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grimgrinon Card Game Rules

most excellent. i've had a little interaction with sean, and recall some thoughts he shared in a thread about changes to haggis (in bgg). love to hear there is an update coming later this year!

something i like about my copies of the original printing are the little rule/scoring cards that were great to hand to friends learning. i would love to pick up reprints

mcleod++ thanks for the info

grimgrinon Card Game Rules

Some great indexes here. I often link https://www.pagat.com/class/

My favorite card came discovery in adult life was the climbing genre. Haggis, Tichu, Dou Dizhu

My second was learning about Cuttle and the timing of it/Magic the Gathering

grimgrinon How to Perfectly Crack an Egg (With One Hand) [video]

There are many eggy talents

Lest not forgot The Eggman: https://youtu.be/yewjkwZB-YE?si=B01MigqdtkoVILi1

grimgrinon Neocities – Developers API

Just worth it _for me_

I make a lot of lil one offs, and I want a static page, and neocities (from main account) simply has an input box for a new site name, so I "spin up" w/o registration

neocities is cute, the spirit of it. I have no idea if they're still accepting $100 of btc, it was just appealing when I noticed once upon a time

grimgrinon Neocities – Developers API

I tossed em $100 of btc a while back cuz it gave you supporter access for life. Worth it even if you are the self hosted type. Imo

I’ve spun up so many one offs

grimgrinon Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash

Yeah, and onionos is a very nice addition to it

https://onionos.neocities.org/

grimgrinon Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash

check out apotris, a gba rom. it has classic mode, and is just so fantastically polished. plenty of other modes too

grimgrinon Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

I love your enthusiasm, varun, and how you're chasin the things that exhilarate you. uni will probably do excellent things for your curiosity, best wishes

grimgrinon Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server

I will never stop using tt++ (though if I do, the client will be rad as hell)

You can still get help from the author through the forum/discord, when you're running into something confusing

I never really go hard w/ it, merely being able to version your aliases/triggers/etc is nice!

https://github.com/search?q=owner%3Ashmup+tintin&type=reposi...

grimgrinon Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server

Remarkable,

Just the other day a friend went to a concert, Mr. Bungle, and so ended up on wrong wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_in_Cyberspace

So I went down that rabbit hole, read the essay, bought the book, and days later here appears Karl Porcupine

grimgrinon Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server

In case you missed it, OP was _there_

cmrdporcupine 18 hours ago:

> "I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago"

> From "A Rape In Cyberspace: "no hate, no anger, no interest at all. Just…watching. Others were more actively unfriendly. “Asshole,” spat Karl Porcupine, “creep.” But the harshest of the MOO’.. "

> I was Karl Porcupine. Quite young then, though.

grimgrinon A guy preserving the new history of PC games, one Linux port at a time

Here's the service they're offering:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/game-porter-ethan-lee-...

grimgrinon Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

excellent!

and my website _is_ already in a zip hehe https://redbean.dev

grimgrinon I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

I'm going to +1 this book but I also think this book would electrify you, as it did me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_...

grimgrinon Tree of Roguelike Evolution

I find these games endlessly fascinating, though I'm mainly a DCSS player.

Here's some more genealogy: https://tangaria.com/roguelikes/

Gonna just link dump if you wanna rabbit hole today.

A good write-up of ToME2 history: https://github.com/tome2/tome2/blob/master/lib/mods/theme/he...

grimgrinon AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)

for those interested, here's the good FOSS client https://nicotine-plus.org/

grimgrinon Play (1) Linux manual page

here, title readers

> SoX - Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation

> SoX reads and writes audio files in most popular formats and can optionally apply effects to them; it can combine multiple input sources, synthesise audio, and, on many systems, act as a general purpose audio player or a multi-track audio recorder. It also has limited ability to split the input in to multiple output files.

> Almost all SoX functionality is available using just the sox command, however, to simplify playing and recording audio, if SoX is invoked as play the output file is automatically set to be the default sound device and if invoked as rec the default sound device is used as an input source. Additionally, the soxi(1) command provides a convenient way to just query audio file header information.

grimgrinon What hallucinogens will make you see

If that’s a thing you wanna try to stay informed about, look no further than the recent conversation with the panelist:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Myq_Hc_39aI

spoiler: we haven’t done that yet, so far it’s really kinda like “ok well it’s not appearing to be unhealthy, there’s no noticeable tolerance, what’s next”.

Also the linked video is going to have parts way out there for some folks here. Some have much different beliefs, there’s a few mentions of Syncronicities

But this is a newer rabbit hole for me and one thing is certain: I want to know why DMT has our brain building an entirely different world model, almost repeatable, completely throwing ours away. What’s the evolutionary reason even? There’s some theories but none anyone feels great about.

grimgrinon What hallucinogens will make you see

If you wanna follow an interesting rabbit hole, listen to Hamilton Morris and Dr. Andrew Gallimore chat in a recent video:

https://youtu.be/ba5pAjM8HZM

If anything has peaked your curiosity, consider his books “Alien Information Theory” and “Reality Switch Technologies”

Also, DMTx is undeniably interesting from my point of view. We’ve recently completed a trial involving hour long sessions in extended DMT state

grimgrinon Ask HN: What's the best self hosted/local alternative to GPT-4?

I'll append this reference too, as it's related and interesting:

https://justine.lol/mmap/

grimgrinon Amulet: A kind of poem that depends on language, code, and luck

I just love this idea, and think about it now and again since Robin first released it.

Just in case someone quickly glances and think it's blockchain specific, it isn't:

> This kind of poem was designed to be recorded, collected, and traded using the Zora protocol, but it can happily exist anywhere; an amulet absolutely does not have to be recorded on a blockchain to be an amulet.

grimgrinon Show HN: Use ChatGPT, Bing, Bard and Claude in One App

i feel like people aren’t plugging typingmind.com enough

this will let chats update in the background aka you can spin up multiple chats at once (though i don’t do this often)

like yeah it’s paid but the dev is very committed and i’m very pleased

https://docs.typingmind.com/feature-list

grimgrinon Adobe Warns Users They Can Get Sued If They Use Old Photoshop Versions (2019)

people still pirate copies

grimgrinon I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

I'm happy it exists too. By far my favorite discussion about it was Oxide's last podcast:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/blue-skies-...

Emily Kisane was on the ep, following their piece that blew up https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

> In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Erin Kissane and long-time acquaintances of the show Tim Bray and Steve Klabnik.

grimgrinon The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

I can think of nothing more important and famous than chicken.pdf

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

grimgrinon So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

i use it a lot but want an accompanying binding just for directories

edit: okay done

http://i.imgur.com/n12DYUu.png

Two examples in case you have a preference w/ or w/o the preview:

    fzf_insert_directory_preview() {
      local dir
      dir=$(find . -type d -not -path '*/\.*' | fzf --height 40% --reverse --preview 'tree -C {} | head -200')
      if [[ -n $dir ]]; then
        READLINE_LINE="${READLINE_LINE}${dir}"
        READLINE_POINT=$((${#READLINE_LINE}))
      fi
    }

    fzf_insert_directory() {
      local dir
      dir=$(find . -type d -not -path '*/\.*' | fzf --height 40% --reverse)
      if [[ -n $dir ]]; then
        READLINE_LINE="${READLINE_LINE}${dir}"
        READLINE_POINT=$((${#READLINE_LINE}))
      fi
    }

    bind -x '"\ey": fzf_insert_directory_preview' # alt-y
    bind -x '"\et": fzf_insert_directory' # alt-t

http://ix.io/4rtn/sh

Sent from a LLM

grimgrinon So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

okay ignore everything you saw and just conceptualize:

1) list of text 2) input to filter the list down. see: list gets tinier

grimgrinon So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

agreed. preview rips

i was confused how to adjust the width and figured it out, here’s where i asked, learned, and shared my figlet script

fzfont

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/discussions/3211

https://asciinema.org/a/grALSk2M1tkVPiiyrAGCbdX5J (without width adjustment iirc)