If I suspect that there is a bug (that involves randomness) in an important package in Debian, the right thing to do is to keep testing and investigating until I can be sure that the bug exists, right?
Even if the investigation involves playing a number of widelands games until I'm really sure, right? :D
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Now the way the Internet Archive is doing mastodon is how more organisations and celebs should be joining the fediverse!
They have a dedicated in house instance, which lets you identify official staff, and gives them control and security over their content, whilst also allowing people and instances to opt in or out of interacting with them
Kudos for doing it right @internetarchive!
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Ok, stanotte mi son sognata di essere su una collina vicino al maggiore, veder cadere un meteorite in un paese di fronte, che ha causato un grosso incendio.
E stamattina leggo varesenews.it/2022/11/visto-un…
“Ho visto un bolide nel cielo sopra al Lago Maggiore mentre andavo al lavoro”
L'avvistamento questa mattina attorno alle 5.30.Lo segnala un lettore di Varesenews mentre viaggiava in direzione NordAndrea Camurani (Vareseweb Srl)
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mug. check.
filter. check
tea leaves. check (these are very important!)
water, hot. check
timer. check.
what can go wrong now?
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Because *reasons*¹, I've been going through my contact list and revoking follow permissions to accounts that haven't posted in a while, or were even no longer existing, and will continue doing so and doing a bit of general pruning in the hope to lighten the server load a bit by avoiding traffic that no human is ever going to see.
If you receive such a notification, but are still using the account (maybe you're only posting for followers only, or you're reading more than you write) and still want to follow me, feel free to follow me again: it wasn't a personal thing.
¹ there may have been a couple of server crashes :D
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Con la #Twittermigration stanno nascendo al volo nuove istanze per giornalisti, medici, accademici ecc. così come nuove guide e strumenti vari per meglio comprendere il Fediverso e farne un'esperienza più piena. Qui alcune delle risorse circolate ultimamente:
PANORAMICA DEL FEDIVERSO
fediverse.party/
fediverse.info/
RICERCA ISTANZE
fediverse.observer/
fediverse.to/
LISTA DI ISTANZE
coxy.co/mastodon/
LISTA DI ACCADEMICI SU MASTODON
github.com/nathanlesage/academ…
LISTA DI UTENTI SUGGERITI
fedi.directory/
WORLD MAP DELLE ISTANZE
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/m…
RITROVA I TUOI CONTATTI TWITTER SU MASTODON
pruvisto.org/debirdify/
twitodon.com/
fedifinder.glitch.me/
VISUALIZZA IL TUO NETWORK FEDERATO
glitch.com/~mastoviz
ESPLORA ISTANZE E HASHTAG
glitch.com/~mastovue
- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
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Se ancora vi sentite un po' spaesati, forse potete guardarvi attorno cominciando da qui mastodon.it/it/istanze-mastodo…
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@Viviana B. :peacelink: e inoltre: una volta fatti i primi passi nel fediverso e visto che vi ci trovate bene, potete prendere in seria considerazione anche l'idea di mettervi d'accordo con un po' di amici e aprire la *vostra* istanza.
Se nel gruppo ci sono un paio di smanettoni basta un vps economico, altrimenti ci sono servizi che si occupano dell'aspetto tecnico e forniscono un mastodon installato; per pochi utenti i prezzi sono ampiamente a portata di colletta (per un target di residenti in italia in cui almeno metà ha stipendio regolare; circostanze diverse ovviamente cambiano le cose).
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Sarebbe da fare un'istanza, con account DI AZIENDE COMMERCIALI che possono postare PUBBLICITÀ (così si coprono le spese), spunte blu a 5€, e poi lasciare che la gente si scanni com'è abituata a fare.
Senza federarsi con loro, che va al di là della loro comprensione.
Ma il fatto che debba essere un anarco-comunista a spiegare alle merdette cerebrolatitanti come far soldi la dice lunga sul collasso del sistema capitalista.
I want to echo what other Mastodon admins are saying: please report any harassment or violative messages you're seeing. Unlike the birdsite, your local admin will likely react quickly -- and you'll make the instance better for everyone, not just yourself.
So... please don't just ignore! Let us know if there's a problem.
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Hee, I saw a post saying "questions about blocking" and I thought the person meant #knitting but actually it was blocking potential trolls...
but yeah, maybe trolls should be pinned out on a foam board and sprayed with water?
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If you're an organisation that wants to participate on the fediverse, you really need to be running your own Mastodon instance.
Most of the Mastodon infrastructure right now is being run by individuals or small groups, for the community.
Trying to put your "official account" on community infrastructure is extremely rude.
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Imagine if instead of visiting, say, Microsoft.com, you visited Microsoft.yahoo.com…
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il messaggio di benvenuto accogliente del comune di Beregazzo con Figliaro
e la seconda e quarta riga erano pure lampeggianti!
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E comunque, ditemi che non penso a voi, dal pomeriggio di oggi lungo la Lomazzo-Bizzarrone, chiesa dei santi Pietro e Paolo a Beregazzo (comune di Beregazzo con Figliaro).
Con anche il bonus dei paesi coi nomi lombardi intrinsecamente divertenti!
Ammirate le rampe per permettere agli angeli di fare cosi con gli skateboard!
Immagino che questa vada per le #chieseBrutte2023 ? comunque #chieseBrutte
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A #CW (Content Warning) does not mean your post will go unseen!
I look behind a lot of CWs--and I unfollow a lot folks who constantly post about news, politics, religion, or other triggering topics that don't use them.
CWs keep our feeds from becoming anxiety-inducing avalanches. They stop doom scrolling.
And they do this without "turning off" or "tuning out" the significant challenges we all face as a society, or the unique challenges marginalized people face.
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A CW in no way relegates your post as some kind of "second class" content. It lets people actively consent to reading whatever you are posting.
If every thing you post seems to need a CW, consider broadening the scope of what you post. Become a human person instead of content aggregator.
Comunque, al prossimo che si lamenta del depopolamento delle città del sud troviamo casa a Usmate Carate¹, lavoro a Lugano² senza flessibilità di orario e una panda blu :D
¹ paese di fantasia da opera di cultura popolare televisiva
² città reale :D
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@CICCILLO eh, ma da Usmate Carate (e dalla zona dell'Olgiatese, che è in generale da dove arriva chi fa Bizzarrone) il treno non passa.
Se veramente trovi lavoro a Lugano a) assicurati che ci si possa arrivare con il treno b) cercati casa (suppongo in Italia?) vicino a una delle stazioni servite dai TiLo.
Ho dato alla causa “passare da Bizzarrone” per un po' di mesi (prima di avere modo di semitrasferirmi in un posto da cui potessi prendere dei mezzi) e nonostante avessi un lavoro da informatico con gli orari sfasati rispetto alla gente normale è stata una sofferenza. la coda è in salita. in entrambe le direzioni!
tecnicamente i controlli di dogana ci sono¹ anche sui treni, e perfino sugli autobus urbani di Como :D
E se sul treno a fare i controlli sale il Verunell col Rex, sei spacciato! :D
¹ ok, diciamo “ci possono essere”. “mi è capitato saltuariamente di vederne”. ma pure in auto se non si è il Bussenghi mica si viene fermati regolarmente :D
#mastoAiuto: che voi sappiate esiste un'istanza italiana dedicata alla scuola o temi correlati? idealmente una che abbia le iscrizioni aperte :)
se non ci fosse, Qualcuno(TM) dovrebbe crearla :)
boost benvenuti, ovviamente
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Iscriversi nell'istanza PIU' GRANDE, oltre ad essere poco ecologico e profondamente sbagliato, puo' riprodurre le stesse dinamiche di potere dei social commerciali.
Questa è un'istanza locale bolognese legata all' @hacklabbo
Se non siete di Bologna o siete interessati a qualcosa di specifico vi consigliamo altre bellissime istanze legate ad hacklab, gruppi di attivist*, realtà antifasciste e vicine
Milano nebbia.fail
Torino mastodon.cisti.org
Roma puntarella.party
Stereodon stereodon.social
SocialeNetwork sociale.network
Livello Segreto livellosegreto.it
Vi ricordiamo che Bida promuove e partecipa al progetto
autogestione.social
e supporta @idefix (spostandovi avrete la stessa esperienza utente di bida)
Generate kaos! 
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Non siamo chiedendo di cancellare i contenuti, siamo anche archivist* come sai
Però vogliamo dare altri spunti su cui ragionare.
Concentrare utenti su un unica istanza ha degli impatti negativi, su molti aspetti.
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After a bit of a hiatus spent on calligraphy I'm back to the corset top based on the shape of 18th century #stays and I'm at the stage when I have to set in 14 metal eyelets per side on the back, plus a still indefinite amount on the front.
I'm really happy I bought the big box of 500 grommets a few years ago :D
(I'm trying not to think about the similar amount of hand sewed eyelets I will have to make for the real thing :D )
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What you get out of your experience at 
depends on what you put into it.
We don't do brands here - we do people. You may have become used to presenting yourself as a public figure, pushing content to the algorithm, but we're free from that machine here.
Peek at the local timeline and engage with posts.
Engage with the people who fave, boost, and comment on your work.
Make an effort to learn and use the established community practices like hashtags and alt text.
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Hi!
Yes, all instances are entirely separate and need their own account creations :)
But no - you don't have to quit Mathstodon. If you want to post to the .art local feed you'll need to be logged in to mastodon.art, and if you want to post to the Mathstodon local feed you'll need to be logged in there -and apps like Tusky allow you to switch easily between different accounts - but a lot of people use Mastodon like that ^.^
Can anyone help me identify what cursive script this is (since apparently there are multiple). This is what I was taught in first grade, and I'm probably the only person in our class who still uses this system (most people seem to use print letters).
I never actually learned to write any other way, and to this day I can't write in anything but this script without a lot of effort.
Boosts appreciated!
(Also, sorry for the weird Qs, I don't write in English often, and Hungarian doesn't use it.)
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@Delib @gröna mannen the capitals look a bit different en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pal…
Maybe this page can help? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional…
Puns are like BDSM
You inflict them on others
For your own pleasure
And theirs
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We have a lot of really big, professional artists signing up on .art over the last few days, and it can be daunting posting your art here in the face of their work.
I want you to know that I'll still emphasise boosting art from small artists. This is a space for us to learn and grow and support each other, to motivate each other and to squash our impostor syndrome because it's a stinky lying liarpants.
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Oh wow, ok. There are things to say about Twitter's external actions, but I've been assuming the insides were running like a normal decade-and-a-half-old resource-rich company.
Thanks for the correction, @jay 🌺 and @silverwizard .
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Fairly famous hacker, former twitter head of security
Basically released data about Twitter's security including "everyone has root everywhere"
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@Martijn Vos @Aus.Social Admin @dexiheart is anti-cop it could in theory be done with a client, as that could store your keys on your own device (and you could in theory check that the client isn't doing anything harmful with those keys), but then only people who use mastodon through a compatible client could read those.
Or more easily one can use the DM/PMs on mastodon to exchange contact IDs for some system that is designed for private communications rather than mostly public ones and already provides cryptography (and a client/app to do in on the user's side).
Correct me if I'm wrong in my layperson's understanding, but isn't the issue with the privacy of ActivityPub messages fairly analogous to the privacy of unencrypted email? That is, in the process of routing a message to its intended destination, every server along its path will download a copy?
I'm not asking to imply "and therefore we shouldn't strive for more," I'm just wondering if the issues are analogous.
@Spencer @Aus.Social Admin It's slightly better than the privacy of unencrypted email, because unencrypted email is sent over the internet unencrypted, whereas ActivityPub messages at least use https.
Personally I think email should be upgraded to a system where every message is encrypted by default. Of course that would require knowing the recipient's public key, which would require a system to distribute those to everybody who has you as a contact, and before you know it, it has turned into a social network. But I think this is the way email has to go.
seeing this thing spread again
yes, server admins with database access, the technical knowledge, and inclination to do so can look at DMs sent to and from people on the instances they host. they don't appear in an interface anywhere unless reported.
the server admin is not always the same person as your instance admin. here on plural.cafe we self host the instance on a virtual server from linode, but there are plenty of instances out there hosted by masto.host, fedi.monster, or other hosting providers.
the cops can subpoena your server admin for access to your DMs as well, don't send anything that could be used as evidence against you in a court of law.
this is a stronger guarantee than you get from corporate social media, which readily and regularly talk to the cops and as far as i'm aware all expose DMs to moderators in their admin interface.
this is a weaker guarantee than end-to-end encrypted messaging (or at least, most of them).
know your threat model.
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Tutta la discussione su Halloween mi ha fatto venire in mente che non c'è nulla di male a ibridare le tradizioni, quello che cambia però è il modo.
Gli egizi ibridarono le loro con o greci, i romani con i galli, i cristiani coi pagani, i giapponesi coi cinesi. Il problema è quando il processo è esclusivamente innescato dal mercato e dal capitalismo, per espandere ulteriormente un brand e di conseguenza il bacino di potenziali consumatori. Ecco perché non amo halloween
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I'm seeing a lot of proclamations that there should be no exceptions to describing your images or that there's no reason to interact with any that aren't described.
I know these mean well, but they are themselves ableist.
Disabled people know that access needs can clash. I benefit from described images, but I know some people struggle to write them because of their own disabilities.
And that's okay! The culture of image descriptions is great here but it should never be absolutist.
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Seeing people unabashedly sharing the chaos of their workspaces (which is awesome!!) in the 'show us your workspace' thread, reminds me that on other networks it's kind of established that people only share finished products and present the polished side of themselves.
We don't do that here. There's no focus on brand - our community is more interested in people. We share our mistakes and our works in progress and our failures as well as our wins, because they're part of who we are.
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I've done the first two pages of the #calligraphy (sort of) project I've started yesterday: the estimate is around 10 pages, a bit more than I expected, but still doable, so I will go on until the end, rather than stopping at the first page and calling it done.
Peek preview of the first page:
If you recognise what this is and want to comment please use the spoiler CW, so that other people can hazard a guess.
I expect bigger hints to appear on page 3 (should I say folio 2 r? :D ), but that hasn't been copied yet. (and this was also one reason why I decided not to stop at the first page: I wanted that hint and another later one to be there :) ).
I will post a link to the text I'm copying when the project is done (don't hold your breath, I'm slow, maybe a page per day?).
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And the people who guessed guessed mostly right: it's this #fanfic : archiveofourown.org/works/4243… (chapter 2 is the translation + notes).
I can't find the post here on the fediverse where I found about this pic, but thanks to whoever posted it!
Done!
The following 7 images are pictures of the pages of a manuscript booklet with the text of archiveofourown.org/works/4243… written in insular script. While the pictures in the previous posts of this thread were of the flat sheets, here they have been folded in half and assembled in the right order (but aren't sewed together or anything).
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Dear #TwitterMigration folks, an important tip on #privacy on the fediverse:
There is none.
This is a public medium; please treat it as such. Just as you have no privacy on Twitter (Elon Musk can read all your DMs), you have no privacy on the instance you’re on (your administrators can read all your posts).
You can set the visibility of a post but that’s a viewing suggestion, not a privacy guarantee.
Think of your posts as postcards, not sealed letters, and you should be fine.
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Filed under: I've read a paleography book once, so I can read a manuscript, right?
Oh, great, en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beowulf… has folio numbers, so I can look for the folio with the word I want to read on bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?… and it's going to be easy, right?
* is not able to find anything remotely resembling that text on the page.
Wait, what's that number in pencil on the upper right corner? and why there are two, one of which has been struck?
spoiler: the right page was bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?…
@informapirata :privacypride: beh, perché no? è un argomento interessante ed è carino averne un'infarinatura generale.
Un giorno sull'internet qualcuno consigliava un manuale universitario sull'argomento dicendo che era leggibile anche per profani, l'ho preso e me lo sono letto.
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@❄️ freezr ❄️ @informapirata :privacypride: ma NOOOOOOOOOO, crudeli!
(cioé, l'unica obiezione valida poteva essere “lo si trova online”, ma non è la stessa cosa. a meno che gli anta fossero qualche anno fa, quando era magari più difficile).
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And of course, the links to the manuscript were supposed to be bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?… and bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?…
(in case I ever have to go back and look for them :D )
If you’re just joining mastodon I beg you please add a proper bio before you start following a bunch of people so we get who you are and maybe also write a post to #introductions ?
#noxp
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Filed under: #CraftingPersonProblems: my mother needed a #pompon (just one!) to finish one of her #knitting projects and I just made it.
And now I want to make ALL THE POMPONS, but I don't have any use for them (and I already have a box full of pompons from the last time :D )
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Nella categoria sopproblemi: mia madre aveva bisogno di un #pompon (solo uno!) per finire un progetto a maglia, gliel'ho fatto.
E adesso sento il bisogno di FARE POMPON! FARE POMPON! ma non me ne farei niente (e ho già una scatola piena di pompon dall'ultima volta :D ).
@Pandora ho un problema: non ho i buchi :D
però ho una confezione di monachelle omaggio da un ordine di componenti per bigiotteria, potrei farne due o tre coppie e offrirle in mastoregalo…
(quanto piccoli devono essere? che piccoli piccoli non è facile)
archiveofourown.org/works/4243…
so. wē spacemen in geārdagum - Chapter 1 - indigostohelit - Star Trek: The Original Series [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Worksarchiveofourown.org
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“if your primary reaction to a fanfiction in Old English is "why the sweet hell would you do this" a) you are right but”
why would one ever react like that? this is awesome!
Thank you all for this thread, it's very interesting!
A good metaphor, to me, is that nets, social or otherwise, can work to hold up and cushion, and they can be used to trap and entangle. And that being two people caught in the same net can require forceful separation or conscious collaboration to untangle.
Today's crazy project: homemade non-washi non-tape.
Because the washi tape I have easy access to right now has meh designs, and I don't really need to buy MOAR things, right?
Anyway, one A6 (landscape) sheet of tracing paper has been lined horizontally at every 15 mm, and I've added designs in cheap watercolour (if this thing works I may use the good or semi-good ones, but for the first attempt cheap will do) and waterproof ink .
In the fridge there is a jar with 0.5 g sugar, 1 g gum arabic, 15 ml water and 1 drop of lavender oil (as preservative); it will rest until tomorrow and then will go to the back of the sheet. (this is, or at least should be, water-activated glue, not washi tape glue)
And then I'll find out whether this thing can work or not.
There will be pictures, if it works.
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Il progetto assurdo di oggi: non-nastro non-washi fatto in casa.
Perché il nastro washi che riesco a trovare facilmente ha dei disegno un po' meh, e non ho veramente bisogno di comprare MOAR cose, vero?
Un foglio A6 di carta da lucido è stato diviso in sette striscie da 15 mm, colorato e disegnato con acquarelli economici (se questa cosa funziona posso usare anche quelli belli, ma per le prime prove va bene così) e inchiostri indelebili.
Nel frigo c'è un barattolo con dentro 0.5 g zucchero, 1 g gomma arabica, 15 g acqua e una goccia di olio essenziale di lavanda (conservante) che deve riposare fino a domani per poi essere spalmato sul retro della carta da lucido. (non è la colla tipica della washi tape, ma colla da attivare con l'acqua, tipo quelle delle buste da leccare).
E poi scoprirò se questa cosa funziona.
Ci saranno foto. Se funziona.
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Today:
* finished Diego's cotton/wool jeans-like trousers (yes! I've even attached the belt loops that I almost forgot);
* cleaned the sewing machine when she refused to keep sewing the belt loops (uops, sorry dear, I knew it was time for our quality time together and kept postponing it);
* finished handsewing the binding on my new bathrobe;
* watched an hour long Irving Finkel lecture ( ❤ ) with @Diego Roversi and a lot of other mostly costuming related videos while diego ignored me; :D
and then
* completely failed to take finished pictures of anything because it has been raining the whole day;
* forgot to heat cure the SHINY BLUE paint on the pre-mockup for the Augusta Stays I made from an old pair of jeans (and then decided that rather than putting it into the cabbage box I might as well make something fun out of it);
* postponed editing the step-by-step pictures to be ready to publish the instructions for the jeans and bathrobe as soon as I'll be able to take finished object pictures.
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the paint has been cured.
fixes to the jeans pattern have been saved in the file.
looks outside of the window -> lol, no pictures today either, I guess (and it isn't easy to take them after work in this season)
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@Diego Roversi and there was some sun!
This would have been a perfectly suitable outdoor outfit for 25 May, right?
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Giovanni Mascellani
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •The company I work for provides consulting services (among others) for game developers and game distributors.
So I can confirm the answer is yes!
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •sadly, I did the sensible thing, started a few games in a row with no fog without playing them and found that no, there is no such bug.
I need another excuse, such as “I need to enlarge the borders of the Empire“ :D
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Don't forget games like NetHack are sensible to moon phases, Friday 13th and so on, so it could become a hard debugging!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack
classical rogue-like computer game
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