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Your friendly local programmer, uni student and *nix addict.

  • At some point, npm supply chain attacks are going to stop being news and start being "Tuesday."

    ... JS on the backend was a mistake.

  • Off the top of my head, for those that are curious:

    • The show depicts radiation as similar to a contagion. In real life, once you strip and wash someone exposed to radioactive contaminants, they pose no danger to others.
    • The reactor was never in danger of turning into a nuke or rendering huge swathes of Europe uninhabitable. Nuclear explosions only happen under tightly engineered conditions. A big pile of molten reactor slag, while certainly dangerous, can't turn into a bomb.

    However, the utter incompetence of the USSR is very accurate.

  • In before one of them starts stripping or firewalling the phone-home code. What's Unity gonna do? Valve hasn't signed any contracts with them!

  • Well, there's just not much reason to switch yet. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

    (Well, maybe Copilot training, but I'm sure those dipshits at OpenAI scrape Gitlab too.)

  • But an extra fee will be charged if a user installs a game on a second device, say a Steam Deck after installing a game on a PC.

    Actually asinine.

  • Unicode versions (what this is talking about) and encodings are different things.

    Encodings kind of by definition don't really change. Unicode versions add new codepoints (such as emoji.)

  • Bevy is definitely nice, but it's probably a bridge too far for (say) an indie team moving off Unity. (Rust learning curve + ECS learning curve + no editor yet + still pre 1.0)

    Love it for personal projects though.

  • I wonder if distributors could get away with doing that automatically. My gut instinct tells me that Unity isn't stupid enough for that to be feasible long term, but... like you say, the C-suite bozos clearly aren't listening to the engineers.

  • Every other engine is smelling blood in the water it seems

  • For the sake of your sanity, I hope there's a resolution to this that doesn't involve a rewrite.

  • I can't decide if they'll get away with this or if they're committing corporate suicide.

  • Depending on how they generate a hardware fingerprint, fabricating random ones every check is a single LD_PRELOAD (or equivalent) away.

  • Have they really not fixed the steamwebhelper memory leak??

  • There's a reason Hello Games wrote their own engine for NMS. We all know that it was pretty bad gameplay-wise at launch, but under the hood NMS was (and still is) something of a technical marvel. No loading screens except for a disguised one when jumping between systems is quite impressive.

  • Just use WASM

    If only...

  • I'm pretty sure I can't even connect to my university's network without installing a custom certificate.

    What brainlet at Google thought this was a good idea?

  • unless it's freely available data (like a Linux distro).

    Tell that to my university. Got a nasty email because I... downloaded Fedora Silverblue 38 😭

  • Yeah, it's kinda drab in a lot of places. Which is a shame, because I really love the cassette futurism/NASApunk aesthetic.