Active since 2018, Wargames Atlantic is a successful American wargame miniature manufacturer, producing sci-fi, fantasy, and historical miniatures for its own lines and other miniature designers - and its CEO has been living a double life. In a company blog post on Monday, the man known publicly as ...
Meanwhile, in… tiny plastic solider drama? Huh. Not a sector used to controversy unless it’s wehraboos (or fascism adjacent)
Recently found that one of my users, bob, could not log in. I tried to check the user in the Synology Control Panel > User & Group but got the message “failed to load the user data”. No other users seemed affected.
I logged in with <span class="code">ssh</span> with suspicions that some file permissions had been messed up. Took a bit of time but I discovered that some ill-advised and careless use of <span class="code">chown -R</span> in <span class="code">/volume1</span> (switching ownership of some shared files) meant that bob no longer owned the files/folders in <span class="code">/volume1/@userpreference/bob</span>.
I <span class="code">chown</span>ed them back to bob and it fixed the problem.
Sorry, bob.
I was today years old when I learned that I own an NFT 🤣 Turns out I’m a massive hypocrite and I didn’t even know.
(Yes, it’s a Reddit “Collectible” avatar)
My friend now has a mandatory, annual “AI objective”. I suggested this:
Minimise the risk of inclusion of mathematically certain, AI hallucinations, for which I would be blamed, by avoiding any usage beyond simple sentences rephrasing/proofing
I remember, in 1994, when Kim Jong-il played his one and only game of golf and scored 11 hole-in-ones.
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Watched with the kids (10/13), they loved it. Can’t blame them.
Afterwards was trying to think of a better sequel. Not just a sequel that surpassed the original but in a “Best films that were sequels” way.
T2 was the only contender I came up with off the top of my head.
★★★★★
Just had to block (not on here) people who were arguing that wearing helmet doesn’t add protection for you when you use a bicycle. Incredible stuff.
I think a lot of people just underestimate the danger from a blow to the back of the head. While extremely rare, kids die from head injuries just playing tag. The increased risk as a cyclist should be self-evident.
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
Pretty unremarkable until Banning meets the antagonist in an excellent scene.
As for scares, kind of reminded me of The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town…
★★★½
After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
