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
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@stux I agree with your decision. In fact, Meta's Threads will be much more vulnerable to lose users to other instances once they learn how the #fediverse works. Why would I choose to be on a comercial plataform like Meta's, where I am exposed to ads all the time, if I can migrate to an instance which is ad-free?
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Thankfully you have the functionality at your fingertips to slam the door shut on those dragons any time you want. So does everyone else, but that is *their* choice to make.
As you can probably guess I'm strongly against admins defederating other instances wholesale and taking the freedom/choice away from their users. Unless it's to counter something that's illegal or promotes hate or prejudice.
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Remembering this old bit from Wired talking about if people talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG manuals:
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It would be better for the world for Russia to lose.
When aggression results in loss, it disincentivizes aggression.
Libertarians seek a world without aggression, where humans interact in exclusively consensual ways.
Aggression should be consigned to history.
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Mastodon: On the bird site, The Algorithm determined who sees your posts, but here, if people follow you, they get all of your posts!
Also Mastodon: Your server admin is in an pissing match with the admin of a popular server, so now you've been defederated and 15% of your followers won't hear from you anymore.
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Weekly update is up! The ABC Data Mosaic Powered by Have I Been Pwned; The .zip TLD and Phishing; The Massive Luxottica Data Breach https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-348/
My thoughts on "#AI and #copyright: Addressing an incongruity", and why is #photograpy, which can be just a click of a button (although a good photograph may involve a lot more), protected by copyright, when AI generated art is not? Maybe it is just time to re-evaluate, stop allowing large corporations to profit from increasingly restrictive copyright and get rid of it altogether, moving towards #opensource, with technology providing solutions through patronage and crowdfunding. That way we can head towards a future where creativity, irrespective of its source -- be it human or AI -- is celebrated instead of being stifled. https://sgryphon.gamertheory.net/2023/05/20/ai-and-copyright-addressing-an-incongruity/
Thank you not #Microsoft. It is fair enough to have systems that don't support #ipv6 yet, but to actively break/fail to work when IPv6 is enabled is pretty bad. Ignore IPv6, sure, but to have your IPv4 systems stop working simply when IPv6 is enabled doesn't really allow any kind of migration path.
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THE COURT OF THE TYRANT AT TOUR TORIEL is finally released, out in the wild, and most importantly off my desk!
This is the fourth installment of the Ascent to Prime campaign I've been developing which teaches new players how to play (and run) Cortex Prime games.
It's really cool, if I do say so myself.
Devlog here: https://miriamrobern.itch.io/keystone-ap4/devlog/529005/release
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When I interview people, I'll often ask if there's any interesting dev related topics that have caught their eye.
These days I'm adding "... and you can't answer 'ChatGPT' or 'AI'".
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WordPress.org is counting 3.000 installations of the #ActivityPub Plugin so far 🎉
So, #AWS #cloudformation vs #AWSCLI. Looks to be ending up the same as Azure #ARM vs #AzureCLI. If you already have the template, and deploy it once, it is good. But developing CLI scripts is quicker (debug one step at a time, rather than all at once). And templates run into the same dead ends: e.g. decides it needs to recreate the entire subnet, so it attempts to, but runs into an IP address conflict with the existing one, and the whole thing stops. There are things/changes that declarative approaches just can't do, and you need to use migrations (CLI scripts).
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Since I'm not really participating in Twitter, I wanted to bring something that was started over there here. Cam Banks ( @RustySellsword ) has been one of the most gracious and kind people in the #TTRPG industry that I have ever spoken with. He encouraged me when I first started looking at rebooting Tribe 8. He took out the time to speak to me, as well as the business manager at DP9. I don't think I would have continued my effort if it hadn't been for him.
Watching Dami Im at the Brisbane Eurovision preview party. I still don't understand why Australia is part of Eurovision :-)
Delve into #AI and #automation and it's impact on our future with my latest article, "AI is taking our jobs: Yes, that is the objective"! I discuss the potential benefits of AI-driven productivity, its impact on society, implementation of a #UBI, and how it relates to #StarTrek's vision of a better future. https://sgryphon.gamertheory.net/2023/04/14/ai-is-taking-our-jobs-yes-that-is-the-objective
So another good thing out of the #ogl snafu: the #brp system from @Chaosium has been released under the #orc instead of the crappy limited licence they previously had (that prevented mixing the #ttrpg with public domain sources like Arthurian myth or Cthulhu). Not as good as #creativecommons , and unnecessary, but still better than before https://www.chaosium.com/basic-roleplaying-universal-game-engine-pdf/
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Weekly update is up! When is Next Friday; Garage Progress; More Ubiquiti & More IoT; Genesis Market and “Operation Cookie Monster" https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-342/
Lead Consultant @TelstraPurple, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
