I put them in a text file instead, now you're going to say I should encrypt them with XYZ or whatever and that is a non-ending fucking slog of moving goalposts because, frankly, security is a no-win game.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:45 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     What the fuck is going on in the mobile game space?

     Risk of Rain: Hostile Worlds is being pulled, as is Craft Warriors.

     Fuck, I hate mobile. Good shit just lost forever. It's depressing.

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     I get that some things need servers, but a lot of games DO NOT but due to the nature of the mobile ecosystem, it's crowbarred in and then it becomes the point of failure.

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     Experiments with facial recognition stuff for [Redacted] indicates that some people... some people have ears that appear to be faces to computers.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:12:46 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     It's sort of observable that there's talent groups for the miami/new orleans area, the new york area, the Hollywood area.

     Like, X showed up in CSI: Miami and The Glades type stuff.

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     Kinda want a big venn diagram of who shows up in what.

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     Maybe grab a bunch of shows' cast list. Filter for people only in 1-2 episodes.

     Then filter who's in more than, say, four shows.

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     Raining, dreary day. Perfect conditions for reading about the Dark Forest theory.

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     Gypsy was giving Psych a quick watch to see if she liked it.

     The police chief sounded very familiar and it took us a fair bit to place her - she's a flashback version of Mrs Landingham from West Wing.

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     It's endlessly fascinating to me that you have entire swathes of actors who do an episode of X, an episode of Y, etc.

     I want a documentary about those folks.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:18:02 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @DarkestKale this is why I have the frankly disgusting habit of forking a repo to do what I want, freezing it, telling other people where to find it, and never touching it again.

     Pull requests feel far too much like social interaction.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:20:29 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @DarkestKale that's a really cute idea, actually. Strong "Bring Back Wardriving" vibes, too.

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear Nerds would rather give their shit to yet another corpo suit than... have an esp32 sitting on the net for $6

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear I've been pondering just working up some ESP32s that sit, pick up a free wifi spot and just... have a page.

     Then I realised that this is basically a bot-net, and... I'm not averse to that.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:23:54 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @DarkestKale I, too, hold a candle for the computing equivalent of an STD.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 16:23:55 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear There was, for a time, a localised mini-internet across my city via wifi.

     Like, people just using can-tennas to link up their houses into a semi-autonomous micro-internet, and while I wish I could do that here, I definitely could not trust fuckers either.

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     @HauntedOwlbear I also have a romantic love for dead-drop USBs cemented into walls and shit, but let's face it, you would not get good files(tm) from those, so I've never tried despite there being a map of them in my city a few years back.