I was a bit busy this weekend.

#programming

https://notabug.org/scuti/xdfcgi

https://git.projectsegfau.lt/scuti/xdfcgi

I had given some attention to an old project for an old game server that is no longer online.

I had added:

• 2 new sql(lite3) queries
• a python script
• some edits to a C program

The database pertains to racing in a video game. For a given map, a player can have a score and a velocity; the server only tracks the best 'n' records and the highest velocity.

The results can be seen at:

https://antares.neocities.org/xdf/

All the links on this page are SFW. Quake 3 Defrag maps file names are generally prefixed by screen name of the map creator.

Thinking about Lojbanic Futhark (Anglo-Saxon). Futhark does not have 'c' and 'v' which Lojban requires; however, 'th' and 'w' can be repurposed.

le vensa cu klama.i

ᛚᛖ ᚹᛖᚾᛊᚪ ᚦᚢ ᚲᛚᚪᛗᚪ.ᛁ ("le wensa þu klama.i")

ᛗᛁ ᛊᛁᛏᛚᚪ ᛚᛖ ᚹᛚᚪᛊᛁᛊᚳᚢ.ᛁ

sitla is experimental gismu.

https://vlasisku.lojban.org/sitla

(I can't come up with a good example for Lojbanic 'y' because I pronounce the 'a' in "sofa" and the 'a' in "father" similarly.)

https://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-anglophone-phonetics.html

ми меншти.и

• https://archive.is/https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-forced-to-get-3-vaccines
• https://nitter.poast.org/erin_bsn/status/1835883185215078483#m

со'и прену шу да'арта'а бу'у|хеи'е ле пикску пагбу .и

хеи'е is experimental cmavo.

https://vlasisku.lojban.org/xei'e

#california #lojban

Unusual reporting between online outlets regarding this story. Some articles claim she is a California woman while others claim she is a Florida woman.

Florida woman Alexis Lorenze has a history of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH). She was admitted to UCI Medical Center in California for treatment.

A 23-year-old California woman is fighting for her life at the hospital after she suffered an extreme reaction to vaccines.

tuxmain writes about cryptographic ring signatures and the mathematics behind them.

Une version française ici.

#blogroll #francais

ми меншти

http://web.archive.org/web/20160403023155/https://money.org/blog/french-revolution-vault

ле кибъпапри шу скишу ле ждини бе ле фасъгу'е пу ле ну пу'урши фа ле фрасо ши'ернунби'о.и синри же малселфу'а фе ле ка мажгау ле се ждини ле ханди'и пои фепни.и

#lojban

scuti.neocities.org

Minetest: Digilines Ice & Drink Machine

scuti builds a drink machine in Minetest which has an unintended effect of creating infinite buckets.

"It's a feature not a bug."

#blogroll

scuti.neocities.org

hanvon-linux

I wrote a userspace driver for a very old pen tablet (Hanvon Graphicpal 0504) and used it to scribble in Krita.

No AI involved in the making of aforementioned doodle (or pen tablet driver).

#blogroll

naru'e catra fela .trump.i xrapoi felo pulji poi denpa le nu daspo le garbi'u.i file cisni cu mintu lo pulji le garbi'u.i

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/DC_Draino/status/1813290490403430856#m

#lojban

"Exposure to Aluminum, Cadmium, and Mercury and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" by Rosalind Sulaiman, Meng Wang, and Xuefeng Ren

https://sci-hub.st/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00167

(Aluminum is a neurotoxic metal that is used as an adjuvant in vaccines.)

"Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?" by Lucija Tomljenovic and Christopher A Shaw

https://sci-hub.st/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22099159/

I had read of the case of Hannah Poling, a girl whose family in 2010 filed an autism claim in "federal vaccine court" and won.

For years, federal health agencies and professional organizations had reassured the public that vaccines didn't cause autism. Now, with DHHS making this concession in a federal claims court, the government appeared to be saying exactly the opposite. Caught in the middle, clinicians were at a loss to explain the reasoning behind the VICP's decision.

The case is also reported by CBS news.

https://archive.is/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-to-receive-15m-plus-in-first-ever-vaccine-autism-court-award/

"Vaccines cause autism" is a claim that is heavily antagonized by The Mainstream as "anti-science" or "misinformation". A cursory search on a mainstream search engine often leads to headlines that cites a doctor whose license has been revoked but doesn't address the entire breadth or depth of suspicions. I had my results change drastically when "heavy metals" were added to the keywords.

#scihub

"Hey, can I take a picture of your shirt?"

"Sure!"

The shirts given out at LayerOne had two variations. The staff shirts were green while the attendee shirts were dark blue. The graphic design on the shirts have a sequence in hex which can be decoded into a message that was part of a game within the event.

When asked about the hex sequence, the staff will generally say, the codes are the same or that the shirts are the same except for the colors which is correct but not in the way they expected.

#layerone

Me assembling the badge for Layer One 2024.

This year's badge was a programmed fidget spinner with a row of lights. When spun, the lights would display text such as "HACK THE PLANET" depending on the mode set by pressing the button. However, the middle part had to be broken off, and I wanted to keep the whole thing intact.

My favorite effect was the rotations per minute counter.

#layerone

I found strawberry sprouts in my compost bin and put them in a temporary container.

#gardening

mi klama la .skail.21x. noi nunjmaji fe le sampli poi pilno la .linux.i lo pixra poi snipa pe lo zipcpi cu se dunda.i (le se nunjmaji cu cinri.)

#lojban

The duality of SCALE 21x: the Free Software Foundation, for example, gave away anti-GitHub stickers while not being so far from the Github booth.

En plus, un autocollant indique, "il n'y a pas de cloud, seulement des ordinateurs d'autres personnes".

#francais

mi fila .chat.g.p.t. pu tipre.i le runmenli filo samselpla noi selci'a bau la .piton. pu spuda.i le samselpla cu tolspofu .i ku'i le sumji cu selpau du'e namcu.i

https://notabug.org/scuti/amort

#lojban

I wonder which GitHub repo did it rip the source code from, or if it was legitimately generated on the spot.

lo pendo pe mi lo samselkei pu dunda.i je mi ri pu samyzilkeikei.i la .sakunan. cu ralselylispre.i ri cu banro le rismi gi'e damba le pacycrida.i le lisri .e le zgike cu xamgu.i

le kibypapri cu skicu le samselkei.i

glibau:

My friend gifted a video game, and I played it. The one named Sakuna is the protagonist. She grows rice and fights demons. The story and the music are good.

The web page describes the game.

antares.neocities.org

[Review] Sakuna of Rice and Ruin

Antares forces a princess of child-like stature to toil in manual labor and sets the language of her complaints to Japanese. (Review of a hybrid farming sim and platformer.)

#blogroll #lojban

mi kurji lo gerku.i le gerku cu nitcu ci prenu pu le nu stuvi'e le panka.i

#lojban

Some girl takes my unimpressive looking gift from the gifts table:

"Oh! It's Steam!"

(A Steam wallet card.)

"Ooh, Steam," a few others notice.

"... What's Steam?" the hostess says, looking a bit confused.

(I played white elephant.) Also what I got from a Christmas party:

1. a soft blanket
2. three bottles of alcohol (more than I can drink on my own)
3. a card with Santa Claus on it
4. a candy bag (not in photo, eaten)

Today, I read into yes/no questions. Since the community is small, it is reasonable to ask if there are active or online users.

https://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/sampli

https://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/active

https://jbovlaste.lojban.org/natlang/en/idle

I couldn't find a definition for 'online'.

"lo sampli cu .akti."

(A user is active.)

"xu lo sampli cu .akti."

(Is a user active?)

'xu' is an interjection that indicates a question, so question marks are not necessary. 'xu' can be placed anywhere in a sentence.

"lo xu sampli cu .akti"

(Is any user active?)

"lo sampli xu cu .akti."

(Is it a user that is active?)

"lo sampli cu .akti xu."

(A user, is he or she active?)

#lojban

Mon ami français s'est connecté au serveur Minetest. Il habite dans une cabane distante de la ville. Avant, il a acheté des provisions, mais aujourd'hui, il creé une ferme.

Underlined are words or phrases of the day.

• Je vais agrandir la cabane. Elle devient trops petite.
• La fois prochaine, je me mettrai à la recherche de semence.
• Ah oui. Comment on fait pour récupéré une ruche ?

In English:

• I am going to expand the cabin. It became too small.
• (rough) Next time, I am putting myself to search for seeds.
• Ah yes. How does one recover a (bee)hive?

(Minetest spawns bee nests on trees given a simple rule regardless of biome or proximity to flowers. He lives in a savannah where flowers don't grow. So when bee nests spawn on trees, the colony dies.)

#minetest #francais

Hier soir, je joué Minetest avec quelqu'un de France. Some noteworthy sentences:

1. Je suis déjà mort deux fois. mais pour l'instant je suis en bonne santé.
2. On peut en faire quelque chose les toiles d'arraignée ?
3. Il ne vaut mieux pas tomber là dedans. On ne retrouverait meme pas les os.

meaning

1. I already died twice, but for the moment, I am in good health.
2. We can do something about the webs of spiders? (We found webs made by monsterous spiders.)
3. It is better not to fall in there. We wouldn't even recover the bones. (We found a lava lake.)

The third sentence is an odd phrase that doesn't follow the general rule in that "ne ... pas" wraps around the verb ("faut"); instead, "faut mieux" is negated.

Another way to write "it's better not (to fall)" is

"il vaut mieux ne pas (tomber)".

In this case, the infinitive is just negated with "ne...pas" preceding it.

#minetest #francais