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I'm passionate about two things: game development and writing!

For several years I've been working as an evenings-and-weekends indie game developer. I love it -- it's such a joyful mix of technical and creative tasks. It's stimulating and challenging and expressive, and makes my heart feel so full when I've finally finished something that another person can play. If I could ever reach a point where I could properly fund it, I could spend every day for the rest of my life making games. I launched my first game in 2018, a challenging puzzle game called Omnicube [0], and am having a blast working on a few new projects now.

On the writing side of things, I've been writing stories since I was a kid in one capacity or another. I think it scratches the same creative itch as game development, just though a different medium. I'm actually in the final stages of publishing my first book -- a memoir about my experiences playing competitive chess [1].

[0] trykon.itch.io/omnicube

[1] mychessmemoir.com
Anti-Piracy Companies Locked Down Russian TV, Now Putin Wants It Back
I'll take it as a stopgap until we figure out what is the next step.

Musk can shove his $8 up his big, fat... fail whale.
>The biggest issue I see is that the employees are just in the dark.

Employees are almost always in the dark prior to getting “the pink slip”. In my 35+ year career have been through multiple layoffs through multiple companies/buyouts both on the surviving and RIF implementation side as well as the side getting cut. Never, ever was there full transparency and this was intentional. Most often the RIF itself is hidden from the general employee populace until the moment it starts happening. Then it starts happening and everyone sits around during the chaos and wonders if they are next while blood and tears run down the halls of the offices. Layoffs are ugly and there is no way to make them less ugly unless gobs of cash are provided to soften the blow. Even then, speaking from experience, it still sucks…just sucks a little less.

Everyone who got RIF’ed from the executives downward should not have been surprised. His intentions has been broadcast publicly from Musk himself for six months. I think this has actually been more transparent than most and perhaps because it’s more public than most, the external scrutiny makes it seem worse than others. It’s not, because as I said before, it’s always ugly.
Thanks. Visibility seems to be pretty good. Something like AIDE/Tripwire for BPF might be the next step.
The advertisers pulled before any layoffs. Actually they started pulling the day before he took over.

The teams he cut are mostly silly teams. A climate team? At twitter? AI Ethics? He has to stop burning money.

He is moving twitter from ad funded (which never paid the bills) to subscription funded (which might pay the bills? $8/mo is nothing. It will certainly make bans hurt more. It will significantly help spam.)
This is very much like the one I want to replace. Unfortunately, it's not available for retail purchase anymore.
All of the comments on how easy this was to spot are laughable. Of course it was easy to spot. The moon landing DID in fact happen and we all know it. Let’s see you try again when you have no idea you could be looking at a deepfake.
I'd like to see an XKCD with this statement.
Weather is not the same thing as climate.
Quite the opposite. Using control to establish causality is study design 101.
Pretty much all instances are having massive issues keeping up with the new traffic.
Neither could twitter at the beginning:

https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only...
>how horrible blue light is for humans, and how much blue our white LED lighting kicks out

I hope your research will touch upon the trend of "blue blocking" (aka yellow) eyewear.

The genuine blocker products appear as a deep intense yellow, but I believe a 'lite' version is sold under the generic name Nighttime Driving Glasses. While I haven't tried the former, I find that the latter does subjectively increase eye comfort.

It seems like a fully-optimized product could include not only a broad-band filter, but also a "notch filter" at the specific wavelengths of blue light LEDs preferentially emit.

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This reminds me of early research on chickens: it was discovered that if chickens vision was filtered to only see red light, they wouldn't attack other chickens at the sight of blood. Researchers fitted hilarious red goggles on the chickens[1][2]. One day some enterprising person recalled that optics is path-reversible, so you can locate a filter on the light bulb instead. Nowadays these red-tinted "chicken bulbs" (typically doubling as heat lamps) are still sold at major ag stores. LED options are emerging too.

Chicken eyeglasses are less common, but they're still available online. The advantage is this solution still works outside and in coops lit by natural light.

I look forward to your upcoming post!

[1] https://cosmicearth.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/chicken-glasses...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xQD5G10W4U
“The roadmaps envision 80% conversion by 2030 and 100% by 2050.” [1] [2]

Extrapolate out renewable and battery storage uptake rates. You won’t get the first kWh from a nuclear plant you start building today for at least a decade. Nuclear will have to compete on price so long as someone has to pay for it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17998672

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
Most companies don’t run their own email servers, either.
unfortunately that's a terrible idea:

1. copyright licenses cannot be imagined to limit what you do with the legal copy of your software. it's not what copyright is or does.

2. it's also no longer an open source license, OSI, DFSG, GPL are all incompatible and would create practical problems for your would be users

this is a problem that doesn't need to be solved; your license likely already prohibits this - copying without attribution, re-licensing, or license-washing.

what remains is courts fine tuning what is "fair use" snippets or not, and it's not likely to come down as OK to use snippets like the fast sqrt as fair use. same whether it's a human abusing fair use, or a company, or a machine used by either of those. the AI aspect has no legal bearing and changes nothing - it just made the problem practical enough to actually happen.

open source people and projects that have had their licenses violated need to sue and defend their existing copyrights.
Situation is somewhat similar here in Lithuania. Unfortunately what I learned studying our post-WW2 resistance, it's not as obstacle as it was back then. Melioration is probably #1. Marshes are anti-tank canals, with bridges supporting tractors and trucks. Then greatly improved road network. Especially access roads for farms, forest service and so on. Impenetrable marshes and forests of 1940s where some cells held out for a decade are now zig-zagged with roads that support trucks overloaded with timber. Farms have fascinating access roads too. And Polish farms seem to have even better access roads, at least what I saw while cycling down there.

Sure, it's not flatland where you can roll by tanks anywhere. But so was Ukraine in february when fields were sinkholes. And it's nowhere close to proper mountains. Or marshes of 100 years ago.
Music Labels Win $46.7M Judgement in Thexas Internet aprovider Piracy Trial
Why does it matter how much he’s worth? Never understood why people are so concerned about him cutting jobs? He bought the company and took it private. It’s his right to restructure it and try to make it generate profit as he’d wish. The board of directors of public Twitter approved of this. What do people think, the USA is FOSS?
Signal is gradually gaining adoption in the circles that I am in. Few years ago? Unusable.

Now, many of the people I meet are fine starting a signal chat instead of SMS.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/18153
If you look at it through a different lens.

Imagine an investor who owns $100,000 of SPY. Therefore, they own roughly $12,000 of Apple and Microsoft (together, they account for 12% of SPY)

If that same investor thinks Microsoft and Apple are at their long-term peak, the investor is forced to hedge against their own positions in those stocks because they can't exclude them from their SPY holdings.

I held a lot of PUT options and was shorting TSLA stock in 2021/2022... meanwhile I also owned a lot of TSLA through my index fund holdings (I would have much preferred an ETF that excluded TSLA, rather than owning TSLA via SPY and actively shorting the TSLA position simultaneously). This is something I did in the past, and my gains would have been higher had I had a way to remove TSLA from my index fund holdings without spending money on PUTs or shorting.
I use to be a huge Ubuntu fan but decided to move back to a hackintosh ~2 years ago.

I still use ubuntu often so i went with Ubuntu Budgie https://ubuntubudgie.org

It has that whole "MacOS" dock look and feel right out of the box.

Good that you found an alternative OS and kept your old mac running. So many people seem content to spend big money on a Mac laptop, have it reach EOL and become landfill as they run out and buy a new one.
Wow.

and they are multilingual as well.

For me it was the first time to (afaik) to hear tts of this Quality in my native language (which is a major one)
If they were really serious they would do their climate conference over Zoom.
"Not all were slaves, and writing letters"

Your point? "Free" Blacks were exceptions (about 9% by 1850) not the rule. Preservation of their history too was an exception, not the rule. Controlling for literacy rates and economic deprivation suppresses the preservation percentage more.
I can see it in Kibana when I request it by ID, but I can’t seem to get it via text search no matter what keywords I use, which is bizarre. (“NSMutableURLRequest image” should be pulling it up, but isn’t.) I have no idea what’s going on here, but thanks for bringing my attention to it!

This sort of thing is part of the reason I want to move off of ES: it’s a big black box and when something goes wrong I have no idea how to diagnose it. (I’m currently researching “unassigned shards” in case that’s the problem, but for all I know that could be a red herring.) Something a lot simpler would be easier for me to hold in my head and easier to figure out when it goes wrong.
Absolutely! People love to hate it’s very infectious. I personally believe for-profit social media companies should have always charged a subscription. People tend to be more respectful and use things they pay for.
>By all means, continue to read Slashdot, Hackernews, but pay attention to world news...

I guess you missed the bit where I counted how many times the Musk/Twitter story had featured on BBC News and The Guardian?
But then you get a few more years of your software not being 100% current but still getting a good chunk of the security updates and generally being compatible with current software, which adds up to that full 10 years.

Your MacBook Pro is compatible with the OpenCore Legacy Patcher: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.ht...
I wish we could just de-escalate the situation with China. Dial back some of the economic squabbling as well as the military posturing. The West and China need each other economically, and both Biden and Xi are smart enough-- and old enough to remember nuclear terror-- to not want WWIII.

I feel like most of the escalation is coming from the West though. They're the ones tossing around sanctions and national-security noise on speculation-- China might invade Taiwan. Are they willing to upset the order that's maintained stability for decades, and likely derail their economic miracle, over a symbolic chunk of rock? We can't ignore the "economic miracle" angle when comparing with, say, Russia/Ukraine-- Russia can justify an invasion by tossing around a "we've been abused and mocked since 1991, what do we have to lose" narrative, while China's star has been continually rising, so there's no need to recover lost prestige. Ironically, more sanctions and reduced detente could actually encourage an invasion, by reducing the economic ties and stoking fresh hostility, getting closer to the "what do we have to lose" moment.

I feel like the problem is much more on a philosophical level. We're still remixing the Cold War. The current Western/Private Enterprise ecosystem needs to be able to say "THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. NOTHING ELSE WILL EVER WORK. IT'S HUMAN NATURE." If we start successfully exploring alternatives, there's a risk of dislodging entrenched wealth. So if a state-capitalist or outright socialist state becomes competitive, the West instinctively responds with full (metaphoric) guns blazing to hobble it. The last thing the current ruling classes want is for people to start saying "Things are actually better off in China" and start asking "so how are they achieving that? Did it involve putting Jack Ma on a tighter leash than we give Elon Musk?"

I personally want to see China succeed. Domestically, they're too big to fail. It's not like we have a way to peacefully and seamlessly transition a country of 1.4 billion people to some shiny new alternative. (Airdropping a fait-accompli democracy is a proven-terrible strategy). On an international-affairs level, we need a more multi-polar world-- we've seen (Iraq, Afghanistan) what happens when we have a single superpower with no real checks to its impunity. On a philosophical level, we shouldn't be packing all the eggs in the Western-Style Free Market/Democracy basket, because we're approaching, if not in a major transition point. We know these systems work somewhat in an age of bounty (cheap fossil fuels, absorbing and consuming an entire new hemisphere in 500 years, slashing of communications costs and latency) but will they still function smoothly in a coming age of scarcity (resource exhaustion, climate change)?
In the Netherlands there’s a place called “Boomerang” where one can dispose of used or partial broken things. The workers there (I guess some are volunteering) sort them out, repair and put them up for sale. So really good stuff are available for really low price.

All that is to say, it wasn’t pain in the ass when I was in the Netherlands.
Don't worry when the kid comes out with no recognition and behavior on par with a lizard only eating, sleeping and crapping, doing none of those things on an adult time scale leaving you exhausted. Some time around 3 months recognition, smiles, laughs and awesome commences and around six months the kid may even be sleeping on a human timescale..
I'm a night owl, always have been, always will be, but we live in an early bird world, and fitting in with that is worth a lot.

So at the moment I'm passionate about fixing my daily routine to finally get enough sleep, and get to work early, leave early, and hopefully have energy to do things in the evening.

I've changed all my clocks back one hour so that psychologically it's easier to stomach. I have a light set on a timer to turn on in the morning, and strict bed time.

I can work flexible hours, but somehow showing up at 9:30 I always felt like I was "late" and felt rushed, and then having to keep working until 17:30 felt hard too. Doing the exact same hours but arriving 6:30 to 7:00 means I now feel like I'm ahead of the game each day, and I get to leave early, and there's still daylight when I leave work which is a huge motivator.
> The first thing you have to do when you sign up is choose a server

> It doesn't hugely matter which one you are on because you will be able to follow users on all the others anyway

> The server you choose becomes part of your user name

> Unlike Twitter, Mastodon won't suggest followers you may be interested in

OK, so this shouldn't be the first step unless the "server" is a key part of the experience or has other benefits. A company laser focused on signups, like Twitter was at one point, would aim a growth team at this and remove all unnecessary signup steps to reduce friction. Steps like... first enter email, then auto-suggest a username, then suggest some interests (i.e., people) to follow, then (and only then) allow for the editing and selection of your username.

> he had over 6,000 new joiners in 24 hours and had to pause registration

You don't turn off signups when things get too hot. You allow signup and then throttle the experience. Reach back out when things cool down and get people re-engaged. (This is difficult, but better than nothing.)

In any case, if Mastodon is a bit like email (as another comment suggested), what will make it "just work" is an upgraded experience to make it easy to sign up. Yes, you will be "picking your server" by selecting your upgraded experience -- such as AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. -- but then they will also need to monetize it or track your usage for other reasons.

In fact, if it gets any traction, perhaps Google will spin up a Mastodon service as a companion to Gmail.
I couldn't finish sign-up because the servers seem overwhelmed (confirmation email)

But I'm wondering how something like Mastodon could scale to people having millions of followers.
https://nx.dev/getting-started/intro
I spun up my own instance today (just for me). It’s not super hard but equally it’s not straightforward.
Admittedly I could just have signed up on an existing instance but this felt like a better way to understand the platform and what it offers.

I’ve been off social media for some time so I figure I’ll give it a few weeks and see how it goes.
Well it's only the beginning and slow relative to what comes after. Relative to what came before, it's much later and faster!
Amazing. Keep up the good work. :). Is it as part of an organization?
i like to live in a free country. as an adult my mistakes are my business
now accessibility is woke? Despite your degenerate 4chan lingo this will scare everyone who is not a normie because like your vocabulary, Twitter will degenerate for less fortunate people which have real disabilities.
This site is quintessential Czech humor, similar in spirit to recent Kralovec annexation and Jara Cimrman. Thank you for linking it here.
If federation works as intended this should not be a problem since it should (...) not matter whether someone uses server_X.org or server_Y.net. As to whether this works in practice I have no real idea. I have self-hosted a number of Peertube instances which also support activitypub and am on-and-off experimenting with a Pixelfed instance ("Instagram goes activitypub") but since these are all small-scale experiments they neither prove nor dispell the utility of activitypub-as-a-protocol.
Twitter is usually the only reliable, direct way to ask a question of a faceless corporation because they happen to prioritize actually answering tweets. I don't know why, but it's become the only way I ask questions of some service that has millions of users, because I don't feel like signing up an account on a service portal or filing a ticket with a convoluted customer support system. Or even worse, "chatting" with a bot that will just funnel me to poorly-written FAQs that don't even remotely help me with the problem I'm encountering.
Funny, I've laughed at the coffee machine at my previous job, because I am a coffee snob. For the past year I've been at a new job with no threat of ever going back to the office, and I get to drink all the coffee I want from a machine that cost me so much I can only smile.

<rant>

If the goal is to laugh with you coworkers, you can still do that. I have all kinds of conversations with coworkers about life, politics, silly things, pets, coffee.. etc

And if the goal is to have coffee with your coworkers, meet them and talk and laugh.

WFH benefits everyone, even the people with jobs that cannot be done remotely. Think about traffic, and rent, the environmental benefits.

</rant>
I'm a long-time user of Emacs, and although I don't see myself switching to Helix, one thing that I really liked when I looked at Helix was how good the out-of-the-box experience was. As I get older, I am annoyed at the amount of customization that I have for different programs, and I wish I had fewer dotfiles that to maintain and carry around. I recently started trying some of my daily drivers (alacritty, fish, tmux, git) without my configurations and though they're a bit less comfortable, they're pretty good nonetheless. I would probably put Helix in that category: I would probably be fine just using the thing without any customization, because the defaults are so well chosen and polished.
Yep. I have tons of people on signal today, and when I started it was just 1 or 2. About half came after the whatsapp exodus, and then it's been a steady trickle.

To be clear, it's still not enough to start a group chat with random people because of course that's a problem in 2022.
The point of go hate always has been and will continue to be as a way of avoiding doing your job. Hating go is giving you an excuse to twiddle your thumbs and fantasize about impractical solutions (Rust)
So I go to "The World of Illuna" at https://illuna-minetest.tk/ . I'm curious, so I click on what appears to be a video, under "Amazing customized Technic Ethereal experience in a crazy adjusted mapgen. Port 30.002 Online".

I get "502 Bad Gateway".

I then go to "Veloren" at https://tchncs.de/veloren . There are some pretty images on the side. I click them, and get a small white box with an x in the upper-corner. Firefox tells me:

Content Security Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource at http://appserv/assets/veloren/gallery/9cc5eedb1912d401-9a68c... .
This statement is so dubious I don't know what to make of the rest of the article:

> And now, a team of scientists has sequenced one of the seed’s DNA—the oldest-yet genetic code recovered from a plant. The genome reveals the seeds belonged to a 6,000-year-old wild watermelon

Meanwhile, in 2003 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sediment-cores-yi... said

> Researchers have retrieved from sediment cores plant DNA that is nearly 400,000 years old--the oldest such specimen ever recovered.

and in 2012 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120221-ol... said

> 32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Oldest Yet

I'm sure there are other examples too.
I’m the same way- my MacBook trackpad is closer to my fingers than the escape key! Not to mention, in VSCode I can do anything with the command palette with cmd+P without the need for separate modes and without the need to memorize a million shortcuts.

If I know the first letter or two of the command, then it’s only 3 keystrokes away. For example, “Evaluate Math Expression” is “cmd+shift+p”+”ev”+”enter”. The command palette also provides great additional explorability with the fuzzy searchable menu + descriptions.

This is a far superior workflow because I have access to every possible command in the editor / installed extensions (very easily mapped to my own shortcuts of I want) without the need to memorize anything. I can even reverse-search commands by typing the shortcut and it will tell me the commands bound to that shortcut.

I could be missing something, but Vim and family feels like a huge step backwards in workflow for me.