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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Posting something on a website does not make it public domain. Typically, the website’s Terms of Service will require that you grant the website operator a license to use any content that you post on the site (so that they can display it to other users). That license does not extend to other visitors of the same website.

    Of course, in practice, it’s very unlikely that someone would take you to court over copying a website comment. But if someone posts, say, an original work of art or a short story in a comment thread, you should be aware that it is still protected by copyright.





  • I’ve been playing CrossCode, an indie action RPG that’s basically a love letter to 2D retro games.

    I’ve found it incredibly engaging, almost addictive. I’ll sit down to play, and multiple hours will pass in what feels like no time at all. There are parts where the difficulty gets high enough to become genuinely frustrating (mostly in the puzzles, not the combat), but the game feels so good to play that I’ve never been tempted to quit. It does an incredible job of evoking the feeling of a retro game without compromising on modern quality-of-life features or polish.

    I’ve found lately that polish is the single thing that most makes a game stand out in my mind, and perhaps surprisingly, some of the most polished experiences I’ve had have been with indie games. Hollow Knight was one of them, and from what I’ve seen so far, I’d rank CrossCode in the same league. Very excited to see how the story ends, and check out the DLC.






  • For me, Crunchbang was a great introduction to the possibilities of customizing your Linux experience. No giant, monolithic desktop environment, just a handful of programs that you could (and were encouraged to) tweak or replace to your heart’s content.

    I still run a Crunchbang-inspired setup on my vanilla Debian install—openbox, tint2, conky, nitrogen, gmrun, Win+Letter hotkeys for frequently-used apps, etc. While I’ve outgrown the need for a preconfigured distro myself, I’m glad to see these projects still providing an on-ramp for users looking to dip their toes into the deeper end of the Linux pool.




  • Personally my only gripe with systemd is that the systemctl and journalctl commands are cryptic and unintuitive. Every time I have to use one (which thankfully isn’t often), I have to spend 5 minutes reading man pages to remind myself whether -u is “user” or “unit”, what the difference is between a “unit” and a “service”, etc.

    I imagine this is what non-developers feel like when they’re forced to use git—having a whole pile of unfamiliar vocabulary and syntax thrown in your face when you’re just trying to do one simple thing.