@aurynn -2 saving throw against shiny
you must resist. you already know it is a cursed object.
@cmdrmoto yeah can’t have a new Shiny for a few more years
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@aurynn -2 saving throw against shiny
you must resist. you already know it is a cursed object.
@cmdrmoto yeah can’t have a new Shiny for a few more years
why did whoever made this game decide to have the protagonist be both gender-locked to male-with-penis and also not gender locked and not even required to be cisgender
another weird mechanic in this game is that when you find a hostage in a dungeon you can attempt to recruit them
if you successfully recruit them they become your employee which means you pay them a salary
if you don't, you're guaranteed to make them into a slave which is the same thing but they don't get paid
and either way if you're mean to them they can run away so assuming this game mechanic is known to the people of this world why would anyone ever resist the "you get paid for work" check to get to the guaranteed-to-succeed "you don't get paid for work" check
RE: https://flipboard.com/@usatoday/money-h53mnd6tz/-/a-FEUbsODWRYuO_5dUyx1mPQ%3Aa%3A3199709-%2F0
Um yes, OBVIOUSLY. When your entire career has been defined by three 'once-in-a-lifetime' financial crsises and you couldn't afford a home until maybe never and half the people you know are out of work and the other half never had retirement funds cos they were all contractors and...?
I basically figure there won't be retirement by the time I get there. The boomers I say this to kind of pat me patronizingly and say, 'don't worry, you'll get there,' as if it is just that I can't imagine I will ever get old, and then when I start to explain how and why I will actually honestly never get there but I hope they enjoy retirement because it still seems to be a working system for them, they sort of back away slowly and assume I'm depressed instead of a realist.
@cyberlyra I assume the climate breakdown including collapse of health systems will ensure I never need to consider my retirement, a sort of gallows solace I take for my generational impossibility of seeing the retirement some boomers have
Inspired by today's #Inktober prompt "dumb". I sure hope people remember Justin Wilson, the Cajun chef... Oh yeah, and Gumby. And know what NIMBY means. Oops.
New: Proton, the company behind ProtonMail, emailed staff to say it will be 're-interviewing' workers about how they use AI. The implication is, if you're not using AI, or won't learn, you may lose your job. “These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.
https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job/
@neil Can you read my mind?
I don't have nay Tasmota devices, but I'm reading my outdoor temperature sensor with an #OpenMqttGateway #RTL433 and I seem to loose connection to that whenever #HomeAssistant restarts. Just this past weekend, I figured out how to restart the it via MQTT and started wondering how I can do that from an automation after such a restart. Your automation gives me just what I was missing.
Now I need to make an automation (and a tinfoil hat). 😄
@ostueker Excellent! Glad that it is not just me.
@zymurgic @neil yeah, this sounds really weird. I've got a fairly complicated setup, HAOS VM on one VLAN/subnet, mosquitto VM on a separate VLAN/subnet, around 20 Tasmota things multiple versions, different networks, some over VPN from another site. Home Assistant restarts every few weeks for upgrades and have never seen the Tasmota devices not reappear. It's a neat hack to get things working again, but I'm absolutely intrigued as to why there might be a problem in the first place!
I wonder, if you priced out replacing every single car in the USA with an electric one (assuming Chinese prices), if it would cost more or less than "generative AI" and the AI data center buildout
@mcc How much high speed rail would AI spending build?
(Especially if we spent all this “invention” on figuring out how to build infrastructure cheaper like most everywhere else in the world …)
The Indie Beat Television is streaming music videos 24/7!
#owncast #streaming #music #musicVideos #indieMusic #indie #TheIndieBeat #TIBtv
Entropy’s Rotoscope Issue II [page 3/24]
next page tomorrow
full comic: https://kamiokan.de/entropysrotoscope/issue2
all issues: https://kamiokan.de/entropysrotoscope
RSS: https://kamiokan.de/entropysrotoscope/rss.xml
draw me something if you like this.
CC0 / Public Domain
if you have ever donated me money, you can have your nick/name on the last page of printed version of thiss, just send me an email (er2 <at> kamiokan <dot> de) with nick you want to be printed and info how did you donate (i won’t be checking that, just don’t lie ok.)
#unix_surrealism #comic #fediart #art #inktober #entropysrotoscope #kamiokande #computer
Hi @jensth, we are moving quickly here. Since our enforcement powers under the AI Act came into effect on 2 August, we’ve already sent our first requests for information to providers of the most advanced models around the world addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and model use. You can read more about enforcement of the AI Act here: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/enforcement-ai-act
@EUCommission
Here another example where the Commission is not acting:
https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/117513432586674812
@lyndaljane @Unixbigot @futzle did I say flood marker? I meant flood marker and plaque commemorating the fastest person to swim down the hallway
#InternationalBeerASong is now trending across Mastodon
#出身地当てます is now trending across Mastodon
For unknown reasons, the management password for a switch I set up is not in my password manager, and all the standard default passwords ("password", "admin", "", "4"*) are being rejected. I will have to factory reset it.
* I would have set this password before "4" joined this list, but I thought I'd try anyway.
“A few years ago, a port call in the Middle East might mean bottomless-mojito brunches in Bahrain, hitting the indoor ski slopes in a Dubai megamall, or a desert safari in Qatar. But since Operation Epic Fury began eight months ago, U.S. warships in the theater have basically had just one option: Diego Garcia, some 2,500 miles away.
“It’s not great for morale, but the consequences go beyond disgruntled sailors. The remote coral atoll lacks the pierside infrastructure that many ports can offer. As the Navy stretches its fleet with longer deployments and fewer port calls, warships are losing the ability to do crucial mid-cruise maintenance.”
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2026/10/port-call-situation-wearing-out-navy-warships/416859/
@jalefkowit As a Navy veteran I am deeply saddened by the situation sailors are in right now. I couldn’t imagine having to deal with such a horrible experience and the hard decisions they have to make.
One of the best phones of NEXT year is getting it's global release today! https://youtu.be/ePm4reEEoz4
Sharing some thoughts using the global version of the Vivo X500 Pro Max (and that awesome photographer kit) for the last couple weeks!
#tech #technews #technology #android #androidography #smartphone #geek #gadgets #google #review #video #youtube
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