Notices by Strange Quark (strangequark@dice.camp)

@Taskerland I do have a special place in my heart for the 2e gothic/voodoo mash-up Night of the Walking Dead, which I have run multiple times. There is something about swamps and zombies and innocent townspeople terrorised by an unknown monster that appeals.

I've never played any of the others though.

One Rocket to Rule Them All: An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Ring of Power Delivery Feasibility Study

https://jabde.com/2025/05/26/one-rocket-to-rule-them-all-an-icbm-ring-delivery-feasibility-study/

#Tolkien #MiddleEarth #LordOfTheRings #LotR #fantasy #satire #humour #science #research #rocketscience #chemistry #engineering #orbitalmechanics

The Man in #Seat61 seems like a relic from a forgotten age of the #Internet.

Seat61.com is a genuinely useful website created by just one guy, a train travel enthusiast who has curated a vast array of information that will help anyone who would like to travel in #Europe by #train

He is not trying to sell you anything and there are no adverts (apart from a few affiliate ids).

His website has won various "best travel website" awards. Notably the last one was in 2012.

https://www.seat61.com/

The #EuropeanCommission has published an "Impact Assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings". It is open for comment until 18 June: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_en

This is a terrible proposal which will seriously weaken the fundamental #privacy rights of #European #citizens. Please take the time to read it and add your comments. You don't have to be an #EU citizen to comment.

#ec #politics #democracy #freedom

At #CERN we mostly employ engineers, but from time to time there are job openings for #writers and #editors. CERN Courier magazine currently has a graduate opening for an Associate #Editor.

The position is open to graduates from CERN member states with a Master's degree and not more than six years' experience post-graduation. Full details below.

If your network includes people who are interested in #science #communication, please boost!

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/744000031266538-cern-courier-magazine-associate-editor-ir-eco-ce-2024-213-grap-

#joboffer #jobopening #graduate

@pluralistic Good panel discussion at #Geneva University and nice shout-out for #mastodon !

@urixturing @timbray @pluralistic On Facebook's lack of interoperability by design (1/2):

Way back in 2008, Facebook announced that Facebook chat would be interoperable with Jabber/XMPP, a widely-used open messaging protocol.

The feature was added in 2010[1]. Google Talk used the same protocol.

Facebook cynically used XMPP support to draw in millions of XMPP users before dropping support in 2014.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/facebook-chat-launches-xmpp-support/