I set up a very straightforward Godot dev environment yesterday using toolbox which is built on top of rootless Podman.

• Create a new fedora toolbox
• Enter toolbox
• Install DotNet dependencies, git, etc with dnf
• Install Godot binary from release page
• Turns out there were other dependencies I needed
• Godot wanted a few Wayland libs on the container, so I installed Weston (maybe overkill)
• Godot wanted libxrandr so I added that too
• Godot just works ™

The nice thing about toolbox is that it uses my native host Wayland compositor. So whatever I have running in the toolbox can be interacted normally through sway (my host WM).

You can either distribute a container image with your given toolbox configured, or just document the setup steps.

You can host docker volumes over NFS, but the actual container images need to exist on a filesystem that supports overlay (which NFS does not) unless you want things to be slow as shit. And I really do mean miserably slow. A container image shared over NFS will take forever to spin up because it has to duplicate the entire container filesystem instead of using overlays, and then it’ll blow up your disk usage by copying all these files around instead of overlaying them. It’s truly unusable.

As someone who has seen Murnau’s Nosferatu quite a few times, I appreciated Eggers’ ending. The original really kinda ends when Hutter returns home. You get a couple of comedic scenes with Knock causing a ruckus in town, but basically the plague is a backdrop and Ellen just stumbles into discovering Orlock’s defeat. Then it’s over.

Meanwhile, Eggers added a real sense of dread and drama to Wisborg’s plague. The physical + mental toll of the plague is reflected in a more interesting way.

I did get taken out of the moment briefly at the end:

From that same discussion thread:

We plan on supporting any token/nft/coin for tipping, awards, curating, less captchas, etc. Each subplebbit owner should be able to create their own tokens or nfts to monetize their effort and incentivize their users to participate. Avatars will also be curated NFTs.

The protocol does not use blockchain for data, but the web service itself looks like it would use crypto and NFT to manage aspects of user identity, spam prevention, and monetary incentive.

It’s similar only in that it’s about a “Great man” remaking a society in collapse.

Really none of the themes are there. Nor is there any journey of discovery to understand who Caesar is, like you get in Atlas Shrugged where other characters learn who John Galt is.

Galt is “Self interest and belief in my vision will make society better”. Caesar is “McGuffin building materials and belief in my vision will make society better”. For all its flaws, one is at least a political statement, while the other is milquetoast hopium.

This movie is so hard to talk about, because the question is: “What is it even about?”

I like movies with abstract themes and strange storytelling, but this was just incomprehensible. Its plot revolves around the machinations of rich men to control the future of their city “New Rome”, but the plot is kinda meaningless. There’s never any real threat to Caesar’s goal. Just plot events that could be obstacles but then are immediately resolved/neutered. Ok, fine! Surely then it’s an art-house piece with a deep message? The plot points must be there for the sake of a larger theme. I was waiting for everything to add up in the finale, but it just ends up with Caesar delivering a speech filled with platitudes so bland that I thought it was a joke. Then the credits rolled and the 2 of the other 5 people in the theater with me started laughing.

isn’t it an annoyance having to connect to your home network all the time?

It’s less annoying than the gnawing fear that my network might be an easy target for attackers.

For anyone wondering, this was done on the virtual console version, so the floating point glitch that lets you skip the climbing pole from Bowser in the fire Sea is available.

The A Button Challenge still stands for the console versions.

Firstly, discord is entirely the wrong medium for documentation.

Secondly, documentation should be at least as accessible as the code. That is to say, if I can view the code without creating an account for some service, then I should also be able to read the documentation too.

I think that’s not the problem that this technology is intended to solve.

It’s not a “Is this picture copied from someone else?” technology. It’s a “Did a human take this picture, and did anyone modify it?” technology.

Eg: Photographer Bob takes a picture of Famous Fiona driving her camaro and posts it online with this metadata. Attacker Andy uses photo editing tools to make it look like Fiona just ran over a child. Maybe his skills are so good that the edits are undetectable.

Andy has two choices: Strip the metadata, or keep it.

If Andy keeps the metadata, anyone looking at his image can see that it was originally taken by Bob, and that Fiona never ran over a child.

If Andy strips the metadata (and if this technology is widely accessible and accepted by social media, news sites, and everyday people) then anyone looking at the image can say “You can’t prove this image was actually taken. Without further evidence I must assume that it’s faked”.

I think spinning this as a tool to fight AI is just clickbait because AI is hot in the news. It’s about provenance and limiting misinformation.