Wait, does this mean “balatro” means something?

Edit: Google says it was ancient Roman for a professional jester or buffoon. Fitting name.

Hm, okay. I’ll look into it slightly more than not at all, when it comes out. :P

Huge emphasis on pvp of all kinds in this article. Think I’m gonna give this one a miss.

Okay, so I was around for this, so I saw what was involved and the outcome. To do the exploit involved filling your ship with some valuable cargo and then leaving it parked in a spot where it was technically not landed, in order to intentionally glitch the cargo grid. This would then let you sell the same cargo over and over.

The result of this was huge amounts of ships littering the landing zones in a completely unintended way, which would tank both the FPS of anyone else in the area and the server tick rate. This in turn makes the game look worse, it hampers efforts to test other things, etc etc.

As for the testing of exploits argument, CIG did say in their announcement that such is actively encouraged. They only suspended accounts for people who were doing it over and over and over and over and over. Basically anyone who was just using it to grind huge amounts of in-game money and making the play and testing experience for everyone else worse. Most of these people weren’t even reporting the bug.

Probably a lot of them were selling the credits on ebay, which… yes, is a thing, sadly. Even though progress is still being wiped occasionally, there’s still gold farmers. There’s actually a warning you have to click through every single login for this, but I’ve seen people argue for it, the idiots.

BTW, it’s in alpha right now, not pre-alpha (which I don’t personally believe is a thing).

That last one sounds pretty good.

Income tax is such a bitch to deal with. I used to support the idea of replacing it with GST/VAT because then I’d not have to deal with it. But then someone pointed out that disproportionately benefits the rich (who mostly just hold wealth rather than spend it) and disadvantages the poor (who cannot avoid paying for things).

So fuck it. Make it all income tax and get rid of the others! :P

(In before this is also a bad idea somehow)

Will be nice when I can run my favourite distro on one of these.

Dude’s right about javascript. For his talk about OSes and other languages… I dunno, I think progress is happening there even though he acts like it’s not. Rust is picking up steam, on linux at least. OS progress is hard to gauge in the Windowsphere though, especially with MS mostly progressing the malware aspects these days.

This headline belongs on Not The Onion.

I see what you did with that title

Wasn’t Hi-Fi Rush popular?

Outer Wilds, Subnautica, and 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Play them all, and don’t look anything up, because the unfolding mystery is half the charm and you can never unknow it.

Okay, so I personally don’t care for tattoos or vapers? But everything else on this list is just mental illness on his part.

Awesome, gonna bookmark those for later. Thanks!

No problem. The one I used is an ESP32 DevKitC, and you can find info about it on Espressif’s site, or just google the pinout diagram. For basic tasks it should be all you need since it has lots of binary pins, two ADC channels, two DAC channels, realtime clock, special pins for waking it from deep sleep, two I2C, etc. Though if you want to do video input you probably want something else, I’m learning.

Anyway, if you can spare the money to get one just to toy with I’d definitely recommend it.

Okay so that is an issue with the ESP32, sure. There are a lot of variants.

So from what I can tell, the ESP32 is the SoC chip and what you usually get is a dev board which has that plus a bunch of power regulation bits, a USB connector and UART so you can easily program it, etc. That part varies mostly by pinout. I.e. Same features, different pin location.

There are also variants of the chip, but those are usually more costly and will be named things like ESP32-S2.

Every one I’ve seen can run off 5v or 3.3v and uses the latter for logic, so if you got yourself an arduino kit and then just bought an ESP32 dev board it would almost certainly work with whatever is in the kit. Both are microcontrollers, not microprocessors, so they tend not to have OSes or screens.

Oh interesting. Can you link the detector? I could use that for something else.

Nice idea. Mine has a slot tho, so I couldn’t just do that. Never seen anyone with a mailbox the mailman has to open in Australia.

Hah, fair. It tells me when I have mail.

That`s a nice service. Do you get no mail from other couriers? Or just no important mail?