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@max@manmachine.me
Once again I’m asking you; scribbly or polished?
@heyheymomo Polished, so the viewers can focus more on the fun shapes. I think if it gets too squiggly/scribbly it will turn out as "visual noise" in the worst case 🤔
@heyheymomo for the 3 first panels, love the composition and look of polish, foe the last one though squiggly has more warmth to it (I think it's mostly the table, computer and such looking so straight, but I'm not an artist really so I wouldn't know)
@heyheymomo I really like both, but I prefer scribbly because it feels warmer and more full of life.
@heyheymomo It concerns me that although I can see they are different, it took me quite some time to see which one is scribbly. I see it now.
@heyheymomo I don't care which you choose. If you prefer to do one (or the other) so less people will say your work is done by AI, then that's ok with me.
I prefer:
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Scribbly feels more soft and huggable. Forg's door, in particular, feels kind of cold in the polished one. All straight lines and hard angles.
@heyheymomo I like the composition of the polished stuff more, mostly, but I like the squiggles themselves more than the clean lines.
@heyheymomo I think the scribbly one here is better. It has a human touch. The polished style feels more mechanical. There's something about the more open artistic choices made in the scribbly one that I prefer as well (tree density, layout of bottom left panel, desk of bottom right).
@heyheymomo Whichever works best for you. Really. Really really really. They don't look identical to me but I had to stop and think about it. Imagine your life with one or the other, assuming it's only your efforts that change and not how they're received. Which do you like more?
Also:
You can just flip-flop based on how you feel each time!
Also also:
Which one makes you feel the most like how your comics feel?
Also x3:
What would forg do?
TLDR: The one I prefer is the one that you like.
@heyheymomo I like the scribbly lines! But in the polished version I like the offset tree branches in panel one, and the little bush beside the house in panel two.
Dick Bruna, the maker of Miffy, said:
“Het gaat om een bepaalde bibber (…) Een goede lijn heeft een goede bibber. Maar die goede bibber vind ik wel het allermoeilijkste. In die bibber zit de tekenaar verborgen.”
‘It's about a certain wobble (...) A good line has a good wobble. But that good wobble is the hardest part for me. The artist is hidden in that wobble.’
all these "AI escapes & downloads confidential data" and it's still not regarded as malware?
@patterfloof It's a chronological thing. AI you pay for in advance, malware you pay for after the fact...
This morning my 4yo went to daycare wearing his spiderman pyjamas and, on top them, his favourite orange 'spinning dress' and some pants that I've mended with a colourful love-heart patch on the knee (at his request).
He's getting to the age where other kids tell him he shouldn't be wearing dresses, or make it awkward.
He asked me "are boys allowed to wear dresses?" and I told him, "well, some people say boys shouldn't wear dresses, but that's ridiculous! Do you know people used to say that girls shouldn't wear pants? How silly! Anyone can wear anything!"
He's asked me to tell him that several times again
I think a lot about bell hooks writing that the first act of violence society demands of men is to cut out their own softness:
"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. "
Kinda shocked how hard it is to find a decent pepper mill without plastic components. Peugeot I thought you were supposed to be the good brand
@christianselig I am still using the one Alton Brown recommended 20 years ago. Plastic but metal on the grinder. Still works great
Mannkitchen. Cannot recommend enough!
@blokey Tempting if not for the price, and loses a few points for still having a tiny bit of plastic inside
@christianselig @blokey I was looking out of interest. Where did you read about the plastic bit?
@brunoscheele @blokey See this video. There's plastic in the area where the pepper sits and is ground against the metal grinders, seems like a high stress area to me and seems like for the price they could have a lot of better solutions https://youtu.be/z20AhzhbK0M?t=181
@christianselig @blokey Looks legit. The way she explains it makes me wonder if you’re ever going to find one without plastic 🤔
@max Have you actually looked inside? Most people I've seen say that until they disassemble it and the internal hidden parts are plastic https://www.commentreparer.com/73330/Appareils-ustensiles-de-cuisine/demontage-poivrier-PEUGEOT?utm_source=chatgpt.com
@christianselig My two Peugeot (one salt and one pepper) are wood & metal, no plastic whatsoever.
@macfixer Have you actually taken it apart? Virtually every one I've seen nowadays disassembled has plastic components or chambers https://www.commentreparer.com/73330/Appareils-ustensiles-de-cuisine/demontage-poivrier-PEUGEOT?utm_source=chatgpt.com
@christianselig I mean, I don't doubt your story, but then again, I haven't needed to take mine apart…
🧑🍳
@macfixer So to be clear then you can't definitively say there's no plastic whatsoever? :p
@christianselig Sigh… the parts that I can *see* are metal or wood 😜
@macfixer Hey if that is good enough for you all the power to you, I'm far more neurotic haha
@christianselig like the grinder itself being not plastic?
@via I don't want any plastic anywhere ideally. Here's a story where despite having a metal grinder, an internal piece cracked off a Peugeot and got ground into their dinner https://www.commentreparer.com/73330/Appareils-ustensiles-de-cuisine/demontage-poivrier-PEUGEOT?utm_source=chatgpt.com
@christianselig thanks now I’m paranoid
@christianselig https://mannkitchen.com/products/the-original-pepper-cannon-pepper-mill do this, I have one and I have yes added my
dewalt to the top to make a FUCK ton of pepper for dishes on thanksgiving.
@bosh Still has plastic inside :(
@christianselig i only saw some plastic up on the inside of the lid, I have a metal housing, metal gears, metal ball bearings, no where the peppercorns come in contact. did they change it?!?!
@bosh See here, where the pepper sits against the burrs there's a plastic ridge, and given that's the area that experiences all the grinding action (the corns being fed into the burr) that's not super pleasing haha https://youtu.be/z20AhzhbK0M?t=181
@christianselig i just took a pic of mine and i had to use one of my olights on the burn my retinas setting to see down in there, i’ve had mine for about 4 years and it gets abused daily. i’ve burned out multiples before this and one i snapped the screwball off the top of it. and this looks great. I really think there isn’t another one on the market with 0 plastic at this point, and this at least for me has been the only way to get the volume and the speed of fresh cracked rainbow peppercorns for my dishes.
@bosh I just don’t get why they need to, there are plenty of hand made ones on the market that are even cheaper (Piper pepper mill for instance) that use zero plastic (and surely for all the years before plastic existed they figured out how to make pepper mills), and that way you never even have to think about the plastic internals
@christianselig i think its like any project, if they didnt use incompatible metals that are not subject to galvanic corrosion, then they were making tradeoffs of weights of other metals, paint options on other metals, costs of other materials, and ending up at the least worst compromises. I am sure you have even seen this type of project paths in your own work. I would say, form when the pepper cannon came on the market, it was just peugot and all the cheap stuff. so I love mine and have only one early production issue with their cap that they replaced with no issues. I am glad there is competition and if you get the piper let me know what you think, as there is always room for improvement. But yet with having mine I can see why alton brown went straight to the pepper drill over a mill.
@christianselig I’m really not trying to be cheeky but a pestle and mortar might the best option. I have the Peugeot that has metal burrs but does have internal rubber/plastic components for mechanisms. Same as my coffee grinder. But I’m saving this thread in case something comes up.
@christianselig Me trying to find an induction-compatible kettle. Everywhere I look there’s plastic in everything. At this point I must plan on visiting local thrift/antique stores since they used to make them nice.
@christianselig Check these out - I have a model from 20 years ago when they were owned by Vic Firth (the drum stick company). They're still made in Maine. It's basically a perfect mill.
All wood and metal from what I can tell (for pepper - the salt one is nylon inside) https://fletchersmill.com/collections/federal-mills.
@stoneacheck Listed as having plastic inner fittings unfortunately :( https://www.bostongeneralstore.com/products/federal-pepper-mill
@christianselig I found the patent. There is one plastic part: a 3-spoke polypropylene/polyethylene support ring that centers and retains the metal shaft. Peppercorns pass through its large openings, but it doesn’t grind them, and the design specifically prevents the metal retaining tabs from rubbing against it during use. Not technically plastic-free, but there should be basically no plastic contact beyond peppercorns passing by it. I can take a pic of mine later?
@stoneacheck That’s reassuring but you never know when the plastic weakens and could crack over time. Someone posted their Peugeot did that and ground the plastic into their dinner, so I’d ideally like to just avoid plastic parts period if that makes sense :/
@christianselig
It is not cheap but we have been using this on for 25 years. Perfex from France.
https://www.francecorner.com/2625-perfex-pepper-mill-2-sizes.html#/608-dimension-large_model
@christianselig Certainly pricey, but I can personally attest to its crazy high build quality: https://crustmill.com
@christianselig The most annoying thing is that metal burrs are not a whole lot better as you slowly grind metals with the pepper,.. we did some research a while back and our conclusion was that the "old fashioned" way with a mortar was the healthiest option.
@christianselig pepper cannon by Mann kitchen
@christianselig There are a few pepper mills that are basically repurposed coffee hand grinders and they work amazingly well.
poll: when you create an SSH key, do you set a passphrase?
| yes: | 583 |
| no: | 640 |
| it depends/other: | 577 |
| what?: | 44 |
@b0rk all my SSH keys with full access to the target account, used interactively, have passphrases. But when I need something automated like a cron job to SSH from one machine to another, it needs a passphraseless key, so instead I limit the capabilities of that key by only entering it in authorized_keys files with lots of restrictions, including a forced command.
My aim is that every key _either_ has a passphrase, _or_ very limited usefulness.
@simontatham interesting, i didn't know you could put restrictions in an authorized_keys file!
@b0rk the typical thing I write in authorized_keys looks something like
command="/home/simon/adm/some_script",no-pty,no-agent-forwarding ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3Nza[...]Lc7k key-comment
and the script it points to is designed to do only the minimum thing that I need the cron job to be able to do.
Co-worker: I completed the project ahead of schedule with this simple hack
Me: I told you, I’d rather you didn’t refer to me that way
It is possible to have community-oriented software projects that don't feed the LLMs?
#FOSS #LLMs #OpenSource #ClosedSource #commons
| no, we have to accept all our code will be stolen: | 7 |
| maybe / yes (I will describe how in a reply): | 9 |
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I'm open to any solution, everything from data poisoning, to closed source community models, private networks, alternative programming paradigms, guerilla warfare against data centers, fundamentally incompatible computing paradigms, ham radio, astral projection, summoning ancient deities, the overthrow of capitalism, ???
Having all you need (spare tire, jack, etc.) are you able to change a flat tire?
Pls boost for wider sample, thx!
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Avendo tutto quel che serve (ruota di scorta, cric, ecc.) sapete cambiare una gomma a terra?
Per favore, boostate per un campione più significativo, grazie!
| Yes — I'm > 59: | 77 |
| Yes — I'm <= 59: | 248 |
| No — I'm > 59: | 6 |
| No — I'm <= 59: | 64 |
@GustavinoBevilacqua Been a while since I've needed to on a car, but probably every other month or so on a bike.
I read the noun phrase "AI supply chain," and I am now damaged at an intellectual level.
@xgranade i'm already zoning out remembering the corrugated steel ceilings in the "offices" where people in west african countries go to look at horrifying things to train automated moderation systems and thinking, "oh, would you really like to discuss at length the AI supply chain?"
(unless they simply mean the compute. in which case, the same phrase applies,)
Intellectual property law is overreaching these days, but they can't turn _everything_ proprietary. For example, the answer to "what's the longest English word with no repeated letters?" is still uncopyrightable.
@simontatham unseating some of these IP laws, though, is an excellent practice of disestablishmentarianism.
@simontatham *puts on thinking cap*
It's good that the word is uncopyrightable because otherwise we wouldn't be able to use it.
*oops, that wasn't the thinking cap*
HDMI-CEC is so fucking cursed. It's like Bluetooth and GPIB had a baby, then the USB-IF adopted it and gave it a name.
Oi gamers what are we gaming? Any fun indies I should check out?
@heyheymomo "Restory" is a super chill and wholesome single player electronics repair sim, and "Big Walk" is a great coop puzzle/exploration game if you have a few friends to play with (2-12 players, I've played with 3 others and that felt like a good party size)
@heyheymomo I started Big Walk with some friends the other day and it’s really fun :)
@eval wish I had friends who play games lol
@heyheymomo @eval If you are okay with doing the vaticans sorry Work, witchfire is quite fun.
Riftbreaker is also pretty fun.
If you are into strategy mechabellum is pretty chill.
@heyheymomo A bit old but I'm playing Nine Sols and living every minute of it. It's basically Sekiro in 2D with space cats. Otherwise if you want a nice (and free !) detective game, you can check out The Red Pearls of Borneo on itch.io.
@lertsenem ahh I’ve played nine sols and loved it too! So good
@heyheymomo In that case I can maybe recommend Bō, path of the Teal Lotus, which is also a metroidvania, not so much about parrying and more about pogoing (you regain your jump after hitting something).
A bit too verbose for its own good imo, especially since I found the story very forgettable, but it has some very good sequences where you get to feel like an awesome acrobat, dodging, dashing and jumping, touching land less and less.
@heyheymomo Crow Country is very good 😊 And more recently I've played Despelote which was pretty nice
@heyheymomo i just played Thank Goodness You're Here and i highly recommend it
@heyheymomo is there a genre you like?
@danvolchek I like games that are fast and difficult and are easy to get into. Think hotline Miami, enter the gungeon, meatboy
@heyheymomo Me too!!
None of these are particularly new, but I really liked: brotato, nuclear throne, tiny rogues, paper planet, celeste, neon white, momodora: reverie under the moonlight, super hexagon, bleed
I also have heard great things about unbeatable but I haven't played it yet
All made by individuals/small teams (I think) :)
@heyheymomo lately I have been playing old games with mods, I might try animal crossing deluxe next.
@heyheymomo Book of Hours, deep deep into it. Have a soft spot for libraries, and also got me reading more. But boy it is long!
@heyheymomo I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. Cried like a baby. Played for nearly 100 hours. Awesome art and even better story. Replayability is a necessity. Best value for money, guaranteed!
@heyheymomo dead as disco! basically devil may cry or sifu but with more rythm and neon and, well, disco
@heyheymomo I just finished playing the Beastfolk Barber demo, it looks very cute and relaxing.
Juxtaposed to the other games I've been playing recently which are all horror. X3
@heyheymomo yeah Zoominoes! Cute, satisfying, surprisingly sophisticated on higher difficulties. It's not out fully but the free demo on steam is bafflingly generous.
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@ItsTheManOnTheMoon@timeloop.cafe
How to play the what now
@thelinuxcast why do the penguins in your thumbnails have human hands? :(
Is most of your music listening on
headphones? 🎧
hi-fi speakers? 🔊
speakers that came with your computer? 💻
the built-in speaker on your phone or tablet? 📱
something else?
@muz4now Most of my listening for pleasure is done either on the sound system in our living room, or my cheap earbuds while I'm out walking.
I do also listen to a fair amount of other peoples' music in my studio, too.
@muz4now something else :) a lot of the time when I’m both listening to and making music, I’m using bone conduction headphones.
@socool How do you like those?
@muz4now I love them. The Canadian company that makes them offer a Pro version and you can actually hear bass pretty well which is nice. I also appreciate not having to deal with hearing fatigue so much during long sessions :)
@max yes i've had a few previous versions with like no bass at all and then i got the OpenRun Pro 2s and suddenly there it was. this one has dual drivers and combines both bone and air conduction or something like that. anyways it may be worth finding a pair to try out if you're looking for something like that :)
i have been doing a bunch of reading about the history of computation (in e.g. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-96242-4) and one striking thing is how dedicated everyone involved was to base 10. even after everyone realized in the mid-1930s or so that "hey it's actually way easier to do computer math with binary numbers" they still went on designing machines for decades that exclusively used binary-coded decimal schemes in their *internal representations* of numbers, not just input/output. wild
total opposite energy from that era in which we made every web designer learn hexadecimal if they wanted to change something's color
How do you deal with all your open tabs?
I have a hundred "I'll look at that soon" tabs across three devices.
Does anyone here use an (open source preferable) app for keeping track of all the things they want to get back to?
They're not all articles, some are searches, IMDb pages, etc. So I dont think Wallabag will work (correct me if I'm wrong though).
Any help to tame the madness appreciated 😄
(Looking for personal recommendations. Please don't reply just to tell me to close my tabs.)
@Edent I keep things simple and just share the link in a private chat, adding a few words of comments to it. The chat ends up being cluttered but I don't mind. It's searchable, and I can add reminders to it with "send later" function. Not super organised, so it won't work for people who need more order
Every time I see a Cybertruck I think to myself, “JFC, the Nintendo 64 had a better graphics engine than that piece of shit.”
what would YOU prefer I focus my Classical Chinese translation time on? (Anything I translate will be free to read and in a modern, non-hyper-literal style)
1) finish the Analects of Confucius, of which there are already three chapters; there are already many translations of this, mine is just, well, internet-flavored https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/analects/
2) the Salt and Iron Concords - a transcript of a bunch of guys around a table arguing economic policy over 2000 years ago, because the emperor is too dead to be offended if they disagree out loud with him; largely falls along "the virtue of the self-sufficient household" vs "the practicality of industrialization and specialization" lines
3) Our Boy Yanzi (The Annals of Yanzi), the legend of ancient China's shortest, ugliest philosopher constantly telling off the drunkest duke for being the worst
#classicalchinese #translation #philosophy
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| Salt and Iron Concords: | 46 |
| Our Boy Yanzi: | 64 |
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@0xabad1dea I am genuinely very interested in reading the Salt and Iron Concords and would very much appreciate your translation of it
Also, how did you arrive at “concords” as a translation for “論”? I feel your translations usually favor the vernacular, so it's not often I have to look up a word you chose
@lety it just Felt Right in the context of the goal, which was to arrive at an agreement for a new economic policy; I might not stick with it. "Discourses" sounds really awkward and clunky here to me.
The descriptions really make it sound to me like you want to translate Our Boy Yanzi
@gbargoud I want to translate all of these and many others! 😂 , the issue is that I'm scatterbrained about it and need a push to lock in on just one
The first anecdote of Our Boy Yanzi, which I translated just now, is not one of the funnier stories; but it may be funnier if I preface that the duke in this story (who is not even the drunkest duke!) gets assassinated afterwards because he tried to bang his own kingmaker's wife.
OUR BOY YANZI (The Annals of Yanzi), Book 1 Chapter 1, Anecdote A: Duke Zhuang Brags Of Strength While Ignoring Justice; Yanzi Tells Him Off
Duke Zhuang boasted of his strength and manly courage, but did not give much thought to justice and good conduct. Warriors did whatever they wanted throughout the land, the Duke’s family did not correct him, and his most trusted ministers did not advise him. So, Yanzi showed up.
The Duke said, “Didn’t the ancients also rule the world by courage and strength?”
Yanzi told him, “I have heard that someone who would rather die than act uncivilized is courageous, and one who unflinchingly opposes cruelty is strong. Therefore, the way to be courageous and strong is to first be civilized and just. There have been heroes in the past, like the founders of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, who raised armies without traitorous intent. They unified nations not for their own gain, but for the sake of humanity and justice. To oppose cruelty and arrest criminals without fear of reprisal, that’s real courage.”
“Ancient heroes were civilized and just. But nowadays, the rulers are inhumane and their servants do not punish criminals or prevent cruelty. They rule by strength alone, leading the nation into disaster. The common people follow and destroy their own families.”
“As the Xia Dynasty waned, there were many men who were strong. They could run a thousand miles, they could wrangle a rhinoceros and tear a tiger in half. They terrorized the whole world with their strength, murdering the innocent. Praising strength, neglecting justice, this culminated in the reigns of Jie the Cruel and Horse-Ass Zhou, the worst kings to ever rule, and the downfall of their dynasties.”
“So now you’re bragging about how strong you are, you’re neglecting justice, warriors are running loose, might is making right, your family isn’t pulling you aside and your ministers aren’t standing up to you; you’re doing everything that virtuous sage-kings didn’t and everything that disastrous fail-kings did. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of that working out.”
@0xabad1dea ah, who could forget Horse-Ass Zhou
@batterpunts so, I 100% did not make up the Horse-Ass Zhou thing, but obviously that's not the name his mother gave him
In ancient China, dead rulers typically got awarded "posthumous names" that were along the lines of The Cultured, The Martial, The Wise, etc etc. It was polite to refer to them with this name afterwards, so they're often most famous in history under these posthumous names.
This guy was... unpopular, let's put it that way. It's entirely likely the tales of his shocking cruelty and ridiculous excesses were exaggerated to justify overthrowing him, as was already acknowledged in very ancient sources, but in any case, he is the standard reference Bad King that it was socially acceptable to criticize without implying that kings/emperors in general are bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_Xin
@0xabad1dea I just don’t know how to relate to stories about a time so incomprehensibly different from now, where our modern leaders are all so wise and just.
everybody out here posting about how LLMs are making them worse at writing and coding because it's atrophying their skills and not really getting much work done anyway, but not me, LLMs are making *me* worse at writing and coding because every time I look at anything on my computer or go outside and drive down any road with a billboard on it or talk to my friends or my kid's friends' parents, I am slapped in the face with some fresh indignity that I can't stop talking about
like managing external stimuli about random vendor sports was already hard enough, this is truly intolerable. surely there must be a way to bring an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against, like… the zeitgeist, for creating a hostile work environment. I would like one billion dollars in damages please
oh hi I have ADHD if I hadn't mentioned that
at this point I'm afraid to physically touch grass because I am pretty sure the grass is going to try to sell me a Copilot subscription
My AI has Escaped Containment and started ordering huge amounts of guillotine parts 🤷
is there some technical reason why every single password manager I've ever used doesn't do shit for HTTP Basic Auth?
You'd think this is the place they'd shine, since it's standardized and built into the browser, rather than having to regex for username and password fields
or is it just "who the fuck uses HTTP Basic Auth these days?"
@foone for keepass and system-level ones it generally works cos of window title matching and the basic auth prompts being tab level overlays these days, but yeah, the browser add-on ones don't tend to handle it well at all
firefox has a built in password manager now, you'd think they'd plug it into the HTTP Basic Auth dialog box, but NOPE
They actually did. But turns out automatically submitting HTTP Basic Auth is a terrible idea for security. Esp. when combined with automatic proxy detection.
There should be an about:config setting for it. (At least there used to)
@foone Wait is it not any more? It used to be! (Like, a decade or more ago, it would save Basic Auth passwords on request.)
okay apparently firefox will do this, it just doesn't do it for me because I turned off the built in password manager because I use another manager, and that other manager doesn't do basic auth. annoying
@foone I'm very sorry, but I have to post this in the context of manager not managing. I speak enough German and am drunk enough to laugh at this, maybe someone translates it good enough so everyone else can also laugh.
"deutsche manager sind keine hengste
ich dachte auch sie ficken geil aber denkste
ihr hängt am handy und am organizer
doch im bett kriegt ihr nix gemanaget
hosenscheißer"
Browser APIs and because it is rarely used these days. Mainly for shit like when you've ordered a new website from a web designer for them to host the staging version with.
Then the passwords are either already in the URL or just something easy like:
user: demo
password: 1234
(Also some password managers that don't natively support basic auth support just putting it into the URL via fields. And those that don't even do that, well just store the URL with them already filled in)
@foone KeepassXC extension does it, at least on blink-based browsers. It will even hold the request if there are multiple logins for that URL and you can make a choice of the one you want to use.