Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 11:52:22 EDT Hypolite Petovan @Carlos Solís Not sure how much it contributed, @Michael Vogel is the main contributor and his absences are more felt than mine for sure. I appreciate the well wish though! -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 13:33:11 EDT Hypolite Petovan @A Sweet Gentleman Honestly that's how it felt on the moment, and it quickly rebooted in shame to cover its tracks. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 22:38:57 EDT Hypolite Petovan I was recommended by YouTube a video about an “incredible” industrial process to turn discarded plastic bags into lawn chairs.
The video depicted people in sandals operating heavy machinery in a dusty garage probably located in India or Southeast Asia, including handling molten plastic blobs made from heating bunches of plastic bags shoved into a hot grinder and placed into a hydraulic press.
I left the video nauseated, less by the clearly unsafe work conditions and the obvious worker exploitation than by the video title that was only focusing on the “incredible” process of turning plastic junk into more plastic junk. 🤢
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 21:00:41 EDT Hypolite Petovan @A Sweet Gentleman Thanks, I’m not very hopeful, but I appreciate the wishes! -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 16:59:02 EDT Hypolite Petovan New woes since I wrote this:
- Dota 2 randomly crashes back to desktop, sometimes several times in the same evening. At other times it works flawlessly.
- The "FN" key used to illuminate the keys that can be used with it. Now it happens when I press the letter "T"??? Pretty distracting to have the keyboard quickly switch colors whenever I'm typing some text.
- It automatically restarted twice in a couple days, which made me lose work in a software I left open. Interestingly, on the first restart, it was able to rescue the file I was working on. Not on the second time. 😞I've contacted the seller, I'm not hoping for much but it's the worst computer I've ever own, surely there's a way not to flush $2,500 down the drain?
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 14:34:11 EDT Hypolite Petovan A new low was reached today in my apartment building's shared laundry room: all six washers were in use, all done and ready to be emptied, and probably for a while. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:49:35 EDT Hypolite Petovan @🇪🇷Götterdämmerung Thank you for sharing your experience! -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 21:38:59 EDT Hypolite Petovan #MiniReview #VideoGames Cult of the Lamb (2022) is a game I really wanted to like. The artistic direction is stellar between the subverted theme by the cute art style and the music, but this combo roguelike/survival village ended up doing both poorly for me, with fights often unreadable and a cult management that felt like a chore. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 17:23:09 EDT Hypolite Petovan @A Sweet Gentleman It's a tough dilemma, in an ever-expanding economy, you never expect your business to contract three years in a row. Publishing may even be one of the businesses best prepared for ebbs and flows because of the nature of book releases, but it just isn't enough to account for the negative paradigm change introduced by LLM systems. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 12:13:04 EDT Hypolite Petovan @Brad Koehn ☑️ Ah, I see. At the moment, they have LLM growing pains. Not because they're using it, but because it's directly and adversely impacting their publishing business.
They are mounting a legal defense against intellectual property infringement, but if it ends up bearing fruit, it will be very delayed while the harm has already been done.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 12:07:58 EDT Hypolite Petovan @Brad Koehn ☑️ Why are you saying it's "good growth"? I don't understand what it can mean in this context? -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 19:21:19 EDT Hypolite Petovan It looks like a cat has me now. Used to have @clayote
https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/13350640636604a9709fd84695481802
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 23:21:32 EDT Hypolite Petovan @𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat: We aren't talking about quantities, we are talking about size, the largest omelet/pizza/paella, etc... -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 15:26:02 EDT Hypolite Petovan @A Sweet Gentleman In this case, it looks like it's a 1st offense. Our ex-neighbor didn't hide they were having arguments with her partner, but this was the first time it escalated this way. I believe she did the right thing, which was also the hard thing. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 08:30:29 EDT Hypolite Petovan Did you know that for your largest foodstuff record attempt to be recognized by the Guinness Book, it needs to be completely eaten on the spot?
No waste. 😌
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 20:19:49 EDT Hypolite Petovan None of our apartment building floor neighbors have ever seemed interested in being more than passing acquaintances, except this woman living with her partner and their 3-year old daughter we’ve seen growing since she was a newborn.
However, a few months ago, she reported to my partner that her partner hit her once at the height of a heated argument. Within days, she moved out with her daughter to a place she wouldn’t disclose to us so that we couldn’t accidentally tell her now ex-partner who stayed behind.
We thought he would move out once the lease was up, and he did, to the next door on the same floor. So we keep bumping into each other in or out the elevator, and it’ll now be awkward until either of us move out of the building.
And now our random encounters will always remind me how unfair that his mistake ended up costing his ex-partner a ton and us a friend, while he gets to carry on with his life seemingly unperturbed.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 10:53:40 EDT Hypolite Petovan @Isaac Kuo You win this one, Isaac. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 01:44:22 EDT Hypolite Petovan I've now received 3 separate emails asking me to sell my potential share of the upcoming Fluence Network cryptocurrency airdrop. This project aims at rewarding the "~110,000 developers who contributed into open source web3 repositories during last year" according to the project webpage. In order to do this "Public keys of selected Github accounts were added into a smart contract on Ethereum" which they stored in a single file hosted on AWS that their own "install" script fetches in order to generate proof of GitHub account ownership.
So you can check any GitHub account eligibility on the Fluence website, of course, but you can also obtain the conveniently complete list of 108,615 eligible GitHub accounts to spam with your stupid cryptocurrency acquisition request. I've pulled down my email address from my public profile in the hope that it will stem the tide, but that's yet another possibly well-meaning Web3 project that ends up abused within seconds of its inception because of poorly thought-out process.
Also I never contributed to any web3 repository, so I'm vaguely curious how they compiled this list of accounts but not that much either.
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Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 12:27:33 EDT Hypolite Petovan @Beko Pharm I hit a difficulty wall in the mission where you have to steal the sword, the geometry of the level confuses me to no end. -
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 06:38:08 EDT Hypolite Petovan First mission briefing:
- Talk to Informant.
- Go to South entrance.
- Neutralize 2 guards.
- Avoid surveillance cameras.
- Neutralize target.
- Escape through service corridor.
- Extraction at the mountain road.
Last mission briefing:
- ???
- Save the world.