You know, this begs the question: are there any Emacs folks who use Micro.blog and know of a package to publish to MB, possibly with images (and now, locations maybe)?
Emacs and OSM (Open Street Maps) are a natural match, so it just makes sense they work very well together out of the box.
Built-in search function, zooming in and out, and creating org-mode links with a single keystroke to locations. Amazing. If you’re an Emacs user, grab it now!
GNU ELPA - osm elpa.gnu.org
Reader: elpa.gnu.org
After a recent episode with my Chromecast and YouTube (more on this later), I have a question for movie lovers:
Some cult movies and the like are not available to stream anymore or even buy as DVDs. Is there a place where the discussion of these films and copyright laws are discussed openly?
Gamespot went to Poland and interviewed the people at CD Project Red about Cyberpunk. This is an eye-opening clip (about 30 minutes long) exploring how a gaming studio returned from the abyss of shame to the spotlights.
Baba Yaga, 1973 - ★½
For me, this was high hopes, low delivery. It goes to show that foreign doesn't necessarily mean sophisticated.
The story consists of a bunch of tropes mashed together. The bad: witches, BDSM, lesbians, and orgasms (combined with those). The good: men, vanilla sex, and orgasms (combined with those). Yes, it's from the 1970s, and I should expect the glorious age of knights in shiny armor who push themselves upon competent women who turn them away but somehow lose all ability of self-discipline toward the end and need help to be saved.
This would be boring enough, but see, Carroll Baker works well as Baba Yaga; her piercing eyes bewitched me, and fell under her spell. She has depth, the only one in the cast who seems to be more than a paper-cut character... but no. She's evil, she's a witch, and even though she seems to care about a lot of things (including the well-being of the women under her control, at least at the start), all of this goes to hell when (oh no!) the BDSM scene comes out. The poor lady, all she wanted was another plaything for her and her sub to have some fun with. Instead, she falls into a hole just when things get interesting, to the tune of "Here Comes Your Man" as our knight shows up to make sure all crooked, beautiful things break down to fit nicely into a happy, appropriate ending. Behhh.
Still, I enjoyed some of the cinematography going on. A few nice tricks in a movie lacking a budget for special effects show that you don't need to go far to get a nice spell-like story going.
With this avatar, I’m now a true member of Micro.blog! 🙂
I enjoyed Robocop last weekend. Oddly enough, I don’t think I ever set through the entire movie. Perhaps what I remember is Robocop 2. I still need to write a review.
I froze-frame and chuckled at this DOS-era computer system inside Murphy’s head… config.sys, command.com, I remember the days…
Exploring more AI-generated graphics. This one took more work and involved SD and Photoshop (I definitely need to work on my light reflection skills - the green screen looks way out of place). I like the concept. This is closer to what I had in mind.
I’m going to check in with an old friend to try and express a “splinter in my mind” that’s been bothering me for a couple of weeks. While this friend is more on the traditional end, I am also going to make plans to meet with my more liberal friends as well, as a balancing act. Life’s interesting.
About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
roughly half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off.
Old news now, but I didn’t hear about it. I signed off bandcamp and mourned its death the day it was purchased by Epic.
Omegle’s Downfall: From Chatroom Ideal to Internet Scourge
I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV
Believe it or not (I didn’t), Omegle started out as an innocent friendly idea before it became what we remember it for. This is another chapter in the “the death of the free internet” story. RIP, Omelgle.
Happy Thanksgiving from NYC, everyone!
We’ll have a vegan day, and I’m already drooling. My sister’s a magician, and my mom has unbeatable home recipes. Hope you enjoy yours, if you celebrate 🙂
I fell into an alternative Stable Diffusion hole and I can’t have enough.
AI image generation software that is open source, with hundreds of users creating models for it. Comes with enough options to require a whole new chapter in my wiki. Oh, and it’s free.
I created this in under a minute:
Today, I (re?)learned the value of breaking down tasks, even after I do them. Progress throughout the day is immediately apparent, even though I’ve been doing the same thing for over two hours now, in chunks.
Week 46
This was the week of the analog journal 📓, and I discovered two unexpected benefits.
First, writing by hand is much slower than typing, and if I want my handwriting to be decipherable, I need to slow down even more. This means writing much less. Because I write only a few paragraphs, they need to mean more. This is a good exercise for my hyper-brain, forcing it to slow down and think about what I have to say.
Second, There’s no editing, no spellchecking, no revising. This means that when I close the journal, I’m done. No going back to it to add stuff or edit later. This is a sense of closure that is missing from a digital journal.
On the wiki, I updated my Micro.blog page . It includes more of the philosophy of Micro.blog (the way I see it) with an illustration.
I wanted to create a short video for Lillihub, a new Micro.blog client, but it didn’t come out as good as I wanted. I’ll probably make a page in the wiki for it.
Another exciting addition is computer games 🎮 reviews on my blog. For this, I use Backlogg. The games page is broken for now; I need to improve my knowledge of Backlogg and get all the parts working. Nevertheless, I’m excited to include these reviews. I spend plenty of time on games, and reviewing them as I review movies makes sense.
Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later
If you want to look at her manuscripts, you have to sign a liability waiver at France’s Bibliotheque Nationale, and then you can access the notes sealed in a lead-lined box.
Your Sunday random cool fact 🤓
I found my first digital camera 📷 burried in my trunk of memories. I left the batteries inside so it’s probably not to be used again…
Why do you need a technical writer?
A sysadmin or an engineer may know what this means: “When users log on to Domain joined computers, they are automatically mapped to the X: Drive based on the Organizational Unit they are member of,” but the users will not.
Sorry for littering… I found a video game review site, backloggd (inspired by letterboxd), which allows RSS feed. This means I can use it to review games and post to my blog. Still working out some of the issues.
World of Warships (2015) - ★★½
On my Gaming PC, I renamed World of Warship’s desktop shortcut to Sad Addiction. That’s a good summary of what I think about this game.
It is a solid, tactical, and balanced game for the most part. Each ship class you choose plays differently, and there are differences between different ships of the same class. You can upgrade and add special weapons and tactical bonuses to your ships, choose different captains, and more. Technically, the game is stable, the servers rarely lag, and the graphics are excellent. And, being a Wargaming game, it’s also free to pick up and play.
Here comes the but.
Being a multiplayer online game, your fun from it depends mostly on who you play with. Unfortunately, this usually means bad experiences are more common than good ones, at a ratio of about 3:1. What’s worse, the developers understand most of their gamers are teenage hornballs (or at least they act like ones) and target that constantly. Game updates are explained in video clips presented by sexualized women. Avatars are anime and even hentai-oriented characters. Many in-game events emphasize stuff from Megadeath to Transformers. So yes bro, there’s no surprise that the gaming experience often feels like a bad high school reunion.
On the technical side, the game includes huge patches every month or so, with 70% of things you won’t care about (Sailor Moon captains anyone?) or won’t affect your gameplay directly (a ship that costs 60 US dollars). There are also other questionable practices, like an annoying Windows system notification that warns you if you switch away from the game to a different program for a minute or a broken reporting system that colors your name in the game pink (Oh no! Not pink! What would friends say?!) for the most idiotic things, like choosing to play a plane carrier, since some players hate this class of ship so much they report you if you play them.
Since I already commented on the price of some of the ships: the game is free, yes, but that means Wargaming will do whatever it can to get you to buy stuff. A premium account, a season pass, a ship with an advantage in the game, etc. In fact, if you play this game long enough and get to high-tier ships, it becomes nearly impossible to progress without spending at least a little bit of money to move up.
So, if this review reads more like a vent, it’s because it is. I love the game, and I hate the game.