and then there is a decent amount of software that's mostly "one and done" and has immense performance constraints - games and anything that has to do with real-time. for game engines, a custom data format from the very start makes a lot of sense because your budget is usually less than 17ms and 8 threads on low-end hardware and 8.(3)ms across 16 threads on high-end. there, "smart data structures and dumb code beat dumb data structures and smart algorithms" couldn't be more true.

yet, for a generic app or server, just don't fuck your brains and go with SQLite

and even 1337x is too annoying to use at times compared to RuTracker

yeah, rutracker is to my knowledge the biggest and "cleanest" semi-public tracker.

afaik you can update your locked iPhone with a Mac or Windows in iTunes... but it will still require a passcode after update, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nope, the ”trust this computer” dialog needs you to enter your passcode before any other actions are possible

This can be bypassed by putting the phone in DFU mode.

Probably the only hope is jailbreaking.

Jailbreaking a locked, inaccessible iphone?

Keep in mind that everyone else is usually unaware (by design) of what all the intelligence agencies can do, but I doubt they would help in this scenario even if they could.

On the other hand, if this happens to a far more important person...

Jailbreaking is dead.

sadly that's also true within Ukraine. like, I know that Russians are handling Ukrainian prisoners of war very brutally (no sources, why: [0]) but, if not for [0] AND if I wouldn't be killed by my co-citizens for that, I would point out a good chunk of misconduct on Ukrainian side as well.

I also recall the history lessons. I can't remember anyone who committed a war crime against Nazi Germany that also was internationally prosecuted. yep, the West did prosecute domestically, and there were some loud cases with German POWs, but I can't recall any, any Soviet soldier being charged for e.g. rape.

[0]: there is nothing public to link to that remained up, and I'm long out from private Telegram channels where such videos are posted; plus, even if I could, you and mods wouldn't want to see the video of someone getting beheaded

who let the Streisand effect out of its cage!?

A simplification inquiry. Gets downvoted to death.

still growing, you mean. France is, however significant, just one country. and then there is broader push to FOSS inside Europe, as well as Europe's own sovereign solutions. some attempts were failed, some were successful, but everything is still in progress

EDIT: on a second read, this sounded too diminishing of this achievement than I intended. the point is that it's not fully done yet, although it is remarkable that there is, finally, a political will for such actions

Sadly back in the day the city of Munich caved in (hosting Germany's MS headquarter). They had a good good run with their Linux. But the state of Schleswig-Holstein is pushing for more open source and switching to Libre Office (80% or so done). They talk about that on their Open Source Initiative page [1].

[1]: https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/themen/... (German only)

try playing Control then! that's your dream come true :) (well, maybe except the Hiss part)

if we give it a little more polish, colder/greyer tones and "newness," it would fit very nicely for a Control fan :)

EDIT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_E...

At first I thought you were talking about an actual rotating fan, which would be an awesome addition to this. Just a small PC fan running at a very low RPM built into the side in a circular cutout, with that worn metal patina look.

as a control fan, i agree. the art direction in that game is something else.

I was delighted to see that a sequel is coming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJTBoQhWaC0

The maze level on the original game has to be an all-time best level design.

> I was delighted to see that a sequel is coming

the sequel trailer got me into the first game, actually :)) and I'm already sold on these recursive pigeons. is it multiplicative resonance?

> all-time best level design

well, the only worthy contenders are DEATHLOOP and Dishonored 2 :>

but yeah, Remedy does deserve every award they got with Control

also fun little project i discovered randomly

https://control-records.netlify.app

source: https://github.com/louh/control-records/

> the sequel trailer got me into the first game, actually

similarly the first game got me into Alan Wake, and now onto Alan Wake II

oh, Direc- excuse me, Jesse! have you met esseJ?

yes! one of my absolute favourite moments is the synchronicity lab

My favorite video game of the universe.

so, I'm not the only one who was scrolling it and thinking, "damn, it's so horrible and illegible, it must be on-brand with the topic." I even thought that the Dark Reader extension messed things up yet again.

I guess, as the meter is above 50%, you're not supposed to read it.