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For the past 5 months I have been playing around with pen and paper low tech, old style cryptography, encoding for a few scavenger hunts, treasure hunt and escape room type games in the real world. I also made a kids game using these and the kids where extremely enthousiast, unfortunately, they where not able to finish it due to time constraints (we began the game too late into the party). As well as for the alternate reality game I’m working on.

I’ve been exploring alternative private and privacy preserving chat systems for a few years. In the 2000’s I remember using Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Skype, and IRC.

Beyond the Screen: Interactive Storytelling and the Quest for Authenticity

In an era saturated with synthesized content, deepfakes, and pervasive algorithmic control, the human quest for authentic engagement has evolved beyond passive consumption. We no longer merely wish to witness a narrative; we demand to be an active component of its unfolding. This deep-seated desire fuels the surge in interactive storytelling, leading to the most profound form of digital and real-world engagement ever conceived: the Alternate Reality Game (ARG). In our case, an Alternate Reality Gateway.

Here’s how AI enslavement looks like in 5 simple steps.

I don’t get it. Every company from the bank, to the courier, to the apotechary/farmacy drug store, to the electricity/gas utilities want me to install their stupid spyware apps.

I was searching for a good CalDav server. I don’t want to depend on Google/Microsoft/whatever anymore. Nor do I want something extremely complex.

Can you have a simple survey gathering information without making it too complex & having privacy issues?

RSS in 2025? Yarr! Yet another RSS Feed Reader - Self Hosted Golang App.

I’m tired of everyone hailing AI like the solution to everything. Or people projecting that “omg AI is helping us scale/build” People will realize in 10 years that they’ve destroyed the world even more thanks to the freaking disaster happening right now in the generative AI world.