Call me a downer if you want, but I think scientific papers should be above using clickbait titles. Scientific papers should be dry, boring and technical so that there’s no doubt that a paper is popular because of its content and not the personality of its writer.

No, it’s pretty much only you thinking that. The rest of us were thinking about the 6 tiny bones in the ears only used for hearing or dozens of weird little bones in the wrists and ankles.

It’s because the stock market doesn’t care about anything except the next quarter. Valve can think long term because they’re privately owned.

They weren’t dependable is the problem. There were a lot of problems with early deterioration of the battery, supposedly from not having very good temperature control on the battery pack.

Valve are the ones that popularized loot boxes. They’re never going to tackle them.

I doubt Epic would give out the number of free games they do if they were public. Investors hate anything that takes more than a quarter to give returns.

I doubt they’ll care, if only due to self-interest. Most of the corporate sites are trying to ban or deprioritize links because they don’t want people to leave their site and stop viewing their ads.

If you care about that, spinning rust is not the right solution for you.

No, because it comes from personal experience working in cybersecurity.

I support most of what Lena Khan has done, but this is stupid. Cybersecurity features should be built into the base package of all cloud products. The fact that so many charge extra for them is and always has been bullshit. It’s like trying to sell a car but charging extra to include seat belts and air bags.

The complaint should be that they’re selling a product that is unsafe in its base offering.

You act like Epic, GoG and itch.io don’t exist. Steam has plenty of competition. They just suck in comparison.

The Steam Next Fest is how I found most of the good indie games I’ve played. Making a good demo will put you above 99% of the cruft out there.

NIST has been saying since 2016 not to use SMS for MFA. It’s always been horribly insecure.

I’m going to guess they mean narrative-driven “games” like Hellblade or Indika, which were all narrative and almost no game.

They seem to be real hit or miss. I also have 2 6TB barracudas that have 70,000 power on hours (8 yrs) that are still going fine.

Avoid these like the plague. I made the mistake of buying 2 16 TB Exos drives a couple years ago and have had to RMA them 3 times already.

I’ve seen several small creators say they get 10 times the engagement on Bluesky. That includes sales through promo links, which can’t be faked. It’s becoming clear that X’s numbers are mostly illusory at this point.

No, because that’s when the olds took it over.

I’m going to leave this here: https://youtu.be/BckqviVaWl0?t=14

Germanium and gallium are not that rare. They’re produced as a byproduct of other types of mining (zinc, aluminum, coal, etc). China has a monopoly on them not because of any kind of special geology, but because they were willing to sell them below cost for decades.

It won’t take long for alternative sources to spin up and become available, especially because China has been threatening to do this for over a year.