Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
@amuse there are other factors, like if you are discontinuing a business area, but all other things being equal, whether they announce it or not, companies will get rid of the worst performers if they can.
That's why I laugh when a company claims they only employ the "top 10%", based on hiring stats/applications. That's not the top 10% of market ... that is the top 10% of those looking for jobs ... so closer to they top 10% of the bottom 5%.
To actually employ the top 10% you need to actively headhunt those at the top, and then pay salaries at the top 10% of market.
Hint: if your salaries are benchmarked to market and your employees are in the middle band, you don't have the top 10%; you have average (the middle 50%) workers.
#mermaid is the winner for most diagraming, especially inbuilt support in tools like Azure DevOps -- except for C4 diagrams where I still use #PlantUML.
From DanDoesCode: "Mermaid will be fine for most of your needs, but for anything more complex or for doing C4 models, I would fall back to PlantUML. Overall Winner: Mermaid" https://www.dandoescode.com/blog/plantuml-vs-mermaid
Prediction: Car washes will start to install air pumps for tyres to use while you are there, to replace gasoline stations.
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If you ever want to do some challenging and enlightening cybersecurity work, go work for one of the big, self-regulating vice industries with a lot of money. Casinos. Porn websites. Online betting. You might have a hell of a lot of ethical quandaries, but you won't ever be bored. The house usually wins. They have a lot of old and new mechanisms to protect their interests and monitor their clientele.
Interesting development, Lord of the Rings, which already has it's own highly rated #OneRing RPG, has just released a #DnD 5th edition adaption on Beyond. https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/category/DB0000154
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The GIMP, the popular open-source Photoshop alternative just released GIMP 3 RC1.
GIMP 3 is a release that's been 20 years in the making!
https://gamefromscratch.com/gimp-3-release-candidate-is-here/
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One of the TorchLite bits that I'm most proud of is that you can make a character by picking three items off of three lists. Hard to get more rules Lite than that!
If you wanna see those three lists, check out the teaser at https://xine.ink/2024/11/08/torchlite-gives-you-options/
Also worth mentioning: there's a chunky sneak peek with even more character creation options available to patreon subscribers today... https://www.patreon.com/Xine
Waymo now does 100,000 driverless taxi rides per week. https://www.autoweek.com/news/a62735122/waymo-2024-robotaxi-statistics/
Funny how I still see people claiming the technology is not viable, will never happen, or is impossible -- sorry, but too late: reality (it already happens) trumps your opinion!
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you are asking what features the new ActivityPub plugin version has?
thanks for asking! ☺️
* Support for post visibility - you can choose between "public", "only followers" and "no federation".
* Attribution-Domains - that should fix the fediverse:creator issues, if you had issues
* Improved compatibility with caching plugins
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/4.0.0
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This is your reminder...
There is no algorithm that brings posts to your timeline. The only posts you will see under your Home tab will be either people that you follow, or the boosts from people that you follow.
BOOSTING IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF MASTODON.
If you read something that is interesting, funny, thought provoking, news worthy, or beautiful, then BOOST IT.
Hitting "Favorite" lets the poster know that you liked it BUT IT DOESN'T LET ANYONE ELSE KNOW.
Keep Mastodon alive. BOOST.
#ArsMagica #ttrpg, famed for it's flexible magic system and troupe-style play, has launched their definitive edition crowd funding on #backerkit. Although the overall system is a bit clunky, the magic rules for casting freeform spells are great, and I try to play the game at conventions, etc, whenever I get a chance.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/atlas-games/ars-magica-5th-edition-definitive
And, as part of their stretch goals (which they have already reached a bunch), they are releasing the game text under #OpenSource #CreativeCommons licencing, joining a bunch of other great open games (#Fate, #DungeonWorld, #BladesInTheDark #bitd, #Gumshoe, #EclipsePhase,#Ironsworn, and -- of course -- #DungeonsAndDragons #dnd).
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Whether you're a creator, industry expert, volunteer, or devoted gamer, we're eager to join forces with gamers from all corners of the globe. Together, let's amplify the mission of the Organized Play Foundation, creating an inclusive community where games become the bridge that unites us.
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Hey Penpot community! 👋
We’re constantly working to improve Penpot and make it the best tool for your design needs, and we want your input!
We’ve put together a list of the top 10 issues and feature requests that have come up frequently, but we’d love to hear from you too:
https://community.penpot.app/t/help-us-what-issues-or-enhancements-matter-most-to-you/6763
@nbaileydev@mastodon.social on the positive side, at least you got IPv6 ?
I think my mobile service is similar. No prefix delegation, but I can pass through and request as many IPv6 as I want (via my hotspot).
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GREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated as a cybersecurity weakness https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html
@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 exploring #ActivityPub and the ⁂fediverse
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
