I believe you’re talking about the Steam Link. Which if you had ethernet running everywhere worked pretty good.

The old Steam Machine branding was more a set of guidelines / branded manufacturer specs for mini-PCs. Not many actually came out and yeah it got shut down pretty quickly. Though it was the origin of Steam OS / Big Picture Mode and what became Proton.

That would be amazing, but given how speculative the Framework and other RISC projects are I feel like that would be a massive headline for Valve.

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Every operation your computer does. From displaying images on a screen to securely connecting to your bank.

It’s an interesting advancement and it will be neat if something comes of it down the line. The chances of it having a meaningful product in the next decade is close to zero.

Even if quantum computing turns out to actually be infeasible and classical cryptography is secure for the next millennia, it’s still a good feature to have a third independent encryption layer in the protocol. It makes it that much less likely reliant on the other two being bulletproof.

I believe that supposed to be whether you can get to their website to download clients / register / etc through TOR. Not that the VPN can access the TOR network.

Dude history class was boring. “Good one” status is binding don’t you know that? /s

Worm also has far and away the best in-world explanation of why everyone puts up with the cops and robbers BS as well. It’s just so freakin good.

I just hope at some point they’ll be able to reformat/release it as an ebook or something. I know a lot of people get turned off by it being on wordpress. ( I know there’s at least one unofficial one but still. )

I just have a basic pilots license (PPL) but a lot of rural airports it’s normal to cancel radar services (IFR / flight following) when you have the airport in sight because there’s no tower and you’re making location callouts on the airport frequency in case there’s traffic nearby. ATC can and will ask to let you go without if they’re busy or whatever as well.

Especially in mountainous areas radar/transponder coverage can be pretty spotty unless you’re pretty high up or near a larger airport.

Smells like any other random conspiracy theory.

Some very few do, not sure if they’re in China though.

“Windfarms hurt birds” is 90+% fossil fuel propaganda though. Yes birds run into windmills, they also run into skyscrapers and houses and antennas and planes.

We should of course look for ways to mitigate that. We should not just pretend smokestacks do no harm and not develop renewable energy projects.

Dogs are significantly more subjective. And there’s a noticeable correlation with dogs trying to please their handler by indicating someone the handler is suspicious of.

Nothing is foolproof and its good to have more tools in the kit.

This kind of fundamental university based research is about to get a whole lot rarer in the US and that’s not great.

2 factor authentication via app/texting I’d imagine.

An authenticator app is better than basically anything but a physical token / key generator, but the apps are more universally supported. No one is probably going to spoof your phone number to get into your accounts… But doesn’t hurt to me more secure about it anyway.

They keep refering to them as “undocumented cellular radios”, which either means they have no idea what they’re talking about (very probable) or that they’re concerned it’s getting on the Internet. In theory, decades from now they could maybe all turn off simultaneously and cause a noticeable lack of power. I guess.

Mostly, it’s very frustrating that the articles are all about what inverters and batteries are and that the US doesn’t trust China, instead of what the things they say they found actually fucking are.

I can see thinking the tragedy of the commons is capitalist propaganda if you think there is a hard line between people and corporations.

The North Sea fishing industry didn’t collapse because too many of the proletariat wanted to do a lot of fishing, it collapsed because thousands of people organized into dozens of groups that systematically overstrained the ecosystem. Because those groups wanted to make more profit for a small group of hundreds of people. Everyone involved was acting in their rational best interest with no oversight or regulation guarding the big picture view and it caused everyone involved to destroy their livelihoods. Other than the ones at the top who’s livelihood is/was consolidating profit of course.

The tragedy of the commons isn’t about how it’s an individual’s fault or responsibility. It’s about how larger groups need disinterested guardrails for long term higher quality of life.

Yes, but littering used to be a legitimately big problem to. Like the hole in the ozone, now that it’s “solved”/ the norm for it to be getting better the focus should shift to other things.

I mess with SC and S42 every few years, have access from the kickstarter from way back when.

They’re fine. They’re even neat. But Elite Dangerous gives 90% of what their original promises were and has much more demonstrable development progress. Planetary systems without a loading screen is not as impressive as it was in the early 2010s. Kerbal Space Program was created and died since then.

If you have to have someone enforce the land registry or the documents, what is the benefit of the database being zero trust?

German copyright laws?

I spent a ton of time on LotR II and it’s expansion. I distinctly remember finding the box for 3 a few years later and just being confused that they didn’t seem to know what was good about their game.

Had a complicated time trying to get 2 running a few years ago, I think I ended up setting up a Win95 VM specifically for it. But now it looks like they’re just on GoG and Steam. Might have to grab it there.

I find it so incredibly frustrating that we’ve gotten to the point where the “marketing guys” are not only in charge, but are believed without question, that what they say is true until proven otherwise.

“AI” becoming the colloquial term for LLMs and them being treated as a flawed intelligence instead of interesting generative constructs is purely in service of people selling them as such. And it’s maddening. Because they’re worthless for that purpose.