Falkreon, when the walls fell @falkreon@cybre.space

Sorry, before I can meet you free-speechers halfway, it seems like I have to meet you half of halfway. But in order to do that, I'd need to meet you an eighth of the way, and you see I'm just swamped contemplating the increasingly fractional ways that I would have to meet you before I can make even the slightest progress, so I'm afraid it's a paradox.

JRPG is actually pronounced "Gay Arr Pee Gee", as in "Choosy developers choose -

Pinning to warn people of my horrifying imagination

a mod that makes ocelots that are sitting on a chest occasionally knock something from the chest onto the floor, and optionally destroy it.

bonus points for an option for tamed ocelots and cats to bring you dead animals for you to be horrified at and quietly get rid of.

also an option for tamed cats to just find a corner and yell at it for hours for no reason

a Minecraft mod that opens all inventories that you can reach at the same time so you can just get it all sorted

on a technical level it's probably impractical to send all that string data every ping, so you might have to settle for a hash of the modlist to detect a mismatch, but overall I think it's possible to detect compat at ping time.

Minecraft mod that adds a modlist to server list ping data, and on the client, servers you can't play on are red and the mouseover tells you what mods you're missing

bonus points if it occasionally plays positional "hey, listen!"s at the places it calls out

Minecraft mod called "backseat driver" that analyzes what you're doing and ghosts out possible improvements. "this window could use shutters and a sill". "hey let's dig over there"

someone asked me what a USB stick might look like in Windows, like what its icon would say. over the phone. so I said removable storage. then I thought about it, and added, or Kingston, or cruzr micro, or... and it turns out that computers are bad actually

BETSY DEVOS IS OUT

DeVos caused deep harm to education reforms, including protections for students of color and transgendered students. She was sucking funding out of public schools to bankroll voucher programs for private ones [for rich neighborhoods].

And in spite of this deep harm, what changed her mind was the President's culpability for an attack on the Capitol. I'm forced to give her this one credit that is due: It takes courage and character to give up your job even when it's the right thing to do. The Department of Education will be much better off without her, but she impressed me on her way out.

Twitch has decided to remove the pogchamp emote in certain places in order to prevent violence and toxicity from using their platform to spread.

In "unrelated" news, all variants of Pepe the frog remain active and usable

specifically the EPA can no longer consider the most relevant studies to figure things like safe dose limits for pollutants, can't use epidemiology studies to back epidemiological claims, and can't consider indirect damage like hospitalizations when considering solutions. it's a real bad look, and we'll be paying for it for a long time before it gets reversed.

so it looks like we have a democratic president, and democratic control of the Senate, but the old administration's FCC, EPA, and department of the interior are doing absolutely as much damage as they can on the way out

bored at work. cute animal replies only

Linux is on fire half the time, and needs constant configuration and fixes. It is absolutely the operating system that I deserve.

I stalled for a while on junior, thinking about how to represent instructions in a clean way that still stays clean when you're writing to 3-4 different instruction encodings. it's going to wind up with either some dodgy generics or an Object[] and I don't like either option. but opcode operands can just be too many things. if it needs to be cleaner it can happen one layer up with a typesafe builder. at some level even Java throws up its hands and says "wellp here's an `Object...`, have fun"

I've put a tremendous amount of design work and code into jarser and junior and increasingly suspect that by the time I'm done nobody will use it. but we need more/better programming languages out there. so I have to throw in with esolangs. idk. I can't be another way.

the spirit of Gritty has blessed my main Linux box. As in, the software therein has managed to climb the streetlights even though they're greased, flipped a few cars, and set a dumpster on fire. But I'm a Boston expatriate, so I'll have the fires put out but the end of the day

Me: I'm so tired of all this pointless controversy
Also me: Samus Aran is the last metroid