jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron.bsky.social Follow ups: I really love this game and I think it has the potential to be the best hex-based Civ. If previous entries are any indication, it will get official updates for quite some time, and I expect modding to really kick off after steam workshop support ships.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Still, it's very impressive. Terminal emulators are notoriously tricky to get right. They're built upon 50 years of layered standards with a 2400 baud communication channel at its core + whatever popular non-standard behaviors exist in the wild. There's just not much blood in t...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Tried ghostty. Good: Default theme, _very_ fast text display. Meh: Slow startup(?), configuration, doing the Right Thing(tm) with terminfo is nonetheless a bad user experience, no windows version. Before this I wondered "How can people find a terminal so life changing?", and I...
@jmoiron.bsky.social The contrast between the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and the pardoning of the Jan 6 rioters is sickening. Conflating speech with terrorism is a ploy. The goal is to punish dissent. For the people under 35, we saw this under GWB. It's the neocon playbook.
@jmoiron.bsky.social When I was a freshman at uni, Led Zeppelin IV and Dark Side of the Moon felt like very old, classic albums. Albums that age for today's freshmen: Odelay and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Spent several hours incredibly perplexed until I learned that Java allows circular imports.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It's also upbeat and optimistic in a way that frees us from the relentless cynicism and fatalism of our gen-X elder siblings. At least, as long as we think too much about what happened in Japan after the 80's.
@jmoiron.bsky.social The reason that City Pop is so compelling for western millenials specifically is that it is both familiar and alien. A missing canon full of bangers that fills the gap between the jazz & disco of the 70s and the game music we grew up on.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It looks .. okay! The drink I had was more tastefully put together than I made it sound, but I still didn't have a great time with it. I've tried coffee+lemonade and coffee+tonic and had similar regrets so maybe I'm the problem. Here's a pic I took of the Valencia:
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: A few years ago, after having a delightful "Cafe Valencia" (cap w/ burnt orange peel) at a cafe in Ebisu, I decided to order an "Orange Coffee" at another cafe, which was the orange juice coffee you describe. Regrettably, I found it to be pretty undrinkable.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I've been choosing the Butterfly and spreading the religion of Bluesky.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Civ VII: Achingly beautiful. Love leader/faction split, commanders, no builders. Need some more time with ages. Narration is gorgeous. Main theme good, music great. Baffled how new civs are always missing at least one type of research/production queue. Minimalist UI a bad fit, I...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I think this is a Bad Approach, but there are limited hands and much work, and there are always enough users who have gone through the rites and hold the sacred knowledge of what "bwrap: setting up uid map: Permission denied" means who think this situation is fine and ignorance i...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Ubuntu has gone through effort to provide AA profiles for a lot of packages that require these namespaces, but they only configure a specific install path, so they're pretty brittle. The approach to limiting user interruption is to encourage packagers to ship AppArmor profiles in...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If you did not guess 3, then congratulations, you have never experienced Linux on the Desktop. To fix, your options are: 1. Manually create an AppArmor profile for it, which is a ~7 line file with custom syntax 2. Disable this security feature globally through sysctl
by jason moiron, 2026