An amendment. According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and the meat of their lawsuit, is to gain foothold on iDevices and deploy their own, already implemented mobile app store.

Jim Sterling did a video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - correctly pointing out that when Apple first retaliated, Epic had already prepared the lawsuit, the press release, the smear campaign, and the distasteful 3d animated propaganda video. They knew what they were deliberately getting into, and are doing it in such a blatant fashion. He also points out that this is a dispute about money, about which of the companies gets more money from the incredibly huge pile of money.

It is unfortunate that Epic will lose horribly in court, and possibly set a precedent, cementing Apple's monopoly on the platform.

Oh, interesting read. I didn't know /56 was the recommended size (/48 for enterprise) and /60 was the bare minimum. I thought /64 was the thing, but yeah you can't do subnets with that, not without breaking something else.

That post is fine, they're talking about the Connect Box (their standard white colored endpoint device) and its specs. They're saying that the device can handle at most /60 (or, their network allows requesting at most a /60 prefix. the wording makes it not clear). That's 16 traditional subnetworks and is probably meant for enterprise customers with more complex entworks. For example, he.net will give me a /48 instead of a /64 if I submit a request.

I'm fairly sure that's what they told me. And it _can_ technically work, except that the only thing getting v6 connectivity is the router (and possibly the clients, if it has NAT66). That would resolve _their_ problem of having to deploy ipv6 because they ran out of ipv4 addresses for customers. And their residential customers don't know what ipv6 even is, so they won't care.

To clarify, by 'nat gateway', I meant "carrier-grade 6-to-4 NAT" (again, the worst case nightmare scenario). They told me they don't do dualstack - I can either have ipv4, or ipv6. To this day I don't understand how they could have screwed up their infrastructure so badly.

My ISP (UPC broadband) considers itself ipv6-ready since 2016. When I last inquired about getting ipv6, they told me that
1) I'd have to give up public ipv4 and go through a nat gateway instead
2) I'd only get one /128 for my router and would have to to perform NAT66 to give connectivity to my network.

Holy fuck no. That's like the worst case scenario for ipv6 deployment.
I've been using a he.net tunnel since 2008. Having a -20 MTU used to cause problems but things improved. Then the epidemic hit and the gateway I use is overloaded, so I had to turn ipv6 off.

They could have taken the (monumental) effort to provide feature parity with the previous XUL Firefox. But they didn't, and they actively refused to cooperate with even the biggest addon writers. There are many writeups on this, in particular the page long "final update" messages outlining the doom of the addon.

Even now, two years later, they have done nothing to repair the damage. You still can't properly change the appearance and layout of the UI. You can't change keyboard shortcuts. Some of the authors are resorting to desperate usercss/userjs hacks.

Unfortunately, using the old version is less and less viable also. Github is unusable. Discord is laggy as hell and breaks every month. Youtube loads much slower. One can really feel the bloat and feature breakage this way.

Note that when I applied that jscript disabling workaround on Vista to block CVE-2018-8653, it caused MMC's UI to fall apart slightly. It would also spread to anything hosted in mmc (gpedit, services).

This also happens on Win7 and I wouldn't be surprised if it is still present in Win10. If you see the extended mmc view not looking quite right, this is why.

Whenever I see mention this, I'm always reminded of the 2009 CCC presentation https://media.ccc.de/v/26c3-36... . Supposedly there's a trick to it involving resonance, and that the math checks out.

Interestingly, I did a youtube search for 'tesla wireless power transfer', and there's a lot more videos on it now.

Tor hidden service, plus use of public tor2web sites (or proper clients). Or something equivalent. The downside is that it's really slow.

Sadly this is the only viable solution currently. If you can't get a multi-billion dollar ISP to protect your server for free, there's no way to host the service on your own. DDoS mitigation companies will charge you up the ass while not providing sufficient service - the attacker will just keep adding more dns reflectors until the flood exceeds the filtering rates you're paying for.

I believe witnessing the game's effects in full force first-hand is very important. You say that you've never played it, so all your opinions and conclusions are based on third-party reporting, and you're using existing real-world concepts familiar to you to draw assumptions about how the game behaves and influences people. However, this is a multi-biliion product of one of the largest US game companies, one of the most successful and popular products of this kind ever. Any parallels you try to draw to other things will not be adequate unless you've gone through the addiction cycle of a game such as this.

What makes Fortnite:Battle Royale addictive has already been analyzed to great detail. What they built is highly effective at drawing people in (art style, popularity, huge player base, good engagement curve during gameplay), making them keep coming back every day (trickle rewards, time-limited events, progression system, varying game rules, and of course other friends playing), and making them not leave (fear of missing out, sunk cost dilemma, content and gameplay updates to prevent them from getting bored of the same thing). Once a vulnerable player who finds the game attractive commits to it, the dopamine provided by the experience makes all other entertainment and activities inferior and unappealing. If this conditioning goes on long enough, the player will develop physical dopamine withdrawal symptomps when not playing the game.

PS: Despite being a game themed around gun combat and a large-scale human battle to the death, it has been dressed up well enough that it's rated 12+ (although much younger kids definitely play it), is one of the rare cases that is still considered 'family friendly' by advertisers and streaming service twitch.tv. This allowed it to get a much wider audience than similar games of this genre.

From the other comments, the terms & conditions stated the requirements ("unmodified original hardware ONLY") and punishment ("gross violation of these terms will result in deletion of all records and a lifetime ban").

Now, he could totally have played fair, and just used a PC at home out of sheer hubris. Comments about him achieving such scores during a livestream indicate he's still totally able to do so. Or he went to some random arcade and the cabinet happened to be some kind of homebrew knockoff with a PC inside.

The rule is there out of principle - an emulator allows all sorts of shenanigans, from speedup/slowdown, to macroing keystroke sequences, to save/load progress at any point, to outright altering the game code to give you predictable / favourable RNG. There have been multiple incidents where this was done, only discovered years later thanks to careful side channel analysis, like looking for splices in the audio track. This has a huge impact on their reputation, so I'm not surprised that the punishment for violating the rules is so severe. I assume nowadays they require a continuous full-body recording just to be safe.

Who knows what BM's circumstances were back then. But once this level of technical evidence showed up, he should have immediately started explaining his story and/or justifying his choices , and to grovel and beg the committee to not delete all his scores. Instead, he doubled down and threatened a lawsuit which he has no chance of winning.

It still surprises me to see the the word "small" used to refer to the part of population vulnerable to modern sources of addictive behavior. What if, thanks to all the psychological manipulation, the real number is something like 80%?

In my country, the number of adults addicted to nicotine was over 60% when I was a child. It's now supposedly below 20% and the number is probably dominated by the old people who haven't died yet. How can 60% of the population get addicted to something that's destroys the health of you and everyone around? (also see: alcoholism). The answer is psychological manipulation, advertising, lobbying, outright lies, and of course societal and peer pressure.

Modern addictions aren't substance-related anymore - the 'dealers' found alternative, psychological-based sources of addiction. They're much cheaper, just as powerful, can be sold to anyone, and are (for now) perfectly legal. They're new enough that legislation hasn't caught up, new enough that the societal awareness hasn't caught up. So of course it's all about blaming the victim, not offering any support or rehabilitation options, and telling them to just 'stop' and 'fix' themselves.

For 10+ years, social media, mobile app, and now game companies, have been training children and young adults that microtransaction- and lootbox-based gambling is the cool thing to do. This will have huge repercussions down the line. Heck, even the oldest and most destructive one of all, addictive casino gambling, which has been heavily regulated, is making a comeback, if the torrent of mobile ads for online casinos is any indication. Carrying an always-with-you gambling device removes the friction of having to make a conscious decision to reserve a large chunk of free time and travel to a physical gambling place.

XCode only runs on macOS.
XCode emulator will only permit execution of own custom code, third-party app store apps cannot be used, if I understood correctly.

I really want an emulated backup version of my iphone to fall back to in case the physical hardware breaks yet again. It takes up to 4 weeks to have the broken device shipped to the out-of-country repair center, fixed and then shipped back. And then RMAd because they fixed it wrong. I've danced this dance a few times and not having access to the data and apps on my phone for a month sucks quite a lot.