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I don't know if it is intended or not, but the punchline makes it funnier. Indestructible disks are useless if/when they get lost.

> However it couldn't tolerate cellular network blackouts for a minute or two.

No shit. QUIC is great but doesn't work when the Internet is unreachable.

Are people reporting this because he's a tech founder so he must be smart? Because that figure doesn't make any sense at all. Play-to-Earn will be a thing, but 90% of games? Is he aware of how many games exist and how many are passion projects from individual developers and small teams that care about quality vs milking players?

For every Ubisoft, there's a dozen Eric Barone and Tarn Adams that care about creating art and entertainment.

Sorry, that's just a dumb prediction with no basis in reality. If you were to say 90% of worldwide game revenue will come from crypto scams^Hschemes, I would have an easier time believing it.

Soda isn't more convenient than buying bottled water in a shop, so I don't think it's because of water quality.

There's something very wrong with the first world when people discover drinking water. I'm not singling you out, I've heard the same story from other people, usually from the US, and it's mind boggling to me. I know it's the parents fault.

It's like discovering that clean air is pretty good for you and feels nice when inhaled.

There are legitimate uses of notifications from websites, like being told from my webmail that I've received a new email. Or any other messaging service. But no, let's throw the baby with the bathwater because some blog sites ask for notifications to spam you.

Apple isn't crippling PWAs because it cares about the user. They get more money if you pay for an app on their App Store. Simple as that. In every PWA thread I keep reading the same Stockholm Syndrome argument that Apple are crippling PWA to save us from the notification spam. Meanwhile I have native apps spamming me with offers.

We are at the mercy of Google. Mozilla is a non-entity at this point, getting a fat paycheck from GOOG and spending it on inane initiatives.

Also Outer Wilds, Subnautica. Small teams that have made Game of the Year winners.

It's not the Index fault, just modern VR tech hasn't taken off. The Index is a great piece of hardware. And my prediction is that the Steam Deck will sell like hotcakes.

"Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-videogames-bobby-kot... — mirror at https://archive.fo/fzdAv

And if you're completely out of the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fair_...

The most important question I have is: will they replace Bobby Kotick?

EDIT: "Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard. [...] he and his team will maintain their focus on driving efforts to further strengthen the company’s culture."

Shame on you, Microsoft.

We were already on the internet blogging and chatting on IRC when Twitter appeared. Posting "Enjoying a coffee on the beach right now" on that new platform wasn't much of a revolution.

Using short video for content instead of text is a massive paradigm shift [1], let alone VR/AR so popular for people to routinely consume content that way. The information density of text is unparalleled, the best video platforms can hope is for video to work alongside text, not to replace it altogether. Same story for VR, and this one doesn't have the technology yet. It is too bulky, too slow, too cumbersome. One day, but IMO it's a decade away still before it's ubiquitous and replaces scrolling your twitter feed on the toilet.

1: "What about YouTube?" — YT replaces TV, it's not replacing text or blogging. The point of my comment is disagreeing with the idea that facial credibility will be the future of media. I don't know where I'm going exactly with my rambling, but I feel I would loathe a future where the "news" is delivered in 30 seconds viral-made video snippets.

Nope, those would be the Zoroaustralians.

To your first paragraph I can only say: fuck that.

If that's the future, I can expect a split between the tech savvy using niche text interfaces that have served us well for decades, and the polished ultra-capitalistic corporate vast majority of the internet using video to create viral sub-minute """content""".

I hope you are wrong with the idea that TikTok clones will become the future "credibility minded social platforms" because it sounds dystopian form of idiocracy. Not everything can be reduced to quick-acting 30 seconds short videos.

(Of note: I am very aware of the incredible publicity TikTok is having on this forum, being touted as the future of the internet that we should just embrace.)

"""Since each page of the book will require many miners (minters), we must decide on what type of NFT each minter gets. I propose the following NFT variations ordered from easiest to most complex:

1. Every minter is rewarded with an identical NFT of the page.

2. Every minter is rewarded with a fraction of the final NFT that contains the page. [...]

3. By leveraging progressive JPEG 7 tech, every minter gets a unique NFT which contains the uploaded image but with different degrees of quality. [...]"""

Holy fucking shit. This could be extremely high quality satire, but they're serious, which makes it even funnier.

You've gone from being one zealot to another. Oh well, whatever floats your boat.

Not at all. Emmental has a mild, flat flavour profile where Gruyère has a full bodied rich taste, just like Comté does.

The Xbox doesn't show a Windows desktop when you plug stuff in. Your constant trolling on Linux threads isn't appreciated.

It is if you plug a monitor and peripherals. Runs a full KDE Plasma desktop.

Get yourself a terminal that supports smart copy. It's a thing.

Tilix, kitty, Windows Terminal and others support using ctrl-c for both copy-to-clipboard and SIGINT.

To me it's a game changer and judging from the sibling comments, pretty much no one knows this is a feature that exists. Ctrl-Shift-C/V is barbaric and I have opened issues and merge requests to implement it in other popular terminal emulators.

Indeed, starting medication today, I just paid for my Todoist yearly plan. Wish me luck!

Can't forget the president of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser.

Bowser is the main antagonist of Nintendo's Mario franchise.

Especially when you have top voted sibling comments saying "Some of the deepest issues that users need solved are ones that Rust was designed to solve at the language and compiler level."

What?! The year of the Linux desktop hasn't been eluding us because of buffer overflows and memory safety. The Rust hype train is incredible. The Linux desktop problems have nothing to do with the goal Rust sets out to solve.

It's definitely a good choice of language for the problem, don't get me wrong, but choosing that language doesn't improve the chances of COSMIC revolutionising the Linux desktop situation one iota.

To me it's hidden at the end of the list, but sometimes it's unreachable unless I resize my browser and many times I don't have that section at all on my Android TV. Not very useful how it's implemented.

Also, let us tell YT we're not interested in a category. I've watched a blacksmith video once, I had the Metallurgy category recommended to me for 6 months.

Google, the world famous AI company, presents the proof that recommendation engines are incredibly dumb and annoying except in very tightly controlled environments. There is nothing intelligent about it.

What? It's used by tons of legitimate applications as well. Not only malware benefits from being able to accept connections from the Internet. Games, torrents and other p2p services, etc.

> members of an elite Italian police squad raided the Naples office of small news website. The previous day it had revealed links between elected politicians and organised groups in an illegal waste dumping racket.

This is so Italy it hurts. A group of journalists investigates a possible collusion between the mafia and politicians, and the police raids the journalists' office instead.

I don't think you remember how the internet was 20 years ago very well to make a statement like that.

Ah yes, the "how many carbs can you eat in one sitting" standard American diet.

> The elephant in the room here is that you can pay to win in any game by buying a monitor with higher reftesh rate and use a larger GPU that uses more electricity to have 2x more time to react.

I'll be honest, it sounds like you have no idea how competitive gaming works, or any sport at all. Your comments sounds exactly like thinking one can be better at football by buying more expensive boots.

> Have you eaten in the last four hours?

Apparently this is a reason to feel like shit, according to this site. If you feel crap after only 4 hours since your last meal, quit eating so much sugar and eat decent food that keeps you filled and energised for a while. In fact, I reach my peak productivity at least 4 hours after a meal, when my body isn't spending much energy digesting food. Have you ever experienced the mental clarity of 12 or 24 hours of fasting?

The idea that we need to eat many small meals is such a Western, privileged world wife's tale that keeps being repeated. We're designed to function and hunt after some prey after days of starvation. We're not designed for the modern blood sugar seesaw. Not eating for 4 hours isn't gonna kill you, and if it is, stop eating Mars bars for lunch, and ingest some proper food.