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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Glückwunsch das es wenigstens einer geschafft hat. Nach Plänen der Regierung müssen wir uns alle irgendwann auf diesen Weg begehen. Ich hab Zweifel das es binnen Jahresfrist klappt mit der verifizierten Anmeldung. Ich warte erstmal ab. Hoffentlich ist es schön da drüben.
@rahmstorf wiki: "Mit dem Hochladen des Ausweises bzw. der darauf gespeicherten Informationen einschließlich der hinterlegten biometrischen Daten werde mit einem schlichten Anmeldevorgang ein vollständiger Datensatz von der Identität einer Person erstellt. Wenn diese hochsensiblen Daten in die falschen Hände gerieten, seien Identitätsdiebstahl, Fälschung von Reisedokumenten, das Eröffnen falscher Bankkonten und vieles mehr möglich. 1/2 #WSocial
@rahmstorf To explain the backlash, W Social is not popular here because of reasons explained in these articles: https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/
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@rahmstorf Ich verstehe ja, dass Sie möglichst überall die wichtigen Themen bekannt machen möchten.
But, you wont find me there.
@rahmstorf Nein danke. Ganz bestimmt nicht.
Wer einer privaten Firma seine Ausweisdaten gibt, ist selber schuld.
@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.
One year update.
Malaika is nearing completion, or as near complete as a wooden boat ever gets (I'm told) 🤷
There seems to be a never ending stream of things needing done.
We smelted our own lead for ballast and I'm now scrabbling around trying to do all those last minute tasks. which seem small but are all important in their own way I suppose.
Today I added a fire extinguisher, an LED flare and mounted a boat hook on the bulkhead wall.
Still some painting to do.
Launch date must be soon!
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A small wooden boat with a yellow topside, blue hull and white wheelhouse sits on blocks with support stands on a flat peice of stony ground with a background of cloudless blue skies
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A small wooden boat sits in blocks with support stands. We are looking at it's port side. The wheelhouse is white, topside planks are yellow gloss and the hull is painted in blue antifouling. The boat is framed by a blue sky with a dusting of cloud .
Oddly, there is a broken wooden deck chair on the ground in front of the boat
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A small wooden boat sits on blocks with support stands. We are looking at it from directly in front. The wheelhouse is white, topside planks are yellow gloss and the hull is painted in blue antifouling. The boat is framed by a blue sky with a dusting of cloud .
There is a giant white Glass Fibre yacht thing behind us. The shadow of our boat shows how sunny it actually was on the day this was taken.
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A view from above Malaika.
We are looking at a beautiful elm plank deck with black sealant between the planks. We can also see the cockpit with the engine box central and behind the wheelhouse which has an open door. There is a small lozenge shaped window on the wheelhouse bulkhead and a round porthole type window on the door.
We can also see the manual bilge pump on the wall of the wheelhouse.
There is a mooring bollard on the rear deck as well as a fuel filler cap and a small breather for the fuel tank.
ISSUE NUMBER NINE OF THE TILDE.TOWN ZINE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED
https://tilde.town/~zine
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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!
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 How about I install it on my laptop or workstation to avoid sloppy Linux? Will you then stop shitposting me? 
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@thomholwerda Thom, listen. If you saw a delicious fountain of chocolate fondue, or some freshly-picked organic berries (or whatever your jam is) lying on a table with a handwritten note saying "Free, please take ❤️ ", what would you do?
The table is ActivityPub and the snack is the ability to roast OSNews.
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@netbsd Look, you're making this bunny sad: 
This was them before your toot: 
Maybe I should set up a proper NetBSD desktop and see which hunny we get - or .
@netbsd non-profit brands with products for the betterment of society are truly welcome on the #fediverse
The new ANTIFA anthem just dropped from Germany. Goosebumps. This song was banned on German national TV to not offend the rightwing AFD party btw.
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.
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 640 KB? Luxury!
When I were a lad, I used to have to write x=10 rather than x = 10 so that I could fit everything into 16 KB.
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! 🤣
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
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
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@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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@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.
im echten Leben bin ich ja Hausarzt, und möchte Euch heute alle bitten, an dieser Kampagne teilzunehmen. Und bitte boosten für mehr Reichweite!
👉 Unter www.hausarztpraxen-retten.de können sich Patientinnen und Patienten, Praxisteams sowie Hausärztinnen und Hausärzte - also wir alle - mit wenigen Klicks per E-Mail an ihre Bundestagsabgeordneten wenden, um deutlich zu machen, dass wir das Kaputtsparen unserer hausärztlichen Versorgung nicht akzeptieren werden. 📩
Danke für's mitmachen!
PS: gibt doch bestimmt noch mehr Hausärzt_innen hier, oder? :D
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Kampagnenplakant des Hausärztinnen- und Hausärtzeverbands. Inhalt: "Das Spargesetz bedroht auch Ihre hausärztliche Versorgung. Jetzt Ihren Abgeordneten schreiben!
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Kartenausschnitt von Nordeuropa. Es ist eine ca. 1400 km lange Route markiert, von Hamburg über die Kanäle nach Düsseldort, dann den Rhein runter und über Ijsselmeer und Wattenmeer wieder zurück zur Elbe.
"Der NordCon ist Deutschlands größte ehrenamtlich organisierte Spiele-Convention – mit Herzblut von der Community für die Community. Egal ob Pen & Paper, Brettspiel, LARP oder einfach nur neugierig: Du bist willkommen! ❤️
⚔️ Neue Welten entdecken
🎲 Spiele ausprobieren
🧙 Alte und neue Freund treffen
📍 Hamburg
📅 12.–14. Juni
👉 Termin vormerken und Freund einladen!"
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Ein rosafarbener Flyer mit drei Bildern, der Aufschrift "NORDCON 2026 - Deutschlands größter unabhängiger Con für phantastische Spiele und Literatur"
12. - 14. Juni 2026
Brüder-Grimm-Schule, Steinadlerweg, Hamburg
Jetzt zum Helfen anmelden! https://www.nordcon-wizard.de/anmelden
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Ein rosafarbener Flyer für den NORDCON 2026
Deutschlands größter unabhängiger Con für phantastische Spiele und Literatur
Veranstaltungsort
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Steinadlerweg 26
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Eintrittspreise
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(Wir verkaufen nur Dauerkarten)
Kontakt
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48 Stunden nonstop
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Informationen zum umfangreichen Programm und aktuelle
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