lkh
@lkh@grenzland.club
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
Was man auf dem Foto nicht sehen kann: vor dem Binnenschiff liegt noch ein weiteres Binnenschiff in der Kammer ...
Ein paar Angebote habe ich im Internet schon gefunden. Jetzt muss auf Montag gewartet werden ...
@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
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
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)
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@honze_net gar nicht 😅 Das Coole ist doch, dass #dnd so groß ist - und ich rede jetzt von Spielen mit dnDNA, nicht einfach von anderen Rollenspielen - dass wir uns nicht von WotC-ihm-seiner neuesten Monetarisierungsstrategie ärgern lassen müssen. Es gibt moderne dnd-Klone, großartige Hacks und Weiterentwicklungen verschiedenster Editionen, Old School DnD (♥️). Die WotC-Leute machen ihr Brand-/Monetarisierungsgedöns. Wir: Let‘s play some dnd!
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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
"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!"
#pnpde - Was ist euer „Rollenspiel Gral“ - etwas wonach ihr im Hobby sucht, eine noch zu füllende Leerstelle?
DAS passende System für ein spezifisches Setting vielleicht? Eine passende Prozedur für eine spielmechanische Herausforderung (Investigation, Raumkampf…)? Eine Neuauflage / -übersetzung eines alten Spiels? Eine bestimmte Spiellultur?
Imagine being a scientist, and being told that your mere presence in a facility would alter the crystals being grown, that no joke you cannot step foot inside:
Scientists who had been exposed to Form II in the past seemingly contaminated entire manufacturing plants by their presence, probably because they carried over microscopic seed crystals of the new polymorph
Fact, not fiction!
In materials science, a disappearing polymorph is a form of a crystal structure (a morph) that is suddenly unable to be produced, instead transforming into a different crystal structure with the same chemical composition (a polymorph) during nucleation
and points for being airborne!
In a few cases, such as progesterone and paroxetine hydrochloride, the disappearance gradually spread across the world, and it is suspected that it is because Earth's atmosphere has over time become permeated with tiny seed crystals
In memory of Adam Yauch, aka MCA 💔
August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012
…and with a touch of melancholy for a great band that will never be seen again. 😢
Beastie Boys - SABOTAGE (Live, awesome!!)
Want to estimate the read-time for your text file in ed(1)?
Assuming a 200WPM reading rate
$ ed file.txt
3141
w !awk '{i+=NF}END{print i/200}'
So looking forward to our next session!
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Vom Patientengeheimnis zur umfassenden Gesundheitsdatennutzung mit erheblichen Mängeln: Datennutzung soll Vorrang vor Vertraulichkeit haben https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Medizinregistergesetz-zwischen-Gemeinwohl-und-Fremdbestimmung-11274184.html
"You gotta help us train
a machine from which we gain
only once we got rid of you
still that's what you gotta do"
"You gotta help us train
of course there'll be some pain
but just think what we can do
when we no longer have to pay for you"
"And if you see a Luddite
report him or her at once
those stupid dirty Luddites
with them we can't advance"
(I am accepting more verses for the song. And improvements to these verses. Feel free to share. Eventually I'll sing it with some badly imitated Bavarian Blasmusik in the background. Be very scared.)
⚡ 50th Anniversary of a Legendary Album 🔥
"Ramones," the self-titled debut album by the American punk rock band Ramones, released on this day in 1976, and features the singles "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend."
#punk #punks #punklegends #punkrock #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd
The human-powered handcart is the oldest of vehicles, and it will likely be the last one around in the future. Of all vehicles, it’s the cheapest and least complex to build and use.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/
And here's a treasure trove of alternate earths mapping material: https://zenodo.org/records/10659104 check out 3c. Global Elevation Source Maps.zip in particular!
edit: more maps: https://zenodo.org/records/10659112
PS: we need to update that page. The Discord's still there, but it's no longer needed to join and play.
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Probably should run an "all Holmes" game to savor the differences :)
EDIT: best part starts at 00:08:00
CC: @Craig@dice.camp
So far just about every DnD experience I had seemed just a bit tangential to what I was looking for, and so the quest goes ever on.
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Still I think AD&D is an interesting set of rules, and I find it delivers a somewhat different gaming experience when compared to B/X as well as to OD&D. At this point I'm doubtful of mixing those rules sets however. I know it's been done "back in the day" and I tried it myself, but I think they each work best with their own material and in their own play styles.
I once tried a head to head comparison of OD&D vs. AD&D, rolled up 6 Characters and ran them through a bunch of wilderness encounters in a solo game, trying to honor every rules bit I came across. First of all, OD&D and AD&D both work very well for this kind of play style, just like Classic Traveller does. However doing this with OD&D went so much quicker than with AD&D. It starts with character creation and doesn't end with Composition of forces ... honestly I kind of lost interest doing this with AD&D but would always love to run yet another game with OD&D.
Anyway, I love to play "full stack" D&D with castles, serious party sizes, naval battles and also dungeon crawls. These systems (A/OD&D) are true campaign games, and that's why some of their seemingly weird or superflous rules are what they are. I don't think B/X and friends can deliver on this broader scope, even if they easily win the award for best edited edition of classic D&D. That's why OD&D is my favourite D&D and AD&D can only be second.
Alright, sorry for ranting, game on!
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Sicherlich ist Homöopathie nicht der Kostentreiber im System, aber ich finde es absolut richtig, wenn die Solidargemeinschaft nicht mehr die Kosten für diese unlautere Methode tragen muss.
Unlauter deshalb, weil viele Ärzt:innen - selbst die, die Homöopathie anbieten - eigentlich wissen, dass es eine - zugegegebenermaßen ziemlich ausgefuchste - Plazebomedizin ist. Aber was passiert, wenn ich meinen Patienten ein Plazebo gebe? Ich bin nicht ehrlich und setze damit den Kern der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung aufs Spiel, nämlich die Vertrauensbasis.
Zeit für ausführliche Gespräche finde ich auch so. Könnte besser bezahlt sein, sicher, aber das ist es mir wert. Wenn die Knete für unwissenschaftliche *pathien in seriöse Gesprächsleistungen umgeleitet werden könnte wären wir schon einen Schritt weiter.
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