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Nice timing. This arrived during my Bubble Nebula stop while exploring in Elite Dangerous. (I put a screen shot in that community, in case you're curious.) Space sure can be pretty.

Gift links have trackers. (More accurately, they are trackers.) The archive copy doesn't have trackers or require javascript, which itself enables fingerprinting and more tracking techniques.

Or avoid Google's "sign in to confirm your age" nonsense by watching it somewhere else, like here:

https://www.ign.com/videos/dragon-age-the-veilguard-official-launch-trailer

https://archive.today/hgGJM

Funny how neither Serge Semin nor OP bothered to mention Serge's employment history. Learn the details before jumping to conclusions, folks.

Would someone here care to share what they know about prions?

What are your future plans when it comes to smartphones?

Same as my current plans: I pick a smartphone that runs a privacy-friendly OS, and only use privacy-friendly apps.

Right now, that's a de-googled Android phone running LineageOS, with F-Droid as the only app store. In future, it might be something else, like a non-Android Linux phone. My current model is 6+ years old, still gets OS updates, and still works great, so I imagine the open-source options will have improved by the time I need to replace it.

I care about things like data exfiltration, battery life, cost, and hardware longevity (important for minimising e-waste). I don't care about AI unless it happens to impact one of those things, but since there's nothing inherent to AI that does, the issue of whether a phone has AI capabilities is irrelevant.

By not using these AI features, you pay a lot for features you won’t be using.

Only if you're an early adopter. Like all new tech, further research and production volume will make it relatively cheap.

For those who prefer news in their text forums to be in text format, here's some detail, including quotes from Linus:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

Yes, it's safe, because no, they don't relay it. The brilliant thing about it is that it's all done locally, on your machine.

Technologies accelerate all sorts of agendas, but to blame this long-standing problem specifically on tech companies is to misunderstand the problem. Corporations shouldn't have been allowed much influence on governance in the first place, no matter what their tools or line of business might be.

Instead of pointing fingers, how about we stop allowing corporate political donations and lobbyists in democracies, and put some real enforcement behind anti-corruption and bribery laws?

They had one?

Naughty Dog did some solid storytelling in TLoU. It would be great if they could figure out how to apply that well to a game that isn't on rails.

“I think some of the best storytelling in The Last of Us – yes, a lot of it is in the cinematics – but a lot of it is in the gameplay, and moving around a space, and understanding a history of a space by just looking at it and examining it.

I do appreciate this in game worlds, although this alone is not a substitute for storytelling, and not enough to make an open world fun. The world has to be interesting and diverse, full of unique things, characters, places, and situations to discover, so players will want to spend their time exploring it. Evidence of the world's history is great for adding background depth, but I'll be bored quickly if that's all there is.

Here's hoping Naughty Dog makes something brilliant in this genre that they aren't known for (have they ever done an open world?) rather than repeating the mistake other studios have made by churning out another open world of monotony.

Unfortunately, I don't think D is good enough to prove your point. From your follow-up comment:

A language that for all intents and purposes is irrelevant despite being exactly what everyone wanted,

As someone who uses D, I can attest that it is not what everyone wanted; at least not yet. Despite all the great things in the language, the ergonomics around actually using it are mediocre at best: Several of its appealing features quickly turn it into a noisy language, error messages are often so obtuse as to be useless (especially with templates and contracts in play), and Phobos (the standard library) is practically made of paper cuts. Also, the only notable async support is a fragile mess, and garbage collection is too deeply embedded into both the stdlib and the ecosystem.

(To be fair, D could be vastly improved with better defaults and standard library. That might happen in time, as Walter and the other maintainers have shown interest, but it's just wishful thinking for now.)

Also, D is an entirely different language from C++, and as such, would require code rewrites in order to bring safety to existing projects. It's not really comparable to a C++ extension.

In an email to supporters, Trump’s team misspelled the Steelers part of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers name as “Stealers.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-campaign-freudian-slip_n_67175a39e4b0f3057ef70df9

It is primarily maintained by them but it is an open sourced project and there are other contributors.

Chromium may be technically open-source, but Google still controls it and has been caught abusing that power before. People concerned about privacy have good reason avoid it.

If you don't find one, you might consider looking for RSS (or Atom) feeds that list new game announcements or reviews. Maybe one of these, for example.

https://archive.today/tz2Sf

Is this going to be re-posted every month?

That was a different community.

Also: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Given how long and widely C++ has been a dominant language, I don't think anyone can reasonably expect to get rid of all the unsafe code, regardless of approach. There is a lot of it.

However, changing the proposition from "get good at Rust and rewrite these projects from scratch" to "adopt some incremental changes using the existing tooling and skills you already have" would lower the barrier to entry considerably. I think this more practical approach would be likely to reach far more projects.

Your hypothetical energy savings from new hardware is nothing but a wild guess since you don't know his actual usage, and meaningless anyway unless you subtract from it the energy use from manufacturing and distributing a new system, as well as that from disposing of the old one.

Also, you haven't addressed the other problems mentioned at all.