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Since ICE List is a MediaWiki site, it can have an API. I asked various AIs to write a web app that would scrape and mirror the data on the ICE List wiki. The AI made a fast, bare-…

Log9er is a simple, opinionated Python logging wrapper class. You can use it to normalize logging footprints across multiple projects, reducing boilerplate in development, and maki…

Not being snarky, but if you believe that, then you clearly are not an artist.

If it's not normal, then we can't extrapolate generalities from it, either. It's just an anecdote. One dude's anecdote. On the internet.

We used to call "solo poly"... "single".

The cinema industry in general is woefully way behind the curve in some respects... Cutting edge in others (like security).

No, the projector is never connected to the internet. It's connected to a cinema server. In the case of Sony, it's always a Sony server. This is not usually connected to the intern…

It hasn't changed much. Most features are still delivered on drives. They're just too damn BIG otherwise. Keys are sent separately, and are valid only for a certain date-range, and…

This is the most likely, yup. The certs are unlikely to have a precise end-of-year expiration. It will be whatever the expiration is for the last certs loaded. 10 years in cinema I…

And here's an Emacs org-mode compatibility layer to make writing your own D&D-style campaigns or handbooks even easier (if you grok Emacs): https://github.com/xeals/emacs-org-dnd W…

Same. And since I chose the SDF instance, I went ahead and finally got myself an sdf.org shell. A new toy to me, though it's been around since 1987.

Yah it does. Pretty fast too! Mastodon I think suffers from running on RoR. Lemmy is written in Rust.

Having run a Mastodon solo instance for a while now, I disagree on several points... Mastodon has very few federation blocks built-in. Truth Social and Gab are about it. In both ca…

Interestingly, I've found Lemmy to be surprisingly engaging and active after just a day of Reddit Migration. Sure, there's still a lot of "Reddit sucks" posts, but certainly not al…

Biases because that's how I learned, but yeah... I agree. Learning C will help you be a better programmer in any C-like language. C forces you to think like a programmer. Once you …

It's a marketing term rendered meaningless by the marketers. Even those who know better keep calling LLMs "AI"

Really depends on how we define "information" right? In a very real sense, everything GPT outputs is simply noise. It only seems like information to pattern-recognizing animals lik…

...said the crypto bros. Look how well that played out.

Emacs. :)

Oh boy, have I got a story for you. Around 1999, my hometown (pop. ~600) fell for a conman. Like, the actual Town government, and almost everyone in it. Pudgy, balding, middle-aged…

So much projection. Who's "making it political" when he's using the term as a bludgeon? He's a knock-off Donald Trump JUNIOR. Why anyone credits anything he says will forever escap…

Oh no! Anyway... I don't believe I have ever used Gedit for anything. Ever. I'm an Emacs guy. I won't be using Text Editor, either. Ever. If it accidentally opens a file, that mean…

This is my only real gripe, as well. I really like Tramp, so I use it anyway, but I gripe about it when it hangs

Once it starts it does almost nothing unless you're using it, and then it's still a lightweight document editor, not an Electron app