There is a point where making another remake is riskier than making something new. We passed that point 15 movies ago.

The smart thing to do would have been to hire him if he has credentials that could have been supplied by another nation, to follow him to catch a line on his contacts, and to feed him false information intended for that nation. Or just arrest him after you've verified that he's not, in fact, a double agent and is just working for himself.

Not really. A switch is a game console and does Nintendo stuff exclusively. It wont run Blender. It cant boot libreoffice, and Nintendo wont let me play playstation games or emulate my own collection.

My Steamdeck is a real computer with a real desktop OS. I can pop the SD card in for production work and dock it in my office for some light CAD/Polymodeling, and then grab the unit and plug it into my TV and drop in the emulation card for the emulation-station on the 70'' TV, then drop the unit into the art station dock and it's a jukebox/reference station. When I'm done I can grab it on the way out and bring all of this anywhere I choose to go. This lets me convert any screen I can plug into into a workstation, a universal retro-game console, or a passive entertainment device for youtube/plex without having to log into public terminals.

I have lots of computers, laptops, SBCs, and electronic projects all over the place, and I am super familiar with networking, RDP, VNC, and Moonlight. The unique use case for the steamdeck is that it can wear many hats depending on what it's plugged into and it's designed to be portable. The footprint is 1/4 or less of a laptop with the same features, and the internal storage of the device and SD card logic lets me have both swappable memory for specfici use cases while still having consistent internal memory for OS and utilities.

It's also a neat little handheld, and does all of that stuff on the tiny little screen in a pinch, and it's pretty good a playing video games too.

Steamdeck is a great little workstation if you can get past the form factor. I have a couple of docks around my house, and moving the system from room to room for specific tasks is pretty great. It's sort of like a laptop in this regard, only I can swap the SD card out for a different one depending on the "Current" use case of the device.

Pretty awesome utility, and I'm suspicious that this is the sort of thing driving sales. There's not a lot of devices with enough horsepower that can do this so seamlessly.

If i CAN be abused, it WILL be abused.

The question we should be asking for every single tech we develop is "Are we willing to accept this technology being abused?"

When we're talking about mass surveillance, we've got a TON of abuse history. Cops stalking girlfriends, bad actors using the tech to plan bad stuff.

One party claims to support things you like. The other doesn't. But both sides support corporatism, the military industrial complex, corruption, and tax loopholes and other perks for the wealthy. Stop supporting the uniparty.

Playboy had some amazing journalism. Read a few and you'll realize "read it for the articles" was a perfectly valid excuse.

That, too, can be abused. The notorious They can just as easily put out a license plate alert for a "kidnapper" who is really wanted for some other reason. Don't say it hasn't happened.

Double fuck you for trying to sell my freedom for safety, for implying this draconian surveillance is necessary, and for using fear to sell tyranny. Your kidnapping fantasy ignores how police actually work.
Real investigations rely on probable cause, warrants, witness tips, and focused detective work. Not a nationwide dragnet that scans every license plate, logging billions of innocent movements for later scrutiny. And if some cases can't be solved, or solved as quickly, that's an absolutely necessary sacrifice.

This pervasive surveillance creates Foucault's Panopticon: a digital eye that chills free movement and association, breeds self-censorship, invites abuse like tracking abortions or protests, and normalizes state ownership of our data. It doesn't secure borders or safety; it erodes the freedoms that define us. My hope for my children is not that they remain safe but that they remain free.

>Do you have good evidence that they have solid security? No? Then you must assume it is bad.

Which in practice means "no open source tools"

Republicans just wear the irony on their shoulders at this point. Zero fks to give about any of the values they used to stand for. Wars, budget, family values? pppsshshshsh we're making $$, to hell with your outdated "values"

Law and order party fighting like to hell to normalize sports booking? Totally fking scans. Eventually, when it blows up in their face and legions of gambling addicts do what they always do, these ghouls will find a way to blame Biden and the dems for letting them do it.

Just another day in backwards-upside-down-world.

In a couple hundred years, the pirate sites and torrent indexers are going to be the go-to sources for the study of current day lifestyles and culture. Stories like this will be popping up every couple of years from then to now.

I hate the overuse of the word "diabolical" but in this one case, it fits. There's no way a normal coder could detect this. The only fix is to lock down your whole stack rigidly, and pay the price in productivity and unhappy developers.

Seems to me, a lot of the "server side" content is just choices made in development to keep control of the game system out of consumers hands. These are design choices, not technical limitations.

"We cant let you run your own server to keep our abandoned game up because we designed the game in a way that wont allow us to do that"

These choices can just as easily not be made. We live in the era of 100gb+ game patches. There's no real excuse for this kind of game design aside from straight up obsolescence.

Let the powerful crush you, as long as the other team gets crushed harder? Instead of picking a political party, why not fight authoritarianism directly?