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A husband. A father. A senior software engineer. A video gamer. A board gamer.

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Because despite the popular bandwagon belief, there’s nothing wrong with using Java. It’s just a tool, like so many others.

This is like saying, “Why that Philips head screwdriver? Why not this other Philips head screwdriver?”

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But it doesn’t function flawlessly, at least not yet. I know of one pretty big online networking bug that affects me – You currently cannot connect directly to a password-ed server (by IP), it won’t prompt for the password and it simply denies entry. And since the multiplayer server browser is pure garbage, you can’t even properly search for the password-ed server because the search only filters the current page you’re on, and even pagination is flat broke.

This game has a lot to get fixed. This is my major hit list that I’d like to see fixed/enhanced:

  • Fix it so a client can directly connect to a server that requires a password without having to use the server browser
  • Fix the server browser so pagination works properly
  • Fix the server browser so keyword searching actually filters across all registered servers, not just the currently-loaded page
  • Fix the server so when purposefully not registering as a public server, it doesn’t show in the server list (my private server is not supposed to be listed, but I had a random stranger connect…and since I cannot password the server yet due to the bug listed above, they got on and built stuff before I could kick them – and I cannot destroy anything they made)
  • Enhance it so an admin can destroy all content irrespective of guild
  • Fix the in-game chat so it actually scrolls properly and can be user-scrolled up and down
  • Fix the pal AI and pathing, it’s atrocious
  • Enhance it so you can dedicate a specific pal to a specific job
  • Fix it so party pals will properly attack incoming raids outside of the base circle
  • Enhance it so storage bins can be labeled (without having to use signs)
  • Enhance it so if there is a security code on a door or storage box, it doesn’t allow other guild members access without knowing the security code (this would require a level of ownership to each crafted item)
  • Enhance it so stacks can be divided by an arbitrary user-defined number instead of only by half
  • Enhance it so signs can be placed on foundation pieces
  • Fix it so pals that fight intruders cannot destroy buildings and other crafted/placed items
  • Fix it so wooden “security” walls are are not so easily destroyed by a simple pal invader
  • Fix it so other pals and players cannot become invisible
  • Fix it so in-dungeon bosses cannot use an ability that would place them outside the arena, thus requiring restarting the fight (in other words, fix the collision detection so properly bound the boss to the arena)

I’m sure I’m forgetting numerous other issues.

What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

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Renaming a mount point while mounted was a fun experience in losing data back in the big box Redhat 5.0 days.

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Spark, Mailbird, eM Client, Mailspring.

Most of the modern ones do store certain information on servers, though. Spark and Mailbird both do. Mailspring does as well if I recall correctly.

Most modern mail app developers seem to think that it’s more important to do search indexing and account storage on a server for ease of use, and expect inherent trust, foregoing all sense of real privacy under the veil of “we’re not evil, we promise.”

I’ve yet to find an email client that has a good modern look and feel, but doesn’t try to use server-side storage for some UX convenience factor.

I want the look and feel and mail host integrations of Spark (OAuth, like GMail, or preconfigs of hosts like iCloud) with the dumb-pipe-ness of Thunderbird. That’s the email unicorn I’m after.

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This is perfect.

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Touché

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As long as it’s treated like a media key and not an intrusion of the standard, then I couldn’t care less. It’s a stupid idea, but Microsoft is so often full of those.

Edit> And after reading the article…of course MS is intruding on the standard just like they did with the windows key, but at least that one was turned into “meta” or “super”. I guess this will guarantee I won’t buy another MS keyboard.

Me vs my ISP

So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....

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I don’t know what you mean by ISPs in the US don’t have NATs. They most certainly do NAT at the gateway device. But they also typically provide a way to DMZ to your own router instead. I don’t have to deal with double NAT simply because I effectively have my ISP gateway in bridge mode (forwarding all traffic to a specific device, in this case, my personal router).

Note: I have gigabit FTTH from AT&T. I left cable internet the moment fiber service was made available.

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The fact that you think that image accurately depicts liberal ideology is enough to dismiss this out of hand. A moment-in-time choice of vote is as indicative of an ideology as comparing weather to climate. And equating the vote against literal fascists, openly and with pride working to dismantle the republic and install an autocracy, as being a scare tactic just to stay in power is as small-minded as I seem to, disappointingly, expect from the internet.

But I understand all that if you’re spoon-fed that from your choice of news outlets, it gives you less to think about and more to “meme” about.

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I never once said anything about “control the population.” Clearly you are doing exactly what idiot conservatives do — make shit up. Have fun living in the bubble of nonsense and intellectual mediocrity.

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Proof that the Linux kernel is the Debil!

ulkesh,
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What? Speak up! I didn’t hear you.

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And fuck the healthcare industry as a whole. The fact that “healthcare industry” is even a thing is offensive.

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The linked site is a blog, not sure how that constitutes fact. Pointing out bullshit isn’t being against facts, it’s being against bullshit. And conflating the two shows both bias and bullshit.

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And then the elevator stops on the next floor and someone new steps on.

ulkesh,
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Touché, salesman.

ulkesh,
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…the world is gonna roll me.

ulkesh,
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He is notorious for Microsoft’s anti-competitive practices in the 1990s. But, I wouldn’t put him in that company today. His philanthropy since leaving Microsoft is no joke.

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Brooklyn 99, Babylon 5, Star Trek various series. We pick a series to watch while we eat dinner. Sometimes it’s a series we haven’t seen fully before (we may start Cheers soon), and sometimes it’s one we’ve seen multiple times (Avatar the Last Airbender, Star Wars Rebels, etc). It’s fun :)

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Brother!! Sister? No matter…c’mere you

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