#BookReview They Came to Slay, the Queer Culture of DnD - by Thom James Carter
You may have guessed it, but I bought the book because it's purple, and who could resist a title like that? 💜
For anyone who's played #DnD for a while, like myself, there wasn't much new in the book. A little bit predictable. But a fun one to have in my collection regardless, and inspired me to experiment with characters of other genders in future TTRPG sessions.
Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know what comes next: Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’. gizmodo.com/vimeo-lays-off-mos…
any ideas how to install Heaviocity products with screenreader? I have serial numbers but cant access library files, the portal seems inaccessible at all.
Hello @RogueAmoeba I am trying to use Soundsource latest version and find it difficult to interact with the application entries in the table with VoiceOver. For example, I navigate to the "applications" table, then use up and down arrows to select the entry, then VO+interact with the entry. At this point when I try navigating through different parameters of the entry with VO+left and VO+right, my focus jumps out at some point. I am practically not able to get to effects, etc. (1/2)
"In a single call, #Tesla announced it’s killing the Model S and Model X, has no plans for new mass-market models, and is pivoting entirely to 'transportation as a service.' The company that revolutionized the auto industry is walking away from it, not because it failed, but because #ElonMusk got bored and found new toys." electrek.co/2026/01/29/tesla-c…
Also, I may have put myself in a situation where my Mastodon life and my work life collide in a way I never intended.
This is largely because the reaction to "I spoke to blind people and this is what they said" is being treated like either a revolutionary stroke of genius or a heretical breach of protocol, depending on who I speak to.
If you’re going to FOSDEM, please wear masks. The venue is stuffy and con crud was a thing before the virus that can take away your ability to concentrate enough to make software.
I've been asked a few times in the past week to use #GitHub, and I'd like to be helpful, but I keep seeing Renée Good's face and it would seem disrespectful somehow.
Happy to email a patch, but I'm done with that site.
that now makes me wonder why this ticket was closed without any comment: gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-… If it were possible to do cross-instance forks and PRs then I'd be all-in for #Gitlab.
Problem to solve This task comes after the implementation of ActivityPub for social features, implementing cross-instance search, implementing visualizing cross-instance projects,...
> vetting customers is time consuming and potentially distracting.
GitLab employees are forbidden to discuss politics at work or raise concerns about GitLab's customers.
Even when it's perfectly clear that a customer is evil, they want to "do business with customers with values that are incompatible with our own values".
They "welcome everyone […] to be customers of GitLab" as they "do not currently exclude anyone from being a customer based on moral/value grounds."
I just (re-)discovered the Playdate play.date/ and it looks really cool but also really expensive. Is there way to buy a used one easily in France/Europe?
will you be at fosdem? I have 2 playdates and would possibly be willing to sell one. (It got a display repair at some point but works perfectly again.)
What are the current plans from BlueSky (the company) for interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub? We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fedive...
Have they posted an announcement somewhere? Nothing on the audiogames forum so far. I didn't play but this is definitely something I'd like to mention in the next digest.
@pitermach I tried to recreate my account to start over with the tutorials with all the new changes over the past two years, and the signup app was off line. When I asked on their discord I was told the game was going offline permanently as of march first.
Hey Mozilla, if you want to be the "AI rebel alliance" then you have to do all you can to reject it. The Rebel Alliance wasn't "Ethical Stormtroopers".
talking about cisgender men on fedi (and the internet as a whole)
This is gonna sound like a call out post, and... No, it really isn't. I'm not calling out anyone in particular. I've just seen it one too many times. The straw, the camel's back, yadiyada.
My cis dudes. I love you. I really do. But I'm tired of you going under women's post expressing their grievances about men, to explain how ashamed you are of other men. It's... It's tiring. Like, it's really fucking tiring. Because you don't realize that every time we make such a post there is at least one or two of you. Every time.
We don't care about you being not like the other guys. Yes, sure, are one of the good ones, whatever. Good boy and all that. But when you do this, not only do you not contribute anything to the discussion, you're actually adding to the problem. It's adding emotional labour to the women trying to explain themselves when really you should just stay quiet and listen.
Give a like. Boost the post, even. But you don't need to say anything, not to us. Call out other men in the responses that are probably trying to argue and ending up exactly proving her point. Do better, instead of saying that you already are.
I enjoyed this thoughtful post by a musician that I've followed intermittently for over two decades now. "the future is small" patreon.com/posts/future-is-sm…
One of my key takeaways from IETF123 was that we should specify #XMPP over WebTransport. However, I want to reiterate that, even without QUIC, XMPP can be pretty FAST.
Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know what comes next: Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’. gizmodo.com/vimeo-lays-off-mos…
FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com Have you tried the new ones yet? If so would you say extra precision/volume make them a lot more useful real-world? I'm thinking of picking a couple up for some travel/hotel stays I'll be doing soon ish, but I didn't know about the iOS 26 requirement. My phone is old. Pretty sure it's allowed to install 26, I just didn't want to.
Native Instruments has posted an official statement from CEO Nick Williams, reassuring customers and partners that support for NI products will continue through the restructuring.
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
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this is an incredible analog in more ways than one.
From how it’s mined, to how it was marketed as a wonder material, to how it is used as cheap filler, to how it’s impossible to get rid of safely, to how it’s deeply damaging to people’s health and wellbeing.
It's like we took the worst aspects of environmental harm brought to us by cryptocoins and instead of making fake internet money evaporate, we made people huff it like leaded gas fumes in an enclosed garage.
I predict that in a generation or two, if science as we know it is still being done then, researchers will find a link between AI use and early dementia.
Eloquence “Sandy/Bobby” also talk differently: micro pitch movement, timing, and energy. You can get 80% of the timbre without it, but the last 20% “personhood” often comes from prosody. We will never get that 20%. I'm crushed. This project will always be, "it's missing that last mile."
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