WaterWaiver

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[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've used Organic (now CoMaps) for a while now. Mostly been great. Interface is so much faster than OSMand (slow rendering) or Google maps (no networking needed).

Driving route planning doesn't know about traffic, so it's always optimistic about time.

Some rural towns in my country disappear unless you zoom in more, which is a pain sometimes.

 
[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

TBH they changed the recipe a few years back and now taste far worse. But my brain has already been corrupted by the fandom, so I continue to use timtams as a way of visualising how much money I'm spending. $170 flight? That's 510 timtams! Almost 2 a day for an entire year.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Hmm. I think you're trying to lead me into niche investments!

What are they like? Texture & flavour similar, or completely different?

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You free tonight? Or Sat morn, Sun arvo? I can try to drag you with with some other friends.

 

All I'm reading about lately is share market stability woes. I am thinking it's worth converting my superannuation into a self-managed Timtam stack, or finding a fund that does that for me (FirstCrumbSuper?).

Timtams are at a minimum at the moment (I've seen them at $3 a packet at Kfart, BALDI and Woolwarts). Liquidity is not a concern, UHT milk is a thing. There is no way I can lose.

Todo: check back on 2027-02-01 and 2027-08-01 to see if malted or crumbled.

Unrelated: if I suddenly need to offload a lot of chocolate biscuits in 2027 will you guys help bail me out?

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Going to try it with some friends soon (maybe tonight?). We loved PEAK, it was magical.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Please don't tell me you're not using FIFA compliant LLMs? That's negligence!

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Make the variable a word size relevant to the processor's memory access width (eg 32bit), don't use atomic locks, mark it as volatile, write a comment about how things are perfect this way and lockers are losers; then rig the struct it's in to have a 50% chance of misaligning the 32bits (so two cycles are required to read/write to it) every time someone changes and recompiles the code >:D

(Yes I no longer work as a programmer, no I don't know why they don't want me)

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

(5minute in) When you have a quest market or a minimap, the player doesn't take in the gameworld. They're not playing a game so much as they're sleepwalking through it. It becomes a monotmous grind, there's nothing stimulating or exciting about it. Go here, pick up this item. Go here, talk to this person, rinse, repeat.

I hate minimaps with a passion and turn them off in games wherever possible. Otherwise I find myself playing the game primarily looking at the minimap, with the actual 3d world just being a background obstacle course I occasionally have to flick to. With it off I have a lot more fun, getting lost and learning new areas.

Flicking to a pause menu map or similar adds friction but I have not found a better way (EDIT: the video touches on this, where a lot of modern games are broken without minimaps and quest markers. There are ways the designers can fix this, like partial maps. I want to make a game now with some shadily hand-drawn maps...)

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

o.o I had completely forgotten this.

Next you're going to tell me that strlcpy() is not real. I will not believe you. I will choose not to believe you.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Unit pedant here: Just 166W. Watts are joules per second (they already have time in them, adding another unit of time confuses things).

This might seem silly, but it will help avoid confusion when you encounter Wh (watts * hours).

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I am using this one. Texting or messaging my phone (on anything that makes a notification popup) with the text "fmd password location" gives me GPS coords. More than enough for me, and works even from a borrowed stranger's phone.

Setup steps require ADB though, because in the phone ecosystem getting "unusual" permissions usually requires business deals with Google/Apple.

 
 
 

The path of course continues on the other side. It's generations older than the road. If we were fairy folk, we'd curse the folk who put their road over ours. Cut us off from the other side. Maybe we are. Maybe we did.

 

Can't go outside for long it's so strong. Closed up the house. Not coming from any houses I can see, but the area seems to have a cloud of smoke stuck in the valley.

(I gave the local fire station a call and told them, they said thankyou. Not sure what else I can do)

 

Don't know exactly where. My train heading East (towards the city) is still running.

EDIT: Looks like it was only 15 minutes of problems, trains look like they're flowing again. https://anytrip.com.au/region/nsw?selectedStopId=au2%3A215020&departureLimit=25&departureOffset=0

 

I am thinking:

  • Parramatta station will melt and warp
  • The metro control system will get confused by ice
  • A light rail vehicle will separate at the middle into two independent trains.
  • A stampede of 100 friday workers will pick up and carry a bus over an intersection to get around a traffic collision.
  • A vehicle will be spotted operating on the wrong type of tracks (might be LR/metro/HR/car/sideways-crane).
 

Holy crap, there is lemmy but with categories combining many communities:

https://piefed.social/topic/gaming

I hate having to choose between visiting each community individually or seeing all my subscriptions in one place (I'm not always in the mood for news and gaming and memes and niche cartoons and soil science).

Took a while to find the sourcecode , for some reason my search engine doesn't want to show codeberg:

PieFed A Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask.

  • Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.
  • Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.
  • AGPL.
  • First class moderation tools.

Feels like lemmy. Smells like lemmy. Talks like lemmy. Technically isn't a 'variant' but an 'alternative' because the code isn't a fork, but from my lazy ass user perspective it's totally a variant.

Image vs link posts are more clearly presented too. On lemmy I have to squint at the icon in the corner of an image to work out if clicking on it will make it bigger or take me to a different website. Inconsistent and fiddly, especially when I'm tired.

Anyone here tried hosting it and can comment on whether it's a PITA or not? It's an interpreted language so the presumption is it would be crap, but for all I know it might have a better architecture that makes up for it.

Also, would I be considered an aussie.zone traitor if I started using https://piefed.au/ more? Anyone know the people running it to make sure they're not secretly kiwis?

 
 

Link is to 9minute 48second mark.

Anyone found anything else about this? Or is this the first the ABC is saying on it?

 

It looks like they chose August 1st as a date to disable access to the old interface. I'm very sad, I really don't like the new one:

  • Padding everywhere (touchscreen-shique, even for things you can't tap on like paragraphs)
  • Bigger text on narrower text columns (a LOT more scrolling)
  • News articles arranged left-right as well as up-down (not as nice to navigate as a single list).
  • News articles summaries/blurbs often just one sentence, far too little. I have to click on a lot more articles now to even find out what they're about. (I worry this is an engagement metric that makes them think the new interface is working better).
  • Defaults to only showing you articles for your state. This makes me really uncomfortable (is the average person only expected to care about what happens in their state?).

/vent

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