big brain take
@cpsdqs wow. Only 2 years here but I feel ya.
big brain take
@cpsdqs yea but no one speaks Latin so it's fine to treat it as proper name :-).
big brain take
@cpsdqs the name is Luna. But no one except for poets and some scientists really uses it.
@deshipu Yeah! I'm so excited but also not sure I want to actually play it now.
Because there go two years of my life, easily.
Reminder: Springer has released a lot of digital textbooks for free in the last few months, and their special offer is ending on July 31st. There is no need to sign up to download the PDF and ePub files.
This lovely page has the full list of available titles: https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/
uspol, gerpol, potentially me being really dumb
@cpsdqs I thought (not a German) they were solidarity protests? Against the US police?
Also, I suspect every country has racism, just maybe showing up in different ways. We (Czechia) have loads, but it's very different from the USA's.
@deshipu I was thinking the same thing yesterday. Of course they all have the right overall shape, but somehow they're getting closer and closer with the details too.
@cpsdqs i.e. how long until the real year of the linux desktop
Great summary of the two dominant RPG dialog approaches ("every word" / "summary").
I grew up on and <3 the former, but this brings up great points on both sides. Especially around exposition and not having to do the old amnesiac/foreigner workaround.
https://www.tripthearkfantastic.com/ark-blog-thursday/whats-in-a-dialogue-choice-anyway/
covid
@cpsdqs haha sorry yea. Wishing you a quick recovery BTW. Stay safe out there!
covid
@cpsdqs yeah I meant: be careful with this because a hospital is the one place you could go to that has the virus for sure.
The advice here (Czechia, not Germany, IMMV) is only go to the hospital if you've got serious respiratory issues, otherwise self-quarantine.
covid
@cpsdqs you should go to a hospital where they're treating the cases. Then you'll know for sure that you're infected.
@honza TBH I feel we've failed the tech-literate people too. I still hadn't seen a conference tool that worked reliably, always and everywhere.
@cpsdqs on the off chance you aren't aware, Tor & EFF built this browser extension that replaces HTTP links with HTTPS on the fly: