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Published: July 21, 2020, 6:03 a.m.

Hacking \n\n

The reality of most hacking: social engineering. Hackers vs Sneakers. The 90s as the best period for hacking in fiction, back when people understood even less how computers worked. A review of Hacking in media.

\n\n Free Software \n\n

Free as in speech, free as in beer, etc. Freedom-respecting social network alternatives and the dream of critical mass. Mastodon. How the USGS uses Twitter data to track earthquakes. The impossibility of competing with YouTube. Appreciating Free software and open source and collaboration.

\n\n Unicode things hooray \n\n

Ranting about a user experience failure with Instacart. Text encoding, Unicode, emoji, and non-Latin writing systems. Emoji standardization. Lesbian emoji activism and the new beaver emoji!

\n\n Tattoos \n\n

Stephen Wolfram and Arrival Heptapod logogram creation. Ravens. Figuring out how to spell \u201cBomberman\u201d in Heptatpod.

\n\n RPGs \n\n

Dungeons and Dragons is fun! The positives and negatives of play-by-post. A review of our (Chris\u2019) failure with Decipher RPG. A desire to try again! Liam Ginty.

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Monster Care Squad: A Ghibli-inspired tabletop adventure of healing Monsters and solving local problems in the gentle world of Ald-Amura

\n\n Percent! \n\n

\u201cPercent\u201d is literally just latin for \u201cper hundred\u201d and Christopher was this many years old when he realized this! And then we learn about per mille and per myriad and have to promise not to start using them.

\n\n Spotted dick \n\n

A rewarding pun-tastic etymological romp. Also it was really tasty!

\n\n Attribution \n\n

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• \u201cSix dice of various colours\u201d used in episode image - by Diacritica CC-BY-SA-3.0
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• Decipher RPG Mirror illustration commissioned for Decipher Media by Amber Lee Jones
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1. \n\t\t\t\tMonster Care Squad: A Ghibli-inspired tabletop adventure of healing Monsters and solving local problems in the gentle world of Ald-Amura: Kickstarter\n\t\t\t
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2. \n\t\t\t\tHackers: social engineering, Kevin Mitnick, and hacking before the internet w/ Brian Epstein: Decipher SciFi\n\t\t\t
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3. \n\t\t\t\tSplatmoji - Quickly look up and input emoji and/or emoticons/kaomoji on your GNU/Linux desktop via pop-up menu.: GitHub.com\n\t\t\t
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4. \n\t\t\t\tDecipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #1: Decipher SciFi\n\t\t\t
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5. \n\t\t\t\tDecipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #2: Decipher SciFi\n\t\t\t
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6. \n\t\t\t\tDecipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #3 (the finale!): Decipher SciFi\n\t\t\t
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7. \n\t\t\t\tThe hilarious, extremely convincing proposal to make a beaver emoji.: Slate\n\t\t\t
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