Keiya @keiyakins@elekk.xyz

#SGDQ hit $2M for the first time :D

I know Zandra is named after @zandra but I like to think Maple is named after @maple and the entire party is just a bunch of rad people #sgdq

Yaayyy I finally got my favoritest enby on mastodon @Zemyla 💋 💜 💋

I still wish that in ipv6 people'd settled on /96 as the prefix size for an individual home allocation. "An entire IPv4 internet's worth of addresses" is just warm and fuzzy.

(I'm being sillyly overdramatic, it's not actually a huge scandal)

Gasp, the Undertale runner forgot to do one of the yellow credits! SCANDAL! #MoldbyggGate !

Ugh OpenRCT still doesn't correctly recognize the weird file layout steam uses for RCT1. :/

DNS doesn't seem to be updating for my web space at @SDF (I'd not previously had a reason to use it) but I quickly tweaked it to work on gophernicus instead, so... gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/keiya/cgi-bin/paas.cgi?they/.../themself

replace the part after ? with anything that works with http://pronoun.is

(Just to be clear: I wrote this because bizarre and pointless things are fun to write, not to mock people with strong pronoun preferences!)

@iliana (I assume that when shouting at you the answer is please don't shout at you :P)

@iliana So I was mentioning you to one of my friends (joking about how your recent amazon post makes more sense than it should) and I had a grammar question. Does your name force lower case or does it follow the case rules for non-proper nouns? Notably, does a sentence start with "iliana" or "Iliana"?

Beep-0 is the most hilarious character in Mario + Rabbids.

I mean, here they are, stuck in the Mushroom Kingdom (which is already pretty odd) warped by Rabbid logic, and they're just *totally straightbot*.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4mcTNHi2qg

This is simultaneously the dumbest and greatest small ground-level fireworks thing I have ever seen.

... yeah, names are messy and I'm understanding the appeal of the very culturally imperialistic structured name field.

Still no excuse for how bad the vcard spec is in every other way though.

Man I'm beginning to understand why the name part of vCard sucks so much, trying to design a better data model for how to handle them is nuts.

I mean, yes, names are opaque, but then you get things like multiple encodings of the same name (kanji, kana, and romanized versions of a Japanese name for instance), and what 'special' name fields do you need? Sort-As, certainly, but do you want a legal name field? Multiple formalities of display name? Then you have people associate names with languages

You know I kind of want a laptop designed to run in text mode forever and a day. 1bpp reflective LCD display (with switchable frontlight), maybe a bit lower DPI if it's cheaper that way (the 50-ish VGA gave on large-but-not-enormous monitors is probably good enough), less "GPU" and more "display adapter" for video hardware, a decent ARM SOC, and as many batteries as you can fit in. I suspect that with the frontlight off wifi hardware would be the biggest power drain.

Amusingly, the 80°F was chosen specifically because humans are okay working in it for extended periods. At Google's datacenter in Belgium, which is cooled entirely by evaporation cooling (which uses water, but less water than the power for chillers would), when the temperature gets too high, they just send people to catch up on office work and let the servers keep running.

I mean, 80°F is a little outside comfortable for most folks, but it's well within tolerances for humans. And considering that things like this and 'free' cooling using outside air and the like let them something like halve the power usage per computation... yeah, asking people to dress light for working in the warm server room is an acceptable tradeoff.

Apparently the 'cold aisle' at most large data centers now is running at about 80°F/27°C, and people who have to work in there just wear shorts and drink more water.

Facebook also had an issue where the 'hot aisle's were getting too hot to safely work in for more than a few minutes... so they redesigned the hardware to move the connectors on the cold side, so they didn't *have* to.