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@passcod.nz

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Speaks: 🇳🇿 🇫🇷 🦀. nominally bi with left gender. dni if you have dni in your bio. rust oss developer (watchexec, cargo watch, cargo binstall). budding electronics hobbyist. writes fanfic https://passcod.name https://mastodon.social/@passcod

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Félix @passcod.nz · Jun 10

i use they/he professionally (and on here for consistency) (my in-person pronouns are different) and let's be clear this is entirely because i want people to use they but don't want them to make a deal out of it if they don't want to for some reason (i work with a lot of very religious countries)

Félix @passcod.nz · 5h

new heresy, get your brand new heresy here!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

Reposted by Félix

Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 1d

Did you hear that Dan and Phil admitted they've been in a relationship for 16 years? Because I have never heard of these two dudes before today but people are FREAKING OUT.

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Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

if you consider typical 2fa implementation: sms or a totp app on your phone. login to the thing from your phone and it's always been 1-device, with only hardware tokens being the not-commonly-used-outside-of-experts exception

thus passkeys are a replacement for sms/totp, not for hardware tokens

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

I've always associated them with ACT but same deal

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

l m a o

Trish: "Oh sure, everything needs checking but it's a bit like power assisted steering in a car, no?"

Sorrelish: "You cannot just tell it not to hallucinate. Hallucinations are mathematicallg inevitable in large language models, you're telling 2+2 to not equal 4. You're giving yourself an entirely false sense of control over the output."

Trish: "Yeah but I wondered if telling it not to invent DATA would work...?"

Repost by Trish: "here's how to disable linkedin using your data for GenAI"

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

common green W

but seriously, wut???

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

The Taxpayer Union - Curia poll interviewed 1000 adults around NZ in early October and asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement: “New Zealanders may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track”.

One in four Te Pāti Māori supporters, or 26% of those surveyed, agreed or strongly agreed with the statement - the highest of supporters for any of the six parties in parliament. This was followed by one in five ACT voters, or 20%.

The support for the statement in the research dropped to 16% for Labour voters, 13% for National voters, 10% for NZ First and 8% among Green voters.

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Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

just because you read N genre books and didn't like them doesn't mean the entire genre is bad

maybe your library is always out of the good ones and what you thought was a representative sample was actually "the only ones afficionados don't care for"

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

this post is not sponsored i just like the thing and voluntarily deal with kubernetes every (work)day

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

it's dangerous to go alone in the dark! headlamp.dev

Headlamp

Headlamp is a user-friendly Kubernetes UI focused on extensibility

headlamp.dev

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Félix @passcod.nz · 2d

First strawberry from my very own garden

Félix @passcod.nz · 2d

it's like garlic: for betterness, double it

Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

*checks time* aaaand now time for ttrpg

Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

we then played a game of Hanabi, which has basically three rules and is pretty fun and very hard. an instructive contrast :D

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Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

the polydice are confusing. probably should replace with a number N of D6 instead for power/difficulty scales.

too many modifiers! and too many layers of modifiers.

the different types of cards being different sizes was well received

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Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

things that are interesting:
- the clue/object system
- the core exploration/event concept

things that don't quite work:
- non-events. they just waste a turn instead of providing balance
- station mechanics. easy to forget, just adds trudge and removes stakes

completely broken:
- the end condition

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Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

finally had a real scale playtest! the game doesn't quite work but i received lots of valuable feedback for next version

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Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

A bird leaping into flight above water, rocks and algae and waves and a cloudy sky in the background

Félix @passcod.nz · 4d

gdi whangārei

Félix @passcod.nz · 4d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_M...

Nobel Metamorphoses - Wikipedia

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6d

whangārei

also identifies uhhh other people

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Félix @passcod.nz · 7d

i used to but nowadays when i visit the good cheese shop i get:
- a good quantity of my favourites
- a small quantity of a random sampling of ~5-10 cheeses

because all cheeses are delicious i am guaranteed a good time every time

Félix @passcod.nz · 7d

the start credits are inescapable

Félix @passcod.nz · 7d

thanks for the answer I see this much better now 💜

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Félix @passcod.nz · 7d

okay, keeping in mind i'm not right wing nor an economist,

assuming there -is- a price<->wage cycle (is there?)

is "peg the wages floor to inflation" (which i am not opposed to! i'm asking genuinely here) meant to be paired with a "fix prices" proposition to balance from the other side? or profit?

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Félix @passcod.nz · 7d

wouldn't that in itself be inflationary?

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