I did some really basic searching and it looks like something like Yunohost might have some ActivityPub modules, and it does have some blogging modules that might work. I have not used this, so I can’t say how good or bad it is, but it seemed to have potential.

Goddammit. It’s my moronic senator behind that. Figures. I’m not sure he reaches Tuberville or Inhofe levels of stupid, but he is a terrible person.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion… I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time… to die.

Roy Batty (as played by Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner (1982)

I don’t think you’re alone on the Southern Reach books by Vandermeer. I did read them, but holy moly it was a slog towards the end. It’s a trippy slow psychological descent. Without any concrete aspects for the reader to hang their hat on, it’s exceedingly difficult (for me at least) to get a picture of what’s going on, what’s really happening. I think they’re well written, but they are not really my thing.

I hate how the Star Wars fans respond to PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING. I was the biggest Star Wars geek as a kid; it was THE thing I collected and played with extensively. As many characters as I could get, ships. Made my own stuff. Generally freaking appalled at everyone’s behavior since then.

Also Gen X (1971) and while I remember it in first grade (so this would have been around 1976-77) I don’t think it continued much past 1st grade. MAYBE 2nd. So I lucked out there I suppose. I cannot imagine getting indoctrinated by JBS though. I’m sure it would have gone down well in a lot of the midwest where I grew up, but I suppose I also lucked out there in that the school board and staff were pretty apolitical when it came to school structure.

Big patch. Pretty disappointed in the Annulet change because I don’t believe their statement that they are correctly compensating for the loss of the damage. As Windwalker I can guarantee it’s way more than a 2% aura is going to produce, so WW is going to trail even further behind after this. I mean I get what they’re trying to do, but it’s going to be painful for a few weeks while we’re further ignored.

Oh well, I’m just going to keep on punching.

Yeah, it should have been a A level criticality – functionally impossible to relay bad information, tri mode redundancy, shut down if it detects itself in error, etc.

I don’t know if it’s technical detail translating poorly into journalism, but from reading up on it, I don’t believe it was just a sensor deploying at the wrong time. It was a sensor providing flight stability critical information with no tri-mode redundancy built in (sold secondarily as a “safety mechanism” reporting incorrectly, causing MCAS to react fatally.

I think that “sensor with no redundancy” is a pretty important fact.

Renown is absolutely a goal you can set for yourself. There’s events that grant a large portion of reputation all the time, and most of the weekly quests center around getting that. There’s a lot of cosmetic rewards and dragonflying tweaks!

Getting Loremaster and finishing all the side quests could also be a worthy goal. There’s a lot of side stories in the Isles that they put a lot of work into for story line that fleshes out the world.

For that matter, going back to the first point, renown also unlocks some of the major follow on story beats. The one that takes you out to the Emerald Dragonshrine was very good.

Professions are kind of a mixed bag. Leveling them up to 50 is easy. Beyond that it is expensive and tedious. There’s a decent chance that someone who has done nothing else but level their profession will be able to craft better than you can for those hard to get points later on, but there’s some fun things in there you can make for yourself if you are an engineer.

You’ve probably already done this, but getting all the dragonflying upgrades is a worthy side task.

You could work on doing all the races forwards and backwards.

Hope that helps!

Yes, apparently firing was ‘enough’ /s

(Off-Topic: Nice Nickname!)

I liked Translation State as well, though for me, the midsection was the drag. I noticed she started doing a lot of time skips and admittedly during that point there wasn’t a lot going on, but it got tedious. Finally they got to the Treaty station and then things picked back up again. I know she was developing the character’s internal world and opinions and expectations, but with how mysterious the Presger faction is and all the talking around a point – it dragged for me.

I will admit that I rather liked the subreddit distinction between ‘scifi’ and ‘printsf’. My interest is almost wholly in books. Reiterating what the best SF movies of the last month/year/decade/century isn’t really anything I’m interested in. I probably saw it. On the flip side, the 1000th recommendation of why Dune is amazing is also pretty old. I realize I’m coming at this after being an enthusiast for a long time and I don’t want to deny anyone their entry point into the genre, so we need a balance of ideas.

I guess that’s a long way from a recommendation of what to do. A currently reading weekly thread might be good though. I do like finding new authors – new to authoring and older-but-new-to-me – and maybe that would be a good way to get some traffic going. Could split it into a separate weekly “what are you seeing?” kind of thread too for those who are finding or revisiting shows on video.

If I understand right, this is a clarification (of sorts) to the standard of “true threat”. Ken White covers a lot of first amendment speech issues and has a very good explanation here: https://popehat.substack.com/p/supreme-court-clarifies-true-threats

So. To the practitioner, or to the internet tough-talker, what does this mean? It means that the law of the land, at least 7-2, is that a threat is only outside the protection of the First Amendment if:

• A reasonable person, familiar with the context, would interpret the threat as a sincere statement of intent to do harm, and
• The speaker was reckless about whether the threat would be taken sincerely — that is, they “consciously disregarded a substantial risk” that it would be taken seriously.

I have a few:

• Babylon 5 : The opening monologue and music score was amazing every time. Definitely an older vibe with this one with flashing images of the cast up as it progressed, but it was very good.
• Westworld Season 1 : I think it was mainly the same for later seasons with slight variations. The simple piano tune building for the whole intro was beautiful and while watching back to back would absolutely let it run maybe every other episode, or every third.
• Eureka Season 1 : The score by Mothersbaugh and quirky art is really fun and conveys the definite style of the show.

I use GK for everything and usually only use CLI when there’s something a little exotic. I like seeing it update in real time on another screen and I like the diff engine for quickly assessing changes and making sure everything I expected was altered and nothing I didn’t. I know there are other tools but GitKraken is the fastest for me.

Also have found it a good tool for teaching other engineers (usually older) how Git works. We tried out Sourcetree but it was super clunky at the time.

If I had to find a tool between pure CLI and pure GUI I’d probably recommend Emacs Magit porcelain. Works quite well.

It was, in fact, hilarious.

Yeah this matches my usual interview advice. If you’re feeling nervous about the interview, try to turn it around in your head. Pretend you are interviewing THEM. Assume they’re going to want you, what do you want to know about them that’s going to make you say yes to them.

I know it doesn’t always work that way, personal pressures and needs can make it hard to flip that script, but I really think if you approach an interview believing it to be an equal stakes conversation rather than one side having all the power, it goes a lot better.

I’ll admit, that was one of the few that I usually had pinned to the Reddit Enhancement Suite top bar and would browse. With it dark, there’s little crack urge to check back (plus it’s not like there’s going to be any really good news about them tweaking Windwalker Monk in any significant way (aside from that measly 2% damage aura boost.)

I think I remember watching that one in the theater. We were kinda jazzed for it because of Lambert and Highlander fame (it wasn’t that long ago in 1992). I also mainly remember the exploding coller things. Not a single plot point though.