There’s tons of Greek vegetarian dishes. Gyros and souvlaki are not your average every day home cooked meals.

Lovely. They are without a doubt a Wilson.

Beautiful little bird. How long does this type of bird live?

If some of them are users rather than admins, it makes sense and maybe it’s a good sign that they don’t have to know in order to use the service.

Nice and tidy setup. What specs do the Thinkcenters have? And what rack is that?

No, but I’ve started thinking about getting a plan B ready (despite being in very stable circumstances). I am a late arrival to tech, but came to this field because I’m genuinely interested in it and want to immerse myself. It’s not my background and trying to catch up and keep up is tricky, but it has been interesting.

Yet, with what tech is trending towards (chat control, government IDs required to participate online, talk of banning adblockers and VPNs, the ever expanding reach of FAANG or whatever the acronym is) I’m not sure whether I can keep the enthusiasm up. What attracted me to tech was the scrappy underdogs in FOSS, the people standing up to the monopolies…but I’ve been losing some of my initial optimism.

AI is just the latest development in the saga, which puts question marks on the viability of a career in tech, as well as providing sort of poisoned chalice of convenience to somebody still starting out. I want to know and learn whatever I can myself, but my peers are ahead and using AI. Whenever I use AI I can feel my patience, curiosity and satisfaction atrophying.

Cidona, it’s basically a non-Alcholic version of one of the biggest alcoholic apple cider brands in Ireland. A gateway drug.

Hmm, I see. I do this all the time as well. Always wonder with memes can I just relate because they’re ordinary human reactions or traits or actual indicators of some kind.

Is this an ADHD thing?

Mrs Doyle! Didn’t expect to see you off Craggy Island.

A small town/suburb in Cork. Also the home of the Blarney Stone and the origin of the word ‘blarney’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blarney

Not a bad reach for a town of around 2k population.

Blarney beats Tipperary in this scenario.

There is a decent possibility he is a money mule, he may be unaware that what he is doing is illegal. There is some precedent specifically for criminals in China using people overseas as money mules.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/operations-services-and-innovation/public-awareness-and-prevention-guides/money-muling

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-09/new-scam-china-foreigners-chinese-international-student-victims/104537850

Legitimate question, did you temporarily disable it, or did it just not manage to block this post because those words aren’t in the title?

Sort of, yes. In it’s earliest stages it was just an attempt at a FOSS.Minecraft like game, but it evolved into the engine/platform it is over the past few years. Minetest uses LUA as a.scripting language, which I believe Roblox also uses.

It’s more than that, it’s a whole engine and launcher combo for (mostly) voxel games, most of which again are Minecraft like, but some are very different. It’s made some huge leaps recently, graphics wise and functionality wise. The promise of the engine is also being fulfilled with more original game projects being developed for it.