You can select the text that’s over that background to make reading easier. Most of the article is below it, so you should be fine after a couple taps of Page Down.

Or use Firefox reader view, which cleans it right up. :)

The archive link:

• Doesn’t have a tracker.
• Works with scripts disabled (good privacy & security practice).
• Will still be useful when nytimes.com eventually disables your gift ID or takes the article down.

https://archive.today/noVq5

They seem to have returned to it recently. Total redesign of power play. Thargoid war with titan battles (basically massive multiplayer raids). New ships. New frame shift drives. Colonisation coming soon.

One can argue that any programming is computer science,

One could argue that, but I think it would be a weak argument.

Keeping within the subcategory of software, I think of computer science as the theoretical side and programming as the practical side. The same distinction is sometimes made in other fields, like physics.

Seems to me that the author saw a show written by people with a narrow and shallow understanding of the field. For better or for worse, it happens on TV all the time. If he wants to demonstrate a widespread disconnect in the software community, there are probably better examples out there.

Are the model and textures stock Skyrim, or were mods involved? If the latter, are you going to share which ones?

Here’s a clever use of them: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/09/crlite-part-2-end-to-end-design/

My approach with companies that do this: Contact them, explain that I will not be giving them any money due to this aggressive anti-privacy practice, and take my business elsewhere.

Bloom filters can be handy. They’re worth learning even if you don’t care about SQLite.

It’s not so much about motherboard brand as it is about the chips used on any given model. For example, ASUS makes some boards with Intel i225-v ethernet, and others with Realtek RTL822x ethernet. The Intel chip is notorious for stability problems (on all operating systems), and although I think the linux drivers eventually managed to work around them, the boards with the Realtek chip avoided those problems entirely.

With that in mind, I suggest you look at a few key chips used on any board you’re considering, and search linux forums for problem reports with their model numbers. In particular:

• Ethernet
• Wi-Fi
• Audio

Sometimes you can find comparison charts for such things, like this one for socket AM5 boards

Also, it’s nice to have a board that can update its own BIOS from a flash drive, rather than requiring a Windows program to do it.

I love the fact that classical and other instrumental music is still part of popular culture, and thriving, in no small part through the games we play every day. Thanks for posting this.

My experience has been that all CPUs work better for gaming on Linux than on Windows, because Windows is surprisingly wasteful of system resources, including CPU time.

Of course, there are still a few games that don’t work well on Linux, no matter what CPU you have. If those are important to you, then the question of which is faster might not matter.

Facebook/Meta (the owners of Instagram) have been extorting phone numbers and IDs from people for years. They don’t target everyone all at once, but a few hundred here, a few hundred there. I don’t know if they do it for all new accounts, but the practice is definitely not new.

This is one of the many reasons why I stopped using their services.

I wasn’t even aware that it was an MMO.

The entire galaxy is shared by everyone playing the game, in real time. You can encounter each other, fight, team up, or avoid each other, and your actions influence the state of the shared simulation. Definitely an MMO.

What am I missing?

The most recent thing you probably missed was the thargoid war, culminating in a battle with the titan that parked itself over Earth and took over the Sol system. You might compare it to a fantasy MMO raid, but at a much larger scale.

Colonisation is coming soon.

The best production compiler to study is LLVM

Look, I love LLVM!39 In many ways, it’s pretty educational. But it’s a monstrosity! That’s because LLVM is applied to so many use cases. LLVM is used from embedded systems to Google’s data centers, from JIT compilers to aggressive high-performance scenarios, and from Zig to Rust to <name the next new language>.

This seems like a good time to point out that even Zig has run into problems with LLVM. Its limitations are significant contributors to the removal of async from the language.

Once these things are federated, it seems reasonable to expect that each instance would be able to choose what stars/followers/etc it accepts or displays, roughly similar to what Lemmy does with allowed/blocked instances. That might put a dent in the problem. At least, there would no longer be a single, easy, high-value target for this sort of thing.

IMHO, GitHub has been steadily getting worse ever since Microsoft bought it.

The first things I noticed were minor UI annoyances. Later on, it started hijacking some of my browser’s keyboard shortcuts and controls. Then there was the continual nagging: to give them more email addresses, to re-re-re-re-download my TOTP recovery keys, etc. Unilaterally deciding to use all of our creative works to train their LLM hasn’t made them many friends. And now there’s this issue, which might not be Microsoft’s fault (at least not entirely), but it is a consequence of the global software community using a single, centralised service for so much of what we do.

I put my most recently published project on Codeberg. If it goes well, I’ll probably move my GitHub projects there. The UI is familiar and comfortable, and I think their work toward federated software forges is important.

It’s worth noting that Codeberg requires most projects to be open-source. I think they make exceptions in some cases.

Elite Dangerous, because it can be as intense or chill as I want, it’s a remarkably good space sim, and I can easily opt out of PvP while still affecting the state of the galaxy.

Sadly, they didn’t include this graph for people who played exclusively on Linux, unless some of it was on the Steam Deck.

20 year club checking in. Let’s go keep going!