The Firekeeper doing a little spin when you use certain emotes is the most adorable shit I have ever seen in any fromsoftware game. 10/10 darksouls 3 is the best game.
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Notes. Random thoughts, ideas, links, musings, short and unstructured.
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own.
~ Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.4-5
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
Cory Doctorow delivered a speech entitled “A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet” for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany.
The door is open a crack, the wind is blowing, the post-American internet is upon us: a new, good internet that delivers all the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 so that our normie friends can use it, too.
Fuck yeah let’s go!
Douglas Adams:
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
The darkest of nights passes and the sun is reborn.
There are no heroes.
That was a reaction I had to some news. Meditating on this phrase for just a moment I take the meaning to be: men are faliable and flawed and are not to be worshiped. We should look elsewhere for inspiration and guidance in our lives.
While we shouldn’t perform any hero worship to these flawed people, we should aspire towards the idealized hero myth. Those myths exist for a reason. We see the potential for greatness in ourselves.
We should aspire to be like Hercules.
everyone wants a dollar, goddamn.
My favorite way to play a soulslike is to become hilariously over-leveled and steamroll through every boss.
I’ve been using firefox for probably 20 years now and have not really questioned the choice. Now I am. The Mozilla news has me reflecting on my choice. See also is mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
- What even is a “web browser” today?
- What does AI powered mean for a “web browser”?
- What sort of interface do I require to the internet?
- Is a pi-hole enough in my home network to mitigate malicious ads and trackers?
- If I opt to use a “more supported” browser such as Google Chrome (or Chromium I suppose) should I run it inside a VM, isolated from my main machine?
- Should I run Firefox in a VM once it is “ai powered”?
- Is Waterfox a good fork of Firefox?
- Is this a battle I really want to fight?
- If the internet is just tv and ads are paying the bills, does it really matter since I can choose to not engage with it at all?
The message I am receiving from reflecting on the state of, things, is that I no longer want to engage with the corporate web. It does not enrich me, or improve my life in any way, or bring me any joy. In fact, it is quite the opposite.
Mozilla directing Firefox down a path that seems counter to what the kind of people that use Firefox actually want from a browser is a clear signal that I have no fucking idea what is going on XD Best to just, walk away, and focus on the things that actually bring me joy in this world.