Futurology Today

It has an excellent web layout/app (Interstellar) and has Mastodon baked in along with Lemmy. It's a very elegant catch all piece of fediverse software.

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Seems like there's a butt-load of GM-guidance material out there. In particular things like the Lazy GM's Guide. But it's harder to find good, accessible and reasonably comprehensive guide for building good players and player arcs.

I'm a new GM, and have a few new players who having fun, but are not feeling feeling like they know how to develop their character well. Any useful material I can give them would be appreciated.

We're currently playing a game that's mechanically a bit more like PbtA (not crunchy), but advice for any game/system is welcome.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33855043

We ate wild scallops and it was so tasty that I ordered a second order.

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/TardisLoopis on 2025-08-05 12:24:06+00:00.

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The new premises [where China wants to build its new embassy] , opposite the Tower of London, is already being patrolled by Chinese security guards. The building is ringed with CCTV cameras too.

"I've never been this close," admits Carmen Lau.

Carmen, who is 30, fled Hong Kong in 2021 as pro-democracy activists in the territory were being arrested.

She argues that the UK should not allow China's "authoritarian regime" to have its new embassy in such a symbolic location. One of her fears is that China, with such a huge embassy, could harass political opponents and could even hold them in the building.

There are also worries, among some dissidents, that its location - very near London's financial district - could be an espionage risk. Then there is the opposition from residents who say it would pose a security risk to them.

The plans had previously been rejected by the local council, but the decision now lies with the government - and senior ministers have signalled they are in favour if minor adjustments are made to the plan.

The site is sprawling, at 20,000 square metres, and if it goes ahead it would mark the biggest embassy in Europe. But would it also really bring the dangers that its opponents fear?

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In 2022, a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was dragged into the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester and beaten. British police nearby stepped over the boundary to rescue him.

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"You know the tactics of the regime," she says. "They were following you, trying to harass you. My friends and my colleagues were being arrested."

Carmen fled to London but believes that she has continued to be targeted.

Hong Kong issued two arrest warrants for her alleging "incitement to secession and collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security".

The bounty letter sent from Hong Kong to half a dozen of her neighbours followed.

"The regime just [tries] to eliminate any possible activists overseas," she says.

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There is another fear, held by some opponents, that the Royal Mint Court site could allow China to infiltrate the UK's financial system by tapping into fibre optic cables carrying sensitive data for firms in the City of London.

The site once housed Barclays Bank's trading floor, so it was wired directly into the UK's financial infrastructure. Nearby, a tunnel has, since 1985, carried fibre optic cables under the Thames serving hundreds of City firms.

And in the grounds of the Court, is a five-storey brick building - the Wapping Telephone Exchange that serves the City of London.

According to Prof Periklis Petropoulos, an optoelectronics researcher at Southampton University, direct access to a working telephone exchange could allow people to glean information.

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What the neighbours think

At the back of the Royal Mint Court is a row of 1980s-built flats. Mark Nygate has lived here for more than 20 years. He gestures across his low garden wall. "Embassy staff will live there and overlook us," he says.

"We don't want [the embassy] there because of demonstrations, because of the security risks, because of our privacy."

Opponents of the embassy - Hong Kongers, Tibetans, Uighurs, and opposition politicians - have already staged protests involving up to 6,000 people.

Mostly, though, he fears an attack on the embassy - that could harm him and his neighbours.

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My employer sent me to Germany, where he subsidizes 50% of my public transportation costs, the so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket.

However, my employer only signed a deal wit the local transportation authority for digital tickets, the kind of ticket you'd store on a digital wallet like fosswallet.

Except that the local transportation authority doesn't offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet. I have no idea what an apple user would have to do, as they won't offer pkpass files to no one.

Google is a company I don't trust, but so far every German I've talked to about this doesn't seem to value privacy ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm looking for a workable, practical solution because as much as I'd like to show google the finger it seems that's simply not an option here.

Some suggested to get a second android device to use exclusively for this Deutschland-Job-Ticket, but that seems overkill.

I also contacted my employer to ask if they'd allow me have a physical transportation card and still receive their subsidy.

And yet another option would be to buy a pixel, install GrapheneOS, download googlewallet and sandbox it, but I'm not sure I want to spend 700 Euros to make google even richer. Has any of you ever done this? does it work?

The other end of the equation is, how much information google grabs about me in the EU because if I go GrapheneOS, I still need to give google my data. I've never had a google account:

Do I need to give them my real name? A telephone number? my real address? An Email address? my social security number? passport? Will they send me unwanted ads and spam me if I create an account with them?

All this because my employer or the transportation authority won't work with pkpass files...

For more information, you may read my history.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34152716

Don't shoot your eye out kid!

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I have a Pixel 9 Pro XL, on Android 16 (beta 3).

When attaching to USB in my car, the Android Auto feature won't play my music, the vast majority of the time. I use Power Amp and music is fine over Bluetooth.

It's not the wire. Also, my GF's iPhone works fine.

So, definitely an OS/software glitch. I make sure that Total Adblock is turned off and restart my phone before attaching to USB.

The music may actually work about 2/10 times. However, I can't determine the exact situation during the moments it works.

Any ideas? TIA.

If you were designing a standard library of a high level language (like Rust, C++, etc.) what would it do if while getting the current time of day (e.g. SystemTime::now()) it encountered a failed kernel system call (e.g. to clock_gettime) and why?

What do you think the existing implementations do?

• Return error or raise exception
• Return 0
• Return undefined values (like stack garbage)
• Panic/crash/segfault

Firefox: attacchi phishing contro sviluppatori add-on.

Mozilla ha comunicato che sono in corso attacchi di phishing contro gli account degli sviluppatori di add-on per Firefox. Al momento non è chiaro l’obiettivo dei cybercriminali. L’organizzazione non profit ha fornito alcuni consigli per evitare di cadere nella trappola.
Phishing per pubblicare add-on infetti.

@sicurezza #firefox #mozilla

#firefoxaddon #phishing

https://www.punto-informatico.it/firefox-attacchi-phishing-contro-sviluppatori-add-on/

https://xcancel.com/AkilahObviously/status/1951272429642457278#m

he data provider said its weekly survey of thousands of investors in more than 20 countries showed that the pact was a “deal that dampens the mood”, with Trump and the US viewed as “winners” at the expense of the eurozone.

“The result is devastating for the eurozone,” said Manfred Hübner, the managing director of the Sentix economic index. “The current situation and expectations are both declining. The wrinkles of concern in the economy are deepening again.”