Walked past a tree and there was a Kryptonite bike lock around it in a loop as if there had previously been some object which the lock was affixing to the tree and now the object is not there anymore
I had a dream that there was a Mastodon instance that could only be posted to from a particular building. When I was in college there was this one house just off campus that basically turned into a permanent LAN party, J.J. and his three roommates had set up a computer lab in the basement random people were playing WoW on 24/7. In my dream, a house like this had become a sort of maker space and they'd set up a Fediverse server to reject posts unless the request came from within the House's wifi.
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Also given that the game itself (Grandblue Fantasy) is a gacha game, and I will never touch one gacha or loot box game again (like Genshin, though I also concern about its kernel level anticheat and the fact it doesn't not support Linux)
Another bit of indie game news: Lena Raine who you might know from the Celeste soundtrack has announced a 2D pixel RPG with elements of BULLET HELL and also EMOTION (possibly FURRIES, unconfirmed) https://cohost.org/ANOTHEREAL/post/6081598-anothereal-fact-shee
So far it's just a trailer and a Steam wishlist opportunity.
I really liked the BBS singularity visual novel Lena made ( https://radicaldreamland.itch.io/esc really interesting experience, visual novel with an emphasis on "novel" ) so I'll be looking forward to this
IMO one of the most underrated games of the last decade, especially for those of you who are game medium deconstructionists. It's surface-simple but has a lot of strange, surprising thoughts about "what is a Video Game and how do you interact with it?" simmering just underneath… it's very good at finding ways that simple mechanics can combine in ways that really surprise you.
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Glad I followed this recommendation. I've barely started and it's already got me thinking. Just seeing what the other characters do has me thinking. Seeing one make a mistake that I avoided was fairly somber. @Nifflas
I thiiiiink that all this email actually means is "Find My Device will now include bluetooth devices at their location last seen by an Android phone, which means that if your phone is disconnected from the Internet but Bluetooth is on then Find My Device can still find it if another Android device passes nearby (unless you disable this feature)".
But uhhhh wow Google used some pretty alarming language to describe it
One thing I'm scratching my head about. They say the device location data is "encrypted" with your "PIN" and are "not available to Google". I'm confused how this works given that the Bluetooth reporting is done by other devices. How do those other devices know which PIN to encrypt the device location with, without making some online query?
A running problem with Google's approach to privacy is that they're often vague about which privacy guarantees are technical guarantees, and which google guarantees personally by a privacy policy under which certain data sent to servers is not retained.
I imagine a nation-state actor within Google's network observing all data coming in to the Find My Device bluetooth snitch network. If the data's encrypted with a key, could they determine which owner's key each report is encrypted with?
Now the upside of having this problem is that while trying to muck about in C:\Program Files manually deleting this zombie install of Unity, I found three entire additional (and extremely ancient) installs of Unity which I previously uninstalled, but which the Unity Hub simply removed from its own UI while leaving on disk. No wonder my hard drive seems fuller than it should be!