1. photios 2 days ago parent

   I got back to briefly [1] playing Aardwolf this (2025) summer. It's still VERY good!

   [1] ~50 lvls on my paladin char.

2. photios Dec 30, 2025 parent

   Can it run with a local DB? I have zero interest in another monthly subscription pretending to be "an open source tool".
3. photios Dec 30, 2025 parent

   Ok, let's say the 20 devs claim is false [1]. What if it's 2? I'd still learn and use the tech. Wouldn't you?

   [1] I actually think it might be true for certain kinds of jobs.

4. photios Dec 29, 2025 parent

   > No mention of EU chat control

   > No mention of "age verification"

   > No mention of people arrested for Twitter posts in the UK and the EU

   What did they mean by this?

5. photios Dec 26, 2025 parent

   I could see value in slowing down or re-reading crafted writing like Tolkien's. I've been doing that with St. Paul's epistles.

   There is no value in doing it for modern clickbait or AI slop though.

6. photios Dec 21, 2025 parent

   OP would probably have a field day with NixOS's patchelf tool:

   https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf

7. photios Dec 15, 2025 parent

   > Tax all the things.

   EU in a nutshell.

8. photios Dec 15, 2025 parent

   Wondering about that too. What are the "wonderfullness" criteria?

   For example, the first article I clicked on: https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-soci...

   has some pretty vile stuff:

   > Non-offending pedophiles should be more widely accepted by society. It’s unfair to ostracize someone for a desire they were born with, and integrating them into society makes them less likely to cause harm.

9. photios Dec 14, 2025 parent

   I'd stopped scrobbling like 10 years ago, but recently got into it again.

   My 16yo son discovered Last.fm and scrobblibg and got me to install the Jellyfin scrobbler plugin. And I recovered my old account! I got some boomer music jokes from him, but it was worth it.

10. photios Nov 28, 2025 parent

    > Lobsters (previously?) blocked Brave browser

    Yah, I deleted my 10+ yo account there over that. I won't have a site tell me what browser I should or should not use.

11. photios Nov 26, 2025 parent

    I came here for this comment! TIL about Pidora :D
12. photios Nov 20, 2025 parent

    Conspiracy theory time...

    Matrix is the Firefox of chat apps. Castrated on purpose and kept around as a "see how much worse than WhatsApp things can really be!"

13. photios Oct 27, 2025 parent

    > it’s not as bad as I expected

    yet :D

14. photios Oct 15, 2025 parent

    > I can live with that, with free education and healthcare, among others.

    That is not a EU-wide thing. If you are getting some of it in your country, enjoy it while it lasts.

15. photios Oct 15, 2025 parent

    Wow, those US vs EU prices...

    I picked a random Seagate 8TB drive that the site lists as costing $103. It's GBP 145 in the UK (~EUR 166) and as much as EUR 200 in my Eastern Europe country!

    I'm blaming tariffs and VAT. The EU sucks.

16. photios Sep 19, 2025 parent

    That's quite the bold faced lie. I've been on nostr for years and it's been pretty friendly and never offensive.
17. photios Sep 6, 2025 parent

    IRC is what brought me to Linux in the 90's and started my programmer career. And it was for the stupidest reason - WinNuke!

    It was trivial to BSOD a remote Windows box, and Linux made you immune to that!

18. photios Aug 26, 2025 parent

    > a number of people claimed to be the Messiah in Jesus' lifetime (and before, or since for that matter, including today)

    Yes, they imitated and used the "concept of Jesus". That's why I think St. Paul did not invent it.

19. photios Aug 26, 2025 parent

    > no need to rewrite the Torah and books of prophets like Daniel and Isaiah

    Funny you mention that. Because those Jews (not all of them, mind you) that did not accept the Messiah did try to change the book of Isaiah. The mental gymnastics about the "Almah" translation continue to this day.

    https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/isaiah-714-a-v...

20. photios Aug 26, 2025 parent

    That's doubtful.

    To do that, St. Paul would need to make all the other 12 apostles buy into the story and start spreading it. Then do the same with the extended 70 apostles and their disciples. And, of course, change the gospels.

    In addition, the "concept of Jesus" is something that's woven throughout the Old Testament. St. Paul would have to go back in time and change the Torah and books of prophets like Daniel and Isaiah.

21. photios Aug 26, 2025 parent

    TIL Jefferson published his own "version" of the New Testament. [1]

    > Jefferson mashed up/cut and pasted the New Testament to remove any references to the supernatural, or miracles, as well as the divinity of Christ. His title for the book was "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth," which tells us a lot about his motivations.

    Walking in Arius' footsteps ...

    [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dnyxy8/thoma...

22. photios Aug 22, 2025 parent

    Love this! I would name it `uv fmt` and add `uv vet` to the roadmap too
23. photios Aug 13, 2025 parent

    TIL about that hypothesis. I admit, I had a good laugh.

    > St. Paul wrote "it is a shame for women to speak in the church"! Noooooo, it must be fake!

24. photios Aug 13, 2025 parent

    From Wikipedia:

    > The Index was enforceable within the Papal States, but elsewhere only if adopted by the civil powers, as happened in several Italian states.

    Wow, such a hugely important list that nobody seemed to care about.

25. photios Aug 12, 2025 parent

    Gnosticism... generating dumb cults that seem smart on the outside for 2+ thousand years. Likely to keep it up for 2k more.
26. photios Aug 4, 2025 parent

    NixOS is amazing on a server and utterly terrible on the desktop. I learned the latter the hard way too.
27. photios Aug 2, 2025 parent

    Man, this car is ugly. I'm getting strong Fiat Multipla vibes:

    https://www.motorbiscuit.com/remembering-fiat-multipla-quite...

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