Whats the fascination with Doom? I keep seeing running Doom on this and that and now Rats playing Doom. I mean ok, Doom runs on everything and now rats playing doom. So what?
Doom has some star power and is instantly recognizable to pretty much anyone, not just video game fans. Its engine is Free software that's easily adaptable to pretty much any input or output method. In this case Doom might also have made a better candidate than another first person shooter because you can't aim up or down in Doom, so there's no need to account for that in the rats' input.
Doom pioneered the FPS genre in the USA. So it has a cultural significance. I used to go to my friends house to play it. You deal with a whole range of aspects such as grapchics, sound, networking,.. Etc. So it's a fun challange for hackers to try to get it to work in the most strange of ways. In addition it's a simple goal (with a complex path). So it helps with the focus, and most importantly the fun programming challenges involved in making the game work.
one of the first widely known "3d" shooters. Doesn't require much in the way of hardware and there are lots of open source implementations , tools and mods for it. And it's a meme
Every article I read about iOS 26 and Tahoe, is just another reminder that I should never ever update my devices.
I don’t think that there is going back for Apple, the company is already too enshittified to get back to a company with a vision. They got drowned by AI, the releases and features are subpar to competition. I do care about detail when I’m buying premium products and Apple just doesn’t cut it any more.
Thank you Apple for this update. You saved me so much money because I won’t buy another Apple product.
I find it unacceptable that people pay that kind of money for iPhones and iPads etc and have to deal with bugs, bubbles, readability issues with a theme that looks like a terrible 2011 android skin. And that’s a trillion dollar company.
I'm also pushing the upgrade of my Xs year after year now. It runs fine on iOS 18, and it still gets security updates (the newer models didn't get 18.7).
After more than a decade, I'm seriously considering to switch back to Android again. Also because Apple doesn't want to release some features in the EU, they prefer picking a fight with the regulators. Fine with me, but they have to be okay with us not buying Apple products anymore.
Please don't do that. I should be the one to decide whether I read in dark or light mode. If you want dark mode, change your browser defaults. Leave us normal people alone.
> the proposed legislation includes exemptions for government accounts used for “national security purposes, maintaining law and order or military purposes”. Convenient.
I can buy the military exemption, and maybe some very top level government workers that are effectively military (example: POTUS). But the EU parliament has no reason to be excluded. It is definitely a terrible law if it is so bad that they won't pass it unless they are excluded.
> top level government workers that are effectively military (example: POTUS)
POTUS is very specifically NOT a member of the military. Elected civilian control was the whole point. Even Eisenhower had to (temporarily) give up his general rank to serve as president.
Don't worry people. If you are not a European let me tell you how it goes.
The 'Unofficial' boss of European Union is Germany. If Germany will vote against it, more countries will back off and it won't pass. If Germany wants ChatControl, it's over. It will pass and all other undecided countries will support it.
> ... The 'Unofficial' boss of European Union is Germany. ...
I disagree with this sentence. The unofficial bosses are both Germany and France. Which is also the reason why the people in the richer EU countries will suffer economically when the upcoming bailout for France /will/ happen.
Sadly, the new German government is comprised of two parties that have consistently voted for more surveillance. I'm afraid this time it's up to the courts to stop this.
Probably better for you guys that UK is out now, our government would have been salivating at the thought of spying on every citizen without repercussions
There is a misunderstanding about RSS and escaping algorithms. Sure, you are not under the social media control but you certainly are under the publisher control. Now you have to see everything that they publish. Which makes it the absolutely worst way to consume news. It becomes overwhelming and if you want inbox zero it’s another digital burden. The result is that I pretty much lost interest on following some websites through RSS because even though I do like some of the articles, it’s another way of doomscrolling when searching for the one thing that will give you the dopamine hit.
So after excluding the vast majority of websites, I was left with 10-20 websites that I did enjoy ~60% of the content they put out and I've subscribed to their newsletter. Which in most cases is full of tracking links but that’s a case for another topic.
> Now you have to see everything that they publish. Which makes it the absolutely worst way to consume news.
I agree on the second part, but the first part is not necessary. RSS is technically not hard, one can write one's own reader very quickly. You don't have to consume everything a publishers publishes, I don't even see everything a publisher publishes because I don't even request everything a publisher publishes.
I think the (your? my?) curation should focus on selecting some good sources (like the article says), but this means in no way that you should see everything all the time. Only when you want, in a quantity that's doable for you.
Fetching the feed less often can help but you still have to treat high volume feeds differently. With my best discipline, I was opening my reader just once a day and getting just whatever happens to be “front page” at the moment. The few YT channels I “follow” via RSS only post content a few times a month.
You just need a reader that aggregates all your feeds into a single chronological list. Sure this means that you may never get thru the firehose, but it's easier to me than going to each subscription to read it individually. It's less work, and more fun as one big list.
And Zacusca represents a third way (the first two being reverse chron and newsletters, which both put control in the publisher's hands). If you can articulate what you enjoy then you can filter the RSS according to that.
The most complete open source Note taking app and exceptionally supported, it has its official Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux app. Exceptional (and e2ee) sync options too.
Wow, no one is talking about the smell. Have you got any idea how terrible is the smell of a chicken coop? You do know that you have to get in there to clean it, right? This ain’t no fun activity. I prefer to get fewer eggs per month than to clean it myself (sometimes every day, it also depends on the weather too).
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