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Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.

  • That's your choice, but I don't think leaving will do you any good. No matter where we live, human instinct will lead to conflict. And you can only do one of three things: run, and keep running; stay and get involved; or stay, and stay out of it until the last moment.

  • That's why city voters, especially homeowners, have to go to council meetings and speak up. Call for a public vote on it.

  • Just remember your opsec. If/when (assume when) someone shoots the molotov bot down, make sure it doesn't have a serial number that can be tied to you, or any data connection in its logs that connects to you. Don't use your phone or any device you can't immediately destroy (i.e. do not be tracked by the MAC either) to connect to it.

    My suggestion, buy a cheap laptop from a pawnshop/cash converters type place, connect to the drone only from a Starbucks or McD's. When you make the drop, either plunge the drone down into the fire, or get it to a safe location away from you that you'll be able to get to without being tracked. Dismantle the laptop as much as possible, ditch all radios into public trash cans (preferably within an hour of normal pickup).

  • It's not a gotcha. It's a decent cash flow to the city if he wants to se the real estate - and that's before they tax him, and sue him again if he evades,

  • Well, it should be that the City Council refuses the permits, and if Musk does it anyway, the City either bulldozes the building, or sues him until the building is removed. So either the building comes down or the municipality makes a pile of cash off the bastard.

  • I hope that the people of Memphis can force the city council to refuse any extensions to the permit. We need to make sure that their actions are made public, and hopefully, people can break the companies.

  • I feel like our current political climate might make this an interesting exercise on a regular basis. If we could use a botnet on Google Maps with spoofed GPS data, could we, say, direct a bunch of traffic away from a place where certain government agencies are acting?

  • I always liked how Zimmerman was an inversion of Soong. It made for a good dynamic.

  • I mean, I use SeaMonkey still, and that's the direct descendant of Netscape Communicator. So at least some of us are close.

  • This one was the NY Times.

  • Fair enough. That's part of why I prefer to use different software to access magazines and threads on the Fediverse.

  • They don't want you exploring anymore. Exploration would take you away from their profitable walled garden.

  • The challenge is that a lot of people came to the Fediverse (especially the Threadiverse) because of what they perceived as overactive moderation. Mods here are often discouraged from taking action unless it's extreme.

  • First, you're not alone. Second, it's almost three years out from my Dad's passing - the dreams are rare now, but still there. A month is no time at all to process. When you get past the probate (if you need to), and close the estate, that's when you stop just endlessly grieving and start healing and moving forward.

    My suggestion? Fight the depression and other stuff holding you back. Form new memories, physical and social ones. Go hiking on new trails. Join a sport. Join an in-person RPG group. Do new things. Meet new people.

    By giving your brain more new stuff to deal with, you'll have less time to dream about her.

  • It means Multi User Dungeon. It's a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.

  • Because a MUD that isn't part of a BBS feels wrong to me.

  • We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.

  • Yeah, nope. No matter what OS, no matter what specs, I'm going to keep my PC.

  • It's starting with AI. It's neck-deep in the shit already.