ansuz @ansuz@social.privacytools.io

@yukiame yea, I live here.

People in #Paris are celebrating labour day by rioting.

I decided to mark the occasion by supporting the labour behind one of my favourite free software projects by donating $20 a month to support Pixelfed development.

If you're using Pixelfed and are lucky enough to have some disposable income, consider pitching in: https://www.patreon.com/dansup/posts

@grempe @cryptpad neat.

I deployed my janky prototype today: https://demo.cryptography.dog/beacon/

Dice rolling is an mvp, but I'm working on using the same api for something more interesting.

@jj I said it was a coincidence, but after switching over I haven't had that issue.

In any case, I'm on a deadline and don't have time to figure out what's happening.

Using #libreoffice to format a research project proposal and coincidentally my laptop has fully locked up and then crashed my DE three times. Guess I have to use google docs? #yikes

@dorifer This last toot sounds way more negative than intended..

I was gonna toot about it some more but I figured it would be easier to just write a blog post.

Voila: https://transitiontech.ca/random/why-bother

@dorifer by which I mean it's unlikely to attract more contributors without first proving that the software has a decently sized (prospective) userbase.

Maybe lots of gamers care about privacy, but the status quo doesn't seem to indicate that. I'd love to be surprised, though.

@dorifer the difficulty level for any software project is largely a matter of the programmer's experience with the topic. I said it's beyond me, but I'd love to be able to lay good foundations for privacy/secure gaming and then collaborate with someone who knows about maps.

It's a fun hobby project, but for it to go past that I think I'd need to figure out what demographic of tabletop gamers are sufficiently concerned with privacy or centralization that they'd switch off the existing platforms.

@dorifer It's good to hear that at least one person would want to use it.

Is there a proprietary/unencrypted platform you're using for this kind of thing at the moment? I know of roll20, but a full map interface is beyond what I can do in my spare time.

I want to identify a main set of workflows that could be sufficient for some simple games.

For what it's worth....

It is proven! I am ansuz on Keybase: https://keybase.io/ansuz/sigchain#eed7a706b75b21b141f37df0b7f433e35d5115bd5108012d86e8043f04f67cf80f

@Yoric I was browsing #tabletop tags and came across this question. I'm working on tools for cheat-proof p2p gaming using cryptography.

I'm also based in #Paris, by the way.

@poggie its already in our plan, but I don't have a clear idea of when.

Unfortunately history isn't an extra feature you can turn off, it's an intrinsic part of how collaboration works in CryptPad.

My personal drive is up in the gigabytes, so I'd certainly like to be able to trim things. I'm planning to update our roadmap soon, so I'll think about where we could make this fit.

This weekend I prototyped an app I've been thinking about for a while. I was inspired by http://cryptorpg.com/ (Cryptomancer RPG).

It's an encrypted chat room with dice-rolling functionality, but the rolls are provably fair thanks to some fun #crypto.

It uses some APIs from the @cryptpad server so I didn't have to do all the low-level websocket stuff again.

I'll publish the source and deploy it somewhere as soon as I clean it up a bit and improve the UX. #tabletop ##ttrpg #dnd #privacy

@ScottMortimer +1 for encrypting more internet traffic.

All the same, it feels weird to recommend increasing privacy by recommending a google service. I get the trade-offs, but it's funny.

@poggie yea, that's the history of all your changes. We're planning to add an easy way to trim the history, but for now a workaround is to copy the content to a new pad and delete the current. Unfortunately that means other people will lose access.

In general we're careful about features involving deletion because we don't know what we're erasing. This one might take some time and a lot of testing.