[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

DM: The dragon turns on the rest of the party.

Party, who are made up of bards: Wait! I think I know what the dragon wants...

New quest dropped: learn rock and roll, and the dragon will join your band.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

I heard a story of an American student in Beijing asking for "paigu mien" (pork rib noodles), but he rather confused the waitress by asking for "pigu mien", bottom (arse) noodles!

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

Pour a cup of java and write it down in javascript.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

"We noticed you're good at solutions when things are mixed up - so we'd like to offer you a job in a warehouse."

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 points 22 hours ago

Of course not. Sysadmin skills are good for pouring the drinks, not managing the restaurant.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

I see people's comments that it's technically a fact derived from your date of birth, and doesn't require superstition. But I have no idea of which sign lines up with my birthday, so I propose some different questions:

Which Chinese emperor was born in the same lunar year as you?

According to the office of national statistics, how many people born on your birthday in Northern Europe were called John?

How many days is it from your fourth birthday to the nearest February 29th?

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago

This reminds me of hearing that contestants on some reality show would sing Disney songs in the background whenever they wanted to talk to each other and not have it go on air.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I only dabble, but I really like Julia. Has several language and architecture features I really like compared to python. Also looks like the libraries have been getting really good since last I used it much.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Democracy also means allowing the people to form and discuss their ideas, on their own terms, whether sane or stupid. Not because that's necessarily best, but because that's democracy - authority belongs to the people not to their government.

The responsibility to lead and guide people's ideas, in a democracy, does not lie in the strict control of government, it lies elsewhere. Where that elsewhere is, of course, everyone will argue differently. But not, I think, in governmental control.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

That brings up a good point that I think most comments have missed. These days it's well accepted to caricature professional programming as cribbing from Stack Overflow and Google.

Both are great tools, if used as tools, with an understanding of their weaknesses and the ability yourself to make something correct from what you've learnt.

Perhaps we need to think more about how to teach people to get the best use out of LLMs the same way we get use out of Google, Wikipedia and calculators.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

"It looks like you're trying to find eternal salvation and the power to live a good life. May I assist you?"

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Out goes one kind of naivete, "Gramma said it so it's right," and in comes another: "the LLM has spoken; this is universal truth, not Gramma's small-minded rubbish." But now we can be smug against ol' boomer Gramma, so we lap it up all the more dearly.

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Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

A long time ago, (on a server far, far away), I uploaded the Spring screenshot of my completed farm. It took me a long time to get round to the Summer, Autumn and Winter screenshots, even delaying updating to 1.6 to not change anything!

I'm very pleased with Ambridges farm. It's my first and only completed playthrough, and the final farm layout started life as a show of fish ponds, and developed to include just about everything that can be on the farm.

I'll put a few more notes in the comments.

Well, with the new .ee community, now seems a good time to get up an post my farm, all four seasons! I hope you like it :-)

(Edit: I just saw that files on Catbox can't be reached from a bunch of countries. Not sure if the Lemm.ee proxying gets around that? If someone could let me know, then I can try and find somewhere else to upload the images. Any suggestions for a good image host?)

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I've been playing around with self hosting for file sharing, backups, and a handful of other ideas I might one day get round to. I like the idea of a mesh VPN and being able to, for example, connect a travelling laptop to a 'host' laptop nearby, though my only public ip is a VPS in another country.

Of all the options I found, I liked the look of Nebula most. Fiddly in some places, but it's working nicely for me, and I appreciate some of the simplicity of design.

I'm wondering if people here have much experience of it, though? My biggest concern is over its future. With,

  1. The Defined Networking site focusing on making money off it, and
  2. The Android app doesn't allow full configuration (including the firewall, so I can't host a website from a phone) but - I heard - does if you use Defined Networking's paid service for configuration,

makes me worry they might be essentially trying to deprecate viable FOSS Nebula in favour of a paid or controlled service.

Any thoughts? Insight?

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So, I updated Tumbleweed, and the updates to KDE caused my Plasma/Wayland session to restart, breaking the updates part way through. I wasn't watching at the time so took some while to debug!

Spent some time learning how to use nm-cli, because new half-upgraded KDE wouldn't load the network widget. It looks like something else may have changed and mucked up in the half-update (and of course I rebooted like a wise-man/dummy/i-dont-know-but-at-least-it-didnt-make-it-work) but iterations of trying things in nmcli eventually worked!

Finally tried zypper dup again and saw the session restart, so finished the job from the virtual terminal! At last, I seem to have a working computer again, and I might just brave updating my main laptop. (I cancelled the update while it was still downloading packages, after seeing the breakage on the other laptop!)

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I finally watched Frozen 2 on the plane a few days ago. Did somebody pay Disney to shill for homeopathy?

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Hi I've been gradually finishing my first and only-main farm, and wanted to share :-) It started as the central plaza and fish ponds (since I came to love fishing!) and grew from there. I was going to get all-seasons screenshots and post together, but that's going soo slowly; and, hey, content!

Hope you like it! I think there's a little bit of just about everything there, and if you look closely you can see me sitting on a bench enjoying the flower garden. It's been single player until right at the end I added the 'guest lodges' to share with family and friends. I love how well they fit in places I hadn't planned!

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