The earliest recorded peace treaty was between two Middle Eastern empires, and was written millennia before the religion of Islam came into being. Many of the ancient world’s most famous conflicts happened in the Middle East, long before Islam. The Judahite Revolts against the 2nd Babylonian Empire, resulting in the destruction of Solomon’s Temple. The conquests of Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great. The many wars Rome fought with inhabitants of the Middle East, including the Parthians, Sassanids, and Judeans.

From the pinned comment:

Main takeaways:

• No this is not worse than the OGL scandal, however the license is currently objectively worse than what Hasbro currently publishes D&D under and can be revoked/revised for future works and updates to previous works at any time.
• I share Dungeons and Discourse’s main point: we want a competitor to D&D to succeed and for any TTRPG having a thriving a 3PP community is vital to that. That’s the purpose of these critiques.
• Yes, I have seen the Roll for Combat stream where they say that people are overreacting to the license. I respond to it at 9:13, and welcome people to see RFC’s stream.
• I make specific comparisons between Darrington Press’ GCL and other companies’ licenses post-OGL crisis, which do not have similar problematic provisions.
• I learn during this stream that DP has said they have heard the community’s concerns and suggested there will be changes when they release a Homebrewing Kit for Daggerheart. I’m happy they are, and hopefully this video helps ensure they make changes addressing community concerns - I did this stream/video because I was worried that the video I respond to would make DP (and other TTRPG companies) not feel like they have to. As I say in this video, one scenario is that this contract was drafted by a lawyer not familiar with the TTRPG hobby (and that DP’s leadership “left it to the lawyers”).
• DP may have valid reasons to not go with the licenses I cite that other TTRPG companies are following. But if that is true, they should explain what they are.

0:00 Intro
3:13 As bad as OGL scandal?
4:15 What other TTRPG companies are doing
6:03 Analysis of license
15:00 Dungeons & Discourse: Clickbait?
20:49 Darrington Press’s response
21:42 Reacting to Bob World Builder

Oooohhh. I thought you had somehow completely flubbed typing the word “big”, or something like that.

Man I hate it when I’m around someone with a istg dick complex.

Only if they’re in a swing state. If they in a safe blue or safe red state, eh, have at it.

Hard disagree on that. That’s assuming the intentions of the people.

No it’s not. It’s acknowledging the fact that campaigning politicians largely view people as one of the following:

• With us
• Against us
• Someone we might be able to persuade to be with us
• Not relevant

If you don’t vote, they categorise you in that last one. It doesn’t matter what’s in your heart, what matters is how they perceive you. The only tool you have to change that is your vote.

I just took a really quick look at it, but under Importing data from Nominatim it says “-country-codes allows to filter the data to be imported by country. Set this to a comma-separated list of two-letter language codes.”

That’s a different section from the Importing data from a JSON dump section, which is where it only mentions -country-code. But even that does seem to suggest it takes “all the parameters of an import from a Nominatim database”. So it seems like either the documentation for one of them is wrong, or both are lacking (because in fact both the singular and plural work).

If you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.

Ah ok thanks. This is what I was wondering.

Two follow-ups:

Can you specify multiple COUNTRY_CODEs? (and if so, is the method

environment:
  - COUNTRY_CODE=country_one
  - COUNTRY_CODE=country_two

or

environment:
  - COUNTRY_CODE=[country_one, country_two]

or something else?)

And is this something that can seemlessly be retroactively changed? For example, if I set COUNTRY_CODE=au and it works fine for Australia, but then I move to NZ, can I add (assuming the answer to my first question is yes) or change to COUNTRY_CODE=nz and have all the NZ locations work on the already-recorded data, even if I made that change to my configuration after I had been in NZ for a few months?

Is that true even if you’re not in hybrid mode?

I don’t actually have any personally. I’m still with Google Photos for now and hadn’t decided what to switch to, with Immich, Nextcloud, and the non-open Synology Photos being the top of my list. Legitimately, what a tool like this supports could be a factor I use to help decide.

How complicated is the code interfacing with Immich? Is it a piece someone not familiar with your overall code base could relatively easily pick up and make a pull request for?

I love that it supports multiple formats for important location as well as multiple geocoders. But that makes me wonder, would it be feasible to support multiple image libraries? There’s a bunch of different FOSS photo libraries out there. I think Nextcloud is the main other one I’ve heard about ‘in the wild’, as it were. Or is there too much bespoke Immich code in there for that to be a simple plug-and-play option?

Oh interesting. I’ve just read through that link, and I was assuming that something similar to the “external only” option would have been the only way it worked. More specifically, I thought it’d just store a list of historical points and display those on an OSM overlay. But it seems like even “external only” is much more involved than that.

What happens with self-hosted Photon if you specify a country, but then also visit another country? (I assume in hybrid mode it’s as simple as "use Photon in your country, use Nominatim otherwise?)

But yeah, definitely sounds like a Pi is probably not gonna cut it. I’ll have to see if my Synology can do it, or if the weird OS restrictions Synology imposes prevent it.

Fuck yeah this is awesome! The detail of Immich integration is just the icing on top of an awesome cake!

How demanding is it on server resources? Am I likely to be able to run it on an old Raspberry Pi that’s also running a couple of other relatively light tasks? How much storage does it end up using over time? I’m probably going to try and get it running either on my Pi or my Synology NAS, though the latter has had issues with Docker containers in the past depending on the container’s dependencies…

You’re going to downvote my factual information in favor of your disenfranchising bullshit? Bruh. You don’t even go here.

Nope. I didn’t even see your comment until after the edit. I am going to downvotes because of the edit, though. Probably woulda upvoted otherwise.

I vote. I’m not American, in case my instance name didn’t give it away. I’d vote even if I didn’t want to, because it’s mandatory to do so, one of several vast improvements my country has over yours in the quality of our democratic processes.

But did you watch the video you linked in the last comment? Because it completely turns your argument on its head. You say “if you voted, they’d cater to you”. But that video clearly demonstrates that the exact inverse is true. If you want to get out the vote in a large segment of the Zero Primes, all you have to do is run as exciting campaign with bold progressive policies. The evidence is all laid out there in front of you, even in common sense couldn’t get you there.

But that video basically tells you straight-out… the usual campaign strategies are clearly wrong. You put out a campaign that gets people excited and suddenly way more people get out to vote. It’s not a complicated theory. It clearly works in practice.

All of this conversation though, just shows how fucking poor democracy based around voter turnout is. Put elections on a weekend or make it a public holiday, and make voting mandatory (with the option of a blank ballot for those who really object to voting). It doesn’t solve all your problems. But it sure does help a lot.

Jesus fucking christ you’re bad at your job. Tell me, how is

Death to Israeli apartheid

A call to violence? It’s pretty explicitly a call to end violence.

How is

Death to the institutions that uphold the Israeli Apartheid

? It’s pretty obviously a criticism of an institution, and not a call to violence towards people.

The same is true of

Death to the institutions that uphold the occupation, the disposession and the genocide of Palestinians. Death to the structures that maim the humanity of both the colonizers and the colonized

Stop defending genocide you absolute fucking maniac.

In what world is suggesting one army should attack another army not a “call to violence”?

Your rulings are just complete nonsense. There’s no consistency. You’re just applying it based on your own whims. One of which seems, based on how you’re applying it, to be “genocide is ok when it’s done to brown people”.

So is saying “Ukrainian should beat the Russian army” “removable”, then?

Speaking of Russian propaganda, is saying “Russian soldiers invading Ukraine should be killed” also bannable?