Notices by Adam Nelson (arnelson@fosstodon.org)

@icedquinn @gabriel This happened before and I waited it out, but the possibility of Fosstodon getting defederated or shutting down is higher now so I'm just going to self-host. I'd rather not have my access to Fedi be determined by what random mods think about whether other random mods will or won't ban some third random mod.

@sun It's the only worthy successor to SimCity 4. It doesn't do everything right, but no one else (especially not EA) is even trying to make a basic city simulator that's actually good.

The biggest problem is that it tries too hard to base everything around a very specific unrealistic kind of traffic sim, so once cities get big enough they usually start to fail because emergency vehicles keep getting stuck in traffic.

My main Linux desktop has started getting random crashes and "filesystem is read-only" errors. 😬

Booting up a live CD now, need to get my recent projects off of it before the hard drive dies...

Aaaaand `btrfs check` segfaults 🫠

Looks like the issue may have just been a loose NVMe connection? After re-seating the NVMe drive it boots without issues, but `btrfs scrub` fails with a metadata error so something is still wrong, going to try `btrfs check --repair` from a live CD...

@sun cashed out all of my crypto a while ago (not much) and have been kicking myself ever since as the price went up and up.

Must resist urge to buy the dip...

@youronlyone My heuristic for Korean was always "Are there circles? Probably Korean." AFAIK Japanese and Chinese never use circles, could be wrong though.

@icedquinn Python felt like a fun language once. 20 years ago.

(2005 was 20 years ago? I can feel my bones turning to dust...)

@youronlyone Definitely a scam, I've gotten similar emails before. I don't think there's anything uniquely US-based about it. The giveaway is "simply removing the image will not suffice"; no actual cease-and-desist would expect that. They're trying to get linkbacks from reputable sites for SEO.

@youronlyone Most of the core D&D rules (the "d20 SRD") are open-source, under the Open Game License. This is why systems like Pathfinder can copy most of the core mechanics and terms.

@icedquinn If there were decent open-source tooling for ASN.1 that only supported a reasonable subset of its features, we would never have needed Protobuf.

It's been a while, and the Deno ecosystem has improved a lot. Drizzle looks promising as an ORM layer (better than my hacked-together one), and more Fediverse projects in Deno are popping up (#Fedify looks really cool!). But I'm rethinking Deno.

There were 3 things that drew me to Deno initially:

- Ease of install (just run the app from a URL)
- Cloud platforms (Deno Deploy w/ Deno KV)
- JavaScript (I know the language, and it has a big ecosystem)

But all 3 didn't work out the way I planned.

I've been thinking about restarting work on #Tapir. Development stopped because I hit a wall with the database system. Writing Tapir in #Deno was a long sequence of yak-shaving without much payoff; most of my dev time was spent implementing JSON-LD, Web Signatures, and a database layer that *should* have been a library if Deno had better Node compatibility at the time.

@youronlyone @evelyn This is advice that I've never heard before, and it seems wrong. Modern Windows really doesn't need antivirus (or any of the other categories; I know dedicated anti-spyware software exists but I don't think there's a meaningful difference between "virus" and "malware" here); Windows Defender is often good enough, and your best anti-malware tool is always adblock. Most modern "antivirus" software is itself a scam.

@icedquinn Now I really want to see this. It sounds just cursed enough to work.

https://github.com/ar-nelson/uxnpi

Uxn on the GPi Case 2W is finally usable! I have Fourtette (https://github.com/nf/fourtette) working now, fully playable! Though only at 1:1 pixel ratio and with no audio.

This is running directly on the bare metal of the Pi Zero 2W, using Circle for graphics and USB gamepad drivers.

#Uxn #RaspberryPi

It's good to be back.

#PAX #PAXEast #PAXEast2024

RE: https://discuss.online/post/5772572

I can imagine a kind of anti-spam federated reputation system that would work for the Fediverse, assuming anyone actually adopted it.

- Users can "Vouch" for others. A new activity type, it means you know the subject well enough to say they're a real person and not an outright troll
- For closed-registration servers, registration is a Vouch from an admin
- You can filter posts by users that aren't vouched for by someone N degrees of separation from you

#Fediverse

I forgot how handholdy FireRed was. I think this game was the point where Game Freak started adding unskippable tutorials to everything. There's even a detailed help menu you can bring up at any time with R.

#Pokemon #OhmorisChallenge

Say hello to Ludwig von Squirtle! Picking Squirtle will make Brock easier, but then I can't use it for the rest of the game...

Here's the rules I'm using for this challenge:

- Box entire team after each gym
- Can only catch 1 of each Pokémon
- Team size is max(3, gym leader's team size)
- For Victory Road onward, build a team of the 6 MVPs from previous teams

I'm going to post a lot more than usual, so if it gets too spammy for you, just mute #OhmorisChallenge.

#Pokemon