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rivetgeek

@rivetgeek@dice.camp

Gen X but the good kind
Commie fiction first story gamer swine
Elderly rivethead
Senior SQL Server DBA
Tribes in the Dark Lead Designer
(He/Him)

#ttrpg #storygames #CortexPrime #TalesOfXadia #TribesInTheDark #FitD #FateRPG

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cstross, to random
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Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft quite this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

rivetgeek,
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@b4ux1t3 @cstross I'm guessing not someone's random machine, but one they already had some amount of access to. I mean yes that's concerning but they can't do that on a remote machine they can't access in some way.

rivetgeek,
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@cstross @b4ux1t3 At least from people just using Win11 out of the box with no additional protections or precautions. Yes, that's the vast majority of users which is depressing. When I was working in computer hardware we would connect an unpatched, unprotected fresh install of WinXP to the Internet just to see how fast it attracted nastiness. It didn't take long.

lauren, to random
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BREAKING: Court orders Trump to pay nearly $335 million in NY fraud case, plus 3 years restrictions in the state. Note that (as I understand it), he can't simply "not pay" while waiting on appeals, there will need to at least be some sort of (presumably very expensive) bond filed with the state.

rivetgeek,
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@mike @lauren I don't think they have enough to cover all of it. But I am cynical about any of this having any effect at all on him.

rivetgeek, to random
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So I heard a bunch of flopping around upstairs, and when I went to see what was going on I found this

rivetgeek, (edited ) to random
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With the events of the past week, I've started a GoFundMe. Shares are very much appreciated, so that we can try to dig ourselves out of this pretty deep hole we've found ourselves in.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4gqas-hospital-and-car-expenses?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

#GoFundMe #Emergency

nyrath, (edited ) to random
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Tetrahedral spacecraft attitude jet configuration. Invented by Hollister David

https://web.archive.org/web/20120225145607/https://clowder.net/hop/tetships/tetships.html

#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #RCS

rivetgeek,
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@60sRefugee @dashdsrdash @cbehopkins @nyrath This was the rationale for mecha in Jovian Chronicles (exo-armors). The gyros and the limbs were tied to a frame inside the cockpit that the pilot strapped into. Not necessarily completely realistic but it worked well enough for me.

rivetgeek, to random
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My dream VTT would allow uploading PDFs (or images) of sheets and allow defining the fields to be filled in, assigning them to die rolls, etc. Why has nobody done this yet?

#VTT #TTRPG

rivetgeek, to random
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My theme song this morning:

https://youtu.be/8LdLIqkmMB0?si=npfCgFrZ1fQ0Wfpk

rivetgeek, to random
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Anne Landers: "This will pass"
Skinny Puppy: "We're going to do a 40-year anniversary tour."

rivetgeek, to random
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There's more than one kind of immersion in #TTRPGs. While character immersion gets the lion's share of discussion, you can also be immersed in the game mechanics, imagining the fiction, and even the events happening to the table as a whole. None of them are more important than the others.

rivetgeek, to animals
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#GoblinCat #CatsOfMastodon

deinol, to epic
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Working on Legion Imperialis rules for my Ogre minis.

Light Scout Tank
Faction Solar Auxilia
50 points

Vehicle (2)
Support Detachment Size 4
Scout Tank
Move 9”
Sv 5+
CAF +0
Morale 4+
W 1

Weapons
Autocannon Turret
Range 16”
Dice 2
To Hit 5+
AP -1
Light AT

Upgrades
Increase Detachment Size by 2 for 20 points, up to three times.

Special Rules
Augur Array

#Epic #LegionImperialis #Ogre #WarGames #MiniatureGames #HomeBrew

rivetgeek,
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@nyrath @deinol I love the mast/conning tower aesthetic so much.

rivetgeek, to animals
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"Why have you disturbed me, mortal?"

#CatsOfMastodon

rivetgeek, to random
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So yeah watching Rebel Moon and this is totally, "I'll makea Warhammer 40k Star War".

rivetgeek, to random
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Apparently this just happened at my adult childrens' apartment.

rivetgeek, to random
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Does anybody know of a way to upscale images with good results?

Here's the problem: we were recently handed POD versions of PDFs, which we were going to extract the images from. They were embedded at >300 DPI, but were originally 72. We're looking to salvage a small portion of them.

rivetgeek, to random
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In case you have never experienced the perfection that is #Thief, it is now 97 cents:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/thief-the-dark-project/sale

rivetgeek, to random
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I still can't get over the fact that we have a tiny helicopter flying around Mars. I hope I live long enough to see a submarine zipping around underneath Europa's ice.

rivetgeek, to random
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This "All Purpose Flour" is a scam. It does not work as sugar.

futurebird, to random
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I was teaching all day but my husband has been having some crazy adventure. Our friend had his motorcycle stolen, tracked it with an airtag to a sidewalk on one of the bridges in the Bronx where it was not moving. He called my husband to meet him on the bridge and rode on his other bike there. They recovered the cycle and motorcycled away!

Crime averted! (We think it was a joyride or the thieves got spooked about being tracked and ditched the bike. )

Crazy stuff!

rivetgeek,
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@futurebird It's better they found it than the police. I had a motor scooter stolen from outside a club about {mumbles] years ago that the police recovered. They wanted more to get it out of impound than it was worth. They said I could sue in small claims to recover the impound fee. I told them to keep it and signed the pink slip over to the PD.

rivetgeek,
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@futurebird https://tenor.com/brW2W.gif

peteramthor, to random
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One of the best things about
is finding local places that you never even knew existed. Thankfully the worst part, players from the other team harassing you via messages, doesn't seem to be a problem around here anymore.

rivetgeek,
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@peteramthor @Da_Gut Including the unhinged ones that should have stayed put.

Just realized week before last I was in a part of L.A. I don't frequent often and didn't open Ingress once...

rivetgeek,
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@Da_Gut @peteramthor The thing that sucks for Ingress is there are only two modes to play it: totally casual whenever you think about pulling your phone out, and GO HARD by driving around the county aimlessly for like 10 hours a day. There is no inbetween.

rivetgeek, to random
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It's really weird, the Bsky > Mastodon bridge posts only show up in BlueSky in the app. That might be why I never noticed it working, I'm usually on my laptop.

rivetgeek, to random
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Who would have thought that over a decade of staying out late frequenting nightclubs and shows and still being functional at work the next day would have been prep for a career in IT?

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