I thought this would be appropriate since I see 404media’s articles linked from lemmy often.
Given the incoming administration and the importance of independent journalism, I think this story would be worthwhile even if 404 Media wasn’t the target.
Interesting. The graphics remind me of Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.
“The only information and viewpoints that should be available to people in the US are those given by the rich and powerful.”
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
That wouldn’t be you making levels, though, would it?
You might find Edward Bernays and his impact on advertising interesting.
One of the numerous problems for America’s magnates was the consumption of the average citizen. Many only purchased what they really needed, a behaviour which moguls wanted to change. The Wall Street banker Paul Mazur summarised this in a particularly straightforward manner: ‘We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture’, he wrote in 1927 in the Harvard Business Review. ‘People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old have been entirely consumed.’
https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/original-influencer
https://www.npr.org/2005/04/22/4612464/freuds-nephew-and-the-origins-of-public-relations
Thanks for this. Are you planning to take more measurements during a warm season? It would be interesting to see how close the electric system comes to petrol in more favourable conditions/climates.
Let’s not let our guard down. They might make superficial changes, but they will keep pushing this dangerous and invasive nonsense, and they only have to win once.
IIRC, it’s also where Léon first appears, later to be a main character the titular 1994 film that was released in the US as The Professional.
Not just individuals; entire countries view it as a public health issue. I like to think the Netherlands is a good example.
So most software packages are at least a little out of date because they only put the most stable and tested versions of software in their default repos.
And for many people, this is a good thing. By favoring reliability, Debian Stable provides the most low-maintenance experience of any distro I’ve ever used. (And I’ve been using them for a long time.)
The packaged software is generally up to date when a new Debian release lands. It’s a year or two between releases, but that’s fine, because the vast majority of software already had the features I needed, and I’m not addicted to watching version numbers rise or fiddling about with UI changes that some developers like to make every month. Security updates do come between releases, and the two or three packages that sometimes warrant a faster update cycle are easy enough to add if needed.
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Will Amazon offer the free Prime trial again to someone who has already used and canceled it once?
This is unsurprising, but nevertheless interesting, because it seems to disprove a naïve assumption that I’ve seen repeated over the years: that Tencent doesn’t influence the game companies it invests in.
Seems like a pretty big project to hook all of the different parts together.
Not what I would call huge, but big enough to be a real time investment, and nobody wants to spend that much of their life reverse engineering and building such a thing only to have it broken whenever Valve changes something.
That, I believe, is why we have no open source Steam clients.
That project does its job by running steamcmd, which is an official Valve client, not by calling public APIs.
That could be a viable way to implement parts of a Steam client, but since it depends on a proprietary tool, it wouldn’t be all open-source.
Edit: I wonder if Valve would be receptive to publishing the SteamCMD source code. They already have a github presence.
OP is comparing to tools that download and install games, but the Steam emulators you’re thinking of don’t do that; they only emulate a minimal set of runtime services that Steam games expect to be present in order to run.
They don’t implement Steam’s online features, like registering achievements and making cloud backups of save data, and don’t have the extra features like input device remapping or video streaming. They are great for running games without network access, or for continuing to play games if Steam ever shuts down, but they’re not really replacements for the Steam client.
I don’t know whether Valve has opened the APIs for downloading games, registering achievements, etc. If they haven’t, then a full replacement for Steam might still be technically possible, but it would require some reverse engineering and be vulnerable to breakage whenever Valve changes something on their end.
Valve offers an optional DRM system that has “steam” in its name, and Steam imposes some (easily circumvented) inconveniences that are also imposed by DRM, but no, Steam itself is not a form of DRM.
Please don’t post business marketing here.
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I would like to know the answer to this: