Notices by Malin (malin@dice.camp)

@jessew
#Voidlinux introduces itself as 'based on the Linux Monolithic Kernel', as if people know what kernels are, and understand monolithic vs micro, but just needed an introduction to Linux in particular.

@icedquinn
The tradition is much older than WotC minis - TSR had it as standard.

Above-ground maps were massive, but underground maps much smaller.

Why do we make tiny dungeons, with cramped maps? Real caverns meander, like twenty miles of dropped spaghetti.

And the only way to represent miles of spaghetti is a metro-map.

#caves #ttrpg #BINDRPG

@silverwizard
Riker's twin makes a great example, along with that guy with the fear of transporters.

I think the fear comes from really thinking about what the real process is, but you're probably right that people understand it more now from working with files.

@silverwizard
Maybe it shines too much of a spotlight onto the fact that a person is, much like a legal entity, a fiction; created by shared understanding, which is also a fiction.

You cant move files onto a USB stick - you can only copy them, then delete the first copy.

You can believe in materialism, and computer-files, while still feeling uncomfortable with the full implications.

Game on!

...after one more coffee. Polako, polako...

#RPG people: can you grok this with a fast skim?
(page is shown in 3 parts for ease of screen-reading)

The ISO 7010 hazard images are all public domain, and some of them need to be used in an RPG.

Also there's an actual hazard symbol for Google glasses!

@cwebber
If you go with Charmer's Extended Mind theory, we're already cyborgs, as we use tech to remember and calculate, even if the tech isn't inside the skull.

A group asked about an impromptu game.

Need to write a thing in the next ~5 hours for fantasy world of guild-contracted monster hunters.

Send me your ideas! I'm too hungover to make my own...

@silverwizard what's to understand? Turn thrice widershins and insert, like a door key, but reversed.

@icedquinn
Real Linux users compile their YouTube thumbnails with LaTeX.

#TeXLaTeX

Pro-tuber tip: speed up thumbnail generation without getting lock-jaw by using a glug-jug.

A surprisingly young person asked me about being left-handed with...let's say 'a Victorian accent'.

"That's not a thing!" I thought. Or is it still a thing? I have feint memories of people trying to 'fix' me in school, but that was early 90's.

Is 'being left handed' still a thing people care about?

@mhd
"Is there animal-based magic?"

> Yes, you can select it with one of these three classes.

"Okay, I'll take the first one with the animal-magic"

> No, no - the class decides when you select it!

...yea, it seems easier to just add the ability.

@silverwizard
Bandcamp won't let you, but one "Paweł Grzybek" has set this service up based on another. It's limited to 100,000 daily requests, so he requests people don't hammer it too much.

https://pawelgrzybek.com/generate-rss-feed-for-bandcamp-artists-using-deno-deploy

I guess that means you can't get notified the very second another album comes out, but I bet once per day wouldn't strain Paweł's limits too much.

@silverwizard
I can't solve the medium-level problem of bandcamp's mediation, and can't speak to the high-level problem of 'capitalism', but if you use an RSS reader, and if the RSS reader takes commands, you can pull in this url to generate an RSS feed for an arbitrary bandcamp band.

curl 'https://rss-bandcamp.deno.dev?artist=derinaharveyband'

@silverwizard that's the one! I only used it a couple of times, but I was impressed both times.

@silverwizard there's a CLI for bandcamp which downloads albums.

@icedquinn I got spiral spines for most books previously, and they work well for the modules as you can tear out the handouts easily.