ZILtoid1991

Recently I'm seeing more and more fashy people hailing AI "art", and while I might have made a Twitter thread on the subject a year ago, I want to dig deeper in what lies behind the scenes, besides of "woke mind virus", "the transes were mean to my VTuber oshi for plaing the wizard game, billions must die", "artists are not REAL workers, thus they must learn to weld" (which itself can be an art), etc. I want to write an article about the subject.

I personally see and even experience fascistic work ethics on a daily basis (I live in Hungary), however I still need to see the underlying workings, also I can point the readers to further investigate such things. Also I need more context for fascism's relationship to art besides futurism (will be very relevant to geek gatekeeping), marble pillars, and "returning to tradition by honoring the great masters".

A joint statement by independent Hungarian papers in response to the newly adopted Sovereignty Protection Bill.

The official documentation isn't 100% clear on things (why am I getting LUA_TNIL for functions?), and the best I can find with some simple web search is kinda relevant stackoverflow (🤮) posts, except they're mostly about calling host functions from Lua side, the rest are things that seem I've nailed so far.

EDIT: Solution was that everyone was using luaL_dofile, while I was forward thinking and used lua_load instead, which isn't a macro, and as such doesn't do an initial lua_pcall. Now I do it manually, and now I get different, but less cryptic and actually documented errors. Now I just have to wrestle with D metaprogramming features (very strong and capable, but is a rabbit hole itself).

I'm likely on a yet another burnout cycle, and I have little to no possibility of meeting with people thanks to the place I live. I also have trouble with socializing in general, even in online spaces.

Since my current job I don't make enough to move or to live alone, and the only better place would cost me more than the Hungarian minimum wage (of which I make less than thanks to labor programs 🤢), I cannot really change this, also would only marginally help me since I always had issues with socializing.

I'm thinking about creating a separate Mastodon account for promoting my game engine, and I'm looking for a suitable instance.

My game engine is open-source, so both gamedev and opensource-related instances would be good.

Here's the situation:

• I work at an institution as a desk clerk in Hungary's infamous employment program, that barely pays (half of minimum wage to keep the other employees wage barely above minimum), and with very limited leave days. Only 20 days paid, no unpaid leave for "work moral" reasons (!!!), and the doctors barely give out any sick leaves (none for regular check ups!).
• My paid leaves are tied until the kitchen gets rebuilt, due to then they would have to put one of the maintenance guys in my place.
• I'm disabled. I have autism, which makes this kind of work extremely stressful to me, which made even harder by the attitude many Hungarians have towards any office work. In addition I also have epilepsy, and my medication has really strong side effects, many of which are so bad that I should have been given different medication, except my doctor refuses to see me. In theory, I could get some benefits with my autism, but I would have to go through very invasive and humiliating tests to "make sure I'm not lying about my disability" (long story short: Fidesz won the 2010 election on the moral panic of "welfare queens", because far-right websites found Mercedeses with disability cards). Nothing for the epilepsy stuff though, even if my medication messes up my sleep cycle and it alone disallows me to drive cars, which limits my job options.

On this Saturday (tomorrow) my boss asked me to get to work, because of a "family day", for no real pay and no additional leaves, especially not for a month at least, because the aforementioned construction work. We will have even more visitors than usual, and live music (which is popular songs sang and played very badly on a keyboard). I'm already very tired and stressed out due to my low tolerance for this kind of work, and on top of it, I have extra home responsibiities on the weekend. However, she negs me to come.

I help whenever I can. I gave them computer equipment as they're not allowed to spend money on it, or else they would anger the main Fidesz voter base by spending money on "Playstations". I have stayed on many occassions when I was needed. However, tomorrow, I can't.

Should I lie about a terrible headache and/or a food poisoning? She wrote in a few paid leaves for such occassions before, so this should work.

My old broken earphones started to fall apart, and I need something to replace it.