Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn@octodon.social
Blogger, videogame/pinball fanatic, road/transit geek, lover of the arts, frequent volunteer. He/him
fighting fascism is our social duty
look virtualbox you should probably stop using Dolly as an icon for Clone. People don't know what it means anymore https://social.wxcafe.net/media/IWT_vrMMbdOurvZg1UY
@skquinn They're very little years.
Army Corps of Engineers guy on TV is saying this has the potential to exceed a 1,000-year flood plain event. We've had two "100-year" events in the previous two years. I'm thinking we need to rework the terminology because it's at best misleading and/or confusing, even if there is a formal definition for the "100-year flood plain".
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Man I bought DOOM (the original) and it's literally unplayable to me because it triggers my motion sickness basically immediately and that's with launching in GLDoom and turning view bob off entirely.
Good thing it was cheap as fuck.
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In re Charlottesville, and related events of the past few days https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/08/re-charlottesville-related-events-past-days/
Re-working the resume in LaTeX both makes me wonder why I keep my resume in LaTeX and reminds me why I keep my resume in LaTeX.
Joy of joys: wiping 400GiB+ of free space on a 2TB drive. Over USB 2.0. Around five hours total, thankfully it doesn't load the system a lot.
@natecull The best are unicode security exploits that rely on homographs and/or reencoding, all because the UI team really wanted emojis in the username/password to work.
I'm so glad we put all our Internet development resources into implementing emoji rather than fixing security holes
The witch-hunt against Larry Garfield, part 3: How far down does this rabbit hole go, anyway? https://www.rantroulette.com/2017/08/witch-hunt-larry-garfield-part-3-far-rabbit-hole-go-anyway/
If I designed a level editor it'd have a dedicated 'crumble masonry' tool because that is the singularly most boring detail to manually add.
I'll push vertices around all day but for crying out loud don't make me cut out any more bricks
How can I force Windows to stop fucking up my MIDI driver? I'm getting sick of having to manually fix it
today, four years after it was funded, people have started to receive the $60 Mighty No. 9 kickstarter reward, which consists of an empty cardboard box (with no game) and a print manual which does not fit inside the box
today, you can also buy Mighty No. 9, the actual game, on Humble Bundle for approximately $5
@skquinn oh well. my not caring about that bullshit is aggressive enough that i'm just writing my own
AND IT'LL BE CROSS PLATFORM AND SUPPORT PLAINTEXT, because i care about bringing these truly important utilities into the 21st century
Wow this is very uncool, injected tracking script in instance description text. wtf ???
It's not evil, it's not even lazy nor an effort, it's not making them keep any money or earn any more, it's not targeted at anyone or any issue.
It's just plain idiotic and pointless.
Netflix using your credit card's name for all emails is likely one of the stupidest decision I've ever witnessed.
