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  The players in my #DnD game are going to a masquerade ball tonight. They're tasked to act as a distraction for a crew of thieves to rob the place. While I can easily make up a quick list of throwaway NPCs for them to mingle with at the party, it could be fun if they meet your characters instead. If you want, send me name, species, class, and how they might behave at a fancy party. Also what would be their costume/mask? #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG #Gaming

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  Criterion Channel has updated its UI on both the website and the Chromecast app. It has some nice changes, but unfortunately the performance has gone straight to hell. Had to bail on the Chromecast because it was buffering every 30-60 seconds. Plugged my laptop into the TV and it's playing continuously, but jerky at times.

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  'The Long Walk' is just brutal. I remember the book being a brutal captivating read. This was a good adaptation, but I don't know if it's a movie I would want to watch again. Now on to 'Obsession', which I've heard great things about.

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  @jake4480@c.im From what I'm finding in discussions online, it was mainly coincidence. The actual design specs were based on the intended size of the cassette and the hubs in the machines.

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  @jake4480@c.im This got me to wondering about when they began determining the specifications for cassette tapes: were the holes sized for pencils because they knew that people would have to commonly manually wind the tape onto either spool and wanted it to work with a readily available object? Or were they sized that way for another reason, and it just happened to work that pencils were ideal for manual winding?

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  Birds are coming home to roost and they're pecking at the shell of that bubble. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/github-will-start-charging-copilot-users-based-on-their-actual-ai-usage/

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  This seems relevant with the latest information about OpenAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b7EqQKAfIU #Goblins

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  Last night I watched the penultimate episode of #Babylon5. I was going to watch the last episode as well, but it had gotten late and I decided that it would be more fitting to watch the series finale along with the season premiere of the next series I'm watching: #Farscape I never watched Farscape when it was airing, and I've heard good things.

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  And the press really has no one to blame but themselves. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/us-falls-below-ukraine-in-press-freedom-as-global-autocracy-takes-hold/

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  It was also an interesting and not really great choice to center DiCaprio's Burkhart on the film. I feel it would have been more appropriate to focus more on Molly, even if that meant that more events would have been shared through characters explaining. This wasn't so much an issue with Grann's book because it was written more as a straightforward history, and it also focused more on the start of the FBI, as this was one of their first major cases.

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  This week I'm reading 'The Faith of Beasts' by James SA Corey. This is the second book in their Captives War trilogy and its... okay. Despite this book and the previous 'The Mercy of Gods' getting laudatory reviews, I feel they're a big step down from The Expanse. They don't feel like they have the full-realized world (galaxy?) building that The Expanse had nearly from the beginning. #FridayReads @bookstodon

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  Was reading in an article about a bunch of billionaires moving offices and homes to Florida to avoid taxes and I got to wondering how their insurance bills measured up to the taxes they would have paid...

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  The Mummy from 1999 is such a fantastically written movie. It moves at a remarkable pace, but it's never confusing, the action is crystal clear, the dialogue is snappy. There is very little loose weight, everything in the film is there ultimately for a reason. And Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are pitch perfect with great chemistry.

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  Playing #FinalFantasyXVI and everyone keeps giving Clive marks and seals to show their support. I kind of feel like his armor is like a racing jumpsuit now with all the sponsor logos on it.

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  I just realized a small thing that helps me really appreciate my subscription to the Criterion Channel: there is no algorithm saying "You may also like this". You can either browse through the collection that is available or rely on themed showcases compiled by their curators. It is very refreshing not to have constant engagement shoved at you.

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  So someone made this post on Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116268399785747534 And that led another person to make this site: https://boat.horse/clock/index.html This feels like some real old school internet stuff. For the younger folks out there, this is the kind of stuff that would pop up all the time on the internet in the late 90s and early 00s. No reason for it beyond it being cool and beautiful. While the animated clock in the link sort of hurts my head, it still is beauti...

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  RE: https://mas.to/@Techaltar/116362837194700650 It's generally good practice to delete everything after the ? in a URL if you're going to share it anywhere. That will usually remove any tracking nonsense attached to the URL. I recommend copying the URL /before/ the ? and then pasting it in another tab to make sure it still works and loads the correct page.