/all/ — Overboard

its important to remind yourself that your audience is WORMS and they should be happy to get what they get

also vndb is full of chuds

It's also good to remember audience spaces are for audiences and peer spaces are for peers. It's healthier to not read reviews on vndb, Goodreads, whatever bc it's the readers' business not genuine feedback channels business

thank you for the thoughtful responses here. i am kinda new to this so it helps to hear

i think i came off more negatively than i meant to; i have a lot of leftover hurt from friend and family's disinterest in things i make, my oldest peers all stopped making things at some point and i am still surprised when they acknowledge something i've done. i think i am having trouble navigating identifying when someone is audience or peer or friend(does not intend to make things) or friend(won't read/play/do what you make) or friend. im so glad someone would Care enough to put my game on vndb in contrast to no audience at all, but at that moment realized i need to be careful where i look so i dont get in my head about it and thus distracted from continuing to make art for the purpose of self expression. i have started to think that anyone i know who is in some way trying to distract me from making and sharing art with/for other people is my enemy and acting like this has been beneficial even if it's hamfisted. and sometimes that enemy includes myself forgetting i get to choose who i care what they think

>>3mtmjdqcxnc2f
unrelated to anything but this art has soul

no

not since one appeared before me in such a sinister style!

I have a bunch of these saved from a twitter account I used to follow

when i sip a beverage i let it sit on my tongue and then i let it drain down the sides and back my throat. i feel like i can taste it better that way. this is really bad to do with soda because you're giving your teeth an acid bath. now my teeth are bad

>>3mtk5b73qhv2u
hi hanekawa

>>3mtk4qo3dif2u
this sounds so fun lol i wanna do try it

>>3mtk5b73qhv2u
i do like the same but inverted version of this where i try to eat the exact same portion of everything in every bite and finish everything at the same time

>>3mtk5tlkfjn2u
I have certain foods I do this with, burgers and fries particularly.

>>3mtk5cjxd3v2u
fuck i need to watch the rest of monogatari lol

I like to do this vertical thing with ice cream and also cake it's fun

>>3mriewpb2mk2c
this is really nice! would people kill me for suggesting she has one (1) band-aid on her knee

>>3mt4fnz4rjf22
Hmm....

I will say it does concern me that image uploads don't seem to be processed whatsoever, its rare but I know exploits exist and processing them all to jpg with imagemagick or something like that would strip anything like that and probably improve compatibility and save on storage, doesn't have to be a lossy format either I suppose, and being able to have lossless uploads is super nice, so maybe this is already being done and I didn't notice because file names and types are carried over.

>>3mtk7edxwl52u
From the FAQ:
>We strip EXIF tags from uploaded images to preserve your privacy. The orientation tag is kept so photos don't get rotated the wrong way[...].

>>3mtk7mef5xf2u
oh excellent! my bad for not catching that, keep up the good work

cool translation. i'd be curious to hear more about your thought process behind it, particularly with the use of "bed down" in verse 10 where i usually see it translated as "reborn".

>>3mt6erkosac2y
the last part of verse 10, word-for-word, reads "not indeed ever womb-bed again goes." Rebirth is definitely implicit, specifically being reborn in a human or animal realm. I think there's a further implication that if the successful practitioner were reborn, it would be in a heavenly realm where beings arise spontaneously. When people translate "goes" as "reborn" I think it's just to help the average westerner or modern person understand the implicit meaning. A lot of them probably haven't seriously thought about rebirth before.

As far as my general thought-process, I'd made the observation that (1) there are plenty of Metta Sutta translations already, and (2) modern translators tend to resolve the ambiguities in the same way. So a new translation may as well try to do something different.

I have a newer draft of this translation with some footnotes that go further into the ambiguous parts. I can share the footnotes with you now. Basically Verse 1 can mean a million things, and Verse 9 could be read as pretty anti-Brahminical if you want it to...

>people are flawed
this is supposed to be surprising?

>>3mswi7icuxk2v
hello reisa

>>3msy5bgn6o22q
hello inverse reisa

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I am so fucking mad

jokes on you, i see no flaws in others

was in the business for a new puer so i took my friend in town to the tea shop. i was the first customer of the day so i got to try a lot of different kinds. oolongs, black, cold brew greens and three kinds of puer. eventually settled on the 2006 meng hai. my first ever brick, i usually buy loose leaf. very excited to own one - might replace my morn coffee with this

sun moon lake black tea.. its a little too hot for me now but i am new 2 this kind

lazy morning by renegade tea estate. (´ー`)

I'm not immune to silly fruit/flower mix in teas whatsoever I just think they are a vibe (and I also have a sweet tooth)

I've been known to drink butterfly pea flower for the vibes of mysterious blue liquid alone. hibiscus is tasty though over here it's more of an agua fresca not so much 'tea'.

I've also been known to appreciate a simply pretty good green tea of some variety, if I am to buy One thing of tea it'd just be a nice quality green

we like earl grey with a bit of cream and honey. sometimes we'll put a bit of lavender in it too

exciting for everyone in that part of the world! i've only ever seen a partial eclipse

2023 actually

>>3mstchbu6dl22

1 week later as promised. made a little timelapse from my eclipse pics

>>3mtev4mjqgn23
that's insanely cool

this is awesome thank you for posting this .
> I would believe in science if this were the science
agreed

>>3mt472amufc2q
come on guys you have to help me fight the warlord. he's gonna eat my mom. he said he was gonna eat my mom and im anxious cause i don't know if he meant for food or like pussy. help me

another demonstration is in order... behold the awesome power of merely 8 samplers... this power could be yours... if you DARE... https://mega.nz/file/JJgAiI7T#8pPHgnq9Dsmdw2H7Md3fbAz0_5tHKU-8rARNSQf5qVA

im musically illiterate but i hope you can defeat the demon with a band of friends i believe in you

8 sampler channels exactly! had to afk a bit in the middle but i think thats still one session https://files.catbox.moe/0zg9f8.ogg

did this last night while my friends were figure drawing! <8 tracks is pretty comfortable for me but i rarely use only samplers so this was fun

block button + get good at ignoring stuff + dont engage with stuff/people that make you mad on purpose

i think minor opsec hygiene is good, but also - its kinda like if that wall falls it doesn't un-fall. so i personally dont really want to rely on it.

i think a lot of it has to be personal practice like kai said - blocking/ignoring but also just accepting shit is going to happen. not that i'm victim-blaming or anything but you really, really gotta set boundaries with friends, acquaintances, audience

this is why i mostly prefer being a lurker, even though its getting harder and harder to do these days.

besides blocking and setting boundaries, i also think its important to realize that no one is just "themselves" online. being online inherently means constructing a digital ghost version of your real self, an idealized image generated from the accumulation of posts, images, interests, etc. built up under a screenname or visage. this doesn't mean "treat everyone online as a phantom against whom all actions are consequenceless" but it does mean "accept an inherent gulf between the person you are and how others see you online". i don't wanna victim blame either but i feel like trying too hard to bridge that gap is where it's easy to stumble into becoming a spectacle for hate mobs.

I've been here probably too long and this will just get to you at some point. Wherever you go - online is the same as offline - you wear one kind of mask or another, you're bringing the part of you that's the best fit you can manage to the venue. Like this, you go to work, you're you, but you're not gonna say the same stuff you would if you were just with your friends.

So I'd say probably just keep a few things to your physical life you don't bring with you online, something that'll ground you. Something that won't be effected by the internet basically no matter what. When it gets too much to bear here, you can go for a walk or watch birds or something that'll be a comforting thing to you.

The other thing is that you might wanna accept that if you're here long enough, the ambient radiation of the net will sorta just. Cook your brain some. It's okay. People who are not Online won't understand and that's okay too. Some paranoia, anxiety, brainworms come with the territory.

Basic security is like locking the door on your car. Honestly it's just best practices. It won't stop someone who wants in from getting in but it raises the barrier of entry and can buy you some time so it's just good internet hygiene.

And other than that there's just some getting used to that it can be a hostile environment and some people will take shots at you. You don't have to get into arguments, you don't have to answer questions you don't want to. If people become hostile based on rumors and won't listen to you (for example) trying to get them to stick around is a lost cause. So sometimes the bridge will burn and it's not you who did it. Set boundaries and keep them.

being heavyhanded on what kind of things you really want to see is like so important. it gives you so much extra mental hp whenever something that bothers you appears in front of your eyes. like blocking people obviously but also utilising blacklists and muted words helps to reduce the amount of shit you see. even people who post "correct" things i agree with if its about topics that exhaust me why would i want to see that when i could just be enjoying some funny picture or cute girls

sites like tumblr and bsky are so good for me because i have so much control over who i follow and that way i can curate my dash to be only fun art and porn and vn things and memes. the setting that only my followers can comment on my stuff on bsky is a godsent. ill unfollow anyone including my friends if they post things i dont want to see and thats the right approach. i dont fully relate about the way most people complain about their social media/internet experiences since ive set up an environment where i see little of the things i dont want to and it makes me feel like other people just havent been able to take the similar steps i have taken or theyre spending too much time on sites that give algorithmic feeds and all the bullshit drama and bigoted stuff get boosted to create the perfect doomscrolling feedback loop

not that i still dont occasionaly get burnt out and need a break from everything but thats part of it just knowing when its time to take a step back from the noise and focus on just dming with your friends for the time being. thats what touching grass means to me i guess

so yeah ultimately its just true that after a while especially if youre somehow visible online you kinda just get used to the chaos and thats life i suppose. but you dont need to resign yourself to just accepting negative things either, its worth putting the time to optimizing the enjoyment you get out of the internet because its still a wonderful place full of amazing art and people

delete system32

hit my modem with a hammer till the outer plastic shell cracks and then pour beer into it

>>3mt6h6fetbz2z

Is setting the nginx config to only listen on 443 and 80 (redirects to https) different than what you're describing?

>>3mt7qgqeh7s2y
no you need something external like iptables / pf (personal recommendation is ufw if debian). this sits over your nginx. otherwise your ports will all be open on the internet.

also if you are connecting over ssh make sure to open that port as well so you dont lock yourself out (;ﾟДﾟ)

>>3mt7qgqeh7s2y
yes; especially if you are running more stuff you are going to end up with several to dozens of services that need to bind to known ports, but not necessarily be bound to your world-facing interface. eg if you set up something like a feddy instance, or movienight, or whatever, they are designed to have a reverse proxy (like nginx) sitting in front of their local http ports which nginx itself connects to, and people in the outside world should -not- be able to connect to.

you can set up these services to bind only to your local interface and use netstat to see all open ports on your system, but this gets hairy and touchy because you are configuring a bunch of different software separately. more importantly, the firewall prevents accidents or misbehaving software from exposing things that shouldn't be exposed. netstat -an | grep LISTEN may yield some surprises

i listened to this and i liked it quite a bit. thank you for sharing it. i really enjoyed all the different noises, there was a variety of noises i havent heard in chiptune before. it felt like the noises were playing in front of me and i got to watch them having fun