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https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php In 2004, top 10 networks had together around one million of users. now, it's around 150 000. Top reason of this decline is gamers leaving the network. Quakenet and GameSurge
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English version here: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkomngbd5
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Algol had negative indexes. You could declare an array of nine elements going from -4 to 4, for example. I couldn't find why they wanted such a thing.
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OP article says > "Instead of drawing 1000 glyphs into 1000 tiny textures, we’ll just allocate one huge texture and subdivide it into a grid of 1000 glyph cells." that's the same as John Carmack's MegaTexture. First
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Here an example of a hardware "trojan" for Intel Ivy Bridge; The hardware RNG is broken only by modifying its circuitry doping. https://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf https://en
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4y ago
Executives at Square-Enix have been saying for >ten years now that video gaming consoles and AAA games are getting less and less interesting to them, especially in Japan.
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4y ago
Mastodon became popular in Japan after Twitter banned lolicon and Pixiv[1] decided to start its own Mastodon instance named Pawoo[2]. It had a mobile app and all[3]. Last year, Pixiv stopped supporting the mobile app and transferred the ins
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5y ago
They used the Scheme programming language for some stuff. https://practical-scheme.net/docs/gdc2002.html https://practical-scheme.net/docs/jlugm2000.html
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Alexander Nevzorov on invading Ukraine back in April 2021 https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/taood7/uncanny_pre... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevzorov
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Is there any proof that Chechens soldiers have suffered heavy losses? There were rumors that Ukrainian army bombarded them after the Chechens themselves leaked their positions by posting videos on tiktok/instagram/telegram. The Ka
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It doesn't guarantee WW3. Even shooting down a Russian aircraft would not (it happened in Syria[1]). Attacking Russia territory would start WW3 but Ukraine is not part of Russia. Not yet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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I am not a native English speaker and may have badly expressed myself. I am not urging the "west" or "allieds" to intervene nor i am condemning them for not to. But if they were serious about stopping Putin, they would h
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It was the only way to tell Putin to stop and to prevent an invasion; you send troops at the border, we will do the same on our side and they will stay as long as yours stay there.
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Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 to "enforce peace". Same with Crimea in 2014. Then Luhansk and Donetsk a few days ago. Now the rest of Ukraine. Discussion with Putin is futile. When Russia started sending troops next to the Ukraine
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VESA had one but it never took off. https://web.archive.org/web/20081209121702/http://www.vesa.o...
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When i installed Windows 11 a few weeks ago, i was forced to create or link a live.com account during the installation. There was no way to bypass it.
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It all started when they turned Team Fortress 2 into a free-to-play game (remember all the memes about the "hats"?). The move originated from Yanis Varoufakis who later became Greek minister of finance. https://archive.
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For my part, Teddit.net completely replaced the official website when it come to browse on mobile.
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I find Windows 11 to be the most bloated of all windows version with such stuff as Microsoft store, xbox app, cortana, or security center getting nastier on the user; You turn them off in the settings panel but they still keep running in th
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Code injection is common in video gaming, it is used by the Steam overlay, OBS Studio, anticheats, profilers, ...
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There is also this one The random numbers are generated in real-time in our lab by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. https://qrng.anu.edu.au/
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Last time i checked, /dev/random was receiving entropy from * The kernel command line string at boot. * Every time there is an input event (mouse, keyboard, ...). * Every time there is a disk event. * By retrieving the cpu cycles
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LXQt with a retro theme may do it. The project reached version 1.0 at the beginning of this month. https://lxqt-project.org/about/ https://www.opencode.net/abgr/qtstep
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They filmed Robert Patrick with a grid painted all over his body then did the animations by hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0xp74uIZO4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
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I don't know about malwares but online gaming cheat developers have been using a signed driver from Intel that has a vulnerability allowing to load any unsigned driver. Despite the exploit being discovered back in 2016, the driver cert
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Be cautious that publishing source code generated in part or entirely from decompilation of copyrighted content may take you to court. https://torrentfreak.com/take-two-sues-enthusiasts-behind-gt... https://news.
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These anti cheats have no other choice than become more and more restrictive to the user. Cloud gaming for everyone coupled to a game controller relying on a secure cryptoprocessor may put a end to cheating in the large.
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This picture was popular on 4chan a few years ago: https://imgur.com/a/ZyNZ0JL
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https://thebookofshaders.com Still incomplete but browsable online and has its own interactive shader editor (try to click on values like floats or vectors) https://thebookofshaders.com/edit.php?log=161127202429
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An electron app is not necessary SaaS but it is still a hidden web browser running an application built on web technologies (Essentially HTML5 which is html+css+javascript).
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