cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50271895

Anyone know if and when the organizers will make a printer-friendly running order available for WOA 2026? Has anyone made one that they are willing to share?

The ones I can find are all online or through apps. Laminated paper has proven more reliable on previous occasions... Thanks for your input. Rain or shine!

Anyone know if and when the organizers will make a printer-friendly running order available for WOA 2026? Has anyone made one that they are willing to share?

The ones I can find are all online or through apps. Laminated paper has proven more reliable on previous occasions... Thanks for your input. Rain or shine!

I absolutely love the unconventional and incredibly deeply layered puzzle RPG Blue Prince. Enough people before me have pointed out that the mechanics of Blue Prince lend themselves to the horror genre. I'm not here to repeat that. Instead, I had a specific DLC or spin-off idea today that I wanted to share. The information you are about to gain are part of the game's exposition and an integral part of the game's core mechanic. I thus don't consider them a significant spoiler.

In the entrance hall letter, the protagonist's grand-uncle Herbert S. Sinclair explicitly states:

YOU MAY NOT STAY OVERNIGHT.

This enforces the core rogue-like deck builder looping mechanic of the game. Once you used up your steps for the day, you have to start a new run without any items and with an empty house. I should also note that you never meet any of the mansion's staff, even though you can find all sorts of items and trinkets belonging to them, can find evidence of them communicating, and continuing their work (for example through the 'dinner is served' mechanic).

The labyrinthine ever shifting nature of the mansion paired with its elusive staff reminded me of the endless IKEA SCP. What if there was an item that did allow you to stay the night, unlocking a new gameplay layer?

In the game's logic, progressing across the ranks of the mansion corresponds to the progression of the clock (again, see the 'dinner is served' mechanic). To make this mechanic sufficiently obscure and somewhat challenging to unlock, I was thinking of the following:

• New Activated Item: The sleeping bag. Only spawns after you have reached rank 9. The sleeping bag can be activated only while you are inside a bedroom. When activated, the sleeping bag "refunds" you any number of steps spent since you last entered a bedroom minus 1.
• There may also be some interaction with other rooms, e.g., if you paid The Great Alzara today, maybe you get a dream with another vision.
• On its own, the sleeping bag would be a rare but powerful item. If you play it right, it can give you a significant late game step boost to keep strong runs going. However, here's the twist: When you regain more than 9 steps using the sleeping bag, for every additional step regained this way, there's a certain chance you have a nightmare; e.g., a 10% chance for every step regained beyond 9.
• The Nigthmare would be a whole new layer of the game: All rooms of your current map become twisted, grotesque, and morbid. There's a certain chance that doors are now closed that had been open before and new passage ways may appear. You can't open your map. You can't end the current run except by finding your way out of the mansion with your remaining steps or by being cornered by the servants:
• ...faceless creatures whispering to you "You really should not be here at night, Master Simon!", "Your Grand-Uncle would not approve!", "Haven't you been told that you must NEVER spend the night at Mount Holly Estate?", hunting you through the maze to corner you, leading to a creepy game-over screen and looping back to a new normal run from the Entrance.
• Other regular mechanics do apply, e.g., you can open doors and draft rooms, but drafting happens with a darkroom-like penalty, i.e., blinded selection.
• Copious interactions with existing items, e.g., the Torch to make light, the salt shaker to block of entrances for pursuing servants, the Repellent to push back pursuing servants for a brief while, etc.
• Copious interactions with existing mechanics, e.g., the Security Room to see the servants stalking you, look them in / out of areas, avoid their paths.
• Hide and seek mechanics similar to Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Anyway, these were my five cents. Don't think I had the skills or time to make it into reality. But if someone at Dogubomb or elsewhere feels inspired: Please let me know.

Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

Further reading:

• https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/50368431806484-European-Union-Digital-Services-Act-DSA
• https://cybernews.com/security/eu-age-verification-app-hack/
• https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/19/persona-age-verification-surveillance-allegations/
• https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/23595536875796-Digital-Services-Act-DSA-Information-for-EU-users

I just hit an "are you a bot" captcha screen on mojeek. At first I was shocked that mojeek, beloved search engine of the privacy crowd, would go down that path: Blocking people who use VPN and a minimal-fingerprint browser just because. However, reading the footnote and digging around a little, Mojeek seems to use Altcha, which can be self-hosted without any external calls or data sharing. https://altcha.org/docs/v2/sentinel/features/threat-intelligence/

While I can't say I identify as a threat quite now (to Mojeek, anyway), I can see how adding a little friction for the bots and scrapers out there can be a good thing for the web overall. As long as this doesn't happen on every second search and as long as the data stay where they belong, I'm chill with it. Peace out.

Edit: I now started to regularly receive a full access blocked page instead of a captcha. If anyone at Mojeek reads this: Folks, you can't claim to be "a search engine that does what's right, that values and respects your privacy" and block access because I'm using VPN and a minimal fingerprint browser. It doesn't work like that.

I was recently web searching for the EFF tool that checks how unique your fingerprint is. During that search, I stumbled upon the URL linked below. It was such a weird experience to see all the things that privacy advocates, like people in this community, complain / warn about from the other side of the aisle: How do you prevent people from exerting their right to privacy because you have dollar signs tattooed into your eyeballs. Gave me a spooky feeling I wanted to share. This relates to my previous vent about a hostile web, specifically how it gets harder and harder to use big parts of the web that used to be free and accessible if you are privacy conscious. Companies like Abstract, together with their attention merchant customers, are responsible for that. Of course their services are not perfect but it's a cat and mouse of big corpo vs small users and a handful of non-profits.

A quote from the 2023 movie "The Pope's Exorcist" comes to mind, even though it might be a little fatalistic:

"Ah, the other two percent,” Father Amorth replies solemnly. “That is something that has confounded all of science and all of medicine for a very long time. I call it…evil." (cited via).

Link to the tracking enabling company proudly advertising their services. Take a look at their services in the attached photo and despair.

Hi folks, Context: I've been consistently using Mullvad VPN recently. I now stumpled upon a DNS leak tracker site by curiosity which flagged me for a DNS leak. The same is shown on the Mullvad site, though the DNS server does rotate with the exit server location I chose. Disabling DNS over https in my android settings did not change the leaked server IP. I use the IronFox browser, which has its own DNS over https settings.

Question: The IronFox crowd strongly recommends against changing any setting in order to keep a low entropy fingerprint. By default, it's set to increased protection with Quad9 as preferred provider; defaulting to the system if that doesn't work. The Mullvad site recommends disabling all DNS via https settings in order to always go with their service. Intuitively, that's what I would do, but I'm hesitant about screwing around in IronFox.

What do y'all think? Is there any way that setting introduces entropy and if yes, is that worse than a DNS leak for privacy? Pretty regular threat model of reducing online tracking by attention merchants. Thanks in advance.

I have only used Lemmy on Racoon and via browser so far. Especially on mobile I find the color scheme of the upvote / downvote arrows annoyingly muted. The narrow outline doesn't help either. I usually have to look at the arrow directly and don't really see from the corner of my eye whether I have already voted on a post or comment or not. Do I just have bad eyes? Anyone have the same problem? I'd love if devs could make the outline of voting arrows a bit bigger, introduce non-color state changes, e.g., hollow vs filled arrow, use high-contrast colors, etc.

This is just a vent. Disregard if not interested. Since I started my DeGoogle journey, I

• switched to a more trustworthy VPN that I use more stringently than before;
• deconvoluted personal and work accounts;
• deleted third-party Google logins and set up email / PW logins instead for corporate sites that I do use; I also started using
• NextTube;
• Lemmy;
• Matrix;
• DuckDuckGo, Qwant;
• LibreWolf, IronFox, Mullvad Browser;
• more open source productivity programs, where work admins permit;
• avoid AI use or use locally-hosted or responsibly managed AI where it actually gives me a productivity benefit.

The more I DeGoogle, the more the wonderful rainbow land that should be the internet just starts to feel like a deep dark forest where everything is purposefully designed to exploit the user or wall them off. It's tiring. User name checks out, I guess. Thanks for listening to my rant, please go on with your -hopefully- wonderful days now.

Every day I read something that makes me feel a little more like I'm living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Today it's the fact that Chromium is so dominant that a large number of website developers seem to ditch testing in non-Chromium browsers. This is evidenced by non-Chromium browsers, like Firefox, loading some sites differently, e.g., by pretending to be Chromium, because the website developers wrote sloppy code that only works in Chromium. So I guess, especially with the announced anti-adblock in the next Chromium iteration, the choice is to use a low performance browser that is actively hurting your privacy, or experience friction, knowing that Mozilla can't find and carpet over all the bugs in other people's code. For me, the answer remains Firefox and it's forks. However, for many, I fear this will ingrain Chromium dominance deeper and deeper. Please: how is this market dominance, evidence by soft-forced hot fixes only in non-Chromium browsers, not anti-trust?

Device-level ID but unchecked bots are the digital equivalent of the Amazon wage cage: The fragile human meat sack must be contained to survive an internet landscape optimized for machines.

Dear fairphone team, wouldn't it be awesome if you developed your next fairphone with GrapheneOS in mind, ship with GrapheneOS as standard OS, or at least have that as an option? The privacy-conscious crowd and the eco-friendly tech crowd have so much in common! You enjoy immense trust, which would be a great anchor for eco-friendly people to join the flock of privacy-conscious phone and internet users. On the other hand, it could serve as an anchor for privacy-conscious people to get into the societal and eco-friendly tech market; instead of throwing their money at Google for homebrew-Graphene'd Pixel phones.

Hopeful, tired_fedora

PS: I know there was this whole thing about GrapheneOS and fairphone snapping at each other about update cycles but it's time to move past that and forge a productive collaboration for the common good. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. dances off into a field of tulips

Hi folks, I recently switched to Mullvad Browser and I like it. However, I have a hard time getting used to the minimal extensions included (and hard recommendation not to install any more not to add to the fingerprint). Do y'all really not use any in-browser password manager?

Right now, I run my PWM in a separate window, so I can just copy-paste, but autofill sure is a nice utility.

Thanks for your considerations.

Hi there. I'm looking for advice to improve my online privacy while browing on android. I'm currently using vanilla Firefox, strict enhanced Tracking protection (fix major site errors), HTTPS-only mode, default dns, no technical data collection, delete cookies / cache / page data on quit. As extensions, I use only Decentraleyes and uBlock extensions. However, I heard vague warnings from the privacy community about using vanilla Firefox with self-hardened privacy-conscious settings, because my settings and yours might be sligthtly different, introducing entropy that can be used for fingerprinting. The only browser I recognize by name on F-Droid is LibreLynx Lite, which is barely customizable (e.g., no 'decline cookies' or 'delete cookies on restart' setting without subscribing to pro) and was last updated 7 months ago. People on the web recommend 'Mull for android', but that was last updated in 2024 and is not on F-droid anymore. I am not generally opposed but a little candid about using Brave or DuckDuckGo Browser, as these are built on Chromium and I would prefer to stay within the Firefox ecosystem. I am also naively a fan of 'hiding in the crowd': using a common browser / what looks like a common browser to a web page being more private than using a super niche one.

Any well-supported security-hardened Firefox forks on Android to speak of? Any other recommendations?

Thanks for your thoughts.