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malin

@malin@dice.camp

Working on an open-source RPG, so anyone can make any changes, and pass their ideas on.

Download: https://bindrpg.itch.io

If you'd like to collaborate on an RPG project, come and say 'hi' on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#bindrpg:matrix.org

#rpg #ttrpgs #gemini #foss #TeXLaTeX

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ljrk, to random
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I know it may sound a bit elitist but there's a certain branch of self taught programmers that regularly gets on my nerves in a very non-healthy way: Those who say that it's always good to challenge your thoughts with an outside idea no matter how outlandish it may sound.

While it does sound great and lovely at first, I will not engage with people who think to have "cracked cryptography" and found a perfectly secure cipher (other than 1TP). Who think they could create something that's Turing complete but without the downsides, who think they can "solve" the halting problem. There are certain limits to be obeyed.

And at some point, them piling into the industry and giving advice and "good ideas" about how to "secure your computer network" is both dangerous and takes a lot of my time away. And I frankly don't give a shit about their "18 years of experience" in building frontends. I would, if the topic would be frontend. Not, it if it's fucking IT Security mate.

malin,
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@ljrk "solve the halting problem"

Sounds like they're announcing that they don't know what that is.

"Dude, my server's been on like four months without a reboot. Did I like, solve the halting problem?"

masukomi, to random
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re. the Fantasy Old Wizard trope:

  1. did you know that it's not exclusively white guys who grow to be "old wizards"? Women and people of color do too!
  2. did you know that not all elderly magical women are white, "grandmotherly", or "witchy"?
    3.did you know that wizards aren't required to wear robes?

Imagine a world of old respected black wizards & cranky old ladies who could invert the planet with a thought, & don't care about your piddling little quest, or plucking herbs.

malin,
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@masukomi
I've started to see how much I can squeeze out of the concept of 'witches'. There's plenty of source material lying around here in Serbia - they have their own version of 'baba yaga', and a general healthy respect of babas.

Add in a little life-twisting magic, and it's naturally lead to 'mother of monsters', 'swamp-hags', and and a slew of other tropes, plus some new elements.

Taskerland, to random
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Admittedly, I seem to be alone in finding the Witcher series to be singularly bad writing.

They use flashbacks because giving the character 17 witchy ex-girlfriends who all dress like strippers and expect you to kill people for them is a framing device and a lot easier than making players care about 17 homicidal strippers but the Witcher uses that trick all the time.

It's like 150 hours of 'your uncle has sent you a letter asking you to investigate a haunted house'.

malin,
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@kyonshi @Taskerland I read a collection of short stories of the Witcher (as a first place prize in Poland).

I liked it, but I'd just finished reading the Ravenloft books about Strahd, which might be the worst literature produced by humanity.

Haste, to tech
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What the fuck is Google thinking?

The last thing we need right now is less friction to firehosing AI nonsense into the world.

https://gizmodo.com/chromes-new-right-click-for-ai-tool-will-fill-the-web-w-1851277757

malin,
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@Haste
This is an outstanding development.

Form-writers will doubtless do the same, then we'll be able to let robots make the forms, and fill in the forms, and humanity can move away from the entire pointless episode, and get an email once they robots are done with the grunt work.

...or leave the robots to the emails, and we can all go out for a pint.

(dead internet isn't true, but sometimes I wish it were)

Shkshkshk, to asklemmy
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Are there any good Peertube channels?

@asklemmy

malin,
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@Rob @Shkshkshk
Most of these channels display as having 0 videos for me.

But then I went to the original host (e.g. https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel) and then it worked.

https://nightshift.minnix.dev/c/linux_lugcast/videos

anderseknert, to terraform
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While I’ll be following the #Linkerd / #CNCF drama with interest, this isn’t a rug pull like the #terraform license switch. #OpenSource means the source code is… well, open. That’s all. I’ve said it before: there’s no “spirit of open source” that always seems to put a ton of obligations on maintainers but never on users.

Doesn’t mean anyone has to be happy about the change, and I fully understand those who aren’t. But if it’s not in a license — OSS or commercial — it’s not an obligation.

malin,
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@anderseknert
People talking about the spirit probably mean the four basic rights which established the movement.

Thus sounds like another case of Schroedinger's licence (e.g. MIT), which will either become free, or proprietary in time.

malin,
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@anderseknert
Road maps are not in the GPL, so that'd be a strange claim. Linux itself doesn't accept issues on Gitlab.

The 'spirit' in those cases would be 'you are free to do it yourself' (which isn't nothing).

malin,
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@anderseknert
Technically, they're not entitled to the code.

Anyone with the output binaries can request copies of the code, within three months.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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The Guide Principles for WeirdGlass, draft version, at the link.

I would appreciate any thoughts!

https://levikornelsen.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/weirdglass-guide-principles/

malin,
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@LeviKornelsen

> NAME GROUPS IN CONFLICT

The note at the end must be kept. I was like 'mofo, I don't name things because I can't spew names', but then I read that tables will be provided, so it's okay.

> TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE GAME

This whole bit's redundant. I know I can change games.

> EVERYONE WANTS, EVERYONE PAYS

This is probably fine, but I won't understand it until I see the game and how it's put into use.

Broadly, this looks good.

malin,
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@LeviKornelsen Could do? I don't think it's important, as long as there's a mention of the game supporting what it asks.

malin,
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@LeviKornelsen
Okay, that makes more sense then.

I guess I've seen a couple of those, but I can't take them seriously (what are you gonna do, call the police?)...although I am thinking of writing something similar. But it's more like 'these rules are here to support this thing'.

malin,
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@LeviKornelsen
I'm all down for praxis - the more the better.

malin,
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@LeviKornelsen
That's a courageous statement, but it sounds like good prep, if you can get someone up for it.

malin,
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@LeviKornelsen
I'm still unsure if my set-up bit's in the right place.

I thought 'this is for the GM, put it in the GM's book...but they can't set up until after they've read the things which they need to set up, so it's in the last chapter.

Which seems like the correct procedure, but the wrong experience.

Where are you putting yours?

LeviKornelsen, to random
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    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen those sound like separate posts.

    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen I had such problems with that, as I started alone, thinking the book would teach me the game.

    But then I did strange things in the game, and only learned A,D&D once I met other people.

    Maybe the game can't be fully described. Maybe an unbroken line can be traced from Gygax to every gaming table in the world, where some passed on the tradition. Maybe it's always been an oral tradition, primarily.

    kyonshi, to linux
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    gah, I just got the idea of trying to build a Linux-from-Scratch system again.

    this might be a bad idea.

    it also might be beneficial for my current job. so I am a bit conflicted.

    malin,
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    @kyonshi craft it from a giant makefile.

    eniko, to random
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    i feel like after the week fedi's been having between the almost daily security updates and the spam and scrapers causing an order of magnitude more network traffic than normal for at least one instance, anyone who tells you to "just self host" should be laughed out of the room

    malin,
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    @eniko if someone self hosted on a raspberry pi, wouldn't they be mostly fine? There's no additional charges, and basic rate-limiting would let you drop irritating connection.

    Or were people recommending self-hosting to non-sysadmins?

    kyonshi, to random
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    still working on my server on my rpi. I have configured anope to provide services, it just doesn't seem to actually work. it's quite aggravating. there must be a mistake in there somewhere and I just can't find it.

    malin,
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    @kyonshi I might follow suite. I was thinking of running a Vampire game with an open table and real-time passing between sessions. The irc server would be the Elysium. Hopefully I can get one without a sign-in.

    malin,
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    @ogmios @The_Picard_Maneuver women in LotR stab people, argue with their dads all day, and waffle about kingsfoil.

    Which is the soft one?

    anderseknert, to random
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    I used to be a digital monad, but eventually it was time to return. Not my category.

    malin,
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    @anderseknert it's tough being an indivisible substance in the modern IT world.

    simon_brooke, to random
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    Just had one of those AHA! moments: we should build houses for the homeless, of course we should, that's obvious. But we build them at FIVE HUNDRED YEAR QUALITY. That is to say, designed so that, with minimal maintenance, they will be good homes for 500 years. Yes, obviously that makes them a bit more expensive in the short term. But it means we develop a building industry with the skills to build 500 year homes. But more...

    malin,
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    @simon_brooke only castles and cathedrals last that long...so I'm in.

    Unfortunately they take 3 generations to build.

    malin,
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    @simon_brooke how do you build a castle without a foundation of dead peasants? This flies in the face of all precedent!

    malin,
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    @stuartb @simon_brooke I don't believe I've said this before, but there aren't enough Tories. Do you think we could import?

    malin, to random
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    people!

    Could a horse carry a 'horse-box' big enough for itself and a person to sleep? What about two people?

    Could they do this on dirt-tracks, with a box made of wood and metal? Or is this just going to be horse-abuse after a day?

    (this is a fantasy RPG question, so no horses are available for testing abusive theories)

    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen @tomthefanboy there's the headscratcher. Our war-toys were all made for humans. There's limited precedence for large predators.

    Maybe the Mbuti's elephant hunts are as close as we've got to this kind of thing.

    Mega-yurts sound good if you've got spears.

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