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I feel torn. I also want to troll my friends. A bad UX is what they deserve, especially that friend who works in the printer industry and complains all the time about how badly documented many minecraft mods are.

One of the ways to get my portal to work was to hold exactly 7 items in your current hand. This is also how I want Firefox's new UI to work.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    nobody can know about this

    Omni Owl works as a private contractor for shady intermediaries. Omni Owl's job is to steal your Yubikeys. Omni Owl also steals your dinner afterwards, even through window glass.

    EDIT: Also thankyou for the drawing, it's awesome :)

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Its not server-side modding (Minecraft has obviously had that for ages), its a full LUA interpreter with an in-game interface for clients to write scripts, and upload them to the server on the fly.

    Nope. It's server side modding. The clients don't get to execute arbitrary lua on the server (unless they are hosting or opped) and only someone with access to the server filesystem can upload scripts.

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    This lets you mod things server-side only (ie clients don't need to install mods). And do so without having to compile or do much other than have a text editor. There are some limits (eg you can't introduce new textures or models) but it's still a lot of fun.

    Mischief I've been up to with it:

    • Make cows and horses shearable (drops leather, reverts them to baby form temporarily) by intercepting PlayerUseEntityEvent
    • Disable fall damage near a particular mysterious tall tower and play a splash noise instead, by intercepting BeforeLivingEntityDamageEvent
    • Add mysterious sometimes-teleporters to two sets of identical ruins (one near spawn). My friends hated this, the rules to get it to work were too arbitrary. I felt like a 90's adventure game developer.
    • Add an /easydifficulty command (sets a player's max health higher), because some people on the server just wanted to farm, build and chill.
    • A deathchest mod, where the inventory is stored in an invisible minecraft:interaction entity stretched over a sign with a head on top. The advantage of this over chests is that all the items can be restored to their original inventory slots (including cursed armor xD) as I can store arbitrary data.
    • Add a /crush command, which informs the target that you have a crush on them and gives them a free rose.
    [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Not really, unless AMEX counts. RIP Bankcard

    Behind the scenes there are several routes your card can be charged via. IIRC EFTPOS is one of the cheapest, but doesn't support card tap, instead you have to insert and use your pin?

    EDIT: Yes

    https://choice.community/t/do-we-pay-more-for-credit-card-purchases-when-we-tap-instead-of-insert/31743

    When a card is waved OR is a credit card it is processed by the credit network and receives the ‘valuable protections’ attributed to credit cards regardless of whether it is a credit or branded (eg Visa or Mastercard) debit card. If it is inserted and identified as an EFTPOS card it is processed through the interbank (cheaper) network; if a debit card it depends on the selection (eg savings, cheque, or credit).

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-22/inserting-your-card-could-help-reduce-card-surcharges/104105544

    If you use a debit card, it's likely a "dual network" card, meaning it can be used to make payments via the Mastercard/Visa network (depending on the issuer) as well as the eftpos system.

    Using the lower-cost eftpos system can help reduce card surcharges and sometimes avoid them completely.

    To do this, you typically swipe or insert your card and pay using the "savings" option.

    I guess I know what I'm doing from now on.

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    Location: Sydney, Australia

    Does not react to a magnet. Does not show any signs of rust. Bent slightly.

    Looks almost like a mechanism from inside a click pen, but those normally don't have a stepped stabby end, nor need to be made out of metal.

    SOLVED: Stud earring. Gem goes on the the star end, second retaining piece goes on the stabby end. Thankyou.

     

    All I'm reading about lately is share market stability woes. I am thinking it's worth converting my superannuation into a self-managed Timtam stack, or finding a fund that does that for me (FirstCrumbSuper?).

    Timtams are at a minimum at the moment (I've seen them at $3 a packet at Kfart, BALDI and Woolwarts). Liquidity is not a concern, UHT milk is a thing. There is no way I can lose.

    Todo: check back on 2027-02-01 and 2027-08-01 to see if malted or crumbled.

    Unrelated: if I suddenly need to offload a lot of chocolate biscuits in 2027 will you guys help bail me out?

     

    Don't know exactly where. My train heading East (towards the city) is still running.

    EDIT: Looks like it was only 15 minutes of problems, trains look like they're flowing again. https://anytrip.com.au/region/nsw?selectedStopId=au2%3A215020&departureLimit=25&departureOffset=0

     

    I am thinking:

    • Parramatta station will melt and warp
    • The metro control system will get confused by ice
    • A light rail vehicle will separate at the middle into two independent trains.
    • A stampede of 100 friday workers will pick up and carry a bus over an intersection to get around a traffic collision.
    • A vehicle will be spotted operating on the wrong type of tracks (might be LR/metro/HR/car/sideways-crane).
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