The pre-show hike yesterday was nice! I saw some rabbits, and also possibly Emmanuelle Vaugier (sorry for staring like a weirdo when I’m trying to figure out why someone looks familiar 😅)
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
I posted not too long ago about Github being increasingly worse, first from its Microsoft buyout (who would have thought!) and second from genAI bullshit… well, someone’s got the data to back that up. As always, if you don’t host it yourself, you’ll have to move eventually.
“‘The Legend of Korra’ Didn’t Ruin the Legacy of ‘Avatar’—It Enhanced It”: I watched the two series back to back with the kids long after they had aired and I really don’t understand the hate for Korra. I really liked it. Advancing the timeline and tech level to the 1920s was genius.
Sound check done, ready for another gig! This one is gonna be long, with 3 sets… I might go hiking a bit before the show
“CWA Canada president says Saudi buyout of EA should trigger ‘virtually every alarm bell'”: LOL no shit. But hey maybe the sale won’t even go through because the Saudis are busy with other stuff right now…
It’s amazing that EVE Online is still going after 25+ years. I remember playing the closed beta, joining the first organized events with the Aurora program, and getting my ship blown up very often. Good times, and congrats to the ex-CCP people for becoming independent!
“Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS”: I think most of us who run servers online hate genAI because of shit like this. We frequently end up with higher hosting bills because LLMs scrape our data like crazy. It’s not just IP theft, it’s also extortion.
“Australia’s ‘Payphone Tag’ Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure”: this game looks like a lot of fun, and a good excuse to go bike and hike around.
“The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI”: despite the title, it’s actually more about Einstein than Angine de Poitrine, but hey, both are cool.
The latest Murderbot audiobook, “Platform Decay”, is out on Libro.fm! As always, it is available DRM-free (as the gods intended) so this gets my money!