Interesting! To me inverting the x-axis just makes sense in 3rd person games: you see the back of the head of the character so if the back of the head moves to the left your field of view should move to the right. Basically, the joystick controls the head of the character from your POV. Never thought that was uncommon!

GameCube controllers controlled the camera by using buttons and not two thumbsticks

Played a bit of GameCube a few months ago and that’s definitely wrong — the c-stick isn’t great but it’s very much used for camera controls — however the rest of the article seems pretty good. Thanks for sharing!

TL;DW from my vague memories:

Oracle got the trademark for JavaScript because they bought the company who made it. Now they have no involvement in the JavaScript ecosystem aside from making a library that barely anyone is using. The JavaScript standard has to refer to JavaScript as ECMAScript because Oracle doesn’t want anything to do with it and won’t allow other people to use the JavaScript name.

The Node.JS/Done guy says that’s stupid and had been requesting Oracle to release the trademark into the public domain for years which Oracle had always ignored/refused. More recently, Node.JS/Deno guy took Oracle to court for holding onto the JavaScript copyright with no intention of doing anything with it which ended in failure with Oracle claiming they’re involved in the ecosystem thanks to that one library they made.

The guy who created JavaScript agrees that’s stupid but can’t help.

I’ve tried both and ~/.local/bin tends to be used by a bunch of tools to install their own binaries/scripts so depending on what you use it can become very messy (which did happen in my case). I used to have a ~/Documents/Scripts directory in my $PATH and that was much cleaner than my current setup so that’s what I’d recommend, especially if you want to use Git with it! :)

Sometimes it’s plug-n-play and everything works great. Sometimes you press the update Nvidia drivers button on your Ubuntu work computer and then need to tell IT you bricked your OS. YMMV

No worries Mickey Mice! Hopefully you won’t face any more big hardware issues after that ^^’

Good luck in your Linux journey! :)

21:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4352 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)

It’s probably related to this recent issue

In my experience Broadcom on Linux is a bad omen, second only to Nvidia. If you can, I’d recommend switching your Wi-Fi card for one that has better Linux support (e.g. “TP-Link Archer TX3000E” or anything that uses an Intel chip inside really since support for them is handled directly by Intel and integrated into Linux’s source code). Good luck! :)

Shit like this is why people go back and play much older titles and have a great time with them

“People” as in maybe 5% of players

That’s the part of the comment I was referring to. It’s factually wrong: only ~15% of playtime is spent on 2024 games

LoL didn’t release in 2024, neither did Warframe. I’m not arguing that old service games don’t make the most revenue, they obviously do, I’m arguing that a lot of the live service games that are actively comming out are almost all underperforming and failing to get any kind of audience. All that means there’s very little incentive to develop a new live service game unless you already have a big community for it or a brilliant idea

If you have a lot of money, you’re better off investing in a “Black Myth Wukong” or “Elden Ring” – both of which are outperforming the newest Call of Duty on Steam in revenue – compared to a new random live service game

47% of the total playing time on Steam was spent on games released in the last one to seven years, while a sizeable 37% of time was spent in games that have been out for eight years or more.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/only-15-percent-of-all-steam-users-time-was-spent-playing-games-released-in-2024/

Also with all the recent Concord-style live service fails maybe investors will want to fund other stuff from now on? idk

Damn already working on an app? That’s so cool! Starting E2EE there is definitely a good idea then!

MeroChat is such a nice project, thank you for working on it <3

The server might always send a modified script that just uploads the plaintext private key.

Yeah, you’d need a way to validate the client code before it’s executed to solve that issue

Section “2. Client application security” of MEGA’s Security Whitepaper discusses this exact problem. Their best solution to that issue is to just cram the whole frontend in a signed web extension and not serve any code to the user when the extension is active, which is not very user friendly but works for those who want an extra layer of protection

I just can’t find a good user-friendly implementation, sorry for not being of more help. The web just isn’t E2EE-friendly ig :/

Yeah, I’m not used to E2EE in the browser either and StackExchange seems to agree that there’s no nice solution :/

The sanest option in terms of user practicality to me appears to be storing the private key on the server, maybe encrypted with the user’s password, and sending it to the user on successful login where it would be decrypted client side. It seems like it’s more or less what Mega is doing since they have a similar issue

If the server having temporary access to the user’s password is an issue maybe the password could be partially pre-hashed before being sent?

It’s be interesting to talk about it with someone with more experience, especially since implementing all of that will be a pain so it can’t be redone every Thursday

I know Matrix has E2EE with some public documentation on its implementation. Maybe it could help you? Idk how familiar you’re with E2EE or what kind of implementation you’d want, anything will have drawbacks :/

Nothing forbids sharing US news in this community. Anything interesting on the globe goes afaik :)

Also while many countries don’t have inequality issues in the “highly privatised health care” industry, I genuinely can’t name a single country without inequality issues and Luigi’s story may be inspirational to some of these ppl facing inequalities so imo it’s good to see it shared here!

Damn, that’s sad. Since I already have tons of games I want to play I’ll probably never end up getting it then. Thanks for telling me :/

No worries! I’ve just realized you were asking for games on sale (reading is hard ugh…) so hopefully the ones you want will be discounted mb ^^’

Great games that came out in 2024:

• UFO 50
• Peglin
• ANIMAL WELL
• Balatro

2024 games that I haven’t tried yet but seem promising:

• Pepper Grinder
• Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Rabbit and Steel
• Another Crab’s Treasure
• Felvidek

All are in no particular order. Dunno if you’ll like those but these ones come to mind :)

I’m sorry what the hell did you call me??