Posts made by surreality

@calindra When it hit the level of 'picking up small beads and dimes from a hardwood floor' my husband officially got scared.

It was adorable.

@prototart OMG. I had never heard of this character. This is now my favorite character ever. Ever.

(I studied fashion and costume design in college, so, uh... )

But like, if I was a not-so-supervillian, that is totally the kind of not-so-supervillain I'd be. But fuck the Fabrege Eggs, I'd make 'this is the dress that makes you look 20lbs slimmer' and market it for the big bucks. Wayyyyyy less effort! ...and probably much more money.

(I would suck at supervillainy, even not-so-supervillainy.)

This bears a striking similarity to the reason I can now pick up all manner of things effectively with my toes. And I have really short toes.

@tinuviel You, I like.

I'm not even sure I like this person any more, and they're someone that was among the people I've been closest to in my life.

@roz It was/is glory above all for writing wiki code, so help me.

@roz Ooh, thank you. That is good to know. I think last time I checked, it had been a limited trial for that. Maybe since they retired the free version they switched, though -- that would make a lot of sense.

@tinuviel I miss having TextWrangler on this computer because I could even do basic annotated text files up rather nicely on a black background if I wanted to.

And I am still too broke to spring for BBedit as yet.

That moment you realize someone is never going to stop lying or being a completely shady asshole really fucking blows.

@prototart said in Roleplayer's shower thoughts:

idk if it counts but a conversation about underwear for like She-Hulk style characters led to a conversation about the market for super-people clothes led to "there would definitely be shops aimed at superheroines" "yeah but basically nobody would ever be dumb enough to make a char out of that other than me and I'm def not gonna do that"

which led to me making a character out of that

...and clearly this person has not heard of Edna Mode, who is one of the most amazingly awesome characters in a movie in more or less forever. NO CAPES!

(I would totally do this, too.)

@bobotron I did, but there's stuff with it that's a bit on the fussy side with mediawiki, depending on how you want to do it. The redwerks short url file linked from mediawiki's info on it is pretty good.

I did manage to get this to behave at one point on a multi-wiki-one-droplet install, but it was especially fussy from what I recall.

Despite what some people may be eager to claim all over the place, I am not and never have claimed to be an expert (let alone 'genius') on mediawiki, particularly the server side of it. I have always been super clear I am a server novice at best, so the short url thing is not something I feel at all comfortable walking someone through.

@faraday said in Real life versus online behaviors:

@surreality said in Real life versus online behaviors:

@mr-johnson That, IMHO, is just a matter of adhering to the rules of a space. Which I'd call a good sign, not a bad one, really.
We should all be trying to do that.

I would disagree with that. Just because Facebook draws its line at "as long as it's not hate speech, you can be as cruel to each other as you want on this platform", does that make it okay to be cruel to strangers on the internet? IMHO no. Being a decent human being is a more-or-less consistent bar to clear no matter what rules a given online space may or may not have.

I don't disagree here at all -- but I also think that there are spaces where people will act differently in a manner that isn't negative based on the rules and expectations of that space.

If someone can be an ass sometimes, but has the self-awareness to not be an asshole in spaces where it isn't permitted, and respects that it isn't permitted in those spaces, that is a positive thing.

It doesn't mean they aren't still an ass sometimes as a person, but it does mean they're someone who is an ass sometimes who is able to show respect for the rules and tone of the place they're interacting, which is something I consider a good thing.

We've seen plenty examples of people who are an ass sometimes and don't care where they're doing it or whether this is considered acceptable or not, which I think is objectively worse.

I think of this as the 'don't rip a fart at in the middle of someone's wedding vows' rule in my head.

I set my multi-wiki droplet up after lots of googling, but I used their Ubuntu LAMP droplet template. That's why I can't really help here on that part, or with CentOS at all. How I did it only somewhat resembled the process that's been described, which may be a better practice method than how I hammered it into functioning.

It does have one domain and multiple subdomains each pointing to a different wiki, which has a shared section for some of the files generic and in use for all the wikis on, with symlinks for those shared folders. (I forget if the one I have now because I keep forgetting to take it down has two or three running on it.)

Am still happy to help you set up interwiki at some point in the future if you're doing the core + supplemental wiki thing and you want them to be talking to each other. That's the main reason I set mine up with multiples on one droplet, since I could also set it up to share the various styling, resources, the reference graphics I'm using, and for what was going to be a later iteration, the skin mods I was hammering on, rather than duplicating them all three times and bloating the hell out of things: they were all going to be linked up through interwiki.

@mr-johnson That, IMHO, is just a matter of adhering to the rules of a space. Which I'd call a good sign, not a bad one, really.

We should all be trying to do that.

There is one addendum to the anonymity thing: some people expose some things online without their RL ID attached due to concerns about stalking or harassment. It's also a thing. More than a few people I know online have been stalked RL, and it's not fun, so they may feel more free speaking about what they're doing, where they're going, and so on, in spaces where their RL name isn't attached for this reason also vs. RL social spaces where that information could get back to the harassing/stalking party through mutual acquaintances. None of this is bad behavior in almost every case, but it is another noteworthy 'difference between how people act online vs. in real life'.

@insomniac7809 said in Real life versus online behaviors:

At the same time, I think it's a bit harsh to assume that skepticism on Cosmo advice has to be sexist in nature, when people might be more familiar with relationship advice like "if he seems happy, it's because he's cheating on you; if he starts taking care of his appearance, it's to look good for the woman he's cheating on you with; if he starts sharing details about his day, it's to cover for what he was really doing (cheating on you)."

I think this kind of thing is supposedly what they're trying to tamp down/put the brakes on somewhat. It still exists, but it is no longer more or less their sole content aside from ads and things like their infamous 'ideas inspired by 50 Shades of Grey' BSDM sexual experimentation list.

(Do y'all have any idea how long I have to sit around waiting for rainbow hair colors to set? I have absolutely browsed. And sometimes been caught mid-spit-take for my sins.)

@nemesis said in Zero to Mux (with wiki):

It doesn't have anything to do with getting multiple wikis running on the same host.

...and no one said it did.

It's for after that, if/when you want to share content between wikis, whether they run on the same host or not.

Which is precisely what I'm describing. (Back to ignore for you, too.)

@bobotron It is stupidly handy, and a major time saver.

I was using a similar setup to essentially create a 'core rulebook' wiki site, a staff wiki for private staff stuff and policy, and a game wiki with the game setting-specific info (which would also have all the character pages, grid stuff, logs, etc.).

So not only can you have multiple wikis on one droplet, you can essentially get them all to talk to each other when and how you want.

@bobotron Interwiki lets you access the data from one wiki to the other. As in, you can have your core wiki and your game wiki on the same droplet (as separate wiki installs, they can share some elements with symbolic links) as expected, and share a lot of data without bloat or repetition. No need for redundant data or porting pages from one to the other.

You can set all your power write-ups and policies and whatever else that's intended to have a limited range of staff editors on your core wiki, and pipe that data directly over to the game wiki (or multiple game wikis). You can even set up private, read-protected namespaces on a core or staff wiki, and only allow certain namespaces to be shared this way.

It goes without saying that you could arguably run multiple games over the years or even at the same time, with their own individual game setting unique wikis, all referencing the same core data wiki's data, without endlessly copying things over to a new wiki repeatedly.

@haven It's more just hilarious in this case because dude keeps accusing all of us of lying or being ignorant and confused.

@nemesis said in Real life versus online behaviors:

It doesn't actually detail any bad behavior on MSB's part, and knowing Cirno just as well as I know trash like surreality et al from 20 years of not understanding what a MUSH is and bitchwhining about it on WORA when actual adults ban them

Precious darling, I have never once been banned from any forum, or any game on which I have played. Ever. In those 20+ years. So you are not as sage as you imagine yourself to be, or you are actually the liar in this case.