trying to type “Iterable”

itertable. iteraratable. iterarable!

Akkoma admins! Are you willing to host a Cassandra instance alongside your current software?

@mori and I were thinking of ways to improve performance, and one of the ways we thought of was to store the posts and related information in a Cassandra database.

Would this be something you’re okay with and willing to do?

remembering that i exist in physical space is cringe. video game escapism here i come

Draculo is now streaming!! Come and join the fun!!!

Doom: Hideous Destructor Co-op !! (vx_reloc_rc5.wad)

#retro #gaming #foss #linux #games #streaming #videogames #owncast

https://secret.draculo.net

#SalvationArmy #christmas #holidays

I can’t wait until we all have nanofabricators that can print a tray of perfectly identical strawberries or a salad where the veggies are all exactly the same flavor and texture. on that day I will finally enjoy Eating Healthy Things

one genre that I have no understanding of is strategy games

I’m not talking about RTSes: I think those are fun because you learn repetitive button-presses and clicking patterns and you get to turn your brain off while your muscle memory takes over. I understand why that’s so satisfying from playing rhythm games

I’m specifically thinking of grand strategy games, 4x games, Paradox megasimulators, the Total War games, etc. to be honest I don’t even know what the moment-to-moment gameplay is like in them because I can never persist long enough to play them, and when people talk about what the games are like it’s like they’re speaking a foreign language. I tried learning Crusader Kings once and even after the tutorial I was left utterly confused, to the point that I wasn’t sure if there were even any actions that my character could take or how to choose those actions

strategy games might actually be the only genre of game that is just unfathomable to me lol. like I don’t even know what they’re about, besides the obvious surface level

I can also somewhat say the same thing about tactics games like Final Fantasy Tactics or Advance Wars, though in that case I think I kinda get it because I’ve played Into The Breach. so I imagine it’s that but much less puzzle-y: it’s about positioning units just right and moving them around a map to gain a tactical advantage, and maybe there are some rock-paper-scissors type effectiveness mechanics too

kaslisp now has a set of syntactic sugar that I’m pretty proud of! (I stole it from Fennel lol)

you can access dict elements like this (. dict key) so for example to get the 'foo element you do (. dict 'foo), but you can also use the syntactic sugar dict.foo and the parser will turn it into (. dict 'foo) automatically!

there’s also a special case for (set) so that you can set dict keys with (set (. dict key) value) which means that you can intuitively (set dict.key value)!

but it’s even cooler than that, because when you (dofile) a kaslisp file, it will run everything in that file and then return the result of evaluating the very last form. so just like in Lua, you can make your file return a dict and that’s how importing works! for example:

; set the variable `some-lib` to the result of running `somelib.kaslisp` which happens to be a dict that's full of functions!
(local some-lib (dofile "lib/somelib.kaslisp"))

; this runs the function found at `(. some-lib 'some-func)`!
(some-lib.some-func)

#lisp

How to spot a nonconsensual porn account:

0. They're posting photos/clips of *someone else*.

1. They're not part of the community (they don't reply to posts, and they're hardly following anyone).

2. They do a *lot* of hashtag stuffing (30+ hashtags, and they're all NSFW).

3. They post nudes with no credit or attribution (some provide a nod to the model or site, but no links to support them).

4. They don't provide alt-text (because, again, they don't care about community or accessibility).

5. They have wording like "I don't claim to own any of the images I post", and "DM me to have photo removed".

6. They have account names like "XXXPornBot", "Hot4Dick", or "BigNaturals".

7. Their profile photo looks like it was scraped from OnlyFans (and probably was).

8. They post porn photos/clips *prolifically* (and the format is nearly identical).

If you see accounts displaying these behaviors, please report them. They're stealing other people's work and posting photos of their nude bodies without the subject's' consent. It's wrong, and in many places, illegal.

Mods like actionable reports, so be sure to tag appropriate posts and leave a note like "Reposting porn without subject's consent", so we can quickly determine the best course of action.

Lastly, if you like porn, support original content by local creators. There's plenty of it if you look,nand who knows, maybe you'll find some awesome folx and help build a better Fedi in the process.

#DamnTheBotsSaveTheBoobies #SexWorkIsWork #SaveSexySelfies #Porn #Bots #Admins #Moderation

Ngl home assistant having a auto bluetooth recovery notification/alert is one of the Little Things that makes it really more usable for me

The system tells me if it can't fix something by itself (which is the assumption that it does, automatically), tells me to fix it, and then explains to me how.

It means it becomes a small chore, instead of weeks of frustration why random things aren't working, then a day of annoyed debugging, then another week or more of anxiety of whether it actually got fixed or not.

PSA: vimeo will be acquired by a company known for firing all but essential personnel and milking websites dry. If you have videos (you like) there, back them up and look for alternatives.

edit: huh, this blew up so I'm adding sources. Here's vimeo's own announcement: https://investors.vimeo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vimeo-enters-definitive-agreement-be-acquired-bending-spoons-138
and the wikipedia page for bending spoons has their track record of past acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons

highly controversial opinion: special forms are really cool and good, actually

(I’m doing slightly cursed shenaniganry in kaslisp to add some features from Fennel, including a heavily Lua-inspired import system, and I’m so lucky that (set) is already a special form because all I have to add is one special case and I’ll be able to (set foo.bar baz))

fuck daylight saving time

kaslisp now has enough features to make a simple “guess the number” game!

wear a mask please <3

Just realized "highbrow" and "lowbrow" is literally fossilized phrenology in english language