7 Things Dungeons & Dragons Taught Me About Storytelling
https://litreactor.com/columns/7-things-dungeons-dragons-taught-me-about-storytelling
A new app claims it can get you high, using just your smartphone.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5b497/i-tried-lumenate-app-that-makes-you-trip-review
Vaultwarden - Open Source, self hosted backend for the Bitwarden password manager.
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Why D&D?
Well considered reasons why it's the "go-to" game for millions of people.
The tl;dr is:
"Perhaps another way of putting it is that classic D&D is simply the most enjoyable role playing game to have ever been created, and this is the reason why there is still such a relatively big community of people who are into fiddling with it 40+ years after its birth."
https://monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/2022/06/why-d.html?m=1
Of all Dungeons and Dragons-style alignments, Americans are most likely to identify as "neutral good".
Only 1% of Americans self-identify as "chaotic evil". https://t.co/rVMpwjoZfB
In case you’re not aware, http://neverssl.com can be a handy tool in debugging connectivity, e.g. when you're on a “captive portal” on public Wi-Fi. Sometimes you connect to public Wi-Fi and think everything is good (because sites appear to be loading), but…
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Thinking of privacy protection in terms of threat models and attack surfaces.
Tracking reduction (TR)
TR aims to reduce the amount of data collected about an exposed user. It reduces a footprint’s spread primarily by blocking trackers. Sometimes this can increase the size of a footprint.
Tracking evasion (TE)
TE reduces the amount of data exposed by a user. Rather than eliminating data collection itself, TE prevents useful data from being made available in the first place. In other words, it reduces a footprint’s size.
The word #Unicode meant something different in 1957.
It seems that UNICODE was a high-level language roughly contemporaneous with FORTRAN. The syntax is a bit more like the later COBOL.
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_univac1103PreliminaryReferenceManual1957_3202109
Information Security geek, Old School RPG nerd, and wannabe fiction writer.