Notices by ZK-Class Reality Failure Event 🍓 (monorail@glaceon.social)

people who write using only the ten hundred most used words 🤝 writing without any words that contain any of that glyph which is fifth in our writing symbols

text that is "correct" but feels off and it's difficult to determine exactly why

i feel like it's bad ux for login forms to not have a way to check what the requirements when setting a password are

like how many times do i go to reset my password, and when it says "your password must..." i remember my old password

my dad's been cycling more as an effort to get more exercise and he recently bought a trainer for it, so like

you prop up your front wheel on something, you take the back wheel completely off and replace it with the trainer. the whole bike now stands up even when it's not moving, and if you pedal it just turns a sensor on the side. but it connects to your computer so you can get stats about the good biking you're doing

and i just saw my dad using this program with a fully rendered 3d world and an avatar on a bike that was copying him, surrounded by stats about his real-world biking. i thought that was kinda neat but i was gonna kinda tease him about it until i saw other bikers on the road, and my dad said "yeah those are other real people using the program"

in fact, he went on to say "the mechanic is disabled right now because i'm in training mode, but otherwise, if i was right behind another person the trainer would lower the resistance a bit to simulate drafting", which is cool anyway but when i asked about "outside of training mode" he also clarified "yeah you can sign up for races and stuff, and it'll put you in different tiers based on your training performance".

it turns out that in addition to like, actually training and exercising and getting better at cycling, he's gaining exp and leveling up, and he's earning in-game currency to spend on new clothes for his avatar

my dad plays a cycling MMO where the controller is a real bicycle

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Do not talk about sudo.

#2) Do NOT talk about sudo.

#3) If it's your first time using sudo, you have to fuck up something you don't have backups for.
[sudo] password for glaceon:

Matt Thorson (of Matt Makes Games, Towerfall and Celeste dev) is nonbinary!! once again bigots aren't allowed to have nice things

hot tip, i didn't fucking ask, run the software you piece of shit

literally anyone write an essay about programming that's not ridiculously condescending challenge

I love having excuses to post this

@tindall i once spent a while using my computer to set up a secondary network for the switch to attach to, so it could connect to the internet but all the traffic passed through my computer, to try to modify the page with the compose box in real time to let you type more

i struggled with it for a while before i remembered that that's called a "man in the middle attack" and it's very good that i couldn't get it working

this is kinda funny or kinda scary depending on who you ask

was recording this for something else, but the important thing to know is that the left terminal is logging all my network traffic

look at it go when i start typing into the start menu

current motto: "Everyone has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a seperate production environment."

(extremely Harder Better Faster Stronger voice)

bop it
twist it
pull it
flick it

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#mastoadmins Hey does anyone know why this would happen to one of my users? Works fine on my end but in their console they get "failed to establish websocket connection" followed by GETs timing out every few seconds