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Mind if I ask what game?

Kiwi on Android is a Chromium fork that re-enables extensions on mobile. Works well for userscripts/extensions, though often times those UIs don't scale well to mobile.

I get like two spam SMS a year. And my SMS app always properly flags them as being spam/scams. This really is such a terrible excuse.

It's also ignoring the root issue. Adding RCS to iMessages doesn't affect the spam. You'll still get it from both SMS and RCS.

Apple not adding RCS is 100% due to keeping market share.

They support that too[0]. They have a mode for nginx that just proxy_pass's to your daemon so you can run whatever web stack you like under it.

0. https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/runscript

I'm guessing this thing wouldn't work for emulating FeliCa cards?

e: it can read but can't yet emulate, given how niche it is outside of JP I doubt it'll ever support it.

Didn't see this back in March. Unsure what to feel about this. Had a F&F discount at SliceHost until they were acquired by Rackspace, moved to Linode. 14 years ago. I've had nothing but bad experiences with company takeovers in this industry.

What are my options? DO/Vultr? We have a few hundred Vultr VMs at work and I'm getting maintenance emails near daily, but due to the nature of the product it's fine if we have a few regions offline. Am not okay with that for my dozens of personal projects.

Thank you for making me actually read it. Many years of thought definitely went into this.

Most liquor stores are actually opposed to repealing Sunday sale blue laws. They still sell the same volume, but have to stay open an extra day.

It's annoying, but I deal with it because my local liquor store only has two employees, and the wife is behind the register 12 hours a day 6 days a week. Sunday is the only time she gets off.

A lot of bulk purchasers of crypto already do this via dark pools, at a discount, to avoid tanking the spot price.

It's more likely they'd target him because he's unwilling/unable to defend himself. I've read a lot about the US prison system and culture, giving stuff away doesn't get you respect or friendship.

Also to note most commissary stores have monthly purchase limits. Doesn't matter how much money your account has, you still have the same access to commissary as everyone else.

It's pendingdelete, so they're flat up holding it hostage until it's publicly available for anyone to register.

Did you have any other domains on the account, or shared access with other accounts?

I hate how legal has forced every trust & safety team to just blanket reply "You were banned. We won't tell you why. We won't overturn. Go away." It's absolutely impossible to contest without public attention or legal action, and is often just a simple mistake.

> I’ll probably replace this with a bit of proto board with a couple of similar switches on it, but it might be nice to consider some kind of piezo sensor to give the instrument some expression

Guitarfreaks (the original guitar game) uses an optical encoder for this, as it's meant for arcade use and sees a ton of abuse. They basically last forever. They also use custom sanwa buttons with omron switches. A third party company (gamo2, gitaller) makes a really high quality home version.

Fun follow up might be swapping the crappy rubber domes with mechanical switches, doesn't need to be anything fancy, the gitaller uses gaterons.

laowhy86 has made a living for many years fearmongering the west about China. It's his entire channel. Same with SerpentZA and ADV China. I've watched a lot of their content and really can't take any of it at face value anymore.

Ours just opened the boxes of little debbie products so they could sell individually one for the price of a box.

Interesting, I didn't know this was a thing, but after some cursory research it does seem like part of its use case is to stop this attack vector.

It is an amazing piece of tech at a price lower than the BOM. I own one myself and can't blame anyone else that likes it too. The dissonance is still too strong.

VR enthusiast here, Oculus was absolutely gutted of its core morals, its core goal, and the majority of its original talent. Oculus insisted they'd never require a Facebook account, and now they do. They've fully rebranded to Meta. They were focused on PC VR gaming, and now they're focused on mobile based social experiences with some garbage laggy interface to get PC VR if you're outlandish enough to want that. They only retain compatibility with other VR standards to appease their customers, but it just results in additional lag and a messy experience.

Facebook purchased Oculus before they sold a single consumer unit. Any headset that wasn't sold by Facebook was a dev kit you had to apply for. (edit: looked up the original kickstarter, they did sell 6-7k dev kit units, which was mostly targeted towards game devs. After the KS the DK2 was sold on an application basis. The consumer versions that moved 10mm+ units were 2 years after Facebook's acquisition.)

I've clocked 10k+ hours with silly screens strapped to my head and I am deathly afraid of what Facebook has done and continues to do to the VR industry. The "metaverse" existed long before Zuckerberg set his sights on it, and he's already killing it.

I'd say Matrix[0] is pretty important too. I wish both of these projects got more mainstream traction.

0. https://matrix.org/

Ordering any server from a tor IP, even dirt cheap shared hosting plans, will trip their fraud detections 100% of the time. You'll likely get an email asking for photo ID.

The weight limit of the model being used is around 220 lbs, and it struggles to handle that. Most Americans that you'd call obese wouldn't be able to use these. The model (Xiaomi M365) was originally designed for Chinese consumers (who tend to be shorter/weigh less).

6 hours is nowhere near accurate, it's closer to 2 hours in ideal circumstances. 1-1.5 hrs in most usage scenarios. 6 hours is about how long it takes to charge.

Thank you for your work. I have spent thousands of hours playing your game, and even more than that trying to exploit it. Many of my dearest friends today are people I met 15 years ago while playing D2. The game has had a massive influence on my life.

Usually a character leaving a game without having their inventory saved indicated a desync between the game server and the MCP servers. The game server was authoritative over your character for a specific game, while the MCP server was authoritative for your character between games. If the game server became disconnected from the MCP server for whatever reason, you could drop all of your items, leave the game, and the MCP server would still believe you had those items as the game server never saved your character's state with MCP.

This desynced state resulted in a ton of commonly known dupe methods in 1.11 and 1.12 where you forcefully disconnect the GS from MCP. The popular one was spamming bone wall (creating entities on the map), then spamming AoEs which interacted with said entities. The game server would have to loop over all entities for each AoE spell you cast to determine if the spell applied to it, which caused the single-threaded game server to spend too long in each iteration of the main game loop that caused it to desync from the MCP. Blizzard eventually "fixed" this by adding a check for how long the main game loop took to complete. If it hit a certain value, it would disconnect all players from the game to despawn entities and 'prevent' dupes.

There were more fun bugs between GS <-> MCP as well. For example for many patches there was a size limit on your character. If your character data was over a set size, the GS wouldn't even try saving your character to the MCP and would roll it back to the last valid save. If you joined a game near the limit, dropped an item, picked up an item that was larger in size (had more stats etc) which pushed you over the limit, then left the game, the server would revert your save back to when you had the original item.

D2 was full of esoteric exploits like these. It was made worse by some Blizzard developers going rogue and abusing the buggy state of the codebase to assist third party item sellers for personal profit.

> Bandwidth is one of the problems. If a typical IPFS node is a home computer than it has 10x upload speed compare to the download speed. This is going to limit how somebody can access content from IPFS.

This can easily be addressed by choosing hosts which have gigabit upload links if you are hosting high demand files. Personal computer backups may opt for hosts with 10mbit upload that offer much cheaper storage. It may not be possible to do so atm, but eventually the platforms will get there. It's still very early and most distributed storage technologies are nowhere near complete.

Yes, that is why I said most consumers, not all consumers. I am sorry Pebble did not fit your use case, but it is a tad hyperbolic to assume that is why the company failed or that your ethical requirements represents the majority of consumers. As a Pebble developer and extremely active member of the community I can assure you that isn't the case.

I don't believe it is the only reason, but it certainly significantly hurt them. They're also less attractive/bulkier, have less room for battery, are more expensive to design/manufacture, have higher failure rates, etc. I would still pay ridiculous amounts for a phone with flagship specs and flagship build quality, with a physical keyboard.

I am extremely skeptical that this is the reason Pebble failed. Most consumers are not privacy oriented, and all of the major competitors in the market require the same activation process that Pebble "forced" onto users. If you wanted a watch that doesn't forcefully tether you to a phone, you didn't want a smartwatch.

I doubt it. It's more about consumer perception. Hardware buttons aren't futuristic, touchscreens are. And smart watches are largely a futuristic niche product. Pre-purchase consumers want better specs and often neglect the practicality of those decisions (battery life of OLED panels and touchscreens, usability of a 1 inch touchscreen interface, etc).

> One of the earliest HTC android devices, after the Evo 4G, was a version with a slide out keyboard.

The first Android phone (let alone the first HTC Android) was the HTC Dream, with a physical keyboard. Back in those days Android didn't even have a software keyboard -- you had to use the physical keyboard.

By the time the Evo 4g came out, hardware keyboards were already considered second class citizens. The Evo Shift 4g had a worse screen, worse camera, and a worse CPU than the Evo 4g despite being released a year later.

Thankfully a few companies have picked up the UMPC market, with products like the GPD Win and the Gemini PDA. I don't need a hardware keyboard on my phone, but I do need a portable device with one for emergency SSH sessions while on the road.

All you need is metal lip at the bottom of the door that you can catch your shoe on to pull open the door. All of our bathroom doors at work have these on the inside.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/63/a3/a4/63a3a43a07cfaff22f0daf5f0...