@Ghost said in Telnet Safety:

NEVER give your address, phone, banking, fullname, general location, business information, etc over pages/chat in MU even if you trust the person because THE DANGER ISNT YOUR FRIEND, BUT THE SERVICE/PROTOCOL YOU ARE USING.

Fixed that for you.

You nerd.

We live in a personal privacy hellscape. Nothing is above being scraped and sold. Very depressing.

@Sparks said in Alexa Skill Idea: MU* Client:

@Kumakun said in Alexa Skill Idea: MU* Client:

I just did a quick search on Alex and WebSockets, and looks like they're actively supported by Alexa/AWS services now. I'll have to look into the limits on data chunk size limits, but I doubt a text pose is going to be greater than what it can handle. Alexa Skills Kit has come a long way in the past few years!

AWS has supported WebSockets in the AWS API Gateway service and similar stuff since... I wanna say December of last year? But I didn't remember anything about Alexa in that particular announcement. If Alexa skills have now got a way to use persistent WebSockets to maintain a connection from request to request, that definitely makes it somewhat easier; it used to be you had to use a proxy server for Alexa to do anything with WebSockets.

(Though every MU* that supports websockets uses a different protocol over that socket; the skills would have to be specific to the server family—like one for PennMUSH, etc.—or else you'd end up using a proxy backend to connect to games anyway. Even if that proxy server used websockets rather than being polled, which makes it marginally less horrible, albeit still a privacy concern for some players since that proxy server could log everything going through it: passwords in the connect command, pages to people, the @mail you read, etc.)

And yeah, I assumed the UX would be utterance based; you would definitely not want to leave the context of the MU* client skill while using it. But even maintaining context, you have that request/response UX cycle to deal with, which is the bigger issue.

And transcription seems the worst bit of all. Leaving aside the 10-second limit on audio transcription, there's the matter of syntax on the average MUSH. Pose and page and look and movement are probably easy enough, but many standard MUSH commands could be absolutely wretched for an interface like this. Imagine trying to tell it how to transcribe +bboard commands to write a post, or to dictate the sort of commands that many WoD games use in their chargen systems.

And I don't even want to think about stuff like Arx's plots or goals system, where the syntax can get particularly convoluted: something like goals/rfp <goal>,<story-beat>=<IC description of goal achivement>/<OOC note to staff about goal achievement> (...which I may even have gotten wrong, because I'm not on the game to check the helpfile right now!) is not the most friendly single-line command syntax to remember even when typing. Trying to dictate that to Alexa could end up being an infuriating experience.

That said, despite all these hassles, it's an interesting project to tackle! If you choose to go forward with it, I wish you luck; it'd be an interesting result to see, and might well be useful to folks out there!

I'm really going to have to look into the time limit and connectivity. It's worth researching now though if there's interest. Now to see if the tech can handle it, and the UX isn't a nightmare. I'm going to have to experiment soon. I have a feeling that I'd have to write some custom backend to make it work.. if it will work. That and not being able to recognize 'original' names might be a breaking problem. We'll see!

That code block goes into your /var/www/wiki/ folder, and should be newly created as:

.htaccess

It doesn't go into the site.conf (or default.conf file if you are using that).

In the site.conf or (default.conf file if you're using that) file, you just want to make sure that wiki.site.com is pointing to /var/www/wiki, not /var/www/html, which is often set as the default.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04 covers the other steps you want to peek at that address how you want to handle the site.conf file (and any other *.conf files) specifically.

This covers .htaccess and how to get it going, which has a bit more info than the other link. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-htaccess-file

Between those two tutorials, I've been able to get multiple wikis and a default index page landing running off of one droplet, with each site in it's own folder in /var/www/ with things pointing where they need to be pointed to get people to the right places.

EDIT FOR EXAMPLE:
For an example following the two tuts above:
https://pantheogenesis.world/
https://www.pantheogenesis.world/
https://forum.pantheogenesis.world/
...and while these have nothing on them/done to them yet, note the footer text, which demonstrates they are each distinct wiki installs:
https://core.pantheogenesis.world/
https://7d.pantheogenesis.world/
https://7dstaff.pantheogenesis.world/
I puttered out and stopped giving a fuck before finishing up the intended interwiki links to pipe the data around, but eh. (The goal here is to store all RPG data on core to pipe to whatever game wiki is active as needed, with each game having a private staff wiki and a player-side wiki that can all talk to each other in a fairly fine-grained way.) They otherwise share some core files with symbolic links to what would otherwise be needlessly duplicated data; this is all stored in 'core' and linked to 7d and 7dstaff, to control edit permissions and access to data on the various wikis as needed. You don't need anything from this latter paragraph, probably, but the two linked tutorials explain all the steps needed to do what you're trying to accomplish above.

IMPORTANT: Note that if you choose to use no additional text or swap in place of index.php and just go straight from the domain to the content, you will need to lock down the main namespace so no one can edit it to prevent potential conflicts. This means using custom namespaces for your various categories of things rather than dumping everything into the main namespace. Doing this also gains you access to the DPL namespace=<whatever> selection criteria, which may help prevent the need for as many categories on the wiki, and allows you to use the categories for more fine-tuning in your queries.

Well I had set the line limit using @admin to 1000 a while back, so that wasn't a problem, just Potato, but now that I've got the bulk of SGP in and am just making adjustments and tearing stuff out, it's not so bad. Using wholly original code I usually do the database that is the largest chunks, the actual lines of working code I do almost line by line to test functionality before I move on.

Since this topic came up from another thread, this is where I stopped:

Find the most efficient "adds to 15" combinations of dice, for people rolling skills that gain 2 raises per 15. Find the most efficient "adds to 10" combinations of dice, for all other situations. These were brute-forced lists of numbers, starting at '1 1 1 6 6' (5 dice adding to 15) and going from there. Yes, really, I coded a system to find this out. I was super inefficiently lazy about this, and it took Mux about a week to work through '1 1 1 1 1? No. 1 1 1 1 2? No.' for the 10s.

Like I said, I was being lazy.

Then I deleted it, because of the "GM Dice Overflow" situation and I'd already spent almost a month on the problem. If I could do a "most number of raises" and "most number of raises while eliminating unused dice", present both to the player, I don't think any more options need to be made.

I still believe, along with @faraday, that forcing the player to play a minmax game is silly at best.

/me falls over giggling which causes her to fall over again, which causes her to giggle more, which causes her to.... XD

@Ashen-Shugar Thanks for the information. I am guessing that it was something to do with a power fluctuation or something because there wasn't a lot of code on it at the time, and what code I had in place, I have already put in place again with zero issues.

I suppose I could have opened the wrong thing in cpanel while the game was up as well, so it could have been that too.

Interesting stuff, even if it is as you said, a necro and a non-issue currently 🙂

Moar Java~ Here is my first lab for this term. I was forced to use switches to do this:

//******************************************************************** // Date: 01/09/16 // Program Name: // Program Description: This program asks the user to input a number between 50-200 // this is the number of times a random number between 1-100 // will be generated. This program uses a verification of input loop // to make sure the user is putting in the right number range. // It then stores the number into an array and uses at least one switch. // It will finally print a histogram of the numbers showing the frequency // Of which each number was randomly generated. // PseudoCode: // Ask user to enter value 50-200 (How Many #?) // Verify input between 50-200 // Declare int array size 10 // Repeat (how many times) // generate int (1-100) // convert num to correct range // range =(num-1)/10 // increment array[range] // // print histogram // // ( Test Oracle goes here! ) //******************************************************************** import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.Random; public class Lab_1 { public static void main(String[]args) { // setting up required objects Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in); Random r = new Random(); int range[] = new int[10]; int times = 0, total = 0; int value; // Asking the user how many times to generator a random number, at least 50 less than 200. while ( times < 50 | times > 200 ) { System.out.println("How many times should we generate a random number? Must be between 50-200 times."); times = s.nextInt(); } for (int tracker = 0; tracker < times; tracker++) { value = r.nextInt(100)+1; value = (value-1)/10; switch(value) { case 0: range[0]++; break; case 1: range[1]++; break; case 2: range[2]++; break; case 3: range[3]++; break; case 4: range[4]++; break; case 5: range[5]++; break; case 6: range[6]++; break; case 7: range[7]++; break; case 8: range[8]++; break; case 9: range[9]++; break; default: System.out.println("Ooops."); } } System.out.println("---------------------------------------------------------------"); for (int arraysub=0; arraysub < range.length; arraysub++) { switch(arraysub) { case 0: System.out.print("| 01-10\t|"); break; case 1: System.out.print("| 11-20\t|"); break; case 2: System.out.print("| 21-30\t|"); break; case 3: System.out.print("| 31-40\t|"); break; case 4: System.out.print("| 41-50\t|"); break; case 5: System.out.print("| 51-60\t|"); break; case 6: System.out.print("| 61-70\t|"); break; case 7: System.out.print("| 71-80\t|"); break; case 8: System.out.print("| 81-90\t|"); break; case 9: System.out.print("| 91-100\t|"); break; default: System.out.print("| ??-??\t|"); } for (int dots = 0; dots < range[arraysub]; dots++) { System.out.print("*"); } System.out.println(); total = total + range[arraysub]; // checking to make sure the right amount of numbers are generated } System.out.println("---------------------------------------------------------------"); System.out.println(total + " numbers generated"); } // end main } // end class

@WTFE This brings back memories. I used to write REXX applications for IBM's TSO. 🙂

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