Notices by notklaatu (klaatu@mastodon.xyz), page 5

@FiftyOneFifty Well, friend, I've heard you've left this mortal coil. I'm in shock, but I guess you're at peace. The irony of your multiplying hearses is not lost upon me, and your twisted sense of humour is appreciated still.

You'll be missed.

#hpr

@dirtycommo I have found that solving my own daily inconveniences has been good for coding practice. I write code for myself when i need a tool, even if it means reinventing the wheel a little bit. When i do, I end up with a program designed for my exact use case and workflow, plus i got to practice coding.

@Jason_Dodd Such a classic design. At this point, I really can't be bothered with a pocket knife without a clip on it though.

Here's a short documentary by Michael Stevenson about the early[-ish] web, and the creation of Slashdot and other influencial sites.

https://opensource.com/article/19/9/geeks-cyberspace

Pretty interesting to hear the tech story and the community story so intertwined.

#slashdot #web #www #http #netscape

A big list of Pathfinder 2e alternative character sheets (not maintained by me). I'm always fascinated by different takes on character sheet design, regardless of system.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oIirIj14rYSeDe6usUqb-zUCR2dWp-zcW7LJtkUbUDs/edit#gid=0

#rpg #tabletop #dnd #pathfinder #ogl

@ParadeGrotesque @yrabbit Ha, um I can't confirm I'm "that" notklaatu, but I'm definitely *a* notklaatu.

Wrapping sbotools in a script sounds safe and sane. I can't think of any reason not to do it.

How do you plan on tracking versions between SBo and pkgsrc? regular [manual] monitoring with pkgtool or something similar? Seems like there's a risk with those two not necessarily being in sync.
(or I'm just spreading FUD; like I say, I didn't really give this a fair go when I tried it)

@ParadeGrotesque @yrabbit i used pkgsrc on slackware as an experiment for a short while. I didn't stick with it because I'm pretty heavily invested in slackbuilds.org and just didn't have the space for both on my head. Been meaning to give it another go.

@wxcafe ACK

@wxcafe Just for the sake of accuracy, it *is* open source according to the article, with this repo cited:

https://github.com/bengreenier/browserd

@KinmenRisingProject Rejon has been saying that for 3 months. He's emailed different people conflicting stories of what's actually happening, he's been antagonistic to the community ("the site is up, you just don't have the key"), he's blocked people who've asked him for clarification. It goes on and on.

@oranje Oh man, I should have warned everyone at the start - it was a Bring Your Own Coffee episode.

I don't know why, just couldn't find a time to break.

Don't worry, next ep there'll be a break as usual, I promise!

@cobra2 I did't realise they were NZ-based. Crazy!

I'll check it out. I've heard from @garpu that it's pretty great. I think she plays it on Slackware.

WINE and Proton have been treating me pretty well (Bioshock Enhanced editions notwithstanding, but it's definitely getting me and my partner through Harry Potter Lego pretty nicely).

@cobra2 Yep, good policy. I avoided the PS4 because I was angry that it had no backwards compatibility. But since then, Steam on Linux has solved most of my gaming requirements. Now I'm really only looking at a PS4 (or 5?) for co-op stuff with my partner.

@cobra2 No, I wasn't quick enough. I figured I had plenty of time to dual boot it, and then woke up one morning to the news that Sony had disabled the feature and was being sued in a class action lawsuit. I think some lawyer somewhere actually owes me $21 or whatever it was.

Anyway, I bought it to actually play games, so I wasn't really too upset.

@cobra2 Every time I think about buying a PlayStation, I hear rumours that the next one is just around the corner. And sure enough, Sony's hinting at PS5 now.

I guess before I look at the current and next gen consoles, I really really need to get my PS3 from where I stashed it in the US...

@ixn Well your disinformation had me reading its source code for any sign of what you were talking about and I've determined that you're either crazy or you call math "bluetooth" and you call calculation "sync"

@cobra2 yeah that's pretty great

@rmw argh, mastodon killed the formatting. See my post here.

http://slackermedia.info/handbook/doku.php?id=linuxaudio

@rmw something like

```
defaults.ctl.card 2
defaults.pcm.card 2
defaults.timer.card 2

pcm.!default { type hw card 2 device 0 } ctl.!default { type hw card 2 device 0 } pcm.dsp { type plug slave.pcm "dmix" }
```

@shiba @clacke Oh this is quite nice, actually. I don't love that it doesn't have a menu that can popup at the mouse cursor position, but this works.

Done and done. Thanks!!