Omg! Iā€™m always playing on those pixel placing canvases, where itā€™s usually an endless war of factions or just things being attacked for no reason, but now someone did the most wholesome thing imaginable and drew another inugami facing mine and drew them shaking paws.

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
cons:
It takes work
Pros:
Now you get to be the one, sitting in the dark, drinking beer, blasting loud indie music through headphones, writing the edgy READ ME.txt files, youā€™ve seen included with things, you downloaded as a kid.

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At what point do you concede defeat and just give on the idea of stable internet connectivity?! šŸ¤” if anyone ever tells you that ADSL, VDSL, XDSL or whatever other kind of copper DSL is ā€œgreat technologyā€, just laugh at them šŸ¤£

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In-reply-to » @prologic See https://www.sogo.nu/, it looks it has an web app.

Interesting, it looks a little better for me, but itā€™s a bit slow and laggy.

Iā€™ve tried to stay away from hosting email servers myself. Itā€™s really hard. But Iā€™ve thought about a project which uses something like mailgun or SES, but then I create a ui and restful server over the top of it. But, prioritiesā€¦.

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Exactly 10 years ago Kokoriā€™s first release on vinyl was out - and we celebrated with a release party in one of the afternoons of the Entremuralhas festival.
Ten years later, weā€™re back attending the festival, and this time we see one of the stands selling our latest release, rootkit, on CD! ā™”

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I hate reading translations. Hereā€™s an example why: the same passage of the English and the Portuguese translation of the same (French) book. Not just the length of the passage shows one of the translations wasnā€™t faithful, the behavior of the character in one version is the opposite than how he behaves on the other versionā€¦

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In-reply-to » Just been playing around with some numbers... A typical small static website or blog could be run for $0.30-$0.40 USD/month. How does that compare with what you're paying @mckinley ? šŸ¤”

@prologic@twtxt.net I am on the ā€œNon-Production Siteā€ plan with NearlyFreeSpeech which means Iā€™m limited to 1 GiB per day of bandwidth and am occasionally subjected to ā€œlow-risk tests and betasā€. The implication is that there may be downtime on my site but I havenā€™t noticed any since April of 2020 when I began hosting with them. Itā€™s 1 cent per day as a base cost for that plan.

I also pay $1 per gigabyte-month for storage and I am using 9.29 MiB which means I pay a little less than one cent per month. It used to be even less than that, but since I started using Git the complete Git history is stored on the server as well as the live copy of the site.

There is an additional charge of 1 cent per 44.64 ā€œRAUsā€, their measurement combining CPU and memory usage over time. On the Non-Production plan, only resources used by processes other than the Web server are counted. I donā€™t believe I have ever been charged for this.

Here is my billing report for 2023 so far.

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In-reply-to » Bought myself a mountain bike today, first time (as a adult) that I have a really nice bike. it was on sale, and cost 1\3rd of the kickbike I kinda wanted. So after some thinking I decided that a bike is better for the dog (and me) then a kickbike. I assembled the bike and then went out so that he could have a long run, was awesome. I especially like it when he knows the commands I give (for left\right etc). So awesome to see him instantly know what I want him to do. He also ignored all people who walked or biked, and kept the pace throughout.

@prologic@twtxt.net here is what I got :

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In-reply-to » Bought myself a mountain bike today, first time (as a adult) that I have a really nice bike. it was on sale, and cost 1\3rd of the kickbike I kinda wanted. So after some thinking I decided that a bike is better for the dog (and me) then a kickbike. I assembled the bike and then went out so that he could have a long run, was awesome. I especially like it when he knows the commands I give (for left\right etc). So awesome to see him instantly know what I want him to do. He also ignored all people who walked or biked, and kept the pace throughout.

@prologic@twtxt.net kickbike is one of these

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Found another example of Google stealing something Iā€™ve written and putting it in a ā€œfeatured snippetā€.

Whatā€™s super annoying about this one is that the source is a course page at Tufts University, not the official page of the publication theyā€™re taking this text from. I know the professor who taught that course and Iā€™ve guest lectured for them before on this topic. They put this publication in their course readings, and I guess thatā€™s where Google picked it up.

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In-reply-to » My proof-of-concept Container as a Service (CAS or CaaS) is now up and running. If anyone wants to have a play? šŸ¤” There's still heaps to do, lots of "features" missing, but you can run stuff at least šŸ˜…

I donā€™t see anything from you šŸ¤” Nor in the service logs šŸ¤”

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If anyone remembers my rant, about the strange Club Penguin sequel, that requested very personal information and documents for verification - it somehow got even stranger. I got a couple more e-mails from them, trying to get me to finish my registration, before I set my spam filter, to get rid of future reminders.

For some reason completely beyond my understanding, after a few months passed, their system just automatically assumed that I went through with it and sent me the following e-mail, congratulating me for doing so:

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Sure enough, this is not just a ā€œrogue mail serverā€ and my account just somehow works now, without any of the requested info.

I off-course did the responsible thing, clicked the big yellow button and downloaded the apk file onto my primary phone, installed it and gave it the requested permission, to install other things. It installed the promised Club Penguin sequel ā€œParty Parrot Worldā€, that still despite being a separate thing, could only be launched through the original app, that was called ā€œHideawayā€.

To cut it ā€œshortā€, it is a ā€œtechnically functional multiplayer gameā€, in the loosest definition of all those words. It barely even loads and clicking almost anything breaks it. I have only seen a glimpse of one other player for a second, so Iā€™m not even sure, it wasnā€™t some NPC, missplaced there by one of the many present bugs. Lastly there just wasnā€™t anything to do, besides walking around, going through the buggy menu, that usually broke the ā€œgameā€, so much it had to be relaunched, or trying to find ā€œminigamesā€, that either said coming soon, or were not playable on mobile.

I might still return to this thing down the line, out of pure curiosity, but a masterpiece it is not.

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