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Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR
This was such a great RTS/FPS hybrid at the time. I looked for RTS/FPS games a couple of years ago when I remembered it, and the genre is all but dead. I did spend a lot of time playing Silica though, which is still in early access. I haven’t checked in on that in a while now though.
2·9 days agoI really don’t like that you’ve embedded the web-page in the details of this post as an i-frame, because now my browser has loaded a website that I didn’t consent to visiting.
2·11 days agoYes, that’s the same thing. Removing it from one place, and just adding it to another.
Adding it where?
but maybe I’m missing something.
Yes, FTA:
May 13, 2026: the tlsclient ACME profile will no longer be available and no further certificates with the Client Authentication EKU will be issued.
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Once this is completed, Let’s Encrypt will switch to issuing with new intermediate Certificate Authorities which also do not contain the TLS Client Authentication EKU.
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After this change is complete, only TLS Server Authentication will be available from Let’s Encrypt.
What is the public key infrastructure for obtaining client authentication certificates that have a path of trust back to a root CA? You said separate PKI for every use case, so what is the intended PKI for this use case, if not CAs like LetsEncrypt?
This honestly is basic security in a number of ways. Separate PKI for every use-case is the standard.
So what is the PKI for client certificate authentication?
It’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, because the Spectrum and C64 were general purpose computing devices that ran a single program at once, whereas the 5090 is not designed to be a general purpose computer, but a massively parallel acceleration card with a pipeline designed primarily for 3D graphics rendering.
A better comparison would be to a modern general purpose computing device, like a smartphone or desktop PC.
That’s not supporting your point, it’s showing that hg is literally the only other VCS other than git and svn that anyone uses.
Apparently it’s used even less than SVN,
Going to need a source for this.
16·15 days agoSince nobody else has linked to it, the video in question:
Dead? They just had a major version update 1 month ago and the last minor release was 1 week ago.
What does Facebook using it have to do with anything?
It’s insane they were still using Mercurial in 2025.
What?
3·17 days agoBuilt on IPFS
true censorship resistance
Last time I checked, IPFS was not censorship resistant.
2·18 days agolichess good
But it seems you are totally missing the point of Taler, as it doesn’t even aim to be anything like so called crypto-“currencies”. It’s a digital payment system like Paypal, but decentralized.
No, I’m not missing that point, I understand the design goals of Taler. You seem to have misinterpreted my comment. I am pointing out that the inability to store Taler currency in a cold wallet is counter to existing user education from similar systems (digital currencies) and therefore will lead to loss of funds of users who don’t understand how Taler works.
From the FAQ:
How to avoid digital cash expiration?
Taler e-money is issued with a validity period. One month before the expiration date, your wallet should automatically exchange any digital cash that is about to expire for new digital cash with an extended validity period. However, if your wallet is offline for an extended period of time, it may be unable to do so. Ensure your wallet is regularly online to avoid losing money due to expiration!
You can lose money if the coins in your wallet “expire”.
The fact that this system is shipping v1.0 with such an anti-user design deficiency tells me all I need to know. I wonder how many Taler “beta” users will lose their cash before they fix the design. I wonder how much of the customer support load of the exchanges will be dealing with this issue.
And this comes after a decade of the cryptocurrency industry educating users to store their funds in a cold-wallet to avoid getting hacked, so it’s counter-intuitive to anyone with passing experience of digital currencies. If there’s one thing that we learnt from the cryptocurrecy industry, it’s that users don’t care to understand how the technology works, and will do stupid things. Anything that seeks wide adoption needs to be designed for non-technical people.
What a terrible design decision.
I thought this was going to be a new article or news, but it’s from April 9, 2024.
I think this situation has been picked over and rehashed now to the point where anyone who was going to change their behaviour will have already done so. If there is no update on the situation then all I see is you dragging up drama from a year ago.
Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds – with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?
With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds
1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs
with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs
Wow what a great article, well done.
bash scripting is not intended to perform all of your logic in the scripting language, it’s intended to call out to other programs which perform specific tasks. The entire POSIX command set is your bash scripting language.
Your script is a simple one-liner if you know some simple commands:
$ head -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words | tee /dev/stderr | tr -d '\n' | wc -c A 1