Yes, they announced it in January https://steamcommunity.com/app/301520/eventcomments/756142351544498226/

Yes, RC15 is closed-source and targets a heavily modified 2015 version of the game. This is open source and targets the latest version of the game and is probably compatible with versions of the game that are slightly older than the latest version, but not as old as 2015.

I guess that’d work if you’re fine with losing 20% of votes. The NDP really can’t afford that right now though.

Also your open disdain for a portion of the population is not OK.

Huh? It wasn’t bait, it was a simple statement about how they already have plenty of good options for donating. I brought up cryptocurrency because you mentioned it out of nowhere.

They link to their accepted donation methods in the article: https://ziglang.org/zsf/

No need for cryptocurrency when they accept real money.

No, the article is just not very precise with its words. It was causing the program to panic.

GlitchTip makes monitoring software easy. Track errors, monitor performance, and check site uptime all in one place. Our app is compatible with Sentry client SDKs, but easier to run.

For those that have no idea what GlitchTip is, it’s a service tracing service like Sentry.

This basically what I think too. I will add that I make sure other people (current and future) can enjoy it as much as possible too, so that means I will avoid anything needlessly destructive even if it is enjoyable

If the tankies had reputable sources they wouldn’t be so fringe and disliked lol

Any mention of what’s happening to the online functionality? It’s supposed to have multiplayer

Removing attribution does not make it more shareable. It’s just antisocial behaviour

The strict_* set of integer function look interesting though I’m unlikely to use something that panics by design. I’m sure that’s useful in programs that panic to indicate problems. Do those exist? I always treat panics as a design failure.

Duration::from_mins() is useful for me since I’ve been doing Duration::from_secs(minutes * 60) for some things in my projects, which bugged me a bit.

User named 1984 wanting us to talk… hmmm

Regulations limit the total battery energy you can carry on board, which would be measured in Wh. Usually the limit is 100Wh though some countries/airlines have different regulations for total vs individual capacities (e.g. max 200Wh total but each device cannot be over 100Wh).

For regular Lithium-Ion cells which are usually 3.6 to 3.7V, 100Wh is around 27 000 mAh. Always check the battery cell voltage though, since it’s pretty easy to claim any mAh the company wants since it’s not really a measurement of anything tangible.

I don’t think that’s necessarily incompatible with what I suggested. They could just leave the backup servers offline until they’re actually needed which shouldn’t cost them anything (or at least not much; some cloud providers charge for a VM’s storage usage regardless).

Assuming that Signal’s servers were designed by competent engineers, the engineering cost to make a change like this shouldn’t be that bad. Though judging by Whittaker’s comments, that may be a bad assumption.

It is true that there really isn’t another cloud provider that they could choose. All of the other cloud providers (major and minor players) are prone to the same sort of systemic failure. But it isn’t true that they didn’t have another choice.

The solution to service failure is redundancy. Making the redundancy as different as possible makes it even more resilient. In this case, that would be having redundant servers on other cloud providers which can be used in the event that the main one fails. Even better if they can use all of them simultaneously to share the load and let failover happen more gracefully.

Ticketmaster is going to crack down on checks notes itself? Has there ever been a situation when a company promised to regulate itself that went well?

I guess now is better than later, but plenty of people already knew that litigious and rich companies are never good.

The author’s take is a bit baffling to me. Trying to apply the US constitutional amendments against a foreign government institution to protect a US company is dumb. Those amendments strictly apply to the US government. As long as the company provides services in the UK, they are subject to UK laws on those services. If I start shipping firearms from the US to the UK it’d be perfectly reasonable for the UK to stop those packages at the border and destroy them. Network packets don’t just magically transcend borders.

The reasonable consequence of noncompliance is to block the service. Yes, that’s essentially paving the way for a national internet filter like China’s Great Firewall, but that’s why we have to fight the entire law not just the enforcement of it.

The Online Safety Act is horrible and a nightmare for so many reasons, but arguing it’s unenforceable on the grounds of being in a different country is just blatantly wrong.

They do use handheld and never define it, but I can hold my laptop with my hand so I’m not sure that’s necessarily a good way of disqualifying laptops. That also seems to strictly apply to the operating system (“runs an operating system designed […] for software applications on handheld electronic devices”), which might be a fun legal quagmire as well since Linux is designed for all sorts of platforms. If I install Linux on my (formerly) Windows laptop does it suddenly become a mobile device?

It does bring up another interesting niche of computers: handheld PCs, especially handheld gaming PCs. Does this law apply to Steam Decks?

This whole thing screams “written by tech illiterates” since it seems to ignore regular computers and only focus on phones when it’s all just variations of the same thing – form factor and the software running on top isn’t very relevant to whatever goal I presume they’re trying to achieve. If they really want to collect everyone’s ID, age, and other privacy-violating information they’d be better off doing it everywhere. But maybe I shouldn’t give out advice for speed running fascism…