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Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots? (Yes, Exactly 193.)

The apartment building under construction at 975 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn is the kind of project that city officials and economists say New York needs to solve the cityโ€™s severe housing shortage.

It will have 328 new homes at rents targeting young professionals, from studios up to three-bedrooms, with a grocery store on the ground floor.

But the ability to construct these homes, at this location, turns on a peculiar problem: How do you also find a place to park 193 cars on this lot?


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The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism by Marjorie N. Feld, 2024

Explores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews.

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We are making a progressive release of the new Midori update soon we will release more news for the moment it is available for Linux from our Github repo.

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#midoribrowser #linux #opensuse #debian #privacy #browser #tech #technology




The Ulysses pact part is so important. I used to make things in #Flash all the time and then it died. That's why I don't use #ReactNative , #Unity etc. If they can pull the rug I'm not learning that tool.

It's been hard to stick to that rule in the #musicproduction world, it's a nightmare there, but using #reaper and steering clear of DRM'd #vst 's is the best approach I've seen so far.

Surprising many don't prioritise for this. I guess I'm naive.

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Dukat: Iโ€™m going to jail for being so beautiful and all the terrorism


moose with no comment on his alleged involvement in seizure, death of criminal squirrel peanut

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Apex Legends Recent Reviews Are Now Mostly Negative Because of the Removal of Linux Support


in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

To me, if Valve wants Linux multiplayer to have a future, they need to demonstrate that they can develop a good Linux anti-cheat solution.

That's much easier said than done. But I hope it's a problem that they're working on. Otherwise, it's going to limit the potential of the Steam Deck and other future Valve Linux hardware.

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in reply to five82

We'll see if Valve's partnership with Arch expands, it's been suggested that Valve could do signature verification on the OS as a fork of verification.

It would be nice of Valve could put this issue to rest considering its the top blocker on some leaderboards games.

Personally I hope they solve it by making it "opt-in" for "Verified Multiplayer" as opposed to opt-out 'take it or leave it' as many games get canned robbing purchasers of their ability to enjoy abandoned games.

in reply to five82

I think the problem is that game publishers also want the cheapest and laziest solutions. What EA (and others) are doing now are basically "give us full control of your computer so we can do whatever we want" with their kernel level anti-cheats. Server side anti-cheat requires more processing that they have to pay for, and requires more work to develop heuristics and other algorithms to detect cheaters.
in reply to ffhein

one way to burn this all down is for hardware cheats to become even more popular, a triggerbot hardware cheat is as simple as a adruino plugged into your USB and your computer sees it as a capture card and a mouse and that's the simpler solution.

If they start to ban capture cards or PCs with 2 mouse, it can be upgraded to be a hdmi and mouse pass through

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in reply to โ˜‚๏ธ-

I think Microsoft and their partners have been dreaming about turning PCs into fully locked down platforms for a long time, completely unrelated to gaming. Hardware DRM including display devices and cables, and only running "trusted" software is the end goal.
in reply to ffhein

Indeed and this is part of the problem as well - even if Valve magically developed some almost perfect Linux anticheat solution, implementing it is still more effort than just continuing to ban Linux users.
in reply to five82

Look to Minecraft servers like Hypixel for how anticheat should be done. You can completely hack your client, but your every movement is scrutinized by the server and only the data you need is received. This cripples what cheating can allow you to do without using client side anticheat and still enabling mods that improve quality of life.
in reply to yonder

While i do like how hypixel does it, hypixel has a LOT of cheaters, even in an environment significantly less conducive to them than stuff like valorant and apex.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Wow I can't believe they put in the work to make anti cheat work on linux and then they just removed it.


Little Heroes by Norman Spinrad (1987) ..."It's the near-future, and the #music #industry is tanking. They're looking to cut costs and a big one is the overhead for the actual #musicians. Obvious answer: eliminate them. The #technology is good enough that a perfect human-looking star can be #synthesized, but so far they haven't created one with any juice. Enter Gloriana O'Toole, the Crazy Old Lady of Rock and Roll, and the two techno-dweebs they assigned to her, Bobby and Sally. Together -- with the help of some wizard wire that gives them the equivalent of safe and controllable acid trips -- they manufacture a rock and rol star. Problem is, the best rock and roll stars tend to attack authority. Like, say, the music industry..." librarything.com/work/108380



Any #Linux users have any luck with #Moonlight/#Sunshine game streaming?

I've had lots of success running it on Windows, but when I try to use the #Moonlight app on #LinuxMint I just get a black screen, and my mouse is captured so I can't turn it off!

It controls the host computer (Windows) but I can only see so on the host's screen, the client's screen is just black.

#streaming #game #videoGames





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