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spatula_tattoo , to random
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I wonder if they considered putting prosthetics on that monkey to make it look alien…

MirrorAyako ,
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spatula_tattoo OP , (edited )
@spatula_tattoo@mastodon.social avatar

@MirrorAyako @allstartrek Just color his fur white and glue a horn on his head, he could be this guy's cousin

kcarr2015 , to random
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Oh god, is Spock going to be Captain again? Crap.😖

MirrorAyako ,
@MirrorAyako@universeodon.com avatar

@kcarr2015

Yes! This is just like Galileo 7. It’s kind of unfair. I mean you’re criticizing Tuvok for being Vulcan basically.

@allstartrek

qz , to gaming
@qz@fosstodon.org avatar

I hope no one has poisoned their food...

@gaming

qz OP ,
@qz@fosstodon.org avatar

@lwuy9v5 Yes it is KCD. I'm doing a hardcore, all negative percs, no kill run, so i basically have to use ways to kill without it adding to the kills stat.

only runt is impossible to avoid

STUPIDVIPGUY ,

kcd is my favorite! good to see it’s still appreciated

nirogu , to linux
@nirogu@vivaldi.net avatar

Run command as not-root

Hi everyone

At work, I have to run a command in an AWS instance. In that particular instance only exists the root user. The command should not be executed with root privileges (it executes mpirun, which is not recommended to run as sudo or the machine might break), so I was wondering if there is a way to block or disable the sudo privileges while the command is running. As mentioned, the only user existing there is root, so I suppose "sudo -u" is not an option.

Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance!

@linux

ursakhiin ,

It’s not that an Amazon instance can be a docker container. It was more that the behavior you are describing is extremely odd for a full Linux environment but normal for a docker container.

If you created the instance, it isn’t likely a container. But it also sounds like the base image might be poorly set up

elscallr ,
@elscallr@lemmy.world avatar

You’ll thank yourself for it later. Things like this take a little longer up front but putting them off has a way of making you have to work around it again and again until, when you get around to correcting it, it takes far more time to undo the workarounds than it would’ve taken to correct it the first time.

KraftTea , to random
@KraftTea@mastodon.social avatar

Another good question to ask, legally speaking...

Did Amazon Prime let content providers know in advance that they were giving Amazon the right to run ads in their content?

How do they feel about this?

@neilhimself , any thoughts about having Good Omens chopped up with ads?! Will any of the revenue make its way back to cast & crew?

neilhimself ,
@neilhimself@mastodon.social avatar

@KraftTea I don't know anything about it.

KraftTea OP ,
@KraftTea@mastodon.social avatar

@neilhimself I didn't think they would tell their major content creators... even you.

It feels like a kind of unfair jab at both writers and actors, which Amazon will likely blame, in part, on the strike.

It certainly makes me want to cancel my subscription with them, and just watch their content in a different way, when I want to watch it at all... which presumably hurts anything negotiated, such as residuals.

If I wanted to pay for ads, I'd still be on Twitter.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/amazon-prime-video-ads-2024-1235596567/

Tiffany , to random
@Tiffany@disabled.social avatar

I am thinking about autism this morning. Every self-assessment I’ve taken since I was a teenager scores ‘yep, that’s you’. (I have taken a LOT of self-assessments. Every few years I’ll go through a whole bunch, just to confirm.) But I don’t have a formal diagnosis. And even though I would never require a formal diagnosis from anyone else, I have still, for decades, struggled to know whether I’m ‘allowed’ to understand myself in this way or speak about myself as .

GreenRoc ,
@GreenRoc@mastodon.social avatar

@cynaq @Tiffany @actuallyautistic

"The more I seek validation, the worse my life becomes, and the more I allow myself to be myself, the better I feel." I could say the same thing, honestly, about my own journey in life.

Tiffany OP ,
@Tiffany@disabled.social avatar

@cynaq @actuallyautistic Yes! This perspective is so helpful and relatable. This morning I went back and re-took the RAADS-R and the CAT-Q and the results are the same as they have always been - high. And there is my own knowing of myself that has also been the same since I was a teenager! So maybe it is time to claim/name this more openly, despite not having (or seeking) a formal diagnosis. <3

catrionagold , to random
@catrionagold@mastodon.social avatar

Does anyone need a code? I have a few & would love to give them to critical academics or , , pro- comrades… maybe you know people who fit that bill and are still stuck on Xitter?

(I love Mastodon but I think BSky is attracting more former chronic users to switch over, and really, whatever works at this point)

catrionagold OP ,
@catrionagold@mastodon.social avatar

I'm out (yay), but FYI for fellow seeking codes - there are lots more available on request here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYI6kGH9Ez75pq1EtkpqWLiuAhmpFekH0utRMB4MHQvF-fbg/viewform

Tell your friends who are still on - I'd love to see them on Mastodon, but if they gel better with Bluesky, that's still a win!

@academicchatter

grissallia , to random
@grissallia@aus.social avatar

Some time around 2015 or so I had a horrifying experience where I was at work on a really windy day, and a branch was just banging on the wall outside all day.

The constant noise seemed to ratchet up my stress levels all day until I literally shut down. First I lost the ability to speak, then to even walk.

I stumbled out of my office, and the office manager called an ambulance, and I was hospitalised, but nothing was found. The doctors ultimately put it down to some kind of migraine, whereas I assumed it to be some kind of overstimulation thing.

However, it seems to be that since then, if I'm under too much stress, I start stuttering.

It's uncommon, and usually related to work stress, or occasionally emotional stress.

I can still (for the most part) think fluently, but attempting to speak results in a stutter, and I just have to wait it out.

The thing is, it doesn't seem to fit any categorisation I can find. It doesn't seem to fit selective mutism, and everything I can find about stuttering seems to indicate that when it starts it doesn't stop, whereas when the source of stress is removed, I'm usually OK within a few hours, or after a good night's sleep.

It's terribly embarrassing when it happens, but it's usually a sign that I need to relax, like, immediately.

It's never happened during a psychologist appointment.

Until today, when I apparently stepped on an emotional landmine. Towards the end of the session, I started talking about some deeply traumatic memories that unblocked last week... and my heart started pounding, and I started to lose my ability to speak, until nothing would come out except a stammer, unless I made a huge effort, and even then, it's incredibly slow.

I can still type though, so I grabbed my phone and typed out what was happening, and she was able to talk me through some exercises to get me talking (slowly), and safe enough to drive home, but we were over time by that point, so there wasn't time to explain beyond more than a brief "nervous system response to flashback" just WTF happened to me.

I don't understand it. Google isn't helping AT ALL, because nothing fits. I can think the words, but they won't come out when I try to speak, but eventually I'm OK again.

I've always just assumed it was stress-related "autism" thing, but now I don't know. I couldn't seem to find anything that seems to fit the experience, of a temporary stutter in that circumstance and I just want to know if other people have had this experience.

I'm guessing I've spent more than a hundred hours talking to psychologists over the years, and it's just never happened before.

Susan60 ,
@Susan60@aus.social avatar

@stufromoz @grissallia Definitely sounds like an @actuallyautistic thing to me.

grissallia OP ,
@grissallia@aus.social avatar

@Susan60 @stufromoz @actuallyautistic I'm going to reply to my original post, because my psychologist replied to my email, and you're correct.

goatsarah , to selfhosted en-gb

I have an router. Let’s say I install Tailscale on it and want to create an interface that specifically routes to one of my exit nodes. Can I do that?

Everything I’ve seen about Tailscale on OpenWRT just provides direct router access to the tailnet (100.x.x.x), but I specifically want to route certain traffic to an exit node.

Can I do this? Do me proud, Fediverse! Hoping I can get good answers here without resorting to Reddit.

tvcvt ,

I’ve done something similar, though not with openwrt. There may be a decent way to do this on the firewall, but I ended up using the ACLs available from the Tailscale console.

I removed the default allow all rule. I made a group called admins that can access everything and then added a set of routes that everyone on the tail net could access.

I’ve only recently set this up, but initial testing seems to have this working as hoped.

LunchEnjoyer ,
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not sure this hits the nail for you or not, but I recently solved a question I had regarding tailscale and routing traffic through an exitnode that was using a VPN. Could be worth a peek.

Solution was Docker and Gluetun ✨

Check it her 👉 lemmy.world/post/7281194

joewynne , to random
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Shocking beginning!


(Watch party now)

xris ,
@xris@ecoevo.social avatar

@joewynne
Cold open cliffhanger.
@allstartrek

Ellenfelicity , to random
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I don't usually start a book and instantly get the impression I'm going to love it, but it's happening with Penance by Eliza Clark

Ellenfelicity OP ,
@Ellenfelicity@bookstodon.com avatar

I quite liked Western Lane and If I Survive You, but gave up on This Other Eden after one chapter (which is very unlike me, but I just did not get on with it at all)

Ellenfelicity OP ,
@Ellenfelicity@bookstodon.com avatar

Well, thanks to the library I did end up giving everything shortlisted for a go. Study for Obedience. Have heard a lot of criticism of the writing style, but so far I'm enjoying this quiet, eerie book. @bookstodon

joshsusser , to random
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Does telling an allistic person you're ever help improve communication? Over and over, I let people know I'm autistic in hopes it will help, but it never makes things better. It seems like no one wants to do the reading, or to make an effort to even meet me halfway. The main reactions I get when I disclose fall into these categories:

  • Ignore it entirely and just keep on like I'm not autistic.
  • Say I'm nothing like their 10 year old nephew who has .
  • Assume that since we're friends it doesn't matter, because friendship is magic and will enable me to "overcome my autism" with them if I am just motivated enough, and if they aren't special enough for me to do that then I don't really value them as a friend.
  • Give advice on how I can mask better for their comfort and convenience, like I haven't spent my whole life becoming expert on that.
  • Try to be accommodating without taking the time to learn what is helpful and what is just going to make things worse.
  • Infantilize me and treat me like a child or an intellectually disabled person.
  • Give up on me because autistic people are too hard to deal with.
  • No reaction, because most people don't know anything about autism. They don't even understand that I'm doing all the work to bridge the communication gap, or that they could do anything to help, or even cut me some slack when I fail.

I do have a couple allistic friends who accommodate me enough to maintain a decent relationship, but they are rare and special. And we had somehow worked that out before I knew I was even, so telling them still didn't change much.

Has anyone had communication improve by telling someone you're autistic? Or is that just a fantasy?

brainpilgrim ,
@brainpilgrim@mastodon.social avatar

@Falco_77 @BZBrainz @joshsusser @actuallyautistic Which is fine when you're sharing the latest celebrity gossip, but it's not going to do any good in a software conference.

lzvolk ,
@lzvolk@mas.to avatar

@Falco_77 @BZBrainz @joshsusser @actuallyautistic
Interesting. Made the same observation during my years as an academic, albeit I had to refine those skills early in my career. It's like 'mode switching', where the professional formal mode switches between the informal mode and even the 'autistic' mode (rarely in public).

WhyNotZoidberg , to random
@WhyNotZoidberg@topspicy.social avatar

Okay so datamining of models suggest that the details of cims are way overworked with 40 000 polygons or more for details you cannot see in the game (you can't zoom in that far).

The performance of the game is... not good for a lot of players that struggle with framerate dips down to <10 fps on 30-series NVIDIA cards.

I don't know much about gamedev or 3D modelling but this seems like an odd choice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/17kmzfh/40000_polygons_for_a_single_human_here_more/

moondog548 ,
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@WhyNotZoidberg I tried turning off cim teeth and eyes (lol) in the dev panel, but it didn't make a huge difference. :/

Hmmm... maybe that was just the textures, so the problem is the thousands of polygons are still there? 🤔

HarkMahlberg ,
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.social avatar

@moondog548 Scuttlebutt is that Life By You, Paradox's The Sims clone, is planned to be integrated into Cities Skylines 2, so they outsourced the creation of all the CS2 cim models to another company, Popul8, and they were tasked with making models that would work in both games. My guess is there was a miscommunication between the two companies on providing some LOD models for CS2 so it wouldn't have to try and render all of the "The Sims"-level details. But that's all just "big if true" speculation.

RookieNerd , to memes
@RookieNerd@hachyderm.io avatar

Let's help Dave getting his way in the Fediverse :)
Stolen from @memes

doomkernel ,

Yo Dave! Have some milk bro.

backhdlp ,
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This can barely be considered exploring 💀

pluralistic , to random
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

"The Canadian Miracle" is a short story published today by ; it's set in the world of The Lost Cause, my forthcoming novel:

https://www.tor.com/2023/11/01/the-canadian-miracle-cory-doctorow/

I'm serializing it on my podcast! Here's part one:

https://craphound.com/news/2023/11/01/the-canadian-miracle-part-1/

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