myrmidex
@myrmidex@belgae.social
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 3 days ago:
Anything Elder Scrolls kept me busy much longer than the main story, most notably Morrowind. Also, I replayed GTA IV last week, was heaps of fun, especially compared to GTA V which I played a few months back. Read Dead Redemption 2 is a good one for this list as well, I enjoyed that one immensely, but I mainly focused on the main quest during that run-through, so this is a good reminder to myself to pick this up again soon (sadly I fell back into the pull of Satisfactory so it might be some weeks/months/… before I get to it)
- Comment on Vatican commission votes against allowing women as Catholic deacons 4 days ago:
Why would any woman want to… That’s like being mad they don’t have access to servant jobs on Epstein island. Get some sense of priority!
- Comment on After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know 4 days ago:
I hadn’t meant to accuse you of pride, it was a poorly chosen term to indicate whether ‘union of a limited subset of cultures’ is a positive thing (e.g. something to be proud of). I had no idea it would cause offense.
- Comment on High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study 4 days ago:
Some Belgian news articles mention bread mainly, also other wheat products like pasta.
- Comment on After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know 4 days ago:
Schengen is about free movement of goods and workers. You might infer cultures from there, but as soon as that culture is Syrian or Afghan, there is pushback, so I’m not sure where you are seeing a union of cultures here…
- Comment on After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know 4 days ago:
It was never a union of cultures. It started as an economic union of Coal and Steel…
- Comment on Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees(increase from $380 to $20K) following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow 5 days ago:
in the case of games in Japanese, it’s not so easy for developers to find alternatives. While games using English can rely on system UI fonts, cheap commercial fonts or open-source options, the sheer number of characters used in Japanese means high-quality fonts are extremely difficult and expensive to make, so few affordable alternatives are available. This is what made LETS an important service, but its revamped pricing and limitations have now put it beyond the reach of a good chunk of developers.
Interesting stuff!
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Indeed! I lean heavily on similar users to me, finding unknown gems frequently!
- Comment on Corbyn's new left-wing party opts for collective leadership 1 week ago:
Imagine having 3 Trumps in there, all trying to outdo one another…
- Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 1 week ago:
No, I don’t, I only back up
/opt/stacksto borgbase. I imagine it should be possible, but it might depend on how the projects are arranged in git. Monorepo might give trouble, but separate repo’s might work. - Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 1 week ago:
Does that mean I can just point it at my existing docker compose files?
You add the compose via the DockGE UI, it then creates the necessary files and folders in
/opt/stacks/. Not sure whether it works the other way around: to create the folder, copy the compose file in there, and see if it is recognized.I’ve been using it for over a year, works very smooth.
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 2 weeks ago:
Judging by his behavior during the First International, I reckon he would have approved of Lenin’s vanguard and applauded the rise of the Stalinist empire.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 3 weeks ago:
Switching my main PC to nixos from fedora atomic sway. The sway config tripped me up last time, this time I’ll succeed! (I hope)
- Comment on Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search 4 months ago:
I had big Gavin Belsom vibes with this one
"Why is it that when I type my own name into my own company search engine, the fucking Internet rains shit‑bolts down on me? I want this to stop!”
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 months ago:
One app maker told the BBC it had seen an 1,800% spike in downloads. “Many of these free VPNs are riddled with issues,” said Daniel Card, a cyber-security expert with the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).
“Some act as traffic brokers for data harvesting firms, others are so poorly built they expose users to attacks.”
He told the BBC despite posing a range of potential privacy risks, such apps “end up in the hands of kids trying to watch age-restricted content”, or adults “trying to get round blocks”.
Ah yes, there it is: won’t anyone think of the children. I expected that argument higher up.
- Comment on Maybe drops open-source support - pivots to B2B data and scenario planning 4 months ago:
I’ve used Maybe for a while, I don’t understand how this will be valuable in a B2B context… Weird decision!
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 4 months ago:
As soon as a capitalist has enough money.
- Comment on What are the chances 5 months ago:
Or be sad you weren’t born 10.000 years earlier with a 15 hour work week.
- Comment on I've written a series of blog posts about a "hands-off" self-hosting setup intended for relative beginners. 5 months ago:
Nice, thanks for that! Bonus points for using DockGE, I prefer that over portainer as well!
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 5 months ago:
I don’t think this is only true for your nation. I mean, I’m from Belgium, not only did this nation massacre a lot of people, it also provided the uranium for the Manhattan Project and the ensuing Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima.
It’s not (per se) nations that get the worst out of us, it’s the power structures behind that nation.
- Comment on Pediatric Nursing Dissertation Topics: Let’s Share Ideas & Insights! 5 months ago:
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.