A look at LitRPG

July 10, 2025 scaine 0

Ah, Literary Role Play Game novels. Such a dichotomy of pleasure and pain. Pleasure in their premise – a fantasy or (occasionally) sci-fi novel which incorporates game-like statistics to track character progress, all overseen by a gaming “System”. And… pain. Lots of pain, take your […]

The Ethics of AI (June 2025)

June 24, 2025 scaine 0

This short article outlines the ethics of using AI (mainly generative AI, or large language models), as of June 2025. In short, there exists no truly ethical way to engage with AI currently. This article will outline a few of the ways that support this […]

pfSense install on Ubuntu

April 29, 2020 scaine 0

I’m looking forward to installing pfSense on my soon-to-arrive pico PC device, a little fanless unit with four gigabit interfaces. It’s been a long time since I had a proper stateless firewall to administer, and I’m hoping that the performance of this miniature monster will […]

Just say no

March 18, 2019 scaine 0

Quick post, just to note my general loathing for Denuvo DRM in games. Both for the fact that it’s DRM generally, but more for the fact that it practically roots your PC, causing slow downs in the games it “protects”. Quotes for protects there, since […]