Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 48

@alienghic feel better!

hi internet friendos... how's this late-december-day treating you?

@er1n Yeah! Hearing that kind of feedback isn't always easy and I'm thrilled they were so responsive and willing to change things.

More on the system here: http://freeformuniversal.com/

Lots of cool stuff on there!

Some good news; the author wrote back saying they were adopting the term from pulp fiction but they agree and will remove it from future revisions. Yay!

@Kooda Yeah, but a couple of differences, if you're like most: a) you can replace the battery on your laptop b) you turned on that option specifically, and it was an option ;)

HTC and Motorola claim they don't do this https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/17/12/28/203224/htc-motorola-say-they-dont-slow-old-phones-like-apple-does

Source: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/12/20/2033230/apple-confirms-iphone-with-older-batteries-will-take-hits-on-performance

So apparently Apple is slowing down older devices, claiming its to preserve battery life... but smells like planned obsolescence to me. We really ought to be able to replace batteries in phones anyhow.

@LWFlouisa here you go! https://octodon.social/@cwebber/99253729154455809

I was talking about the rulebook of the forementioned game.

Sent them a message on their contact form. Blotted it out on my local copy for now. Still looking forward to giving this a try!

Reading it and so far the design looks super good. Except for one thing... it uses "noble savage" as a an example of a character concept :(

I guess it's free culture so I can edit that out but maybe I can convince the original author to remove it...

Evan Prodromou introduced me to FU RPG (Freeform/Universal) which seems like a great game to play completely impromptu and, aside from the acronymn, seems like it would be great to play with kids. http://perilplanet.com/fu-rpg/

It's also free culture (CC BY) and Pay What You Want. I tossed $10 at it. Looking forward to giving it a try!

@ashfurrow I love that part of this movie.

But I wonder, does it make sense? Would a direct wiring of those nerves directly to some output port (to connect to an input port of some computer of course) might be much more sensible and efficient? Unless there's some danger in connecting yourself directly in that way, and physical access is still safer...

@amz3 That's correct, but not just free software being run by a remote entity ideally.

I think users and communities have the right to filter, and it's indeed an important part of free speech. But if they can't participate in that tooling then that's a bad direction.

The original post in this thread was just a side comment on terminology though ;)

@amz3 Spam filters where users can't run or control the software likewise worry me. But I run my own spam filter on my own email and I think that's fine.