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lizzie moratti 3d ago

Mark Dominus 3d ago

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

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lizzie moratti Apr 19

Lmao well I got a #turtlewow repack working locally on a steamdeck. You can just run the binaries with Proton.

Someone built it after their source code and websites leaked 2 years ago.

lizzie moratti Apr 15

Rolf Oldejans Apr 15

A bus stop in Trzebież, Poland kept getting destroyed by vandals.

Local mayor installed a punching bag next to it.

Vandalism stopped completely.

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lizzie moratti Apr 13

Like the percentage of people who got to see the last pieces of content in major MMOs is low. Like really, really low. Largely because they need to develop more and sell to keep themselves alive because of business costs.

Some MMOs that have closed down likely never had anyone see a fraction of them also makes me sad.

I suppose it’s similar to TTRPGs in that way. So expansive and ‘massive’ that it would take years to play. The game assets can exist on paper or in a database but when they are experienced with others over a long time it can create very powerful bonds between people.

My major gripe with MMOs is that they are always available to play even when you don’t have the time. It creates a very asymmetric and antisocial culture around them based on the amount of time you dedicate.

lizzie moratti Apr 13

I’m having such a blast exploring underground forums for MMO virtual emulators.

It’s a shame that live service games can’t be modded the same way as something like Skyrim without creating copyright and IP issues.

Every MMO that closes without a server image release feels like a crime to my internal archivist because it’s effectively a 3rd space that can’t be revisited.

lizzie moratti Mar 11

> It’s about maintaining enough technical competence that you are a participant in the systems you depend on rather than a permanent subject of them.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

Legitimately one the best blog post on this concept I've read this year. I have some critiques, but most of them are rooted in nitpicks and my team spent in pentest consulting companies in the US.

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

lizzie moratti Feb 11

I'm tired of large companies tightening their holds over my communication, relationships, data, and social life.

I set my Discord profile picture to a QR code I made that points to this website (technically it's archive.is version). I like it because it encapsulates a lot of the things I take issue with about Discord.
https://usemumble.neocities.org/

I have backed up my Discord DMs using this:
https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

I also backed up the Discord Servers that I own or help maintain.

Here's how you can reach me.
Socially:
Here on Mastodon
@lizzie.coffee on BlueSky (I rarely check this)
Privately:
Signal: morattisec.7331
Privately, group DMs:
Matrix: [email protected]
Email:
[email protected]

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lizzie moratti Jan 22

Asking it the byte differences between these two files also causes the behavior where Claude refuses to respond.

Simply uploading it wasn't sufficient. I guess this also means that the "deeper thinking prompts" aren't handling the magic strings the way the docs say to.

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lizzie moratti Jan 22

Ah, this is also interesting but not too shocking. If you encode the magic string as invisible Unicode it'll still cause the same behavior too.

I think that means this will be a cat and mouse game as long as magic strings exist as functionality then.

https://embracethered.com/blog/ascii-smuggler.html