@Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary
A roleplayer frustrated at the structure of our society. She/her.
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Technically, it may be trespassing to step on someone else's yard. But if your shoe brushes up against their lawn while you're walking on the sidewalk out front of their house, it's not trespassing. O...
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I'd say a typical "di minimis" example for copyright would be the use of a copyrighted image one doesn't have the rights to as one's online avatar. As long as you're not, say, using that image to misrepresent yourself as representing whoever *does* have the rights to that image? Well, there's a reason people aren't sued left and right for this very common practice.
I'd say a typical "di minimis" example for copyright would be the use of a copyrighted image one doesn't have the rights to as one's online avatar. As long as you're not, say, using that image to misrepresent yourself as representing whoever *does* have the rights to that image? Well, there's a reason people aren't sued left and right for this very common practice.
I think I forgot to post about it, but here's my essay on enshittification, which helps explain why so much tech and other stuff sucks these days. I highly recommend nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3s...
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Finally got around to finishing reading this article.
I'll note that I've started thinking of right to repair as a subset of a broader right: a right to *tools fit for purpose*. That would also cover things like making sure tools meet minimum quality thresholds, must be available for actual purchase and not just rental/subscription, should have some form of public availability like "libraries of things", are not advertised to do things they can't, and so on.
Finally got around to finishing reading this article.
I'll note that I've started thinking of right to repair as a subset of a broader right: a right to *tools fit for purpose*. That would also cover things like making sure tools meet minimum quality thresholds, must be available for actual purchase and not just rental/subscription, should have some form of public availability like "libraries of things", are not advertised to do things they can't, and so on.
In an apparent accidental leak, it was revealed that a new D&D World of Warcraft crossover product is in development, with a full reveal expected at Gen Con. https://dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/dnd-worl...
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Question is, is the leaker going to be assassinated by Pinkertons, given the attitude WotC displayed three years ago about such things...
Question is, is the leaker going to be assassinated by Pinkertons, given the attitude WotC displayed three years ago about such things...
This whole thing is *terrible*, predicated on the absurd premise that Californians need defending from the threat of strangers who pretend to be them *in order to sneakily opt them out of surveillance...
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*And*, on top of everything else, it sounds like the sort of process that creates a database full of people's personal information... in other words, a very, *very* juicy-sounding hacking target. Higher-risk to crack into a government server, sure, but when you've also made it higher-reward too, somebody's gonna try...
*And*, on top of everything else, it sounds like the sort of process that creates a database full of people's personal information... in other words, a very, *very* juicy-sounding hacking target. Higher-risk to crack into a government server, sure, but when you've also made it higher-reward too, somebody's gonna try...
I wonder what a " #TTRPG advice iceberg" might look like, and if it might help people understand what's basic or heavily rehashed and what's easily missed, situational, or forgotten.
Because it seems to me like one of the problems with our institutional memory is simply that so many people don't know what we already know.
Because it seems to me like one of the problems with our institutional memory is simply that so many people don't know what we already know.
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And also a pity because Roll20 is centralized, and anything centralized could go fash at any time.
And also a pity because Roll20 is centralized, and anything centralized could go fash at any time.
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The campaign I'm in has a self-hosted Mattermost Team Edition server for private, pers...
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Oh yes, and MapTool is underappreciated since it's a child of the old temp server/client era of the Net from the 2000s. Even if you don't touch it, though, its companion app TokenTool can be used alongside any VTT.
Oh yes, and MapTool is underappreciated since it's a child of the old temp server/client era of the Net from the 2000s. Even if you don't touch it, though, its companion app TokenTool can be used alongside any VTT.
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Quick survey for you #ttrpg folks: what's your favorite free resources, apps, tools, or whatever for roleplaying games (and other related hobbies)?
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The campaign I'm in has a self-hosted Mattermost Team Edition server for private, persistent OOC coordination, and that works pretty well. (Be careful, though; they'll try to make you install Mattermost Entry instead by mistake because they want to upsell you to the paid version, being one of those companies that really only reluctantly does the "free and open" thing.)
The campaign I'm in has a self-hosted Mattermost Team Edition server for private, persistent OOC coordination, and that works pretty well. (Be careful, though; they'll try to make you install Mattermost Entry instead by mistake because they want to upsell you to the paid version, being one of those companies that really only reluctantly does the "free and open" thing.)
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The weather we have in my area today is exactly how I remember summers feeling as a kid. Hot, a bit humid, but not oppressive, just noticable.
And now I really want to go swimming in a lake.
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Mm, I definitely remember when swimming in lakes was safe, instead of a major algae bloom risk...
Mm, I definitely remember when swimming in lakes was safe, instead of a major algae bloom risk...
I'm tired of getting roped into thinking about the movie *business* every time I'm actually just interested in a movie.
I'm tired of worrying about what other people think about something that I enjo...
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With movies it's a lot easier to enjoy them as they are than it is with TV shows, where there's the constant fear of cancellation.
With movies it's a lot easier to enjoy them as they are than it is with TV shows, where there's the constant fear of cancellation.
How do you like dem tomaters?
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There's a white one! Bunnicula must be nearby!
There's a white one! Bunnicula must be nearby!