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Teyrnon

@Teyrnon@dice.camp

Starving Writer, Introverted Storyteller, Pen-and-Paper Gamer, Foolish Idealist, Far Horizon Romantic, Lover of Weird Conversations, and armchair Philosopher.

Interests include: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Folklore, Philosophy, Photography, Computer Graphics, Vintage Computers, Vintage Video Games

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kyonshi, to random
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On a children's birthday right now, but sitting on the side, puzzled about my home server.
Why can't I connect to it?

I'd assume it's down, but it isn't. Can't ssh to it, ping times out, traceroute doesn't work, webpages aren't served. But the other irc server connected to mine still sees it, the bouncer, and the bots, so these still work...

And they still are connected to the net because I just got a response from one.

#itismagic

Teyrnon,
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@kyonshi My first thought would be to check the firewalls both on the server and the router.

Teyrnon,
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@kyonshi Yup, that'll do it. Have you heard the story about the computer science PhD candidate who called IT because his computer wouldn't boot no matter what he tried?

Teyrnon,
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@kyonshi Yup. I've heard a number of tales of the sort from various university computer lab and IT veterans over the years, going back to the 1970s. In the earliest version I can recall, it was a full doctorate instead of a candidate, and he was apparently insufferable to the extent that the techs drew straws whenever he called.

Teyrnon, to scifi
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How bad does spending 10,000 years in perfect stasis look on a resume?

#scifi #spacefantasy #spaceopera

Teyrnon, to random
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May you find the weirdness that speaks to you and adds joy and excitement to your day.

Teyrnon, to random
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Does anybody here remember the shoulder dragon invasion at Dragon*Con?

kyonshi, to random
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google is getting worse and worse in areas I didn't expect them to get worse. A mail my wife sent me 2 hours ago somehow only now arrived.

Teyrnon,
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@kyonshi @Da_Gut If it were me, I'd spend some time looking at the raw header of the email to see how many of Google's servers it bounced around. I had an email from an associate that apparently went through several different Google subdomains before I got it. I have no idea how their network is structured but I'd wager that despite the illusion of it all going to the same gmail domain two different addresses may be a distance from each other on the network.

Teyrnon, to random
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It's interesting the things that wake you up at night. At about 3:00 AM this morning I awoke with a burning desire to know how large of a text could fit on the floppies I used in my first computer with a disk drive. About 35,000 words.

Teyrnon, to random
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Never go to a troll bar unless you are a troll or something larger and tougher than the average troll. It won't be a pleasant experience and it's likely they'll eat you for your troubles. Know your place in the fantasyland food chain.

juergen_hubert, to mediawiki
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Okay, let's say I want to use for hosting a campaign setting.

Who has experiences with this, and what recommendations can you give me?

Teyrnon,
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@juergen_hubert I used MediaWiki for about ten years as a repository of setting information. Categories are invaluable for keeping things organized.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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Heroes solve problems for local areas, and then become leaders of those they've saved. That's how the stories go!

So when the heroes show up having solved a horrifying problem... The local people might say to each other "They probably want to be in charge now, right? That's how it works?".

And some of them will want to make that happen! And some of them won't! And the ones in charge currently will have especially strong feelings on the matter.

Clearing the dungeon as political debut.

Teyrnon,
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@LeviKornelsen Sure, this works until the heroes kill the town's favorite friendly dragon. The one who helps with clearing land for crops and redirecting rivers in times of drought. She's also actively discouraged less friendly dragons from entering the area for the past hundred years.

Teyrnon, to random
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For what it's worth, I think time travel was entirely overused in the 90s and 00s era of Star Trek. I suspect this was the main reason I drifted away from watching the shows regularly. I only caught the very occasional episode of Voyager after its second season. The less said about Enterprise's Temporal Cold War the better.

Teyrnon, to books
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I'm looking for something fun and playful with light horror elements to read as a palate cleanser after reading some truly unpleasant stuff for work. What do you suggest?

#books #literature

Teyrnon, to random
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Random Musing: Cemeteries are the absolute last place any self-respecting ghost will hang out. Why would anyone want to haunt their own grave when there's a whole universe out there? On the other hand, prime haunting spots would be libraries and movie theaters because even the dead need entertainment.

Teyrnon, to random
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What do you think? Which of the following works best for you?

"for once and all"

or

"once and for all"

Teyrnon, to random
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I will never understand people who think it's okay to walk over to someone reading a book, rip it out of their hands, look it over, and demand to know why they're reading it.

Just give me back my book and go away already!

Teyrnon, to books
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Does anybody else ever feel disconcerted and dismayed when someone asks your favorite book as though there's only one book to list and not the hundreds or thousands of titles that would tie for first place on any list of favorites? How can they be so thoughtless and callous as to ask me to choose only one?

#Reading

Teyrnon, to random
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A tradition in practice for a hundred-fifty years is not remarkably short. People think their traditions are ages-old, even the ones that became traditions while they were children. Sometimes, especially the ones their parents dreamed up one Christmas because everyone was bored to tears. In fact, if you have a tradition in your family or town with a factual and well-documented history dating back more than three or four generations, that's the exception and not the rule.

kyonshi, to ai
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Who posted last week about people putting radioactivity into everything just after it being discovered?

Behold! Jalapeño-Mint Sauce, "designed by AI".

Sigh.

I bought it, but I sure as hell hope that someone double-checked the taste.

Teyrnon,
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@kyonshi My first thought was that jalapeño and mint aren't an appealing flavor combination, but I'd try it once if a restaurant offered it. My next thought was to wonder what mental processes led to deciding that going to market with an AI-generated sauce is a good idea this early in the game.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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An actually smart appliance would be a dishwasher that had exactly one button marked "start", and could figure out the minimum time, water and soap to do the job, and do it.

This is exactly the opposite of the "smart" we're seemingly getting.

Teyrnon,
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@LeviKornelsen How about all the usual mode buttons to one side and a nice prominent Auto-Detect button next to an equally large start button?

Teyrnon,
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@LeviKornelsen What? You mean you don't want your appliances to text you notices and reminders while collecting data about your activities to send to its home server?

Teyrnon, to writing
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Is it cheating that what I used to call a first draft I now call an outline?

#WritingCommunity #Writing

Teyrnon, to random
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Some days I very much miss being part of a local writing group.

#WritingCommunity

kyonshi, to random
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What's your favorite sports movie and why is it A Knight's Tale?

Teyrnon,
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@kyonshi I really can't speak much on this one because A Knight's Tale is possibly the only sports movie I've watched all the way through.

Teyrnon,
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@kyonshi Would you believe I've never heard of it until now? Sports has never held much interest for me, and sports movies rarely, if ever, cross my attention. I have a few on my list of movies to maybe watch someday, but I feel no urgency about viewing them. In college, I took fencing, folk dance, and a wilderness survival course to satisfy the athletics requirements. In my adult life, the closest I've come to sports is taking Choi and doing a bit of HEMA.

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