@bender I believe it's been money well spent if I'm to be honest. It's a great "get away" and "adventure" for not just myself but the family too. Getting away from it all, experiencing nature and what this wonderful country has to offer is pretty nice π As long as we keep up the adventures over the long time, use it several times a year, it will be very well wroth the investment π
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On the weekend just gone we also visited Twin Falls, which was absolutely magnificent!

@lyse Very cool! π Love that little birdy in the video too π
@bender Well I'm open to ideas of course π My goal here was to build something like a Civ-1 inspired game that's playable online and multiplayer. Do you remember this old bad boy that was played on PC(s) on MS-DOS ?! π
@bender Anything I can do to help with getting started with the game? Help page not enougH/ Some βGetting Startedβ guide? Walk-through? π€
@bender Yeah !
Maybe put a notice when on mobile stating that the game is for desktop, or bigger screens (tablets), only?
I'll do this for sure!
495 turns and about ~4hrs alter I won! π Small map, 2-players, myself and an AI player. π
-- It took forever to beach the island the AI player was on and get enough Galley's and Swordsmen just to push back and eventually slowly destroy all enemy units and capture all cities! π€£
@kiwu Working on my game Frontier Crown -- Going to push a new version today hopefully that includes much improved graphics, expanded ruleset and scope.
The auDA, and some
WOW! I just had to share this little story I ran into today.
I tried to register a .AU Domain the other day, only for it to instantly fail.
I emailed support, which took several days to respond, only for them to respond by saying (paraphased):
We're sorry, but the identify checks failed. The 3rd-aprty service doesn't tell us why, But, please make sure that the ID you used matches the Full Name, including any Middle name(s).
I used my Passport number. Which of course has my First, Middle and Last Name.
I can only assume at this point that the checks failed on the missing "Middle name". Why? Because the Registrar I use has a database and user interface for "contacts" that only have support for First name and Last name. NO Middle Name.
π€¦ββοΈ This is basically stupid at this point. Systems cannot be trusted at the most fundamental level, no matter how good they are.
Until we figure out how to build a system that allows an individual to prove to another entity that they are who they say they are without a shred of doubt (i.e: cryptographically), we're stuffed.
There is literally nothing I can do in this case. The auDA are at fault. The 3rd-party identify service (unknown) are at fault. The registrar are at fault. Hell, even the Passport office are at fault for even bothering to or requiring a Middle name.
How has "identity" come to this?
@bender Yeah I donate to the Signal Foundation for this reason.
Just cancelled my sponsorship of two developers on Github, sorry π -- I'm not going to sponsor going forward if no-one else can be bothered to. It seems silly to be the sole sponsor of another's work or project π€¦ββοΈ
@bender Nah, i'm gonna start a blog for our adventure i think instead π
@lyse I'm afraid my ability to share photos like you do aren't quite up to scratch π
Hmmm doesn't appear to be documented π§ Nut ly watch reckons i climbed 242m so yhay part is right!
@lyse I don't axtually k ow what the incline was we went up! Haha π Honestly just guessing hmm must be documented somewhere π§
that last one is what we walked up I reckon probably a 30 or 40Β° incline at least 250 m straight up!
Just a couple of shots from our trip to Bald Rockβfinally got reception so I can share them!

There is something about camping with your family and the togetherness and tranguility of being together π
2nd Van trip coming up this weekend, taking Friday off work. Gonna sleep in the Van tonight and see if I can fiddle with the town water supply (basically our outside tap near the Van haha π) and see if I can have a shower in the Van, brush my teeth and go to bed π -- Basically I just want to figure out the rest of the plumbing πͺ
@movq Yeah well I've put in an order for a much better quality Ocarina π The one I originally started with was a bit on the "cheap" side. It's been okay, but the high notes are a bit "meh" (airy).
@bender Haha π€£ Not sure where I'll find such a costume from, but I'll ask my girls π§
This year for some reason or another, I decided to purchase an Ocarina, I've been practising a fair bit every now and again, basically during work breaks and sometimes in the afternoon / evenings (not enough to annoy the family π€£) Anyhoo, that was 3 months ago, since then I've built up a bit of a Repertoire:
- Silent Night
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
- Amazing Grace
- O Holy Night
- Happy Birthday
- Greensleeves
- Scarborough Fair
- Sheβll Be Coming βRound the Mountain
I've now decided to purchase a slightly better quality Ocarina, the one I originally bought was a cheap $28 one, I'm now upgrading to a more professional instrument worth about $80 -- Wish my luck π
Just learned this nice little life-hack for disconnecting MC4 Solar connectors π Works really well! And I don't have to buy a special little MC4 assembly tool π₯³
@rdlmda Yeah the "web" is pretty brokenβ’ right? π
yhe sourde code is available so you can inspect it π
Hmm I think it's a bug in the Javascript. It's meant to be 
I turned off indexing and anonymous access i think? π§
@rdlmda I never saw the point of a registry to be honest, as it defeated the point of what I believed to be a truly decentralised non-social social ecosystem. What can and does work however is a search engine and crawler. I used to run one, but I took it down, mostly because it got expensive to operate, at least the implementation I built... Maybe one day i'll try again with a SQLite backend.
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Our first test over night trip π€