bluescrn

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by bluescrn 2y ago
A 'human dead mans switch' may well be more reliable than technology, so long as you pick the right person.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Social media impressions/likes. That's usually what drone videos are for, isn't it?
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by bluescrn 2y ago
It'd be a lot more subtle to just have a spy on the ground operating a drone from nearby, looking like just another careless hobbyist flying where they shouldn't be. Small drones don't have much range, and balloons could have
334.
by bluescrn 2y ago
If it's got bright lights on it, it's very unlikely to be espionage.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
MOBA is a strange genre. Seems to take the worst bits of of RTS and the worst of ARPG, and combine it with the worst of the gaming community and a multiplayer-only design that's very hostile to beginners. Never got on with them or real
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by bluescrn 2y ago
> Spending 10 years on trying to make starcraft 2, when the rts genre was in a major slump Was worth it though. SC2 was the last of the old, great Blizzard
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by bluescrn 2y ago
> Modern cars are just smartphones on wheels at this point. Complete with non-replaceable batteries.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Not sure if the anesthetics have got better or if it's just a skill issue, injecting it in precisely the right place? I had problems way back in the 90s with them not working too well on me. But my current dentist gets it perfect every
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Is there any future for the gaming/enthusiast PC segment? Feels like it's dying. Becoming an ever-smaller niche. High-end gaming PCs became vastly more expensive over the last few years, between general post-Covid inflation and th
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by bluescrn 2y ago
If SpaceX is overly hindered by regulation/lawfare, then there'll be competition from China before long.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
SpaceX is not Musk. It may be executing his vision, but it's a team of thousands of skilled and hard-working people, all eager to work on a Sunday for a chance to pull something like this off.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
That 'confusing UI' is fully functional with a game controller, and consistent across many cores. Which is a massive win when you want to run emulators on devices without mouse/keyboard, and more than makes up for minor perfo
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Retroarch isn't perfect - but it makes emulators usable on devices without mouse+keyboard, with a consistent UI for configuration. Without it, emulation on Steam Deck and Miyoo/Ambernic-style devices would be nowhere near as good
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by bluescrn 2y ago
I'm wondering if the anticipated Switch 2 is going to be very similar to the current device in terms of architecture and OS, and the real concern of Nintendo isn't Switch 1 piracy right now, it's that the current Switch emula
345.
by bluescrn 2y ago
So much of the effort and expense has gone into creating a large plastic shell and custom keyboard, though, resulting in a costly product targeting a very small niche of the already fairly niche hobby that is retro computing/gaming (or
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by bluescrn 2y ago
AFAIK, you can't view any tweets unless logged in these days. But the sort of user being frequently blocked likely has multiple accounts anyway.
347.
by bluescrn 2y ago
Do people go swimming with their phones? Older devices could generally handle splashes, e.g being used in light rain. Water damage seemed far less likely than drop damage.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Better than dropping an iPhone, breaking the glass screen/back, then getting angry about the limited repair options…
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by bluescrn 2y ago
A small amount of adhesive might be justifiable, but the amount used is excessive and seems there primarily to increase ‘repair friction’, in a rather dangerous way - actively increasing the chance of a battery fire when replacement attempt
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Replacing a consumable part, particularly a battery, should not be a complex repair requiring specialised tools.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Greed, combined with a housing shortage, and the housebuilding that is going on being poorly planned (no new infrastructure, as many homes crammed onto small patches of land as possible, usually designed around car ownership but without spa
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by bluescrn 2y ago
A lack of infrastructure development combined with a population being artificially increased by high levels of immigration, which is applying downward pressure on wages while pushing property costs (the source of most of the UK's probl
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by bluescrn 2y ago
If you've got a 3D printer and some Lego lying around, you can print Lego-compatible marble run parts, one example: https://hackaday.io/project/165034-marble-run-building-brick...
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Pagers, by definition, are likely to be older technology. The internals could be replaced with modern smaller and lower-power equivalents, requiring a smaller battery, and saving enough space. (Or maybe somebody just donated a batch of inno
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Seems much more precisely targeted than rocket attacks.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
If the footage on Twitter is legit, then there was a small detonation, with a bang, not a burning battery with a 'whoosh' and flames. Which indicates that the internals of the pager had been replaced with something rather more exp
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by bluescrn 2y ago
That was a mistake. If they'd gone for the thinnest smartphone they could buy, there'd be no chance of anybody hiding a small bomb inside it.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
There's footage on Twitter showing an actual detonation, with a bang. Not a huge blast (the man falls to the ground injured, but bystanders seemed unharmed). Definitely not the rapid burning 'whoosh' of a battery fire.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
"Intelligence agency intercepts batch of pagers and swaps out the internals" seems the most likely. If the footage on Twitter is legit, there was something more explosive than a battery inside those pagers.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
These appear to be actual explosions, not battery combustion (there's footage on Twitter of at least one of them going off, it's a detonation rather than intense burning) Definitely some non-standard internals in those devices...

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