| 04:25 |
diana_coman |
jfw: it is, indeed, congrats! |
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~ 10 hours 39 minutes ~ |
| 15:04 |
jfw |
yay! 'twas a good size mini-puzzle, thanks for posting. |
| 15:06 |
diana_coman |
jfw: glad to hear it; I thought it might have been too easy even and it was just that I previously asked the wrong people, lol |
| 15:08 |
diana_coman |
ftr, the approach that I saw most often (and backfiring) seemed to go along the lines of "count and correct" with the correction causing the trouble. |
| 15:14 |
diana_coman |
jfw: how's it going with getting mysql on gales? |
| 15:15 |
jfw |
ah, that sounds like what I was trying in my head before writing some examples and seeing it's just division with some setup. |
| 15:18 |
jfw |
mysql was going pretty well - then I managed to hose the bootloader on my Gales laptop, and discover this only later while away from my normal office & rescue media. At that point I dug back up some Scheme interpreter work, which has had my attention since (meanwhile we're still waiting for certainty on the deal that most motivated the mysql) |
| 15:21 |
jfw |
meanwhile in "gardening", I've learned to reglaze/paint old wood frame windows |
| 15:22 |
diana_coman |
huh, it's certainly an unexpected turn of events there; does the scheme interpreter work have its own motivating deal? |
| 15:23 |
jfw |
not really; just something I'd been wanting to get back to for a while. |
| 15:28 |
diana_coman |
to my eye and from a distance, there does seem to be a lot of getting back happening around. |
| 15:30 |
diana_coman |
jfw: any plan of getting back to writing, too? |
| 15:31 |
jfw |
It does keep popping up as "I really ought to..." but nothing that amounts to a plan. |
| 15:32 |
jfw |
not that the plan would be anything fancier than "1. Write something", haha |
| 15:33 |
diana_coman |
lol, that's not a plan by any stretch, indeed. I guess in other words, you don't yet see anything of interest in either the writing itself or the blog-result. |
| 15:36 |
jfw |
I can't seem to argue otherwise. |
| 15:41 |
diana_coman |
jfw: I thought you were pretty busy with mysql and then presumably the rest following from there but since it turns out surprisingly that it's not the case or not atm, would you have any interest in setting up/running an irc-to-others bridge for me? somewhere in the background among the long list of things that await for me to grow more time in trees, there's this one too. |
| 15:45 |
jfw |
hm, possibly; do you have software in mind and just need it deployed somewhere & maintained, or what? |
| 15:51 |
diana_coman |
mainly it's a service I want, not as much specific software. Otherwise certainly, on one hand there are already all sorts of bridges that even work for various definitions of work. As usual, each with their own bunch of requirements re environment and/or constraints and/or set/subset of what they can and mostly can't do. |
| 15:51 |
diana_coman |
and otherwise there is always curl, sure. |
| 15:55 |
jfw |
do you know the "others" you want to bridge to? I'm not quite seeing where curl fits in, do they have http apis? |
| 15:57 |
jfw |
perhaps my questions are too specific for now -- what I'm after is some idea of what would be involved in providing the service & if I'm in a position to offer it. |
| 15:59 |
diana_coman |
jfw: they tend to have http apis, yes; as for the list of others, it's open ended and meant to increase (possibly even decrease at times,lol) gradually |
| 16:00 |
diana_coman |
for starters I'd want at least to have a proper look at whatever is supposedly going on in those very popular/latest honeypots |
| 16:00 |
diana_coman |
discord, telegramm, whatever; it's still explore stuff, not like it's clear fully upfront or anything |
| 16:01 |
diana_coman |
it's the sort of starting small and cheap, seeing if it's anything worth more to it or not. |
| 16:01 |
jfw |
telegram I know has a kind of second-class "bot API" while the full protocol is a complex custom thing. Possibly the API's enough here though |
| 16:02 |
diana_coman |
jfw: re whether in a position to offer it, I suppose you can't be; if you were, you'd be offering it already, really, so not sure what you mean there. |
| 16:04 |
jfw |
haha. well I'm recalling lobbes and the php logger "omelette" |
| 16:04 |
diana_coman |
I rather expect most have "a complex custom thing" but I'm not sure it's very healthy to care all that much about their complex custom thing; the point is to get what is useful, NOT at all in itself to implement their protocol or something, ugh |
| 16:05 |
diana_coman |
lol, I can see what you mean then. |
| 16:08 |
jfw |
seems like it would be a good experience to work on that sort of exploratory thing, finding how to get at what's useful without getting too deep into any one of the pits |
| 16:09 |
jfw |
that sounds like system administration in general actually |
| 16:09 |
diana_coman |
ahaha, possibly like working in computers in general, even! |
| 16:10 |
diana_coman |
in/with/around/anywhere near the damned things. |
| 16:12 |
jfw |
diana_coman: can I get back to you in a week? we should have a clearer picture of where the jwrd workload will be at by then. |
| 16:12 |
diana_coman |
jfw: sure. |
| 16:12 |
jfw |
cool, ty. |
| 16:14 |
jfw |
as someone also interested in finding younger blood this is also directly interesting to me though. |
| 16:15 |
diana_coman |
so perhaps we can work something out; it's certainly not burning atm. |
| 16:18 |
diana_coman |
I'll add also for the record that eulora quite specifically does not include any in-game chat via the game server (as it can be easily noticed from the total absence of "chat" in the communications protocol). |
| 16:25 |
jfw |
I suppose you can either figure out how to IRC or else code messages by having your character do dances like a honeybee |
| 16:28 |
diana_coman |
well, I'm sorely tempted to add a button "talk to" to the context/gui interface, just to aggravate the user on every click on it, there is that. |
| 16:37 |
jfw |
:q |
| 16:37 |
jfw |
gah! |