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I came across the link via https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/117481600704689796

Last time I touched php it was ~20 years ago and maybe for a month. Could someone with actual php understanding weigh in?

Somehow, somewhere between the lines, my understanding was that there have been observances of the vuln being used in the wild before the 14 UTC. And that wasn't from reading news sites

Case in point

Tabletop Sentinel are cool and have both Mastodon and ![email protected] (this is included at the bottom, so IMO this is official). But this leads to separation of comments.
Same article linked on Mastodon and Lemmy.
Another example: https://dice.camp/@tabletopsentinel/117349283601223970 https://ttrpg.network/post/43513083

Proposal

I don't think that Piefed as software could do something with the situation as it is. But if we could add a Mastodon account into a feed, that feed would be linking to Mastodon posts and comments from Piefed would land on Mastodon too. ![email protected] as a Lemmy community would no longer be needed (sorry @[email protected] I don't mean it against you, I just think that in this case fragmentation of comments does a disservice)

I As a Player Character in Nobunaga's Black Castle, you are already dead. Nobunaga killed you and sent you to Hell. But your heart burned for vengeance, burned so hot that now you are back in this world. You have one overpowering desire: kill Oda Nobunaga!

Nobunaga’s Black Castle is a complete tabletop roleplaying game by Japanese designer Yusuke Tokita. Green Ronin, under license from CONOS, is publishing Nobunaga’s Black Castle in English for the first time.

Hello self-hosters! :) I'd like to tap into your experience

tl;dr: Is it really a bad idea to use MariaDB with data over NFS?

My setup

• RAID NFS NAS on RPi4
• "CPU machine", just an old laptop for now

The idea is that NAS stores the data and RAID mitigates single point of failure. Laptop is only for running the stuff, all docker-compose are under git, uploaded elswhere. Laptop fails - I buy a new refurbished one and put everything back together from data on NAS and git

Problem

But Nextcloud uses DB. ATM it sits on the laptop. And I'm thinking how to somehow move that data to the NAS.

At the beginning NAS was just for NC files, connected as NC "external storage" over SFTP. But there were issues with this setup and NFS4 turned out to not require Kerberos to work.
Since NFS docker volumes have been working quite fine, I thought about just moving the data to the NAS. But then I read this:

Generally, we recommend not to use NFS (Network File System) with MariaDB, for these reasons:

• MariaDB data and log files on NFS volumes can become locked and unavailable for use. Locking issues may occur in cases where multiple instances of MariaDB access the same data directory, or when MariaDB is shut down improperly, for instance, due to a power outage. In particular, sharing a data directory among MariaDB instances is not recommended.

• Data inconsistencies due to messages received out of order or lost network traffic. To avoid this issue, use TCP with hard and intr mount options.

And I feel discouraged

• I could move whole DB (I mean including the process) to the NAS, but then operating the DB becomes NAS' burden and breaks the responsibility separation
  I'm not a fan of this idea
• I could treat NAS as first stage of backup for that DB data and just send the data to NAS once a day
  Also a bit meh. Getting back up from server failure will require copying the data
• Maybe it's not that bad to use MariaDB with NFS?
  If there is a problem with server-NAS connection, I actually don't want Nextcloud to work at all. It should fail, so I know I need to fix something

So, what are your experiences? Is running the DB on one machine, using the data from another machine over NFS a shot in the foot?

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Deadline: 7 September 2026

Head to 1940's New Orlean with the Interview with the Vampire Starter Set and A Scent of Cloves and Lilac adventure.
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/horror/anne-rices-immortal-universe-rpg-gets-a-1940s-new-orleans-starter-set

I guess the setting has the potential to be focused on drama between characters and offer something else than VtM. The points about "Emotional damage" health track and memories look interesting

Does anyone have some more info?

It popped up in my notifications and the premise makes my head spin.

Gumshoe with one player? Wouldn't that need to be a Sherlock Holmes kind of investigator to cover all the needed specialisations?

Gumshoe in sword and sorcery? So instead of "of course you get that clue, the question is how much you get from it" it becomes "of course you hit that goblin, the question is how well"?

And apparently it's not something new.

Has anyone played this? How did it look like?

Bundle of Holding are currently not offering one, not offering two, not even offering three... but offering FOUR bundles of GURPS tabletop roleplaying bundles courtesy of Steve Jackson Games... and that's just the start of the GURPS 4E Week promotion!

Let's see how cross-posting from Mastodon through Piefed looks

Edit: fix the title

First Video (PeerTube): https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K
First Video (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyjumVTWtJA

nlnet announcement: https://nlnet.nl/project/GestureTyping/

wiki article: https://github.com/HeliBorg/HeliBoard/wiki/Background-Gesture-Data-Gathering

mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic

matrix: https://matrix.to/#/@eclexic:matrix.org

codeberg: https://codeberg.org/eclexic

Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster is a stand-alone book for lazy and aspiring lazy gamemasters. You don't need any of the previous books to get tremendous value out of Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster. It stands well side by side with other Lazy GM books, bringing new angles to the concept of lazy gamemastering and new tools to help you prepare and run awesome games.

This book isn't a rewrite of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master. Return focuses on three main lazy GM activities: preparing your game, running your game, and thinking about your game.

Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster breaks down the concepts of lazy gamemastering into the following topics:

• The eight steps of Lazy GM Prep expanded by eight years of experiences and feedback.
• Single session, short, and long campaign prep and execution.
• Adventure types – what works well, where the traps lay, and how to customize the eight steps based on the adventures you're running.
• Quest models – those that work well and those that don't.
• The Lazy GM's Toolkit with sixty tools, tips, and tricks to run your games.
• Example adventure scenarios using the eight steps.
• Piles of random tables and maps to inspire your adventures.

I really liked "the return..." I think that one also might be worth reading

This popped up in my RSS feed and I found it a good read

For some time now I've felt that D&D-like d20 mechanics is cursed to have the problem of inflation. But it was refreshing to see someone else point it out too

As in title. Create post -> link -> paste URL in URL -> nothing happens

I checked after someone else asked, so it's not only me

I was using it just a bit of time before. Now it doesn't open for the whole day

Anyone knows something? Or knows who to ping?

In Admin->Moderation (/admin/reports) I see a bunch of reports. I open one and I see that the object of report has been already deleted. I think in such case the report should be taken down from the list or grayed out - the latter idea so admin team don't loose history
Or maybe the list should be split in two, like registration does?

Also, I would like to be able to mark reports "resolved" - hidden or grayed out just for me, so I know I already decided that report is not for me. For WebUI maybe store the list of "resolved" reports in browsers' store, so it doesn't pump up the db?

Cross-posted from https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2012112/stereoscopic-photo-of-three-children-british-mandate-of-palestine-1935

I've heard the system referenced a few times and it's on sale currently

So I'm wondering what it is exactly. I understand it's d6, low crunch, more or less Planescape
But I'd like to know a bit more. Anyone has played it and has some more verbose take?

I've heard a lot about Burning Wheel that made me interested. But is it only good for playing in the included fantasy setting?

How hard is it to hack/reskin it into some other setting?

NLnet grant announcement: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/issues/2226
NLnet project description: https://nlnet.nl/project/GestureTyping/

Swipe-o-Scope repository: https://codeberg.org/eclexic/swipe-o-scope

CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Article on data anonymization: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn7053

Contact me:
My Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic
My Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/@eclexic:matrix.org

Text based tutorial: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data

It is recommended you install Heliboard through the F-Droid app, unless you know what you are doing!
How to install F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Get_F-Droid/
Heliboard on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/helium314.keyboard/
Heliboard on Github: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases

Gesture typing library links from MindTheGApps:
ARM64: https://gitlab.com/MindTheGapps/vendor_gapps/-/blob/fe250848941171fe339ca9a44bc9a42aefb0be7d/arm64/proprietary/product/lib64/libjni_latinimegoogle.so
ARM: https://gitlab.com/MindTheGapps/vendor_gapps/-/blob/fe250848941171fe339ca9a44bc9a42aefb0be7d/arm/proprietary/product/lib/libjni_latinimegoogle.so
X86_64: https://gitlab.com/MindTheGapps/vendor_gapps/-/blob/fe250848941171fe339ca9a44bc9a42aefb0be7d/x86_64/proprietary/product/lib64/libjni_latinimegoogle.so

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Other ways to contribute:
Providing packaging scripts for Swipe-o-Scope:

• for Windows
• for macOS
• for Flatpak. This is a big task; Swipe-o-Scope uses QT modules that are not currently supported by the KDE SDK (QTGraphs module). Swipe-o-Scope is also written using the PySide6 python library, rather than in C++. To build Swipe-o-Scope for flatpak, you are probably going to have to talk with KDE developers and the PySide6 baseapp maintainer. You will need them to update the SDK and the baseapp to support PyQTGraph. This is all in addition to needing to know a little about building flatpaks.
• for Linux via means other than Flatpak (e.g. the AUR)

Providing input or code if you are knowledgeable about any of the following:

• gesture typing using hand-designed algorithms... (bonus points if you have worked on a paper or product that you could help us make an open implementation of WITHOUT violating anyone's intellectual property)
• gesture typing using neural nets and constrained compute, such as on mobile devices without TPUs... (unfortunately you may not be able to contribute here effectively until we have the data collected, organised, and released at the end of the collection period)
• the JNI in Android... (bonus points if you have a working knowledge of the AOSP Latin IME JNI library)
• natural language processing for next word prediction, specifically comparing the suitability of a set of candidate words against one another... (either by ngrams or any other low-compute method available to a mobile device with no internet connection)
• building a diverse small-to-medium sized multi-lingual corpus of natural language text we could legally use to simulate context... (not stealing copyrighted content in bulk, like certain companies.)
• making desktop apps more user-friendly... (Swipe-o-Scope doesn't currently give user feedback that would be helpful to anyone that doesn't feel comfortable in a terminal)
• being patient while performing thorough code review and audits of rust code... (the gesture recognition library is most likely to be in rust, despite me being more experienced in other languages, as I am making a bet on it still being popular in a decade or three)

Full disclosure: out of concern for copyright issues and code quality, we will not be accepting ANY LLM generated contributions to this project. Neither in the form of code, nor corpus text. Thank you!

If you work on another on-screen keyboard, have the ability to collect data from it, and you want to add to the data set - you can contact me about some more particulars of the file format. Not all requirements of the file format are obvious and should not be assumed!

We are still in early stages, and this project is likely to continue for quite a while. It may continue well past the end date of me getting paid by the NLnet. Don't hesitate to reach out if you think you can help in some other way! We can use all the help we can get; gesture typing is a hard problem with a very high ceiling. Every little improvement matters!

Remember, even sharing this project around will be helpful at the moment. I can't be boosting this all the places I maybe should be; I have to be working on code, and this video took long enough!

I thought it might get some reach when cross-posted here