I've been thinking about an ARPG based around World of Warcraft's mythic dungeons.
Scalable, multi-player, enhanceable instances where completion of more difficult versions of the instance rewards in better gear and crafting options.
The idea is that the content is created for a 5-man party (1 tank, 1 healer, 3 dps) but you can try solo it, or bring up to 20 people to massively increase the difficulty and the rewards. Instances would follow WoW dungeon's formula of trash mobs (which drop crafting materials and have rare drop chances for certain gear) pathing you towards a succession of bosses with very different, complex mechanics with stages, signaled abilities, and skill requirements.
This would include a character levelling system to unlock new class abilities and mechanisms, a party finder system, certain dungeons locked behind character level and the completion of other dungeons at a certain difficulty level. Perhaps you could extend it to add in "world bosses", massive 200-man bosses with a chance at particularly unique loot, but of course that would require a certain level of infrastructure and a game population making it justifiable.
Honestly I don't get why this is so surprising, humans have been drawing graffiti for thousands of years. There's plenty of Ancient Roman graffiti to attest to that.
While yes, we should discourage it where possible, we also need to acknowledge that it's just as big a part of human nature, and culture, as the colosseum itself.
Like most things, it's about balance. All changes to open source software must be approved by the community managing it, and if that community is lazy or poorly managed or simply too busy then there's an opportunity for new vulnerabilities to be created, either accidentally or maliciously.
But for well managed software, as other people have said you can get more changes more frequently, more security as many people are evaluating the code base, and greater attention to what users want rather than what's profitable. Whereas with closed source software there is a greater focus on profitability, and sometimes that leaves vulnerabilities open when development is rushed and/or vulnerabilities are not seen as important enough to justify the cost to fix, but sometimes that tendancy towards profitability can also ensure the product stays a market leader. Steam may be a good example of a good closed source product.
It would be interesting to see exactly how Meta is managing to block VPN users. Is it simply a matter of looking up instagram or facebook account related to email addresses used to sign up? Is it evaluating some sort of browser fingerprint? That's assuming VPN users are doing so via desktop, if it's an Android device for example is the OS itself providing information that's not getting obfuscated by the VPN?
That's fine, but what happens when this expands with the the increasing effects of climate change? What happens when Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas health insurance costs triple because of the risks of extreme heat? What about New Orleans or locations prone to extreme storms or hurricanes?
Huge patches of countries all over the world are soon to become uninsurable because climate change makes it too dangerous to live there.
I think "great" movie is kinda stretching it. It fails in authenticity from the first scene and proceeds to create more and more silly, unrealistic scenarios.
More spoilers below:
The opening scene is Driver's ship sounding an alert mere seconds before getting hit by asteroids (as if a ship capable of interstellar travel would be unable to see a cloud of rocks until it's about to hit), the autopilot is apparently unable to do anything so he climbs out of bed as his ship is disintegrating around him, and it becomes immediately clear he's about to crash in to the planet right next to his ship (as if the solar system were too crowded to plot any path beside skimming through Earth's atmosphere). It's complete nonsense, dramatic theatrical nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless.
There's plenty more examples of such nonsense, like giant dinosaurs killing a perfectly good meal and then ignoring it to chase two comparatively tiny humans. And other dinosaurs continuing a fruitless attack to their inevitable demise when any real animal would have run away long ago.
Yes, fair correction. Perhaps that is a point itself, the way debates between political opponents are presented as formal and official when in fact they are entirely at the whim of the broadcaster and the politicians involved.
Is it not? I was under the belief that official political debates have a large influence on the format and rules of these debate clubs.
If not, it shouldn't be that difficult to verify whether competitor's statements are backed by evidence, or if they're made up, or if they're really opinions disguised as facts.
That's because that's how politics works. If you can get enough people to believe that what you say is true and act on that belief, it doesn't really matter whether it's actually true or not.
This isn't the exact recipe for OPs mushrooms, but I have a similar recipe:
Bacon lardons, challot, garlic, red wine, parsley, button mushrooms.
Peel and slice the challot, add to hot oiled pan with bacon and garlic. Once they're softened/sizzling turn heat down to medium, optionally add splash of red wine and stir in, then add mushrooms. Stir to coat, cook until ready, add shredded parsley on top.
Can be turned in to a full meal by adding fresh cream and cheese to create a sauce, add another ingredient (I like to pre-cook courgette or sausage and slice them up), and then stir in your pasta of choice. And of course season to perfect it.
Although it may very well be caused by Twitter running out of money, which would be corroborated by Twitter's lack of payment to various other parties. Giving Musk three options: Use more of his own money, admit defeat and massively scale back Twitter's functionality and availability, or try to scam money out of other people.
Clearly he's not willing to spend his own money, or admit failure.
Nice, thanks, I didn't know about this! I assumed the ads were just an unfortunate necessity to maintain the site, but you can definitely tell there's a bigger difference when you compare the two.
Aside from email already being federated as others have said, there's a site called PrivacyTools with lots of links for the other things you talked about and lots more.