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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)

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

I've always associated them with ACT but same deal

Félix @passcod.nz · 9h

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 · 10h

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 · 11h

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 · 20h

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

Félix @passcod.nz · 22h

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

Félix @passcod.nz · 22h

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 · 1d

First strawberry from my very own garden

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

it's like garlic: for betterness, double it

Félix @passcod.nz · 2d

*checks time* aaaand now time for ttrpg

Félix @passcod.nz · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

gdi whangārei

Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

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

Nobel Metamorphoses - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Félix @passcod.nz · 5d

whangārei

also identifies uhhh other people

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

the start credits are inescapable

Félix @passcod.nz · 6d

thanks for the answer I see this much better now 💜

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6d

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 · 6d

wouldn't that in itself be inflationary?

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6d

I really need to have a word with whomever designed English about the spelling of "Yatch", wait no "Yacth", wait no "Yacht"