Posts by apzpins@some.apz.fi
 (DIR) Post #B4ereDhIWGF5YxdOi0 by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       I love how he does this little headbutt and head rub against my chest every now and then when he wakes up.#cats
       
 (DIR) Post #B4pKwqnEk0dIHRFPlY by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       There's this certain hubris to a lot of commentary about #pinball every time something I post goes a bit viral. The most typical comment is seeing some mechanism and commenting on how stupid it is because the commenter's tech bro expertise would have replaced it with a one cent part. This is what happened with the tilt sensor video where I compared 70s and 2020s tilt sensors.People were fist fighting each other to tell that it should be replaced with a MEMS sensor. I tried to explain the issue to some, as in the deeper soul of the game there are some things that have always remained no matter how much the technology has progressed. One obvious is the purely mechanical playfield and a ball, which to this day have not been simulated anywhere near satisfactory level. This other example is the tilt sensor, which many just see as momentary switch and completely miss that it actually keeps its momentum and forces the player to "cool it off" after some noticeably strong save move. So, it'd require simulating all that movement, not just the "indicate if the game was pushed beyond this force" information alone. It's also always "simple", but I see no one actually implementing it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4pKwsCRVmOCdu33h2 by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       Just to demonstrate how bad the ball physics in pinball sims were, here's a slight nudge in PInball dreams 2. This would require an insane amount of force to happen on a real game.https://www.twitch.tv/apzpins/clip/AbstruseSpicyMagpieStinkyCheese-axTfTG9l0Wg3SKDY
       
 (DIR) Post #B4pKwwynjvRrT2hjcm by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       That being said, we've been discussing about the solid state tilt for some time now and it'd be very curious thing to get right. One obvious benefit would be resetting it between players, as the real thing is left swinging if the previous player tilts the game. Another interesting thing would be some kind of an indicator of just how close to the limits the game is taken. A skilled player typically has some kind of a mental model of what's going on, so the simulation would have to match that image pretty closely, or else we're just getting the same reaction as a skilled pinball player playing any of the old simulations and just laughing when the ball does something physically impossible.
       
 (DIR) Post #B55ycGb8i1VsvXghVo by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       @ocean A lot of the 90s and early 00s free web hosting sites quickly proved they were worth their price. Had multiple sites taken down when they just went belly up or deleted my account for no explanation. Geocities lived the longest out of the ones I used before I actually started to pay for hosting.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5nzZvrpSo8OxhBKFM by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       Lap cat status: available#cat #cats #catsoffediverse
       
 (DIR) Post #B5nzZw7mVUtXlAe46y by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       Lap cat activated. Also featured: a murder mitten!#cats #cat
       
 (DIR) Post #B5xFfSuXNmeKa9kRSi by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       @leo Depending on how much effort people are willing to put in it, I wouldn't put it past them to have an actual person doing the registration part and then handing it over to the bots.I observed this on a PHPBB forum I used to administer.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6bOAENS2VGYRLqn1k by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       There appears to be an SQL injection #vulnerability in #peertube versions below 8.1.6 that's been actively exploited. If you run an instance, upgrade now or take it down until you can!#infosec https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.1.8EDIT: The vulnerability was fixed in 8.1.6, the 8.1.8 is a response to a widely pushed exploit.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9apAstboPCotwDO3E by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       @selea I think everyone who doesn't hate themselves when having to resize the system do this and if there's really something meaningfully big in there, then there's another disk mounted onto that point so it's easy to grow later on.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAVFygCdWS12NURfLU by apzpins@some.apz.fi
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       @gamingonlinux Another job well done by the AI bros. No! Wait!