Notices by notklaatu (klaatu@mastodon.xyz), page 29

ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation! Yes! At last! Finally!

Let your social networks be free! https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6785 https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

New episode of GNU World Order has been released. Hear me ramble on about Podwrite, my podcasting feed generator, static site generator, and publishing system.

http://gnuworldorder.info

http://slackermedia.info/podwrite

@deoh Check out the 1980's narrative card game "Dark Cults" by Kenneth Rahman.

Designed as a 2 player game, one player plays Life, and the other Death, each controlling what happens to the main character.

There's also a solo variant.

It's well out of print, but I am working on an unofficial revival:
https://gitlab.com/notklaatu/darkoccult

@lostnbronx
https://gitlab.com/podwrite/podwrite/raw/master/mkenc.sh

It's 2 days old; expect improvements/changes, but basically:

$ mkenc.sh --help

# gen ogg,opus,speex,m4a from foo.flac:
$ mkenc.sh foo.flac

# gen only ogg (or opus, etc):
$ mkenc.sh --ogg-only foo.flac

#gen all but aac (or opus, etc):
$ mkenc.sh --no-aac foo.flac

There some options here and there (bitrate, etc). I also force a mixdown to mono, hardcoded, because podcasts in stereo are dumb.

Requires:
sox, fdk_aac (or other), opusenc, speexenc, oggenc

@lostnbronx Are you kidding me?

speexenc was a HORRIBLE command.

speex sounds terrible at the same file size as opus.

I'm glad to be rid of it. Maybe it's great in telephony (maybe not; I don't know) but it has no place in my heart or my feed.

Sorry, didn't mean to lash out, but basically I feel stupid for having held out for so long.

I want 2018 to be the year that Apple stops including empty _MACOSX directories in every zip file their users create.

I swear I've deleted over a thousand of them in the past decade.

Alternately, Mac users could switch to Linux this year and learn tar+gzip. But hey, whatever works.

Wouldn't it be neat if someone hunted down all the #creativecommons and open #RPG lore, and talked about it on a #podcast?

You could hear about a bunch of lore, then use it in your #tabletop game design or fiction writing or #art.

A patchwork, #opensource Forgotten Realms.

Introducing....

http://mixedsignals.ml/cnc/

I've got 27 recorded for weekly release but if you know of good CC or open (no Product Identity) content I can review, tell me about it. If you want to contribute an ep, contact me.