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  • Bad advice for scientists

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  • If Wikipedia's page on z-library is any indication, then a Tor link is probably your best bet. Absolutely shocking how they keep an up-to-date link there where anyone can see and use it.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • Yeah - been talking about doing so for quite a long time, and then signing up to a Qobuz family plan, downloading all their apps, and cancelling everything Spotify has taken all of five minutes. Hardly even interrupted the album we were listening to via Chromecast. There's a lesson to be learned somewhere.

    Qobuz' recommendations and albums-of-the-week actually look good, too. Like an actual music enthusiast has picked things out, rather than Spotify's slop.

  • Home invader

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  • Ah, but that is my cat. We call him Tux, our neighbours called him Boots. We've a 'street whatsapp' channel for arguing over the bins and getting to the bottom of who's cat has rocked up in who's house. Number of times I've seen a familiar moggy on an unfamiliar bedspread.

    Cats, man. You might think you own them, but if anything, you own them for a while.

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  • So all of the mainstream porn will be blocked, leaving all of the niche and special-interest stuff available? Excellent, excellent...

  • Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!

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  • Love Tyranny and PoE. Think Deadfire would have been an exceptional game if there was about half as much of it, but even as an epic RPG it does go on. Ten bucks for 'three big games' of content is a steal, though.

    It isn't that 'successful game has a better-funded sequel that loses the magic due to feature creep' is exactly unheard of - it's a tale as old as time. But Deadfire was a sales disappointment, which it probably wouldn't have been if they'd only spent half as much making it, and so we won't be getting a PoE3 :-(

  • [French] Goodbye Windows: Lyon (3rd biggest city in France) abandons Microsoft to strengthen its "digital sovereignty"

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  • 12 years since it was released, zero remotely executable code vulnerabilities. By some measures, the most secure operating system of the 21st century.

    Your move, FreeBSD.

  • Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2

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  • Agreed. Amazing game, but it's because most of it is excellent so the jank is easy to ignore, rather than the whole thing being polished.

    I think they made the parry-heavy emphasis of the game even more difficult to 'read' by having all the early enemies be very twitchy robots with difficult-to-anticipate parry timings. It becomes much easier to get the timing right once the enemies become more 'organic' a bit later. That's also the point where you have some better gear and some level ups, so it's not quite so brutal.

    Giving the early enemies slow, smooth attacks with big swings would make sense for robots, sort out the difficulty curve, and give you plenty of chance to get used to parries. They can reasonably require a lot of damage so ripostes would be the only way to effectively defeat them - health which you could reasonably remove from a lot of the late-game enemies who are stupidly robust.

    Never felt like P actually has iframes on his dodge? It's serviceable enough when the important thing is to move away from where an attack is going to land, but it's certainly not a Dark Souls-style 'dodge through the attack'. It's not Sekiro's 'running away to tease out an attack you can punish' either, he's a very slow dude in comparison.

  • Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support

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  • They might be former users of FARK, where submitting stories didn't allow duplicate links? And so you would see the top article in the aggregator frequently being blog links and some right weird 'news' websites.

    Lemmy has the opposite problem, where the same link can be posted again and again even on the same instance, of course.

  • Marathon is delayed

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  • Not so much "remade" but the engine was open-sourced and it's been kept up-to-date for modern computers. Exact same levels, graphics, sound effects as it ever was, but obviously the resolution now is much higher than it was in the early nineties. Think my graphics card can push it at 4K 144Hz while still being in power-saving mode; it does more work rendering desktop fonts nicely.

    There's also a port of Pathways Into Darkness onto the engine, if you want to play it? It's a real bitch to emulate a classic Mac to get it running, but this is basically drag-and-drop. It was brutally unfair even at the time, and contains a lot of features which have not aged well and are distinctly un-fun - it is not a game that's afraid to waste your time, put it like that. I do love the idea of it - the atmosphere of it is probably the best bit, and I'd love a modern remake of it.

    https://lochnits.com/aopid/

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  • Approves.

  • Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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  • I quite liked how the original Linux fix for the Spectre-style speculative execution bug on Intel processors was called "Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines", but alas, in the interest of diplomacy it was renamed to "Kernel Page Table Isolation" (KPTI) rather than "FUCKWIT".

    Doesn't feel like it was that long ago, but of course, all search results are dogshit in this new age: https://wccftech.com/intel-kernel-memory-leak-bug-speculative-execution-performance-hit/

  • Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone

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  • You are not joking. Comparing a $2000 Purism Liberty with eg. a $200 HMD Fusion. The Fusion has somewhat better screen and battery; much better processor and camera. More RAM, the option of more storage, has NFC. It's also designed to be easy-to-maintain, but is somewhat thinner and lighter despite having a larger screen area. Are 'made in USA' and 'open-source drivers' worth paying 10x as much for a noticeably worse phone? (It's not really 'made in USA' either - it's a mix of US, Chinese and Indian parts assembled in the USA.)

    I think that the people who believe a US-made iPhone will also cost $2k are kidding themselves - economy of scale and all that, but it must be substantially more.

  • Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it

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  • Think there should be an 'accessibility' option in the settings menu? I remember it being pretty decent - god mode, slow down, item highlighting, and the 'half damage' option were in there.

  • Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux on

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  • Yeah, mine was similar. Had some old Win95 machines from work that were getting thrown away; scavenged as much RAM as possible into one case and left Red Hat Linux downloading overnight on the company modem. Needed two boxes of floppy disks for the installer, and I joined up a 60 MB and an 80MB hard drive using LVM to create the installation drive. It was a surprisingly functional machine - much better at networking than it was as a Win95 computer - but yeah, those days are long gone.

  • Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it

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  • Loved it, but absolutely hit a wall with it until they released the "take half damage" difficulty patch. Then I found it fun again. I love a challenging video game, but the "slightly loose dodging controls" and the requirement for basically perfect execution to defeat the bosses didn't sit well with me. The Garden Knight was bad enough, the ones that come after it were just silly.

  • PAGEOS Satellite (1966)

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  • I really like the book - I think it's one of his best. Subtle 'unreliable narrator' mind-fuck from beginning to end, nicely written and characterised. The film of it is an abomination, though.

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  • Nothing to me says 'sexy' quite like your grandad and your great-grandad being the same guy, or your (great * 5)-grandmother / grandfather being one man and woman, when most people have that responsibility spread between 64 people.

    Close family. Must have made Christmas easy - having the in-laws round isn't so bad when they're your own blood relatives too.

  • Prophecy

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  • Cats develop bigger cheeks under the influence of testosterone. So I'm assuming that lad struggles to walk normally due to the enormous pom-poms he's got hanging off the back, because his face is ROUND.

  • Baldur's Gayte

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  • Twice as big as half a hole, obviously.