The linked article says the artificial magnetosphere would encompass the entire planet and points out this includes two critical places where the most atmosphere is lost.

So yes by virtue of it encompassing the whole planet it does cover those two places… I suppose they wanted to specifically mention them

Their revenues are much higher per player now than they were back then. That likely explains why such a large dev team for fewer players

Some people, like my friend, don’t even consciously realise they’re doing this kind of “challenge the integrity of the rules in my favour” thing. Sometimes this takes the form of other players graciously saying they won’t ask for an “undo” and these kinds of people not reading the room and asking for it themselves. You can’t just say no, else it risks an argument. Other than such caveats, yes, assuming people are trying to win is a fun way to play things.

Another thing is, like, he miscounts points and such at the same rate as anyone else would, but somehow the miscount is in his favour 80% of the time. I don’t really get how this happens on a psychological level, especially with an otherwise really nice person.

Oof, I have a friend like this. Wins 80% of all board games he’s in but never asks himself why. Buddy it’s because were just trying to have a good time and it would seriously fuck with the mood to actually try to stop you from interpreting things in your favour every single time

Yeah, I’ve noticed this too

Interesting, self hosting crossplane. What do you use it for?

Yeah, that reminds me. I should take my stuff off it

That’s basically already a thing what with the gay frogs and such

Hardware encoding is really great to have on a server. A lot of the time you wouldn’t even think about its existence in a desktop use case but if you monitor resource metrics on a server you can see how huge of a help it is.

I use an old 7700k for my media server. Took a little stint of configuration to pass the integrated graphics device from the Proxmox hypervisor, into the k8s worker node VM, and then into the Jellyfin pod, but very much worth it. Jellyfin x264 1080p transcoding now takes roughly a third of the CPU resources compared to doing it all in software.

what is subtitle burn-in?

> VPN

> by Google

> Gets shut down

You literally can’t make this stuff up folks

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Pro tip: If you use Porkbun, don’t leave your domain’s authoritative DNS with Porkbun nameservers.

Over the year or so I had my stuff configured this way, on at least one occasion (that I know about… I was still setting up my observability stack during this year), the servers were flapping hard for over a day, causing my records to magically vanish from existence intermittently.

I tried contacting them every way I could, hell I even descended into the quagmire of Twitter and created an account so I could tweet at them… and got silence.

Pretty disappointing. I ended up moving all my DNS to AWS Route 53 after a few hours of pulling out my hair. They did eventually respond to my email like a day later, after I’d already moved everything over.

But idk maybe I’m wrong expecting an indie domain registrar to have super high availability on their nameservers… oh well

oh man…

People can be such dicks, you have my sympathy.

I’ve been thinking about open sourcing a Node project of mine recently… concerning that this is the kind of thing to expect

This sounds like the kind of thing you could use Huginn for… I’m still picking up how to use it expediently but it does sound possible.

Update: I have since abandoned Huginn due to an incredible amount of instability when using it with an external Postgres instance. Can’t say I would recommend it unfortunately

Honestly, nobody is going to care enough to try to understand the overengineered hell/beauty that is my home data centre where I keep all my stuff. I’m at peace with the fact that stuff is as good as bit rot if I kick the bucket for some reason any time soon

Interesting coincidence… I experienced synesthesia today for the first time in years

I guess it’s like a foursome, but with you and 3 open source contributors

Yes it leads me to assume there are… surprise features

I thought I was alone in my windmill-tilting on this one! Nice to see there are others who clean URLs of unnecessary querystring parameters