So I have been trying to beat shattered planet, trying various things. One thing I've tried is throttling by cutting off engine fuel to engines based on damage taken, on the theory that the slower the platform goes, the fewer asteroids it has to deal with. I have a big, 6 ending platform that runs between a max of around 190, and can throttle down to about half that by shutting down all but two engines.

To my eye, it doesn't seem to make any difference in asteroid density. It just takes longer, with the end effect of using more ammo to go less distance. Coming to a complete stop, of course nearly shuts off the flow.

So now I have it in my head that controlling velocity doesn't affect asteroid speed or volume, which would suck.

I also can't get interrupts to work properly, and nearly stranded my platform before I noticed :-/ But that's a different post.

Anyway, is velocity affecting asteroid density, or not?

Update, 2025-04-22

Thanks to everyone who had suggestions; I used m

Ok, Lemmy, let's play a game!

Post how many languages in which you can count to ten, including your native language. If you like, provide which languages. I'm going to make a guess; after you've replied, come back and open the spoiler. If I'm right: upvote; if I'm wrong: downvote!

::: spoiler My guess, and my answer... My guess is that it's more than the number of languages you speak, read, and/or write.

Do you feel cheated because I didn't pick a number? Vote how you want to, or don't vote! I'm just interested in the count.

I can count to ten in five languages, but I only speak two. I can read a third, and I once was able to converse in a fourth, but have long since lost that skill. I know only some pick-up/borrow words from the 5th, including counting to 10.

1. My native language is English
2. I lived in Germany for a couple of years; because I never took classes, I can't write in German, but I spoke fluently by the time I left.
3. I studied French in college for three years;

Several times now, I've tried to reply to a comment -- usually, I'm doing this on a mobile app -- and when I hit "post" I get an error. Then, when I refresh, I get a "post not found" error. Until now, I just move on, because, it's only Lemmy.

But this morning, I got the same error, and in frustration I opened the post in Firefox, and went to reply to the comment, and in the web page all of the post editing stuff was disabled. I mean, I could click "Reply" and open the reply widget, but the text editor area and all of the buttons are disabled. The post in question is this one.

Before, I speculated that the mobile app would only load so many posts back in time, and maybe they were aging out or something. Or, perhaps, some were removed by mods or the author. Although irritating, I didn't much care.

This, though, is weird, and I wonder how many of the posts I've had this issue with is because of it. It's as if the post is locked, except that the

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17187098

Hmmm

I've noticed increasing requests in places like !selfhosted@lemmy.world people asking for self-hosted or free web solutions for things that, to me, seem to be absurd tasks to go to web apps for. Examples I've seen are:

• Self hosted file hasher
• Self hosted image resizer
• Note apps

There are dozens of these. They vary in the amount of "reasonably benefit from being online," but mostly I'm coming to believe that it's because this group of people either don't realize there's a difference between native and web apps, or ... well, I don't know what the alternative is.

Going to a web app to resize an image is sheer idiocy. It's something for which there is a dozen of free, open-source, native mobile apps that don't require an internet connection, are faster, and are entirely within the capability of any mobile smart phone that would be able to access a web page. And it's even crazier on the desktop: even if you are incapable of using a CLI and runnin

What are you folks using for self-hosted single sign-on?

I have my little LDAP server (lldap is fan-fucking-tastic -- far easier to work with than OpenLDAP, which gave me nothing but heartburn). Some applications can be configured to work with it directly; several don't have LDAP account support. And, ultimately, it'd be nice to have SSO - having the same password everywhere if great, but having to sign in only once (per day or week, or whatever) would be even nicer.

There are several self-hosted Auth* projects; which is the simplest and easiest? I'd really just like a basic start-it-up, point it at my LDAP server, and go. Fine grained ACLs and RBAC support is nice and all, but simplicity is trump in my case. Configuring these systems is, IME, a complex process, with no small numbers of dials to turn.

A half dozen users, and probably only two groups: admin, and everyone else. I don't need fancy. OSS, of course. Is there any of these projects that fit that bill? It would seem to b

You know the -ism about having to rotate a USB-A plug at couple of times before it goes in? Well, IRL have a USB-A cable that I have to rotate exactly once. Never 0, never more than once. Exactly once, every time. If I try to cheat it and pre-rotate it before the first time, I still have to rotate it. Exactly. Once.

I'm certain it's simply magic; there's no other explanation for it. Sure, I can visually check and make it go in the first time -- it's not that kind of magical. It just... blindly, always, reliably, only inserts exactly the second time.

I had no other place to post this. I don't know what it portends, or otherwise means. I just had to tell someone about it.

I have a magic USB-A cable.

I had to. We should have Prague Fridays, or something.

So, the (c) on the scan is 2012, but I took the photo on BW film in late December, 1990. It's one of my favorites - probably the favorite - of my own pictures. Although, it's not the one I get the most print requests for from friends & family. It's funny how your own memories influence your artistic impressions.

Recommendations for a color, full duplex, laser printer?

Another printer company (Brother) has fallen to the allure of "remote disable" if they object to you using your own device in a way they don't like: trying to self-service, use third party inks, whatever. It's at their discretion. Given printers are the sorts of devices to which you tend to want to have network access, preventing this is a lot of work.

I've been looking at color duplex laser printers, and Brother has been at the top of the list, until they recently announcement that they'd disable printers using third party inks.

BIFL to me implies that the company isn't going to actively sabotage self-service, or restrict your usage of the thing, so I think this is an appropriate question for this c/.

My wife's work computer desktop background changed itself today, and she called me in to see it. I said, "that's a Saw Whet." Not believing me, she looked up the credits and said, "get out! It is!"

I owe it all to !superbowl. I couldn't have identified even a Snowy before this community.

Thanks, anon6789.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/57615714

http://xkcd.com/936/

Not worth creating a project for, and it might be interesting to see what changes people would make.

Non-standard dependencies:

• words, for the dictionary
• zsh (this will probably work just fine with bash, though, too)

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#!/usr/bin/zsh
# Author: @sxan@midwest.social
# 2025-02-23

final=(xargs echo)
count=6
while getopts d opt; do
    case $opt in
        d)
            final=(tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')
            ;;
        *)
            printf "Password generator based on the correcthorse algorithm from http://xkcd.com/936//n/n"
            printf "USAGE: %s [-d] [#]\n" "$0"
            printf " -d  make the result all lower case; otherwise, each word will be capitalized.\n"
            printf " #   the number of words to include. Defaults to 6."
            exit 1
            ;;
    esac
done
shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
[[ $# -gt 0 ]] && count=$*

shuf -n $((count * 2)) /usr/share/dict/american-english | \
    sed 's/'"'"'.*//; s/^\(\w\)/\U\1/' | \
    sort | uniq | shuf -n $count | xargs 
  

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55039423

The title sounds horrible. Maybe the concept is, too. But bear with me.

BLUF: A server extension that allows servers to replicate and relate user profile social scores, as defined by the community.

Caveat: I'm wiring from an essentially democratic values POV. Libertarians, anarchists, and fascists will disagree with some of my premises for differing reasons.

An idea I've had knocking around for years is that regulating all behavior is a bad idea. We want as few laws covering personal behavior as possible while still ensuring safety and basic harmony. Laws covering rape, theft, and assault I think most of us can agree are good. Laws covering how people dress, what music they listen to, the books they read are bad laws. Laws covering hate speech and noise in public spaces are in a gray area.

But this doesn't mean there's historically not been regulation for social behavior; it's just been done by peer pressure. Someone using racist language might not be illegal, but that person might

Hi! I have many questions which I will try to phrase in ways that that can be answered in yes/no format, in the hope that my post will be no burden. I did not see anything in the sidebar restricting such a post, and neither have I found answers online.

• I am currently focusing on 9front. There being approximately 15 Plan 9 derivatives, is this community appropriate for asking 9front questions?
• I read that Plan 9 is monolithic, but I found a lot of apocryphal evidence that it's actual quite much more of a microkernel in spirit. Is this at all true?
• Searching "plan 9 Rust" returns only results for r9. Is there any cross compiling, or has Rust be ported to 9front? To be clear, I have no interest in Rust itself, but there are some programs written in Rust I'd like to have.
• I hate having to use a mouse. I consequently have greatly disliked Acme every time I've used it. Should I give up on 9front?
• I want helix as my editor. This is really just rephrasing the previous two qu

First, a caveat: I'm not running pure DD-WRT, but a GL-iNet router that has some UI shim (and possibly other stuff) running on top of DD-WRT.

The issue I'm seeking help on is that I am seeing odd behavior with client resolution, where sometimes lan device names will resolve, and sometimes they won't. When they won't, there's a thing I can do in the UI and it'll start working again for a while, until it doesn't.

The other variable is that I've got all outbound traffic going through a VPN, and DNS servers configured by the VPN. This does, and always has, worked, and DNS tests always confirm that external DNS requests are going to those servers.

The issue is that I want all LAN hosts to resolve using the leases. And sometimes this works, but sometimes it stops working and LAN hosts don't resolve. I can fix this by toggling the "DNS Server Settings" between "DNS Proxy" with the IP of the router as the proxy, and "Automatic" (which, it appears to me, just sets resolution to the VPN setti

I normally go for odroid for these sorts of things but have had a bad run recently.

What I want is a bare minimum computer I can hook to some externally powered speakers and run snapclient on. That's it; nothing else will run on it. It's part of a project to get audio casted into every room.

Arch, because I'm most comfortable with Arch; I don't have to learn any new peculiarities; Alpine would also work. deb and rpm-based distros aren't options.

It needs WiFi, or the ability to take a module. And of course an RCA out jack for the audio plug.

Cheap would be nice.

I have no experience with Pis, but there's a bewildering variety of them with varying capability; many don't come with WiFi, and some not even with audio out. It's frankly hard to tell what's the minimum Pi I can get away with for my use case, and what components I need to add on. I don't want to have to become a Pi expert just to get one device for this.

IME getting Arch running on odroid is a bit of work, and Mint or wh

This is an opinion. Not even a shower thought, but something that I just realized I could express succinctly.

I'm a TUI/CLI person. I look first for CLI programs, and only if I don't find a way to do it in a shell do I look at GUI alternatives.

I'm also a tiling WM person. I used i3 for several years, and then bspwm for a hot minute, and for nearly a year now have been in herbstluftwm. I'm at a point where hlwm not running on Wayland is the main reason I'm not on Wayland.

But at one point, before discovering the joys of tiling, I was a big KDE fan. So it's been interesting to find myself skipping Qt apps in favor of GTK apps when I have to use GUI apps; and just now I realized why:

When you pull a GTK app, only rarely does it link in a bunch of Gnome dependencies; when it does, it's usually pretty obvious in the name or description... "X for Gnome" or some such. But Qt apps are really bad about hooking in and pulling a bunch of KDE dependencies, launching KDE services, and genera

I have a situation where generics would be useful: a server (that I do not control or influence) with many API endpoints that each returns very similar json. There's an envelope with common attributes and then an embedded named substructure (the name differs in the return value of each call) of a different type.

Without generics, you could do something like:

 undefined

    
type Base struct {
   // common fields
}

type A {
   Base
   A struct {
      // subtype fields
   }
}

type B {
   Base
   B struct {
      // subtype fields
   }
}

  

but then you'd need to either duplicate a bunch of API calling and unmarshalling code, or consolidate it and do a bunch of type casting and checking.

Generics to the rescue: subtypes become specific types for a general type:

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type Base[T any] {
   // common fields
   Subfield T
}

type A struct {
  // subtype fields
}

type B struct {
  // subtype fields
}

  

It even looks cleaner! Ah, but the rub is that the marshaled field name Subfield is the sa