Notices by lori (lori@hackers.town)

I know this is always a longshot but since a lot of you are Tech People and probably a lot of you spend a lot of time digging around stuff for sale, if anyone at any point sees one of these old Lian Li PC-U6 (Cowry) cases for sale, please light the bat signal for me because I have been trying to find one of these for quite a while. I didn't have the money for one when they were new ten thousand years ago and finding one in the modern day has not been easy. Maybe if I post about it enough eventually someone will see one somewhere and go "wait, someone was looking for one of those". Then not be able to find my post again probably. But y'know.

#pc #computers #pcbuilding #tech

Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:

1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command

2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)

3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal

edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one

This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".

#terminal #tui #linux

Is anyone familiar with this #PalmOS game? It's unfortunately called Empire, which is the name of a lot of other old video games. This Palm version is in English and French, the English version having a choppy translation.

It's a turn based game where you're trying to grow your empire and take out the other players, each turn you have to get your people fed, then spend whatever money you have on upgrades, then can attack the other empires to take their land.

I'm curious if it's a remake/port of something on another platform, because I'd love to know if it exists elsewhere.

#Palm #PDA

@thomasfuchs nah, they should keep the CEO they have and let them run it into the ground already, current team is doing a fantastic job of that

Cohost's financial update is a poster child for what I and others have been saying for a long time now: the internet won't survive without decentralization. You can't just make the next Twitter or Reddit or Tumblr. That's a joke. Cohost was against decentralization but they've now learned why centralization isn't feasible: only massive corporations with infinite VC can afford it, and they hemorrhage that money and close eventually too.

The internet is too expensive to work this way and it won't long term. We just got complacent while there was enough VC to go around. It's pets dot com again. It doesn't last.

And this isn't even about AP/fedi, while I like fedi this is true with or without it. We have to go back to having websites. Not The(tm) website for whatever, but lots of them. If you don't want to go to more than one? Too bad, it's how things will be regardless. Having One website isn't sustainable for corporations and isn't even vaguely feasible for little guys.

You have to have lots of websites. I can run a small community for a bit of my entertainment budget for the month or donations from a handful of users who like what I'm running. You can run a mastodon instance for a small crowd for very little. You can run a website off an old laptop laying around. You cannot run a 130k user site and pay you and your friends $94k a year to run it. It's not sustainable. I wish it was. It isn't. Sites have to stay small, and there have to be enough of them spread out to spread out the financial load to hobbyist levels. Sorry that you can't make a living running a site for your friends to hang out on, but it's just how the math works out. Reddit can't make money doing it, Twitter can't make money doing it, Patreon can't...they only survive on being Huge Corporations Who Can Bleed Money. You can replicate bleeding money on a small scale all you want but I wouldn't advise it. You can however run a forum for your friends for the cost of Netflix or whatever.

@kelbot @thegibson I know fresh coat of pain is a typo but it's too real

@goatsarah I lost it at "how is it sustainable?" "It's a Mac mini in a drawer"

@checkervest @ahermitforhire I've seen this argument a lot, their argument is that if you read a transcription of it it could be altered. Except if the government wanted to lie about it they'd put a fake out on display in the capitol for you to practice your cursive reading on lmao

@cwebber okay but christine what do you think of orkut

Now this I would see

The dems in the background giving each other extremely sad hugs. The republicans would not be doing this if they lost the vote. Because they don't actually care about any of this.

Guarantee you not a single one of these people have shed a single tear over the thought of trans kids getting affirming care. It doesn't actually made them sad. They don't actually believe any of this. Oh sure, the hate is real, but they don't actually think of it as harm towards children. They're just upset that kids are living their own queer lives.

The only way any of these liars would shed tears over this is if their OWN kid was trans, because of how upset they'd be that they couldn't do anything about it. They won't cry when trans kids kill themselves, they won't be worried about irreparable harm then. Because it's all faux concern.

The problem isn't trans kids transitioning, getting puberty blockers, etc. That's not actually what the republicans are upset about. They don't care about queer kids or what happens to their bodies.

The problem is that THEIR kids will go to school with them, and might learn to love and respect them. And they can't have that. They have to make sure their kids don't see trans kids, don't see drag queens. Their kids can't get the wild idea that queer people might be people, and even worse, their kids can't get the idea that they might be loved and supported if they themselves are queer.

It's not about the trans kids, it's about their own kids being disgusted at their parents' bigotry and accepting people for who they are. The only way to fight the fact that the youth don't support them is to keep them as ignorant as possible.

Keep getting emails from Samsung like "Save $1200 on this phone!" mfer if it is possible for me to save $1200 on a phone your phone is too expensive

And the most infuriating thing is, if you're older and have been online a long time, you know that the information is out there. There's ten billion websites out there on how to raise goats by people who have done so professionally for decades.

You just aren't allowed to find them anymore.

Honestly the state of the internet is miserable if you're trying to learn things.

Like, you want to learn how to care for an animal? Well, every Google result is a bot generated fake blog. Maybe try YouTube? Well, you have a few new options: there's the person who just got this animal for the first time talking like experts about them. Or there's the literal child telling you what they learned about caring for hamsters from the bot generated fake blogs they just looked up.

This goes for almost anything anymore. There's no expertise, the only advice is just from whoever is the best at SEO, which is often not an actual person. But if it is they probably know as much as you do.

In the last 6 or 7 years I've found myself more and more just digging up ebooks from people who know what the fuck they're talking about.

It was always weird to me that people thought that unless a website goes on...for literally until the end of time it failed in some way. A lot of fedi critics think that the sheer fact that an instance CAN shut down makes it unstable and unusable in some way. But I grew up in an era where lots of websites came and went, you'd move from one to another and if you were friends with people you'd probably have them on an instant messenger to keep in touch. I don't see how that's a mark of failure. If you can run a site for years, you've succeeded for sure. And I'm honestly glad that my current corporate social media accounts aren't tied to stuff I posted in my teens, sometimes those occasional venue shifts are a GOOD thing.