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[01:19:15] <ted-ious> AlwaysNever: States can have different nights of the week for their lottery drawings and some of the biggest ones are in many states so they overlap.
[01:20:09] <ted-ious> But there was a particularly big one 2 days ago that was almost $2 billion so maybe that's what you were asking about.
[01:22:38] <ted-ious> They only get that big if nobody wins for several weeks in a row.
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[08:44:51] <halibut> Regarding the i-am-done-with-the-web.txt link: I feel similarly quite frequently. In addition to the bloat and bulk and excessive tracking and other things, I would like to add: Buggy/nonrobust and captchas. In the last 24 hours, in trying to check on things that most people think are very simple, I have had to battle: Sites that refuse to let me connect unless I verify I am a human (sometimes
[08:44:57] <halibut> essentially blocking me entirely), some that refuse to let me connect unless I sign up with an account to prove I am human, some that just fail with some obscure error (eventually tracked down to something not working right depending on my apparent IP address, but nothing in the error message indicated that), and one site that just sometimes failed unless I disabled HTTP2 and HTTP3 in my browser.
[08:45:39] <chromas> To be fair, HTTP2 and 3 don't do anything useful
[08:46:15] <halibut> I am not familiar with HTTP3. HTTP2 does allow for more efficient back and forth by allowing multiple transfers over the same channel, I think.
[08:46:30] <halibut> Of course, if web sites did not require 100+ transfers just to work, that would be less of an issue.
[08:46:36] <chromas> You wouldn't need that if they didn't put 500 requests in their pages
[08:46:41] <chromas> halibut++
[08:46:41] <bender> halibut: 26
[08:47:19] <halibut> chromas++
[08:47:19] <bender> chromas: 445
[08:48:23] <halibut> I guess we are just patting each other on the back now. You agree with you. You, sir, are clearly an enlightended individual with exquisite tastes, educated insights, and well-reasoned insights.
[08:48:40] <halibut> (You agree with you --> You agree with me <-- Whoops)
[08:49:10] <chromas> You agree with you
[08:49:10] <chromas> I agree with me
[08:49:10] <chromas> We're a happy family
[08:49:18] <chromas> 🎵🎵🎵🎵
[09:06:24] <c0lo> Typical defense against drop bears when you are out of Vegemite https://www.youtube.com
[09:06:26] <systemd> ^ 03Female Australian Soldier VS Male U.S. Marine Contest!!! #shorts
[11:19:38] <Ingar> The man was the smartest, he was like, why the fuck am I standing here with a weight above my head
[11:21:54] <AlwaysNever> halibut: "You agree with you" is not always a given - Walt Whitman said once "I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes"
[11:23:51] <c0lo> You sure he didn't said it 3 times?
[11:24:10] <c0lo> s/said/say/
[11:24:36] <AlwaysNever> colo: I guess your joke is flying over my head
[11:25:18] <c0lo> "Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:"
[11:26:27] <c0lo> Got it now?
[11:29:22] <Ingar> "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times"
[11:29:45] <Ingar> Matthew 26:34
[11:33:06] <chromas> wasn't it specifically a cock?
[11:33:40] <chromas> and he did indeed deny entry before it spurted thrice
[11:33:58] <c0lo> Nihilist that Matthew of yours.
[11:33:59] <c0lo> The Bellman is positively affirming the truth.
[11:37:15] <AlwaysNever> c0lo: Gemini gave me the context for that Lewis Carroll reference, thanks, the "rule of three" and the "snark" concept is not a given outside English sphere
[11:42:34] <AlwaysNever> we appreciate his Alice, though
[11:47:50] <c0lo> AlwaysNever, the first I got the reference was (if my memory still serves) in Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar"
[11:47:50] <c0lo> The "what I tell you three times is true" - was the way Brunner imagined (in 1968) a "prompt injection" into the chat w/ the Shalmaneser (AI/supercomputer)
[11:48:16] <c0lo> s/the first/the first time/
[12:33:42] <chromas> oh someone did it
[12:33:47] <chromas> https://git.dec05eba.com
[12:33:48] <systemd> ^ 03phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch
[12:34:00] <chromas> they forgot to write it in rust
[13:17:11] <c0lo> =sub https://www.newscientist.com
[13:17:15] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Closure of US Institute Will Do Immense Harm to Climate Research" (32p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[18:02:56] <ted-ious> I will refuse to ever run that x server unless they rename it pheoniX.
[18:03:53] <ted-ious> I would also accept pheon-X but nobody else would agree with that.
[23:08:52] <AlwaysNever> I'm entering into Minecraft for the first time, I just bought the game (I mean, access to it) for 22.49 US$, wish me luck!
[23:12:44] <AlwaysNever> first thing I see, it is tied to having a Microsoft Account
[23:13:56] <AlwaysNever> well then, I created a Microsoft Account using an alias in my own email domain, so at least I will be able to shut it down at my convenience - I hope
[23:15:51] <AlwaysNever> on first run, it is downloading 512 MB of data...
[23:18:09] <AlwaysNever> "Welcome to your Doom!" ??
[23:18:16] <AlwaysNever> I though it was Minecraft!
[23:21:28] <AlwaysNever> lets begin with "Game Mode: Creative" and "Difficulty: Peaceful", a walk in the park?
[23:22:19] <AlwaysNever> New World -> creating terrain...
[23:38:17] <AlwaysNever> I can fly! the higher I go, the more scenary I see, the louder my computer fan (like an helicopter!)