2024-04-26

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 06:33

@Greg I get it. There aren’t enough keyword mutes some days.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 06:51

We’re well into the political poopscape, with folks getting understandably worked up and boosting everything that pokes their buttons.

While we’re all collectively figuring out the best workarounds (maybe quote-boosting with a CW wrapper via phanpy or other frontend?), here’s a suggestion for the receiving end of the firehose.

thanks @pamela for making me think on this more

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 06:58

@laren oh goodness absolutely!

WoD 1e is where all the fun was, because the rough edges they sanded off later actually made for good gameplay.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 07:08

And if you want to see boosts but don’t want them jumping into your feed front and center, the https://phanpy.social boost carousel might be an acceptable alternative approach

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 07:10

@laren yeah I have a strong preference for 1e’s art, and the layout approaches got more streamlined but sort of lost character? In my art nerd / grognard hybrid opinion, anyways.

plus V:TM 1e 1st printing was before anybody told them they’re supposed to get clearance for the song quotes they used, stuff like that.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 07:23

@alan @pamela yah, though during poopscape season it can feel like picking at grains of sand. Disabling globally as a band-aid might help folks from dropping out under the weight.

Also with https://phanpy.social and its boost carousel, it’s a little easier (for me) to pick out individual uh outrage enthusiasts.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 07:28

@laren oh but the bullshitting was the best part! Okay in our very specific heavily improvisational gaming group. I can see that being less the case for other play group compositions.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 07:31

@grmpyprogrammer I’m struggling with that as well. Pattern I’m noticing is having phanpy ready if somebody quote-boosts, but defaulting to the Mastodon wide view.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 07:56

I love this shirt. Haven’t worn it in a while. It fits so much better than it used to! Has it shrunk in the last seven years or—

oh

oh right

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 08:08

@laren Right? We had a story arc where I basically let the players get away with war crimes if they could plausibly rationalize it.

Then we retired those characters and I started a new arc with hunters, where to their surprise and plotwise delight I set up the retired PCs as primary villains because of all the damage they’d caused.

Lots of meta self-examination in that arc, I tell you what.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 08:57

@PsyChuan I hate to have to ask, but has Signal been known to throw up any such dog whistles? I’ve known Telegram was potentially problematic for a while, but this cuts the adverb count by one.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 09:09

So Telegram’s shifted their settings from “that’s potentially concerning” to “we should not trust them with our private communications.”

and that’s not even counting the steady microtransaction we’re-really-a-social-network enshittification changes they’ve been putting in over the years.

@PsyChuan

https://plush.city/@PsyChuan/112336464469767051

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 12:28

@semitones @pamela I pondered that very concern when I saw the post get a little traction.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 12:58

and the front door is open

AGAIN

#Minecraft

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 13:02

@rckenned I’ve used MultiMC and PolyMC successfully on my 14" M1 MBP. Modpacks vary — some run, some won’t, and I haven’t dug deep to see if there are any common characteristics.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 16:18

Got it loading plugin info including package.json and settings.json details, then writing summaries to disk. Thought maybe I’d see about optimizing the performance.

Nah.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 16:43

OH: “Long story short—”

My brain:

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 18:42

@genehack @deafferret@octodon.social yep, Pandas has (from|to)_(excel|csv) and they do well enough for data-oriented files.

EDIT: I’ve used it for billed work and got no complaints. Haven’t tried it against fancily formatted sources, but sounds like that’s not a concern here?

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 19:54

@masukomi She is absolutely correct.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 20:08

@thegibson

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 20:11

@genehack twelve.

hackers.town: 2024-04-26 Fri 20:13

@genehack yep unless maybe you want backups just in case.