Posts by ludovic@chabant.social
(DIR) Post #A5spdcoqBe1KhLYJUG by ludovic@chabant.social
2021-04-03T22:37:02Z
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Cell A is currently investigating if these new techniques also work on “real” memories. Tying loose ends with only 15% to 25% of lethal solutions would be greatly beneficial to the organization #DeltaGreen #ttrpg https://gizmodo.com/scientists-implant-and-then-reverse-false-memories-in-p-1846577461
(DIR) Post #AEscGJKBDpmfJz8oqm by ludovic@chabant.social
2021-12-29T00:55:01Z
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@kev check under “services” in Reeder’s settings and pick any of those for your backend. I’ve used Feedbin and Feedly happily before. I use Inoreader now.
(DIR) Post #AV2t9PRo5AWmBIRroe by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-25T21:09:12Z
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Haha people on Mastodon are already talking about defederating the biggest server because, I don’t know, “reasons”. These FOSS people are funny when they sabotage themselves like this.
(DIR) Post #AV34SYYxVyxLRx7tke by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-26T15:38:03Z
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@ignaloidas IMHO it has to do with the project's goals. To me, the goal is the fediverse (or something like it) becoming the major protocol for microblogging/public social networking. This will require big corps like MS/FB/etc to eventually adopt it and make big, giant instances. Otherwise, it's like trying to make email ubiquitous without Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail. If the only way to deal with a bad actor is to defederate their instance, then ActivityPub has failed.
(DIR) Post #AV34Se3z43kCVcgFIu by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-26T15:40:14Z
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@ignaloidas And this goes a bit further: it looks to me like a lot of people around here do NOT want big instances by the big corps, and generally don't want big instances at all. This feels like a form of gatekeeping to me. These people don't want the Fediverse to grow, they want to keep it as fringe culture. And this in terms ties into how the Fediverse doesn't know what it is, between "themed" forums or open social network. There's a disconnect.
(DIR) Post #AV34ShhnWUNFnyKaHI by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-26T15:45:42Z
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@ignaloidas Last point: I don't think moderation issues depend on an instance's size. They depend on the governance of the instance. We have seen medium sized instances go down with a lot more drama because in practice they are moderated by a single random person you know only from their nickname, and who does this on their free time. I've seen early 2000s forums with better admin teams than most Mastodon instances.
(DIR) Post #AV38rfo07jHSy7OVaS by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-26T16:23:34Z
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@ignaloidas Yep so that's it: how big can the fediverse get on <100 user instances? How much federation workload does that take, and can the network and servers handle it? What does that mean for onboarding newbies and non-tech savvy people? How fragmented does information become? How far (or not) does information go?There are a LOT of difficult questions that rise from wanting to keep instances small for... no good reason imho.
(DIR) Post #AV39LLE9CJtfpklr9s by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-26T16:30:21Z
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@ignaloidas btw, completely unrelated: how is Misskey/Foundkey compared to Mastodon? A cursory search seems to indicate it supposedly has "better features" for small instances. What does that mean in practice?
(DIR) Post #AV39YZlqR856hiqLWi by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-26T16:18:48Z
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@ignaloidas In Canada we've got 3 main ISPs. If they offered a Fediverse account in addition to email, that would mean instances with at the very least a million people. And we're complaining about mastodon.social, which is currently at 200k people?
(DIR) Post #AV39YbWfuV8S9FlG9w by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-04-26T16:20:29Z
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@ignaloidas And I might have missed something but I haven't seen mastodon.social as "a source of bad actors". Could it have bad actors in the future? For sure! It probably has some right now! But this isn't like email spam. You don't block Gmail because some bad people are sending email from it. There ARE neo-nazi podcasts using Gmail for their emails. It's not the same. You just block them and their content.
(DIR) Post #AWUIlENbMJWwTzgy2q by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-06-08T16:15:40Z
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I have no interest in owning a VR headset, including the VisionPro, but Apple’s approach here is so much better than the rest (apart from a couple of nightmare-fuel features). I can’t wait to see these used in arcade rooms, because it solves a LOT of game-design problems.
(DIR) Post #AWUVpxTEx7cktNuirg by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-06-08T18:50:37Z
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@ignaloidas the mixed reality concept at the heart of it makes it possible to do stuff in your living room without a large empty space. Plus: natural locomotion and better props and environments — think “laser tag but with zombies and dinosaurs”. It’s extremely hard and limited to do in classic VR headsets
(DIR) Post #AWVUA2GqoGisoyWalE by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-06-09T05:56:32Z
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@ignaloidas but that's my point -- right now VR arcades need either flat floors (I played one a couple months ago), or simple real props synchronized with in game props.With Apple going much more seriously into eye tracking and outward cameras, it's suddenly a lot more viable to simply have a real environment and real props, and you interact with virtual actors and monsters. And that's a lot more compelling to me. Laser-tag venues might even be able to become mixed-reality arcades
(DIR) Post #AZGkOKmPrgJpKVyMK0 by ludovic@chabant.social
2023-08-30T17:13:36Z
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Good morning!
(DIR) Post #AihP93LYDykDCOnG08 by ludovic@chabant.social
2024-06-07T20:04:16Z
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“The over-excited player” 😅 #ttrpg
(DIR) Post #AjgZMNPhFJd6LFsI0O by ludovic@chabant.social
2024-07-06T17:24:17Z
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Waking up the Minotaur is frankly not the worst thing that could happen this year in the world. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-4000-year-old-palace-with-maze-like-walls-found-on-greek-island-of-crete
(DIR) Post #Ako4xql6bfV5BVif1k by ludovic@chabant.social
2024-08-09T23:27:47Z
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Prep for my Friday group’s next interlude game: Mothership! After that, we try Spire! Sadly, the good fluffy boy is uninterested in helping #TTRPG
(DIR) Post #An6aAPHphQX19o4YWO by ludovic@chabant.social
2024-10-17T16:07:28Z
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I backed the Ars Magic Definitive Edition crowdfunding, but the thing that gave me pause was the marketing around a “massive” and “expanded” rulebook. I don’t want massive #TTRPG rulebooks! Why is everybody making rulebooks bigger with every edition? Can’t we go back to <256 pages? https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/atlas-games/ars-magica-5th-edition-definitive
(DIR) Post #B2Ljn8tJXesedN1iz2 by ludovic@chabant.social
2026-01-16T17:33:52Z
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Humanity has conquered the oceans, space, and particles, but what have we managed to come up with to store our used-but-not-dirty-yet clothes at home? A chair. That’s the best we could do. We put clothes on a chair.xr:d:DAF2pcQcUFE:1557,j:246989972093316983,t:24020702
(DIR) Post #B2Nn29sQqb7qDJNyqW by ludovic@chabant.social
2026-01-17T17:22:10Z
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@benis_redux We had one for a couple years a long time ago and it was pretty cheap so it basically broke down after a few months :DPlus, the advantage of "The Chair" is that when you have extra guests, you can use them! And don't require extra storage the rest of the time!