Notices by Solderpunk (solderpunk@mastodon.sdf.org), page 9

@snowdusk_ @mnw Ah, yes, DJ Cutman! I think I maybe saw him live once? When I used to go to 8bitSF shows years ago.

I don't have any of his albums, though, I will add him to the list of artists to checkout for future HHoP shows!

@cosullivan @dokuja Somebody hasn't read ~/orientation 😜

But mooncats are welcome, too.

@dokuja @cosullivan Welcome, indeed! Down to just one empty gopherhole now. 👍

Feel free to invite your gopher-curious friends!

@sparcipx Ooh, or Plan 9.

@sparcipx Minix 3?

@moonman I'm astonished that apparently people actually post essays on Twitter piecemeal, spread over dozens of tweets. Why would anyone do that?

...fastforward through a cutscene in the room *before* the battle, then that frustration has no productive release.

Ideally, I want to spend 0.5 seconds pressing *one* button to acknowledge that I died and them immediately be positioned at the start of that fight with my stats and inventory set to what they were when I started, ready to try again.

Ys Origin scores *very* highly from me in this regard, there is zero friction between retries and this facilitates extremely tight loops.

One of my pet peeves in video games is unavoidable long delays between retries at battles. If I am really struggling with a tough boss, all I want is to keep trying that boss battle over and over in a very tight loop until I get it. The tight loop keeps me "in the zone" and lets me immediately transform anger and frustration at dying into energy for another attempt. If I'm forced to spend 30 seconds waiting for a fancy "game over" screen to fade up, work through a "load game" menu...(cont'd)

@lain When I vaguely paid attention a few years back, they were consistently finishing at or near the top of the "best VPS provider" polls at the LowEndBox community. At one point you had to wait quite a while for some of their offerings to be available and then buy quickly (this seems to have stopped happening).

@lain Are RamNode not cool anymore?

@lnxw48a1 They really are absolutely massive. And technically quite interesting, they are like self-sufficient miniature cities, with a lot of the infrastructure that entails.

@lain That's what she said.

"I’ve met quite a few good systems administrators who are unaware of the default policy for iptables chains".

Umm, I am far from being a super pro sysadmin, but I'm not sure I can reconcile that statement with any conventional meaning of "good".

(from https://major.io/2010/04/12/best-practices-iptables/)

@jynx The INSTALL file explicitly says it should work with inetd, and has an example line that looks very much like yours, so it could well be a bug.

@pet84rik Looking nice, I like the "Loading..."!

@jynx That's strange, 101 definitely respects -h for me. I had to set it in /etc/default/gophernicus. Not sure if that applies to you on inet.d - I just barely understand how my install works, Kim's makefile has done some kind of unholy systemd-xinetd hybrid magic.

@jynx You just need to give gophernicus a -h option to set your FQDN.

@Cat Got it compiled and installed at circumlunar! 👍