tatterdemalion
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev
Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, amateur historian, stoic, democratic socialist
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 18 hours ago:
- Comment on Deserved honestly 1 day ago:
I’d actually like to see someone try to slam their fist down on a table while drinking coffee without spilling.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 days ago:
OK this cements my belief that people who work in marketing are batshit insane.
- Comment on It is what it is 3 weeks ago:
You guys are still using Chrome?
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 3 weeks ago:
You gave it a generous amount of your time. I’d say if you don’t like it in the first few episodes it might not be for you. I was hooked almost immediately.
- Comment on no way right 3 weeks ago:
Welp, I guess we didn’t need a terrorist attack to justify war with Iran after all.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 3 weeks ago:
Does anyone know if there’s a domain blocklist for smart TV telemetry? If so, I could easily put it into my DNS server, like I already do for ads.
I’d like to continue using my streaming apps without resorting to yet another device. I have an HTPC that runs KODI but I think it’d be a pain to replace all of my streaming apps.
- Comment on Outer Wilds. Should my first time be in VR? 3 weeks ago:
You might as well try it and see how it goes.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 month ago:
What are you talking about? FAFO obviously stands for “fill asshole full of”. Like FAFO dicks. Or FAFO pennies.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 1 month ago:
I’m only familiar with “spectrum” from linear algebra (spectral theory), but I’m not sure that’s how people intend to use the word “spectrum” in this context haha.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 1 month ago:
I’m perfectly happen to build my own NAS with NixOS and ZFS on it. I think it’s mostly a matter of getting the right hardware.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 1 month ago:
My biggest shortcoming at the moment is my NAS is also my gaming PC. It’s pretty inefficient to have that on all the time. But I haven’t had the time to build a dedicated NAS.
- Comment on Popcorn, more like cocporn (I'm sorry) 1 month ago:
More like fiveskin am I right?
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 2 months ago:
Ben, you should smile more. You look prettier when you smile.
- Comment on Y'know... 2 months ago:
You read this in a very specific Italian American voice.
- Comment on Self Hosted Network Analyzer? 2 months ago:
ntopng has all of that. I’m currently hosting it on my home router.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I agree and at this point I think I’m just making a semantic argument. To me, “Nazi sympathizer” implies that you share the beliefs of the Nazi party. But I’m not sure there is an agreed upon definition for this. Regardless I think it’s worth drawing a boundary between “people that share Nazi beliefs” and “people that tolerate Nazis”, and so I find it a little careless to use “Nazi sympathizer” as a blanket term for both. People might get the wrong idea when you start labeling them that way.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Swapper
Not my actual favorite, but it’s very high on my list, and I didn’t see it posted yet.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I see no reason to migrate from sway.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I agree that Vaxyr has a terrible record with community-building and tolerates bullying.
I don’t think it’s fair to call him a Nazi sympathizer, based on the linked screenshots. He never said he espouses the ideology, he just said he wouldn’t blanket ban Nazis from his server. Obviously that’s a bad take, but it’s not the same as being a Nazi sympathizer.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 2 months ago:
Matrix also has video calls
- Comment on What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years? 3 months ago:
Frog Fractions
I don’t play it regularly, but it’s fun to tell people about it.
- Comment on Balatro's Pokermon mod is incredible 4 months ago:
Oh. There goes all my free time again?
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 4 months ago:
What if one day you woke up and your nipples were completely gone like no scars or anything just flat skin and then once you leave your room you find out your dad died last night and several days later you find out that your entire life he had been sneaking in your room while you slept and sucking on your chest to make two gigantic hickeys where your nipples should be because you were born without them not for any sexual reason just so you would fit in…
- Comment on Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity? 4 months ago:
Well yea, ideally colonization would not have happened, but it did. Would you rather the indigenous people had received no consolation at all?
- Comment on Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity? 4 months ago:
I just want to say that ethnicity is not necessarily related to genetics in any way, it’s about your heritage and upbringing. A person can be born and raised in Japan without having indigenous parents. In this way, they are ethnically Japanese if they choose to identify with the culture they were raised in.
So it’s not suddenly racist to appreciate someone’s ethnicity. It’s racist to assume someone’s ethnicity based on how they look.
And what you say about ethnicity being irrelevant to the government is quite controversial. For example, there are various treaties in effect between colonizers and indigenous peoples. Do you think such treaties are not valuable because they are based on ethnicity?
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 4 months ago:
His last special SuperNature had some jokes making fun of trans women and the people who defend them.
I won’t lie and say I didn’t laugh at the final punchline. But yeah these jokes are pretty counterproductive and just reinforce bigotry.
- Comment on What is everyone using as a HTPC? 5 months ago:
If you go this route I recommend installing Kodi + Jellyfin Plugin + Kore App. You can control everything from your phone or laptop.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 6 months ago:
Clutch team killing in Rainbow Six Siege. A rare occurrence but so much adrenaline.
Hillcrest in The Last of Us 2. Never have I had so much fun trapping and hunting people down. It really brings out the psycho killer energy.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 6 months ago:
It’s such a good investment that it’s why insurance was invented.
