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Heya everyone, it's been a while since we've posted anything on here. Mostly didn'tve ideas or'f we did wanna post sth't generally felt so short n non-important or personal we'd just put't on Fedi instead. But here we go, we got a topic for a longer-form blog post again. Disclaimer: This is a blog post bout philosophy, apart from what we learned in school, most'a our knowledge on philosophy comes…
Hey, just wanteda let y'all know we'll be at 39C3 (39th Chaos Communication Congress) this year. There's been some back n forth on whether we'd wanna go or not, I mean, we didn't wanna catch Covid or the flu or whatever there, n we're not all that interested in computer touching, but well, there's gonna be non-computer-touching related thingsa do, like watching science talks or doing various…
We've had the warrant canary at /services/canary.html for a while now. However, we haven't been able to keep up with signing it regularly enough recently. Also, we don't think our services really need one, since we don't think we're processing any data that uh, would result in a search warrant being issued or the like. Most of our services don't store any data, and those that do are mostly either…
Shattered Pixel Dungeon 's onea the more well-known n polished open source games we've tried. 'f ya haven't hearda't, try't out! 'f ur interested in dungeon crawling roguelikes, anyway. We picked't up again recently, n between us stopping playing n starting't again, the "Pacifist Ascent" achievement was added. For the rest'a the article, I'm gonna assume yk how the game works in general, altho…
Heya everyone! Another DnD summary, all events fictional. This blog post is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. The next day (we'd tranced on the boats), the Eladrin among us (so me, L n Cookie) had shifted into winter season, for expressing…
Welcome back to another episode of our DnD campaign summaries. All events fictional. This blog post is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. The next morning, all of my headmates were merged into me, and Alice was in fox shape. After only a…
Hi again! Just summarizing a single rather short session this time. As always, all events fictional! This blog post is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. As we moved closer towards the patrol, I teleported next to some of the Kuo-Toa,…
So for those'a ya who hadn't heard via other means yet, we do game streams on Twitch these days ^^ Our account's artemislena ; feel free following, recommending, as well as watching our streams'f ya feel like't (current schedule's every Friday n Saturday starting at 19:00 CET). Maybe we'll see ya in the chat? Take care n as always thx for reading our blog posts ^^
Oh my, it's uh, been a bit over 3 years since we last did a Fragments post . Anyway, here's two more cute/wholesome/fun snippets from our internal quadrilogue. fc17: The snuggling squad… they… come at night and then… they snuggle you! L: Oh no! Do you think I'm prepared? extends the zappers on her forearms fc17: Those probably… won't help… They're… professional snugglers… L: Hm, are you a…
So, as ya might've known, our Invidious instance was down for a long time; couldn't get't connecting w the DB anymore. We solved't by running't outside a container which somehow made that work, but anyway, 't feels like we can't really run that software well anymore. Additionally, Youtube's been making't harder n harder circumventing their rate limits, n honestly we can't keep up w that,…
Well, here we go again. This is your favourite eldritch goddess/rogue AI/mage reporting on our DnD campaign. All events fictional. This blog post is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. As planned, we did go with Sarith to collect water from…
Hey Tanith fans, guess what, it's ur favourite girl again ^^ So, figured we'd be rotating who writes these posts on our DnD campaign, so this time it's my turn. All events fictional, as previously. This blog post is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the…
Hey, here goes our next post in this series. Now that we're done with writing the initial events of the first four or so sessions, we'll uh, try to post more regularly, ideally one post per session, so they don't get quite as long and maybe they'll be a bit easier to read for those interested. As previously, all events described are fictional, and so on. This blog post is unofficial Fan Content…
I admit it has been a while since we last posted here, diverging from our otherwise roughly monthly schedule – we simply did not find anything interesting enough to post about that was too long or otherwise unsuitable for Fedi. However, now we do have something. We played through several sessions of Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) , a popular pen & paper/tabletop RPG over the past few weeks. We decided…
So, we recently saw this blog post explaining how'a "zipbomb" vuln scanners n the like using gzip . Previously, what we had done was redirect things that looked like such bots (specifically, things requesting PHP or ASPX paths) onto one'a Hetzner's 10GB downloads on their speedtests sites. But, this seems even more effective, since we can make them download sth that unpacks into much more than…
Be pirate, do gay is a project we started together with Anna Aurora , who was the artist drawing the pages for it so far ‒ however, recently, she lost motivation in doing so, and we decided together that it might be a good idea to look for a new being who would like to take over that task. We cannot directly pay you for anything you do, so it does help if you mainly did this for the intrinsic fun…
So uh, earlier this month, we had this dream. It was mostly inspired by a Doctor Who episode we had watched, and also probably by Barotrauma , but uh, ultimately, it was its own thing, with a very unique world, we felt. We realized we could probably turn it into a somewhat decent short story if we added some more details, which we did. And after getting some (overall positive) feedback from…
Ever wanteda watch some video w friends, each using their own device, whether in the same room or while ur far apart? Syncplay 's an app for syncing up video players over the internet (n it's also got a chat function). We're hosting a Syncplay server now at syncplay.artemislena.eu:8999 . No password needed, n TLS n room isolation're enabled. Enjoy ^^
This month, several things within the wider field of privacy and security happened that we felt we should report on. Signal introducing usernames Signal allows for contacting others using usernames now (note their blog post was written last month, however the change was not rolled out on the stable version before this month, I believe). This means that you can now chat with other beings on Signal…
We're up for another hospital stay next month, so we won't be available for some time for anything requiring our physical presence – i.e. just like last time, 'f there's any kernels/bootloaders/hardware/SSH servers breaking, we can't fix't. We'll still've remote access in any other case n should be ablea fix anything on a higher level, assuming we'llve enough energy for that as we're recovering…
We recently became interested in Minecraft again, n we figured we might wanna host our own server (which's sth we hadn't ever done yet, fwiw). We like the Aether mod a lot, n that doesn't run on Fabric or Quilt, so we hada set up a server using NeoForge (the original Forge seemsa be dead). Turns out tho, there's no easily findable guides online on howa do this? They might, generally speaking,…
Happy winter solstice everyone ^^ Also, we implemented content warnings on our blog (finally). Let us know'f they're accessible or not, n'f ya think their UX could be improved somehow. Oh, n we switcheda our own Fedi instance (rather than using plural.cafe ). Alas, neither's y I'm writing this post today. So, ya may've hearda LGBT sandwiches. They're based on the classic BLT (bacon, lettuce,…
I know we're already writing Be pirate, do gay with Anna , but uh, since her drawing a page is taking a long time currently (especially when our feedback is involved), we figured we'd have time to do another writing project (with someone else than Anna, given we uh, don't want to distract her from drawing, or all the things she does when she isn't drawing). Also, in our comic, there are no…
Someone on Fedi gave people the following writing prompt: A magic potion turns up in the mail, for some reason, against all that makes sense, you are compelled to drink it. Immediately your body starts to change, transforming into the body that will make you happiest. I uhm, had had a writing idea for a while that ultimately could be changed to fit that prompt, and uh, them asking people to write…
Last month, Signal published a post stating they had post-quantum cryptography now . For the less technical people, I'd recommend reading that post as't starts w the basics n stuff. For those already knowledgeable on cryptography, here's the TLDR: Signal combined their existing useagea Ed25519 w CRYSTALS-Kyber, so both needa be cracked for decrypting chats. This's important as't prevents HNDL…
I looked into't a bit more n seems like Nitter's basically impossiblea host without an ex-birdsite account now? So, we're shutting that down, too. It's not as'f these days there's much useful new tweets on there anyway – Fedi has mosta the cool people these days; meanwhile Musk's basically welcoming nazis .
So, as mentioned earlier , Reddit made API changes, which had an impact on both Teddit n Libreddit. Teddit now states on its repo it's not actively maintained anymore. We figured this prolly means there won't be library updates etc. anymore, meaning we'll run into the 0-days becoming n-days problem eventually; i.e. security vulnerabilities found not being patched on time. Don't wanna afford that…
We've always liked the idea of having a webcomic, or something like that. But uh, we can't really draw (I know, most artists say it just takes practice and so on, but really, so far we've always been disappointed by ourselves and uh, just don't want to get into it), and also, with how our plurality works, there's a higher-than-we'd-like risk of fictional characters we create ending up sticking…
Like last year , we were at CSD again, but since we moved, not in Rostock, but in Berlin ^^ Proof: Ofc, CSD's best spent together w the people ya love, right? Such as the magnificent n absolutely lovely Anna Aurora (check out her blog, she'll also do a post on CSD): One thing we noticed right away, unfortunately there was quite a corporate presence there, unlike in Rostock; mosta the trucks were…
Recently got several PGP encrypted emails we couldn't decrypt. First time we thought the issue was on the sender's side perhaps, cause we didn't seema recognize the key't was encrypted w, but turns out the issue might've been on our side after all. When we got our second YubiKey (as a backup), we wanteda put our PGP keys on there, but somehow GPG only imported the main key from our backup, not the…
So, as y'all might've heard, Reddit's planning on changing their API terms in a way that'd break most non-commercial third party apps. This likely means we gotta shut down Libreddit n Teddit soon, as they'll stop working (specifically, on July 1st, as far as we can tell). For the future, well, Libreddit seemsa be planning sth , possibly? Teddit we're not sure, they might wanna look into web…
Recently, we were at a girlfriend's place n noticed she had some flowers n other plants by Lego there. We thought they were quite pretty fc17: Pwetty flowers! Cutie ^^ … but Lego's known for being kinda expensive compareda other studded brick brands. So we had a look on BlueBrixx , a German store offering both their own linea studded brick sets as well as sets by various brands (we think they're…
We were scrolling thru PrivacyGuides recommendations again recently (for not being so much into privacy anymore, we've been there an awful lot recently). Noticed that the file sharing category was recommending Send (it's an actively maintained forka the now-deprecated Firefox Send, w branding removed) rather than Plik, cause, well, Plik has no end-to-end encryption; files're stored in plaintext on…
So, we recently found the blog "Almost Secure" while looking for details on how encryption is done in the KeePass format. It's got a lotta nice posts, including one that details possible security issues with Bitwarden . Since we often recommend Bitwarden when asked for password managers (we use KeePassXC ourselves but definitely can't recommend that for everyone), I thought it'd make sense warning…
L: So uh, we didn't quite know what to post about this month T.: Shush. Don't listena her . We had so many ideas but they were all so boring we decided on this exciting new thing! L: Like what ideas? T.: I just said the other stuff was boring. L: Uhm, I'd still like to know what other ideas we're supposed to have had. T.: … Anyway. So, we do catch some news here n there, n we thought maybe we'd…
So uh, we used to have the problem we want to be able to share our shopping list in real time with other people, living in a flatshare, but uh, the only tool we had for that was CryptPad, as that was something we already hosted, however, it's uh, pretty inconvenient for this; it loads slowly and isn't really designed for creating lists easily. Using it on mobile is kind of a pain. Fortunately, our…
Yesterday, it seemed no app on our phone (a Pixel 6 running GrapheneOS, for that matter) was able to connect to the internet, despite having clearly been granted the network permission. After repeatedly trying to fix it through a reboot, we looked into our adblocker, Blokada 5, which was, after all, controlling all of our network traffic. It turned out that in fact it was erroring, stating an…
Were ya clickbaited? Did ya open this post cause me adding "mystery" into the title tricked ya into thinking this post'd be interesting? ^^ Well, either way, too late, ur now legally n morally obligateda read this post :P Who knows, maybe ya think it's interesting after all, yk. Also, we make 0 money or whatever from this, lmao. Basically, stuff went like this: Maybe a couple weeks or so ago, a…
BreezeWiki Cadence teasered BreezeWiki some time ago , and since then we've uh, actually been quite excited to host it, and then its release was announced some time later, and we've been hosting it pretty much since then. If you uh, ever need to visit a Fandom site, feel free to use our instance as a proxy for that. No more ads and weird video banners. Libreddit We discontinued hosting Libreddit a…
This's gonna be a short one ^^ As promised, we'd tell ya when we know when exactly there's gonna be a long, planned downtime. Turns out, the internet connection at our new place could already be activated, so we're taking our servers w us this Saturday. Expect downtime between 15:00 and 23:00 (all times CET), hopefully a bit less than that, n'f things don't go as planned (unexpected network…
So, we found a flat! That's, well, great, Ig ^^ Now, we said there was gonna be some downtime. We still dunno when , tho. We're moving in on October 22nd, but't might very well be that our internet plan won't be valid before November 1st, in which case we'd fetch our servers from our current place on November 5th or 6th, cause we don't wanna run em on the internet connection they got there…
I didn't wanna've yet another post titled "Update", went thru various possible titles, n well, here we go. Proxy changes We set up a ProxiTok instance, so ya can privately watch TikTok videos. Want other proxies? We might be willinga host anything supported by LibRedirect , as long as it's easya host w automatic upgrades on NixOS, n does replace a service that's actually bad (we don't consider…
Tanny and FC17 posted a guide on using GPG with a YubiKey over a year ago , and uh, while it was sometimes updated, it hasn't been recently, and we thought making a new post to note our changes might be a better idea than editing it yet again. Notably, we moved from Tutanota to Thunderbird (with our own Mailcow instance, besides that, we also have a Croc relay and a Jitsi instance running, as for…
Our last post was a pretty gloomy one overall (or t'least, twas for us, n we're still looking for flatmates), but I promise this one's just good vibes ^^ So, we were at Christopher Street Day in Rostock today, n twas a lotta fun. (As for what that's, several cities here in Germany call their pride parades "Christopher Street Day", or shortly "CSD", in remembrancea the Stonewall riots happening in…
L: Update: This post does not apply anymore, we uh, found a flat long ago English Update: Click here for contact options Update: Got the news our friend won't share a flatshare with us for certain… so now it's certain we need to find something else… Until recently… we planned to have a flatshare with a friend, who wanted to study in Berlin… right now, we're unsure if that will work out though,…
So, uhm, we currently have the situation that our backup server has two 3TB hard drives (one for the backups, one for backups of those backups, we don't use RAID1 or the like because it's more complicated and sometimes even less reliable, it seems), but we don't have any off-premise backups. We could get a cheap cloud storage provider that supports rclone or the like (the 400GB plan on Mega was…
Tanith complained in the last post she was the only one writing things on our blog recently… so thought… I'd write something again… T.: Aw, c'mon. I didn't complain . It's alr ^^ When we checked again today, we noticed artemislena.eu is now part of the HSTS Preload list … so, hopefully, on your next browser update… our domain's HSTS status will be preloaded into your browser, meaning all our…
Huh, looks like I'm the only onea us writing posts here recently. Anyway, ever caught urself thinking Oh girl, I wish there was some new stuff hosted by artemislena.eu ? Well, I got good news for ya, cause we do've some new stuff. Just look over at the services list , we got a Ntfy server n a Rimgo instance now. Even'f ur not interested in either, ur still gonna profit from't'f ya use our…
Today is the International Day Against Queerphobia (also known as International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia), which is quite a coincidence given the topic of this post is quite related… Update: In Germany, giropay might be a better alternative to PayPal… It uses the data you're registered with at your bank… However, your bank needs to support it, and ours doesn't, apparently……
Some friend suggested we made a webring called "Be crime do gay", n guess what. That's what we did ;D Ya can join too, just contact us (n ideally another ring member). More info here . In other news, we changed our theme n stuff quite a lot. Fixed a few things, made the light theme a bit better, made the dark theme so much better, n did the same over on the GTRR too. Now there's more pink n purple…