Computers, nostalgia, death
I've been using #GKrellM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GKrellM , a system monitor) basically since I've started using #Linux in 2000
It's currently flagged for removal from #Gentoo. No maintainer for the package. And upstream is dead. Literally, even, the main dev Bill Wilson died in 2021 :(
That's how my current gkrellm setup looks. Well, "current", it's not I've changed it in any way ever
How are books by #PacktPublishing so consistently bad, awful, terrible?
It's as if they *want* to publish the most wrong information available on a given topic, and then break the typeset and sprinkle typos throughout
The lectures aren't better
I get access to the subscription offered by O'Reilly through work now, that includes #Packt Publishing stuff. Started a Packt course on #Rust and within 10 minutes, the lecturer already managed to completely murder the concept of a macro
Rewrote my #Pathfinder 1e English<->German translation tool (feats, spells and book titles) in Python (was C++)
Mainly so I can have a proper webservice with Flask, instead the mess of "PHP, exec(), parse json" I had before
And here's the finished #gingerbread. Covered in chocolate and decorated with almonds, then cut into triangles
Huh, interesting, it seems that's actually a libx11 issue: https://bugs.gentoo.org/887593
Dungeondraft is blameless here
Der Lufthansa-Chef Carsten Spohr verdient 85-mal mehr als seine Mitarbeiter & Mitarbeiterinnen pro Jahr, so rund 5 Mio €. Weil ihm das nicht reicht, will er sich und den anderen Vorstandsmitgliedern einen Bonus auszahlen. Auch für die Zeit als der Konzern kurz vor der Insolvenz stand und nur durch Staatshilfen gerettet wurde. Das ist eigentlich nicht erlaubt aber durch einen Taschenspielertrick möglich. Aber Wochenlang haben Konservative und andere gegen das Bürgergeld gewettert und Hartz4-Empfängern nicht den kleinsten Krümel mehr gegönnt. Dieses System ist so kaputt.
A tray of #gingerbread (to be covered with chocolate later) and a tray of #cinnamon stars
It uses Godot, from what I see. Dunno where the fault lies.
I reported the bug in the official Dungeondraft Discord. Hasn't been acknowleged so far
Last time I reported a bug there, nothing happened either.
The things I'm trying to debug is #Dungeondraft, a tool to draw maps for (virtual) tabletops. Commercial, closed source, but the binary has full debug symbols
The most recent version deadlocks randomly for me. With gdb, I'm seeing two threads waiting on each other's mutexes
I also have a half-working engine for Dark Seed II, a horror game with art by H.R. Giger, in #ScummVM that I'd like someone to take over: https://github.com/DrMcCoy/scummvm/tree/darkseed2/engines/darkseed2
Here's a GitHub issue describing its state a bit: https://github.com/DrMcCoy/scummvm/issues/1
And here's a video showcasing how it plays at the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf3yZtccX3g
#dosgames #dosgaming #pointandclick #adventure #reverseengineering #horror #hrgiger
@adrienne "Karl Ranseier ist tot" was a regular bit in the mid 90s late night comedy show RTL Samstag Nacht
It consisted of that intro sentence announcing the death of the fictional person Karl Ranseier in front of that picture, and then a wild and absurd story (a different one each time) of how he lived and died
I wouldn't expect that to be known outside of the German speaking region
@adrienne huh, I saw you boosted https://chaos.social/@janl/109530697610956436 . That's a very German reference. Do you know RTL Samstag Nacht, or did they reference something earlier I'm not aware of?
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