@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Sandra

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.

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Sandra, to dndnext

I’m looking for monster lists for Journeys through the Radiant Citadel.

Like, for each of the planes in there, here’s a list of appropriate monsters. It’s OK if they’re fan made. It’s not always clear to me exactly which real-world–culture is the basis of which plane (maybe that’s in the book or maybe it’s supposed to be vague), but that’s fine, I think these settings look awesome, but one of the main thing missing to easily expand them are encounter tables, which I could throw together if I knew like “OK, on such-and-such plane there are owlbears and stirges” or something like that.

@dndnext

Sandra, to random Swedish

Är MPF redan förlorade? Det känns som om dom lever i landet tvärtom.

Varför tar dom SDs sida?

Sandra, to random

@onepict kicks as per ushe:

http://onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html

In FOSS, let’s continue to strive for dialectics between:

  1. Being able to just upload any random tarball without needing to be responsible for life, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
  2. Not being mean to each other.

People sending bug reports, patches, even feature wishes are trying to help the project.

We don’t owe them a reply since they’re not paying customers. If our spoons run out we can just file it to /dev/null or archive it in case someone who forks it wants it.

But we do owe them to not be mean or vicious or patronizing or eye-rolling since they’re contributors. Even complainers are contributors.

Sandra, to random

Open core can be worse than proprietary software if it’s the kind of open core that’s basically unusable outside of their proprietary setup since, to a greater extent than other kinds of proprietary software, it’s a trap that extracts free labor from contributors.

That’s not in defense of proprietary software. [Real FOSS is the way to go]; where we all own it together and care for it together like a community garden (except better. I wish I could fork some of the IRL community gardens around here…).

I’ve got the kind of personality that loves to make it right if I see something small & fixable, whether that’s on a wiki or in an app. I’m susceptible to making the kind of “contributions” that open core projects tend to solicit. But from a political, socioeconomics bigger picture I’m gonna try to stay wise about not doing that.

Sandra, to random
Sandra, to random

Darling, stop confusing me with your wishful thinking! It’s a li’l trickier than that. This is the difficultest problem humanity has ever faced. All of our processes—markets, policy, elections, legislation, even day-to-day living—are geared toward exacerbating the problem rather than solving it.

We had the toolbox for it back in the seventies: energy rationing. Let’s get that going again.

https://idiomdrottning.org/wishful

Sandra, to random

I’m grateful to these guys for going through this. Thank you ♥︎

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mexican-bus-drivers-bikes/

Sandra, to random

Of all the stuff that a DM does, the most important one is to be the keeper of the secrets. To know (or have a way to find out) the off-screen canon game state. Like, the characters have a treasure chest that they haven’t opened. It’s your job as DM to know what’s in there.

https://idiomdrottning.org/dm-secret-knowledge

Sandra, to synths

SmplTrek note off timing?

Is there a way to set the default note off timing? (What some other sequencers call Gate Length.) Either as a device-wide setting, or for a project, for a track, for a scene or just for a clip. As it is I can only do it note-by-note.

All notes are half the length I’d want, and I have to go into them manually and crank up each one separately from 50% to 99%. I would love the sequencer if it weren’t for this.

I have a workaround which is to import SMF’s from any other seqencer (such as abc2midi on Linux or Atom 2 on iPad) and that works fine, using the SmplTrek more as an arranger/player than a sequencer, but since the SmplTrek step sequencer is so nice it’d be great to be able to use it directly instead.

(And another workaround is to get good and turn off quantization, that also works.)

Don’t worry, I’m definitively keeping mine (as a drum machine, looper, and global tracks recorder, and as an audio interface) but I’m just a li’l frustrated with this one issue.

I know that I can make notes longer by pressing right arrow or turning the value know; I can make two eight notes followed by a quarter note for example.

But those notes will all be “staccato” since they’ve got a 50% gate length.

That’s not always what I want especially for a midi or organ type track.

Here is an example. One track playing three notes twice, same instrument. Two fourth notes followed by a halfnote (and the halfnote sequenced by using the right arrow while holding the pad).

This is how the track looks

The first three notes are played staccato (e.g. “Note off timing” 50%, a.k.a. gate length as some other synths call it). The last three notes are played more fully, with note off timing manually set to 99% for each of the three notes.

Here is how the track sounds, first the staccato notes followed by the normal notes.

Many other sequencers, to get that staccato sound you’d set grid length to 1/4 but note length to 1/8. But on SmplTrek, it’s one setting, called note length, and setting that to 1/4 as I did here results in notes with a shortened, only 50% duration.

Messing with the envelope release is no good for MIDI tracks.

So far my best workaround is to import SMF files that I’ve made with some other sequencer app and that’s a shame since I’m so much faster and more creative with the SmplTrek’s sequencer, but I just don’t always want that staccato sound.

I don’t wanna make a Facebook account just to post in the SmplTrek group on there. 😰

@synths

Sandra, to random

Sweden wrong-headedly uses a system where the polar opposite busses have the exact same number 🤦🏻‍♀️

https://idiomdrottning.org/bus-trouble

Sandra, to random

One drawback of POSSE is that you’re bolstering the value of the silos. Instagram grows more powerful with your pictures on it and GitHub thrives on your repos.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Sandra, to random

If XHTML is all good and Textile/​RST/​Pandoc is all bad, then YAML is half bad. Like Textile and its ilk, I can’t easily write YAML without tools. But the good thing is that if I am looking at a YAML document, I can more or less understand the gist of what’s there.

https://idiomdrottning.org/yaml

Sandra, to random

A hundred and eighty bugs in one DSA?

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00066.html

What happened?

Sandra, to random

There is this whole “deep work” productivity culture obsession with hating on notifications, and when I do hyperfocus I often turn notifications off. That needs to be easy to do, and I do that all the time.

But there is a level of focus just before that depth, and it’s just as valuable, maybe even more valuable since it’s not as obsessive and not as neglectful of my well-being as a whole, and I can’t get there if I’m in check-check-checking hell.

https://idiomdrottning.org/notifications

Sandra, to random

Not happy with issue trackers that has a ton of required boilerplate just to suggest an issue. Users (“lusers”) who are reporting bugs are helping the project and if it’s easy for them to contribute, more bugs will be found.

Non-mandatory boilerplate prompts (“here’s where you can find the version number”, “here’s where you can find logs”) are great but it should be possible to bypass since it’s stuff that’s not always relevant, like a user finding a bug can’t submit the admin’s logs for example.

I’ve said it before but probably the biggest culture shock when working in the corporate world was that they pay for testers and UI designers while when users give such suggestions for free in the FOSS world, they get kicked in the head.

The flipside to that is when the users are coming across as entitled, that’s not right either. Users, you’re not a paying customer or employee.

Sandra, to random

I don't want mandatory darkmode because I just can't see it very well especially when I'm tired. I can but only if I squint and like super focus, or zoom in. Here is a comparison image (above and below) but to me they're the same picture.

This is for LCD screens. On CRT it's the other way around and there I did use darkmode all the time. I dunno why.

Sandra, to random

We see something messed up and we fix it and we realize that others could benefit from the fix so we share it.

https://idiomdrottning.org/foss-maintenance

Sandra, to random

ADHD Productivity Fundamentals:

Remember why you are pursuing this.

Good rule when tweaking your system (or when considering whether to even tweaking your system; sometimes don’t mess with a good thing).

https://0xff.nu/adhd-productivity-fundamentals

Sandra, to random

Thanks JBanana for finding this:

https://www.window-swap.com

Sandra, to random

It’s a curious accident of human nature that strawdoll tactics are so popular rhetorically since they are really, really bad for convincing people. They’re good at preaching to the choir and riling up the base, which is what contributes to their popularity; “manufacturing outrage”, but when people see through the strawdoll claims, that can undermine the credibility of your entire case and send them running right into the waiting arms of the other side, and when that other side truly is so much worse than yours, that’s a disaster.

People on the fence are especially vulnerable to this. They’ve seen some of the other side’s argument and now they come to hear you out. They see you saying things about the other side that doesn’t mesh with what they’ve heard, with how the other side has originally presented itself, and they conclude that you’re exaggerating or even lying, especially if that other side isn’t presenting itself that honestly.

https://idiomdrottning.org/strawdoll

Sandra, to random

I disagree with many of these “things that don’t work” but number 12 is spot on:

Explaining board games. Here’s how people usually seem to teach board games:

  1. Someone spends 5-30 agonizing minutes explaining how the game works.
  2. No one understands anything.
  3. The game starts.
  4. As each game mechanic arises, people ask, “Hold on, how does it work?”
    You can skip to step 3.

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/things

(Also get off substack!)

Sandra, to random

I’ve got a lot of posts making fun of “dark matter” but that doesn’t make this new model any less terrifying:

our findings indicate that this expansion is due to the weakening forces of nature

God gets tired?!

https://www.earth.com/news/dark-matter-does-not-exist-universe-27-billion-years-old-study/

Sandra, to random

@PaulCzege I must interview you!

Here are the four questions:

  1. Who was the best actor to play Moriarty?
  2. Who was the best actor to play John Watson?
  3. Who was the best actor to play Dracula?
  4. Who was the best actor to play a robot or computer?

OK questions over please answer truthfully

Sandra, to random

Grognards: “D&D lost its wild creative spirit once it started being inspired by fantasy inspired by it, like a snake eating its own tail. It was better when it was inspired by the pulps and not just Tolkienesque EDO.”
The D&D millenials & zoomers: “OK, here’s some wild fauns & furries & blue tieflings & dragonborn monks & water-spirit frog people.”
Grognards: “No not like that.”

Sandra, to random

Growth sounds great. It’s what plants crave.

“Growth” that’s based on pretending that existing limits don’t exist isn’t “life”. It’s reckless and deadly.

In grade school, a lot of the econ lessons were about not getting stuck in borrowing loops and to be careful with credit cards and “buy-now-pay-later” schemes and to only use loans for carefully considered investments. Don’t waste what you don’t have, is the takeaway there.

The under-accounted–for costs of fossil fuel leads to destructive behavior. We think it costs $4 per gallon but when the piper comes it’s gonna be our skies, our waters and our selves.

https://idiomdrottning.org/degrowth-isnt-death

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