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  • Like the old joke:

    The "S" in IoT is for "Security".

  • The secret trick here: nobody will make a new username and password - nor should they. They'll only log in if they have a convenient login with Google/FB/MS button. Which gives Google premium position in tracking.

  • God damn how is it that Sega has never released a Sonic Adventure-style game with that kind of online multiplayer? It's so freaking obvious and yet we've never seen it.

    Some of the gameplay mechanics look a bit... unnecessary? Like riding on vehicles, at least at speed. And I've always thought the Sonic Adventure rail grinding was tedious. But still overall it looks like a fun adaptation of the 3D sonic gameplay albeit with a slightly dated-looking art style.

  • Give me back my vertical side-docked taskbar or STFU.

    No, I don't want to deal with Explorer Patcher.

  • As a software developer: MS has been 100X better to work with under Nadella. He may not know what to do with the operating system side of things, but the .NET/Azure/android/linux etc side has never been healthier.

  • To be fair, Canada doesn't build much solar. Most of our modern green energy is wind.

  • sounds dystopian.

    So does the total death of objective fact.

    An end to internet anonymity isn't great, but given the alternative I'll take it.

  • I keep saying: none of this will end until we get a clean, cryptographically secure, government-backed way to ID who is sending us something, and it becomes an expectation to use it all the time for anything important. Which is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about government ID.

  • I realize that it's their land and their reserve and it's vital to keep their culture alive, but if it were me? There is no justification, not financial, not cultural, not religious, that would keep me living in a place like that.

  • "on them" where "them" are the municipal and provincial police forces.

  • 104-0

    Jump
  • From the title I assumed it was going to be about the F-104 Starfighter AKA Widowmaker AKA Lawn Dart AKA Aluminium Death Tube.

  • C is simple in the same way that a circular saw with no safety features is simple. I like having fingers better.

  • On the one hand it's kind of disgusting, but it's also heartening: this is a studio that had done nothing but asset flips. Their artists didn't even know what a rig was. They were completely out of their depth.

    And while the game is the most cynical thing I've ever seen, its creature designs are blatant mash-ups of Pokemon, and its media hype is absolutely bewildering and somewhat suspicious... but by all accounts it's decently good fun and looks decent visually too.

    So, a studio with no idea what they were doing managed to poop out a moderately good game and smash it out of the park in terms of success.

    That should be heartening. That should say "maybe I can do it too" to all the hopeful indie devs out there. That should be a massive endorsement of the tooling that the industry has developed, that a completely unqualified group of guys can make a fun and successful online multiplayer action game.

  • Yes, but DDG seems to have worse organic results in my experience. I mean the bar is low, but DDG falls under it.

  • Some men just want to watch the world burn

  • Wasn't there an official branded pokemon dotalike for a while? I mean, they tried the approach of "let's make a conventional PC genre game but with Pokemon" and it didn't stick.

  • C++, but a very ugly and oldschool dialect of it.

  • Yeah I love his videos but I hadn't seen anything about the whole home issue of "omg this is way more power hosue-wide".

    The idea of smart switching sounds neat - that would basically mean "you can't run your dryer and have hot water and charge your car at the same time", right? But, like, in an automated way not just "it throws the breaker".

  • Holy crap like 24000W of juice on tap. That is not screwing around. Awesome. A neat option but sounds like something for new builds not retrofitting an older home.