Coder by day, game master by night. Wizard on demand. I am all about a good story: hearing, witnessing, or creating. Tabletop RPGs are my medium of choice. I consume books voraciously. I believe in both the power of privacy and the power of sharing. People over profits. We must hang together or surely we will hang separately. Co-host: The L0WL1F3 podcast - @neondystopia Contributor to @lairofsecrets #ttrpg #foss #cyberpunk #coffee #privacy Keep the web weird.
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Last Notes npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…f83y I would love to use Wayland more, but not enough of the Steam games I play handle it well yet.. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller I am returnéd from my retreat, which was a success. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…f83y These folks are just repeating what the GPT tells them to say. Echoborgs. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller I have to meet with Microsoft in 10 minutes. Avenge me if I do not return. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller I'm not smart enough to have this many people be dumber than I am. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller New post: https://asolitarycabin.org/deprecation-notice.html npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Getting fiber installed today and kinda psyched about it. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Watching @nprofile…ugpy 's speech from #39C3 : https://youtu.be/39jsstmmUUs npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…nwpg Ooooooo. I need to check this out. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Friends, have you heard about Copyparty? https://github.com/9001/copyparty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…nwpg "High tech" is so subjective. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Happy #UnsubscribeDay to those who celebrate! npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…cgn2 You're right. New things to use need to behave exactly like the old things we leave behind. Makes perfect sense. ;) npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller With all the AI garbage out there now, I think it would be a good time to restart Webrings. Humans could vouch for other humans that their writing is authentic. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good morning, friends. The new OWASP Top 10 caught my eye this morning...going to dig into that during work hours today. Coffee is made, sitting and reading @nprofile…998y 's Enshittification book..which is excellent, but makes me so sad. Happy Veterans' Day to the vets out there! npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller I'm sick. :( Watching movies. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good morning all. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Roasted a chicken this weekend. Today I am making bone broth from the remains. It smells amazing here. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Hello, darkness, my old friend... npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller There's something fuckin" wrong with that Tetsuo kid. He's got a CONDITION. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…25dv Welcome back, you steeley-eyed missile man. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good morning, sinners. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller There is nothing quite like looking at the "popular games" tab on Steam to reflect just how much I am not the target audience anymore. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Been up since 4 writing and working out stuff for my and. @nprofile…uxxd 's #Starforged game. It is so much fun to create worlds and settings. Populating them feels less like creation and more like discovery. This morning I worked on the major houses, a lIst of possible guilds and crime syndicates,, transferred our notes about star systems and settlements, and then wrote a scene with the contact our characters share. Time for a break. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller "Fuckpit Techbros" is the name of my new cyberpunk klezmer band. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller FLORIDA 2035 Morning comes with the sound of coughing. Not the little, half-asleep rasp that clears in seconds, but the long, tearing kind that makes a mother stop breathing until it passes. She props her son upright, hand against his back, counting the seconds until he gulps in air again. 1/ npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller So, this looks bad: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5527093/florida-working-to-end-vaccine-mandates npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…uxxd @nprofile…jx7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaxhLf64bh4 npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…4d9x No...just addressing the one. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller I've got my wife hooked on my ramen -- not the college kind -- and now I'm exploring different forms of dashi and other ingredients. It's fun! npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Glitter: the herpes of craft supplies. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good morning all. Quiet day at work today (no meetings yay!) and then tonight I run my #CyberpunkRed game up at my friendly local game store. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…jx7w I know I won't get it, but I want Android Raylan. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Technology belongs to those who understand it. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…jx7w Hail Seitan! npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Anhedonia is no fun. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Look...all I'm saying is that someone speaking and being confidently wrong is hardly unique to LLMs. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends... npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Hello, friends. Good PT this morning. Really like the new folks. Had a lot of fun interviewing the hosts of the L0wl1f3 podcast last night. It's going to be a good show. Follow @nprofile…5kvx for an announcement when that goes live, or use your RSS reader/podcatcher of choice: https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/ Running my #CyberpunkRed game tonight, where the party needs to rescue their medic who was abducted by mistake by a disgraced ripperdoc. Otherwise riding out the heat/trying to do good work npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller It's my day off. Rose early, made some waffles, then took a drive to Press Coffee in downtown Dayton. Sat in the sun and read Project Hail Mary for an hour or so then took a pleasant drive home. Cleaning out some things, making a trip to the storage unit later. Might write a long overdue blog post. So far it is a lovely day. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good morning choombas. Did morning PT stretches, had the longest walk I could manage at the park, got coffee...settling in to the last work day for this week. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…7s4z What I love is not being able to set the Away toggle time. At all. Fuck you, Microsoft. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…7s4z Well, someone needs bucket of water at 5am tomorrow then. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller I'm doing some research for a @nprofile…5kvx show, and was reading the Cypherpunk Manifesto. This line really resonated with me: "Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. " https://web.archive.org/web/20230917050735/https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Weekend, finally. Last several weeks have been chaos...hoping to get the house and my brain in order this weekend. Starting with coffee and watching The Predators. Then off to clean. Maybe write a post later. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Got about 60 minutes of sleep last night, so I look and feel my best today. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…7s4z See you space cowboy... npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good morning, sinners. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…7s4z Heading to my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary, should be a nice time. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…jx7w This was my first time. I enjoyed it. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…jx7w May as well grow some weed while you are at it. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good morning, all. Having my coffee on the front porch today. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Coffee for the Coffee God. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…4d9x Gotcha. Was curious mostly to see if Galaxy worked in a similar way to Steam, with Proton. However, Lutris is pretty great. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Good day fellow nerds npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…7s4z @nprofile…7nq4 The client is wrong. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller I did want to say, I'm intensely grateful for all of you this morning. This immobility has been isolating, and having these connections, these little interactions throughout the day, has been wonderful. There are a lot of problems with social media. But there is also a lot of good. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller Alright folks. This new walker of mine isn't going to decorate itself. I am open to suggestions. npub1y87wncjmthfdrdqrpcslqm9d4x2mhfem2dslvmzs57xg7sxhpqls9puh6q Chris Miller @nprofile…c8nq 's Ishmael Wang is keeping me company in the hospital. https://cdn.masto.host/fromasolitarycabinorg/media_attachments/files/114/342/559/988/301/495/original/c479373ef8598c84.jpg