Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Enjoying reading “A Folklore Bestiary” by @TMushmen - it’s evocative and the entries spark ideas. Lovingly illustrated too. There’s even a #DnD5e version if that floats your boat rather than the #OSR #OSE version.

Hat tip to @gbsteve, @gonzohistory and @lostpaolo who all worked on it. Recommended.

Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

BTW, mastodon has thoroughly eclipsed Twitter as the meeting place for developers and clear-thinking users. I don't imagine you'll see too many more Twitter links from me.

700,000 lines of #code, 20 years, and one developer: How #DwarfFortress is built - Stack Overflow Blog

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/31/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/

The dwarves could be considered a keystone species in a fantasy world. They build nice habitats, and once they are dead, goblins, dragons and balrogs have a place to live.

#Dungeon23

I hope to post a bit more here on the #TTRPG side of things. I have two projects I'm currently in the middle of, with one I hope to wrap up before the end of the year. I find the journaling #TTRPG space fascinating.

I've started a blog to write longer form pieces about what I'm working on (one post so far about my current projects) at: https://rpgexplorations.wordpress.com/

I did play D&D as a teen years and years ago, the indie games seem so much more interesting and varied to me. I want to play them all.

I’m not crying, you’re crying

RT @G_S_Bhogal@twitter.com

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.

I like to remember this every Jan 27th.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1618928782588669952

@jonn

It evolved from this thread:

https://jebba.moe/@astromecanik@mastodon.online/109769299843361328

Except I did a post instead of a reply, but then just left the post up.

OpenAI's sole licensee is Microsoft, despite it once upon a time being "open". So when you interact with ChatGPT, you're giving data (money) to Microsoft.

A Mastodon app has ChatGPT built in. This seems like a really bad path for Mastodon (and society in general) to go.

So, lets keep proprietary apps and ChatGPT off Mastodon! :)

Billionaires lost $1.9 trillion in 2022.

Elon Musk lost $115 billion.

Jeff Bezos lost $80 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg lost $78 billion.

None of this has any real consequence on their daily lives.

Hoarding wealth like this is grotesque.

Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees

So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it

Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs

With the Formula 1 season about to kick off, I’m wondering how popular other “formulas” are across the Tootsphere.

What do you watch / follow?

#F1 #Formula1 #Motorsport

Why do #mastodon users retoot their toots?

I'm setting up a new M2 MacBook Pro, and it's been smooth sailing so far... until I tried to run "pip install lxml" and ran into some hairy error messages

The solution was to switch to a virtual environment created using a version of Python installed using Homebrew (I had accidentally been using the /usr/bin/python3 Python 3.9.6 that came with the system) - then everything worked fine

Wrote a quick TIL for the next person who gets stuck on this: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/lxml-m1-mac

Today: some nice goblins, and some foreshadowing of things to come later.

#Dungeon23