"You can now use Debian without Linux" is a misleading headline: should read "A small but growing number of experts can now use Debian without Linux." Most of "us" probably cannot.
AI is technology. An old man rambling about nonsense is not technology. If he was rambling about blueberry pie that wouldn't make this a cooking article.
this is not technology
Good post! Always nice to see actual technology on this sub.
they're wearing the clothes of "open source" but they run like a proverbial nazi bar: https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html
the million dollar question: is a cheesecake technically a pie?
this is a good bit, but if you read Calvin and Hobbes, calvin's dad is hella autism coded. he'd be THRILLED to see how many distros there are.
calvin's dad wouldn't be upset by the number of linux derivatives. he'd be thrilled. a whole new world to be autistic about.
Sure, but I feel like the "TAS" part needs a qualifier. Normally a TAS is the logical extreme of a human run. It's like a player piano, it's a script that could in principle be played on the real game.
But a real life runner versus a minecraft "TAS" wouldn't be in the same ballpark, because the real life runner can't magically skip all the load times. It just feels disingenuous to call this a TAS, unless there's a way to real-time verify it.
Debian or Ubuntu because they're stable and well-funded. Makes a lot of stuff easier.
its relevant and i was genuinely confused and arguing in good faith. i was wrong, and i accept that, but you don't have to make up that it was "irrelevant."
i want to believe this is the case, but if so, its poorly communicated.
source code available at https://codeberg.org/nupanick/qrplay
psst, any suggestions for good 1 screen 4 player pc games?
Homeworlds is a pure strategy game played using a set of colored pyramids. The colors and sizes represent different resources, and the goal is to build an interstellar supply chain to destroy your opponent's home planet.
Because the game is pure strategy, there's a risk of the meta becoming stale someday. Chess and Go are intimidating to new players because you basically have to study centuries of meta before you can do anything new in them.
So I've been thinking about ways to modify Homeworlds to be "imperfect strategy". This is my favorite pitch so far: the Secret Weapon.
When building your homeworld at the start of the game, each player also secretly places a 12mm dice under a large opaque pyramid. I'm using black 'mids here because they're not used for any purpose in game. The number on the hidden die represents one of the four resource types: 1 = yellow (warp), 2 = red (steal), 3 = green (replicate), 4 = blue (transform).
Once per game, without costing an action, you may reveal your Secret Weapon. Immediately take any piece of that color from the bank, and build it at your homeworld.
I haven't playtested this yet, so let me know if you do. I'm hoping it would lead to situations in the early- to mid-game, such as "hmm, I think it's safe to build a large piece, because you can't steal it this turn... unless your secret weapon is red, of course." The bluff and counter-bluff would make it impossible to play perfectly, so the meta would always have room to evolve.
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