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9h ago

[Not the Onion] Today it is snowballs...
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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 9h ago
God forbid, japes.

10h ago

:whitey:

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 10h ago

It is a recognizable brand, especially for crackers like myself who look up recipes on the king arthur baking website because we have no culture of passing down family recipes

10h ago

they comment GOOD post when you drop a great post in the badpost… but what does GOOD stand for…

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 10h ago

Gooch Ostensibly Obstructed by Dookie

11h ago

Been a long time since I've posted Guardian Cry updates. Good news! It's slated for finish by the end of April.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 11h ago

hell yeah dude

12h ago

[Not the Onion] Today it is snowballs...

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

warning that what some may dismiss as winter “antics” could escalate into something far more dangerous.

Today it's antics, tomorrow it's hijinks, and before you know it, the whole city is descending into an unmitigated epidemic of tomfoolery.

12h ago

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

This might be a small potatoes issue, but starting out as a GNU zealot tech libertarian and seeing how deliberately the (US) government repeatedly dropped the ball in terms of embracing open source infrastructure and developing their own technology solutions in-house definitely influenced my radicalization arc to a degree. Not as much as more life-and-death issues which I only grew to appreciate in adulthood, but this is fertile ground to agitate, especially for any euros floating around.

Tech Sovereignty is a laudable goal, but it is also turning into a big marketing buzzword. To some, it means not allowing the US to rugpull your state institutions, while to others it means prostrating yourself so the mega-polluting OpenAI and Palantir surveillance datacenters can be built in your country too.

Right now, in light of the US's enthusiastic violations of international law, Global North Liberals (especially technology professionals) EXPECT their countries to take the matter of tech sovereignty seriously. A cost must be exacted every time the ruling class squanders and sandbags these opportunities in favor of supplicating their citizens to US dominance.

17h ago

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission instead of server cache— “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 17h ago

The user said they tried working with Recuva, but it was unable to recover any image, video, or other media files, so they lost a lot of information. In the end, they warned users “to be careful not to use the turbo mode” at least in the beginning. And despite the catastrophic failure, they still said that they love Google and use all of its products

I still love the truck.

1d ago

The Never Ending Sonic Game

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Lies. Slander. Sonic 2's halfpipe ring collectathons were pretty cool. Sonic 3's bonus stages were varied and interesting for what they are (a gimmick to get some more rings or an extra life). Sonic Spinball's rigged mini-pinball tables were dope as hell. It is pretty much just Blue Sphere which is a steaming turd, and I guess 3D Blast's ring collectathons which were derivative and worse than Sonic 2's in every way.

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2d ago

An x86 Emulator Implemented in CSS (no JavaScript)

lyra.horse /x86css/

3d ago

rimwotld creator having a normal moment online

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

For what it's worth, industrial mermaid bone farming was a bridge too far for Tarn.

3d ago

Fluxor as discord alternative? Thoughts?

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

I haven't tried either, but stoat seems more promising: https://github.com/stoatchat/

Matrix is lowkey dead. Everyone is waiting to see what will replace it, but none of these Discord alternatives check the federation+E2EE boxes yet.

3d ago

What's he writing?

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3d ago

4d ago

Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

Still playing Moria. Just stepped on a nasty gas trap which has left me deeply confused and unable to cast any spells. Also had a few run-ins with worm-masses reproducing explosively. The ones on this level set you on fire.

4d ago

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 4d ago

For lack of a better term, there is a deeply Orwellian aspect to all of this. Through digitization, we've managed to make all of the learning materials completely ephemeral. Textbooks (if you could still even call them that) can be revised on a day to day basis. Controversial subject matter removed or reframed on a day's notice. You used to need to replace an entire fleet of hard-bound textbooks to do this kind of revisionism, but now you can simply pass a law like New Hampsire outlawing "the dialectical method" and have the changes implemented throughout the entire public education system within a week. And it's not even a matter of skipping a couple chapters of the textbook in the lesson planning, it simply ceases to exist.

5d ago

Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 8

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Hopefully it's not out of turn for me to post the weekly submission

No, this is COOL.

Our military has a core of competent fighters who can handle dangerous beasts and invaders mostly. I think we ought to use new migrants to expand, get a few extra squads up, and put them in iron gear for the near term. It's not technically optimum but steel is going to be a long haul, to say nothing of having expert armorers and weaponsmiths. Don't want perfect to be the enemy of good, and all.

Steel IS going to be a long haul, but it shouldn't be THIS long. The setup is incredibly inefficient. There are multiple bottlenecks which can be resolved.

As far as the military goes, I basically scrapped it and re-constituted it during my turn. We had multiple squads with a lot of vacancies, I consolidated melee into one squad, and might have created a crossbow squad later as an afterthought. The training routines, barracks assignments, and availability of resources can use a review.

An artifact was stolen, I was not able to catch the perp, so I pass that mystery along.

With the amount of ~~espionage fronts~~ performance troupes we've got, there's basically no point of even investigating this lmao. Artifacts are simply going to evaporate.

Our military was able to kill it but there were a lot of casualties. Fingers crossed that migrants still want to come.

I got a couple decent "despite the danger" migration waves last year. Dwarves live for this shit apparently.

5d ago

Fortress Friday - Beardrenched: Episode 8

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5d ago

some sort of consistent trade request that we always ask for,

Not a bad idea, but I think we have all the staples in this instance (sand, clay, coal, steel). Coal is limited, but we've still got some, plus a million trees to fall back on

an agreed on fort policy for guest residency applications. Maybe this is me revealing that I play the game strangely but I must assume nobody intended for the fort to have 63 poets dancers and musicians permanently on retainer.

I agree. Two, maybe three troupes. I rejected ALL of these during my turn, but there are so god damn many already. I still took the soldiers and monster slayers though.

Some way to document big changes to layout or work orders that have happened between years? I'm not sure WHEN the clothing industry got shuttered

That was me, so it hasn't been out of commission for long (sorry). I had chronic problems through my turn of dwarves not taking up urgent labor assignments, so I culled a bunch of work orders. Clothing is the kind of thing where once you satiate it, it can ride for a couple years, so I cancelled many of the orders.

In general, the workshop layout is extremely inefficient. Everything takes ages. Very few of the inputs/outputs are close to the actual workshops where they are needed. I ended up tearing down the walls so at least there is some space around the workshops, but I did not attempt to wrangle the stockpile chains.

Maybe a livestock policy? Culling this herd is going to be a monumental task

I lowkey attempted this during my turn too (tried to sweep this non-vegan enterprise under the rug and decommissioned the butcheries like it never happened). I had two butcheries running around the clock and they each ultimately ended up with hundreds of rotting animal parts in them. There needs to be an ample supply of wood and barrels, as well as LARGE stockpiles to store them before attempting this again.

In general, I think everything located around the top cavern layer is a shit-show (no offence, I love you all, and I am not innocent), and it might not be a terrible idea to begin a clean slate lower down.