- anyone with experience self-hosting either Keycloak or FusionAuth or another IAM provider? I'm looking especially for something to migrate away from AWS Cognito. Hosting anything in the USA not an option. - anyone using Cloud Foundry in recent times?I'm tempted to pick it instead of Kubernetes as if we pick Kubernetes I'll be the sole Kubernetes girl for the whole company and Kubernetes feels like… a lot. But since modern CF is, as I understand it, Kubernetes under the hood, my decades of experience with "one more layer of abstraction" tell me that the one more layer of abstraction will blow up on our face sooner or later. (I mean computing these days is already the JVM on Docker on Kubernetes on a VM on the someone else's cluster of servers on another someone's datacenter, when I still would rather be running our own dang daemons on bare metal…)

her: I don't get why they make Civ more "streamlined" every version. for me the micromanaging was the entire point... me: have you ever played #DwarfFortress her: I heard about it, but never tried it. me: it's the best videogame. there's really nothing like it. I mean no simulation comes even close. her: yes I dunno, I tried to get into it but it looks like a steep learning curve... me: oh yes totally. probably the steepest ever. not so much the difficulty but the sheer amount of things there is to learn about. I really cannot convey it to you. this game has just so much, stuff, in it. her: I guess I'd have to dedicate a few hours just to learn to play it... me: Hours? hah. a month or two. and you'll get addicted and time will stop having any meaning, so say goodbye to any reallife you thought you had. the clunky UI is the only thing between you and the temptation to live in the matrix, good thing it acts as a deterrent. her: (I thought you were trying to get me into that game...?) me: (must... resist... urge to... strike the earth...)

suddenly I realised that the kind of long toot I just wrote and constantly post here—that is, memories and experiences worded in a more literature-y way—is literally the Brazilian genre called "chronicle" (crônica). crônicas were one of many predecessors to blogs across the world; short-form writing in a personal voice, published daily in newspapere, eventually collected in "best of" anthologies. I grew up reading chronicles, and it never ocurred to me that I've been unconsciously imitating them daily for Gods know how many years

Geoff again: ...holy fuck "multiple" in English was exclusively an adjective until like, mid 1980s!! it only became a determiner *this* recently!! before that you only find "multiple" as in "multiple choice" or "multiple fracture", never as in "multiple people" or "multiple times" (and if you did find it, it would have meant something adjectival, like the modern "plural person" or similar—one of the first occurrences of "multiple people" was in "well, the database has multiple people", which then meant "well, the database has people with duplicated records in it"). that means that for anyone who acquired English before this development (within my lifetime!), expressions like "multiple of these actors" probably sounded syntactically weird (partitives don't occur with adjectives, only determiners; "two of these actors" or "many of these actors" occur, but not *"blue of these actors" or *"plural of these actors"). for me, who learned English as my second language in the 90s, it sounds as normal and unremarkable as "many of these actors". I probably barely missed the window where I would have gotten the previous version of English. for people not into this kink, I'll clarify that getting a new determiner is a pretty rare development, this is "once in a hundred years comet" for linguists. determiners are a closed class, so they seldomly get new ones—Wikipedia only lists some 60-something total determiners for English (and it's still missing "multiple"). #linguistics

still haven't found a dictionary for DGS signs for stuff like "anarchism", "Marxist backstabber", "democratic confederalist" etc. even ASL with its overwhelming presence it's hard to find political terms. but I now know a LSM word for zapatismo: