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rivetgeek

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Gen X but the good kind
Commie fiction first story gamer swine
Elderly rivethead
Senior SQL Server DBA
Tribes in the Dark Lead Designer
(He/Him)

#ttrpg #storygames #CortexPrime #TalesOfXadia #TribesInTheDark #FitD #FateRPG

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jwz, to random
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XScreenSaver 6.09 is out now, including iOS and (maybe someday) Android. Please see Previously: "Your personal information is very important to us."

Two and a half new hacks this time, by me: Kallisti, High Voltage, and Headroom now has a suit.

After...
https://jwz.org/b/ykUj

jwz,
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Great news, everybody! Google has approved the updated XScreenSaver Privacy Policy. I assume that this means that they find it 100% factual and endorse it entirely.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

evacide, to random
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Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

LeviKornelsen, to random
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I would really like it if discussions of -isms in RPG texts got to a point where scales and degrees of potential effects and "safeties" on them was something folks were even in the same ballpark on.

Like, f'rex, these:

Priming people to agree or disagree with a notion IS a real thing.

Normalizing narratives and discursive forms is likewise a real thing.

A weak form of the Sapir-Whorf theory has some support, but the strong version really doesn't.

Videogames don't cause violent behaviour.

nyrath, to random
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https://phys.org/news/2024-06-gravity-mass-mitigating-hypothetical-dark.html

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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99.7% of Venture Capital money goes to people that are not Black women.

0.3% of Venture Capital goes to Black women.

The 11th circuit court cited civil rights law when it said that it is racist to stop anyone from having access to VC based on their race, and that setting aside VC for people of a given race is racist.

So they ruled against a group of Black women looking to give their own money to Black founders. For violating the civil rights. Of white men that want that 0.3% too.🙂🙃

1/N

cstross, to random
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We are going to end up with half a million low-orbit comsats turning the night sky into a streaky blur because everyone uses Starlink or similar for broadband because the telcos have allowed their terrestrial cable infrastructure to decay, in the interests of maximizing profit. And of course the satellite broadband will be slow and buggy because overloaded.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112565885370238705

bitsunited, to random German
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Webfund.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1d7lfrk/littlebillyignoreinstructions/

eibhear,

@bitsunited The original, mentioned in the attribution outside the last panel, can be seen here: xkcd.com/327/

SomeGadgetGuy, to windows
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It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

alexglow,
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@droidboy @helgztech @SomeGadgetGuy It's an almost literal Pandora's box.
Inside may be any/all of someone's most private info, & anything their contacts have ever shared.
MS may claim that the lock they built is so strong that no one can ever break it.
But anyone with the barest hint of security experience knows that's laughably naïve.
And no one's laughing.
And we can't opt out.

Why build the box?? Everyone hates it except surveillance capitalists.

mishamouse, to random
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my company uses secure channels to send highly confidential documents (which include, for example, clients’ financial information and unredacted social security numbers) to third-party attorneys. what if those attorneys have recall-enabled machines? i can tell you from experience that many of them are not tech-savvy enough to even realize they have it… what if they have a data breach?

so yeah, this is very scary, even if the company disables it on our local devices. https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/112553748377817912

evilhat, to tisseksplayspace
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The Hunters become the hunted with the Codex of Worlds!
This 300+ page expansion adds 15 new Team playbooks complete with new Moves, Allies, Enemies, and Assets to push your Monster of the Week game into full-on overdrive!
Available now at your FLGS or directly from us:
https://evilhat.com/product/codex-of-worlds/

MechaVsKaiju, to Godzilla
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says PROTECT KIDS!!!🏳️‍⚧️
All day. Every day. And twice on Sundays.
And anyone who thinks there is no such thing as trans kids really needs to pay closer attention. They're here, and they need our support.

https://mechavskaiju.com/all-day-every-day-and-twice-on-sundays/

MechaVsKaiju, to random
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Mecha Vs Kaiju's "Moe" archetype (The Adorable One) is Baba Tanoshi, resident “spicy grandma” of the Mecha Assault Force, who spent her boyhood as kid mascot for the MAF, then mecha pilot. Today she is the right hand of Gen. Geretsu, maintaining operational readiness for the mecha teams #HappyPrideMonth

robotsnowfall, to random

A New Hope: The Agile Manifesto

The Empire Strikes Back: Scrum

Return of the Jedi: burn your computer / go live in the woods

miriamrobern, to random
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Three Prides make a

engagedpractx, to random
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Favourable early safety data from a Ph IIB study of a male contraceptive gel! Fingers crossed this pans out — we really need contraceptive options that take the physical and administrative burden off women and other people who conceive.

https://gizmodo.com/male-birth-control-gel-kicks-in-sooner-than-anticipated-1851512211

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Some of my friends that are convicted felons are 100% innocent of what they were accused and convicted of. Some of my friends that are convicted felons are guilty, and absolutely did what they were accused of. I don't make fun of people for being convicted felons, and I don't ostracize them. Instead, I don't let bad people around me. My definition of bad focuses on the choices that a person made in the past, and the choices that they make now. Some of the worst people, will never be felons.

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mekkaokereke,
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A good rule of thumb to make, is to assume that pretty much every Black person that you know in the United States, knows at least one person that was unfairly convicted of a felony. And every Black man that you know, has had an incident where they were unfairly detained by police, and possibly arrested, and charged.

No, this doesn't make Black people relate to Trump. That's one of the most ignorant things that I hear people say.

But how you talk about felons? Black people hear that.

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GrimmReality, to random
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BREAKING: Justice Alito Assures America He Can Be Fair and Impartial in Criminal Cases Brought by Legal Representatives of a So-called Society That Has Disproportionately Empowered Lowborn Prole Scum to Think They Deserve a Hand In Their Own Fate Instead of Bowing to the Diktats of Their Proper Master-race Overlords

DejahEntendu, to tisseksplayspace
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Wednesday game: I think they forgot the plan to lure in a Black Owl.

Instead they decided to see if they could find The Institute again. But went up during the day, when it never appears. They did find the entrance to the old sewers where they came out during their escape tho.

Best moment: they were approached by a gang of Agnites when headed past the Playground and got creeped out. A decided to play with them, as they asked. I let it fly. Quick thinking!

cstross, to random
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If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:

You need to vote defensively.

Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.

Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.

The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.

epidiah, to random
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What are some weird dice you own?

I was going to ask for your favorites, but let's not play favorites here. Just the weirdos.

tiikerikani,
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@epidiah They're not weird in terms of shape or material, but I show off my invisible ink dice a lot

The same dice under black light. The numbers on the dice have been written on with UV-reactive ink.

valthonis, to random
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Imagine the kind of change could you bring about in your life if the cost of your rent/mortgage and however much food you need to eat healthily were just... covered. With no questions asked.

Imagine if it worked that way for everyone, young and old, big and small. No "means-testing“ gatekeeping shenanigans. Like, we could just decide “we are willing to spend this on ourselves and each other so that none of us suffers needlessly.”

miriamrobern, to random
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LAYOUT GROOOOOOVE!!!

miriamrobern,
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125 pages of fantasy gaming goodness. I really like how this is coming together!

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

GossiTheDog,
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A key element of Recall is Microsoft say only you can access your Recall, it is per user.

ArsTechnica enabled Recall on Windows 11 box and tested the claim. By logging in as another user they could access the database and screenshots.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an-extraordinary-level-of-trust-that-microsoft-hasnt-earned/

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