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Re: OotB: Striking out?
Jul 15, 2023, 16:49
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Re: OotB: Striking out? Jul 15, 2023, 16:49
Jul 15, 2023, 16:49
 
As to the writers strike - I hope the folks on strike prevail, given the aforementioned A.I.-related and other bungles that's coming up in discussion. What a world.

On a different note, I updated a program last night, that I hadn't touched on my Github in four years, to fix a show-stopping bug. Stupid mistake found, and repaired. Novel program? No. Useful? Probably not. But, at least I can give myself that the program no longer crashes when creating a new project with it in a project directory beyond a certain path length. It's just a hobby, I'm not a pro, and the code is admittedly (imo) extremely sloppy in presentation and implementation.

https://github.com/dkupka2/boiler

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Re: RoboCop: Rogue City Playtest Next Week
Jul 1, 2023, 01:33
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Re: RoboCop: Rogue City Playtest Next Week Jul 1, 2023, 01:33
Jul 1, 2023, 01:33
 
Just applied for the beta test.

My computer will probably barely scrape by the listed requirements - and I may not even be accepted, but hey, might as well give it a whirl.

And besides, when it comes out, I'd buy that for a dollar, at least.

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Re: OotB: Out of the blue
Jun 15, 2023, 20:48
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Re: OotB: Out of the blue Jun 15, 2023, 20:48
Jun 15, 2023, 20:48
 
I went through the different color options and I do like the new blue better contrast-wise to the background. Also seconded on the pink.

Also, re: Her bus 666 - this is why we can't have nice things.

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Re: ItB: Wtf?
Jun 7, 2023, 03:15
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Re: ItB: Wtf? Jun 7, 2023, 03:15
Jun 7, 2023, 03:15
 
RedEye9 wrote on Jun 6, 2023, 20:11:
Oh great, now I'm gonna have both of the Girl from Ipanema songs bouncing around the vacuum of my noggin.
https://youtu.be/sVdaFQhS86E
https://youtu.be/jpKEzFZYqBg
,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,,
The Greatest Trick the 'Intact Craft of Non-Human Origin' Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World It Didn’t Exist
Why is it that no one has seen any pictures of it or actually seen it itself. The cloaking tech is what I'm after, along with the anal probe.
The first verified case of alien abduction

I'm also reminded of Adam Neely's analysis about the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU

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Re: OotB: Territorial
May 29, 2023, 01:24
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Re: OotB: Territorial May 29, 2023, 01:24
May 29, 2023, 01:24
 
I just got some news tonight while running an open mic that a pastor friend and former roommate of mine, Phil Wyman, passed away a couple of days ago, having been a pillar (my term) of Salem (MA) for several decades and then having moved to Wales.

There's a lot to write about him, but I'll leave you all with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3j5-0ZxM58

Hope you all have had a better day.

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Re: Op Ed
May 2, 2023, 13:18
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Re: Op Ed May 2, 2023, 13:18
May 2, 2023, 13:18
 
I would not look to it as a forum / archive for discussions and subthreads, really, so I agree 100% with you guys on that. Discord also allowed soundboards recently *eyeroll* - fun for only a few seconds but gets old really quickly. The admin of the server can modify its functionality, of course, and disable it entirely.

I use Discord as more of an IRC / video-chat platform with friends who game (on a couple of friends' servers) or like to perform/listen to music (e.g. my own server - and yes, I realize it's instanced off Discord itself and that I don't "own" it).

This in no way serves the same purpose as a proper discussion forum.

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Re: OotB: Celebrating
Apr 29, 2023, 20:11
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Re: OotB: Celebrating Apr 29, 2023, 20:11
Apr 29, 2023, 20:11
 
I missed last night.- sorry to hear about Jedi the Jindo. Though also, congrats to you and Mrs. Blue on your anniversary. My your memories of each be fond.

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Re: OotB: Celebrating
Apr 27, 2023, 15:49
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Re: OotB: Celebrating Apr 27, 2023, 15:49
Apr 27, 2023, 15:49
 
Happy Anniversary to you and Mrs. Blue!

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Re: etc., etc.
Apr 21, 2023, 22:59
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Re: etc., etc. Apr 21, 2023, 22:59
Apr 21, 2023, 22:59
 
Would this not be trademark issue as opposed to copyright?

"Stay up to date with World of Warcraft when you join us each week as we round up some of the latest top blue posts and discussions." - I don't even know what "blue posts" are supposed to mean in terms of WoW or ActiBlizz. Maybe they could make an argument that it's not "Blue's News", but "Blues News", since they're not naming a particular character or person, though it seems pretty dang close. If the underlying intent is to take away eyeballs from or make the news appear sanctioned by Blue's News here, then, well, I dunno.

A bit of googling for '"world of warcraft" "blue post" reddit' unearthed things like this from around four years ago.

(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not advice, I'm just giving my own personal opinion as a layperson.)

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Re: OotB: High there!
Apr 21, 2023, 02:00
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Re: OotB: High there! Apr 21, 2023, 02:00
Apr 21, 2023, 02:00
 
Happy 4/20 to everyone who celebrated.

I celebrated by going to and performing at an open mic, and am now tinkering in Slackware running twm DE (yes, I know, I know... I'm nuts) running on a secondary drive.

Wireless works, for the most part. Seemingly have to restart wpa_supplicant every so often as I lose connectivity. I have a script and .conf file to kick off connectivity manually, for now.

Discord downloaded and installed, though Arctis 7 does not play with Discord on Linux, apparently - though I have no problem otherwise hearing audio from sources such as YouTube, or audio files on the local machine.

Steam requires multi-lib, as I installed Slackware 64-bit. I'll try to progress through that this weekend.

Windows is still accessible on my primary drive, so at worst I still have access to pretty much everything Steam-wise.

Dan =0)

EDIT: hope you feel better @TheFlyingPenguin
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Re: Star Citizen Free Fly Event
Apr 14, 2023, 23:13
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Re: Star Citizen Free Fly Event Apr 14, 2023, 23:13
Apr 14, 2023, 23:13
 
Meh. I think with the various issues with the initial release of 3.18 (even with the forewarning by the devs), and the 3.18.1 patch, things might not pick up as much as CIG would like/want.

It's a niche game. It's got a lot of scope creep and overly ambitious goals. It's full of bugs and glitches (entertaining as some of them may be, if not outright game-breaking). The new PES (persistent entity streaming) and cargo block system they introduced in 3.18 along with whatever subsystems they've rejiggered broke at scale in the PU (persistent universe) compared to the PTU (persistent test universe) - and I will admit that, players were warned, and that, maybe, there are bugs that can not be encountered or uncovered until the game is released to a wider group of players.

The ships are neat. I love being able to walk through a large ship and seeing all its details. I like how seamless transitions are from space to planet, etc. I like salvaging, doing some ship bounty combat missions, strolling around a city or station, or just cruising around. Mutli-crew missions can be a lot of fun.

Is it worth it? As long as I have an org to play along with, it rarely ever gets boring. But, I don't think I'll be putting any extra money into this - not that I can afford to.

(There are folks I've spoken with who play that have sunk at least a thousand into it; that is much more than I would care to put in).

Dan =0)

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ED: Zmrzlskrz (haven't played this one in months)
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Re: OotB: This Slime Could Change The World
Apr 13, 2023, 16:52
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Re: OotB: This Slime Could Change The World Apr 13, 2023, 16:52
Apr 13, 2023, 16:52
 
Obligatory Simpsons reference.

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Re: ItB: Godless
Apr 11, 2023, 03:05
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Re: ItB: Godless Apr 11, 2023, 03:05
Apr 11, 2023, 03:05
 
VaranDragon wrote on Apr 11, 2023, 02:18:
Bodolza wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 22:17:


Is your goal here to work in IT? To be frank, at your age I'd reconsider.


What the actual fuck dude?

I was going on a large ramble in response to this, but I'll just say that, they're giving their honest, direct opinion, age-ist or not. (I should probably be angry, but I'm not even sure I have the energy to be that, or if I should be at all.)

And, I appreciate the DOOM Cacodemon avatar.
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Re: ItB: Godless
Apr 11, 2023, 02:03
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Re: ItB: Godless Apr 11, 2023, 02:03
Apr 11, 2023, 02:03
 
busfahrer wrote on Apr 11, 2023, 02:00:
Dan =0) wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 21:42:
2. Segueing from the previous point, I've off-and-on had thoughts of going away from Gmail because datamining, and wanting to use Slackware 15 as a daily (let the guffaws commence on that last clause). The biggest pain point there: gaming. I have a bunch spread over Steam, EGS (also have Unreal Engine Dev stuff to poke at), EA, etc. I could see a dual-boot configuration being a thing for my desktop, which I've done in the past, but it would be a pain to have to reboot every time to switch between Linux and Windows. Also not sure how effective Proton(?) is.

I recently was in the same position as you are and played around with Linux Desktop again for the first time in years, and one realization that I had was the following:

For most of the games out there, you can find a thread asking "how well will this run on Steam Deck"? And people answering "it runs perfectly", even though it may only be marked as yellow in the official Steam store.
The thing is, all of these answers more or less also apply to gaming on a Linux machine with Steam installed. The only difference is that you have to go into a menu to set a checkmark to specify that you want to run proton by default ("compatibility tool"), whereas this is the default on Steam deck.

Additionally, if you have non-Steam games/apps, just add them to Steam as a non-Steam game to save you the hassle of manually setting up proton for them. For example I launch the battle.net app via Steam and get Proton for free, all games launched from the battle.net app will then also run on Proton.

As an addendum, while I love Slackware (my first distro), there might be better choices nowadays, especially if you want to go into a gaming direction.
As to your last statement and based on others' suggestions... I suppose I'm a glutton for punishment.
All the same, I appreciate your input.
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Re: ItB: Godless
Apr 11, 2023, 02:01
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Re: ItB: Godless Apr 11, 2023, 02:01
Apr 11, 2023, 02:01
 
Bodolza wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 23:51:
Burrito of Peace wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 22:28:
I don't care about certificates and disregard 99% of them immediately. All they show is that the holder sat on their ass, stared at a screen, and passed a rote learning exam.
For intermediate and above positions, I agree. For entry-level jobs, though, I like to see either an advanced degree or some certification. Yeah, all is proves is you can sit on your ass and learn by rote, but at entry-level that alone can put you above the herd. It shows the person at least has an attention span and the ability to remember. Of course, showing some work on a github repo is great, but I've found that to be very rare.

"some work on a github repo" (let the guffaws commence once again, in my case - and yes, I haven't touched it in a long while. honestly, I probably should just sell everything I can't carry and hop a bus somewhere consistently warm climate-wise. that also may be the depression talking.)
https://github.com/dkupka2
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Re: ItB: Godless
Apr 10, 2023, 23:47
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Re: ItB: Godless Apr 10, 2023, 23:47
Apr 10, 2023, 23:47
 
Burrito of Peace wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 22:28:
Dan =0) wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 21:42:
Not to derail the thread (cool picture, not sure about specific thoughts on McGee's retirement, though I enjoyed playing American McGee's Alice), but...

1. I will address this from a professional perspective because hiring people is part of my job. I don't care about certificates and disregard 99% of them immediately. All they show is that the holder sat on their ass, stared at a screen, and passed a rote learning exam. That's valueless to me. Now, throw me some links to a GitHub, gitea, or other such repo where you have proven, demonstrable skills on display and I will perk up and pay attention. Link some completed projects that you have finished or been a part of. Highlight what your part was so I can test it thoroughly and dig in to it.

2. Slackware? I think you are going to have a rough time of it going that route and even if you do, and stick to -current at all times, you're likely to run face first in to problems where some packages are too old and some are too new. If it's the stability you're after, you can't really go wrong with Debian on that basis. If it's "Because I want to install everything from source", well there's Gentoo for that. The "security" of Slackware is somewhat of a myth in 2023. You can harden any distro if that is your mindset and there's always distros like Fedora's Silverblue or Kinoite if you want an immutable system for ultimate sysroot level security.

Proton is really good these days, by and large. Sure, there are edge cases but they are just that...edge cases. Lutris will cover you for GOG, Steam, Humble Bundle, and EGS. Not sure how it will handle Origin/EA or Ubisoft, however. I think it comes down to "How often do I play games that justify me keeping and maintaining a completely different OS just to play those particular titles?" Only you can answer that for yourself.

3. I think you need to sit down and take a very honest inventory of what services you use and make an assessment from there. For myself, everything I use is pretty Google/Apple/MS taint free. I use ProtonMail and ProtonVPN for those purposes listed in their names and that is literally all they do. For maps, I use Magic Earth. Messaging is done via Wire or Matrix. Password management is handled by a self-hosted BitWarden Docker image. I have my own personal wiki. I use NextCloud as my "cloud" storage but I host it so I have ultimate control over it. Jellyfin for media streaming. Everything is both publicly accessible by me and authorized users but not public facing. The magic of that is Tailscale which made it dirt simple to setup a mesh VPN for all of my services. I have zero inbound ports open on any of my firewalls. Don't need them.

Part of my assessment was asking "Am I willing to put in the work to own all, or as much as possible, of my own data? Am I willing to maintain it?" Because, make no mistake, it is work. At least the initial setup was. I've deployed a lot of automation for resiliency and redundancy so there's not a lot of actual work I need to do these days. Most of the work is reading logs and going "Yep. That all replicated successfully."

But this is a lifestyle change and only you can decide if you are willing to make that change from being a bloodbag for the corporations to suck dry or someone who values their security, privacy, and control above all else. Even convenience. It's going to mean thinking and operating differently. It's going to mean that distrusting a corporation is your default state and making sure that, on your end, they can't wend their tendrils in to mooch as much of your data as possible.

Might be better to respond in message at this point so as to not clog up ItB, but:
1. I wonder what the ratio is of those who hire who do accept certs versus not? Having no degree, a cert would be the next best option, maybe? In previous forum conversations I've figured I can only wrap my brain around so much regarding programming, with a frustration and distraction bar that is pretty low; the suggested option from there was to try to get into non-programming IT of some sort. (For what it's worth, I'm poking into Unreal Engine and seeing what I can do with it, though there is no specific timetable on whatever project.) I have put some things up on a git and linked to it, though either you or another person on BN had responded saying that I don't seem like or am not much of a coder / programmer, and I concede that what I'd put up there would mostly be considered toy / tinker programs?

2. At the very least, I know I can close off all inbound and outbound ports, and open only those needed. I recall way back using ipchains in terminal, though not sure off the top of my head if there is a different/better way currently - I would have to dig deeper. Beyond that, I only got the memo recently that net-tools (ifconfig, arp, etc) had been deprecated in Linux, in favor of utilities such as "ip". Blah blah blah. I play enough games often enough on Steam that I could justify bringing those over, at least.

3. I've been considering abandoning a lot of social media, if it were not for the sake of some family and friends with whom I keep in touch - and then there's the seeming necessity of having / maintaining profiles for music and other things. Somehow when I was much younger I got along without much of social media, save for a 2400 baud / 14.4kbps / 28.8 kbps / 56kbps connection to AOL starting in the mid-90s.

Tl;dr - anxiety/depression is a bitch, CHF and COPD are obnoxious, being unemployed now is "freeing" in some ways and a boondoggle in others, couch-surfing is not all it's cracked up to be, and I've always felt different / like a looney trying to cobble my life together, dabbling in various hardware and software things, with no real ulterior or overt goal or agenda or identity. I'm a nutter.

Edited because accidental copy of BoP's and my quote block.
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Re: ItB: Godless
Apr 10, 2023, 22:40
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Re: ItB: Godless Apr 10, 2023, 22:40
Apr 10, 2023, 22:40
 
Bodolza wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 22:17:
Dan =0) wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 21:42:
1. Someone mentioned to me about looking into Google IT Cert; I looked at the summary on Coursera, goes so many weeks, seems to cover stuff I mostly know, apart from updated sec/cloud stuff."

Is your goal here to work in IT? To be frank, at your age I'd reconsider. You're going to be competing with people much younger and with as much or more knowledge. FYI, I'm speaking as someone that hires systems engineers. If you're able bodied, there are other fields that have high demand and care less about age, like electrician or health care worker.

Dan =0) wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 21:42:
2. Segueing from the previous point, I've off-and-on had thoughts of going away from Gmail because datamining, and wanting to use Slackware 15 as a daily (let the guffaws commence on that last clause).
No need to go to Linux if you're just trying to get away from Gmail. You might already have a different e-mail service from your ISP. It's also fairly easy to buy a domain and set up your own e-mail server using some cheap directadmin hosting service, or even running it yourself if you have a computer that's always on. The flipside is that pretty much every other option is going to cost you some amount of money.

To the first, I have congestive heart failure and COPD, so those would be limiting factors, if not outright be cause to dismiss those suggested options; on the other hand, I don't want to be tethered to a chair as was in my previous job. I had an open mic hosting gig last week that, while I was bushed entirely the next day, was gratifying and was a lot of fun for the performers, some of whom were friends in the community. It's not a constant, nor is it consistent as it's dependent on the venue.

(Side note: I did some work in an inventory room at [former large computer manufacturer/semi-conductor firm] around '99 to 2002, then desktop support and some small dabbling with SUN Microsystems servers at [large public research organization] from 2002-2010. And yes, I definitely acknowledge that technology develops, consolidates and changes over time. I almost miss playing with jumpers and DIP switches so I could set my IRQ and other values... almost.)

To the second, if it weren't for the games, I'd totally abandon Windows as well. (I have an Apple laptop that I have specific use for music and the occasional video editing gig, though due to the whole apartment debacle last year, I don't have the space to do that as I'm couch-surfing again, with most of my things in storage.)
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Re: ItB: Godless
Apr 10, 2023, 21:43
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Re: ItB: Godless Apr 10, 2023, 21:43
Apr 10, 2023, 21:43
 
Burrito of Peace wrote on Apr 10, 2023, 21:28:
The only thing I remember about Stevie Case was that she dated John Romeo and posed for Playboy. I don't recall anything noteworthy she did in gaming beyond that.

I misread your statement and was thinking of this Case.
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Re: ItB: Godless
Apr 10, 2023, 21:42
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Re: ItB: Godless Apr 10, 2023, 21:42
Apr 10, 2023, 21:42
 
Not to derail the thread (cool picture, not sure about specific thoughts on McGee's retirement, though I enjoyed playing American McGee's Alice), but:

1. Someone mentioned to me about looking into Google IT Cert; I looked at the summary on Coursera, goes so many weeks, seems to cover stuff I mostly know, apart from updated sec/cloud stuff. Anxiety/depression is a bitch when it comes to re-entering anything corporate (I practically refuse - and it is, of all things, Google).

2. Segueing from the previous point, I've off-and-on had thoughts of going away from Gmail because datamining, and wanting to use Slackware 15 as a daily (let the guffaws commence on that last clause). The biggest pain point there: gaming. I have a bunch spread over Steam, EGS (also have Unreal Engine Dev stuff to poke at), EA, etc. I could see a dual-boot configuration being a thing for my desktop, which I've done in the past, but it would be a pain to have to reboot every time to switch between Linux and Windows. Also not sure how effective Proton(?) is.

3. I'd want to move away from any multi-national-coporate type net services including the aforementioned Gmail, in favor of open architecture wherever possible.

How realistic is any of this? Am I just sticking my head in the sand / avoiding the inevitable with any of this? Am I a dinosaur (I am 45, for what it's worth)? Should I just drop everything and retreat into the forest?

I have the feeling @BurritoOfPeace and others might have some insights here.

Dan =0)

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Re: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ending This Year
Mar 21, 2023, 20:16
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Re: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ending This Year Mar 21, 2023, 20:16
Mar 21, 2023, 20:16
 
Braden wrote on Mar 21, 2023, 20:04:
I'm pretty sure BC2 was the last BF game I actually purchased (not including bundle fare which included BF3 at some point). It was solid, but none of them have recaptured the janky magic of the original BF1942. IMHO ofc.

I played the crap out of BF1942 with the Desert Combat mod, in multi with a local friend, and sometimes with bots, sometimes with actual folks. So much silly fun. That's also where I started using what is now my Steam name (well, a long while into playing DC).

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