Vegard Skjefstad @vegardskjefstad@mastodon.social
Lord of Lochaber and performer of computer wizardry by day. Father of two, wordsmith, and casual gamer by night.
Joined Nov 2018
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Echo Fox lays off League of Legends players as franchise slot sale moves forward
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-08-20-echo-fox-lays-off-league-of-legends-players-as-franchise-slot-sale-moves-forward
Why Should I Use a Password Manager?
Why Should I Use A Password Manager? Short answer: You should use a password manager because good passwords are hard to remember. Long answer: Read this post.
The Ultimate Gaming Rig
My gaming rig is 10 years old, and I'm in dire need of a replacement. But what is the ultimate gaming rig?
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Getting very strong hints that the Fairphone 3 will be unveiled on Tuesday 27th August 📱
You can follow Fairphone on their official Fediverse account:
...and on their community account:
Fairphone manufacture smartphones using as ethical methods and materials as possible, all the way through the supply chain.
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G2A says it couldn't be responsible for chargebacks on Natural Selection 2 keys in 2013 because its marketplace didn't exist then.
Its own website says it sold over 100,000 keys that year.
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OK everyone, time to reset your face and fingerprint. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/14/major-breach-found-in-biometrics-system-used-by-banks-uk-police-and-defence-firms
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Version 0.1908.14-beta just released as a follow-up from two days ago:
🔷 Improve how connections are scheduled
🔷 Improve the rendering and ordering in the connections tab
🔷 Reduce the size of this app by 1.6MB
https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0190814-beta
Gaming Rig Sustainability – New or Second-Hand?
My gaming rig is 10 years old, and I'm in dire need of a replacement. But how much should I care about gaming rig sustainability?
https://www.vegard.net/gaming-rig-sustainability-new-or-second-hand/
Gaming Rig Tinkering Factor – Parts or Pre-assembled?
My gaming rig is 10 years old, and I'm in dire need of a replacement. But what level of gaming rig tinkering do I want to expose myself to?
https://www.vegard.net/gaming-rig-tinkering-parts-or-pre-assembled/
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* ActivityPub Conference 2019 * Speakers announced
Just making a page - see the schedule
https://redaktor.me/apconf/
This was crazy interesting. https://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/
"Fixed" it by tweaking the time values set in the test objects. That's an hour of my life I'd love to get back somehow. Now I'll go cry in the shower.
So it's a timing issue all right. Manager to reproduce the problem locally.
The F and S word.
Pulled the dependency code, compiled locally, ran the test again, aaaaaaand... it's still green. The hunt continues. I loathe this.
Found a commit with the message "made some changes to transaction handling" in a SNAPSHOT-dependency. Wouldn't be surprised if that's the culprit.
Things I don't enjoy wasting my time on: Figuring out why a unit test (WTF!?) fails on the CI server even when it's all green locally.
August One-liners
New one-liners for August 2019.
https://www.vegard.net/august-one-liners-2019/
#One-liners
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I discovered my first hidden camera at an AirBnB last week in Yerevan, Armenia. Always scan the wifi when you get to a new place!! #surveillance #nmap #privacy #dystopia #security #badposture
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Lord of Lochaber and performer of computer wizardry by day. Father of two, wordsmith, and casual gamer by night.
Joined Nov 2018
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