The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/
But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083/2
I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. Repost information about this broadly, and if you have media contacts, inform them of counter-narratives; there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now.
EDIT: I linked to the wrong page! The second link is now fixed :)
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Autistici/Inventati's domains have now been revoked. I updated the link in the above post with a wayback machine copy.
Every now and then someone tells me, "We have a decentralized naming system, it's called DNS!" and I say, no we don't, DNS is extremely centralized? And if that wasn't clear to you before, hopefully it's clear to you today.
Glimmermark Session 59: a game of Chainmail for once, the PCs and their troops against one of the local robber knight and his bandits (played by @lkh).
Unfortunately for the bandits the PCs had the better archers, and dominated the battle. The only standout was a unit of mercenary orcs that refused to stop fighting and charged headlong into the heavy horsemen of the opposing side. In the end, facing death, the last three orcs offered their services to attackers.
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view of battlefield for Chainmail, map is by Dyson Logos
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I feel Chainmail does a good job at emphasizing the importance of ranged attacks. Maybe better than the later d20 based D&D combat systems.
This was a fun little game, had fun loosing it anyway 😅
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@lkh I always feel like playing Chainmail is more about the discussion of what's happening than the actual result.
But what can I say, I didn't take part as a player yesterday, and the last times we played my side was completely OP
It even arrived the day before, so I could open it on the appropriate day.
Thank you so much, @lkh@grenzland.club
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A physical copy of the 2D6 RPG fanzine "Greenland", with a cover reminiscent of the original 1977 2D6 RPG "Traveller"
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It's beginning to feel a little like the end of summer.
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Mountains in the distance, listening to NoSummr4u by oOoOO.
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@neauoire it's been a record-breaking rainy season here in alberta. hardly a day above 30. still waiting for the summer feeling to begin.
(though i'm not complaining — give me -20º and deep snow year-round)
@neauoire curious if you get used to seeing landscapes like this or if it's kind of endlessly amazing
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@calutron you get used to it, usually in the spring, when we first come up, we're always impressed, but the more time we spend up here, we kind of forget and it becomes just the background. The brain tend to normalize experience, at least for us. But I still have enough of awe to look at it today, and be think, wow, I need to take a picture of this.
Most browsers allow you to configure the default search engine some way. Sometimes it can be tricky. But once you figure it out, you can add more.
My default search engine:
https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite?q=%s
I find that even less distracting than the no-AI variant:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
I only run into trouble when I try to search for a particular image.
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Search engines based on blog "planets", using xobaque:
Search Emacs blogs:
https://search.emacslife.com/search?q=%s
Search RPG blogs:
https://campaignwiki.org/rpg/search?q=%s
Search indie blogs:
https://search.indieblog.page/search?q=%s
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Sadly, the Wikipedia page for "Planet (software)" now redirects to a comparison of feed aggregators that doesn't include any planets.
Planet Venus
Planet Pluto
Planet Jupiter (mine)
…
But there are of course many such static site generators that build a web site based on a collection of feeds, and not all of them have names based on planets. Or dward planets. 
Moritz Simon Geist - Beyond Human / Jazz Popcorn Robot, 2021
https://www.moritzsimongeist.com/ #art #soundart #sound #Machine #xperimentalmusic #soundbath
Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kON2ZI2BNj8&is=2Y16jZqMz9TINWID
Aus dem Grenzland Zine Nr. 5 "Science Fantasy", wo ich einen Vorschlag für Schusswaffen in Rollenspielen mit D&D-artiger Lebensenergie und Rettungswürfen gemacht habe.
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Piu piu!! Laserpistolen? Plasmakanonen? Kein Problem! Irgendwo zwischen magic missile und lightning bolt findet man die Lösung. Wenn es sich um Explosionen oder den Beschuss einer Fläche handelt, ist ein Rettungswurf erlaubt. Bei Explosionen wird ein save vs. dragon breath verwendet, bei Beschuss wird ein save vs. death ray verwendet. In diesen Fällen ist kein Angriffswurf erforderlich. Alle Gegner im Zielgebiet sind getroffen.
Laserpistole 1w6 Schaden, kein Rettungswurf, Reichweite 90 Fuss, ein Ziel
Sturmgewehr 2w6 Schaden, kein Rettungswurf, Reichweite 900 Fuss, ein Ziel
Schrotflinte 4w6 Schaden, mit Rettungswurf, Reichweite 90 Fuss, ein Ziel
Maschinengewehr 2w6 Schaden, mit Rettungswurf, Reichweite 3000 Fuss, Kegel
Splittergranate 3w6 Schaden, mit Rettungswurf, Reichweite 120 Fuss, Kreis mit 10 Fuss Radius
Plasmagewehr 5w6 Schaden, mit Rettungswurf, Reichweite 9000 Fuss, Linie
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@kensanata
This is the typeface used in the classic Swedish 1980s #ttrpg magazine Sinkadus!
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@mrundkvist I guess @lkh can tell us more about the zine and the fonts used. I thought it was Souvenir, the classic typeface of the D&D B/X books?
http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/tsrfonts.html
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You can now find me also at W Social!
https://wsocial.eu/profile/rahmstorf.wsocial.eu
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@rahmstorf Ernsthaft? Eine reine Lobbyist*innen Plattform mit dem Ziel Faschisten auf der ganzen Welt zu vernetzen?
Ich verstehe es nicht, wie man sich in diese PR Geisterstadt reinziehen lassen kann.
https://www.metacheles.de/w-social-das-zum-scheitern-verurteilte-social-media-vakuum/
Du kannst aber natuerlich noch nach Eurosky!
Deborah S. Phillips - Gegenueber (1994, short, co-dir)
https://deborahsp.wordpress.com/ #art #Germany #shortfilm #Experimental #film
FACEBOOK IS TOXIC. META IS AWFUL.
WHY CONTINUE FEEDING IT? 💎
Nearly everyone complains about Facebook and Meta.
The algorithms are toxic.
The advertising is invasive.
The outrage is manufactured.
CHILDREN ARE BEING HARMED.
Privacy is disappearing.
And then millions of people open Facebook or Instagram.
Again.
And again.
I genuinely do not understand it.
If you believe these companies are damaging children, manipulating attention, and making billions from human vulnerability, why are you still giving them your presence?
Especially the parents.
If Facebook and Instagram are unhealthy for your children, what exactly are you modeling by remaining there yourself?
“We know this place is harmful, darling, but Mummy and Daddy have photographs to look at.”
I left Meta years ago.
I didn’t die.
My friends did not evaporate.
Civilization continued.
There is email.
There are phones.
THERE IS THE OPEN WEB.
There is even the terrifying possibility of seeing another human being, god forbid, in person.
Meta survives because people who complain about it continue supplying exactly what it needs:
Their attention.
Their relationships.
Their outrage.
THEIR CHILDREN.
You do not have to wait for Zuckerberg to become a better person.
You can simply leave today.
The door swings both ways.
#Facebook #Meta #Instagram #SocialMedia #Algorithms #BigTech #DigitalWellbeing #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #Privacy #AttentionEconomy #TechEthics #SocialMediaAddiction #Zuckerberg #DeleteFacebook
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@Robinzz3 a post on this needed path https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-and-the-fight-against-the-dotcons/
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Thanks Hamish. I’ve read it.
I think “leaving matters, but leaving is not enough” is exactly where this conversation has taken me.
The replies have made me much more aware of how deeply Facebook has become infrastructure for councils, businesses, community groups, families and local information.
That makes the open web problem much bigger and much more interesting than simply telling people to delete Facebook.
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It's a cultural clash more than a technology problem - but technology still has an important role. We need to support, fund and use a wide range of #openweb technologies. There is no single "right path".
The sellouts have a role, the fundamentalists, the pragmatists, experimenters and weirdos have a role too. The value isn't in choosing one tribe and defeating the others.
It's in finding a balance where difference coexists, challenge and grow wider commons.
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Yes, I think that’s right. I’m not looking for one correct tribe either.
What I want is a technological culture broad enough to allow very different people to use it in very different ways, without forcing everyone into the same commercial or ideological mould.
The open web should be messy, plural, experimental, and accessible.
My only hard line is that “difference” shouldn’t become an excuse for systems that are deliberately extractive, manipulative, or hostile to the people using them.
Apart from that, bring on the pragmatists, fundamentalists, experimenters, and weirdos. Especially the weirdos.
#weirdos #culture #commercial #system #ideological #meta #facebook
Gibt's jemand der "Retro" Midgard spielt da draußen? Ich versuche mich zwischen M2 und M3 zu entscheiden. Ich glaube M3 hat ein oder zwei Klassen mehr und die Regeln sind ein wenig einfacher als M2? Und M3 hat wohl eine andere Weltbeschreibung. Aber sonst ist beides mehr oder weniger "Midgard wie es sein sollte" für Retro Kram? Stimmt das so ungefähr?
I really like glasses that have very thin frames, possibly even with no frames at the bottoms of the lenses, and that are made of very light materials. And I think we should really push that fashion, encouraging the kind of glasses that have no room for cameras and microphones in them.
Working on the presumption that the barely-working keyboard I pulled from the Inspiron 2650 was subjected to a spill of some sort a decade and a half ago, it'll be getting a spin in the dishwasher.
The €1 replacement works perfectly, so this is a low-stakes test to see firsthand if dishwashering is a viable way to clean filthy keyboards.
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The top shelf of a domestic dishwashing robot. A laptop keyboard sits among mugs and a spatula.
Post the best selling phone from the year you were born.
All these kids posting iPhones
Here. Hold my beer.
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A 1973 GPO rotary phone in dual tone green. These were hard wired to the network so you couldn't just unplug them and move them elsewhere.
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@nomenloony @nosrednayduj
We had this awesome "princess phone":
But even before the Ma Bell breakup, but after they let other devices on the lines, I got some silly phone from Sears (I *think* mine was Snoopy, but it's been 40 years)
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beige princess phone (slim, but traditional two-lope handset, not slimline), with 12 buttons WOW Cord on this one is kinked in a couple places
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Three Ericsson Cobra phones
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Good morning friends 😊
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I don't want a city on Mars. I don't want Al in every app. I don't want data centers in space. I want clean water. I want affordable healthcare. And I want bees to survive.
Die Bestellfrist für Grenzland 8 läuft noch bis 31. Juli!
#grenzland #pnpde #ttrpg #fanzine
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Ad for issue 8 of the Grenzland ttrpg fanzine. The cover mockup shown looks suspiciously similar to a famous 2d6 sci-fi role playing game. The table of contents lists: The original tabletop role playing dice mechanic, The Space Empire of Alexander the Great, Seven Patrons, The Cover Game, Reflections on Traumstein, Sword World, Warum 2W6 Spiele?, Leviathan, Welcome to grenzland.club, Classifieds, Feedback, Save the Date!, Outlook, Imprint
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PDFs of all back issues are available here: https://lkh.sdf-eu.org/wandererbill/grenzland/
- Free Classified Ads
- Upcoming Dates and Events you want everyone to know about
PM me right here or write to grenzland@betola.de.
Please boost for visibility :)
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- Kleinanzeigen (alles was irgendwie mit Rollenspiel zu tun hat) und
- Termine wie z.B. Conventions auf die Du hinweisen möchtest
Einfach private Nachricht hier oder email an grenzland@betola.de.
Gerne weitersagen!
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@lkh weiß gar nicht mehr, ob ich zu den letzten Ausgaben etwas auf Bookwyrm geschrieben habe. Da ich nicht Traveller spiele, kann ich zur aktuellen Ausgabe leider wenig sagen. Ich hab gestern schon ein paar Seiten gelesen.
ISSUE NUMBER NINE OF THE TILDE.TOWN ZINE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
https://tilde.town/~zine
a massive thank you to @agafnd for stepping in as editor and getting this project sorted. this is a big edition, with very many different works, including a cookbook… dig in
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the cover for zine #9, based on a public domain film poster for a moby dick movie. text reads:
The "Tilde Town" Zine Number Nine: A "Whale" of an Issue!
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Having to contend with the internal conflict over technically being a Brand Account right now.
Anyway, install NetBSD. We don't get anything if you do, but it'll be good for you. You know that Raspberry Pi you bought in 2020 and has been sitting in a drawer ever since? How about that old laptop that's seen better days?
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@netbsd non-profit brands with products for the betterment of society are truly welcome on the #fediverse
Boot Hill: had a training game with the first scenario from the book today on Roll20. (The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral).
The game is as deadly as it is said, and even if you are a stat monster a protracted fight can get you killed, as Wyatt Earp found out in this game (headshot).
In the end the last lawman (Virgil Earp) managed to reach safety on the last point of strength he had, while the remaining three of the Cochise County Cowboys were chasing after him.
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view of Boot Hill scenario mid-play on Roll20, scenario is The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, but the lawmen are represented by elves and dwarves, while the cowboy side is represented by goblins
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Boot Hill is one of those really early TTRPGs that don't yet know how TTRPGs work, but which really want to embrace the hobby. It's basically nothing but a gunfight simulator, with just enough campaign rules to be able to be called a roleplaying game.
(we played the revised 2nd edition)
It's one of those games that make people try everything EXCEPT combat because combat is definitely a fail state.
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according to my calculations there is a 19% chance that any given hit is a mortal wound, and even non-mortal wounds might get you closer to death.
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anyway, 2e Boot Hill has 6 stats: Speed, Gun Accuracy, Throwing Accuracy, Strength, Bravery, and Experience.
These stats have modifiers that are used for first shot comparisons, and accuracy.
Strength also is used as hit points.
Experience is measured ONLY by the number of gunfights the character was in.
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the main combat play loop is like this:
1. movement phase: everybody can move according to their capabilities. The characters with a higher result on a d100 go last (i.e. they can plan better what to do when everybody else has moved)
2. first shot: the speed of every combatant is calculated (multiple shots are possible at lower values) and then worked through
3. shots are resolved as to accuracy (as in: do they actually hit?)
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it feels like a very elegant, if intentionally limited system.
there are no classes. there are no skills (well, there is one: gambling, but that's a special case). There are in fact not even stats for any animals and only a few stock NPCs. Oh, and a list of the fastest guns that ever lived, which is like cutting down the DnD monster manual to townsfolk and the demon lords.
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@kyonshi That's actually a good idea, basically how my RuneQuest (not Glorantha) games go. There's a few monsters as "don't go here" warnings, but almost anything you really have to fight are other PC-types, and a single hit can kill you.
Makes you reevaluate your aggression levels, for sure.
@kyonshi BH is definitely "Western gunfight wargame" first and "Western tabletop RPG" a distant second. But here's the thing -- D&D's foundational history involves people roleplaying the hell out of their wargames rules without the RP being codified, so I think Boot Hill reflects a lot of that. I think it was intended to just provide wargame combat rules and the RP was just assumed to be happening by fiat.
As I recall, however, the third edition went a lot farther in providing what we would consider a "full TTRPG" experience?
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Game turns are rather loosely defined:
"weekly, monthly or of any specified duration."And here's your ancient school rpg in a nutshell:
"Each turn, the players relate to the referee what their character's actions and undertakings will be, and the referee moderates the resultant occurances"CC: @kyonshi@dice.camp
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Wandering DMs had an interesting show with special guest Rutskarn, talking about Boot Hill. The deadliness of combat comes up a few times.
I saw XKCD 1168 again just now, and you'd be safe with me -- the bomb wouldn't detonate.
However, you better not ask me whether it's useradd or adduser -- 50% chance we all end up in smithereens.
Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
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@fribbledom For a while before I had to pay bills using online services I had a "pure" CLI setup, running barebones distros without X installed. Was pretty cool, had a command line application for just about anything. Even wrote a novel using a text-based word processor called wordgrinder.
It was surprising how much you could still see of the web using elinks, I could even use facebook 😂 Unsurprisingly banking was out of the picture though, I had to borrow my mom's windows laptop to do that.
@fribbledom
Given how much money I just paid for 64 GiB of DDR5 ECC RDIMMs, I'm going to start billing all web sites that run JavaScript on my computer.
I've written about programming languages, compilers, open source, distributed systems...
The Fediverse's response:
"Tell us more about CONFIG.SYS and sock surveillance!"
Love it! 🤣
@fribbledom @kevin
These kids today don't know what it's like getting 639k free base memory so your badly coded bbs will load.
The funniest thing about that post is that nobody even questioned the 2 GB browser tab.
Somewhere along the way we all just accepted that as perfectly normal.
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@fribbledom I think it's on the edge of what's acceptable. If you had said 4GiB that'd begin to be hard to believe
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Give it two more years 🙈
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@fribbledom I think the recent RAM shortage will delay the shift from 16GB to 32GB as the new most common memory capacity of a personal computer for a few more years.
@fribbledom the average phone has 4-6 GB of Ram.
2 GB for the one single application most people use on their PCs is not concerning to them.
This is beautiful. Comfortably Numb reimagined as a song of hope for Gaza, in Arabic and English.
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Blick über das Vordeck der Wanderschaft. Vor uns sieht man die Einfahrt in den Hafen des Düsseldorfer Yachtclubs. Im Hintergrund sieht man die Theodor-Heuss-Brücke.
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Man sieht die Wanderschaft auf ihrem Liegeplatz beim Düsseldorfer Yachtclub. Auf beiden Seiten weiße Motorboote ...
Was man auf dem Foto nicht sehen kann: vor dem Binnenschiff liegt noch ein weiteres Binnenschiff in der Kammer ...
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Die Schleusenkammer II in Uelzen von ganz unten auf der Nordseite. Der Schacht ist riesig, 220 m lang, 23 m hoch. 12 m breit. Vor uns liegt ein Binnenschiff.
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Blick über das Heck der Wanderschaft. Etwa 30 Meter unter uns, sieht man Schiffe an der Wartestelle liegen.
Ein paar Angebote habe ich im Internet schon gefunden. Jetzt muss auf Montag gewartet werden ...
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Detailaufnahme von einem alten Bootsmotor. Die Oberseite des Zylinderkopfs ist korrodiert und durch einen feinen Riss tritt Wasser aus.
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@lkh @kensanata yeah but I kinda moved backwards. I wasn't using irc quite that much when I was younger.
but it's kind of the lo-fi chat I dig nowadays
Some of my formerly ... English-challenged? ... colleagues have become surprisingly ... eloquent? ... recently. At least when chatting in Slack. Gee, I wonder who I am talking to. 😬 🤖 😬 🤖 👀 😬 🤖 #noAI
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I am also seeing a similar development among my formerly ... programming-challenged? ... colleagues? And everybody around me seems to be using fancy characters all of a sudden! Things like "→" are especially popular, both in Slack chats and in code. 🤷 😬 🤖 😰 🤖 I think I am surrounded!! #noAI
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Oh no, are arrows becoming code for "LLM generated" now? I like using them, and they are conveniently placed on Alt gr-[yu] ± shift...
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@asjo If you know how to type them, that's great, more power to ya! 🤓
I almost never use them. And the people around me (except for that one person) never have either. I can look at years of their commits and there's not a single fancy UTF-8 thing. Until recently. Until "we have a license for Claude now, please use it" recently. 🤷
I don't even know how to enter the darn UTF-8 stuff from my keyboard. If I really need one of those, I have a short text file with the ones I like to copy/paste from. That's how stone-age backwards I am. 😬
(And worst of all: Deep inside, I still think that 7-bit ASCII is king and should be enough, especially for programming.)
We're wittnessing the industrialisation of thought ...
What will be left? direct, immediate human encounters ... unamplified, unrecorded talking, singing and music ... witnessing live performative art ... grow your own crop ... build your own stuff.
How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
-- Matt Haig
@kensanata actually like this a lot. Takes the homework aspect out of the game (= good for spontaneous games e.g. at open tables) and introduces a layer of necessary PC-NPC interaction which increases social embeddedness of MUs - this does something interesting with the setting! Trade-off is an decrease of tactical flexibility on the player‘s side. Was this the point of complaint?
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How about moving the issue inside of the game world? Would there be an in character price to pay to magically gain the capacity to memorize multiple spells? Would said characer be willing to pay this price? (probably somewhere on the order of selling one's soul)
CC: @kensanata@tabletop.social
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social
I suppose if someone thinks their magic-user is only useful when they can solve 'problems' with spells it would be unsatisfying, but I had fun with him. His memory after he died made him into a larger than life figure for a time, and I was pretty satisfied with that.
Well, warsaw airport has all these gigantic ads for a new Samsung phone plastered all over the place which helpfully remind me that it's not what I would want if I want an AI-free phone.
So... I assume the #Fairphone doesn't have AI automatically?
@SDF@social.sdf.org @SDF@social.sdfeu.org Any idea why SDFeu's gopher server has been down since (according to a bboard post) at least the end of March?
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CC: @SDF@social.sdf.org @SDF@social.sdfeu.org
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@lkh @SDF@social.sdfeu.org Interesting. The gopher server had been restarted a few days or hours after that post of mine, but I didn't get the time to comment here on that. But indeed now at least some services are unreachable again, including IMAP, as I'm getting a connection error rather than the expired certificate error.
Was there some issue with social.sdf.org, seeing that your mention of @SDF@social.sdf.org does not show up as a link, even though I can load social.sdf.org right now? (that said, issues with social.sdf.org aren't exactly rare, perhaps a bigger issue here is mastodon just not handling these issues better and not handling it as a mention even when (I presume) the remote server is not reachable)
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@lkh @SDF@social.sdfeu.org @SDF@social.sdf.org Seems to be back now - or at least IMAP and gopher are working. Also, it seems the IMAP certificate has been updated.