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synae , 3 days ago

I usually look for the sneaky route through, then go backwards through the combat route and gank all the enemies

synae , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

I really liked the design of the underlying protocol (OSCAR, also used by AIM). It was a lot of fun to implement in a 3rd party client and I learned so much about networking and application protocols from the experience. It contributed immensely my career path.

synae , 11 days ago

Username checks out, probably doesn't even know what taters is either

synae , 15 days ago

Internet archive actively tried to gather as much as possible before it was decommissioned:

https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

synae , 23 days ago

absolute_win.gif

synae , 26 days ago

I've never read the book, but the TV show was excellent

synae , 1 month ago

I just put the ringer on silent 🤷‍♂️

synae , 1 month ago

Crocs'n'socks!

synae , 1 month ago

The Ainur are immortal, angelic beings, nonetheless they do possess gender. Those who later descended to Arda took on common male and female forms to appear to the Elves in, and have an inherent male or female gender even when formless. This is because their gender is based on their being, which is independent of any physical form they may assume.

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ainur

The Ainur comprise of the Valar (godlike/archangel entities such as Morgoth, Manwe, Ulmo) and the Maiar (less powerful, notables include: Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman, Melian, all Balrogs). So this information should apply to both groups.

synae , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Strange, I take the exact opposite reading of that quote: They do each have a gender identity regardless of form (or lack thereof), and can take physical form of their choosing. Yes they can change form (incl outward-presenting sex) -- that is, they have the metaphysical power to do so -- but AFAIK* there are no instances of an ainur choosing a physical form with a sex that is incongruent with their gender identity. I.E., they are always cisgender in the legendarium.

* I feel like there was one instance of someone taking a disguise of another differently-genedered character but I can't recall who it was or if I'm imagining this.

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As for societal gender, it absolutely exists in Tolkien's world amongst most of the races/societies that we have exposure to.

• Humans (and therefore hobbits) have gender roles generally consistent with that of European societies' "mainstream" that Tolkien was familiar with as an Englishman.
• As an example for the Elves, male elves tend to be the ones that prepare food. As an "exception proves the rule" example, Galadriel partook in sufficiently male activities enough to be called Nerwen "Man-maiden", though I take this to be akin to describing a "tomboy" (but to the maximal degree, as Galadriel never does anything subtly).
• There's definitely a gender division amongst Ents such that there are literally no female ents in the story except as a group which is explictly missing -- all Ents that are known to exist are by definition male/masculine in their society.
• Dwarves are probably the closest to "no gender" in a Tolkien culture. But then again, every Dwarf which goes outside of their realms is said to be male so it seems like there is at least a gender role divide of "dwarf men go adventuring around the world; dwarf women stay in the city"
• * As previously mentioned, there are Maiar such as Melian who married and gave birth to half-Maiar+Elven children, and also all of the Valar except 2 paired up and married each other in "heterogender" couples, maintaining the status quo of Tolkein's time amongst even the highest order of beings. It's hard to say how their gender identity expresses itself as societal gender roles since it is a such a small culture with only very specific examples given, but I think it is also generally true that male and female Valar fit vaguely into western European mythological tropes in a yin/yang sense: Yavanna (female) is "goddess" of trees and plants and her husband Aule (male) is "god" of mountains, crafting, etc.

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* Edited to add some Ainur examples! We started this conversation explictly about Maiar/Valar/Ainur and I went off track to talk about the non-celestial races. Sorry about that.

synae , 1 month ago

Joke's on him, I never paid him a penny

synae , 1 month ago

I do get sticky fingers from my gummies sometimes, but maybe cleanliness is not the sole quality I should focus on

synae , 1 month ago

Yea it would be really wierd for there to be exactly 287 kilos

synae , 1 month ago

I used idonethis.com a long time ago, but haven't had a need for it lately so can't comment on any changes to it in the past 4-4l5 years

synae , 1 month ago

Am I too cavepilled to know what this means

synae , 1 month ago

Sucks to your ass-mar, and sucks to your auntie too

synae , 2 months ago

Love False Knees. I finished reading it from start to finish (latest) a couple months ago.

synae , 2 months ago

Almost like it already is...

synae , 2 months ago

As long as it's not an illegal sex

synae , 2 months ago

Holy hell

synae , 2 months ago

that's my filter for what to show

synae , 2 months ago

Not great, Bob!

synae , 2 months ago

for cute

synae , 2 months ago

I listen to podcasts about Tolkien works, nothing will put you to sleep faster than someone slow-talking their way through a bunch of first-age Valar and Elf nonsense.

synae , 2 months ago

I recently finished a Silmarillion listen (not the Serkis version) so it might be a couple months before I start another round. Will definitely keep the Serkis ones top of mind!

synae , 2 months ago

Obviously if you were actually a good worker you would have worked for 2 years in that 1 year and donated your salaries to the CEO

synae , 2 months ago

to yoink

synae , 2 months ago

I just want to say, I appreciate your optimism and planning

synae , 2 months ago

Where did those entwives run off to, anyway?

synae , 2 months ago

I use oauth2proxy+nginx ingress gateway where needed (apps that don't support OIDC themselves), with dex their OIDC provider, and github is dex's upstream IDP+OIDC.

synae , 2 months ago

I use it for my home services but that's because I also use it at work and understand it well. It is absolutely not something that a beginner should touch, especially if "docker" is a new term to them.

synae , 2 months ago

Bones and All (2022)

synae , 2 months ago

Alright this is a pretty funny parody

synae , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Well don't leave us hanging like that, did they convict you or are you planning for number 3?

(edit: fix typo)

synae , 2 months ago

Oh no, I'm not clever enough for that. I can't actually figure out what the plot might be? The corrected typo was the first word, "Will" to "Well"

synae , 2 months ago

For the 2nd point, see https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#limit-a-containers-access-to-memory

synae , 3 months ago

They still are!

synae , 3 months ago

It's not a sexual thing, it's pure dominance over nature! Show the world who the true apex predator is

(source https://youtu.be/-zILOpnLW48)

synae , 3 months ago

Her name: Switch

synae , 3 months ago

I can't pass up a chance to mention this ecological-themed doom/sludge band Froglord: https://open.spotify.com/album/7hpoBlUnLnjvEY0zIlBc6s

synae , 3 months ago

This is actually the real problem, which makes me feel like the memes are justified. They really didn't start showing up til the C&D anyway (AFAIK).

I'm a feminist and left-leaning guy, I'm certainly not gonna go after her for being a woman or for her "politics"* - or appreciate jokes that seek to do so, as people are trying to imply in this case. But trying to avoid the deserved scrutiny of hiding her flight plans is pretty shitty and it's fair to razz her for it

(* "go vote" is so barely politics it's not worth truly acknowledging it as such)

synae , 3 months ago

A big part of it is the open source aspect, yes.

In addition, Plex is increasingly weighing down their offering with new "features" of questionable value. Some would probably use the term "enshittification" to describe the trend over the past year or two.

I bought a plex lifetime license a long time ago (2013), but for a newcomer I would recommend Jellyfin. You can also run them both simultaneously with no issue and decide for yourself.

synae , 3 months ago

A 13-year-old former gaming computer, with 30TB storage in raid6 that runs *arrs, sabnzbd, and plex. Everything managed by k3s except plex.

Also, 3-node digital ocean k8s cluster which runs services that don't need direct access to the 30TB of storage, such as: grocy, jackett, nextcloud, a SOLID server, and soon a lemmy instance :)

synae , 3 months ago

Thanks for the heads up.

I plan on using digital ocean's Spaces (s3-alike) where possible and also it's intended to be a personal instance, at least to start - just for me to federate with others and subscribe to my communities. Given that, do you think it'll still use much disk (block device) storage?

Might be time to familiarize myself with DO's disk pricing...

synae , 3 months ago

In my work, anything with a K is kubernetes-related

synae , 3 months ago

Oh I didn't mean exclusively kubernetes = K.

If it has a K, it's almost certainly k8s related.
If it's k8s related, that does not mean it has a K.

synae , 3 months ago

Oh no you forgot kubernetes!