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I don't know why I keep hearing of security measures to stop someone sleuthing into bootloaders.
Am I the only person using Linux who isn't James Bond?
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I ended up on Amfora. No address book or interaction, but it does virtual hosts really easily.
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There was a question about whether or not CCP criticism was allowed.
It turned out that the problem was a video link I posted with the image. It went to a Youtube proxy, which then got flagged by an automation tool. It was just a coincidence.
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That's a really clean solution, and works well with the Side Quest system in the book (there's an explicit system).
Of course it'll mean a boat-load of additional Story Points: 7 quests completed = 7 Story Points, but I think the plot can handle all the side-characters and locations as long as they're small boons, rather than a full Deus Ex Machina.
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I'd usually open an issue, but the issue already existed, and was closed by the Github bot.
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There's a lemmy.ml/c/voidlinux community as well.
But yea, I once met a Void user at a party, and it seems like any number above '0' is a surprise.
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Could do, but that's a little foreceful, and seems to punish the quiet players.
I'm aiming the make the system engaging. Nobody gives players a bonus to hit, then strips them of it if they don't hit anything - the combat system is simply engaging.
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It's about to have more potential for growth.
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Some tankie tendencies. I think (or hope) most of the worst of it's migrated to lemmygrad.ml. Mostly, anyone criticising the CCP gets accused of racism and mod action is taken when this sort of thing comes up. It's easy to miss, as the CCP doesn't come up in casual conversation much.
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I've been enjoying the new kdenlive. Cheers again!
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The server's cert is expired.
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The mood is an important aspect I hadn't covered. I think at best, I'd name an artist whose style fit the mood, and an ML artbot could imitate that style. I guess that's better than nothing, but it wouldn't really be made for the setting - it'd be borrowed fashion.
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Arch, Void, Arch, Gentoo, Arch, Arch,...you're all making me feel like a basic removed.
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Anthropology books taught me that humanity is more fantastic than all the fantasy races.
- The Mbuti sang and danced as they walked, to scare away snakes. They had no words for 'good', and 'bad', so Christian missionaries couldn't translate their teachings.
- The Azande believed in a predictable universe, and ascribed all misfortune (including death), to magical bad intentions (translated as 'witchcraft', but I'm not sure that's a great translation)
- The Piraha language needed you to say how you learnt something inside the verb, so rumours are grammatically impossible. Their language had four modes, including 'whistling'.
I'm putting everything in the past tense as my info is about 50 years out of date.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/117605 > Got bored and made a custom `/etc/issue` file for my Void Linux machines. It displays a colour Void Linux logo along with kernel version, tty number and date on login. The file is [here](https://paste.sr.ht/~justinesmithies/2b16b8b77d59ca5d7a575e2fb0a8b27887325cb0) just copy it to `/etc/issue` or you can preview it using agetty. > Feel free to change it to suit.
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I've changed my /etc/issue file, but it doesn't display when logging into tty2, or through ssh, or a new terminal. Is it meant to be displayed by .bash_profile or similar?
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I just made a lemmy.world account after hearing about the mods on lemmy.ml, but when I posted a picture of winnie the pooh, the comment was deleted, and I was marked as a bot. And it sounds like beehaw's not open for new registrations.
Oh well, guess I'll be a tankie now. :/
EDIT: Looks like this was just a mistake from an auto-mod tool. lemmy.world's been fine so far.
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Well it worked last time. Truthsocial.com is still up.
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People who want near-perfect distribution of power often talk about the serverless model. It's sounds like it might work for something like e-mail, but I don't see how it's possible for something like Lemmy. This comment it cached on every instance with one person who follows it.
Atm, keeping Lemmy going for a couple of days might require 50 Gigabytes and lots of bandwidth. If you put that on a mobile phone, it'll be a 50 Gig app, which will drain all your data in minutes.
But I think chatboards work well with servers, so it doesn't seem like a problem.
It's an old piece, but still relevant.
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Ahoy new mateys! Just thought I'd repost a couple of little bash scripts I use to download and watch series. [notflix](https://gitlab.com/andonome/dots/-/blob/master/scripts/notflix.sh) This one searches for torrents, then live mounts the first result, e.g. : `./notflix.sh nina paley sita` That command should play *Sita Sings the Blues*, by Nina Paley. Requirements: vlc or mpv, and either btfs or peerflix. [torrench](https://gitlab.com/andonome/dots/-/blob/master/scripts/torrench.sh) This one searches for a torrent, gives you the top few results, and starts torrenting what you select using transmission-cli. Requirements: transmission-cli Also, if you're on Debian et al. you'll have to change where the script says `systemctl start transmission` to `systemctl start transmission-daemon`.
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This looks like rather good advice, and I like the comparison to brutalist architecture. It feels like it fits, because so many seem to think brutalist architecture is ugly. Personally, I like how functional it is; and similarly, functional (if plain) adventures make for good sessions.
It's been some months, and kdenlive is still listed as orphaned. Anyone know how packages become un-orphaned? Also, if anyone else is having the same problems, this fork worked for me (the missing dependency is `glaxnimate`. > https://github.com/classabbyamp/void-packages.git new/glaxnimate
# Story Points Story Points let a PC start without any backstory - instead you get 5 Story Points, and spend them to: - know an obscure fact - know a language/ culture - introduce an ally to help with the current mission - et c. By the time players spend them all, they should have a chonky backstory *which was always relevant to the current mission*, so no info-dumping required. - If all your points were spent introducing cousins and siblings, we have established the character has a big family. - If all your points were spent knowing languages, and knowing highly obscure knowledge, we have established the character as a very clever, and well-travelled person. ## Good features - Speeds up game (no lore dump!). - Players are less pissed about their characters dying early on session 2 they haven't invested the work of writing an essay on their origin story. - It's probably the most popular part of the game whenever I receive feedback from someone *reading* (not playing) the game. ## Bad features **Nobody spends Story Points** It doesn't replenish, so players hoard the points, refusing to spend them. ### So far, I've tried: - granting 1 new Story Point over a long Downtime period. - granting XP in return for spending Story Points - adding a [one-page rules summary](https://gitlab.com/bindrpg/core/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/resources.pdf?job=compile_pdf) to the table, including notes on what you can spend Story Points on. - demanding all new characters come from the pool of allies created through Story Points, meaning that: * it's better to have more allies, so new people have a wider pool of characters to select from, and * new PCs are never entirely new - they're known to the party. ...nothing works. Everyone likes it in theory, nobody uses it in practice. The only idea so far is [massively raising XP rewards for spending Story Points](https://gitlab.com/bindrpg/core/-/issues/38#note_1422774164). Is there another rule, or a better way to present this system, which would encourage actual use?
Well, it's not new - I've just ported it from Gemini, so it's new to the web. Hugo compiles the website from Markdown documents. It runs on a raspberry pi, which spends most of its day telling robots that `admin.php` is not available.
Download the spreadsheet, type in your name, and you'll find a randomly generated spreadsheet. - Your name becomes a seed for a hash. - The hash creates a random numbers through modulos. - The modulos become D6 rolls. It's taken a few days to make, and the results are interesting - having to put every rule in the game gives a new perspective on the rules. I'm not a big fan of spreadsheets - TTRPGs feel like a little haven away from the screen. But sometimes in-person play isn't on the cards. I think a heavily-automated spreadsheet makes a good introduction to a game's rules. You just click on all the yellow-coloured squares, and fill in what you can until you don't have any XP left.
I like how [the midnight pub](gemini://midnight.pub:1965/) allows people to leave comments at the bottom of articles. Are there any other gem servers which allow replies don't depend upon coding knowledge? I just do basic hosting on Arch. I'm hopingt to allow general replies, like [geddit](gemini://geddit.glv.one).
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I'm not a big fan off some of the Void Distro-reviews which just show the installer, so I've made a review of how it looks after a few years of daily use. I've missed out a load of nice features, because it's already a fairly waffly review.
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The first time this runs, it'll ask for details, but after that it should just upload your video. The information it needs is dumped into a file, to be sourced later, so if you want to change a variable, you can just remove that line of the file (`pt_info.txt`), and it'll ask for it again. A few notes: - The name of the file becomes the title of the video. - You *need* a second argument, which is the video's description. - You'll need fuzzy-finder (`fzy`) so it can let you select things. - If you don't have `pass` installed, it'll store your password in plain text. - If you do have `pass` installed, it'll remember what your passwords name is, and just use that. - It only takes 1 category ('education', 'sports', et c.), so all subsequent videos will have the same category unless you change that. - The default licence is CC0. (fuck copyright) Example: > ./ptup.sh myVideo.mp4 "This is my description of my video." It's only been tested once, so I'd give it a 50/50 chance of working.
Possibly stupid question, but why not stop e-mail spam in the same way we do IMs? I don't see how I could ever get spam-messages from, e.g. an xmpp account. Worst-case scenario is that I get a bunch of 'subscription' requests, and I can only add friends when I trawl through the requests, or if I know they're adding a request at the time, then look out for that request. Emails seem to let everything in, with a reliance on the admin to sort this out. Why not do the same thing? Specifically, I'm thinking of writing a script: 1. If this person's in my contact-list, they're cool. 2. If they're on the shit-list, they're deleted. 3. If not, they get into the 'waiting room'. ... then set up a shortcut to put someone on the shit-list. So there's no more 'you've got mail' notifications from random spammers, and I can review it once a week or so to pull the good-guys out. Seems like a good idea, but then I wondered, why hasn't this been done before? If the script works, it seems like someone could do the same thing with a GUI.
Given the price of art, I've been playing a whole heck of a lot with Machine Learning (ML) images (along with ever other indie RPG designer out there), and the results are bad. This one is Midjourney, which seems to be one of the better generators. If the problem is just my lack of skill, that still sounds like a problem. If I have to hire a professional, I'd rather just hire an artist. I'm writing a campaign about Vampires in Belgrade (Hungary) in the year 1230. Starting with something without too many parts, a young Tzimisce vampire in the story (well, he was embraced young), has a ghouled raven he speaks with. > dark ages boy speaks to raven in the moonlit rain  Oh dear... it doesn't know that human boys are bigger than ravens. So it's beatuful, and enchanting, but doesn't convey information, and the kid looks like 'the little prince', not like a sinister flesh-crafting vampire. Making some variations, I finally got here:  It's better, but the raven also looks like a humming-bird, and the moon looks like someone spilled it. It really conveys nothing more than 'boy and raven', so it's not about to enhance the passages - and RPGs really do need good images, because every one conveys a boat-load of strange ideas. Next up, what about a that scene where a vampire-hunter finally tracks down the coterie's lair? He finds them by sunset and has to flee before they wake up, but he'll be back tomorrow to kill the lot. He rides a horse, and has an ovcharka (bear-hunting Russian dog) by his side. The coterie will find signs of his passing, such as footprints. After some bad images, I finally left the dog out - most of them blended the dog and horse into a single image, if the dog appeared as anything more than a shadow. > Slavic, of-the-night, noble hunter reading tracks, horse, footprints, village, 1300s  So we have a ruddy-great horse dwarfing the world in one, and lots of horse-butts which look out of place. Time to make lots of variations again. > Slavic, of-the-night, noble hunter reading tracks, horse, footprints, village, 1300s  ... so now we have more of a centaur-creature as the horse blends with the man. ## Overall RPG images should explain things, and the explanations should involve the interactions of multiple elements, such as one person shooting an arrow at another, or threats, or setting a building on fire. AI seems to mix styles well - want a vampire drawn by Picasso? I'm sure the results would be stunning. But if interactions are missing, I don't see how anyone can use these results. ### Machine Learning In General I suspect machine learning will simply not work in our lifetimes. Consider the story of machine learning when translating: 1. You make a basic dictionary, so you can type 'cat', and it gives you 'le chat'. 2. You give it rules about nouns and adjectives - now you type 'the black cat', and it returns 'le chat noire'. It gets 5% of language, then 10%, then 20%, and it's tempting to imagine that 99%-accurate translations are coming soon, but they're not, because if we go to translate 'James is right, Alice is left', the machine will return 'James is correct', because translating this statement does not rely on rules, but on understanding intention and meaning. Those hold-out sentences may require that we start by programming real AI, with real consciousness, and *only then* teaching it multiple languages.
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The artist Vladar's putting together (mostly) generic fantasy map-pieces. It's CC-BY, so it's open for commercial use. I've commissioned it for my own RPG, but all the pieces should work for anything faintly related to Gygax. There are more pieces to come, and of course it's open, so if anyone out there can do drawing, feel free to add a wall/ mace/ dead goblin in a new file.
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