In 3 hours Cities: Skylines II will launch: is there any report on how it runs with Proton?
You're confusing Proton with community efforts like Lutris. Proton is a package of technologies (Wine, DXVK, Vessel), not a configuration manager. Each individual game gets an identical, isolated runtime environment without any bespoke modifications except for downloading precompiled shaders (if available).
It's certainly true that Proton has hardcoded quirk flags for specific applications, but these are exceptions which prove the rule -- there are <200 of these compared with thousands of Verified status games. Almost always, Valve prefers to fix the upstream Wine/DXVK bug rather than hacking around it. Any hacks which Valve does ship are in the Proton source code, not per-game environment scripts.
Whoops! I went back to double-check after seeing what you said and found that the provision was actually dropped from the bill in the time between when it was passed by the Senate and signed by the governor.
The way it got quietly dropped like that kept it from being well publicized, but the long and short of it is that I misremembered and then failed to spot this detail while fact-checking myself. I'm sorry for spreading misinformation -- I've updated the original post
It's not a precedent, it's a playbook and telecos have been following it for decades. If you have one of the big telecoms in your city, they will sue to block municipal broadband. These suits win more often than not and even when they lose the rollout is usually delayed long enough as a result that they break even on legal fees.
This is actually Cleveland's second attempt to expand municipal broadband after their prior effort in 2021 was thwarted when the Ohio state government banned Cleveland and other cities from offering a public option -- obviously at the behest of lobbying from ISP special interests. Correction: the broadband provision was struck from the budget bill before it was signed by the governor. It appears that the 2021 effort to build out municipal fiber failed for other unrelated reasons.
This new initiative is actually a bundle of public-private partnerships as opposed to true state-owned infrastructure:
SiFi and CircleC, not the city, will own the finished networks. With little to no taxpayer money being spent, it’s a tradeoff city leaders say they felt made sense.
“They already have a right to use our right of way—we’re not providing any special access to it, the agreement is just us all getting organized for how permitting for such a large scale project will go,” Davis said of the SiFi partnership. “Since the city’s [not] paying for it or putting anything in, it’s not getting an equity stake.”
Similarly, Davis noted that DigitalC will also maintain ownership of their finished wireless network.
“We at the City are not contracting for infrastructure,” Davis noted. “We’re contracting for DigitalC to take 23,500 households–about 50,000 residents–that don’t subscribe to at-home broadband today and get them to become at-home internet subscribers, and provide digital adoption services and training to 50,000 residents. Basically, we’re paying to halve our present unconnected rate of 32 percent.”
NOTE: The original article has a typo where they misquote Davis as saying “Since the city’s paying for it or putting anything in, it’s not getting an equity stake.” This has been corrected in my quoting of the article
Sacrifice a human heart to appease the comet!
You've killed another one, doctor. Congratulations
I was not ready for this held shot after the flashback/dream scene. I hate that I know exactly how it feels
Honestly at that point it might be worth mortgaging the home all over again just to get rid of that debt. Even at that admirable pace and taking today's higher mortgage interest rates you'd probably end up saving $2000
Well, the second problem would be figuring out who curates the system. If you've ever voted on a referendum you'll probably know what I'm talking about. You can make any proposal sound awesome/horrible if you leave out the right details.
If you've ever organized to resist a referendum you've probably also experienced the "we'll just rephrase this and try again later" effect, wherein special interests just need to stubbornly keep pushing until the opposition voters get sick of participating in the polls.
I don't think these are unsolvable problems, but they do inherently require setting up a representative beaurocracy of unelected technocrats -- an apparent oxymoron. It's gotta be someone's job to run the machine and ideally you want them to be looking out for the people above all else.
So, how to play kingmaker? Well, if we take literal kings & elected representatives off the table, what remains is a model akin to academia, wherein credentials & seniority are prioritized above most else. It's not a bulletproof system (none are), but if you squint hard enough the EU sort of exemplifies what this model could look like -- just replace the delegates with smartphones, essentially.
And now for two interesting themes I'm picking up on:
- Clear blue skies seem to come up frequently during moments of danger, both in this episode and the last
- Blue hair guy likes acting like he's above the drama and makes that quite literal by perching above everyone else in almost every single one of his shots
I got caught up with this series the other day and holy cow these are some incredibly directed episodes!
Just look at how expressively framed these shots are! I haven't seen such consistently appealing layouts since 86 -- I know it seems like I just screenshotted every scene, but believe me when I say that I'm exercising restraint in this list:
I'm also really digging the SHAFT/monogatari influence in the storyboard. Not a big surprise after looking at the stafflist, but these are nevertheless some very reminiscent shots:
Don't even get me started on the juxtapositions and eye leading... watching this show so far has been such a joy and I'm really looking forward to episode 3 tomorrow!
I don't know what platform you're on, but from the web frontend my link works as-is. Here's what the escaped version you sent looks like:
If you're using a mobile app, I would suggest that you report the link rendering issue as a bug
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out obscure undocumented data formats and cyberchef is absolutely incredible for that. Here's a fun little preview of what that looks like
I do not understand this emoji, but now I'm making the same face and it won't stop
Huskies are notorious for being attention hungry. It makes them relatively easy to train despite also being characteristically stubborn. If they seem to be getting anxious, try appeasing them with a little reinforcement training for a command they know (e.g.: sit, roll over, etc.). If your dog is particularly smart, you can treat it like a quiz game and try to mix them up.
The key thing is just satisfying their desire to feel acknowledged, useful, and challenged (just like me fr fr). Checking those boxes once or twice a day generally gets you one chill pupper.
I'll do my best to explain:
Firstly, not all code executed on an open source OS needs to be open source. For example: Epic Anti-Cheat, which comes with a Linux-compatible mode, is fully closed source. So right off the bat we're going to put to bed the notion that somehow the platform of choice makes it easier for bad actors to pull apart and examine anticheat software.
Secondly, yes, there is a problem with cheaters being able to hide from anticheats on Linux. This is because on Windows it's relatively easy to run kernel-level code via drivers -- this is why most anticheats require admin permission to install a monitoring driver before the game will run. The anticheat is effectively rootkitting your system in order to circumvent other rootkits that may be concealing epic cheatz.
On GNU/Linux, almost all device drivers come prepackaged in the Linux kernel, so there's no direct equivalent to the Windows approach of allowing users to install third-party code into the most protected rings of the OS. It's still possible through the use of kernel modules (see NVIDIA drivers), but as evidenced by how annoying it is to use NVIDIA devices on Linux, this is a huge PITA for both the developer & the user to deal with.
So that's the rub. On Linux, anticheats just have to trust that the kernel isn't lying. This has been a perpetual thorn in the side of developers like Google, who'd really really like it if they could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a given Android device is not rooted (see SafetyNet). Google's solution to this has been to introduce hardware-backed attestation -- basically a special hardware chip on the device that can prove that the kernel software has not been tainted in any way.
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I really just genuinely wanted to help. Clumsy though the attempt may have been, that was an attempt to offer comfort and not an expression of frustration nor self-righteousness.
Anyway, I've said my piece now. I am sorry for disrespecting your wish to not say anything to you and I will now stop. Nevertheless, I promise to read and carefully consider any response you may offer, despite going silent.
Just don't stroke the barrel too hard if you don't want to have an accident
Another reason is that "CP" got jokingly coopted by abusers in the form of various dogwhistles (e.g.: "cheese pizza"). It made more sense to adopt a new acronym rather than try to uphold any sense of decorum while sharing ownership of the term w/ edgelords & predators.
WINE: Wine Is Not an Emulator
API call translation is often very inexpensive and, particularly in the case of DXVK for graphics calls, sometimes actually results in faster code if the underlying API implementation is more performant than the original Win32 equivalent -- see Elden Ring launch day performance on Linux vs. Windows for an example of this.