Notices by Travis Briggs (audiodude@sfba.social)

@InfiniteHench I disagree with the idea that any merchant, whether a hot dog vendor, an etsy seller, or a gaming studio, doesn't "deserve" to sell something at the price it's worth. If there was a cat backpack charm in this game, I would probably pay 15 dollars for it. I paid $5 for the mohawk, the first real money transaction I made in the game.

Every good and service is worth the exact price that someone is willing to pay for it, no more no less, and I don't think we should shame either the studio or our fellow gamers if someone wants to pay 19.99 to put a plunger on their head or god knows what.

The only possible exception is if they ruin immersion or atmosphere for us, which I find a big part of the game. Then I see valid complaints.

@inthehands See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/media/future-of-truth-ai-quotes.html

@inthehands Absolutely. People at work are suggesting that when you copy from a Gemini/ChatGPT/etc reply, it should automatically prepend "Well Gemini says: ..."

@killyourfm I would say it's more the isolation than the lack of career that got to me 20 years ago. But maybe that's not a thing for you when you're talking about nomadic life? Or are you going with someone? I guess I imagine it as a lifestyle where you meet a lot of new people all the time?

@InfiniteHench I had the opposite inclination. I started playing in mid Feb, so the last expo seemed too soon for me. I barely reached 75 before it.

Also I simply didn't understand the mechanic FWIW.

Now I'm excited to do my first one, even though I'm out of town this week and will only get 3 skill points. I liked that paying stage 5 gave me a reason to get rid of junk and free up stash space.

But mostly I'm just excited to start over fresh, which is what prestiging is really about. Like re-rolling or seasons in Diablo, you get that feeling of "SWEET! A rusted medical kit!"

It's my wife's birthday today! I will celebrate with the following PSA.

If you're singing Happy Birthday to someone and you don't know their name, you have a couple of options:

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
(and then repeat it...)
Happy Birthday to you (instead of "dear Mary")
(or)
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to you!

@canadianglen @old_hippie @steter @khleedril @blogdiva Where are all the people in this thread where the first movie they saw in theaters was Pirates of the Carribean? I guess no one ever commiserates about how young they are online. #SelectionBias

@dalias

@dalias Anyways I did it because I was curious:

https://github.com/audiodude/wapo-un-navigator

I actually ran Claude Code twice, just to burn extra fossil fuels.

EDIT: The most time consuming part was figuring out how to install Firefox so I could test it. But Claude gave me the exact instructions on how to install the ext in dev mode so I didn't have to look that up.

Cheers!

@dalias You can vibe-code it! I did that with this one: https://github.com/audiodude/hacker-news-new-tab/

The prompt was like "Write a chrome extension that opens hacker news links in a new tab" and it took less than 5 minutes to code it, verify it and upload it to github

Granted, I'm not distributing the extension other than on github to have people install for themselves as "unpacked" should they choose.

@dalias Honestly if you know the exact line of JS you want to run on page load, which you do, you could probably vibe-code a skeleton extension ("Write a Firefox extension that executes `console.log('Hello world')` whenever a page on the http://washingtonpost.com loads"), and then plop in your code from this toot.

@dalias Oh sorry, Firefox! But I'm pretty sure the same principle applies.

Free beginner Python class tonight at @Noisebridge in SF! Mon Apr 28 at 7 PM!

We will be covering pretty basic stuff: expressions/statements, data structures (dict/list/tuple/set) and exceptions.

Livestream available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbBdtmVb45KgGNTn4tmnrZg/live around 7 PM tonight!

If you can't catch the livestream, check this playlist later this week for the posted recording (and past recordings!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XALGw2P4Ac&list=PLFfm7ymJs-GxWVuqKVt8Ge2TjHNFJHcGt&index=1

More information at: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/PyClass

#free #class #Python #Noisebridge #SanFrancisco #foss #education

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people too.

@lorenzosmusic @freebliss Come for Faircamp, stay to watch the Rainfall!

Rainfall (https://rainfall.dev) is a Bandcamp exodus tool that lets you upload your music and create a static site using the lovely Faircamp (https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/). You can download this site as a ZIP and host it anywhere on the web, or host it on Netlify with a few clicks.

Basically it's a web GUI for Faircamp, where you just upload your files instead of meticulously arranging them on your computer.

#Rainfall #RainfallDev

@vantablack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Audiodude#Your_submission_at_Articles_for_creation:_Fedipact_(January_14)

@vantablack It was rejected with the following reason:

"Needs more reliable sources that talk about Fedipact itself in **significant detail**."

With "significant detail" in bold.

@vantablack Ask and ye shall receive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Fedipact

Social media is the most dangerous and harmful invention of the past 100 years. And I'm including lead paint in this calculation.

@sindarina Nope, definitely didn't read the RFC.