@[email protected] @[email protected] ​There's a few ways of generating abstract patterns from hashes; would that give a way of adding something visually distinctive without requiring user effort or giving away any identifiable info?

My uncle died about a year ago now, and one thing my aunt is gearing up to get rid of is his music collection. He had *hundreds* of CDs of classical music, many of them near-duplicates, because he may have already had a piece but wanted a particular conductor's version, or a performance by a particular orchestra.

Is there anyone here who might be interested in such a collection as a whole, or knows of someone who might? I feel it'd be good to find a home for it as a whole rather than selling every disc off separately.

@JessTheUnstill

“One of the misconceptions about autistic people is we take things literally” #KiwiPyCon

Many are the people I have confused over the years by proclaiming "red warrior needs food badly" as I grab something to eat. None of them displayed the classical education and fine tradition you have instilled in your family @[email protected] ​

@[email protected] ​to be fair, I suspect with a sufficiently loose interpretation of 'translation' nearly every good mentor who's ever lived including many parents have said that.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] the Welsh have a good few centuries on that ​en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisted... (depending if we assume competitive implies adverserial)

@[email protected] I'm genuinely curious: what would be the rationale for it not being OK?

Also, my mum doesn't bother reverse engineering; if it's a small restaurant she just asks how things are made! Most chefs seem to enjoy talking about it. (Large or chain restaurants are obviously a bit different)​

@[email protected] I find them horrific on quite a number of levels, I have to admit.

Visicalc is a single 28KB binary; with a 180 page manual. We have strayed so far from the light.

Me, looking at student's screen: that's great, but we'll need to replace the character image with one that's yours before we punish your game

Ten year old: But that is my image!

Me: It... has a watermark logo from a well know YouTuber?

Tyo, proudly: I took the screenshot myself!

Me: ...pass the pain killers, I'm going to be here some time...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​this stuff really isn't obvious any more! My son is dysgraphic and uses a keyboard at school, and had to have a long discussion with a teacher explaining why he couldn't turn off his Internet connection while completing an assessment in Google Classroom. The teacher hadn't realised that he wasn't writing on his own device, and you know what? I don't blame them! How are you supposed to tell where things are anymore from within the 'user experience'?

By popular demand (also known as "at least one person asked") you can now try out VisualInk scripts without creating an account.

Just head to the example script from the demo, tweak things as you'd like and hit run at the bottom.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Of course, you do have to ignore the bizarrely pretentious cult around them in some groups online, but that's easy given they're other people online, and ignoring other people online is a required life skill these days anyway. Especially when they're being pretentious about a (checks notes) simple plastic plunger?

@[email protected] @[email protected] see also aeropress. Even easier to clean, and only needs a kettle not even a stove. I mean, I live in Italy and regularly get compliments on my coffee, so it can't be too bad. I suspect because I spend the money on decent Fairtrade beans rather than 'capsules'...

@[email protected] ​I have come across Maytree, they're great fun! Not as mindblowing in how they do stuff, but still really tight musically and very, very, silly in a good way.

Wing and friends get pretty geeky too; they got invited to headline at an esports competition ( youtube.com/watch?v=m0TXz3oR... - their lead singer can sing) and released an ode to needing coffee on Monday mornings 😁 (youtube.com/watch?v=f8NifgGc... )

Had some additional thoughts on the sedition thing that I felt compelled to jot down. https://www.pbump.net/o/so-were-just-moving-on-from-the-sedition-execution-thing/

Can you save the GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional?
Find out here: visualink.mavnn.eu/published...
At the moment the answer is probably yes: each problem can be solved just by saying you want to. But this Tuesday our "Coding Games with a Story" students will be turning each problem into its own little fiendish challenge.
Want to take part informally? I've attached the backgrounds needed for the base story, and the base script is now one of the templates available at VisualInk. Feel free to create an account at visualink.mavnn.eu/ and try your own variation - you'll need to upload the backgrounds with the scene names from the script and start a new script using the "Save the ship" template.