In one of the games with my group we screwed up getting to a heist so badly that 2 of us ended up downed and the other 3 were facing prison. That’s when our bard decided to use Wish to try to jump us all to a timeline where our initial plan had worked. The DM let him do it and go back to playing the heist itself.

The DM also used it as an opportunity to reveal some lore, and as we transition to the new timeline we got to look in on some others where the BBEG was winning.

This was 2018ish and we still talk about it. Save scumming can be a lot of fun in the right context.

Good to know. Thanks for the breakdown.

Our nearest Pizza Hut delivers via Doordash whether you order direct or through DD, but if you order direct its 30% cheaper. I’m not sure who’s eating the markup.

I recognized the name AU10TIX, because I half-joked on Lemmy about a potential mass doxxing of Xitter’s most vile users back in September when they announced the partnership. I assumed they’d be a target for ransomware/hackers, not that they’d just leave their admin creds out in the open.

I found instructions online on disabling the music circuit without completely disabling the speaker. I think I know just enough about electronics to really screw it up.

Thanks. I looked for that functionality in the manual when I got it, but I either missed it or its not there.

Infinite realities and still nothing worth watching.

My hot water boiler / warmer loudly plays Fur Elise for 10 or more seconds after it has brought a fresh tank to boil. Most of the time I don’t care, but at 6:30 in the morning its loud I worry about waking people even with closed doors.

In the late 1990s I was at university using their OC-48 lines. So I had a share of a ~2GBit connection while most of the people were lucky to get 56k.

In the dorms, everyone was assigned an IP address but most people still didn’t have their own computers. So my roommate and I convinced a bunch of other people on our floor to give us their IPs - and our RA was also a Network admin, so he was able to facilitate. We ran a web server, forums, Quake and Team Fortress (1) servers (Clan Clam for folks that remember Quake Clans), and some very private file servers. All running on found hardware.

The speed was so fast compared to most folks that it was a bit like having a data related super power.

I have a lot of errands and chores I need to do. But I’ll probably spend enough time playing KSP that I can’t get it all done. Adulthood!

I can’t blow bubbles in bubblegum

Using proper bubblegum or was it chewing gum? I’ve seen people make that mistake before. Including in an episode of an internationally popular TV show.

Clearly that’s what blu-tack is for.

“Secure that SSD in a bay and get the faceplate off my butterfly, you monster!” -Buster

I’m taking note of that that combo feather teaser / ball track / butterfly toy. I think my big orange boy would lose his mind over that.

And that’s why the people of the Sword Coast think that Aluminum dragons fart fire.

I joined the night before the blackout started (on Kbin first) because I’m a planner. About a month later I ran the power delete suite.

Realistically I’m sure I’d end up using it for financial gain either way.

Future Self: What’s the next Nvidia stock?

Past self has more monkey paw possibilities, but I think I’d go with something like, “Buy all the surplus compute you can to generate bitcoin in 2009 and hold it until $64,000.”

I can sort of see the appeal, but its not for me. If anything is ever going to rename files for me its going to be a script that I’ve either written or at least read top to bottom. Not a blackbox inference engine, and especially not one based on an LLM.

Yeah, the headline sort of reads like Ars is daring Google to remove the flag.

But they specifically said in their blog post that it has “privacy you can trust.” Just imagine all the trust you have in Microsoft plus all the trust you have in the accuracy of AI and rest easy. Plus the AI runs locally so they can trust you to pay the power bill.

Don’t think about how much money they could make with their business customers, based on telemetry alone.

The Brennan monorail rides again!

Some of this technology may sound a bit “over-ambitious,” but keep in mind the project was inspired by a fully functional self-balancing monorail that mechanical engineer Louis Brennan designed and demonstrated back in the early 1900s.