Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org
Lead Consultant @TelstraPurple, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
@deshipu counterpoint: I suggest looking into Freakonomics and their interesting books; apply economics to alternative domains. https://freakonomics.com/
I think your word-derivation conclusion is a bit misleading (and I'm sure you know that).
@cynical13 there are both solo games (single player, such as journalling games like Thousand Year Old Vampire, as well as oracle based and more choose your own adventure style), and also GM-less games for multiple players (either oracle based like Ironsworn, or collaborative games like Fiasco or Polaris).
@kpeace forcing anything (by government mandate, backed by guns) is against free markets.
Instead a free market would choose to buy the labelled product over the unlabelled one, if that is what they want.
You can always refuse to buy an unlabelled product, and if no one did that manufacturer would go out of business unless they change.
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👀 BrowserPub: A browser for debugging #ActivityPub and the ⁂fediverse
#GoPlay #Brisbane, a FREE tabletop RPG #ttrpg convention, on Sept 7th & 8th, has opened player registrations https://www.goplaybrisbane.com.au/register-to-play/
There are heaps of free #rpg roleplaying games on offer, including: #dnd, #dcc, #marvelmultiverse, #dontrestyourhead, #knight, #paranoia, #bladerunner, #eclipsephase, and heaps more.
@jamesoff @froge @aaisp at the physical network level both are the same, e.g. ethernet packets to MAC addresses, although some places may run separate (single stack) networks, so I think "congestion" isn't relevant.
The main speed benefit of #ipv6 is avoiding multiple levels of NAT.
On top of the ping to your router, for outbound calls there would also be NAT on your router; or for inbound port redirects.
Inbound (or outbound) IPv6 to an end device is just a firewall check, and then forward. Also makes it easy to use 80/443 for multiple end devices. (Rather than non standard ports)
@simonzerafa I'm also happy to recommend @beasts. Excellent #ipv6 support, they run modern internet, not stuck in 10+ year old legacy networks.
I run some #ipv6only servers with them (cheaper) and for legacy support you can reverse proxy through a CDN like CloudFlare, or MythicBeasts has one in their network.
@shupfel you probably still need to use both for a while, but longer term DHCPv6 is probably unnecessary overhead.
I do find DHCPv6 useful for assigning static leases, so I have fixed addresses I can put in firewall/DNS.
But things that support DHCPv6 probably also support manual config.
@CenturyAvocado @zymurgic servers are generally okay. You will want some kind of NAT64 for outgoing connections, and IPv4 for incoming reverse proxy (eg a CDN). The default config, like you found out, often isn't correct.
Home/personal computers are a lot worse, as there are things that just don't work, eg Steam.
@jadp @ashwrites don't fall into the trap of thinking local networks are safe (eggshell networks). A firewall is probably stronger security than your wifi password. Best to always use well-established security, e.g. Matter. (And consumer devices have different use cases than commercial, e.g. they must allow local physical override for ownership transfer.)
@morax you forgot "Let's have a music battle"
@LALegault I'm a moderate, i.e. I will "use a gun to build a library", but will try an explanation.
The objection is when a service is forced on you without choice, at the threat of people with guns.
Now maybe teaching children, providing protection services (including long term provisions), and management coordination of infrastructure (?) offers value to people. But if it does offer value, then they would be willing to pay for it, and so it wouldn't need provision by the state in the first place.
When the state provides it has very poor mechanisms for determining how much value, so may be over provided. Maybe we need 100 teachers, but the state provides 105, so 5 are an unnecessary waste of resources. (The reverse is also true, they can under provide.)
So, while not 100% leech, because I think most of those things are valuable to most people, so would have been provided anyway, a hardcore is going to exaggerate the scenario. As do both the left and right of politics, to emphasise their point.
@jstangroome time to move to #ipv6 ??
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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
@info the Starving Artist trope, i.e. the claim that art can't exist without copyright, is easily debunked.
Art existed for millennia before copyright (1710), and we celebrate many pre-copyright artists as great masters. Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Vermeer, Shakespeare, Vivaldi, Bach.
Very happy that #YouTubeMusic has arrived on my #Tesla. #YTM is one of the few services that allows you to upload your own music files (inherited from their old Google Play Music). I will still use #TuneIn, for stations like #GothvilleRadio (http://gothville.com/), but the other services were just too repetitive and limited in what they would play.
@simon_brooke sorry, like all provenance systems you need to trust the operators; the end user needs to care (do you currently lack confidence in reusable containers), and you need broad refusal of un-validated items, and full chain of custody otherwise it falls back to trust everyone. E.g. operator A fills with virgin olive oil, B buys and swaps for cheap, then on sells to C, D, E. E thinks they got something they didn't (last blockchain is A).
Even with full chain, if B can still sell in unmarked containers, they can profit, i.e. end consumers need to care enough to refuse, e.g. diamonds (or high value luxury handbags), not recycled containers.
@CarlosCD the one with the moon (what it looks like) is more visually interesting with different colour areas, for the overall picture.
If the focus is just the character, then keep the background plain (no moon).
Thank you #AirVPN for providing reliable #ipv6 #vpn services with your #Eddie client. https://airvpn.org/
@malin the term Oracle is often used in GM-less games with a more traditional structure for the tables and random elements that replace the GM, e.g. rolling monster actions/ attacks (although not all GM-less games have this structure).
It also makes sense as the GM for a game if on theme.
Lead Consultant @TelstraPurple, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
