Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org

Reasons why Matrix can be better for diversity than closed platforms:

* Wide variety of implementations
* Public accountability
* Low cost

Our openness makes us stronger!

https://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2024/06/23/elected-to-the-matrix-foundation-governing-board/

#matrix #diversity #opensource

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison this morning, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK for Australia.
After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.
~ Wikileaks

Just a note saying how my #Fediverse experience has been made immeasurably richer for being able to take in and engage with carefully curated #Threads users, #BlueSky bridged users, #WordPress ActivityPub enabled blogs, Federated #Podcast episodes, #PixelFed photos, and Peertube videos. All from one Mastodon account. This works.

And I'm grateful for the moderation tools to mute, block and curate all of this, and the Mastodon lists to make them all digestable and not just info overload.

To all TRPG developers, Fabula Ultima released their third party license today in a surprise drop. It was shockingly nice to developers: you can copy rules text, unrevokable, you own your work, no fees, commercial.

https://need.games/fabula-ultima/#license

#trpg #ttrpg #thirdparty #developer #tabletop #tabletoprpg #roleplayinggame #fabulaultima

Authenticated Media, progress on native sliding sync, and Neko on Flathub. That, and more happened this week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/21/this-week-in-matrix-2024-06-21/

I just went on a follow-fest for women with a PhD, but realized I'm already mutuals with almost everyone who shows up in the limited search results 😋

If you're a Dr. Gal or other female science communicator type, pop into the thread, say hi!

I'd love to learn about what you do 💜
(and I'm sure lots of others would too)

#WomenInStem #FollowFriday (on Tuesday) #WomenInMedicine #Dr #PhD

Also, shout-out to @letsencrypt for dramatically changing the security landscape of the Web for the better over the years.

Rarely is there an example of a project so effective and so directly improving everyone's lives, while at the same time keeping the original engineering mindset and just Doing Stuff Right™ humbly in the background.

Next November it will have been exactly a decade since LE started. We all owe them a huge 10th birthday party.

RPG tip from the archive: If players stall in a scene, lay out the decisions and give each one a chance to choose.

#dnd #ttrpg

Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/elon-musks-xai-releases-grok-source-and-weights-taunting-openai/ #musk xAI #Grok #LLM

We are back!

Join us in 2024 for South Australia's premier tabletop gaming event!

6–8 September 2024
Thebarton Community Centre

Join the mailing list at https://con-centric.com.au to get all the announcements.

#ConCentric2024 #boardGames #ttrpg #Adelaide

I just started an #IPv6 compatibility database.
https://gosix.net
I have been working with IPv6 for about 15 years and I've always wanted to have such a database.
This way you can get a good estimate about how good IPv6 support is prior to buying or implementing solutions.
You helping to fill the database is very appreciated.