Skydancer

joined 1 year ago
[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The most encouraging thing in the whole talk for me was when he told a roomful of IT folks that they need to join or form Unions and they cheered.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

SLASH'EM

This is a roguelike for people who find Nethack too easy. Then you have the option of layering in challenges like blind, pacifist, and vegan. Go ahead, try playing through as a blind, vegan, pacifist Tourist. I dare ya.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago

A list of sherriffs, then?

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meaning car companies will either need to start making vehicles people can afford or the public pressure for public transportation will massively increase. Win-win.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not true.

He can't prevent anyone that received the code under the GPL from using (and distributing it) under the old license. He also can't relicense code that he received under the GPL only under the new license.

If he receives a new license from the other contributors to distribute under a more restrictive license, he can do that because he has a dual license to the code and is not relying on the GPL for his right to distribute.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While you're waiting, may I suggest Nethack?

(Warning - links below contain spoilers)

They've spent literal decades building puns into the game, among other silliness.

There are even Discworld inspired elements to the game, including monsters and even an entire character role - the Tourist.

Edit: Sorry, didn't catch what community this was, and commented before reading the article (yes, I should know better). I had assumed it was going to be a computer game, rather than tabletop.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Oh See Paren Left Brace Whatmark

For loads of alternatives, see the Jargon File

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago

7, if you count the large central one, but no way I'm coming up with 9.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gonna have to disagree with #3 - stopping Vim is not necessary for this. There's the builtin :! command.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

At the last panel, I picture the teacher's own teacher rolling over in their grave.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

not being released until next year.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 18 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Americans used just over 100 ~~trillion megabytes~~ exabytes of wireless data in 2023

Megabytes are absolutely the wrong unit for this amount of data.

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