Dogmantra

Dogmantra wrote

Reply to rumors by ellynu

yeah? well I met a traveller from an antique land who says that's bullshit

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Dogmantra wrote

I getcha, I'm just in that awkward middle ground where I know enough about tech stuff to understand why it's good but not enough to be satisfied that it's secure. I'm probably bein way too cautious about this and not cautious enough about other stuff tho.

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Dogmantra wrote

so as someone who is more tech savvy than the average person but not as much as an IT professional, I've always been wary of password managers. they remind me of those phone cases that have space to put your cards and cash in: a great way to lose your phone and wallet at the same time.

while I get that this is a specific case and relies on user error while doing stuff I wouldn't do, the conclusion is that there are genuine security flaws in the way google handles/d password management. So how can I, as someone who doesn't have the time or knowledge to verify things like this, be sure that a password manager I'm using is safe? This is a genuine question btw. I know that my current password method is somewhat insecure, but I feel like password management is relying too much on the integrity of someone else's server and code that I can't verify.

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Dogmantra wrote

Reply to game i made up by oolong

I rate it 10/10 because it sounds fun. I rate it 0/10 because I love word games but none of my board game pals like them so I never get to play them :C

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Dogmantra wrote

https://www.copypastecharacter.com/ is a useful character map (I know there's one built into windows but I find this more convenient due to the way it sorts stuff)

https://thealexandrian.net/ is a blog by a guy who's been GMing tabletop RPGs for yonks, and wrote the Infinity RPG among other things. Lots of good resources on GMing there, and it always gets me in the mood to run a game when I read it.

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Dogmantra wrote (edited )

yknow I've only seen one "joke" so far today and it's been relatively benign... on the one hand I'm glad but on the other I'm on edge because I fuckin hate april fools day and I'm just waiting for the deluge of garbage "jokes"

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Dogmantra wrote

The thing about socialism is it's a group of ideas more than a single idea. Unfortunately this leads to a lot of infighting which, as we know, the left is very good at.

On the one hand you have people like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders who push for things like nationalised/free healthcare, public transport. On the other you have a plethora of shades of anarchists who want to dismantle the ideas of nationhood and government entirely. It can be hard to reconcile the fact that these two groups are on the same broad side.

I guess the best way to describe socialism in very broad terms would be the idea that society should be set up as systems that benefit everyone who is part of society, not that people should work to benefit and perpetuate the systems.

I don't have resources, but I would suggest looking into anarchism in Spain - there have been some successful anarchist communities built there that lasted quite some time before being deliberately destroyed.

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Dogmantra wrote

I'm glad you posted this because I first saw it on tumbles this morning on my phone and a) I was tired and b) it was small

both of these things contributed to me not appreciating it to the extent that it deserves. It's a great draw!!! (AS USUAL!!!!!!)

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