Dungeons & Dragons
Fapsi.be Shutdown
kromonos
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I'm done with these morons and I don't have time to deal with any stupid asshole who just takes the compiled blocklists from these cretins who definitely have to compensate their shitty life by puffing themselves up on the Internet. I have neither the time nor the nerves to take care that this stupidity doesn't spread to my instances. For me, Mastodon is the new Twitter. The same hateful energy with the same hateful fucking witch hunts because some morons fucked up their life.
cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/188396 > Since known bullying instances like mastodon.art, tenforward.social, hackers.town, artisan.chat, cloudisland.nz, rage.love, szmer.info, mstdn.social, stop.voring.me, eldritch.cafe, cultofshiv.wtf, weirder. earth, social.cosmick9.net, and their stupid lemmings continue to run lies and hate-speech against me, and now at Mastodon the possibility is given to blindly import any blocklists from these narcissistic sociopaths with their beloved #FediBlock bullshit, I don't see any valid point in contributing to Fediverse anymore and will concentrate on other things. > > Therefore, I will shutdown fapsi.be without replacement at the end of February.
cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/188396 > Since known bullying instances like mastodon.art, tenforward.social, hackers.town, artisan.chat, cloudisland.nz, rage.love, szmer.info, mstdn.social, stop.voring.me, eldritch.cafe, cultofshiv.wtf, weirder. earth, social.cosmick9.net, and their stupid lemmings continue to run lies and hate-speech against me, and now at Mastodon the possibility is given to blindly import any blocklists from these narcissistic sociopaths with their beloved #FediBlock bullshit, I don't see any valid point in contributing to Fediverse anymore and will concentrate on other things. > > Therefore, I will shutdown fapsi.be without replacement at the end of February.
Since known bullying instances like mastodon.art, tenforward.social, hackers.town, artisan.chat, cloudisland.nz, rage.love, szmer.info, mstdn.social, stop.voring.me, eldritch.cafe, cultofshiv.wtf, weirder. earth, social.cosmick9.net, and their stupid lemmings continue to run lies and hate-speech against me, and now at Mastodon the possibility is given to blindly import any blocklists from these narcissistic sociopaths with their beloved #FediBlock bullshit, I don't see any valid point in contributing to Fediverse anymore and will concentrate on other things. Therefore, I will shutdown fapsi.be without replacement at the end of February.
Dungeons & Dragons
D&D won’t change the OGL, handing fans and third-party publishers a massive victory
kromonos
2 years ago
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I haven't taken a closer look yet: https://www.opendnd.games/
Dungeons & Dragons
D&D won’t change the OGL, handing fans and third-party publishers a massive victory
kromonos
2 years ago
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My DM said, that we will stay on 5 as long as we can, but he's also taking a look into OpenDND.
www.polygon.com
Open Source
Clever Code Considered Harmful
kromonos
2 years ago
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Clever Code? Sounds like a company 🫣
Open Source
Clever Code Considered Harmful
kromonos
2 years ago
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Never heard of them. What do they do?
Dungeons & Dragons
‘People are leaving the game’: Dungeons & Dragons fans revolt against new restrictions
kromonos
2 years ago
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Unfortunately, it's not only WotC who have increased the prices. When I think about RaspberryPI and that a 4B+ costs around 250 USD and more.
It seems that during this pandemic, in the last few years, a few brains have melted.
www.theguardian.com
Dungeons & Dragons
Will Pathfinder still be standing after the dust settles?
kromonos
2 years ago
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My DM will, as far as I know him, ignore anything, even if it's official, which may break our game or when it needs a lot of rework. Maybe the community just ignores it? 😆 I know some groups, which are still on 3.5, so it could work.
Dungeons & Dragons
Will Pathfinder still be standing after the dust settles?
kromonos
2 years ago
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I've been with D&D for over 25 years and still have a lot of fun. There were so many changes over time, but they all turned out to be fun in the end. With major revisions, it always took time, but the community shaped up and made changes to the changes, which became lore.
> > > Is there a consensus on what #Pathfinder is going to look like after the dust settles on the #D&D / #OGL changes? I've just shut down my dndbeyond subscription as a result of the changes and told my group we need to move the campaign to another system. But #Paizo and Pathfinder are the main targets of the changes, so I'm not sure whether that will even be an option for us!
mamot.fr
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/249426 > He is not a lawyer (and neither am I) but Doctorow knows *a great deal* about licenses and rights, and I definitely learned some interesting things from this.
gizmodo.com
Books
kromonos
2 years ago
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With a separate notebook in the following format:
pagenr:linenr - note
kromonos
2 years ago
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Minio, weil man es selbst betreiben kann. Den Serverstandort und wer darauf zugriff hat, würdest dann du bestimmen. Bei Amazon S3 selbst weiß man nie, wer darauf Zugriff hat und da Amazon ein US-Unternehmen ist, ist es an den Patriot-Act gebunden und muss Daten bei Nachfrage an CIA, FBI, .. herausgeben.
kromonos
2 years ago
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Man könnte einen Server mieten, der nur so vor Speicher strotzt und da mit z.B. Minio eine S3 kompatible Schnittstelle bereitstellen. Damit wäre das Thema Datenschutz wieder im grünen Bereich.
Der Server würde nicht viel CPU oder RAM brauchen, nur an Speicher würde ich dann auch nicht sparen.
Linux
kromonos
2 years ago
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I expected a whole gtk/qt theme, but it looks like it's just a wallpaper?
www.dicebreaker.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/646135 > D&D's corporate overlords have "ideas" about milking more money from the franchise.
COVID-19 Pandemic
Subscribers of this sub, do you still use masks in public?
kromonos
2 years ago
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Even if everybody says, that the pandemic is "over", I'll wear my mask on trains, bus, while shopping, and so on. Because I don't think, that the pandemic is over and ppl just making it worse when they stop wearing masks.
www.cbr.com
kromonos
2 years ago
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I ordered several times from https://stickerapp.com/ and was always very happy with the result.
Programmer Humor
A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom
kromonos
2 years ago
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"Why did you do this?"
"Because I can" 😂
kromonos
2 years ago
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I would say so too, if it was more than just a hobby. Nevertheless, anybody can add the Creative Commons license to their work as long as it is their own work.
Hobby bloggers like to make this their own. But I understand the point you're making.
kromonos
2 years ago
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And I'm running several lawsuits against individuals because of copyright infringements. So it definitely matters enough.
kromonos
2 years ago
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Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you. Copyright infringement also matters when private individuals are affected. E.g. when a private person uses CreativeCommons, MIT, or GPL license. CreativeCommons is mostly used for text.
In addition, you need to read the TOS of the platform to see if they do not take the rights, as Facebook does, for example.
kromonos
2 years ago
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There is a privacy community on on lemmy.ca: !privacy@lemmy.ca
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons Languages - All 16 languages
kromonos
2 years ago
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yeah. A better overview would be really lovely 😄
Especially, that dndlanguages.com seem to miss some, like Drowish.
Lemmy
kromonos
2 years ago
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Simply ban the IPs & the accounts of the abusers while enforcing the rules, and it shall be clean after a while.
That would work. But banning the IP would mean banning whole instances, because spam does not only come from the local instance. Banning the user by username does work for 5 minutes, before they register a new account.
Since nobody who's hosting a Lemmy instance is paying a professional moderation team, which is 24/7 available to ban spam, it's almost impossible to react in time.
I don’t know how it works in lemmy, but each instance could go and have a word filter (if the post contains a blacklisted word, it would be held for review).
This word filter is called slur-Filter and is available. Nevertheless, this has been criticized by outsiders very often and Lemmy as a whole was made bad.
I am Not Talking about the software feature, I am talking about why the 5,000 or so users who have an account at lemmy are unable to speak & interact with each other.
I don't think it's particularly beneficial to criticize Lemmy because some instance blocks others, but applaud Mastodon for “moderation”, on which a hashtag is highly valued that “recommends” blocking entire instances because one person has a problem with another on another instance.
kromonos
2 years ago
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As for moderation, mastodon is going to pass 8,000,000 users soon, and they have gab and truth social there, yet they are still able to moderate it.
With what I've experienced on Mastodon so far, the “moderation” consists almost entirely of overblocking by distributing blacklists, which are primarily controlled by bigger instances.
www.belloflostsouls.net
That sounds interesting. Especially the part for the Drow 🤔
www.belloflostsouls.net
Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.
Using a VPN provider vs self-hosting a VPN
kromonos
2 years ago
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Do you mean that you do this to have a static IP pointing to an admin page? Why does that increase security?
Exactly this. You can configure nginx/apache this way, that specific pages, like an admin interface, are only reachable from a specific IP range. If it comes from another one, you can return whatever you want.
It increases security in this way, that crawler don't even get known about such administrative pages and there's no way to brute-force the login.
Edit: Thanks for the tip with Nyr OpenVPN.
Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.
Using a VPN provider vs self-hosting a VPN
kromonos
2 years ago
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I'm running 2 OpenVPN server. One on a VPS in Canada and one in Germany. The main purpose is to lock admin pages to a fix IP to increase security.
I always avoid the supposedly secure, paid VPN services, because you never know what is really recorded there. At least, you run your entire Internet traffic over it. And with these prices, you can almost lease a small VPS, install OpenVPN and browse through it.
dndlanguages.com
www.enworld.org
BKA.li Services
Removing badly moderated community /c/Fediverse
kromonos
2 years ago
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At first, the moderation was not even there. After I wrote to them and asked for moderation, it took almost 2 days until one of the two wrote back, accused me accordingly the mentioned and suspended only my account from the community. The fact that a certain guy was harassing me there was completely ignored. So this member can continue to spread his lies about me there without the moderation taking action.
If you now also consider that the insomniac moderation team of 2 persons is responsible for more than 3000 members of the group, it is simply unacceptable.
BKA.li Services
Mastodon - Who blocks whom
kromonos
2 years ago
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Thousands of single Twitter-Clones, where everyone talks to themselves. 🤣
kromonos
2 years ago
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Es geht mir mehr um das drumherum. Mehr als eine Eingabebox und die ein oder andere Zeitleiste.
kromonos
2 years ago
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Stimmt. Friendica hatte ich auch schon ausprobiert.
Ja, Friendica ist richtig gut, wäre allerdings für das einfach loswerden von schlichten, kleinen Gedanken etwas zu viel des guten und eignet sich mehr für größere, Themenbezogene Diskussionen.
Im Grunde genommen möchte ich gerne mal ein wenig ActivityPub kompatible Microblogging Software wie [Takahē](https://jointakahe.org/) herum experimentieren. Wirklich viel hab ich allerdings nicht finden können, was auf den ersten Blick auch brauchbar aussah. Bisher habe ich ausprobiert: Pleroma, Mastodon, MissKey, HubZilla sind mir zu aufgebläht. Zudem will ich als Admin mit Mastodon nicht in Verbindung gebracht werden. Die Software ist nicht schlecht, aber die Community entwickelt sich im Steilflug zu einer 1:1 Kopie von Twitter. GNUsocial ist toll und auch die Entwickler klasse, aber hatte ich erstens schon und zweitens zu viel drumherum. GotoSocial: Im Grunde nicht schlecht. Minimal und mit Tusky kompatibel. **Aber**: Die Entwickler sind mehr als aggressiv und treten jeden mit Füßen, der nicht ihre Liebe zum Overblocking mit #Fediblock teilt. microblog.pub: Ist mir schon fast zu schlicht. Ich möchte nicht noch erst eine saubere Oberfläche entwickeln müssen. Ich weiß. Im Grunde genommen ist Takahē schon genau das, was ich suche. Aber wer weiß, vielleicht kennt ja jemand von euch doch noch etwas passendes? 😄
Ich habe mir mal erlaubt, [Takahē](https://jointakahe.org/) unter tavern.drow.be zu installieren. Auch wenn es noch sehr gering in der Funktionalität ist, so ist es doch schon recht ansprechend und hat, in meinen Augen, einiges an Potenzial. Schade, dass es noch nicht wirklich zum Einsatz funktioniert, da Optionen, wie "Antworten" scheinbar fehlen, aber es zeigt gut, wohin es geht. Ich finde es schön schlicht, minimal. Eigentlich das, was Microblogging sein sollte, oder?
gitlab.com
Das klingt eigentlich sehr interessant. Hat da schon jemand erfahrung mit? Ich konnte leider keine laufende Instanz davon finden.
A few days ago, a page was published in the Fediverse where you could check which Mastodon instance is blocking whom in the Fediverse. This was made possible by a programmer who used the new Mastodon API introduced in 4.0 and automatically read out the blacklists of the instances. The information about who blocks who is in many ways more than just interesting for those who want to choose an instance. As it was already written in a German thread about the topic, it would be helpful to know whether you reach your target group at all, if you register on an instance.
We remove the /c/Fediverse from our instance, because moderation is almost gone and if they’re active, they tolerate harassment, spreading hate-speech and lies, and interpret a publication of a who blocks whom list as “Weird unhinged rant trying to just basically air out which instances are blocked by which before going on a huge unhinged rant”. While the creator and spreader of lies and hate speech is allowed to continue spreading his lies, the creator is banned for 14 days. The moderation is consistently illogical and inhumane and only increasingly supports the spread of hatred and agitation, which, according to most Fediverse instances, actually did not want to take over from Twitter and Co. For those who still wants to see the file, they removed: https://mws.bka.li/sharex/who_blocks_whom_on_mastodon.json
hasura.io
indoorgamebunker.com
It's kind of amusing how often reality and fiction are mixed just to have something. I have noticed this, especially when it comes to religion or politics.
BKA.li Services
Blacklisting toot.lgbt on fapsi.be
kromonos
2 years ago
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The continuing reaction of rysiek, through ignorance, arrogance and an apparent absence of intelligence on his part, as well as on the part of his followers, only confirms my decision and furthermore becomes more like a recommendation for all administrators in the Fediverse to ban the aggressors mentioned here completely.
But interesting that he instantly takes it as harassment if you mention him, but he doesn't take it as harassment when he spreads hatred and lies against others.
kromonos
2 years ago
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He killed Chewbacca? :o ...
I currently have only read the Drizzt saga, but was not really convinced by it. My next plan was the Dark Elf Trilogy, but I heard that's the same as Drizzt?
screenrant.com
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons And Dragons: 10 Best Campaigns For Beginners
kromonos
2 years ago
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I must admit, that I've played none of them 🤣 Our DM creates his own adventures since years now.
screenrant.com
kromonos
2 years ago
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Die Idee klingt nicht schlecht. Ich habe allerdings mit Yacy die Tage etwas herumexperimentiert und alleine die Tatsache, dass Yacy Java basiert ist, erhöht den Ressourcenverbrauch von RAM und CPU enorm. Viele Instanzen könnten sich den Verbrauch nicht mehr leisten. Wenn dann noch wieder irgendwas auf Twitter passiert, was die Leute dazu bewegt, sich massenhaft im Fediverse zu registrieren, werden viele mit noch mehr Serverproblemen kämpfen, als sie es so schon tun würden.
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons: Best Ways To Play Online
kromonos
2 years ago
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Arme Socke 😞 Ich drück dir die Daumen, dass du da bald was findest.
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons: Best Ways To Play Online
kromonos
2 years ago
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Ich hab seit Jahren (fast) jeden Sonntag eine Gruppe über Roll20. Meist so mindestens 3 bis 4 Stunden, manchmal übertreiben wir es aber auch ein wenig und hören erst irgendwo nach 12 bis 14 Stunden auf 🤣
www.thegamer.com
kromonos
2 years ago
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I was always happy with the combination of transmissiond running on a file server and transmission-remote as client, available for Linux, Windows and Android.
kromonos
2 years ago
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Auf Bonfire bin ich echt schon gespannt. Das macht einen gut durchdachten Eindruck.
Leider bin ich aber nicht dazu gekommen, es selbst zu testen.
Informationstechnik
EU verpflichtet Smartphone-Hersteller zu fünf Jahren Updates
kromonos
2 years ago
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Besser wäre noch ein wenig länger gewesen, aber es ist zumindest mal ein Anfang.
kromonos
2 years ago
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Wouldn't it make more sense to get a small SSD instead of a USB stick and connect it via USB using an external enclosure? There shouldn't be much difference regarding performance, but there should be in lifespan. You could also split partitions up and use the free space for other things.
Fediverse
cross-posted from: https://fapsi.be/post/161886 A few days ago, a page was published in the Fediverse where you could check which Mastodon instance is blocking whom in the Fediverse. This was made possible by a programmer who used the new Mastodon API introduced in 4.0 and automatically read out the blacklists of the instances. The information about who blocks who is in many ways more than just interesting for those who want to choose an instance. As it was already written in a German thread about the topic, it would be helpful to know whether you reach your target group at all, if you register on an instance.
www.youtube.com
Since I've been watching more and more dramas and hate speech on the Fediverse, fueled by the rush of Twitter users, especially with the hashtag #FediBlock, I've decided to put a block into my web application firewall for any Mastodon, Pleroma, and MissKey instances for the domains [teleyal.blog](https://teleyal.blog) and [drow.be](https://drow.be), so that that software can't fetch any metadata anymore. So if you don't see a beautiful preview of my domains in your timeline, it's because my website blocks it. Since there is no respect for any applicable laws in the hate that is stirred up via #FediBlock, it has the positive side effect that any images from my website that are protected by copyright by me, as well as the artist, are also not displayed on dubious websites. Apparently, this microblogging format seems optimal for spreading false accusations, hatred, or other irrational ideologies. Be it Twitter, Mastodon, Pleroma or MissKey. The behavior remains the same. The only difference is that they don't have Musk to destroy it (yet).
Especially with the rush from Twitter, there are more and more bots and crawlers coming up from the Fediverse that just can't manage to send a correct UserAgent. Many apps, which want to make usage of several platforms, just submit the framework they use for their connection. Like `python/1.2.3`, `Dart/1.23` or `http.rb/1.2.3`. The biggest problem with this behavior is, that I as the operator and administrator want to secure the system, but I would lock out legitimate software by targeting only the UserAgent. Especially the `python/1.2.3` in particular, but has also attracted malicious attention many times in my log files. I'm really grateful, that Lemmy developer decided to use a customized UserAgent, so that I as admin can directly see what request it is and where it comes from. That makes it so much easier to make the decision of harm or no harm. On my servers, I started to block all requests with a “default” or empty UserAgent, but I wonder, how it's possible to fix this issue in general? Any ideas?
www.dungeonsanddragons.movie
**Braised Rabbit** Braised rabbit in a vodka sauce on a bed of mashed potatoes with a side of red peppers. 1 gp, 3 sp **Grilled Venison** Grilled bits of venison in red sauce served with quinoa with a serving of broccoli. 1 gp, 3 sp **Rotisserie-cooked Frog** Rotisserie-cooked chunks of frog in red sauce on a bed of quinoa and a helping of caramelized onions and cabbage. 1 gp, 3 sp **Braised Veal** Braised veal in red sauce served over noodles with a serving of chard and green peppers. 1 gp, 3 sp **Pan-seared Fish** Pan-seared cubes of fish in a cream sauce served with noodles and a helping of stewed onions. 1 gp, 3 sp **Baked Lamb** Baked lamb on a bed of rice. 4 cp **Grilled Fish** Grilled fish on a bed of quinoa. 4 cp **Grilled Sausage** Grilled slices of sausage on a bed of bread. 4 cp **Rotisserie-cooked Lamb** Rotisserie-cooked strips of lamb on a bed of pasta. 6 cp **License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0**
**Spotless Morningstar Pilsner** 5% ABV A microbrewed brown pilsner. Described as a refreshing pilsner with a sweet finish. Gallon price: 3 sp, 7 cp Pint price: 7 cp **House Ale** 3.5% ABV A house-brewed light brown blonde ale. Described as a bitter blonde ale with a pleasant finish. Gallon price: 3 sp Pint price: 6 cp **Moose and Beech Pilsner** 4.73% ABV A microbrewed copper-colored pilsner. Described as a sweet pilsner with notes of coffee and a rich finish. Gallon price: 3 sp, 3 cp Pint price: 6 cp **House Hard Cider** 3.14% ABV A house-brewed light amber cider. Described as a pleasantly bitter cider with a rich finish. Gallon price: 2 sp, 8 cp Pint price: 5 cp **House Malt** 4.14% ABV A house-brewed copper-colored malt. Described as a complex malt with a rich finish. Gallon price: 3 sp, 3 cp Pint price: 6 cp **Bronze Staff Fruit Ale** 4.68% ABV A locally brewed golden fruit ale. Described as a spicy fruit ale with a rich finish. Gallon price: 3 sp, 6 cp Pint price: 7 cp **Lucky Wagon Malt** 4.27% ABV A microbrewed reddish malt. Described as a mild malt with a sweet finish. Gallon price: 2 sp, 8 cp Pint price: 5 cp **Fractured Morningstar Malt** 5.5% ABV A locally brewed copper-colored malt. Described as a spicy malt with a creamy finish. Gallon price: 3 sp, 7 cp Pint price: 7 cp **License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0**