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Jitsi is very, very impressive. But their whole platform is also bound up with a lot of other tech in the stack. (jitsi-meet, jitsi-videobridge, jicofo and 'Prosody' (XMPP).

Skype has also used it for a long time.

Also, aside from the obvious AV chat systems (eg: Jitsi. Zoom, etc.) 'cloud-gaming' platforms such as Google Stadia and Shadow use it.

I've been monitoring and experimenting with webRTC for a few years now and one of the most exciting recent developments has been more or less full support in desktop and mobile browsers (even Safari, which dragged its heels for years)

There's a part of a mission in Medal of Honor (recent VR version) where you're trying to make your way up Omaha Beach in WWII. The way it's done is very good, and really seems to drive home to the player just how utterly harrowing the whole experience must have been.

Definitely. I'm about half way through 'Medal of Honor' on the Quest 2 and I've never really been in to war games (or movies) at all. But I've been having an absolutely great time doing the various missions - and training - where you get to mow down the nazis with a variety of weapons.

And naturally, different to a console game, I'm physically pointing the weapon (controller) at the (virtual) target. It's really more fun than it should be ;)

It feels like being a character in a (cheesy) WWII movie.

(Also, I don't think stabbing zombies in the head in 'Walking Dead :Saints and Sinners' will ever get old)

As someone who writes plugins for our Wordpress-based 'headless' CMS for our authors to use (the front-end is all Angular 9+), the biggest gripes I found with the Gutenberg blocks editor was the need to learn some React to build the admin UI elements.

For personal projects, I now build most of the 'admin' in Angular too.

The introduction of Wordpress JSON and the REST API changed everything for me (and the small team), to allow more separation of concerns between the front and back ends.

Pangs of nostalgia seeing PHP-Nuke down there at the bottom.

The first paid freelance website 'CMS' I built for a company back in the early-mid 90s was based on a heavily modified version of 'WWW-Board' from Matt's Script Archive.

Those were the days :)

Weighing in at a 170Gb download, the recent (and hugely enjoyable) VR game Medal of Honor : Above and Beyond seems to be a vast amount of cutscenes.

I think they already do. (Having eaten one almost every day for years)

Far less tasty and drier.

A similar project was done here by someone who used an ESP32-CAM module to detect the location of each pixel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueim2Ko8VWo&list=PL5vDt5AALl...

Ahh NNTP. Those were indeed the days. As were the killfiles we used, to try and deal with an ever-increasing amount of spammers.

here.com ? (That's what Amazon UK uses for location tracking maps)

Nice work. I can see something like this being used in a WebXR version of the 'Superhot' game.

This will likely be their get-out, when it comes to UK data privacy post-actual-Brexit on Jan 1st.

(Also probably relates to Google and Facebook moving all UK users to USA Ts & Cs.)

Let's just hope fair taxation follows.

Nice work. Though you might want to be careful about putting an artist like Miley Cyrus on your home page. ;)

A volume control woud be nice on the player embed too.

(I built amazingradio.com)

The scandal is that they shouldn't have been allowed to be built with the 'wrong' insulation in the first place. Also, people who have had surveys for properties they bought some years ago (pre-Grenfell) as in my case.

So, if the Government are going enforce new standards and impose the need for very costly surveys and 'forms' to show new safety standards (again, based on their own ineptitude that caused Grenfell), then they should be the ones who have to pay for any remediation. Not the Leasholders.

It looks like they've had issues for a while now. 'December 2nd' ? " Invalid Page Welcome Message for Messenger Destination Ads"

- The thought of 'ads' in a private messaging app repulses me. I don't use any of these three apps. Mostly since they all require you hand over your mobile phone number. Which then becomes a very powerful 'foreign key'/unique identifier to so many other third or fourth-party marketing databases which might also have it.

You probably get far more for your money though. (Property/land-wise)

I also remember reading stories years ago about CA/SV businesses that had offices up in Colorado as a back-up for when 'The Big One' hits.

An additional scandal is the extortionate costs for buildings over a certain height in obtaining an EWS1 Form to show to mortgage lenders. Without which, your appartment is effectively valued at zero, since you'll never be able to sell it.

Interestingly hosted by Wordpress.com (VIP).

Interestingly too, I noticed the box for their Oculus Quests only subtly display the FB connection. And on the recent model, using a different/new 'thinner, all-caps' logo.

I would only do psychedelics around people I trust completely.

Strangers and, as you say, people who just aren't in to it will just raise the likelihood of having a bummer.

Sadly, the pink sheets thrive on those kinds of "articles" about companies to 'pump' them up. Sure, some people will make money, but it's an absolute farce.

In quite a few places actually. Here's one https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/facebook-finally-hands-ove...

Indeed. And Cambridge Analytica turned that into a business model and 'weapons-grade' data.

I mostly get annoyed at blatant and demonstrable lies and innaccuracies that far too any people are unable to determine as such.

However feel people 'emotionally' about things like that, justified or not (ie racist/overly 'patriotic'), they failed to realise that we'd all be worse off. There is no upside.

And yes, I'm saying lots of people voted with their emotions over things like that, thinking it would stop it. (Thanks to Mr. Farage et al.)

Laws. Money. Borders. All of which we already had control of. Just clearly not very good at. ;)

This is exactly how online political campaigning works these days.

If you can "push someone's buttons" over something that provokes an emotional reaction, an opinion gets formed that's hard to shift, rationally, in the future.

That's why billions of Facebook ads spreading 'fear and uncertainty' over things like immigration and borders etc. did so well to get so many people to vote for things that were against their interests, without them realising it. Like Brexit.

Back in the day, setting up my own site was the best thing I did. And the skills I learned by doing so have evolved into a 25 year professional career.

You're right about Social networks etc. They ate bloggers' lunch.

Far too many people aren't prepared to teach themselves how things work these days and do things for themselves.

One of the greatest regrets I have as a webdev/designer was to give in to constant requests to make things 'fool-proof' in the name of growth.

Users never 'learned' anything. Like how to follow instructions or use a new UI/UX. Everything got dumbed-down.

Now look where we are on those networks. It's mostly an absolute mess of utter drivel. 'posted' (not created) by those 'fools'.

I hate to sound cynical, but it does keep investers happy.