ex-Software Developer. Organiser of data. Ontologist. Unofficial btrfs support for the Fediverse. I'm not a digital native, but I did emigrate at an early age. Contents may have settled in transit. Currently walking in a straight line, carrying a compiler, until someone asks, "what's that?" "He's not drunk. He's like that all the time." Pronouns: He/Him (will accept "oi, you!")
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Last Notes npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills The local games shop here has a sign on the door telling anyone wanting to buy Pokémon packets that they'll open the packet at the till before selling it to you, to try to prevent people from selling them on at a big markup. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Boop? :stux_boop: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Then I confess to making a false accusation of treason against myself. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I can strongly recommend using mosh for dealing with shells over dodgy connections. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Congratulations! Hope the neighbours are nicer. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I bought a dining table online. After the fourth or fifth "leave a review" email, I mailed their support people to tell them to stop. They did (on the second try). The first thing that happened after they closed the support ticket? "Tell us how we did!" I... wasn't all that happy about that. And I let them know it. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Delete it anyway. It's just playing at being a document. :) npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills * delete PDF * rotate original copy (optional) * re-export document as something sensible npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills You play a cat, with a table full of interesting objects to knock off it... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills No assistants, only accomplices. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills "Which idiot wrote this?" [...] "Oh, Past Me. That bastard." npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Crowd-source it? Post the script, ask people to record themselves saying it. I'm not sure I could manage an American accent, but it could be amusing having the bad guys with extremely stupid accents. (Or I could do you a good English Bond villain...) npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills "Your browser is not officially supported"... "Sign in here"... #include <octopus-nope.gif> Ho hum. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I'm having enough trouble as an NPC in Capitalism. Wouldn't recommend the game. Too hard. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Huzzah for IPv6 only! I have some services at home (mostly managing video recordings) that I can access from outside. It took me a while to realise that while I can access them from (e.g.) rental properties, I can't usually access them from hotels. This is because most hotel chains are still IPv4-only, but a lot of small room/cottage rentals are using recent consumer equipment, and about half of them support IPv6. (My home is native IPv6 enabled, because of @npub1sv0…rq9x ). npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills In her retirement, my mum has been learning to play the cello, having played it when she was at school. She went to the Oxfam music shop at the weekend to get a book of studies, to practice with. She found one, opened it up, and... saw her name written inside the cover, in her own handwriting from 60-odd years ago. #music #cello #coincidence npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills are absolutely brilliant. Not the cheapest, but amazingly reliable, and you can always get through to someone who knows what they're doing at tech support immediately. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Facebook. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Remember, it's not just devs -- it includes mo-cap actors, voice artists, musicians, 3D and 2D artists, and scriptwriters, too. The big expensive headline games are much more like blockbuster films in their production than indie game development. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Where do I apply to get a job like this? :blobcatsleep: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Paging @npub1x59…gect ... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Quote from C-suite at work: "We're moving towards a more Microsoft-native approach." Apple isn't looking so bad to me right now. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills The rabbits moved out months ago. It's just a hole now. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Everyone's been clutching their pearls about Islamic courts when they should have been worrying about the Capitalist courts. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I didn't know that cats used golfing languages. :)