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Windows 10 came with an application to view 3D models in obj and other formats, but it's no longer included in Windows 11. You have to download it separately now (it's still free).

There's an add-on called BreezeWiki which redirects you to an annoyance-free mirror of Fandom sites, which makes it at least a little less annoying to visit those wikis. It can also redirect you to a community-run wiki if it exists.

I found it through Libredirect which is the same idea but for more sites, but some of the alternative sites don't work as well in my experience.

The main way the game teaches you how to play is the "advancements" system. It's a tree of achievements, starting with "walk around" and "chop down a tree", and ending with "defeat the final boss" or "bake a cake", each with a one-line description.

There's also a "recipe book", which tells you how to craft[1] items. More recipes get added as you collect the ingredients needed to make them.

However, these systems were only added in 2017. (For contrast, the game started development in 2009 and reached 1.0 in 2011.) Before that, how to progress was a lot less clear. It was assumed you had someone teaching you how to play, that you watched videos of other people playing, or that you read the wiki.

[1]: The process of combining the items you've collected, by slotting them into a 3×3 grid in a specific pattern (the "recipe"), to make new, more useful items.

What red flags, exactly?

If you're curious what it says, I put the Russian text in a translator:

  > glory to Ukraine!
  > rel 20200126 15:15
  > rel 20200126 15:46 added ubuntu 19.10 【thanks russkis】
  > rel 20200127 02:46 removed upx,  crashes often, unpacked version only now

The bracketed text is written in Ukrainian

Is distributing it as a patch of `portal_pak_000.vpk' meant more as a form of "DRM"? Because I doubt that BPS can manage to reuse a lot of bits from a file meant for a completely different version of the game...

Though, the creator of noclip.website does have a YouTube channel where they post interesting videos about 3D graphics: https://youtube.com/@JasperRLZ

It's not like support for v2 was removed immediately after v3 was released.

v2 and v3 coëxisted for over three years, giving 16 months advance warning of the deprecation, ending in a four month period where support was removed from the server but the client could still connect to it.

Operators had plenty of time to upgrade their services.

In the presentation made when it was discovered[0] they said: “The NTR cartridge was likely meant to be used for either the factory setup or as a means of recovering bricked NANDs. However, we'll never know for sure.”

[0]: https://sciresm.github.io/33-and-a-half-c3/

Someone in the Reddit comments recorded a video of it happening: https://streamable.com/qdhin3

I think having tickets at all is antiquated. In the Netherlands, there are terminals at the stations you tap your bank card against to "check in". When you get off, you tap it again at that station and your card gets charged. Sometimes the conductor comes around with a device to make sure people have checked in.

If you don't want your travel to be associated with your bank account, you can get a chip card which can be topped up using cash.

The key costs 880 SEK. That's about 78 euros or 85 dollars. It's designed to be future proof, with applications being uploaded to the device by the host.

The website feels a bit cramped with all the large text on desktop, like it was only tested on phones

From the screenshot it looks like an UWP app. So it's not a "proper native" win32 application.

The certificate for Twitter's hidden service expired a full week ago and they still haven't exchanged it.

The name is a little bit unfortunate. There's already a company in the AI space called Latitude: https://latitude.io

I think having a JSON manipulator like jq be standard would be good, since it would encourage other tools to include JSON as an output format. I think it would reduce complexity as a whole, since tools would no longer need a lot of switches to configure their output, without making the user resort to sed scripts.

Of course it is. It rather plainly restricts the user from using the software in a specific way, which is against user freedom.

I find it hard to believe that some indie techno band _hasn't_ made a song called "internal server error".

Sort of. He does encourage this use-case in the final paragraph.

> Applying "Pwned or Bot" to your own risk assessment is dead simple with the HIBP API and hopefully, this approach will help more people do precisely what HIBP is there for in the first place: to help "do good things after bad things happen".

Hidden music. Some albums[1] have hidden tracks.[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_with_tracks_hid... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_track

In what way is it dystopian?

Going in exactly the opposite direction, the Electronicos Fantasticos have been making electronic instruments for humans to play: https://youtu.be/UB7ZyZSKLX8

Oh, neat idea. My go-to for this trick is to look up the Wikidata entry for a concept and look at the table of labels in different languages.

Certainly. They've already changed it such that "turning off" Wi-Fi or Bluetooth from the Control Centre doesn't actually turn off the radios, it simply disconnects any devices, or disconnects from any networks the device is currently connected to. You have to turn on Aeroplane Mode or go to the Settings app to actually turn them off.

I've recently tried Jami to chat with a friend using the new(?) Qt client, and it wasn't a very good experience. Scrolling feels terrible. When I scroll up, it keeps going for a moment even though I let go of the scroll wheel. When I scroll down, the view jumps around as images load in.

After we filled up the chat a bit, opening it again takes about six seconds. And sometimes, it starts using 60% CPU doing apparently nothing.

There is a "reply to message" function, but it's useless on images because it only shows the first part of the path to the image (you just see "/home/me/.local/share/jami/8fd7...") and clicking it doesn't bring you to the message in question.

I also tried the Android client, which was usable enough, but it could only receive messages if I had the desktop client too. But that might be because of my NAT.

On our radio, the "Now Playing" is always frustratingly far behind. It's amazing that yours is real-time enough that you can adjust the volume based on it.

は(wa) is a case marker which makes something the topic of the sentence. Topic isn't strictly analogous to subject in English.

The verb is "not eat". If the topic was "children", then the topic would be the subject when translated ('Children は not eat' -> "Children [must] not eat"). But if the topic was, say, "candy", it would instead map onto object in English ('Candy は not eat' -> "[Someone must] not eat candy").

Perhaps the translator was not aware that this flexibility does not exist in English.

It's a Java applet, so it runs everywhere, but due to the migration from minecraft.net accounts to Mojang accounts, and the second migration from Mojang to Microsoft accounts, a lot of people lost access to the game.

Yes, you have been hanging out with the wrong crowd: https://youtu.be/BZLFIRkPmcE

My preferred way of editing text on Android is to run Vim in Termux. If there's a terminal editor that you like (nano, emacs, joe, ed are all available too), try running it through there.