#rtfm

[opendirectories]

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Life is too short for man pages, and occasionally much too short without them.

RTFM [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball with a knife sticking out of his heavily bleeding face stands in front of a toaster on a counter, which has an arm extending from the top of it. He is holding a telephone to his ear.] Cueball: Hello, 911? I just tried to toast some bread, and the toaster grew an arm and stabbed me in the face! 911: Did you read the toaster's man page first? Cueball: Well, no, but all I wanted was-- 911: click

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

I am tired of this hair

I am going to shave it

[sntechsupport]

what is an aspect core

You know. Your Dream Moons have libraries. Each of those libraries has at least one copy of Anatomy of the Powers that Be. Chapter 12: Core is about [Aspect] Cores.

But TL;DR: It's a battery, except it stores its Aspect rather than electricity. (But for example Mind has electricity as its elemental interpretation, so Mind Cores you can use to actually power a Gameboy.) Oh, and they can detonate.

Sincerely

SN Tech Support (Gear)

[aaronsrpgs]

New Patreon-only episode of RTFM! We talk about about @maxwellander's recent game Repent, game design influences, and Lost. There's also a raw text version of my solo PbtA Lost-like game.

[cannedcat]

Digital Apocalypse S1E1

Perchè accadono cose come quelle del 2024/07/19 nel 2024! Come ho detto altre volte, confermato dal disastro di ieri 19/7/24, il mondo si avvia verso un’apocalisse digitale. Perché? Perchè nessuno rispetta più le regole. E i politici (nel mondo) sono troppo ignoranti e/o corrotti per farle rispettare. Quali regole? Regole tecniche, regole di buon senso e regole legali. Cominciamo da quelle…

[judahmaccabees]

(Jehovah |

apyrq ;))

[shamshirsam]

I'm updating the user manuals at my job and I've been testing them on my non-technical coworkers. And I've got a question for anyone who wants to answer.

Fellas, how do I get the user to read the fucking manual?

[nonfer]

also: nonfer

so your role models are authoritarians, wanna be totalitarians, blackmailing extortionists, and illiterate fools? not much hope for sense have you. bye for now then, i suppose.

funny. blackmailing extortionists can't find its clip. could be my mistake. here's the first look at it: https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3CkZLrmDMY6z4WYSHFu7I30mzO5cF1xo

seriously though, people that never accept facing the consequences of their actions wind up leaving those consequences to others. it's easy to call anyone an illiterate fool. personally, i actually don't find non-fiction to be of interest. it might be necessary and not otherwise of interest. hilarious that no one can actually find the white house correspondents' association's charter anymore. funnier that it isn't trivial to find which white house administration saw it go missing.

[so far i've remembered to try twice.]

have better things to do?

"Earlier in the day, Judge Juan Merchan held Trump in contempt of court for violating his gag order in the case for the 10th time. Merchan fined Trump $1,000 and warned that he could face jail time for future infractions."

previously:

"Prosecutors from Bragg's office filed a motion urging the judge to find Trump in contempt over 10 posts targeting Cohen, Daniels and others. Merchan found that Trump violated the order in all but one of the posts.

Prosecutors laid out four other instances in which they said Trump violated the order when court convened last Thursday. Those four alleged violations are the subject of a hearing set to be held this week."

know where you were each time inflation hit? bet by now you don't expect to see 'executives' take paycuts. upper management though is only part of a repeating cycle devaluing our currency...

i know some might want to blame a person or two for politics, from hero worship or even for paid sycophantry. however, to damage one of the world's strongest economies, if not the strongest, i don't think you've taken in a wide enough field of view. blaming just one or both 'successful', private, political parties might not be wrong, but still wouldn't necessarily explain.

[monk-of-mystery]

sometimes getting people to read new documentation is hard

[monaddecepticon]

When you read the user manual and there is a clearly written detailed chapter on the topic you were running into a year ago and giving up.

[chillywillycd-blog]

Azure CLI via Podman (Docker)

#TIL when you're running the azure cli (az) via podman (like docker, but not run via root owned service), that the -t switch is your enemy.

-t joins the output of STDOUT and STDERR, and thus can result in the output of your command containing extra control characters, in particular this means it can contain the \r control character. this makes processing the results in a bash script EXTREMELY difficult.

the -t switch DOES clearly document this, but who reads documentation

NOTE: The --tty flag prevents redirection of standard output. It combines STDOUT and STDERR, it can insert control characters, and it can hang pipes. This option is only used when run interactively in a terminal. When feeding input to Podman, use -i only, not -it.

[sntechsupport]

Dear Tech Support,

I believe you are the correct professionals to contact in this scenario, as my son handed me a card with web address on it.

I was minding my business, reading the news paper and enjoying the humorous article on mortgage rates in my local area when in comes my son! This is normal, as it's not like I lock him inside, but he seemed extra vigorous today.

I asked, "Woah Champ, what has your britches on fire?!"

My son, predictably, rolled his eyes at me and proclaimed that he had got some early release of a hot new game. I cant recall the name is it sounded like one of those web slang words. I, like a father should, reminded him to do his homework first before playing whatever game with his friends and sent him off.

Regardless, for the sake of brevity I will simply state that afterwards I went into my personal longue to ponder the universe and my place in it, then everything started shining white!

When I blinked the spots out of my eyes, I ran out to the living room and couldn't help but notice a series of home invaders with backwards hats, paddings, what were almost insectiod in nature were accosting my boy with skateboards.

Luckily, like any fine gentleman, I was armed with my Nine Iron and made quick work of the little buggers. They proceeded to explode and throw some oddly shaped candy everywhere.

After adjusting my suit, my son hugged me tight, handed me a business card with your information, and asked me to ask you I quote" What the fuck is going on?"

I denounce the language used in this inquiry, but endorse it's spirit.

I would write a more detailed letter, but it appears that the big brothers and sisters of the earlier hooligans have started marching on my lawn

Warm Regards,

Robert Samson, CFO of Men's Leisurely Sporting Bi-Monthly.

Dear Mr. Samson,

first a brief summary of your current situation: Your estate has entered the Medium - a aide reality in which the game exists. This allows for the most immersive game experience for all Players (such as: your son). You don’t have to imagine what it would be like to be in the game; you are in the game! Since the Incinisphere, as the reality bubble of the Medium you are in is called, generates its own power and signal, you are going to save a ton on electricity, phone, and internet bills.

The invaders in your house are called Underlings, killing them provides experience points, which allow you to get stronger and deal with enemies more efficiently, and resources, which are used for upgrading your living suite and Alchemizing - a process in which you create new equipment and other objects out of existing ones.

I suggest that you and Mr. Samson Jr. improve your current strife specibi and perhaps also Alchemize yourself some boosting accessories to deal with the larger underlings in your immediate vicinity. Afterwards/Meanwhile your son’s Server player (a friend online playing along) ought to build your house tall enough to comfortably reach the first Gate straight above it - it is a portal that leads to the Land on which your estate is currently located, it should be near a settlement of friendly Consorts.

While at it, your son is supposed to act as the Server Player to his Client Player - deploy their cruxtruder, alchemizer, totem lathe, and expand their house vertically.

For further information go to our website, you should have the address at the bottom of business card, and download the Game Manual. It is hard to miss it is the big button in the middle of the home page. Consult this Manual, it is a very informative pdf.

Sincerely

SN Tech Support (Gear)

[deuza42]

Orienté grand public, https://numeriqueethique.fr/ est rempli de fiches explicatives et de tuto. Apparement c’est un ancien site pour les abonnés à la MAIF, qui vit depuis 8 ans (Mes Datas et Moi) et qui à été ouvert à tous, sympa !

Les sujets traités sont divers, bien traités et suffisamment vulgarisés amha :

Le site est créé autour de 6 axes principaux :

Vie privée

Usages numériques

Risque et sécurité

Hygiène numérique

Futur connecté

Résumé de l’actualité

Et il est possible d’adapter les résultats en fonction des connaissances du lecteur

Vous connaissez sans doute quelqu’un à qui cela pourrait être utile ;)

[eauverdose]

L'art de la sieste... #lundi #lundimotivation #mondaymood #mondaymorning #rtfm #piazzanavona #streetphotography #streetlife #street #artsculpture #simply_noir_blanc #noiretblanc #noiretblancphotographie #bnwsouls #bnw #fierdemonfuji (à Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOZgzyohpP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[agonyone]

There's a reason why we tend to use words like "fall" or "crush" when it comes to love.