The poster for my #Edinburgh Fringe show is done. Whaddya think?

The Orb · Part III · Confusion

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

Carl Jung

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Man must I be on my own path then...

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I'm finally moving over to Radicle (https://radicle.xyz) instead of switching to another centralized code forge (like GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.). I definitely love the idea behind a #P2P code forge and I'm hopeful for Radicle's future, but I do have some reservations starting off:

1) Despite talking a lot about freedom and privacy in the tutorial, the group building Radicle (https://radworks.org/) is planning to sell hosting and make a profit via an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency (https://www.tally.xyz/gov/radworks) as well as NFTs and smart contracts. Some big Libertarian red flags there.

2) At some point there was a Swiss nonprofit "Radicle Foundation", but this now seems to be a for-profit venture (see https://radicle.xyz/history). I wish it could just be a nonprofit.

3) In the user guide chapter on private repos (https://radicle.xyz/guides/user), it says that I need to use a public DNS address trusted seed node to share the repo. I understand there's no DHT here, but I hope it's not too much of a pain to run this over my local network instead of the internet. (And yeah, I know I can use git locally, I just want to test Radicle locally.)

Overall, I think that if radworks turns out to be evil it will be a way easier transition to fork Radicle than it has been to leave GitHub, but I still wish I didn't have to worry.

Knowing when you have enough avoids dishonor, and knowing when to stop will keep you from danger.
— #LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, Vs 44 tr J. H. McDonald #Laozi #Daodejing #Tao #Taoism #Taoist #Dao #Daoism #Daoist

Accept being unimportant.
— Gia-Fu Feng, #TaoTeChing by #Laozi, Verse 13

If you follow me you know I play a lot of Dragon Age Origins. I'm always on my final, final campaign, definitely the last one While I have now started BG3, and am thoroughly enjoying it, it's reserved for the daylight hours, so I am still sneaking in an hour or two of DAO on those evenings when I have enough spoons available and still enjoying it thoroughly. So, I thought I'd start a wee thread on the mods I am personally using with DAO in case anyone was interested, only the thread became so long I decided to create a blog post on my website instead

https://cazimodocreative.co.uk/modding-dragon-age-origins/

He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire and creates confusion in those who think that they know.
#TaoTeChing, Ch 3 Tr by Stephen Mitchell #dao #tao #daoism #taoism #daodejing

"Once upon a time, I, Zhuang Zhou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhou. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man." - #Zhuangzi, Ch 2 tr Burton Watson

"Physarum 1.0"

After another day in the HLSL code for my Physarum Force for the particle system in Tooll3, I achieved a first version of agents that follow their own pheromones.
I also added several parameters for a wider range of control.

Great straightness seems twisted. Great intelligence seems stupid. Great eloquence seems awkward.
— Gia-Fu Feng, #daodejing, Verse 45

#Denmark: government plans to hand postal service to private #monopoly that uses precarious employees. #Union expects further price increases and service deterioration.

https://uniglobalunion.org/news/denmark-ends-letter-delivery-3f-uni-global-union/

'Second chance'

A small tribute to my favorite character from dragon age origins

In cubic space, a star is born
And from it's sides, the force is torn
To melt inside, into a sun
To glow forever and have fun ;-)

Had an idea today and it worked right away. 4 million Tooll3 (https://tooll.io) particles with a bit of feedback for smoother motion.

May this warm your heart.

Cheers,

Tom

Spent a good day in DAO yesterday in the Deep Roads. I took Wynn with me as far as I could, but I had to complete the Anvil of the Void without a mage, because I wanted to take Shale with me as I've never done that before, and of course you have to take Oghren past a certain point. My character is also a warrior and I needed Liliana for the traps and chests, so mage-less it was ( again ). All I can say is have loads of healing potions and injury kits if you do it like that and be prepared for slow tactical battles with lots of pausing in between. Highly satisfactory when you finally complete it though. I had the same feeling as I did when I finally conquered a black run on a climbing wall after six months of trying

I've been managing a sneaky hour of gaming before bed the last couple of nights as my energy levels have been pretty good of late. I need to do the Anvil of the Void in DAO and yes, I have ended up in the Deep Roads without a mage yet again so I am putting that off until I can spend proper time on it this weekend, and I started playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker instead just to see what it was like. The rules seem complicated, but I'm mostly just bumbling along happily without paying much attention to those and the dice roll gods have been kind. It's a nice change and good fun.

"Entanglement"

All life is entangled, connected, entwined.
No matter how different, we're all one.

Tooll3 particles - 4 million - flow through space and time, and I tried to capture the emotion with my EWI USB and Respiro.

Give your soul some space to breath.

Good morning everyone I've just finished the usual parrot cage cleaning, food prep and Ziggy cuddle and the Crew are all munching breakfast happily now. I think I have figured out Ziggy's refusal to take her meds mix with me in the morning. I was confused as to why Grant, who doesn't let her out in the morning, has no issue with it, while I did. Apparently, according to Ziggy, the rule is that sitting with Mum and eating her meds in the evening is fine, but meds must be delivered at the cage in the morning I took her over and she sat on the cage door and happily consumed the lot, whereas moments before she was nipping at me for offering it to her. Parrots eh?

Gaming day today. Still playing my beloved DAO. We picked up Shale recently so may head to Orzammar and the Deep Roads today, or maybe the Forest first. We'll see how it plays out.

Have a lovely day, whatever you get up to

Genuary 2025 Day 14: "Pure black and white. No gray."

A very rare species of octolateral pointillist beings living in the black void.
Feeding on single-pixel organisms they catch in their grids...

Larger Version:
https://youtu.be/lgS0phg13vQ

When a country is in harmony with the Tao,

the factories make trucks and tractors.

When a country goes counter to the Tao,

warheads are stockpiled outside the cities.

There is no greater illusion than fear,

no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,

no greater misfortune than having an enemy.

Whoever can see through all fear

will always be safe. #dao #tao