GreyDuck

Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

A spontaneous computer reboot this morning only delayed, not prevented, my weekly #Satisfactory update post. This week: Manually mapping the randomized node placements is OUT, placing tall expensive Radar Towers is IN.

@polyphonic.nebula.tv My respect levels for ELO went up (and my bafflement at certain nutbars reached new heights) watching the latest video on Nebula. Maybe I need to get into ELO at some point.

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Mental health acceptance. There is still a LONG way to go but dear gods - the difference between the 80s (I don’t remember the 70s) and now is astounding.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

I got manga, I got comics, I got action figures, I got light novels and Mardi Gras doubloons and video games from multiple systems, I'm a goddamn emporium of wonders

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Shook the rest of the frustration with this work week out of my soul by finishing up my combo Turbofuel-and-Computers project in my #Satisfactory random-nodes solo save. Next up? Heavy Modular Frames! (Yes, it needs aesthetic finishing. That's a post-Hoverpack project.)

Yesterday's #Satisfactory co-op session, in which we finally turn parts of the nuclear power plant on, is now archived on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfCc...

Worth noting that the new #MST3K installment, "Deathsport," should come with a "strobing lights sequence" warning. Also possibly a "Carradine's junk" warning, but I was already averting my eyes so I can't be sure on that one.

Right off the bat, a near-callback to the "Brain Guy, in the interests of peace... smell yourself" bit. Ah, the classics. This should perk my day right up!

need people to stop reposting things that pissed them off on the bird site to here i stopped using that site for a damn reason!

Oh hey, @alepresser.com I have a visitor! Well, new resident really.

Michael's last opus

10.22 today is the 15th anniversary of my first drawing of 88, can't believe that was 2011 time gotta slow down

I wouldn't go on BBC and proudly state that I'm incompetent at my job, but I also don't have the unearned self confidence of a mediocre white dude. If you're working in tech press and you don't know what PHP is, you should be fired, full stop.

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

If you're a Ubuntu webserver admin like myself (not that myself is someone you should strive to be like, I suppose) you will probably want to follow the linked README and also do a 'sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ondrej/php' once you're on the new Sury repo. Then get your updated PHP packages.

I imagine that it's a rough morning to be the PHP repository serving Ubuntu updates. Wait, I don't have to imagine: Neither of my servers can reliably get data from it yet. (As of this timestamp all the builds aren't done, so... hang in there, fellow Ubuntu server admins.)

Diminish an anime: Recovery of an MMO Casual

Whatever you make today is the best version that you could have made today. Tomorrow you'll be better, but if you wait to make something on that level you'll never get anything made at all. This has been a very important maxim for overcoming a lot of my writer's block.

One of the rare downsides to light rail transit? When someone blocks the tracks.

I am full of tasty curry, I am no longer on-call, this week is finally winding down. Deep sigh of relief.

a cool thing about indie animation is that it's expected to save the entire industry, every show has to look better than the things the fans grew up on or it's a waste of time, there's no union to be found anywhere, no budget for any of it, and asking the audience to pay anything to watch is illegal

Despite the best efforts of Depeche Mode in the 1980s.

After-hours call came in at 6:30-ish this morning. After-hours call came in at 6:30-ish this evening. I'm ready for my on-call rotation to be done for a few weeks, thanks.

This, this, this, this, this.

PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

Heard the UPSes in the house all go "click" a few minutes ago. Checked in with coworkers, and our office in Beaverton and our tech down in Salem had power hiccups at the same time. What happened, PGE? Somebody trip over a cord in one of the new datacenters we're subsidizing?

I can't imagine installing vibe-coded software on any of my devices. Holy crap, the security issues alone are a nightmare, let alone getting bricked, or losing data, or unknown code failures outputting false data.

www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...

I really don't think folks who weren't there grasp just how much these generations really were shamed or even prosecuted for stuff that giant companies do all the time now like ffs, websites used to shame people for 𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 images without paying the site that hosted it for their bandwidth!

"AI" detectors are, themselves "AI". When you feed a work into it, you're feeding it into the training database without permission of the creator. They work on one of two principles, both of which contain an incredibly high rate of false positives.

It's probably not a good sign that the day's starting with Tumblr throwing a 403 error, is it.

This is my favorite all-new anime (not continuation or remake) of the season so far and nothing else even comes close.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.