is it bad that after a week of holidays with the kids and a day of work with my 5yo around I really am looking forward to just be able to work with noone around today?
found out after 16 years of visiting the small hut my in-laws have in the mountains that the small delapidated shack next to the house of their neighbour did not actually belong to that neighbour at all, but was part of my in-laws' property.
very sorry for thinking badly of you late neighbour of theirs'.
but seriously, these former family-owned properties make for weird land borders.
I have been spending entirely too much mental energy trying to figure out why my #uucp connections to my own computers don't want to work.
I already managed to mesh with another person's systems, so I really don't know what the issue is... besides using uucp in the first place.
if there's one thing I miss of the early net it's the way people just put their random shit and fun comments ideas in a textfile and saved it for public consumption somewhere.
there's still a few archives around (e.g. textfiles.com), but new stuff isn't really added anymore
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.
ah, IT issues... yesterday I tripped a fuse when making dinner (the electric kettle somehow creates a power surge just before boiling, and when the oven runs at the same time it gets tripped).
When I put it back my small rpi server in the living room all of a sudden makes issues. It runs, and I can connect to it from the outside, but somehow not from inside my home network.
But I ping it and it seems to be on... but I just can't seem to ssh onto it anymore.
@gonzohistory had a great idea in one of his last few podcase episodes: a game of Lexicon where the players create a fantasy bestiary as a handout for players.
That sounds like something I might want to try. You could integrate this with a game of #dnd or so, where players get some extra xp or something for bestiary entries.
I bought a Razer headset on a whim while in the electronics store earlier. I don't think I will do that again. To get the fuil features I paid for I had to register and give more private details than I had to give for working in one of the biggest banks of Europe.
Why does an electronics company want those kind of details from me. Why do they want me to give all that to use what I already paid for?
The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming
The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming by Mike Monaco, is a free pdf download published at CMU Press under a CC BY-NC-ND license, and dealing with the history of the eponymous (if a bit incongruously titled) Fantasy Wargaming roleplaying game system. Yes, it turns out you can write whole books not only about DnD. At least if it's something as weird as that game at least.
asked in the #irc channel and found out @ngircd does not allow interlinking of different ircds. which is a feature I thought would be quite normal to have for IRC, but it seems not.
ngIRCd at least is dead simple to set up. others don't make it that easy to get a small server running.
#Agile is basically project management esotericism.
The smartest people have managed to build processes on top of it that work, the same way that some churches have worthwhile charities that do good work, but that doesn't mean the core of the methodology isn't mumbo jumbo.
(ah yeah, going for both developers AND the faithful today in one fell swoop, what am I even thinking?)
playing through Mass Effect 1 the last few days. Man, that game feels somewhat badly designed. It feels like it wants to be both a #crpg and a shooter, and it doesn't quite pull it off.
Also the Legendary Edition I am playing has so many spots that are too dark to see it feels like walking through the game blind at points. If I have to use the map to find the exit of the room there's definitely something wrong.
