Brit @kingcons@tiny.tilde.website

Really spectacular article by Mark Rosewater regarding rules, constraints, and the roles they play in games and fiction.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/constraints-and-defaults-2019-07-15 #MTG

this is the best thing

First the Internet gave us access to everything. Then it gave everything access to us.

"Worse Is Better" aka "Zerg Rush"

  

In case you missed it, #Carnet is a free open alternative to Google Keep. It lets you write and sync notes (including rich text, audio and images) on your phone and computer:

https://getcarnet.app

You can follow Carnet here:

@Carnet

It syncs through @nextcloud and @ownclouders , and there's an official public Nextcloud instance for people who don't have their own cloud:

https://carnet.live

The app is available on Google Play and @fdroidorg

#GoogleKeep #Alternatives #DeleteGoogle

JUNIOR WEB DEVELOPER
Responsibilities:
- copy and paste CSS
- waste a bunch of time switching between two different templates until your boss finally decides on one
- write alt text
- contribute to an "agile" development team

Required experience:
- Master's degree in computer science
- 8+ years experience writing Python, C++ or R
- top secret security clearance

so rpi is one of the more secure compute platforms because it isn’t vulnerable to specter class attacks. which means i can advertise that as an advantage to using our green hosting tech!

We use the word "boilerplate" a lot at work. It's such a strange phrase that seems like it's probably traveled far from its original meaning, so I looked up what that meaning was.

It goes back to newspapers. Large advertisers and content syndicates would distribute ready-to-go printing plates to local newspapers that could easily just go onto the press and be ready to print without any modification. These plates resembled rolled steel that was used to make boilers.

Hence: boilerplate.

Unix Considered Harmful http://zge.us.to/txt/unix-harmful.html

RT @Terrorbuns@twitter.com

this is the funniest bug i'll ever have in a game I've made

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Terrorbuns/status/1123375987293450240

So it turns out you can put custom boot images on Lenovo laptops

Firefox admits they will eventually be sending all of your DNS to Cloudflare. Cloudflare will monetize your internet browsing, no matter how much their PR people say they are.

If you want to disable that, go to "about:config", and set "network.trr.mode" to 5.

The values are: 0 - default off, 1 - race, 2 TRR first, 3 TRR only, 4 shadow, 5 off by choice

the GRUB manual contains the phrase "We hope that you enjoy using GNU GRUB as much as we did writing it." which is either rather nice or extremely threatening

the iot teapot that exposes an http api which only responds with 418s

a naive look at the problem suggests that survival of the fittest selects for belief in "success is due to hard work" over "success is due to luck"

but that is a bit of a straw man because "success is due solely to luck" is a belief held only by the very superstitious; I suspect the truth is closer to "the lower bound of success is determined by effort and the upper bound is determined by luck"

believing in meritocracy is fundamentally just making the same mistake as the fundamental attribution error, but in the other direction.

instead of mistakenly believing someone else's mistake is due to their inherent flaws rather than circumstances, you're believing your own success is due to your inherent qualities instead of your luck at having been in the right place at the right time.