Elad Hen @eladhen@mastodon.social
I'm a socialist geek, working for a workers' union. I love #SFF, #Linux, #foss, #fixedgear cycling, #roleplaying, making music and art.
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a #FOSS rule of thumb: a simple, elegant program that does X (possibly "straight from your command line") will not support RTL languages correctly.
It's not the developers fault. RTL on computers that are built from a low level for LTR, tends to be a bit of a patchwork thing, far from being elegant or simple, and requires a subtle understanding of problems not obvious if you haven't juggled mixed RTL & LTR texts for years.
I hate shopping for clothing. All I'm looking for is simple ass cargo pants with as many pockets as possible. All I seem to find is fancy pants (huh!) with fake pockets...
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
Crazy Dungeon World session. My PC is on a collision course with another PC in the wake of the death of a third PC. Glemban the brave, a steadfast gnome paladin, and the conscience of the party, has died. He was the best friend of Malor, an outcast elf cleric in a world where elves are violently opposed to religion. My PC, Gur, a young human druid, saw Glemban as sort of a father figure (Gur was orphaned at a young age), and now idolizes him after his death.
#rpg #dungeonWorld
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The patch was fixed by its maintainer (an Arch user...) but #Ubuntu stopped using it. Along came Ubuntu 18.04 and after a while #linuxMint 19 based on it, carrying this regression like a xenomorph in its abdomen (sorry. Getting carried away here).
Now all I'm asking is how many years before a regression that hinders usability and has an easy patch will again be fixed for simple users, for whom hunting after patches in xorg bugzilla isn't accessible?
Xorg being xorg, although the bug is open since 2004 it hasn't been patched. However, #Ubuntu came along and thought that maybe linux should be usable, and implemented the patch that already existed. And all was well between 12.04 to 17.10. In 17.10 the patch made some problems. This coincided with Ubuntu stopping giving a damn about users and moving to GNOME "break user experience and don't look back". So instead of fixing the patch they stopped using it.
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, there was xorg.
Xorg had this bug: instead of switching keyboard layout when the key combination is released, thus allowing the layout switching combination to be used as part of other key combinations, xorg switched layouts upon key press.
This meant that, for example, it your layout switching was done with alt+shift you couldn't use alt+shift+tab to flip backwards between open windows.
This is fun music
A friend of mine is looking to archive a (vile) website that is about to be taken down. She needs it for advocacy for the people the site is against. What program can download as much of the site as possible?
That's most of the craziness we had. It was brilliant. Malor's player has relly made this exchange extra fun, as I feel we are building up this drama and tension together. Why the hell aren't people playing more #roleplaying games? No game beats this!
#rpg #dungeonWorld
10/10
And now Malor attacked: "You had no right to interfere! You are not sent by the gods like us! This plight is more than us and more than anyone's life! I need you for the fulfillment of this quest, but don't imagine that gives you the right to put our quest at risk!"
And Gur said: "I'm not Xindary, I'm not sent by the gods, but I'm sent by life and by the land, and I will protect life, like Glemban".
#rpg #dungeonWorld
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But Gur is not the brains of the group by any stretch of the word, and until Glemban's death he was mostly just this lost child, tagging along. Now he attacked Malor: "You have become A'uda! You have forgotten Glemban and chose A'uda's path! When A'uda appeared before us trying to justify her actions do you remember what Glemban did? He banished her with his magic sword!"
#rpg #dungeonWorld
8/?
Now we had a great Malor vs. Gur fight. Our core party is made of Xindary, a group of "chosen" by a mystic tree called Ma'agmuri, to be its protectors. But Gur isn't Xindary. He's this good for nothing village-fool cattle herder who happened to meet the Xindary on a critical moment, and that became a useful part of the group because of his shapeshifting abilities.
#rpg #dungeonWorld
7/?
So Gur summoned the spirit of Glemban who appeared (played by his original player, who now has a new PC, but returned for a moment to his old role) and immediately healed Rilya, admonishing Malor for falling so low. The monastery people, understandably confused and harrowed, kicked us out.
#rpg #dungeonWorld
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The moment Malor took the knife out Gur attacked him but wasn't able to stop him from stabbing Rilya. Then I remembered something. When Glemban died some of his spirit stayed with us (in dungeon world terms, it's a special dying move by a paladin, giving his comrades the ability to summon him to protect or heal someone just once).
Malor decided, apparently, that it was to dangerous for her to live, as she can be the vessel for Blacktalon. Now, my PC, Gur, finds this kind of logic reprehensible. There's actually an ongoing rival of ours named A'uda who's also trying to defeat Blacktalon, but she keeps doing horrible things saying that the end justifies the means. Gur despises her.
#rpg #dungeonworld
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After more or less securing the monastery we entered the hiding place where the monastery's people were hidden. We met Rilya, told her about Glemban and then Malor embraced her, took out a knife and stabbed her!
#rpgg #dungeonworld
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We are fighting an extradimensional creature named Blacktalon, who is seeking a body in our world to be able to get in. We discovered that a girl named Rilya, whom we once saved, seems to be able to survive such a possession, and is hence coveted by Blacktalon. Anyway, we got news that the monastery where we left Rilya was under attack so we rushed towards there.
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