Notices by Local Dad, Ben Hamill (benhamill@eldritch.cafe)

TIL, you can type “qr code whatever” into Duck Duck Go and it will give you the QR code that encodes the string “whatever”. So you can replace “whatever” with your website or whatever. You don’t need a special tool, let alone a service.

What domain registrar do folks use? I am finally wanting to pull the trigger on moving away from Dreamhost so I can stop paying for web hosting I don't use.

@andrewt I used to work with a guy who liked to say, "Can't get phished if I don't read my email!"

Fediverse, help me out. If I wanted to host a chat... thing... for many people. With different channels and user pfps and emoji and shit. But outside corporate control. What are my good options? Note: I don't need federated anything. I am happy to ask people to sign up for my thing specifically and have the account unlinked to other identities.

@hypolite @junebug Big focus on in emperor and various factions within that empire that sometimes fight each other. Especially later in the books, the god-emperor is also deathless. Hyperspace is some eldritch bullshit. Creepy witch ladies. Everything is dismal. It vibes.

@junebug @hypolite Yeah. Dune but falling entirely off the “accidentally selling fascism to people” cliff.

@junebug Curious where you’d put:
• Arrival
• Annihilation (movie or books)
• I, Robot
• Armageddon
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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@hypolite @spencer Wow that's rad! Now I wish Lego made a piece with a little pointing skeleton arm on it. Heh.

Also, the 11yo got that Groot for Christmas just recently. The cassette is a neat build.

@hypolite @spencer War Rig MOC??? I would enjoy a picture of that for sure.

I petered out on my apartment building MOC because I didn't know what I wanted to do with the roof. Which forestalled my doing any of the interior decorating, either. What's ADHD? Why do you ask? /s

@spencer Spencerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! My wife has gotten all the floral things... I have the succulents under my monitor at home... I have a shelf of modular buildings in the living room...

They're so good, but they're also a thing that you end up wanting more of when you have some ("the correct number of bikes to own is one more than the number you have now"). So... be wary, but also I am here to enable you. ?

@spencer Because you could put a bus on the street in front of the buildings and no other vehicles at all and it would be glorious.

I was debating with my wife whether there was room for the jazz club on my shelf or not. I have the Botique Hotel, the Bookshop, Assembly Square and the sketch up a MOC apartment building that I haven't touched the design of in like 2 years... There's technically room on the end to scoot things down and put the Jazz Club in, but I'd have to find a new home for a spaceship that just hangs out at the end of the block...