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Started reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. I really like the style of writing, so much detail into the main character’s mind.
It is also impressive just how relevant the topics are today, for a book written back in 1993 (climate change, wealth disparity, etc.). It’s really fascinating (scary?) to see what the author thought the U.S. would look like in 2024 and onwards.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Ventoy is awesome, love being able to load a ton of different boot images on a single USB drive! The only issue I’ve run into is the occasional image that won’t boot. Not sure if this is expected, or you need to sometimes tweak settings to get it working?
It isn’t how it works today. I’m talking about sometime in the distant (or near) future. Surely at some point AI will have the capabilities on par with at least a low level hacker.
Or, if you still think that’s a stretch, just imagine all the ways perfectly legitimate software can cost companies money. Not through malicious design, but just by mistakes.
There are some archives of the service here -
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Xfire
Supposedly most of the videos, and 20% of the screenshots? I’m not sure if there’s a way to easily search the archive contents, rather than download.
There’s quite a few profiles on Web Archive too -
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xfire.com/profile/*
It was definitely ahead of its time! Not really sure why it faded away, I guess pressure from Steam (pun intended), and games moving to private in-game server browsers? Along with many other options for voice chat.
For those that didn’t use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, and a server browser for games back in the day.
As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest ways to stream your gameplay for others to watch. I remember trying it out years before Twitch was around.
The only reason it came up again for me was I noticed it in some old computer files, ha! Used to be my most used application by far.
Ah yeah, I forgot about Hamachi! It was great for games that only supported LAN multiplayer.
It’s great! Really scratches the Pikmin itch for anyone who enjoys those types of games!
Checkout Wool by Hugh Howey. The Silo TV series is based on it, great story!
I finally read it not long ago, and it was really interesting! Especially given how long ago it was written, seems like it established a lot of the themes you see in modern post apocalyptic media.
Kurzesagt themselves made a video breaking down where their funding comes from as well, worth a watch - https://youtu.be/1x-i9z617z4
For what it’s worth, they claim one of their conditions for receiving money is complete editorial independence.
That would only really work well if you had an equal number / frequency of posts coming in on your ‘Everything’ and ‘Subscription’ feeds. Otherwise the posts from your subscriptions could pretty easily get ‘overwhelmed’.
I think the idea is, see almost everything you are subscribed to, but also don’t miss any very popular posts. Ideally I’d love to be able to specify the ratio even. Something like “show me 5 posts from my subscriptions, followed by 1 post from another feed (e.g. Everything)”.
Instead of weighting posts, could also just do alternating posts from each list. With deduplication as well.
They actually recently opened a beta for sending emails from Workers as well. There are already a few projects to make use of this, examples:
No worries! I definitely get it, coding everything and getting it out there is the biggest thing. Maybe sometime down the road!
Thanks for the App!
Was literally wondering if there was something out there to do this earlier today, ha. This is awesome, great work!
Any plans to submit to the Play Store? Saw you mentioned it might be against a policy, but could still try I guess?
Excited this is finally out, not sure how gameplay will be, but I love the art style and concept!
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll add that to my list was well!