What about an emulator like 86box or so? And which game is it?

When coding (my main job since lot of years) I like to use LLMs for brainstorming, reviewing my code for the “quickly visible” errors etc. Oh, and I found out LLMS are not bad explaining query plans and suggesting optimizations for SQL queries in PostgreSQL. I feel the older a technology is (when there’s a lot of reference materials available) the better LLMs are with those topics.

But don’t put them to the task of suggesting something on new tech or creative. They lie without blushing. And in the end you just get a “Good Catch, that can’t really work” for wasting your time.

I think you need to get a feel for what they can and can’t do. In any event all the shit they are being pushed for - that will “go well”. Ah recently, I saw claude or so being able to edit exel sheets. Yep. Combine the most untestable tool guilty of producing tons of false data with LLMs. WHAT COULD GO WRONG!!! Users blindly asking the llm to do stuff in excel and then just betting their companies on the results…

LLMs are fucking useful, but there’s not yet a good business model. You can switch to any system at any time, so everyone is trying to forcefeed you their own version of it ro get you hooked. But in the end they’re just annoying the hell out of users.

Wanting to quip, but answering very seriously as this is important. I go to the loo before, so if I need to pee during, it’s not normal and already an emergency.

Important:

When you’re trying out any kind of bondage, always make sure there’s someone around taking care in an emergency.

Read up on how to do bondage with quick release built in. (For example keeping medical scissors around to safely cut ropes)

There’s all kinds of stuff which rarely happens, but if it does there’s urgency. Medical problems, fires, everything else where you need to quickly vacate the room where you are in.

If you are bound someone needs to regularly check on you and keep in call for help distance.

In fact ropes are one of the really dangerous bdsm toys. Go to workshops where you learn how to use them safely.

(I had a wrist injuriy once due to badly applied ropes. Fortunately it healed after a few months and was just minor. But it was enough to make me scared and directly safeword out of the session when the ropes are not done safely on me)

*national lard

ftfy

That’s interesting. “I’m not into puppy play.” (Note the quotes)

What that really means I find it really hard to shut off the rest of my brain and focus on just “being” a dog. There’s at least a meta-commentary track running in my mind all the time.

Another commentator mentioned they needed pain or mind games along bondage, yes that’s what I didn’t mention - I also need some kind of sensory deprivation along (blindfold or so) and at best some noise canceling head phones with a very specific kind of music track that’s helps me lose any feelings for the passage of time.

So I’d like puppy play, if I could also “just arrive in the moment” there. I didn’t learn that, yet.

But this subdiscussion is diverging quite a bit from the original post. Still, I feel it’s still about the same state of mind.

I can’t do that on my own. No way. So I’m into BDSM and bondage.

Yes, bondage is just my way to be able to. meditate. (Ok, it’s being fixed in a decently comfortable position, having trust to who binds me, not being able to Houdini myself out and not knowing how long it takes)

It’s 90% relaxation and 10% sex.

I caught something rare once, cutaneous leishmaniosis.

I had to go to a special doctor for tropical medicine associatied to the university.

The doctor asked if I mind, and as I didn’t she called in a couple of students.

“Look, this is a typical lesion of leishmaniosis, the red wall and a sore in the middle…”

Explaining to them, what they’d need to look out for.

Ah fuck I hate that, when people go to work sick and infect everyone else. (Yes I understand you need to, and it’s not your fault. So I hate your boss.)

The history is interesting, we got health insurance and paid leave in the 1880s from Bismarck. He was trying to appease workers so they won’t flock to the socialist or social democrat parties which were booming at that time. At the same time Bismarck outlawed left wing parties. (It was a stick and carrot approach).

In 1969 we had a bipartisan left - right government (“great coalition”) and they put up to 6 weeks of paid sick leave into. law.

Over here in Germany there’s no sick pay when you’re self employed, but there is (by law) when you are an employee.

I had been self employed from my 20s to 50s and am an employee for 6 years now.

I was in hospital last week to get my back fixed and am on sick leave for 4-6 weeks now. It’s still fucking amazing to me, that I can heal up now and will still get my payment into my account end of the month.

Having things like that written into law is amazing.

I’m cleaning.

I’m turning on the tv to have some background noise while I clean.

Ah, it’s late, let’s go to bed after watching TV.

Why the fuck is there a bucket filled with water and cleaner on the way?

I do think software piracy also was a large success factor. When I was 13 there was one major spot in my city where consoles and computers were sold (within a department store!), and people where “swapping” games even before they bought the hardware. I remember at least one of the store clerks having a small side business providing access to disks and tapes you could copy - right on the machines that were shown in store.

And I learned how to copy the C64’s basic rom to ram and mod small things even before I had the machine myself.

All the kids were gathering round the computers, the consoles were less attractive.

When I got my own C64 in 1983, my first game was Fort Apocalypse. It was not an original. You needed a boom box with dual tape decks to copy these.

Yay, a 25 year old feature with a new UI design.

I’m using FF as my daily driver, but I feel my hatred for Mozilla soon reaches the level of my hatred for Google.

I do wonder (just in my head, there’s no hint to that in the public) if all that money Google pays to Mozilla somewhere has a no-competition clause which says FF must stay more shitty than Chrome.

I’m not consciously of one Innovation out of Mozilla that made FF a better browser, and a lot of interesting stuff has been canceled.

It’s still an OK browser, but it is like it was 15 years ago. While I watch colleagues using chrome reskins which have great tab management (amazing when you use Jira). Only now that we have LLMs people turn browsers into agents - why the fuck is there no cross - request scripting (go to google, search for this, click on 2nd result…). Yeah we have developer tools like puppeteer for that, but having - say python or js to do so would make people use it more frequently.

Browser history. Ah damn, a day ago I saw a page that explained how to do xx with yy while considering zz. How great some decent browse history would be. (And yes, FF, keep it all, but only when I’m at http://weirdkinkyporn.com/, please just store it for a few hours). A single keyword for history search IS NOT ENOUGH. I need to isolate things by adding a number of things, because if I knew the word I’m searching for, I’d just google it anyways.

Yeah, so much more things you could do (and the above ideas are just half - baked thoughts).

But Mozilla needa tha sweeet CEO payments. There’s no money for experimental stuff.

About a month ago, I ranted about that with a few friends, afterwards I rage-contributed to the Servo project.

I just wish Google would cut off that Mozilla money, I really believe that would improve competition.

That no-compete agreement is a product of my imagination, but things really feel like that.

Fuck Mozilla.

Knuth is the perfect nerd, publishing a package where people are still discussing how to pronounce its name close to 50 years after.

I did start learning a bit of Russian once as I was dreaming of riding the Transsiberian Railway once in my life. Russian is quite different from what I speak (German, English). I just wanted to be able to read signs and say things on a "I thirsty where bar? Beer! " level.

Btw. regarding that dream - I gave it up forever. I’ll probably go for a summer beach party, when crimea is Ukrainian again. Even if they have to roll me along the beach in a wheelchair when I’m really old.

Huffman has no prior military experience, DeAnna said, adding that his limited training was conducted in Russian. She suggested the language barrier has made her husband particularly unprepared for the horrors of combat.

Ok, he didn’t, his wife did. This was an important part of the article for me, the oh gosh training for Russian military is in Russian.

• Complaining migrants do not integrate
• Is a migrant, who doesn’t speak the language, himself
• Complaining, they don’t speak USian with him
• Joins the aggressor’s military during war time, complains he has to go to war.

When my son turned 16 and my daughter was 18 I had that discussion with them, as I’m a supporter of being allowed to vote with 16.

My 16y old son was against it “Look at all my friends, they don’t inform themselves and everyone would been voting for some shit party that promises something”

My answer to that is, most people do. “Being qualified” is not a condition for being able to vote. Yes, there’s a line you cross when you grow up, a toddler obviously can’t vote yet, an adult can.

But in the end it’s arbitrary where you put that line and by moving it down to 16 you can “a bit” influence the relative large weight of older generations in elections.

When I vote, I’ll have to live with the consequences for 30y in the best case before I’m worm food. For my kids the number is over 60y.

So regardless of “how qualified to vote” you are, moving down the election age changes the decision making to be of longer term and less of short term.

Lemmy acting like people that lived here in Germany in the 40s aren’t people…those Lemmy’s are just as bad as what they think they are angry at…most people here in Germany were good people…just like anywhere else. The bad people tended to be a small percentage.

SCNR.

Why? I don’t know. But some really do.

2015 there was the Germanwings flight where one suicidal pilot locked the other one out of the cockpit after he went to the loo and then intentionally crashed the plane in the Alps, killing everyone on board.