Back in my usual timezone. Physically, at least.
Ayo@ayo@lonely.town
Full-time unemployed as free software developer and sysadmin. Part-time dog parent, bookworm, gamer, weeb, minimalist and indecisive lead character.
Posts are deleted after 1 year. #nobot
- Joined
- I Code
- https://g.blicky.net/
- I Code More
- https://code.blicky.net/yorhel
- I Read VNs
- https://vndb.org/u2
Can confirm: subway tooter does work in the Tokyo subways.
Achievement unlocked: looking sufficiently lost in the countryside that the village chief called the local English-speaking guy to drive over and ask if I needed help.
True, I had no clue where I was going, but does that matter when surrounded by such wonderful scenery?
"Kagi Translate" should really be renamed to "Kagi What The Hell Am I Looking At?"
I just needed the romanization but this is great too.
This place has more public toilets than trash bins.
Continued thread
Ayo<p>Did I really visit a temple just because it appears in one of my favorite games? Maybe, but it's still a beautiful sight.</p><p>(Byodoin in Uji. Nioh 2 has a map modelled after it)</p>
Ayo<p>It's carnival over here, and you know what that means!</p><p>I finally get to use my noise-cancelling headphones again.</p>
Ayo<p>> I came across Manned online and wanted to reach out because we're working with other archives that are offering manual pages.</p><p>> I’m currently working with a few archives on campaigns that are getting their sales teams meetings with warm leads every month. We’re targeting people who need manual pages using personalized email sequences.</p><p>The spam is getting hilarious :blobcatpopcorn:</p>
Ayo<p>Online communities were a mistake.</p>
Ayo<p>Gotta love waking up to a government emergency alert. I already knew it was cold, thank you.</p>
Ayo<p>/shiverplus</p>
Ayo<p>Is farting a polite way to show that you enjoyed the food?</p>
Ayo<p>I wish I could get rid of PayPal as well, but that means losing most of my income. :blobcatsad2:</p>
Ayo<p>Thank for you supporting LibreWolf.</p>
Ayo<p>(Rather obvious) downside of catch-all email domains: when a scammer just tries a few thousand addresses.</p>
Ayo<p>Help, my quest log just keeps increasing! Games are much too realistic.</p>
Ayo<p>Payoneer's KYC AI did not like my documents, there's no way to speak with a human and when I tried logging in again I was expected to install some iOS/Android-based 2FA.</p><p>It's okay, I get it, you don't want me as a customer. I'll leave.</p>
Ayo<p>> git tag rm othertag</p><p>Create a tag named "rm" at the same commit as "othertag".</p>
Ayo<p>I really should schedule the Manned.org update cron to run when I'm asleep. I lost count how many times I've interrupted it with a server reboot.</p>
Ayo<p>After a silly memory explosion bug took down VNDB¹, I've looked into configuring a hard memory limit on the web workers. I was afraid I might have to integrate my process supervisor into a soup of cgroup rules, but it turns out setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS) is perfectly suitable here. Perl's virtual memory use is nice and predictable and the backend isn't spawning subprocesses. Just needed some additional logging² to make sure I get notified when it triggers. Monitoring is important!</p><p>1) <a href="https://g.blicky.net/vndb.git/commit/?id=3e6ae2beef1eb1ab412f11a2d5f485afc107816c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">g.blicky.net/vndb.git/commit/?</span><span class="invisible">id=3e6ae2beef1eb1ab412f11a2d5f485afc107816c</span></a><br />2) <a href="https://g.blicky.net/fu.git/commit/?id=d300f4d791c80cdf091c1f9d2ddb50ed36a6c42a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">g.blicky.net/fu.git/commit/?id</span><span class="invisible">=d300f4d791c80cdf091c1f9d2ddb50ed36a6c42a</span></a></p>
Ayo<p>:blobfreezing:</p>
Ayo<p>Such a lively start of the year. Still a few angry people from the aftermath of a popular non-VN game getting deleted from VNDB. An alternative VN database/frontend popping up. The site going down for a bit due to a bug, and people speculating that the downtime was caused by that alternative front-end hot-linking images. :blobsmilesweat:</p>
AyoNew year's resolution
Ayo<p>First playthrough of Stalker 2 took me 100 hours. Game's a lot larger than I had expected, and much better too. Excellent continuation of the series, warts included. :blobcatheart: </p><p>I'll probably do another playthrough after a break, but then with an infinite carry capacity mod. I wasn't able to suppress the hoarder in me and had to skip exploring some parts because my inventory was full. :blobcatnotlikethis:</p>
Ayolewd, minor spoilers for Shiei no Sona-Nyl
Ayo<p>Zig ditching Github in favor of Codeberg had another beneficial side effect: the HN comments on that announcement were so offensively missing the point that it's completely cured my HN addiction. Haven't opened the site even once in the past 3 weeks.</p>
Ayo<p>On the one hand, I need to find a better approach to kernel configuration than going through all the obscure "make oldconfig" questions that make zero sense to me every year.</p><p>On the other hand, I have opinions™ about the perfect kernel config. :blobcatthinkingglare:</p>
Ayo<p>A regular day as sysadmin, dealing with someone who thinks it's okay to download images at 50 MiB/s with a distributed crawler. :blobshrug:</p>
Ayo<p>I've been writing link checkers for VN releases lately, and I'm not surprised to see that almost no shop has a proper products API.</p><p>Apple's App Store has an... iTunes API, made for music and retrofitted to also support software. It's awkward and has some limitations, but works. Steam has a useful JSON endpoint that isn't officially mentioned or documented anywhere. Everything else I've implemented so far required HTML scraping. Last place goes to the Google Play Store for being an awful Javascript mess.</p><p>What did surprise me is that I haven't run into anti-bot challenges yet. :blobcatthinking:</p>
Ayo<p>Dog isn't fond of fireworks, so I tipped over a chair and made her a safe hiding spot.</p>
Ayo<p>Reporting the same thing over and over again for a year isn't going to change my mind. :blobshrug:</p>
Ayo<p>Anime<br />Anime Second Season<br />Anime Final Season<br />Anime Final Season Two<br />Anime Final Season Three</p>
Ayo<p>"We want to buy vndb.org. We plan to turn the site into a blog."</p><p>It's rare for marketing scammer assholes to be so straightforward.</p>
Ayo<p>Programming productivity drops by 90% when I'm playing a game.</p>
Ayo<p>Current status: 30 minutes into digging through Unicode symbols and deciding that maybe it's better to use an SVG icon instead.</p>
Ayo<p>I didn't have to worry, it just works.</p>
Ayo<p>I'm too scared to update my laptop to Alpine 3.23 because it might break suspend again. :blobcatnotlikethis:</p>