FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org

@jwildeboer And to not be entirely negative, I think the country shall be more proud of this result:

@jwildeboer Indeed, the infections stats in NLD went up crazy in almost no time.

A side-note: as for useful plots, Yorick at https://coronabeeld.nl/ compiles some of the best plots both on infections as well as vaccinations. But I guess, as a data nerd, you know that one already...

@piggo You know you can select multiple tabs with a Shift+mouse and then close them, don't you? Also useful extension for this kind of managing tabs: Tree Style Tab.

@piggo Autotools manuals?

@baldur Not speaking about this being a nice security backdoor. Just "insert" code which does the job and "runs" all unit tests (if any) and who cares about those 2-3 lines you do not fully comprehend.

@freemo Well, of course there's a lot to say in response to your comment, but I guess it wouldn't add much to what we all know anyway.

But I just had an interesting thought. The guy actually lives in the house where his office is too, right? So technically he does not need to commute - at least not too far. Nevertheless, before becoming POTUS, Biden was known to start each day on his Peloton bike (the news of what security risks this poses is also fun: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/21/joe-biden-peloton-fitness-bike-cybersecurity-risk). So assuming they sorted the security out and allowed him to ride his stationary Peloton device, does that now count for a commute (of 0m, but still strictly technically it "gets" him there)? If so, we should credit him for getting on par with Mark Rutte when it comes to commuting on a bike 😄 .

@trinsec @mur2501

@freemo With the whole security ceremony around POTUS, it would probably be a pretty expensive bicycle commute there 😃 .

@trinsec @mur2501

@freemo

You might as well be right about Trump, but Biden is known to be an avid cyclist: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=joe%20biden%20bicycle&tbs=imgo:1

As for Trump, he might have been seen in distant past on some bike for a promotion purposes too, but I won't waste my time digging it out (it's no fun after all 🙂 ). Anyhow:
* https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/08/22/two-weeks-after-fox-news-showed-joe-biden-cycling-donald-trump-counters-ill-never-ride-a-bicycle/
* https://www.cxmagazine.com/throwback-thursday-tour-de-trump-donald-presidential-candidate-tbt/4

@trinsec @mur2501

@cereal @piggo @ic3l9 To have smart and sane politicians and party programmes is **not** an inalienable human right. IMHO, we get back only about as much as we invest. Which in the end is most of the time not that much 😐 .

@piggo That is useful advice. It's interesting how barebones the intro game experience is. Without you telling me, I would either drop out of the game, or would have persist long enough until I would discover it myself. From my PoV not a very good on-boarding experience, but then again: millions of kids get it quickly, so who am I to complain?

@barefootstache @trinsec

@barefootstache @piggo @trinsec Thanks for interesting inputs. I am slowly getting somewhere. What I did not know yesterday is that one can create new things out of raw materials and that by doing so new recipes appear. So that makes building, mining and dealing with the world much more interesting. At this point (still in the demo) I would still appreciate to get some "objective", but I guess that might come when (if) I buy the real thing I can probably see what other people do - is that correct? Also, when some mob harms me, I did not figure out how to heal myself. Or is the experience so odd only the demo version?

@trinsec @piggo Thanks a lot. The link to the wiki is indeed very very useful. Finally it brings some clarity into the whole thing. Thanks. It starts to make sense. So I see the mobile version is multi-player (Bedrock?), so probably that's what I might want to check out, I guess.

@musicmatze@mastodon.technology Not a German, but lived there long enough as (what you call expat - I never saw myself that way), then left and then moved again. Yes, works in IT. 🙂 20 year, 5 countries and life in between and all along.

But I react mostly to tell you that I did not become an :expat on Mastodon" - at leats not yet 😄 .

What do you want to know?

@academicalnerd Haha. Welcome to the world 🙂 . Looking forward to hear your stories.

@piggo I see you posting some Minecraft pics, could you please help me with this? What do you do in that game so that it captivates you?

# Minecraft: request for explanation

So I downloaded Minecraft demo to see what is it what is it what all the kids around rave about. Call me a "late adopter".

Alright, I get it. Or so I think. You can destroy stuff and thereby "mine" materials, sometimes you can find something and get it. I learned how to dig myself out of a deep hole, how to drown, get killed by a zombie, how to build some simply blocky structures. So far, so good.

What I am not getting is what is the whole point. Where's the fun part?

I know, this is a silly remark. I grew up in a world of Princes of Persia, Doom, various flight and car simulators, etc. Those games have a clear hook, a clear objective, etc. You start it, you get it, you go on. I now see kids playing Roblox and what I think is this: if anybody would tell me 20-30 years ago that this would be a thing, I would laugh my head off (same way as if anybody would tell me in 2005 that phones won't get smaller, but rather larger - whatever, I tend to be wrong mostly 😐 ). Still in Roblox you can interact with characters and some of the games have a competitive spin, so I still grok those. But Minecraft? I feel like a stupid old fart who's just staring at the screen not having a clue how this could have become the "best-selling game of all times" (c.f. Wikipedia)

**Can somebody enlighten me on how to play Minecraft so as to "get the point quickly"?**

I mean, I want to play it a bit with fun and perhaps have fun with my kids with it too, I just want to "get it" sooner then they will :-).

This is be probably one of my more embarrassing posts :-D.

# Mariama - Grains of Wisdom

> the only lies that exist are the ones you choose to believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaMANGiLjs


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