kick_out_the_jams

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kick_out_the_jams,

It wasn't?
FTA

The trauma experienced by hundreds of thousands of children and their parents in Gaza will also have long-term debilitating effects, psychiatrists and psychologists have warned, particularly as there are no therapeutic facilities left. Few of Gaza’s hospitals are functioning any more, even for operating on the severely injured.

With an estimated 8,000 children killed in Gaza, and many tens of thousands more injured and orphaned, the UN children’s fund has said the Gaza Strip is “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child”.

kick_out_the_jams,

Promises are easily broken, this is why contracts are what they are.

kick_out_the_jams,

It's from the earlier days of computing/portable devices where almost nothing had the sort of inter-connectivity we take for granted.

You'd download apps or music onto your PC and then 'sideload' them onto your PDA or MP3 players.
Sometimes this required both proprietary cables and software. (This is why some of us still get excited by simple USB ports)

kick_out_the_jams,

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a genocide.

Hamas still refuses to return hostages and trying to bargain with them doesn't seem like it's been going anywhere.

kick_out_the_jams,

Steam controller support is so far ahead of everybody else I find myself launching other games/launchers through Steam just to get it.

Tried to get my controller to register in Jedi Fallen Order and the solution was not to add the game but the EA launcher itself as non-steam game.

kick_out_the_jams,

their forums and the subreddit is public space

They are moderated public spaces, there are plenty of actually public spaces to discuss things.

Coil whine is probably not the most well known thing, but I'm surprised you never tried to Google something about "high pitched computer noises" before posting about it.

kick_out_the_jams,

non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed

The problem was/is their policy of allowing the non-Valve games to also require their own storefront launcher alongside Steam.

There was that one dark period of "Games For Windows Live" on Steam, but those issues are pretty rare nowadays.

kick_out_the_jams,

Egypt proposed elections while offering assurances to Hamas that its members would not be chased or prosecuted, but the Islamist group rejected any concessions other than hostage releases, the sources said. More than 100 hostages are still believed to be held in Gaza.

They could still have won the elections.

kick_out_the_jams,

At this point in my life I'm just tired of fighting my devices.

Apple draws the line on some seriously questionable/stupid stuff and when faced with that your only choice is to deal with it.

If Android ever tried to force icons to auto-arrange like iOS does, it would be fixed by seven different guys within a week.

kick_out_the_jams,

Blinken noted in the briefing that “understandably, everyone would like to see this conflict end as quickly as possible,” but, he observed, “if it ends with Hamas remaining in place and having the capacity and the stated intent to repeat October 7th again and again and again, that’s not in the interests of Israel, it’s not in the interests of the region, it’s not in the interests of the world.”

Obviously not but it's an important part of the discussion, especially with their stated interest in repeating it.

kick_out_the_jams,

a word for such things is 'dark patterns'
it's not designed to be liked but to keep the player returning habitually and upping so called "retention."

kick_out_the_jams,

Just cause you paid for something doesn't mean it'll be on their servers forever.

The concept of 'buy' is nebulous when it's something you can't hold in your hands.

Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital (www.theverge.com)

The 18-year-old Lapsus$ hacker who played a critical role in leaking Grand Theft Auto VI footage has been sentenced to life inside a hospital prison, according to a report from the BBC. A British judge ruled on Thursday that Arion Kurtaj is a high risk to the public because he still wants to commit cybercrimes....

kick_out_the_jams,

Although he stayed at a hotel under police protection during this time, Kurtaj still managed to carry out an attack on Rockstar Games by using the room’s included Amazon Fire Stick and a “newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse,” according to a separate BBC report. Kurtaj was arrested for the final time following the incident.

He already did it again, didn't realize this was the one who did it again while on bail.

A $2M missile vs. a $2,000 drone: Pentagon worried over cost of Houthi attacks (www.politico.com)

As American warships rack up kills against Houthi drones and missiles in the Red Sea, Pentagon officials are increasingly alarmed not just at the threat to U.S. naval forces and international shipping — but at the growing cost of keeping them safe....

kick_out_the_jams,

US not really looking to fight, or you'd be saying don't bring drones to a missile fight.

kick_out_the_jams,

If they weren’t charging for it I might feel differently.

I don't think they ever charged anybody, they suspended that idea after the first outage.

Also, they were using their own fleet of Macs, hence why Apple was able to isolate them easily if they're all centrally located.

kick_out_the_jams,

I don't want to use iMessage but I'm almost tired enough of 12 kb pictures and insanely poor quality videos from iPhones to try it.

A big part of the problem is that no other options for SMS/MMS even exist on iOS, so all those communications default to iMessage (and it's fairly terrible at some of it.)

kick_out_the_jams,

I recently played Half-Life 1 (with a mouse and keyboard) and decided to tick auto-aim on.
It's definitely more 'fun' but there wasn't ever any tension or challenge when I encountered a head crab, the aim assist basically trivialized entire classes of enemies.

kick_out_the_jams,

If you want the in-depth customization that only flashing from the boot loader level allows, you'll want to prioritize phones that allow that.

Pixel is usually on the top of most people's heads because even if other phones can have their boot loader unlocked, actual support is a crap shoot.

kick_out_the_jams,

there is a reason none of those are actual products.
actually selling them would probably only make the lawyer's job easier.

kick_out_the_jams,

Oh Trump has blubbered about it enough that I would take it seriously.
It wouldn't be a legal mechanism if there was something stopping him from doing it.

(from the article)

"We're losing a lot of people because of the internet," Trump said. "We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."

"ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the internet better than we are using the nternet and it was our idea," Trump said. "I want to get the brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS can't do what they're doing. I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet."

When challenged, he added: "I'm not talking about closing the internet. I'm talking about closing parts of the internet where ISIS is."

kick_out_the_jams,

Next year: New Steam Deck rumored to have an essential oil compartment.

How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?

I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...

kick_out_the_jams,

It's mostly up to which manufacturers allow boot loader unlocking.

The pixels are somewhat a continuation of the nexus line which were more developer centric.

kick_out_the_jams,

That being said, Starlink still saw multi-server latencies under 60 ms in the U.K. (51.26 ms), Spain (53.37 ms), Portugal (55.84 ms), and Belgium (59.34 ms). Starlink saw most countries’ multi-server latencies between 60 and 90 ms.

https://www.gsma.com/get-involved/gsma-membership/gsma_resources/new-speedtest-data-shows-starlink-performance-is-mixed-but-thats-a-good-thing/

I thought I read that the latency increased since it first launched but it seems like they're doing pretty well.

kick_out_the_jams,

I used Signal since it was called TextSecure and I don't think I ever successfully got another person using it.
Eventually uninstalled it because it was just largely useless, anytime I messaged a friend who seemed to be using it they were more confused than anything.

kick_out_the_jams,

Piped is based on NewPipe's extractor.
If you want an app it's available on f-droid or with sponsor block on Izzy's repo.

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