Fuck cancer.

NFSIISE on IRIX CPU load analysis:
84% game code
14% libGLcore
2% libc
🤔

One of the team members replied "How old are you?!?!"

Survival horror Confronted gets a big performance boost ahead of the 1.0 release https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/survival-horror-confronted-gets-a-big-performance-boost-ahead-of-the-1-0-release/

#Confronted #Proton #Steam

Welcome Cameron Sparks as #curl commit author 1582: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/23918

Today's "Team fun question" was 'First job?'.

One guy said it was dressing up as a clown for children.

I kinda got to double answer, because my first job was working at Woolworths, where I also got to dress up in a bear costume one time.

Anyway, I shared this with the team, so I'll share it here too for your amusement.

(CW: 1999 images)

Good news: the Swedish national railway SJ will be resuming its involvement in running sleeper trains between Stockholm and Berlin. (These have been run as a limited service by the private contractor that handles the leg outside Sweden since subsidies ended a few months ago.) If you have SJ points, they can get you to Germany once again.

Less good news: there’s no longer a restaurant car on the Swedish leg, as they’ve eliminated the stop at Malmö C where it’s removed.

https://jarnvagar.nu/sj-kor-ater-nattag-till-tyskland/

RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@stilgherrian/117545698005867163

ROUTINE PLUG, BUT SLIGHTLY MORE DESPERATE: We seem to be stuck at 82% of the second target with just two days to go. I was planning to write an update tonight but I'm too tired. So please organise a surprise for me in the morning?

This is probably the lamest update I've ever posted lol.

Key U.S. lawmakers have called for clarity on what the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump knew about former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affair with a woman suspected of spying for China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/11/13/world/politics/congress-trump-nvidia-scrutiny/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nvidia #jensenhuang #donaldtrump #congress #us

NASA has announced a global symbolic light signal action titled Shine Bright for Voyager’s Light-Day.

Scheduled for Tuesday, November 17 after sunset, participants are invited to beam Morse code flashes toward the night sky using flashlights or mobile devices to spell out V-G-R.

The event marks Voyager 1 reaching a distance of one light-day from Earth, equivalent to approximately 25.9 billion kilometers, on November 18, 2026.

A web…

https://en.hacks.gr/i-nasa-kalei-toys-polites-na-steiloyn-fos-sto-voyager-1-poy-ftanei-se-apostasi-mias-imeras-fotos/

#NASA #Voyager1 #Space #Astronomy

#WritersCoffeeClub 13th Nov — What repeats in your current WIP?

It’s a far future space operatic setting that features lossy brain scanning and imprinting of recorded memories on clones (or children), so some of the protagonists repeat. But it’s an incomplete process, like a blurry 1990s fax-photocopy, and if you imprint on a non-genetically-identical host the differences can be stark. A character in instar 1 might be a starship mission director: by instar 3 they’re a reclusive mathematician.

Hmmm, Outlook seems to be completely useless this morning.

… the joke writes itself, really, doesn't it?

Happy Microsoft outage to all who observe

Forget Microsoft, I have more important things to discuss:

Do you refrigerate your peanut butter?

they upgraded from “marginal success” to implying they were starting to achieve actual success, but have missed their next promised update deadline by 35 minutes and counting. So I’m thinking the success might still be pretty marginal

So, we got Mia's blood results back..

Her ALT is still high, but is coming down from where it was. It had been 1216u/l, and is now down to the 500s...her bile study was wonky as well, and there were some other slight variations but nothing as far out as the ALT levels.

We're going to go back to the vet on Tuesday for more tests (ammonia and a coag panel), and to have a proper talk about the plan with her.

We are starting her on a liver support diet and supplements, even though we still don't know what the issue actually is.

The vet outlined our possible next steps:

- a CT scan (which starts around $5500, and would mean a 4.5 hour drive each way to Sydney)

- a liver biopsy (which would be around $1500, but also has a lot of risks associated, because the liver is such a vascular organ and with everything happening she's possibly going to have issues with clotting)

- repeat bloods in a few weeks to see if things are still dropping

Another possible confounding issue is that she's dropped weight in the last few weeks*. This could just be the warmer weather has meant they're both in the garden and running around a lot more (Poppy has also lost a bit of weight), but it could be a symptom of what's happening... and it's dangerous to put an underweight dog under a GA, so if we're going to biopsy it'll be better to do it sooner than later.

Anyways, we'll talk it all through with our vet on Tuesday...

In the meantime, if anyone wants afat, intensely distracted, criminology geek sugar-baby, hit me up!

#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #vet
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* dates (2026)—weights:
04.08—20kg (normal scale)
05.11—19.6kg (normal scale)
09.11—19.4kg (different scale)
12.11—19.2kg (normal scale)

Mary Peltola is widening her lead, and Mary may still get to 50%!

Pur a candle out for Mary Peltola.

#dems #nokings #indivisible #Alaska

Good news for the #RC2014 owners out there. Microsoft BASIC hasn't been affected by the global Microsoft outage, and still works perfectly.