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![Screengrab from Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Paladmin Xenk Yendar, played by Regé-Jean Page, rides his horse through a forest. It's subtitled with him saying "I'm sorry." and also "[horse nickers]".](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2023/05/d0a809c06b0d71981-978x480.png#21313)
Today I learned that the quiet, high-pitched neighing sound horses sometimes make is called "nickering".
I learned this from a subtitle which read "[horse nickers]". 🤣 -
Nightmares & Noggins
I had a nightmare last night in which I was underprepared for an upcoming D&D session. Because I am underprepared, I guess, but mostly because I was ill and sleeping badly anyway!
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Max props to the developer of puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth. Saved me a ton of work circumventing Cloudflare's bollocks while I was trying to get my own data as recorded by my smartwatch.
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How a 2002 standard made 2022 bearable
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers.
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AI is lying to you
Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs?
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Found GC5F425 Lovers Walk
This checkin to GC5F425 Lovers Walk reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My GPSr dropped me next to a far older bit of architecture than the one that hosts the cache, but found after a short search. I'm staying nearby as part of a charity hackathon for a nonprofit I'm …
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New Far Side in FreshRSS
In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too.
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Subscribing to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping
FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward.
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I bought Zach Weinersmith‘s Bea Wolf for my kids (9 and 6, the elder of them already a fan of Beowulf). It arrived today, but neither of them have had a chance to because I wouldn’t put it down.
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Thoughts on Editing Posts
Kev Quirk commits to continuing NOT to edit his old blog posts. I'm in the same boat.
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Solving Jigidi... Again
The Jigidi jigsaw solver I wrote a year and a half ago stopped working, so I made another one (it's not as good).
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Installing Listmonk on Unraid
Frustrated that nobody on the Internet has solved my problem for me, here's my guide to configuring Listmonk on an Unraid server.
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Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret
After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun.
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Bypassing Region Restrictions on radio.garden
As the last person on Earth to discover radio.garden, I was disappointed to find that you can't access non-UK stations from within the UK. So I "fixed" it.
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Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress
WPTavern reports that Automattic is to acquire Matthias Pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and I couldn't be more excited!