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Use your database to power state machines
  • It's long running, so you want a database so you can store your state. If you're storing state, locking it into a state machine makes sense.

    I do agree with some of the commenters that making it closer to an event source design would make more sense still.

  • \## I love having an entire live TV channel dedicated to re-runs of old Star Trek episodes
  • I used to run a plugin on my Kodi that would make TV-style channels based on the original airing channel, complete with EPG and everything.

    However, it wouldn't let you add lists of shows and create channels that way. I never got around to making my version, but perhaps someone else has done the work since then.

  • Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
  • It's so rare that we get a new video, but it's always a special day when it happens.

  • Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead
  • Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies”
  • Parth Ferengi's Heart Place

    It's can't be anything else, surely! I kinda want that ep to have a character that can't act.

  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
  • I think the author's intended implication is absolutely that it's a dollar because the USA invented the computer. The two problems I have is that:

    1. He's talking about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, not computers at that point
    2. Brits or Germans invented the computer (although I can't deny that most of today's commercial computers trace back to the US)

    It's just a lazy bit of thinking in an otherwise excellent and internationally-minded article and so it stuck out to me too.

  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
  • The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write "kind of tells you who invented ASCII" and he'd have been 100% right in his logic and history.

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  • Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

  • How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet
  • As I was reading the article, I was thinking how glad I was that I switched - I am on the yearly plan now because I'm not going back to "free" search engines.

  • Films Re-imagined as Vintage Books
  • This guy's got great taste in films, I'll have to watch some of those that I haven't and then I get to enjoy the book cover.

  • The Star Trek 'Where Should I Start' guide
  • I'd add that Picard now also has spoilers for DS9.

  • What game holds a special place in your heart?
  • It's so good, although I think I only ever got about 20% through. I should try again now I'm older and wiser(?).

  • Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?
  • It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.

    Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.

  • Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?
  • It's the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it's taken on a few extra duties since it's always online). It's been going for a good few years now, 8+?

  • Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?
  • I've been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.

  • All the Ways Rupert Murdoch Left His Grubby Fingerprints on Tech
  • He always mysteriously gets frail and feeble-minded when it's time for him to have to testify in court. Once that's over his memory magically returns to him and he goes back to his mafia don mode.

    There was a hack in 2011 where The Sun's website claimed Murdoch was dead.

  • It wasn't worth it anyway
  • Yes, uBlock Origin works brilliantly on Firefox for Android (can't comment on other mobile OSes).

  • Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog
  • https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1

    This takes you to the search results so it's an extra click to get to the actual page.

    My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that's the gist.

  • Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog
  • I've been using Kagi for two months and I'm loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

    • remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
    • rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
    • rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
    • rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

    Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

  • Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns
  • What's this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.

    AI detection tools don't work, and humans aren't much better, unless they're subject experts. How do we stop AI books?

  • Mounting Backblaze B2: s3fs / rclone / GeeseFS / goofys?

    I want to mount some B2 buckets on Linux for read/write access. What do people recommend?

    s3fs, rclone or GeeseFS seem to be the sensible choices, but please share your hard-won opinions with me.

    edit: or goofys?

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    Spelldrifter (free on epic) - has anyone played it?

    This month week's free game is Spelldrifter:

    > Introducing Spelldrifter, a hybrid tactical role playing game and deck building game that features the best parts of both! Spelldrifter combines the puzzle-like positional tactics of a turn-based RPG battle with the deep customizability and replayability of a collectible card game. The result: a hybrid, wherein players must juggle the resources at their disposal using both time and space.

    > With Spelldrifter's innovative Tick System, players are challenged to think of card game strategy in a new light. With each character action, the turns interweave on a single timeline. With mastery of the timeline, players gain great advantage in battle and earn the satisfaction of decisive victory. Select your party of heroes, build your decks, and embark on an adventure deep into Starfall as you search for the entrance to the mysterious Labyrinth!

    Has anyone played it?

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    Is it worth closing the lid on a toilet before flushing?

    This seems like something that should be true, but I think I remember seeing a Mythbusters episode where they decided it didn't make a difference. That show was more about entertainment than science, so I wondered if there was a more rigorous study done? I've definitely seen splashes of water(?) come out from flushes so that alone seems to argue for closing lids.

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    XKCD's Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)

    For non mathematicians, ABS() returns the absolute (i.e. positive) value of a number, e.g. abs(5) = 5 = abs(-5)

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    Watch and play Flash with ruffle.rs on the Internet Archive
    archive.org Software Library: Flash

    Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created with the Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) platform or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Flash animation refers to both the file format and the medium in which the...

    Software Library: Flash

    Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator built in Rust, is being used on archive.org to allow modern browsers access to classics like n, All Your Base, Weebl and Bob, Strong Bag Emails, Happy Tree Friends and many more.

    Jason Scott writes:

    > Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

    > Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

    > We can do multi-swf flash now!

    > A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

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    [Last] Week in Rust 498

    I always forgot to check these unless I saw them in /r/rust so let's start posting them here. This is last week's since there's a day or two till the next.

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    Deebster Deebster @lemmyrs.org
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