I give it 3/5. Did the accent, but needed more "gusto" on the performance. View quoted note →

This was really useful for, among other things, at attempt to actually support accusations of "transphobia" against @Alex Gleason, and similar accusations against other, right-leaning elements in the FOSS space. And... those accusations against Gleason at least, I find quite "wanting". That being said, there are some real stinkers here.... View quoted note →

Just curious, does anyone here actually believe this? Any doomers in the crowd? View quoted note →

Totally called it, but kicking myself for not putting it on Nostr... After the Lake Ontario thing it was the next logical step for Il Piccolo Duce to set his sights towards the Cosmos... Next, once he's spurned in his question to rename the Moon: View quoted note →

Draw a card of one of the 117 billion human beings who has ever lived, and hear their life story, created with statistically-weighted AI:

Any Human Ever

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

h/t @Deepmarks.org

Lol @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 found the solution for your next AI rig 😆 View quoted note →

Hmm, apply GPL license, get exemption from age verification... Interesting 🤔

Tom

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

On my new Linux desktop, been using Firefox as a daily driver but now seriously considering Brave... So many sites just won't load, and I realize it's because it's a non-Chromium browser and that's tripping up some kind of security check or other... All the standard stuff, Youtube, news sites, etc work fine... It's mostly a problem with government sites and other large bureaucracies, undoubtedly because they've got some bespoke "enterprise web solution" that's brittle outside of very standard use cases. Problems you don't find on day 1, but day 30 😵‍💫️

Hit "random" on RetroArch and it came up with Equinox ( #snes ), which is the sequel to classic isometric #nes dungeon-crawl Solstice, a game that befuddled me in my youth but in my mid-age dotage I recently took the time to play through completely. I had always wondered about this sequel, so I hit "play" on Equinox. It's ... kind of a hot mess. The game opens on a splash screen that looks like it was made with MS Paint, playing simple music that sounds like some DOS game from 10 years earlier. Click "Start", and there's no story intro, no control guide, you just get dumped onto a heavily pixelated overworld map being chased around by yellow monkey monsters and flying bat things. OK, great, so what can you do? At the start, two things and two things alone: Play a harp, and jump super high. These abilities appear to do literally nothing, at least at the beginning. If you're not attacked by the spastic enemy sprites running around the overland map, you can eventually figure out that you need to jump into beehive-looking structures sprouting from the ground, wherein the *actual* game takes place. This is a series of interconnected dungeons, where you have to solve puzzles and collect various keys and potions, similar to the original Solstice game, but with the key difference that you can actually get weapons to fight the various dungeon ghosts and creatures. Anyway I've gotten to the 2nd world and definitely starting to hit the wall of non-obvious puzzle solutions, so maybe I'll play around with it a bit more, but overall it's still a bit "mid." It has the feeling of a half-finished game, certain sprites and graphics are richly detailed taking advantage of the 16-bit SNES, but then the overland map and intro screen look almost sub-8-bit. #retrogaming #review