No part of a CRPG makes for good clips, I’m sorry to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLjB6p3nHMk

This is due to phishing attacks and account takeover attempts, not due to the platform itself being insecure.

I mean, it’s not that Signal has security issues per se, but it doesn’t have the German government’s security people with control over what goes into releases, either.

If you remember the wake of Signalgate, the US doesn’t allow use by American officials of Signal to do their communications because they don’t certify it for classified information transmission and do have their own app that officials are supposed to be using.

On March 15, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used the chat to share sensitive and classified details of the impending airstrikes, including types of aircraft and missiles, as well as launch and attack times.[1][2] The name of an active undercover CIA officer was mentioned by CIA director John Ratcliffe in the chat,[3] while Vance and Hegseth expressed contempt for European allies.[4][5]

A forensic investigation by the White House information technology office determined that Waltz had inadvertently saved Goldberg’s phone number under Hughes’ contact information. Waltz then added Goldberg to the chat while trying to add Hughes.[15] Subsequently, investigative journalists reported Waltz’s team regularly created group chats to coordinate official work[16] and that Hegseth shared details about missile strikes in Yemen to a second group chat which included his wife, his brother, and his lawyer.[17]

On March 18, 2025, the Pentagon sent a department-wide memo warning, “Please note: third party messaging apps (e.g. Signal) are permitted by policy for unclassified accountability/recall exercises but are NOT approved to process or store nonpublic unclassified information”—a category whose release would be far less potentially damaging than that about ongoing military operations.[27] A former NSA hacker said that linking Signal to a desktop app is one of its biggest risks, as Ratcliffe suggested he had done.[28]

According to the article, German government information security people do that for Wire:

Klöckner highlighted that Wire is already provided by the Bundestag administration and is certified by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

Ah, thanks, 2028.

Well, it’s more time to fix bugs and revise the hardware to cut costs or improve functionality. I mean, few engineers are going to say no to more time to fix their project. Maybe do a 2018 release and bump up some of the specs.

One possibility is to release a small run of the current hardware at a higher price that accounts for the increased hardware component costs as a “limited prerelease”. That has the downside that it won’t be specifically targeted by game developers, which is one perk of a console-like hardware release. Valve should also make it clear that there’s going to be a full release later that may have updated specs and will have a lower price. That gets some feedback from people and lets users who really want a living room PC now and don’t care about the price or whether developers are specifically targeting it get one. I don’t think that it’ll do very well given that it’d lack economy of scale and the high price, and having another platform will add to Valve’s cost of maintenance, but…shrugs it might be considered worthwhile.

Don’t get me wrong — I’d like to have a “monitor replacement HMD” myself, and it’s one reason that I’ve been watching the area. When things here there, I will probably get an HMD myself. And I think that there will come a day — unless some sort of brain-interface thing gets there first — where HMDs wind up at a monitor level. It’s just that in 2026, the hardware is still pretty limited for that application.

It has a high angular resolution compared to some other HMDs, but it’s still not competitive with the angular resolution of traditional monitors.

HMDs in 2026, even at the upper end of the price range, aren’t there yet as superseding monitors.

EDIT:

https://kguttag.com/2023/08/05/apple-vision-pro-part-5a-why-monitor-replacement-is-ridiculous/

Rule 34, a maxim that everything imaginable has been portrayed in porn, has now been taken to its logical extremes.

Not yet, it hasn’t.

Sounds like trying to compete with Steam’s Big Picture Mode.

On the other hand, then your mobile provider can’t see what you’re doing, so six of this, half a dozen of the other.

I’m still mad about ksp2

If you’re not aware, Kitten Space Agency:

Kitten Space Agency (KSA) is a space flight simulation game in early access being developed as a spiritual successor to the Kerbal Space Program (KSP) franchise. The game’s inception was largely influenced by the development freeze of Kerbal Space Program 2 following the sale of Private Division by Take-Two Interactive. Multiple KSA developers were previously notable KSP modders.

So would it be possible for a whole bunch of people to ddos google/other big popular websites ipv4 to ipv6 translation such that their services would still function over ipv6 but make everyone’s day awful if running ipv4. Enough angry customers and pissed off users seems like a very effective way to get isps and mobile service providers to get their act together and start issue sing ipv6 to people.

Trying to DDoS attack Google’s IPv4 services to get your mobile provider to provide IPv6 support seems kind of…indirect.

Came for girls with guns

!militarymoe@ani.social, if you’re not familiar.

I don’t have a log of hours — I don’t play it on Steam — but I’d be pretty confident that it’ll be Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead

I enjoy Magic the Gathering, but I hate that it’s leashed with copyright and patent stuff, and basically pay to win with Wizard’s bogus artificial scarcity.

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but Magarena is an open-source Magic: The Gathering clone.

https://magarena.github.io/

No artificial scarcity there.

We keep hearing that AI demand is driving up memory prices

Retail memory prices have more-or-less leveled off. I mean, they’re still much higher than they were before all this started, but they haven’t continued to increase much since the end of January.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

If you haven’t already, try clicking a mouse button in-game? Some games switch between gamepad and keyboard+mouse modes based on the last input they’ve seen, and don’t treat mouse movement (which might be very slight) as counting as a “mouse mode switching event”.

I think that the major selling point of Notepad is that it’s installed everywhere already.

I haven’t read it in forever, and I took a look and…yeah, I have to agree with you on both the art and the writing.

Well…it is kind of hard to keep cranking out hits every day for decades on end, I guess…

I mean, yeah, just saying that if lots of people want it done, it’s probably gonna be more-efficient to take that route. Like tinting windows or other popular aftermarket modifications.

I’d guess that it’s more that they’re refocusing on AI as a target of their parallel compute people. You need the same parallel compute engineers for both, and there’s more money in AI than in gaming.

https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/as-intel-creates-new-ai-group-data-center-division-to-refocus-on-cpus-memos

In memos to Intel employees that were seen by CRN, company leaders indicate that what has been known as the Data Center and AI Group is being split up, with the newly renamed Data Center Group refocusing on CPUs and Sachin Katti taking over responsibilities for data center accelerator chips, like GPUs, in his freshly configured AI and CTO organization.

Katti Says His Group Is At ‘Center’ Of Intel’s Future

In his memo to employees, Katti said he will “lead the strategy, definition and execution for our data center accelerator portfolio as well as product positioning and customer engagements” in his new role as chief technology and AI officer.

The executive, who has been at Intel for more than three years, said his group has absorbed Saurabh Kulkarni, vice president of AI systems design, and the AI systems and GPU product management team. This team was previously a part of the Data Center and AI Group, as Eibschitz noted in her memo.

Katti said the CTO and AI organization will also take in Anil Rao and the systems architecture and engineering team as well as what is called the Intel Cloud Services team. The latter team was most recently led by Markus Flierl, who launched the Intel Tiber AI Cloud service last year and “has decided to leave Intel to pursue external opportunities,” according to Katti. Katti said he plans to name Flierl’s successor.

Same thing is happening at Nvidia.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/18/nvidia-ai-backlash-gamers-geforce-gpu.html

For its first 30 years, Nvidia wasn’t a household name unless you were a gamer. Now, some of its original fan base feel left behind as artificial intelligence has made the chipmaker the world’s most valuable company.

“The gaming segment is no longer the driving force of the company. There was one point when it clearly was,” said Stacy Rasgon of Bernstein Research.

Nvidia popularized the graphics processing units, or GPUs, that enable fast frame rates and rendering that make the best video game play possible.

When Nvidia released its first GPU in 1999, the GeForce 256, it laid off the majority of workers and approached bankruptcy to make it happen. Gamers snapped up the new type of processor, bringing Nvidia back from the brink.

Now, with demand for AI soaring, nearly all of Nvidia’s revenue comes from its products that serve that industry, instead of gaming. And as AI chipmaking shrinks the available memory supply, Nvidia has been forced to make tough decisions about priorities.

I mean, there’s obviously still demand for gaming hardware, and I don’t think that it’s going to go away, but you can’t just instantly magic more chip engineers into existence, so to some extent, they gotta pull people off gaming hardware if they want to do AI hardware quickly.

EDIT: Honestly, this might not be a terrible time to own existing gaming hardware, since my guess is that, even aside from the memory shortages holding back newer hardware, we’re going to see a slowdown in development of newer stuff, so I’d expect that existing stuff will probably become obsolete more-slowly.