programmers-off-topic

[cinder karma]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-4

[errant comet]

lmaoo look what I just did

[dusty pollen]

wait can I steal this

[hushed raven]

I love that so much

[dusty pollen]

for a sticker

[errant comet]

sure

!!

I can make a higher res rq

[dusty pollen]

(if you want it as a sticker in this server, I recommend posting the high res version to #1020054604534259742!)

[errant comet]

worth a shot

okie done lets see how well it goes

wasnt even that hard to make really

[hushed raven]

I feel like I could do a better job with fonts in windows movie maker, why are so many missing a cross section and why does the second line look so bad???

Ahh ttf is vector not raster, that may be the reason

[errant comet]

not sure, never really worked with fonts outside of the showcase thing above somewhere

such a shame I don't have nitro to use it here 😭

[hushed raven]

and now importing pngs isn't working, I am so confused by the program

oh and it crashed... wow

[cinder karma]

Ngl game maker scares me

[hushed raven]

itch gave me two versions of this program, the latest version were importing pngs no longer works for some reason, and the previous version, where nine slice down't work, why???

[errant comet]

are you exporting it in a right way?

[hushed raven]

and now it magically works, it wouldn't be so bad if there way a log so I could see whats happening when it breaks

Oh i'm not even at the exporting yet XD

[errant comet]

okay its 1am I really gotta fix my schedule

gnn yall

[hushed raven]

gn! and thank you for the help XD

[dusty pollen]

when I was digging into the config it looked like there was indeed a log somewhere

(and an option to enable crash logs)

[hushed raven]

Oh ye there is a log somewhere but I literally cannot find it for the life of me, I know where it is on the windows version, which doesn't work through wine or proton on my pc XD

but not on linux so I am like super stuffed

[dusty pollen]

have you tried proton 9.0 4? (hotfix doesn't work for me but that does)

[hushed raven]

I did, and experimental, and proton 10 GE, it kept crashing when exposing some nodes fields without fail

[dusty pollen]

weird

9.0 4 worked for me

[hushed raven]

theres only been twice where proton has failed me, a super old win32bit game, and this, which is quite suprising

[hushed raven]

Remembered launching programs through the terminal means I get logs to it, which is grand for figuring out why animations don't export
/usr/bin/bin/ffmpeg.exe: No such file or directory 1. there is no /usr/bin/bin 2. exe? seriously? on the native linux build? do they even test this?

[pliant snow]

i was also running into export issues, but due to missing imagemagick.exe lol

[little furnace]

This is especially bad because on Windows you don't even need the .exe extension. So that would have been a super easy fix for compatibility.

[fleet wren]

I was thinking a day ago if the reason itch.io has a "native" linux build but not steam is that the "linux" build is just the windows build but packaged with a standalone Wine runtime

[little furnace]

That's kinda false advertising though.

[hushed raven]

honestly that's pretty probable ngl

[little furnace]

Does creating a symlink work?

If you sell it as work in progress, I won't blame you for bugs that exist due to ongoing development. But if you advertise support for a platform, I expect you to ensure at least basic compatibility and not just wrap a third-party translation layer and call it a day.

[hushed raven]

I would prefer they don't have a dedicated linux port if it's just a wrapper for wine/alike, atleast I'd know from the get go that I need to do it myself

also symlink stops the missing exe eroor, but it doesn't actually export to an mp4 which is a shame

[little furnace]

Awwww.

If it was source-available, you could simply submit fixes and build it for yourself.

[hushed raven]

at least it lets me export 120 frames to assemble, so I can still use it, if just a bit of an arse

[hushed raven]

it is source available, but it's game maker so all files are like a single function using it's custom script, there'd be a lot of finding stuff and learning a new lang, I did try to compile it myself to save £8, but there were errors which I tried to fix, leading to the discovery that game maker is just appauling at times XD

[little furnace]

Huh. Is the repo open for pull requests?

[hushed raven]

I think so? theres one PR from Oct 2025, and another that was closed without merging, but that's all the PRs available
https://github.com/Ttanasart-pt/Pixel-Composer

[little furnace]

... I know what I'll do tomorrow.

[hushed raven]

you'd be my saviour XD

[little furnace]

My professor told me today that I have successfully mastered procrastination.

[hushed raven]

Now that is a skill to have, may not be the best skill, but it sure is a skill XD

[little furnace]

I feel like it's more a lack of skill.

[cinder karma]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sleep-2

Tomorrow is Tuesday! You know what that means

[hushed raven]

A good thing about the export to animation being broken is I can make the animation with the avif format outright, thank you python and PIL, still my most used import XD

[devout vault]

I've been meaning to do that, but haven't gotten around to it yet

[cinder karma]

this one feels as chaos as it looks

Pretty much every time I put a bunch of arms on a track

And there are two groups here!

It's 2p because I did the math once, came up with 4 qs, then did the math again, came up with 2qs, then just merged the two solutions together

More journal pages tomorrow?

I like how one arm looks like it's playing keepaway

[fleet wren]

I am glad atra and arms on tracks have resolved their differences

[cinder karma]

It's not arms on tracks

It's pistons on tracks

You will notice....no pistons on tracks.

The purification station just happened to work out lol

[errant comet]

Morning everyone

[safe dragon]

morning

I'm currently sitting here in confusion

I told a delivery service to deliver on Wednesday, they told me they will deliver it on Wednesday... but the tracking code claims it'll be at my door within 20 minutes

but on the other hand they've supposedly not even started driving yet

idk what they're even doing honestly. They've driven the package to 3 different cities at this point

[cyan shadow]

DHL?

For some reason they always take my packages to Belgium first

[safe dragon]

nope... GLS, the delivery service of choice for the steam controller

[cyan shadow]

GLS always sends my stuff to a pickup point because they don't bother to ring the doorbell

[safe dragon]

idk if they even have a pickup point in this city

[cyan shadow]

So I hope that's not the case for you

They share one with postnl and everyone else

It's not far from me anymore but when I lived at my old place it was a very long bike ride

[safe dragon]

postnl dumps ours at a horrible to reach business park outside of town

the pickup point gets horrendous reviews cause of people being mad it ended up there

[cyan shadow]

For why

We have so many postnl pickup points here

The one I go to is literally a dedicated package processing shop

They do vinted pickups too

[safe dragon]

we do too but they just use none of them because technically this one is still within their 3 km distance requirement

[cyan shadow]

Ah

[safe dragon]

if you give up ever having home delivery you can manually choose a pick up point and I'd have tons to choose from all around my house

[cyan shadow]

UPS sends my packages to a random knitting shop on the other end of town, it has awful reviews for the same reason as the business park

Which is such a pity because the old people running it are such sweethearts

[safe dragon]

DHL dumps mine at a liquor store but it's like a 10 minute walk so whatever

[cyan shadow]

Two tiny old ladies and an old man that's probably his grandkids' favourite grandparent

[safe dragon]

at least the place we're review bombing does nothing except handle packages

[cyan shadow]

I love them so much, they actually remembered me the second time I came in and told me my Dutch had improved

[safe dragon]

[cyan shadow]

They were happy I was trying

Not necessarily because their English was bad but just because I was trying lol

[safe dragon]

not everyone does

[cyan shadow]

I know

I don't get it, at least for this province. People are usually really nice to you if you say you're learning and then they slow down a bit for you

In Amsterdam, sure, there's a good chance the café owner or whatever also doesn't speak Dutch lmao

But literally everywhere else, gotta try!

[safe dragon]

my mom being a teacher in Rotterdam exposed her to a ton of people with immigrant backgrounds and while the students themselves always learned Dutch, they'd fairly regularly have parents who have been here for often more than a decade who somehow learnt genuinely nothing, no basics even

[cyan shadow]

Yeah idk

But I think there are more resources now than back then

[safe dragon]

it'd help them the most so I'd hope it's improving

I can't imagine living somewhere where you just can't communicate with the people of that country

it seems they just stick to their local communities

[cyan shadow]

Like the international centres and shit

[cyan shadow]

That seems to have happened a lot in the 90s, from what I've seen

And then they were stuck

[safe dragon]

pretty much

my mom's retired now so idk if things have changed noticeably

[cyan shadow]

New migrants have to learn

You can't naturalize unless you're B1 at the minimum

I'll be B1 in August, fat lot of good it'll do me in the end though since it really is looking like I'll have to go back

[safe dragon]

job hunting's really not working out huh

[cyan shadow]

Nope

Can barely find anything I can apply to

[cinder karma]

Awww poor knitting shop

[cinder karma]

Selph what metal ratios are you using

For me, the first pulls 4 tin, downgrade them all to lead, and merges them all to iron

The second pulls 3 tin and downgrades 2

So I'll end up with 6

I could not figure out a way to have 1 product made with out waste

[devout vault]

Y'all'll have to forgive me for posting something actually about programming in #programmers-off-topic

[fleet wren]

impossible, this isn't random game/job/sprite maker discussion

[devout vault]

What if I'm using C++ for a random game?

https://tenor.com/view/smart-thinking-thoughts-think-ponder-gif-7713620

(I'm not, but what if?)

[fleet wren]

-# I was in the middle of typing a long ass explanation before realizing I can just boot my PC since I'm WFH

100% waste free

[fleet wren]

isn't that the standard if you're going with like unreal

[devout vault]

and why would I ever inflict that upon myself

Unreal also has blueprints though. And there's a fairly well known C# thing for unreal

https://www.unrealsharp.com/

[pliant snow]

Why endure the pain of C++ when you can use picotron and lua instead

[devout vault]

Is that the pico8 stuff

[fleet wren]

wow this almost feels wrong

[devout vault]

If not using unreal C++ is wrong, I don't want to be right

[pliant snow]

What if pico-8 was bigger

[devout vault]

...pico-9?

(Or pico-16, even)

[pliant snow]

I think it did begin life as pico-64 lol

[errant comet]

testing out drivers for an easier property animation that don't require putting each value manually

[fleet wren]

hmm succulent lava block

[weak obsidian]

Minecraft

[cinder karma]

Oh I noticed there was projection

Tried making a qs generator in the top but that was even more metal pulled

[errant comet]

I thinks thats the block I did before

[cinder karma]

And not alchemy????

[lethal walrus]

oh there are waves 👀

[errant comet]

There's sines wiggles saws and bounces I think

Some don't work

Or or at least looked like they didn't

[errant comet]

purely visual barcode gen

[lethal walrus]

i was almost expecting you to have done the encoding of text into it before the image loaded

[errant comet]

that's not that hard to do but I don't really know how it works

[lethal walrus]

i dont either tbf

[errant comet]

I guess I could assign each string a line of different pixels but then its gonna look pretty chonky

and im not sure if it supports text or numbers only

wait why make barcode boring bnw if I can make it colorful

and then encode text into array of different colorful lines

and after that I somehow how to make a decoder for it

hm

[lethal walrus]

quite ambitious

[errant comet]

Not exactly colorful but it works!

Now I gotta make the one that can read colors to text

[lethal walrus]

oh thatsa smart way to do it

[errant comet]

used tunnels cuz too much lines were annoying

But it works both ways now!

im thinking of some ways to improve it but generally I really love how it turned out

[lethal walrus]

oo

i should try a qr code encoder but ive never done that before at all

[errant comet]

okay fixed the case issue and now it autosamples the graydient to match stringmap lenght to allow a dynamic stringmap typing and easier index math

Probably the most complex find I did yet

there was also a way to make a dictionary via struct nodes but for some reason they hated the color as value and random text as keys

[devout vault]

chat is this real
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamController/comments/1taoa3b/i_have_discovered_an_easter_egg/

@safe dragon can you confirm or deny

[cinder karma]

If someone mails me one I can take it apart and look for an accelerometer

And then ||sell it on ebay for the monies||

[safe dragon]

I cannot. The steam controller has not arrived yet

[devout vault]

valve will mail you one if you make a reservation and purchase it when its time

[safe dragon]

I'm sure it has an accelerometer considering it supports gyro controls

[devout vault]

I almost said that, but it could just have a gyroscope for that

[safe dragon]

I suppose

[devout vault]

...maybe? I don't know enough about them

[safe dragon]

me neither

[devout vault]

Supposedly the scream only works in big picture mode, and only triggers sometimes

[safe dragon]

in a world with quantum tunneling joysticks who am I to say what's possible

[heavy dagger]

New quote added by kittycatcasey as #8077 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/1215712021207720006/1503842938868862988)

[cinder karma]

Ew

[little furnace]

Considering that accelerometers are ridiculously cheap, I assume it has them.

[cinder karma]

Awaiting new journal puzzlss

[lethal walrus]

hmmm

i think i do prefe rthe looping

[devout vault]

Wow that is incredibly subtle (at least in the looping one)

[lethal walrus]

yeah the framerate is 0.25x so it is very minor

its a lot more noticeable when zoomed in

i was doing a lot of python for the last 47 horus there

-# i really wasnt

i have made a new word for 88x31s

[hushed raven]

You don't say the "X" in it? That's the one thing that wasn't defined in my accidental delve into 88x31s and the old web XD

[lethal walrus]

😭

[lethal walrus]

i was just thinking of the letters by thinking of eightyeightthirty.one

which has no x in it

[hushed raven]

Ahhhh

[errant comet]

atlas have you seen what I did today

hii btw

[lethal walrus]

well that sure is a subdomain

atlas where was that 88x31 you did

i need people to put in my 88x31 section

[hushed raven]

The lava? I loved it, does it have bloom or is it just my eyes that are being wonky? XD

[hushed raven]

I have 5, take your pick, I am yet to actually add them to my site though but oh well XD

[lethal walrus]

ooo

i should selfhost umami

[errant comet]

it does have bloom that I animated with sine driver yeah
but I meant this one #programmers-off-topic message

[hushed raven]

Okay the tunnels are new to me, that looks fun, and very fancy too!

[errant comet]

tunnels is just a way to input output stuff without that much wires all around

[red crest]

what is umami besides a flavor

[hushed raven]

MSG

[lethal walrus]

analytics thingy

that is a lot of images and a very fun hover sound effect https://petrapixel.neocities.org/about/blinkies (cw: a lot of semi-flashing, quickly animated images)

[red crest]

msg falls under flavour

[hushed raven]

Finally more queer ones, the sites I found had a distinct lack of queerness, and an excessive amount of nidity XD

[lethal walrus]

i was going to link the instance of it i was looking at but i thought it might be a little frowned upon to link the site of a us-indicted hacker in here

[red crest]

(pls don't to be on the safe side,)

[cinder karma]

What is an 81x33

[red crest]

2,673

[cinder karma]

New journal puzzles are out

Very salt bae

[devout vault]

(I missed the "to" here on first read and was very surprised by this message)

[cinder karma]

Button is telling us to take more risks

[red crest]

I am a responsible Junimo

[cinder karma]

I booked my skydiving appointment for Thursday

[lethal walrus]

ill take the info

@pliant snow do you have any objection to me using your one there

[errant comet]

:3

[lethal walrus]

oh thats slightly cursed https://astrid.tech/2026/03/24/0/curl-to-dev-sda/

[hushed raven]

Oh that's very cool though wow

[lethal walrus]

your personal site being a vm?? that is. such a cool idea https://vea.st/

[pliant snow]

Hehe free sponsorship

[hushed raven]

PFFFFFt

[lethal walrus]

do i want to be a nexus advertisement.. https://highway.eightyeightthirty.one/badge/2c10cdaee247597d95d603f1def690b0dfa9c67fa337cd6dec9fba4bc4fc1150

[hushed raven]

ahh their old logo, so very urine yellow

[lethal walrus]

its something alright

this looks surprisingly good

[hushed raven]

Love the shadow so much

[lethal walrus]

i do enjoy the shadow i have going on

[cinder karma]

Didn't knoe a game engine mafe candy

[errant comet]

omg it looks so silly

it wasnt even my goal

[lethal walrus]

wowie

this is such a thing lmao https://john.citrons.xyz/

[hushed raven]

In the stipulations

the ad and the content it links to should break 0 laws (unless such laws violate human rights)

[cinder karma]

Isnt citron the quant firm that just got sued for market manipulation

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[little furnace]

You're in luck: The successor will be released soon, so maybe the price of that one will drop. Or mabye not, considering the Xperia 1 VIII is rumored to be 1799€.

[hushed raven]

Good lord thats expensive

[lethal walrus]

i dont think this is the same citron

[little furnace]

Might be because of RAM. Still, I have absolutely no idea what they are thinking.

[lethal walrus]

i want to make 88x31s for my other sites now but like

what do i do for skyblock.onl ??

omg i should make a 88x31 for sneeb.fans

[little furnace]

I will make a 89×32 just to trigger people who notice it.

[lethal walrus]

😔

[hushed raven]

just the skyblock map, simple, you'd have to compress the blocks to like a pixel each but it would work

[lethal walrus]

suppose but thatd work more for the main skyblock.net

skyblock.singles and/or skyblock.ing and/or skyblock.gay and/or skyblock.onl doesnt really have much to do with the actual blocks

[hushed raven]

I always forget you have so many domains XD

[lethal walrus]

im not even the worst offender for skyblock.tld

and i have 3 more that i just dont use

the original skyblock guy has.. so, so, so many

https://skyblock.onl/domains is only some of them

[hushed raven]

Good lord, too many, that must be breaking the bank

[lethal walrus]

when the bank is from a minecraft server it's probably not too bad

i dont think a lot of them are renewed tbf

oh i need to remove groundblock.org, i let that expire

so what background do we think gives off sneeb

[hushed raven]

pentagonal for sure

[lethal walrus]

true but also the randomness of a maze or random tile

[errant comet]

any ideas how to make it better?

it had a palette but idk how to make an outlines work

I shifted the palette for them but now it looks off

[lethal walrus]

woah

i could always recreate the floor

[hushed raven]

Is there seriously no drag and drop website building that doesn't require money or signing in??? I just want to toss something together to get a feel of the vibe smh

[errant comet]

who do we ping here

mods or mail

[lethal walrus]

@devout trellis @devout trellis

[errant comet]

I see

[lethal walrus]

probably junimos actually tbf

[hushed raven]

Beat me to it

boncer goes to them anyway though I think right?

[errant comet]

this kind of scam is the hardest to prevent using automod

text or invite ones are pretty simple but pure images are like

uncounterable

ty discord

[hushed raven]

I think Iro did some OCR stuff to find them easily

[errant comet]

I made some stuff for my server as well and it helps to block most of scams

but not those with just images

I think some bots are required for it

maybe trigger on particular image resolution or metadata lol

[red crest]

(For scams like that that don't get caught immediately, a Junimo ping! We consider those more urgent. Bouncer will also work though.)

[little furnace]

I mean, it would be technically easy for Discord to block certain checksums, they just... don't.

[cinder karma]

Spyder?

[lethal walrus]

they change the images quite often though

[errant comet]

discord can easily prevent that it just doesnt care

[little furnace]

That one has been ongoing for quite a while.

[lethal walrus]

the exact ones?

[errant comet]

I hate discord for that and the fact they no longer give 700 orbs per video quests

[hushed raven]

The URL changes often which is why checksums won't work for them but OCR tends to work well

[errant comet]

I thought ocr is some kind of disorder

apparently not

it is tho just not in this context ig 😭

[hushed raven]

I am getting sports gear and scientific programs, Is this a ploy to get me into running? XD

[lethal walrus]

this ocr is optical character recognition

[little furnace]

Isn't the checksum only dependant on the image itself?

[errant comet]

I see

[hushed raven]

the URL in the image changes* I should've clarified

[errant comet]

confused it with ocd and was wondering huh

then it clicks

[hushed raven]

I did have to check to make sure I was actually using the right thing and not confusing it with OCD XD

[errant comet]

lool

[little furnace]

I tried scrolling up now to see it...

[lethal walrus]

grid is perfect for this omg

[errant comet]

worst part that verification doesn't save from this kinda thing cuz a lot of people get hacked while being a member for a while

[lethal walrus]

time to.. choose floor colours https://sneeb.fans/img/PXL_20250807_020412125.avif

[hushed raven]

That's why I'm fond of the money pot idea, even if an account is hacked, automated tools will try to get every role possible to get channels behind locked roles

[frosty echo]

The images are always different, phone photos, different resolutions, even slightly different contents. OCR or some kind of looks-like-the-other-images AI thing is the only real way

[hushed raven]

File not found XD

[errant comet]

I stole some palettes from ase btw but i did it the other way

[cinder karma]

Sorry, I'm recalling software that existed more than a decade ago

[lethal walrus]

i manually typed the url i fixed it now

[errant comet]

I screenshoted them and then extracted the palette using pxc itself lool

[cinder karma]

Iirc it was a wysiwg editor

[errant comet]

but now I have plenty of pretty palettes to use

[hushed raven]

Ohhh XD a wysiwyg editor would be very nice for mocking up a site, I didn't think to actually search for "wysiwyg" though, so thanjk you for the idea!

[devout vault]

-# money pot

[errant comet]

I also hate how they are using RRGGBBAA

and not just RRGGBB hex

[lethal walrus]

have you tried not including the AA? /genq

[errant comet]

I think I didnt oops

[lethal walrus]

does it not like avifs :(

[hushed raven]

I thought money pot was the scam, honey pot was the scam prevention?

[errant comet]

but I suppose it can take it as 0 and then render them transparent

[cinder karma]

Spyder is now the name kf a python ide

[errant comet]

lets test rq

[cinder karma]

Gooooood morning friends

There are new opus puzzles

[lethal walrus]

oh..
gimp palettes have worked since 1.17.9

so i didnt need to convert my aseprite ones

[hushed raven]

it honestly doesn't like anything other than png or jpg, I couldnt get webp to work either XD

[errant comet]

seems like it works oh well

well I wasted extra five minutes of my life pasting FF to each of the colors 😔

[lethal walrus]

oh so this is the one program people complaining webp is never supported are actually true on

[hushed raven]

at least for me yep!

probably because ffmpeg or imagemagick doesnt work on the "native" build

[lethal walrus]

inline c...

[errant comet]

have yall ever touched those four nodes?

I never worked with much network stuff before but I really wonder what can it do

[lethal walrus]

i just tied to use http download

but it didnt work

so i screenshotted the photo instead

[hushed raven]

tempted to make a wget node, or curl? actually can lua even do that?

[lethal walrus]

probably?

it depends if it exposes a thing to execute

[errant comet]

seems like pasting some random link does something

stole some html ig

[lethal walrus]

time to make a html renderer in pxc

so interestingly

[hushed raven]

http download node does work with jpgs, just not avif specifically, shame

[lethal walrus]

the spinner for the download in progress only works if you move your camera

[errant comet]

lets see if I can steal your pfp using pxc

[hushed raven]

for me it only works if you do something, whether it be moving the mouse or the camera, not touching anything just makes it stay still XD

[lethal walrus]

im not convinced it works at all given its been taking far too long to get a 55kb jpeg

it works for me if i move the mouse.. but only with a modifier key pressed, and itll only be smooth if that modifier is alt

hm

[errant comet]

does it even consider webp an image

😭

it can connect to network as I understood from html but

small images seem to not bother it

would be nice to have it still

[lethal walrus]

it doesnt like webps no

[hushed raven]

it grabbed the jpg for my site but webps dont work

It's also annoying that you can't copy and paste into fields

[errant comet]

link outputs this

nice

[hushed raven]

this is making me want to make my own so much more

[errant comet]

I tried just the http not download

[lethal walrus]

your own what? /genq

[hushed raven]

my own node based image thing

[errant comet]

oh okay it was the webp issue

most images work

[hushed raven]

I did start it and have a basic gui and nodes but it's still a bit terrible XD, using lua for the nodes bc it's so much easier and quicker

[errant comet]

I know some luau but not sure if I am able to do anything here

[lethal walrus]

ooh

[hushed raven]

Lua was my choice because I know it can be embedded in java applications, and I know how to write it, but turns out you can also use python so that's fun, might try it out

[prisma flume]

i didn't know an EXCELLENT 1998 BIDEOGAME mafe candy you mean. begone with your history erasure

[cinder karma]

I have no idea what u are saying

[little furnace]

I wanted to learn Lua until I found out it uses end to close blocks. I have never abandoned a language more quickly.

[hushed raven]

better than bash atleast that uses if and fi

[cinder karma]

I dont like languages that only have one type for lists. Dictionaries

Okay but esac sucks

[errant comet]

hey you can use pxc as obs

lovely

[hushed raven]

I also don't like the way lua handles lists and dics, but it's atleast functional to say the least

[hushed raven]

I can count the pixels XD

[little furnace]

Is it like PHP where it's one and the same for some reason?

[cinder karma]

Javascript has it too because Javascript likes to insult ur intelligence

[prisma flume]

javascript is right to doubt my intelligence

[hushed raven]

If I'm reading stack overflow correctly, yep! they're both just "tables" in lua, and you have to serialize them before printing or you just get table: <hash> tbf a lot of lua also does that

[lethal walrus]

hmmmmm

[errant comet]

okay apparently it cant overwrite mp4

[heavy dagger]

New quote added by atravita as #8081 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/1215712021207720006/1503897928140460164)

[hushed raven]

Text boxes on nodes also break too, how fun XD

[lethal walrus]

uhh

[errant comet]

yeah I downscale cuz it lags a lot 😭
(light theme)

but it works pretty much

[little furnace]

Oof. Yeah, Lua is forever of the table.

Thank you.

[hushed raven]

it always throws me off when I try to see what a table has and end up just getting the hash back

[hushed raven]

learning it has helped a lot with modding though

[hushed raven]

I will also be adding this to my site for sure XD

[lethal walrus]

yay!

i recommend linking it to sneeb.fans

[hushed raven]

Oh I will be for sure XD

does an index for sneeb.fans exist? or is it just serving as an image provider?

Ahh wait I buggered the URL thats why XD

[cinder karma]

(You might want to double check with Kailey tbh)

[errant comet]

rendering high res animations as spritesheet is better than having it in a gif format theoretically?

[lethal walrus]

javascript is such a normal language, this makes a difference to the output

[hushed raven]

Avif, once again, is the solutions love avifs

[lethal walrus]

<a href="#" onclick="event.preventDefault(); l = this.cloneNode(true); l.children[0].src=l.children[0].src; l.href = location.href.replace('#', ''); l.removeAttribute('onclick'); navigator.clipboard.writeText(l.outerHTML.replaceAll(/(\s{4}|\n|\r)/g, ''))">
                    <img src="/88x31.png" alt="an image showing a black cat on the left and the text sneeb fans on the right of it.">
                </a>

why would you suggest the rest of the code is cursed? its not

[errant comet]

animated video image format?

[hushed raven]

https://ezgif.com/gif-to-avif AV1 Image File Format it stands for apparently

[pliant snow]

yeah it's the (AOMedia Video 1) Image File Format

[hushed raven]

it's got much better compression than gif and much better quality for the level of compression

[errant comet]

pxc doesnt have avif export :(

[pliant snow]

then pxc isn't worth using..

[cinder karma]

Atlas is this new

Tbh I remain suspicious of gamemaker

[hushed raven]

This is my enjoyment of pain XD

[cinder karma]

Not the game, the discord link under it

Is that a new discord feature

[pliant snow]

AtlasV 1 Image File Format

[lethal walrus]

youve been able to add buttons there for ages

[hushed raven]

Oh wait I have no idea, I didn't know it had a discord, cool

[errant comet]

time go fishing

[lethal walrus]

you can have two buttons if you want

[red crest]

I'll pass

[errant comet]

whatever is ezgif up to I can't open it

[hushed raven]

thats just the converter I use to turn gifs into avifs, there are plenty, weird that it can't be opened

[errant comet]

not weird

im just from russia

half of sites are like that

[cinder karma]

Button, what type of round or square corner do you want

[pliant snow]

do you have imagemagick

[hushed raven]

I do also have a python script that turns a series of pngs into an avif though if you'd prefer that, but theres probably a lot of sites that can do it

[cinder karma]

Have you changed your border radius four times in the last five years

[hushed raven]

Ahh ye that would probably be why

[cinder karma]

A/b testing it each time

[pliant snow]

imagemagick can handle it no probs

or ffmpeg

[errant comet]

if you make it a pxc plugin thatll be so good but ig 3rd party site is good enough

[cinder karma]

Atlas has this ticket

[errant comet]

https://gifconvert.vxtwitter.com/convert.avif?url=https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/HF_ag8lasAAdle3.mp4

[hushed raven]

what excuse could I use to get out of it this time? hmmm, I like not dealing with the game maker language? XD

[cinder karma]

I've assigned it to u on jira

Too late

[red crest]

rounded-md because much to the dismay of some people I am a tailwind user 😌 I forget what md corresponds to though since it's been a while. But I do enjoy a good squircle, too, if not just basic rounding.

[errant comet]

silly how pxc has its own gif encoder thing and its just ass with as twice larger file size and black background instead of alpha 💔

maybe its something to do with the quality property but trying to read its tooltip drops a crashlog 😭

[hushed raven]

welldone pxc

[lethal walrus]

im very happy with the wood tbh

[errant comet]

I think you may wanna check the composite node

it allows to transform multiple surfaces in one node

[lethal walrus]

yes i should, i really should

and i have used it in the past

i just didnt here because ???

[errant comet]

cuz thats some real black magic here

basically composite is a much better blend

allows to connect more than two nodes and does basically everything else +supports layers/transformations and such

[hushed raven]

the composite node saved my text, blend very much made it so blurry, great fun using the logic gates too, that helped with the getting the text to appear correctly without fussing with key frames

[errant comet]

cute

[lethal walrus]

oh thats very fancyt

[errant comet]

never really tried logic gates but they seem fun

for basic animation stuff its much useless me think but for dynamic generators I see this as a nice thing

[hushed raven]

If I knew how to use the keyframe stuff I would've just used that, but it was late and I didn't want to learn anything new so logic gates were just the thing I gravitated to, it was like using an excavator to dig a plant put ngl XD

[errant comet]

you still don't know keyframes? 😭

[hushed raven]

nope! XD I know how to change the FPS and how many frames and that is it XD

[errant comet]

omg

okay its 3am and I have to get up in like four hours sooo

goodnight yall

and atlas learn keyframes they are cool

[lethal walrus]

https://pillow.rocks now has all the 88x31s!

[fleet wren]

hmm fruit water

[dusty pollen]

ah yes, the eternal engineer need to "fix the need for food"

[cinder karma]

fruit water

oh the ratios of marlstone are really weird

I think I have to ||trash the lead|| and use the ||earth|| as just a ||catalyst||

no wait I can do this wasteless

[cinder karma]

I love my favorite videogame, the chernobyl disaster

To be fair I dont know what a video game is

[shut storm]

https://youtu.be/cw9khNF7Yk4?si=c3B1DwQbpsUdtdU8

[hushed raven]

Quantum computers blow my mind, very fancy that it can do error checking at the same time, I would've thought you'd need the full output to be able to do that, cool!

[errant comet]

Can it run doom

[hushed raven]

Apparently a port of doom to quantum computers has already been made called quanDOOM, but it needs 7200 qubits, about 36x more than Hanyuan 2, in the true spirit of quantum computers the answer is both yes and no XD

[lethal walrus]

That's fun
On the lesderboard I'm #53 all time, and #53 this month

But only 81st this week

[cinder karma]

rosewater, baling fiber

also a faster unstable compound

[cinder karma]

def feel like this journal was easier

[shut storm]

The problem is how expensive it is. Maybe we can make its size smaller in future

[safe dragon]

it's true

it's maybe like a 1/10 thing tho

[devout vault]

I did hear it wasn't every time

[safe dragon]

I might have spent some time, that I should've spent on work, on setting up the steam controller to act as my remote controller for my laptop when I have it hooked to my TV

with some help of input-remapper to change the behavior when steam is not open it's now pretty nice

the biggest drawback being the lack of a keyboard but I don't generally need it for TV stuff

[dusty pollen]

when you do need a keyboard, they make these really cool computers that have a keyboard and a screen built in, and they even fold up to keep a relatively small form factor, you should look into them

[safe dragon]

damn...

[devout vault]

I saw one recently that didn't fold up, because they took off the screen.

and still used it (with an apple vision pro)

It was funny seeing a mac laptop be used with just the bottom part

[safe dragon]

but yeah when I do need to type I will still have to do what I used to do... get off the couch and walk to the laptop

tragedy

I'll set up a virtual keyboard someday to use when steam isn't running

[devout vault]

Windows has one built in I thought

So I would assume linux and friends do too

[safe dragon]

niri does not but yes there's plenty options

[cinder karma]

Those keys boards are shit

[dusty pollen]

linux doesn't always come with a gui of any kind

when I set up this laptop I had to manually install every single thing

[devout vault]

how many people are using linux without a distro

[dusty pollen]

this is with a distro

[cinder karma]

Look u can select everything u want

[fleet wren]

-# servers

[crystal wren]

I heartily recommend the easiest Linux distro to anyone looking to try Linux for the first time. /j

[safe dragon]

so easy and so customizable

[worn remnant]

-# even servers use a distro. I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or--

[fleet wren]

can you call yourself a "Linux From Scratch" user if you're not hand typing your own copy of the source

[worn remnant]

reading and retyping the linux kernel source code from a computing magazine delivered to my house in the mail like god intended

[devout vault]

.xkcd 378

[heavy dagger]

xkcd #378: Real Programmers

Published 01 Feb 2008 | Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

[cinder karma]

Look, casey

The strat for years was to install server Ubuntu

And then select the shit u actually wanted

Also y'all are slacking on the opus gifs

[devout vault]

#programmers-off-topic got atra addicted to opus magnum content, and then stopped supplying the opus magnum content

[cinder karma]

Hey now

How r u

[heavy dagger]

New quote added by atravita as #8084 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/1215712021207720006/1504143577700237373)

[lethal walrus]

i want to make a "quick" switch mod for another game

but i also dont want to deal with updating my modded switch

[cinder karma]

Oh that type of switch

[weak obsidian]

Let's all switch to Windows 11 with Copilot+ PC and the Recall app

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1215712021207720006/1503176773951553626/25522d6.gif

aside from that arch is superior and fedora based and no one can change my mind

[pliant snow]

How did you mod your switch

Asking for a friend, i would never condone such actions

[hushed raven]

it heavily depends on the version you have right? I feel like I remember many versions of the switch not having a way to mod them (that has been found as of yet)

[lethal walrus]

pre-august 2018 ("v1"), you just stick some files on the sd card and press a few buttons and inject a payload

post-august 2018 ("v2", "mariko", inc. all lite, oled), you need a modchip

but that modchip can be as simple as a rp2040!

(what the modchip does is the same concept as the RGH for the xbox 360, it glitches over the check that was added in the revision iirc)

[dusty pollen]

does it need to be soldered in?

[lethal walrus]

yes

[dusty pollen]

I was under the assumption that post a certain version it couldn't be done at all

[lethal walrus]

all can be modded, just various levels of hard

i.e. modchip or not

but it is reasoanbly advanced microsoldering afaik, you might have to scrape off a couple layers of pcb in one spot iirc?

[dusty pollen]

oof

[lethal walrus]

oh, no, i dont think so

im seeing a thing here that's just a flex pcb that you solder in place and only have to trim some of the shields

oh thats cool some modcihps will do the rcm payload injecting themselves

i get that its for detail.. but a 12 mb jpeg??

ah no you still have to solder things to tiny pads for modchips

[weak obsidian]

thats huge lol

for a jpeg??

[lethal walrus]

its a built in coolify option

[lethal walrus]

yup

just a picture of the back of a switch

[weak obsidian]

better be an 8k photo of the s un

[lethal walrus]

its 6000x4000, so it's actually not that far off being 8k

[errant comet]

6000 4000 😧

[pliant snow]

Yeah, i heard it was a bunch of microsoldering

[steel kraken]

Has switch2 been broken into yet?

[fleet wren]

nope, and apparently it might be years away

[cinder karma]

Dont u just need small screwdriver to open

[safe dragon]

and 300 years from an emulator considering all the switch 1 ones were threatened with legal action and shut down

[hushed raven]

Officially they were shut down, but I think one still exists

[safe dragon]

o

sneaky...

I mean it's not illegal but still you ain't winning a fight with nintendo

in Japanese court

[hushed raven]

Defo not, nintendo are like the prime example of keeping their IP strictly theirs

[cinder karma]

Why not just play a game that supports modding like stardew

[little furnace]

Most actually were illegal because they circumvented copyright protection. The ones that don't are legal.

[safe dragon]

I thought they were supposed to be in the clear cause you have to source the bios files and stuff yourself

[little furnace]

At least one basically decrypted the encrypted ROMs itself. That was the big one that was taken down. The other one didn't, and I think they offered the dev a job in exchange for taking it down.

[safe dragon]

I know for yuzu there was something about them being shared in a discord channel

[hushed raven]

Kinda? some still used the code from the devices themselves, where as others did use all their own code but it was a legal gray area because it enabled illegal activity but didn't participate in it

[safe dragon]

😌

[little furnace]

I think enabling illegal activity is nowadays no longer anything that holds up in a good court because that's basically the entire internet.

[safe dragon]

torrenting clients...

[cinder karma]

Bitcoin

[safe dragon]

solely used for downloading Linux isos

speaking of annoying regulations. Apparently Linux might be getting HDMI 2.1 support so I guess the HDMI Forum gave the greenlight

[little furnace]

My cellular data could be used to download illegal stuff, better sue my provider.

[safe dragon]

probably cause HDMI 2.2 was announced and their spec already leaked ages ago regardless so they're not protecting anything

[hushed raven]

it hadn't had HDMI 2.1 support? hmm thats news to me

[little furnace]

I wish the EU would force all devices to support DisplayPort.

I want to connect my phone to a screen.

[safe dragon]

on AMD yeah. it legally couldn't because the HDMI Forum enforced the spec to not be publicly available and since the AMD Linux drivers are open source they were blocked from implementing them

AMD had a full implementation basically ready and done but the HDMI forum said no

so nothing happened for years

[devout vault]

did you forget about disney

[hushed raven]

Hmmm interesting, tbf I'm more of a fan of DP because of the daisy chaining available, which is very very useful

[safe dragon]

in a better world HDMI would be dead

[hushed raven]

I did, I rarely remember that disney exists ngl XD

[safe dragon]

they're pulling the same trick for HDMI 2.2 btw so Linux on AMD won't be getting it for years to come

[devout vault]

everytime you say HDMI forum I'm envisoning a random website like old style forums that anyone can register at but they just all collectively agree to not allow it

I know that's not what you mean. I'm choosing to ignore what you mean

[safe dragon]

it's ok I imagine the same

same for the USB forum

[cinder karma]

What's wrong with hdmi (honest)

[devout vault]

TIL that both of those exist

[cinder karma]

Why DisplayPort?

[safe dragon]

the legal nonsense they pull

as shown above

as an actual product I have no issues with them really

displayport meanwhile charges no licensing fees at all

[devout vault]

burning all my HDMI cables (they, the cables themselves, DMCAd me for using them on a linux machine)
/s

[little furnace]

DisplayPort is an open standard. That's enough for me. And it supports USB-C.

[safe dragon]

I'm not using HDMI ARC to connect my TV to my speakers in protest

(my TV is actually too old for HDMI ARC so I couldn't)

[errant comet]

I hate how my screen doesn't have hdmi port 😭

[little furnace]

Would you do it if you got a new one?

[little furnace]

Does it have SCART?

[errant comet]

Idk what scart is

But it has dvi

[safe dragon]

it's marginally better than the old optical cables so sure but it's not important enough to care too much

I'd care if I had some Dolby surround sound setup or something

[safe dragon]

one of my sister's monitors only has VGA and DVI. Her setup in general is funky and I had to grab or buy all sorts of adapters to make things work with a modern docking station

[little furnace]

At college we have a wonderful setup with a PS5, Switch 2 and a PC with an RTX 6080 connected to a brand new highly expensive screen and Dolby 5.1, but that is connected via optical, so I'm curious whether we should use the ARC port.

And yes, I have a key for the room.

[safe dragon]

from what I understand optical can only transfer Dolby surround in a compressed format

idk I just have 2 speakers so I don't particularly care

my mom has some Yamaha soundbar that claimed virtual surround sound despite only having speakers in the front, through some technical witchcraft nonsense

[little furnace]

Soundbars are a weird concept.

[safe dragon]

in reality it doesn't even sound stereo

[little furnace]

I trust Yamaha usually because their drums are good, which means they know a bit about sound.

[safe dragon]

it's... a fine soundbar

the remote is horrendous

[little furnace]

Isn't any modern remote? I remember our old CRT had a remote like a brick.

[cinder karma]

What's a soundbar

[safe dragon]

a thin flat bar you lay in front of a TV with a bunch of speakers in it

[cinder karma]

What's a TV?

[safe dragon]

😌

[little furnace]

It's Latin for television, so it's these long thingies pirates use.

[safe dragon]

my sister is rocking some old dell PC speakers I think we already had when I was like 4 years old

they produce terrible static

[cinder karma]

So it's a low poly bridge got it

[little furnace]

"Terrible" and "Dell" are two words I hear so often together that I'm starting to recognize a pattern.

[safe dragon]

my sister is truly the epitome of "if it technically still kinda works I'm gonna keep using it"

doesn't matter if it's to her detriment

thus a VGA/DVI monitor and 25 year old speakers

unfortunately that monitor supports VESA mounts so even when she got a monitor arm there was no excuse to replace it

[cinder karma]

I dont even own speakers lol

[safe dragon]

I didn't till 3 days ago

[cinder karma]

What is great in speakers that dont come with headphones

[devout vault]

me and the wired headphones where the cable had to be juuuuust right to work

me and the desk chair I used until the center rod literally snapped

[safe dragon]

distance, multiple people can listen at the same time...

better bass generally

[cinder karma]

Multiple....people?

How does that work

My headset is Bluetooth smh

[safe dragon]

u know how couches have space for multiple people to sit

[devout vault]

well you see, when two people love each other very much, but they aren't quite ready yet for the next part of the usual story...

[cinder karma]

What's a couch

[devout vault]

its like a pcb but for people. you put them on one together and they do stuff together (usually)

[safe dragon]

my TV was effectively background decoration for my living room but then I decided to start using it and was faced with how god awful the TV's own speakers are and impulse bought some stereo speakers 2 hours later

[cinder karma]

That's a hilariously odd decor

[safe dragon]

I got it for free cause the previous homeowner was moving in with someone else and had no use for it

so it just kinda stayed in the living room

it wasn't even connected to power for like 2 years

🙏

honestly the display quality is surprisingly good considering its age

[cinder karma]

I'm not wave soldering people

[safe dragon]

but I guess it was 1000 USD 17 years ago for a reason

[cinder karma]

Or poking them with needles

[devout vault]

nor should you

[devout vault]

this one depends on if you're a doctor/nurse/etc. I guess

[lethal walrus]

i should figure out why intellij idea randomly breaks every single electron/CEF program

[hushed raven]

IDEA for electron is a new one to me, how does it compare to WebStorm? WebStorm is what I currently use and it works fine, but it would be nice to have IDEA be the only IDE I need

[lethal walrus]

oh no im not writing electron apps in idea

but for some reason, sometimes when i have it opens it decides that no electron/CEF applications deserve to receive mouse clicks

hover is fine and it can react, but not clicking or scrolling ??

[hushed raven]

Ohhh

[lethal walrus]

and i have to kill all of them for it to work again

[hushed raven]

That's certainly an odd one?

what OS are you on again?

[little furnace]

If it's Windows, why are you not using Linux?
If it's Linux, why are you not using Flatpaks?
If it's Mac, why?

[hushed raven]

I will not have this flatpak appreciation milarky in this household /jk

[little furnace]

I don't use them either, but the isolation would likely prevent something like that.

[lethal walrus]

kubuntu

[lethal walrus]

i mean, probably

[devout vault]

re: (1) - because I don't want my fun tech hobby time to be replaced with frustrating tech hobby time (that also overflows into... every other kind of time)

[lethal walrus]

speaking of intellij, what have you done my imports :<

[devout vault]

How much am I being serious and how much am I being silly?

[little furnace]

And dealing with Microsoft's newest Copilot push and Windows 11 update ideas is not frustrating?

[devout vault]

Somehow, the only copilot push I've noticed is when Mozart somehow opened it over the weekend.

Twice.

(well, that and <insert joke about turning my SMAPI logs into poetry>)

[little furnace]

Microsoft.
Mozart.
M.

Coincidence?

[lethal walrus]

what do you mean theres no text. its right there ??

WHY CAN YOU SUGGEST IT

WHY DOES BUILDING IT WORK FINE THOUGH

i will just close intellij and work on that another time 😌

[hushed raven]

The sensible option

[lethal walrus]

im glad it didnt get this angy at the plugin i was just working on

[devout vault]

oh so they're finally adding some of my favorite VS features

[hushed raven]

I have had that once, but resyncing the gradle project worked at least, sinple solution that took far longer than needed XD

[lethal walrus]

so generally pain is a bad feature

[heavy dagger]

New quote added by atlasv1224 as #8086 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/1215712021207720006/1504279940080599180)

[lethal walrus]

i tried to press the reload button and it didnt help :(

[devout vault]

what about specifically pain

[lethal walrus]

that is also less than ideal

[cinder karma]

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/germany-cuts-steam-deck-desktop-devs-a-usd1-5-million-cheque-they-declare-an-end-to-insecure-spyware-riddled-software-imposed-by-the-likes-of-microsoft/

[little furnace]

KDE, most famously known as the "Steam Deck desktop devs".

[hushed raven]

that pains me so much that they called it that XD

[little furnace]

By the way, the rumors were wrong, the Xperia 1 VIII will cost only 1499€ (unless you buy the golden one for 1999€) and it has an exciting new feature: AI that magically improves your pictures. Technology will truly only bring greatness and wonder.

[rain apex]

The headline made me think they gave valve money lmao

[hushed raven]

One for a golden version and one for magical AI touching my perfectly good pictures

[little furnace]

It's truly sad that this is the only phone without a headphone jack, a display without camera cutout and microSD support.

[cinder karma]

What do u take photos of

I take photo of gas station because it did not give me receipt

[little furnace]

I take photo of cat, but cat is on top of me, so I can't really take photo.

[hushed raven]

mostly plants and animals, I do not like my plant pictures "enhanced" by AI because it makes it so much harder to Identify what plant it is when I get home

[little furnace]

I wish I could share the "enhancement" comparison pictures (that were posted on the official website!!!), because they are hilarious.

[hushed raven]

I am checking these out now

Oh they're terrible!

theyre so over exposed what on earth

and so much more noisy too

[little furnace]

I mean, usually they try to somehow look oversaturated and "poppy", and for many people that's good enough, but I can't imagine anyone prefers these.

[dusty pollen]

oh WOW no kidding

that’s worse than “baby’s first photoshop forum signature” edits

[red crest]

i just wanna know why its called Xperia 1 VIII? why is it called Xperia 1 8

next we're gonna have an Xbox One Two

[dusty pollen]

I’m sorry, the walkman brand is still around?

this BETTER mean a physical cd player is built into this phone

[red crest]

there are modern walkmans

mp3 players

or ones with streaming services built in

also walkman isnt itself a brand its just a product line by Sony afaik

[dusty pollen]

I just overlaid the two versions of the picture of the girl and the AI made her smaller and a little thinner?

I’m so confused 😭

[hushed raven]

it also changes the flower one giving it a dolly zoom effect??

[dusty pollen]

oh my god it does

what upsets me about the flower one is that the colours on the original are so pretty

[little furnace]

It's Mk. VIII but without the Mk. Very confusing. And the naming is that Xperia 1 is the flagship, 5 (no longer exists) the Lite version and 10 the middle segment. No, it's not supposed to make sense.

[red crest]

That made me understand it less than I thought I could

[little furnace]

Because it you enhance a girl, she will become slimmer and smaller. Isn't that obvious?

\s

[hushed raven]

At least it's better than Xiaomi's scheme with the Redmi line, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro Plus 5G

[red crest]

At least in that one all the words add unique information

[little furnace]

The Samsung A line is weird. Wasn't the A55 one of the first phones?

Oh, no, it was A5.

[hushed raven]

That phone has the same firmware and is compatible with the Xiaomi Hypercharge i11 but the firmware is incompatible to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G

[little furnace]

There is no naming scheme better than Fairphone's. Everyone else can give up.

[cinder karma]

look, ma, no waste!

(please observe how the waters end up on the final product)

[heavy dagger]

New quote added by kittycatcasey as #8087 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/1215712021207720006/1504321315258241175)

[sand frost]

I do this too!!

Also of receipts for work

And plants I see and want to ID

[prisma flume]

this is known in the industry as the Framework Effect

[errant comet]

Morning everyoneee

[lethal walrus]

😔 nginx RCE/DOS

[wooden vector]

opus magnum
I had a real sorta zachlike honeymoon phase with TIS-100, that was a lot of fun

[lethal walrus]

and the patches arent on their repository??

[cinder karma]

Anyone wanna try it next with electric cars

https://youtu.be/itAMIIBnZ-8?si=xfXMzWgPmI97UCyn

[cinder karma]

Anyways

I wish for a nice electric car to be made for thr US market

Small, dependable, goes from point a to point b

[pliant snow]

Like the chevy bolt

[little furnace]

The Fiat Topolino is supposed to be released later that year.

[cinder karma]

The McRib of cars

[worn remnant]

the chevy bolt was available in the US for a bit, then they killed it because america is too truckpilled. i hear they're reviving it but only for one year (2027) so good luck getting parts down the line lol

[cinder karma]

Exactly! The McRib of cars

Ioniq seems like a possibility

[cinder karma]

Anyways

Pink is trying to sell phones, I'm trying to sell electric cars lol

[fleet wren]

-# xkcd car size is depressing to read

[cinder karma]

xkcd: Results Age https://share.google/Iq1WahB2kzbZTUR98

[frosty echo]

Silly gotcha I just ran into...

>>> while True: print(input() in "abc")
...
a
True
b
True
z
False

True```

[safe dragon]

i remember my disappointment figuring out it had nothing to do with the Nintendo DS

[devout vault]

why

(I heard about the "rewrite Bun in Rust" PR)

[devout vault]

@ Pathos how would you feel if I opened a PR of this size? /s

[worn remnant]

i mean if you're going to rewrite a project in a different language as a PR that seems like a reasonable size

[devout vault]

I'm mainly confused about 1mil added but only 4k removed

[fleet wren]

"small misc refactor"

[worn remnant]

oh that does seem odd. maybe it's net?

[devout vault]

I dont' think that's how the git diffs usually measure things

Changing a line is usually +1/-1 as far as I've seen

[worn remnant]

i don't really put any stock in how github represents data, unless i'm dealing with its version of markdown to make my readmes look okay

[devout vault]

I don't put any stock into anything.

I'm too broke to buy stocks.

I guess I could once I'm done paying off debts and stuff

[fleet wren]

not even beef stock?

[devout vault]

bold of you to think I have my act together enough to cook

Also it looks like the zig source code didn't get deleted, it's just... right next to the rust code

Explains the low removal amount

[cinder karma]

Why are we rewriting a bunny in rust

[devout vault]

you don't want a cyborg bunny?

[cinder karma]

Oh, Claude did it

[fleet wren]

dang Bun's PR list is a mess rn

[devout vault]

I saw two AI tools were reviewers, I didn't see any as co authors on the commits

So I wasn't sure

(But I suspected it)

[fleet wren]

I take that the AI-assisted Rust rewrite isn't a popular move
(or it is and this is all a long in joke idk)

I think Bun is, or was, one of the top examples of a major project written in Zig

but yeah to switch out millions of lines of code within a week is insane lol

was Zig that terrible to work with I have to wonder

[devout vault]

It's not insane, it's visionary.

something something maximize synergy with deliverables to provide cross functionality when you touch base with key stakeholders

[cinder karma]

Anthropic bought Bun

Zig doesnt like AI

Hence

[devout vault]

poor aistralia

[cinder karma]

Anyways

[little furnace]

I'm mainly trying to get people to hold me back from buying them myself. I want my phones to have a headphone jack, no display cutout and an unlockable bootloader. Sony has that and it's red. The temptation is higher than my budget and I'm bad at impulse control.

[cinder karma]

Morning, everyone

[devout vault]

wow you made it look like I just randomly said poor australia

hold on, I can fix this

there

[little furnace]

Good afternoon.

[cinder karma]

Better than bullion

Also tbh I'm kinda surprised at the lack of stock holding

[devout vault]

Surprised at the lack of stock holding by who?

[cinder karma]

In general tbh

Irl like everyone i know owns stock

[safe dragon]

idk if I know anyone with stocks

my manager maybe?

tbh idk if most people I know even have savings

let alone money for stocks

[little furnace]

Aren't stocks also risky? If I were to invest money in something, it would likely be government bonds.

[cinder karma]

On average, over >5 years, and with a diverse group, no

[lethal walrus]

I thought the only problem with ai and zig and bun was that their ai generated changes to zig couldn't be merged

[lethal walrus]

Assisted is a strong word

[lethal walrus]

Guess whose nginx server got DOS'd :D

Fetched 39.1 kB in 0s (141 kB/s)
All packages are up to date.
no they're not????

[hushed raven]

Oh I should really check mine, bugger

How much traffic constitues a DOS attack? guessing a good 75% increase of traffic counts? XD

[lethal walrus]

It would just crash the process if you have ASLR off because it can't execute things iirc

[hushed raven]

well it didn't crash so I would say it's on, seems like cloud flare blocked 90% of it, thank you cloud flare for working

[crystal wren]

I wish I could use Cloudflare... but I just can't bring myself to use something by a company with business practices so bad.

[hushed raven]

I am open to suggestions for alternatives XD

[crystal wren]

If your requirements include the price remaining free, I think I have bad news for you...

[hushed raven]

That's what I thought XD

[crystal wren]

That's the part that sucks!

[hushed raven]

Selling my data is looking better and better as the days go by, shame I can't sell it myself XD

[pliant snow]

Fail2ban or crowdsec might be good to explore

[hushed raven]

I think I have fail2ban already set up? its the one the monitors logs iirc, crowdsec is one I haven't heard of though, I'll check that one out, ty!

[fleet wren]

back in college i set up a public-facing personal server in my room for a couple days for something i forgot
holy hell i get one ssh login request from foreign ips every 30 sec

it's a scary world out there

there are bots whose purpose is just to slam port 80/443 of every ip they can find with "admin"/"password123"/etc.

[hushed raven]

It's why I use ssh keys and disable password login with ssh cause I know my passwords aren't strong enough to stop continuous flow of attempts

[red crest]

i just block every single request by default unless it comes from any of 3 specific ip addresses 😌

[hushed raven]

That is an effective solution, I just access it from different IP's which means it doesn't work for me , damn the need for a VPN for every 1 in 5 sites

[red crest]

does using Tailscale not work if you have a different VPN on

or something like tailscale

[crystal wren]

With enough custom routing, I have to imagine you could talk from another VPN to a Tailscale IP? Maybe?

[red crest]

i didnt think it'd need that much work but admittedly ive never actually used Tailscale myself

[hushed raven]

I've only ever been able to have one VPN on at a time, it's either block ads or get around UK blocks, Custom routing is not something I'm familiar with at all

[crystal wren]

I did enough of a CCNA to remember a dangerously specific and incomplete amount.

[safe dragon]

it does on Linux, not so much on phones

[red crest]

maybe if Atlas got the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro Plus 5G Tailscale+ it'd work better

[hushed raven]

the next phone I'm planning on getting is a dumb phone, smart phones are a pain, give me battery that lasts for a month on one charge please

[crystal wren]

For me, my next phone is going to be a dumb phone, or a full on Linux phone.

[hushed raven]

A full on linux phone would be so good, the goal to have one distro across all my devices is a plan I want to see come to fruition so bad

[safe dragon]

I need something to use stuff like my bank app on and that's about it

unfortunately not a dumb phone or a Linux phone

but a custom OS at least

[hushed raven]

I'd go with a bank that has a web portal if it meant I could have true linux on my phone

[safe dragon]

it has one

the app is for 2fa

[hushed raven]

like generic authenticator app 2fa or bank special 2fa app?

[safe dragon]

bank special

[hushed raven]

ew

[safe dragon]

like you gotta approve payments on it and stuff

not just a code

[crystal wren]

I miss my bank's little PIN card machine.

[hushed raven]

HSBC?

[safe dragon]

the ol authenticator devices

[hushed raven]

Theres one bank that still has them in the UK I think but I don't remember the name

[safe dragon]

aside from my bank there's also the dutch digital id system which uses an app for logging in though I'd assume they have an alternative

main 2 really

[cinder karma]

I think it's wild to not have level 2 charging if you have an electric car

It's literally $250 in supplies!

[dusty pollen]

it's HSBC lmao

they were fun and they still give them to some people I believe

[hushed raven]

I thought it had blue branding? it's been so long since I've used a high street bank ngl

[dusty pollen]

there may have been multiple? HSBC definitely had one

[cinder karma]

High street bank?

[dusty pollen]

oh you said still has them

[cinder karma]

Morning, iro!

[dusty pollen]

uh HSBC has them in very specific cases

[cinder karma]

Does your bank support yubikey

[dusty pollen]

evening!

[cinder karma]

Mine does!

[dusty pollen]

Barclays?

[cinder karma]

(But badly)

[dusty pollen]

most banks are red

[hushed raven]

the banks you see on the high street, not the mobile ones, HSBC, Loyds, TSB, Santander, and more

[cinder karma]

Ah

[hushed raven]

I could be barclays, that does ring a bell

[dusty pollen]

lloyds is... green and black?

[cinder karma]

"Brick and mortar" bank vs "neobank"

[dusty pollen]

everything else is red

[cinder karma]

Is the US terminology

[hushed raven]

so many red banks

[cinder karma]

I literally do not recognize ur bank names

[hushed raven]

I didn't realise the US had different terminology for them, good to know XD

[dusty pollen]

HSBC is Hong Kong and Singapore Banking Corporation but is one of the biggest banks in the UK for some reason

the others are mostly British

[hushed raven]

Wasn't midlands bank the british version that was bought out by HSBC? it was from before my time so I'm not certain at all XD

[dusty pollen]

possibly? if it's before your time it's definitely before I moved to the UK

[hushed raven]

Ahh ye, midlands bank was from birmingham, acquired by HSBC in 1992, and full rebranded to HSBC in 99, 100% before my time

[prisma flume]

i simply can't fathom why the Hong Kong Singapore banking corporation would be big in Britain

[cinder karma]

No idea, i muttered, as I try to find a non British outlet in Hong Kong

[hushed raven]

to establish a UK and european foothold of course! they must've had a lot of money to buy out one of the Big Four XD

[little furnace]

I think you can hardly call it an European foothold if they are established only in the UK.

[safe dragon]

idk who they are

the ING group is the big one here

as far as banks go they're pretty good in most ways

[little furnace]

It's like saying that something has an American foothold if it's only established in Nebraska.

-# I actually have no idea what Nebraska is like.

[safe dragon]

I'm sorry to Nebraska but it's probably one of the least memorable states they've got

[hushed raven]

Ye it's certainly not the correct use for foothold at all XD a euro foothold would have to be atleast 3 places in my opinion, in west, central, and east europe XD

Ohio is flat, california is techy, florida is swamp, nivada is casinos, nebraska is....there?

[little furnace]

I've read Nvidia at first.

[safe dragon]

Nevada is now nvidia

[hushed raven]

I did mess the spelling up slightly XD

[little furnace]

Kansas might also be boring, but at least they named themselves after a good band.

[safe dragon]

apparently Nebraska just has a lot of agriculture and that's basically it

[little furnace]

People say that it's boring to drive through. It's the size of a mid-sized country, I feel like anything would be boring after three hours.

[cinder karma]

Tbh with tsmc building here

Y'all should play maptap.gg

[hushed raven]

Starting a wordle adjacent thread here atra? XD

[cinder karma]

I've been thinking that i should put the daily opus solve in the wordle thread ngl

Since no one cares anymore

[little furnace]

97, 95, 100, 95, 81
Final score: 920

Messina was way too easy.

||You call the strait between Italy and Sicily the Strait of Messina, so it's kinda obvious that it's close to it.||

[hushed raven]

I still have 40 mins until the next one arrives ughhhhh

[cinder karma]

The channel needs to decide on another video game to play now that y'all have moved away from om

[hushed raven]

Oh I saw a very nice looking pouzzle game, no histograms or gifs though https://store.steampowered.com/app/4160210/The_Artisan_of_Glimmith/

Steam

The Artisan of Glimmith

You arrive in the lands of Glimmith, a kingdom above the clouds. Your newest benefactor has hired you, a famed stained glass artisan, to help him restore the area to its former glory. However, he has given you an unusual stipulation: use whatever colors you please, so long as you follow the rules!…

Price

$12.99

Recommendations

1303

[heavy dagger]

Title result: The Artisan of Glimmith on Steam

[fleet wren]

-# ngl i've been going through age of mythology/resident evil requiem/even some actual SDV/house of leaves so have no time for OM

[hushed raven]

You can create your own puzzles though which is a very nice thing

[fleet wren]

-# "that last one isn't a game" you are correct. a game is a thing that you play. house of leaves plays you

[cinder karma]

What's house of leaves

[fleet wren]

what isn't house of leaves

[cinder karma]

(I dont blame u but I will be moving the daily solve into the wordle thread)

Anywya

[supple ether]

Did you mean the house of leaves?

[cinder karma]

I have no idea actually

[supple ether]

It's a joke because in the house of leaves book, the word "house" is stylized in blue. So I made the word a link to the Wikipedia article to make it blue in the same way

I haven't read house of leaves (yet) but I know that much about it

[pliant snow]

applause

i have read house of leaves, which makes me superior to the rest of you

[heavy dagger]

New quote added by atravita as #8090 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/1215712021207720006/1504628371424940202)

[cinder karma]

Blueberry! Do u grow blueberries