Malin

Part of the team working on BIND, the open source RPG:

https://bindrpg.gitlab.io

Say 'hi' on Matrix:
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#rpg #ttrpg #gemini #foss #TeXLaTeX

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2026-10-25 20:39:07 UTC

We fucking won.

2026-10-08 17:44:37 UTC

Every so often she yells so loud I think she's hurt. And every time I check she's simply announcing that she's caught her toy ratking.
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/117/406/521/788/932/273/original/8f4d3d5cef8fc44b.jpg

2026-08-14 06:22:50 UTC

I don't see how aphantasia can be real. When I tell people about the rhinoceros who lives in my kitchen they know I'm lying.
All those steps you rapidly take to conclude that the rhinoceros couldn't be there? That's imagination. The problems with size, the question of what I would feed it, the noise the neighbours would have to accept; every problem you spot is imagination, even when it doesn't feel like a picture.

2026-08-04 12:11:42 UTC

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@nprofile…4uga if you're going for multiple outputs (slides, PDF, web) it might be easier to write in markdown and convert later.
There's an example setup:
https://gitlab.com/chroniclesrpg/chronicles-core

2026-08-04 00:02:46 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 LaTeX is calling.
Specifically, it is calling 'Under full hbox, badness 10000!'.

2026-07-25 19:51:09 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 a little. Like early web, things come and disappear quickly. It's a nice space and super-easy to set up, but sometimes still feels like it needs more dedicated communities who aren't talking about their Emacs configs.

2026-07-25 14:04:45 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 I've stuck it up here:
gemini://ttrpgs.com/placard/Tabletop-Roleplaying-Resources.gmi

2026-07-14 10:10:50 UTC

Me:
> Up the road, the dry river-bed ends at a cave-loch and a river which enters but no longer leaves. The loch stretches out hundreds of steps into the dark. A sliver of land stretches around the loch and ends in a dock with some boats.
...and I thought that was fairly clear.
Player:
> I pick the lock.

2026-06-17 22:14:37 UTC

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@nprofile…gmj4 @nprofile…myyy @nprofile…emk6 one

2026-06-14 15:14:59 UTC

Humans: I need pain killers because I looked left for too long.
Cat:
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/116/749/109/097/113/274/original/7a0ad8e32946b5a2.jpg

2026-06-07 10:12:32 UTC

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@nprofile…whan no internal links? 'Vim-like'. Why not just use Vim?

2026-06-03 14:35:44 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 That's what I thought about #LineageOS (still bitter!).

2026-06-01 19:19:40 UTC

Wife wanted to make me 'Scottish food'.
It's generic Asian food, deep fried (top score!).

2026-05-27 21:02:00 UTC

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@nprofile…nekg
If you want to add an informal fallacy you have to say it in Latin. I don't make the rules.

2026-05-25 18:51:11 UTC

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@nprofile…q5yn its all connected. People just use lochs and rivers as they're the fastest way to travel when the nobility aren't declaring war and taxes.

2026-05-25 14:38:44 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 Divide and conquor.

2026-05-25 13:40:49 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-sqsvcZJ2w

2026-05-25 13:36:16 UTC

Players continue to ignore the mysterious tower on the loch, despite passing it every two sessions for the last few months.
I've started referring to it as the 'enchanted tower which everyone forgets'.

2026-05-06 09:57:31 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 fingers crossed, but if it's pigeon then I don't think you can complain.

2026-05-06 09:50:43 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 I think you're eating pigeon.

2026-03-23 13:39:03 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 I have found nothing in life more humbling than scripting and living with the consequences.

2026-03-20 08:53:54 UTC

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@nprofile…q5yn LLMs are the chatbots. I don't know what the paintbots are called, but they don't work.
I got fourteen things to put in the image. The paintbots stop working around the third thing. Maybe now they do four, but they're still useless.
https://ttrpgs.com/posts/ml_art_ii/

2026-03-20 08:14:52 UTC

It's been many hours of hard work, and somehow it's worse than when I started.
Honestly, if there a machine that could do this in exchange for killing baby seals, I'd feed the seals in myself.
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/116/260/492/570/647/238/original/7187c0cee88b81f9.png

2026-02-27 18:36:55 UTC

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@nprofile…q5yn Good idea. Fixed!

2026-02-27 18:01:07 UTC

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@nprofile…q5yn cheers - I would not have noticed that. Looks like an issue with a certain aspect ratio.
Unfortunately I have no idea how to adjust hugo themes.

2026-02-27 16:34:16 UTC

New site theme!
https://ttrpgs.com/
#Blogging #SelfHosting #Hugo

2026-02-19 20:51:05 UTC

https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/116/099/264/840/338/131/original/05ca2e327a50ba38.png

2026-01-13 00:52:59 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63
If you haven't lost 30 hours of your life to filename problems, you're not a real sysadmin.

2026-01-12 13:36:14 UTC

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@nprofile…p0fq It was a joke, but now it's a paradox.

2026-01-12 05:02:52 UTC

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@nprofile…p0fq source?

2026-01-03 13:30:52 UTC

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@nprofile…8p63 German RPGs are weird.

2025-12-26 15:43:29 UTC

Would you believe this was not my idea?
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/115/786/631/278/156/949/original/7f0e62cda879d473.png

2025-11-29 02:29:27 UTC

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@nprofile…aa8p I keep wondering why this feels so uncomfortable to see, every time it comes across my feed.
Take away that cowlick, and you get a cochlea entering the skull's rear, an oddly shaped elbow. This is almost certainly a doppleganger.
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/115/630/595/652/008/486/original/dbc2ba1019aa05d1.png

2025-11-27 14:01:14 UTC

@nprofile…msez
Someone put you in a graph:
https://graph.elmc.at/

2025-11-14 20:31:35 UTC

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@nprofile…q2w2 That's numberwang!

2025-10-31 16:41:21 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnd I first saw it in American memes around 2014, and looked it up. It looked like a kind of Real Politik with praxis from black Americans, passing on safety tips for not getting shot by police, black history, and such.
If my reading was correct, then when Right Wing websites say 'black history is woke', then they are technically correct.

2025-10-03 10:11:26 UTC

Buttcrime: when a cat looks at something and you can see the criminal intent to pounce.

2025-10-02 23:51:43 UTC

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I've inherited two cats with the flat. One has a demeanour like Eeyore. He stares, inconsolable and silent for most of the day.
Back when he was constipated, he got meds, and whenever he used the tray the household gave him affection, and a treat to eat. But the treats stopped when nobody noticed. So now we have to noticed.
The treats are gone, he's been healthy for years, but he announces every visit. The pooping warcry rings throughout the flat.

2025-10-02 23:00:15 UTC

Any recommendations for a media server/ interface?
I'm hosting two birthday parties, and inherited a TV and a computer that's old enough to legally drink [in Serbia].
- must be open to drunk randomers
- ideally, just a front-end for YouTube or similar for music.
- a big search box which adds things to a queue is basically all I need.
- can anything stream and add local music to the same queue?

2025-10-02 11:37:35 UTC

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Time to organise all the books.
Does the Tao Te Ching go under fiction or nonfiction?

2025-10-02 10:50:17 UTC

Moving house: unbridled faff as an endurance test. Is it meant to take three+ days?

2025-10-01 11:51:49 UTC

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@nprofile…lvsr
Void has the lot...if you mean things like a screen-reader on the installer.
And it's hosted on Github. I'm not sure what counts as 'corporate involvement'.
It's stable though. If you count all the times Debian becomes incompatible with the outside world as a break then Void is more stable than Debian.

2025-06-18 15:58:34 UTC

Fold, stitch, BIND!
Currently testing:
- A7 character sheets.
- A7 choose-your-own-adventure
- A7 random encounters booklet.
#BINDRPG #RPG #zine
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/114/705/159/933/014/274/original/137a1a0e18db5bf0.png
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/114/705/163/216/385/471/original/15d6fa0d56150cd4.mp4
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/114/705/168/068/590/261/original/35b03779f1168166.mp4

2025-06-07 19:24:44 UTC

drivethrurpg's RSS wasn't working, so I stuck it in a browser.
> [ ] "Are you human?"
No, I am an RSS feed, as clearly stated in the header info.

2025-05-21 12:37:53 UTC

uwu, uwas, uwat, uwamus, uwatis, uwant

2025-05-19 23:38:36 UTC

Wikipedia's list of obsolete occupations has some great RPG material.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_occupations
#TTRPG
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/114/537/116/774/198/107/original/72ef5f782366eef1.png

2025-05-19 00:09:24 UTC

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@nprofile…a9az
"A bee is not an animal. The hive is the animal. It just has more mobile cells than most"
- Pratchett (sort of, I'm pulling the quote from memory)

2025-05-17 23:28:33 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn the real games are the configs we made along the way.

2025-05-05 13:18:49 UTC

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@nprofile…u7s3
You should try a more solid foundation for the world.
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/114/455/400/935/175/566/original/5de1707f03f0e4db.png

2025-04-29 21:35:50 UTC

If you can access a printer, check the updated Goblin Hole module:
https://gitlab.com/bindrpg/gitlab-profile/-/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/output/The_Goblin_Hole.pdf?job=pdfs
It's 26 pages, double-side.
- 2 pages of frontmatter
- 4 pages of example of play
- 9 pages for the module
- 1 GM notes sheet
- 10 characters
The structure has been an experiment in making a self-contained module, with an easy introduction to the rules and setting.
The content has been playtested, but the material is in need of an outside perspective.
Leci n'est pas un PDF.
#TTRPG #RPG #BINDRPG

2025-04-25 12:19:02 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn First link on the article goes here:
https://www.remixesandrevelations.com/2020/04/twk-david-s-terrence-contact-for.html
There is nonsense afoot.

2025-04-23 14:08:57 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn @nprofile…2s4u
Back when I was thin, I used to get a Y-shaped stick and put my hand through the letter box to open my door from the inside.
If you prod a lock long enough, most turn out to be shockingly ineffective.

2025-04-14 19:14:33 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn I'm never sure if I'm bad at speaking about IT, or if I'm simply grappling with the innate problem that nobody knows what other people know (or sometimes, which words they use for those things).
The engineer in me wants to solve this with a database of everyone's knowledge level about things, but the remaining braincells are telling me 'that's just a CV', and 'everyone knows everything according to every CV'.

2025-04-14 15:45:43 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn you run make and they get auto generated

2025-04-14 12:58:18 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn Looks like placing local fortunes doesn't work, it only looks like it does when you're testing from the directory where the files are.
The rest works. PR sent.

2025-04-14 12:25:24 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn Committing binaries to a git is a mortal sin.
Two ticks - just needs more makefile.

2025-04-14 12:21:49 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn If all your friends installed Windows 11, would you do it too?

2025-04-14 12:12:27 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn
YOU HAVE COMMITTED THE CARDINAL SIN: OUTPUT.
You never commit output to a git.

2025-04-14 12:05:01 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn I made a PR...but now there are more files.
What's a .dat file, and how do you make it? Why do the others not have a .dat file?

2025-04-11 16:48:09 UTC

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@nprofile…u7s3 @nprofile…mtwn it's not on the company's site, so presumably they've taken it down out of shame.

2025-04-11 16:38:03 UTC

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@nprofile…m9qs is this recipe Alpha-complex certified?
@nprofile…u7s3 @nprofile…mtwn

2025-04-11 14:09:50 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn there were a bunch of Polish sauces with LLM labels..maybe they made the ingredients list too?

2025-04-08 17:13:01 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn can't wait to git checkout

2025-04-08 16:04:21 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn
I can't see it (I'm assuming it's another IP block, as I'm in Albania), but I'll check it once I'm back home. Is it a fortune extension, or a new project?
If the latter, you could name it 'augur'.

2025-04-01 23:16:25 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn I took a bit to get set up with an open table. Part of it was different habits - sending open invites, telling players they're free to get friends along.
After that it takes a while to pick up steam. My table saw maybe +1 players per month (but plenty moved country, so it was never too full).

2025-03-25 17:38:33 UTC

Are snails deaf?

2025-03-23 19:42:51 UTC

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@nprofile…args
Neolithic man 1: Oh, you're tying it to a javelin? You gotta knap like this at the base, so it doesn't wobble later.
Neolithic man 2: Yea, there's always a knap for it.

2025-03-19 18:49:48 UTC

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@nprofile…6m2n @nprofile…27k7
I see now that I was a fool; I had forgotten the golden rule: 'everything is a file'.

2025-03-19 13:19:13 UTC

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@nprofile…hujc I got the same one. 3am - the best time to attempt to send quietly, with many emails on top by the time people wake.

2025-03-15 00:41:28 UTC

Wife went to sleep leaving dough in fridge. I can hear the plastic creaking.
The fuck do I do?
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/114/163/657/090/114/248/original/d6a62f79c66fc4f8.jpg

2025-02-21 20:13:25 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn if you'd like some good news, read about Serbia.

2025-02-01 00:03:06 UTC

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@nprofile…kml8
I can't find any sources for that device (lots on Alhambra, just not that exact device).
The description sounds a little too close to a perpetual motion machine, so I think we might have been the victim of a ruse.

2025-01-29 17:12:12 UTC

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@nprofile…6m2n
> "how is anyone supposed to LEARN all of this stuff??”
PREACH!
And I have suggestions:
https://splint.rs/posts/wtfm

2025-01-27 22:09:13 UTC

People say 'you couldn't make it up', to express something's incredible, but the really incredible facts always sound like any tacky writer could have easily made them up.

2025-01-19 19:46:47 UTC

If you ever wanted to read or recommend a Gaiman book, but also don't want to do that, check out this list of alternative but related books:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P0iYzkbHy8nwK6FYsE0kIX_6Ll0sinHu7J7V1atSe1k
Personally, I want an alternative to Google Drive, so I made this markdown copy:
https://termbin.com/xqrr

2025-01-16 21:25:58 UTC

Avast, ye nerds!
I have RPG blogs to recommend:
https://ttrpgs.com/post/rss_highlights/
But some people don't know how awesome RSS is, so I've taken the evening to find the best RSS reader with a GUI which also works with YouTube, and make a guide:
https://splint.rs/posts/how_to_rss
Send me RPG blog recommendations, and I'll add them to the list.
#Blogging #RSS #TTRPG #RPG

2025-01-07 15:25:52 UTC

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@nprofile…s48y
You can see exactly why so many sea-birds nest on the rock-faces.
You'd be sitting on that side, with the nest, singing 'Can't touch this!', as nobody's going to climb up or down that face.

2025-01-06 14:57:04 UTC

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@nprofile…u7s3 sorry, just a bad joke.
"Quantum" sometimes refers to the smallest possible amount of something for a given measurement system, and is often just used as 'very small', as in 'quantum Physics' (the study of tiny-wee things).
So a 'quantum ogre' sounds like 'the smallest measurable ogre'.

2025-01-06 14:48:29 UTC

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@nprofile…u7s3 No, no - he's massive!
Goblin babies on the other hand...they're the ones where weirdness happens.

2025-01-06 13:21:15 UTC

I wrote quantum ogre piece, thus fulfilling my legal obligation to do so, as an RPG blowhard.
https://ttrpgs.com/post/quantum_ogre/
#TTRPG #Blogging #Metaphysics

2025-01-05 16:37:22 UTC

Feeling lonely and unread? Need the all embracing hug that only a python-script can give? Try my new content-creation formula and you will be dripping with the love of Markov Chains:
https://splint.rs/posts/content_creator/
With thanks to @nprofile…wwl3 for link generation.
#OpenAI #GoogleGemini #ChatGPT #SummalyBot #Bing #Chad

2025-01-05 15:44:54 UTC

LLM jobs written by LLMs, for LLMs, to make LLM content for LLM clicks.
I wonder if some will decide to one day just post an address.
'Send us your CV, to our meat-space address. Handwritten or printed both work'
The simple cost of the stamp and requirement to have human limbs would cut the job application to 100% real candidates.

2025-01-04 09:25:47 UTC

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@nprofile…74v9
Are the wandering bell stories all variations on 'you will be cursed, do not take our valuable copper'?

2025-01-04 09:20:18 UTC

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@nprofile…74v9
Were the latter told during that war, or after?

2025-01-03 08:17:56 UTC

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@nprofile…4az2
Every image is more unsettling than the last, as the strange proportions and exaggerated colour scheme betray the uncanney valley at many small points across the image.

2025-01-02 22:35:45 UTC

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@nprofile…s0cr @nprofile…y4rs
Trojan task: it'll be a walk-in, 5 minutes out and back, no problem...

2025-01-02 14:42:21 UTC

I got a 'Bulgar Salad' and wondered if this means 'Bulgarian'.
I can't find a yes/no answer. Every answer loops round the 7th century and adds five asterisks.
Standard Balkans story then.
https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/113/759/273/751/550/043/original/2fc489296285dcff.jpg

2024-12-30 02:56:50 UTC

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@nprofile…zwgs
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.

2024-12-27 00:37:54 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn
Cities always felt like sensory facefuck after growing up in the countryside. Without blackout curtains, the neon radiation pollutes every night.

2024-12-25 14:03:39 UTC

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@nprofile…7spe
Don't tell them or someone will request a Portable Hole, and we know what happens then.

2024-12-23 16:22:02 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn Silesian Valley: 50% less digital colonialism, and enough paperwork to scare the EU from regulating anything.
They could go fully open source, and it wouldn't make a bit of difference: just name all functions in Polish, and replace types with genders.

2024-12-23 11:45:02 UTC

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@nprofile…mtwn
I'm picturing Polish babas, force-feeding coffee and Jira to overworked grandchildren.
Just needs one thing to complete the picture:
https://github.com/miljegen/browser-milje

2024-12-23 00:49:05 UTC

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@nprofile…args mine? No. She was perfect. And then my wife taught her how to talk; call and response, then the food.
Now she knows. Her language skills may be lacking but she has perfected the eye-contact and the drama. She locks a death-stare into your pupil then throws her head up like a peanuts comic to hollar, return to eye-contact, and continues the chat. Her range of vocabulary is astonishing, like she's 'brute-force' guessing the noises which force the food.

2024-12-18 23:25:05 UTC

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@nprofile…0747
Yip, I just received an email from Github saying
> Please take our AI. Any AI, we have loads! Take any. We just need someone to use them. 5,000 minutes free! This is very expensive, and generous, we just need to show someone's using it. You won't even know it's there. We'll give you badges if you just try it out.
...I deleted the email, but I think that's what it said.

2024-12-18 06:06:55 UTC

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@nprofile…93zc
Yule, but you have to hollar it like a horn-helmeted viking greeting a long-lost brother.
This is the ancient pagan festival of frozen darkness. The one Charlemagne killed people for celebrating. The one they tell you not to be afraid of in the Bible.
Jesus and Coka-Cola will come and go, but the Yule endures.

2024-12-03 14:52:05 UTC

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@nprofile…74v9
https://ttrpgs.com/post/grogs/

2024-12-02 21:32:08 UTC

Many years ago, I watched a yt presentation by Lepht, saying 'trans-humanism' was full of wankers with theory, and nobody was doing anything except for rare ultra-expensive procedures. So they got a potato-peeler, some neodymium magnets, and set to work modifying the flesh.
It was quite inspiring, so I read all I could about keeping wounds clean, and got a nice razor, then got to work.
I still know nothing about transhumanist theory except that people on Mastodon hate it.
Praxis still rocks.

2024-11-16 18:39:31 UTC

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@nprofile…a9az
Once upon a time, American phone lines would only connect you to people who got their lines through the same company. Some people would buy multiple phone contracts to phone multiple offices and people.

2024-11-10 18:13:10 UTC

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@npub1ekn…2g2y I like them in principle, but having them in the same place as the spam and business stuff leaves a nasty vibe. That might just be me though.

2024-11-10 12:33:00 UTC

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@npub14xj…na59
We don't see posts just from people we follow. I'm just engaging on the topic of fediquette in general, my local timeline's not real concern as long as I don't need to hear the unending alarm-bell from burgerland.