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  • boatswain@infosec.pubtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat is PID 0?
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    5 months ago

    The tl;dr from the article (which is actually worth a read):

    The very short version: Unix PIDs do start at 0! PID 0 just isn’t shown to userspace through traditional APIs. PID 0 starts the kernel, then retires to a quiet life of helping a bit with process scheduling and power management. Also the entire web is mostly wrong about PID 0, because of one sentence on Wikipedia from 16 years ago.




  • If XSS is your concern, check out Firefox’s Container Tabs. They allow you to set up tab groups that restrict access to cookies to only tabs in that group, so you can just, eg, set up a group for your bank and restrict it to just your bank’s site. Your session cookie etc are then not available to any other tab groups.

    I pair that with the Temporary Containers extension, so any random tab I open is in its own container. Everything is always separate.








  • Different people play D&D in different ways, which is one of the coolest and most frustrating things about the hobby: there’s a group out there for everyone, but at the same time finding the right group can be painful.

    It sounds like there’s a couple of things going on here: first, your DM seems to be off the classic dungeon crawl variety. This was how most games were for me Back In The Day, and the hobby originally came out of wargaming, so I feel like it’s not unexpected, particularly in Pathfinder, which is much more “combat rules” than 5e.

    Next, your DM is new. It takes a long time to get used to running a game. It can be pretty stressful trying to make sure you’ve got content to fill the four hour slot for your friends, and particularly in rules-heavy games one of the easiest things to do is just prep a combat encounter, 'cause that’ll take a lot of time. For me, I know my players well enough that I can count on them spending an hour talking to some previously-inconsequential NPC, and they trust me enough to be okay with going in the direction I gently nudge them, most of the time.

    So I guess long story short is: don’t give up on TTRPGs. Whether or not to give up on the game you’re in is up to you. You’ve got options:

    You could talk to the DM. Letting them know what you like might be more effective than telling them what you don’t; some people can get defensive.

    You could take the plunge and offer to run a oneshot (which will almost immediately be more than a single session). Showing the DM what you like instead of just telling them can be really effective, and who knows, maybe you’ll even like it?

    You could find a different group. If you’re in a town or city of any decent size, there are likely other gamers around; maybe another group will suit you better.






  • For the game I run, we’re just remote, even though we’re all in the same town and could be in person. For the group I’m a player in, we sometimes do remote, sometimes in person. When we play in person, then DM keeps Foundry on the TV. We bring laptops so we can interact with it.

    As a side note one of the things I love about Foundry is how well it pairs with Dungeondraft, which is also purchase-once rather than subscription based. Makes it really easy to have custom maps