Piatro

joined 2 years ago
[–] Piatro@programming.dev 32 points 1 day ago

Prince of Persia sands of time, Beyond Good and Evil, Rayman, Splinter Cell, etc. They were very prolific back when they and the rest of the industry understood that you couldn't just bet all your money on a single title all the time, you had to have some dog-shit movie tie-ins and terrible Barbie games to keep the lights on.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

It's not convincingly worded but I broadly agree with the petition. The OSA was supposed to hold meta etc to account but instead it's completely cemented their position because they're the only ones with the resources capable of complying. Instead of punishing big tech the act punishes everyone else. Absolutely ridiculous.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 15 points 5 days ago

I loved hi-fi rush. I loved the soundtrack, I loved how satisfying the combat system was while still being challenging to pull off consistently well. I always felt I was incentivised to vary my combos because of the DMC-like style meter. I loved the old-school 3d platformer feel as that was nostalgic for me. It was also just such a joyful game. Ok the story has down beats but overall it's a really happy game. I absolutely loved my time with it.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So-called "security questions" like these are prohibited under various standards (there's a NIST one that I can't remember exactly, and OWASP ASVS) because they've always been really terrible at verifying it's actually you answering them, and not just someone who happens to know the answer. Mother's maiden name being the notorious example.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 13 points 2 weeks ago

That's not what this is about. Everyone agrees that damage to military assets is a criminal action, no matter how you justify it. The problem I and others have is that the actions don't meet any sort of sensible criteria for what is "terrorism". Most people would say terrorism must involve mass harm to people, not necessarily property. Lots of other organisations over the years should have been proscribed if "terrorism" means property damage. Anyone involved in the race riots, Just Stop Oil, hell, even Banksy, would all qualify if that was the case. It opens the door for the UK government to proscribe any organisation it doesn't like, which is especially concerning at a time when the next government is likely to be even more authoritarian and use this event as precedent to do the same but more.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 16 points 3 weeks ago

I've not used it in anger but the principle just seems like inline-styles with extra steps. However I've also had to change something in a large project that had a lot of dedicated classes with specific and shared styles and trying to sort that out without breaking stuff was a massive pain.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

I don't provision any two devices exactly the same way, and if I did there's nothing stopping that provisioning script/tool from changing or becoming out of date over time since I'd only run it once every couple of years. I briefly looked at nixos but as another reply said, the major hurdle was the documentation and trying to get "the right way" to do things. I remember flakes being mentioned but being experimental and there being two other things competing as the solution to the same problem and at that point I lost interest. I moved to fedora for the first time in a decade recently and installed what I needed via dnf. It wasn't a difficult enough process to justify learning another programming language.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Clair obscure: Expedition 33. Ok it's not a final fantasy but it's similar turn-based combat to FF/Persona with a lot of style and melodrama. Love it.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

As a follow-up to this, my friends did buy it, I therefore bought it, I therefore played it and now have about 12 hours in it.

I thought I'd hate it, but I actually like the battle royale-style closing circle of the map. I thought I'd hate the rushed style of gameplay compared to original souls but I actually like it. And I thought I'd hate the fixed character scaling but I actually like it. The whole game is elden ring combat (not dark souls, way too fast for that) but with the experience condensed to its most primitive, combat focused form. If you want story there is some, but it's drip-fed through fairly typical rogue-like way, so once you pass x number of successful runs you get the next story beat. The run length is a little long at a little under an hour but somehow it still has the rogue-like "just one more run" effect. If I want story I'm not going to play this, but damn is it a fun application of elden ring's combat.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Yup it's on the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Oh look it's chrome!

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Recently had a look at graphics cards because I'm concerned about my 1080Ti dying at some point but you literally cannot find a better bang-for-buck card than this 9 year old relic (assuming you don't need 4k, which I don't). Never mind that newer cards also consume much more energy too. This is why campaigns like endof10.org are so important. We've all got perfectly good hardware, no need to throw it away just to line some scumbag corpo's pocket.

 

Hi all, my trusty (but honestly always pretty terrible) Amazon basics tripod finally died, does anyone have a tripod they'd recommend or brands they'd avoid?

Typical usage for me would be travelling/hiking and landscape photography so ideally small and light without breaking the bank (which I know is pretty tough). Budget is variable but call it £100-£200 for now.

 

It's being rolled out in stages so you, like me, may not have it yet.

 

Title. Friend group and I play regularly but most of us are bad at the role playing part of it to the point where it's hard to tell when the player or the character are speaking in some scenes. Conversations are stiff. We can't use too heavily modified voices because we're playing remotely. My character is about to die (probably!) so help me pick a character or trait of my new character that someone not comfortable roleplaying can stick to without feeling weird about it!

 

What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?

Asking as I've got a lot of spare components lying around that I'm planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn't work out I'll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.

 

EDIT: Issue now resolved. Turns out that having an A record point to a DNS server probably wasn't the best idea. My best theory here is that A records pointing to DNS servers means "Find the authority on this domain at this other DNS server", which could never resolve. By pointing it to my VPS, the DNS could resolve to a definitive IP, and the certs were successfully generated.

Hi all, hope someone can help as I'm just confused now!

Long story short I want to host local services (like ntfy) using trusted certificates. I hoped to do this with Caddy and a wildcard domain (I don't want to expose the DNS records of the services I'm running if not necessary).

In my DNS I have an A record for *.local.example.com pointing at a semi-random IP. I have other services on a VPS on other subdomains so I can't just use a wildcard. This looks like:

blog  A  <VPS IP>
*.local  A  1.1.1.1

On the server in my home network (which I do not want to expose) I have dnsmasq running that is handling local DNS records for services on the LAN but carefully not the remote services on the same domain. Using dig I can see that the local and remote DNS are working as expected. Seeing the error on DNS-01 challenged "could not determine zone for domain "_acme-challenge.local.example.com" I have also added an exception in my local DNS for _acme-challenge.local to point to cloudflare's DNS at 1.1.1.1. The dig command confirms this works as expected after restarting dnsmasq.

With the following Caddyfile:

*.local.example.com {
        tls {
                dns <dns provider plugin> <API token>
        }

        @ntfy host ntfy.local.example.com
        handle @ntfy {
                reverse_proxy ntfy
        }
}

Every DNS-01 challenge fails with "...solving challenges: presenting for challenge: could not determine zone for domain "_acme-challenge.local.example.com"...".

I think this should be possible, but I'm not clear what I'm missing so any help greatly appreciated. I'm just dipping my toes into self-hosting and actually getting practical use out of my Raspberry Pi that's been collecting dust for years.

 

Not affiliated I just find this useful and it exposed me to a few of the new features of Ruby 3.2 like not having to specify the value in kwargs if the variable is defined in scope, eg:

foo = 'bar'; call(foo:) is equivalent to foo = 'bar'; call(foo: foo)

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