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Quit my job after four years of developers not listening to me. Today's my first day never having to log in to my work laptop again. Finally, I can relax.

[martinuzz]

Already got plans what to do next? Start your own project maybe?

[voliol]

Have been participating in the DF modding jam, making a skilevak generator since it fits the theme of "creature of the night". The new Lua framework takes a while to get used to, and I honestly am a little lost still. Certainly making some hacky decisions that are contrary to the code that you're supposed to use when making a procgen creature generator. But it is fun

[EuchreJack]

Have been participating in the DF modding jam, making a skilevak generator since it fits the theme of "creature of the night". The new Lua framework takes a while to get used to, and I honestly am a little lost still. Certainly making some hacky decisions that are contrary to the code that you're supposed to use when making a procgen creature generator. But it is fun

Congrats on learning the new Lua framework!

[Djohaal]

Few things beat the instant relief of a glass of sodium bicarbonate when your acid reflux is royally fucked up.
Ate something that upset my stomach royally yesterday and caused very intense and painful reflux ever since. Grabbed some bicarbonate at the pharmacy. Dissolved a spoonful in cold water. Drank. A massive burp and then bliss.

[Great Order]

Exercising again. Don't know how long it'll last, but I'm doing a minimal-exercise routine each day (30 squats, 30 situps, as many half pushups as I can get (Curse oestrogen making me lose muscle mass)) so if I don't feel like it I can say to myself that it'll take less than five minutes.

Hopefully if I can keep it up I'll be able to build up from there.

[Great Order]

I have once again acquired flint.

Much better than previously though, I've acquired a few large nodules. Some large nodule chunks that aren't so great but still useful, but three of them are almost complete nodules including one with about the same overall volume as two fists.

I did get what I thought was a good hammerstone, but now I'm back home the damn things losing chunks left right and centre. Still, they're easier to find.

[martinuzz]

An archeologist's worst enemy: flint re-enactors who toss away their failed product, making archeologists waste 10s of thousands of dollars of budget to determine that that special tool that was brought in was a whopping 100 thousand seconds old.

Also, in the far future archeologist might determine that humanity was slowly learning to make stone tools in 2025

[Great Order]

Well there's a reason you chuck that stuff into the bin. If your tool flakes are around a bunch of contemporary waste the archaeologist isn't going to think "Oh man those cavemen had Heinz Beans?"

[Eric Blank]

A recent episode of the Event Horizons podcast also interviewed some very old man about their (and others') diary collection project from the UK, he was lamenting how rare it's becoming to keep diaries anymore, especially Americans (and how Americans' diaries they do get are all full of religious stuff) but to the point, I remember him talking about how people kept track of their hobbies in their diaries, and your post made me realize people recording, like your knapping practice, in diaries would be invaluable to future historians or archaeologists to know to expect those things, and where and how you were going about it, so they don't go "I wonder why a bunch of british people were reverting back to stone age technology in the 21st century. Was the economy that bad?"

[Great Order]

Yeah I'd probably diary more if I actually remembered to.

If I get on ADHD medications maybe it's something I'll actually be able to pick up, or maybe the whole concepts kind of opposed to my brain's style of function, I dunno.

[Frumple]

Wonder if they're counting blogging and social media junk as diarying or not... I'd wager a lot of modern practice of that has more or less transitioned over to stuff like that. You've still got the same sort of day in the life chronicling, it's just. Broadcasted.

[Eric Blank]

He actually did, and the guy thinks its not as authentic because people censor themselves or otherwise make their blog more palatable to other people; he doesn't think it's as true a form of self-expression because you're scared of getting recorded and bullied by other people/businesses and governments that monitor you.

The guy put me off a bit to be honest, but whatever

[pisskop]

Future historians will see our digital media, such as it survives.

think wayback machine and google caches.  And any state myspace/facebook/insta survives in.

I think its a matter of scale.  More people are capable of recording these things, and most arent educated or disciplined in how to keep a diary such as would be useful for a future study.  The raw data is there.

This would be like if every Pompeiian held a diary to their chest as they died.

[Egan_BW]

Most text that survives past a certain point is the stuff that people felt the need to make copies of repeatedly for one reason or another. Digital media doesn't change that so much; most stuff will end up being deleted or lost and what survives from now to the year 3000 will be whatever people feel the need to keep reading and copying in all the years from 2025 to 3000.

But I guess if you really got something you want to say directly to future people, writing it on paper and burying it somewhere very arid will still work.