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Rycaut

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Entrepreneur & Product Manager - currently looking for new opportunities. Likely starting a Fediverse related business to host, manage and extend instances for businesses and organizations. Writer and GM

https://calendly.com/rycaut to schedule meetings with me

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bojo, to random
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does anyone have opinions on having your masto account on large, generalized instances vs. smaller, more niche instances?

Rycaut,
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@bojo as long as both servers you are choosing beteeen have solid moderation (so are unlikely to be blocked by other servers for hosting bad actors/spam etc) your Mastadon experience will mostly be dictated by who you follow. Some servers might run either software other than Mastadon core or make changes to it (like allowing posts longer than 500 characters) which some people like/prefer.

For a great experience I recommend following a bunch of interesting people - and then watch who they boost

Rycaut, to random
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Many years ago before my father died he was working on a startup idea for a closed loop water cooling system for factories. It’s complex and he was a the engineer not I but it makes me curious when I read all these reports of the extreme water usage of many data centers for cooling (often at times of year when other uses of municipal water are high as well) and it makes me wonder why I don’t see anyone trying closed loop system that wouldn’t need to draw (or discharge) much water?

anirvan, to random
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Kindle? Kobo? Apple Books?

What’s the best, or maybe most ethical, ebook platform?

(I rarely reread books, so long-term ownership isn’t a factor for me)

Rycaut,
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@anirvan they have an active presence here - @libreture offers a drm free place to store ebooks onljne and they promote a lot of places to buy drm free ebooks. So they are a good option to explore whatever client you use to read the ebooks. Many libraries have one or more services they offer to anyone with a local card which can also be a great source for ebooks (and libraries pay often more than individuals for their ebooks)

Rycaut, to random
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So had an email this morning from one of my favorite bookstores anywheee. Seemed possibly ominous “A message from …”

But as a reminder of why they are an amazing bookstore - it was to announce the formation and recogniation of the booksellers union with the support of the management and board of directors of the bookstore (which is itself a non-profit and former co-op)

So congrats to the Seminary Co-op Booksellers Union) and I’m a proud former co-op member (http://semcoop.com)

Alex, to random
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So I noticed that the "now playing" info on the KEXP website comes from a paginated API endpoint that let's you see previously played songs as well as the currently playing track.

It was kinda neat to poke at it to see how far back I could go. You could just keep rewinding to see all the tracks that aired going pretty far back.

And just how far back was that? 2,650,000 tracks, all the way back to 2005.

I love finding little secret info holes like this. I scraped all that data up to play with.

Rycaut,
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@Alex that’s awesome. I suspect that KCRW in LA has similarly deep digital archives but haven’t poked around. They have shows listed as available on demand that haven’t aired in many many years. (Really great public radio station with amazing streaming options and in the midst of a pledge drive)

inthehands, to random
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Windows Recall…just…good god.

The phrase “Microsoft jumped the shark” just doesn’t feel strong enough. Can we say Microsoft fucked the shark?

Rycaut,
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@inthehands it’s so bizarrely dumb. All kinds of tech put to such a horrifically bad purpose. Even beyond now being the target for any external bad actor, anyone who shares your physical space, lawyers who now have an incredible target for discovery it serves next to no actual useful purpose. And when it does the actual value is minuscule compared to the risks it introduces.

And I can only imagine government agencies and corporations CTO and CISO’s looking at this and saying nope nope nope

Rycaut,
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@capraobscura @inthehands exactly. The closest I’ve ever come to wanting some history is with FB being so eh “helpful” these days and refreshing the FB app to a random newsfeed of stuff they pushed at me days ago when I had clicked into a post a friend shared but hadn’t finished reading it… but it took me all of eh 2 mins to find that friend’s feed and find the link again and then open it into an external browser.

But on my laptop nope never had a need and MacOS actually has solid local search

Rycaut, to random
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What tool(s) do other GMs or game designers/writers use to make the first draft of a new adventure? Especially for your prep to run it for a group for the first time?

(I’m about to shift from mostly running published adventures to likely largely running homebrew with occasional published content) for my 5e group that are all now level 10 (and functionally stronger than a typical 5 pc group)

Considering using Scrivener but open to other (MacOS compatible) suggestions

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