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International Humanitarian Law which defines war crimes and such.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1
As it turns out most people who cry about war crimes on the internet don’t know the first thing about them.
Rain World Modding
I already know C# so I thought it wouldn’t be that difficult, but I was very wrong. Rain World is a game made with Unity, but the only part they use Unity for is rendering. And the game also doesn’t ship with debug symbols. Doesn’t help that the modding wiki is outdated at places and incomplete. Took a lot of guess work and looking at other mods to figure out what to do, but I got there at the end and learned a lot.
One of my 2025 goals is to learn to draw well, and I’ve been making slow, steady progress at that. My goals are 2-fold - make quality drawings of furniture for my other new hobby, woodworking - and draw cursed shit that is disturbing to friends and family alike. Here’s a texture study I did yesterday in about an hour.
Ham radio. Still at the discovery stage of whats what, thinking about what I want to get into, which means lots of fun learning about everything, as usual in a totally random manor. Trying to avoid getting sidetracked by the VHF/UHF stuff as it would just rapidly spiral out of control.
Just need to knuckle down and study for the foundation exam so I can actually get started transmitting. I think I have the QRP setup I want more or less nailed down that would tide me over till I can move up to intermediate later on. Would give me a nice QRP setup for travel and allow me to treat myself for passing my intermediate with a proper shack radio with a bit more power.
I’m more interested in its lesser known cousin, Rum Ham Radio.
I bought a new domain name for my indie web presence, so that I can keep my boring professional stuff separate.
I have 3 domains… I need help
That’s a totally reasonable number!
Also, just an FYI you can use nginx as to serve multiple domains/websites from a single server on the cheap. ;)
Yeah, I know how to manage a server thankfully lol. I am planning to split the 3 domains for different purposes since as of now I only use them for my email.
Oh nice. What kind of ‘indie stuff’ are you making?
I did see that you’re into writing. That’s cool. I’ve been trying to stick with it. I have a decent amount of ideas for stories but not enough typed out. =/
Oh nice. What kind of ‘indie stuff’ are you making?
So far, it’s just my morning pages. I figure if I share my most raw and unfinished stuff, then it will be mentally easier to share the stuff I actually put polish into.
I have this server running an Quartz frontend, that I can just push markdown files to. But yeah, that’ll probably move to a subdomain, and the main site will be wacky neocities type stuff, idk. Something rough and fun, though.
i bought an orange juicer. been making orange juice every other day. it’s awesome
and i’m not even over my dishwasher high
People talking and analyzing the movies and tv series I watched as a kid with each video ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours, 14 minutes and 28 seconds
Lately, it’s been the man pages for bash. Linux is a rabbit hole all on its own. The man pages lead you from one hole to another and each has its own usefulness. Who would have thought that reading the manual could actually be useful?
Been playing around with a book idea. It’s in the style of the Ouipo inspired book, A Void. The book, written in French, is done so without using the letter “e”. Perec is a mad man and an amazing writer. And I don’t think anything I will write will be anywhere near that quality.
I want to write something similar that is a world without ‘ai’ (written by AI*). It’s been fun structuring chapters, characters, themes, settings, etc. I’m not a writer by training, but I do like word play and so this has been fun.
I have no hope or dreams of publishing, but I might show a few friends who get it. And hope that it tickles them the way it tickles me.
* I really don’t like the output so far. And I have my doubts about it becoming good. But I got something that wasn’t outright bad the other night. So who knows?
I once read a book without punctuation. It was very difficult to read! It was about a hypothetical apocalypse where everyone suddenly goes blind.
“Blindness” by José Saramago
I don’t specifically recommend it though.
Good luck writing your book 🙂
A buddy of mine just told me about an other one sentence. Dies: A Sentence is by Vanessa Place whose gotten more than a little heat lately for some of her provocative art. While I haven’t read it, he says it’s good. We have similar enough tastes that I trust him.
The creativity and inquisitive curiousity in this thread is honestly inspiring and heartwarming.
My week was spent in object oriented code and log burning stove installation. The cherry on the top was putting my knee through the glass so last night was devoted to thinking about how it can be repaired without spending more money.
Drove through Weldon, NC —> list of famous people —> Garland H. White —> 28th infantry of the USCT (US Colored Troops) —> Buffalo Soilders —> Brigadier General Charles Young Tree (NPS) —> Brigadier General Charles H. Young
So I took myself on a Black History Month tour while riding to daughters gymnastics competition.
Well, I crocheted a beret today and started a trihexaflexagon for my wife’s birthday the other day. So I suppose it’s crochet this week.
That’s rad. How did the beret turn out?
Also, this is the first time reading out trihexaflexagon and also getting a refresher as to what it is. It’s a really fun word to say. Makes me feel like a top tier rapper when I say it out loud. haha
It turned out pretty well, it was my first time improvising a pattern from looking at a finished piece. I ran out of yarn right before transitioning from the top of the beret to the head band, but my wife let me use some of her black yarn to finish it off.
There’s a little bit of a visual indication that the black starts before the end of the round, but it’s only like 10 stitches (out of 100) so it’s not very noticeable.
Voice cloning with python. My end goal, which of course I will never finish, is to create a little server or box that you can ask questions or send text to that will sound like me. My dad died over ten years ago and I would love to hear his voice again. I plan to make something so my kids can hear me again after I’m gone.
I used this and it worked very well. I realize it’s paid and not self hosted but an alternative and works surprising well.
Oh yea, I had that on my backlog to do as well. Currently pivoted to figuring out how to design a keyboard so I can 3D print one
Also on my list. At least the PCB. I have a keychron I’m ok with now but it’s not 100% what I want. Maybe 96%.
What I really really want is something designed like the Ocreeb MK2 or the beyblock20 all running QMK. But I’m not sure I’ll ever get to that.
New Zealand birds
Oh cool! Which bird from New Zealand has impressed you the most and how so?
From my memories from growing up in NZ long ago there are lots of funny/rock-n-roll stories about the Kea (very cheeky and charismatic parrot-like bird). I remember finding a funny CCTV video from about a year ago in NZ, showing some Keas screwing around with construction workers working on a road. Every time the workers were out of line of sight they moved the orange traffic cones to change the traffic.
I’m fascinated with them all. New Zealand has been seperated from other contintents for a long time, and until mankind arrived here (only around 1000 years ago), there were no large mammals on the islands, and for the land birds at least, the only predators were other birds. So the birds here have adapted to fill niches normally filled by mammals, and they also tend to be large, long lived and flightless (or poor flyers), because flight didn’t help them escape predation, but size, strong legs and camoflage did.
Unfortunately, they died in large numbers when mammals were introduced (mankind as well as their companions/stow aways) and many have gone extinct.
New Zealand is leading the way in establishing completely predator free spaces (initially mostly islands, but now mainland areas too), so you have spaces where rare birds are flourishing again.
I’ve been in New Zealand for the last couple of weeks, and honestly, my favourites are the North and South Island Robins. They appear fearless, because they follow larger animals around (like people), and hunt for insects that they stir up. What it looks like though is this friendly little robin comes right up to you and starts following you! I also love the Kererū (New Zealand pigeon). They’re big clumsy birds, but so gorgeous! And speaking of pigeons, it’s interesting that rock pigeons don’t dominate city spaces here. They’re around, but mostly, the niche normally filled by pigeons is filled by gulls and house sparrows…
Motorcycle gear. I now know I can buy armoured(!!) leggings that go under my jeans, and an armoured(!!) leather jacket that looks kickass over a hoodie.
ATGATT!
Ooo. I just bought a klx 300. I should look into armour.
Please rate the effectiveness of these garments against zombie attack. Asking for a friend.
I second this. But I’m asking for a future friend.
