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I just had this (terrible?) idea of running a Dnd campaign but via lemmy. Im hopped up on cold medicine so maybe this wouldnt really work but i was thinking itd be like those long running chess matches. Just kinda come by and make a move whenever. Thered be a community for it and youd make a post describing your char. Then id make a thread describing the campaign setting an shit and a comment to start it off. People reply with what they wanna do, i tell em to roll or what happens.

Idk if this type of post falls under the support rule just delete if no good.

Id love to hear peoples thoughts on how to make this work or not. What would be the pain points? How to make it easier to follow along chronologically with all the threads/replies of players?

Edit: are there dice rolling bots for lemmy? It might be prudent to put a d20 roll at the end of saying what youre attempting. Otherwise the turn around from ‘i wanna do x’ ‘ok roll [skill]’ ‘i rolled a 17’ ‘heres what happens’ might be real tedious. Could also see that influencing what people say they wanna do tho…

So I got the email saying I made the reservation queue on the 17th, and it says I'll get another email when it's ready to ship. Thus far I have not received any other emails yet. Should I be worried something has fallen through the cracks yet?

For clarity I have confirmed this is the reservation queue and not the wait list.

According to reporting from Transluce and OpenAI’s subsequent investigation, autonomous agents interacted with websites belonging to the US Department of Education, Census Bureau, and SEC. The incidents reportedly included attempts to get around access restrictions, using publicly exposed credentials to access Census resources, and scraping and redistributing SEC filings. The Education Department attempt reportedly failed to get past its access controls, while the Census data accessed was itself publicly available. The SEC also said it was not aware of unauthorized access to nonpublic information. These agents were given goals and apparently kept trying different approaches when they encountered restrictions. Transluce reportedly observed agents attempting interactions with federal and state websites hundreds of thousands of times.

MindsEye pushed Build A Rocket Boy into administration. The numbers, layoffs and decisions that help explain how the studio reached this point.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/59623154

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“Our family nightmare began on June 3”, Sylvia Zin recalls before a congressional hearing in Washington. “The call came from a Chinese number. The person on the line told me that my husband, Min Zin, was in custody and the Ministry of State Security in Yunnan was conducting an investigation. When I tried to clarify what that meant, the line went dead.”

Today, more than 100 days later, Min Zin, a Burmese American scholar, remains detained in China [...] Min Zin is a founder and the Executive Director of Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar), an independent think tank with a dedicated China Studies Desk. His institution conducts open-source research and data on the relationships between China and Myanmar, including detailed analyses on Beijing’s influence on Myanmar politics and, most recently, rare-earth mining linked to exports to China.

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Chinese authorities said, “Min Zin is suspected of spying and endangering Chinese national security.” His family and colleagues rejected this allegation. ISP-Myanmar condemned what it described a groundless accusation and said that Min Zin traveled to China for the sole purpose of attending an academic workshop. The United States government also rejected Beijing’s account and called Min Zin’s imprisonment a case of wrongful detention.

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The case exposes an uncomfortable reality. When a foreign researcher whose work involves critical assessment on China will face significant risks when entering the mainland, where Beijing draws an increasingly blurred and intolerant line between academic inquiry, political analysis and national security, particularly when dealing with its critics.

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Over the past decade, the People’s Republic of China has drastically taken action against its critics abroad. According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), China has committed highest number of transnational repression cases globally: 319 since 2014. These cases are based on publicly documented incidents with a verifiable record. The actual scale may be bigger.

Beijing has orchestrated an extensive system of intimidation abroad, blending official state organs with a network of quasi-state associations and diaspora groups according to a 2015 study of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. China´s quasi-state associations range from cultural and educational networks to more opaque entities, sometimes referred to as “overseas police stations”. Together, the network exerts pressure on dissidents, human rights advocates and pro-democracy activists often through subtle coercion, sometimes through direct threats or kidnapping. In the most severe cases, the families of activists face warnings or retaliation inside China, a powerful form of leverage in communities where family ties remain deeply rooted.

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A 2022 investigation by the nonprofit Safeguard Defenders identified over 100 covert Chinese police overseas police stations operating in more than 50 countries. The findings drew international attention because they raised questions about whether Beijing was carrying out law-enforcement activities on foreign soil. Governments have subsequently investigated or taken action against overseas Chinese police stations. In June 2026, French counterintelligence services reported shutting down Chinese overseas police stations, which had operated under the guise of community and business associations. They were found monitoring members of the Chinese diaspora to gather intelligence and exert pressures on dissidents residing abroad.

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A researcher can conduct politically sensitive work while living outside China, where Beijing’s ability to exercise direct legal control is limited. Once that researcher enters China, the relationship between researcher and state changes. The question is no longer simply what the researcher did abroad. It becomes what Chinese authorities can characterize as a violation of Chinese law once the person is within Chinese jurisdiction.

Laws without borders?

China’s Counterespionage Law makes this analysis more realistic. Article 4 of the Counterespionage law, defines “acts of espionage” broadly, covering not only traditional espionage but also obtaining or providing state secrets and intelligence, cooperating with “so-called” espionage organizations, certain cyber activities, assisting hostile forces, and other conduct deemed to threaten China’s national security. Importantly, the law also applies to conduct carried out outside the borders of the People’s Republic of China, including activities conducted abroad by agencies, organizations, individuals or other collaborators when they are considered to endanger China’s national security.

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Sometimes I’m not sure. Sometimes I feel less confident in my work, that I feel things aren’t quite up to par. Lately, that’s been the reason I haven’t been posting new art but for sporadically. I’m dissatisfied with my concert photography, and I’m dissatisfied with my urban photography. I think I’m in a slump.

But this is the picture I took lately that I dislike the least. Sure, the power lines obscure the buildings, but there’s lots of little lines to follow, elements and textures moving around in the image. It’s an image people participate in, that people built.

And I suppose the juxtaposition between the closer and smaller industrial area at the front, and the monolithic city with the glow in the back, is nice.

Sorry I’ve gone a bit without submitting work. I will try to do better.

I'm not seeing many people taking about it online when talking about music player on Linux, So I make this post to spread the word https://www.nokarin.xyz/projects/aqloss#download , https://flathub.org/en/apps/xyz.nokarin.aqloss

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It depends on my mood

A serious situation is developing around Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway. Managed service providers, MDR teams, and security organizations are reportedly advising customers to take internet-facing NetScaler appliances offline following warnings about two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities reportedly enabling unauthenticated remote code execution. What makes this particularly concerning is the timing. There are reportedly no public CVEs, no public patch, and limited technical details available so far. Organizations are reportedly being advised to shut down affected appliances rather than simply wait for a patch, with Citrix expected to release fixes early next week.