I used to play carrier command back in the day. It had low poly graphics, but it was great for the time. I used to love flying a Manta to escort a walrus to hit a long distance target. Did you play the original? How does it compare?

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Commenting because I want to do something like this too.

Here you go then

“Oi, this startup’s about to turn an $800 kids’ robot into a bloody paperweight, but they’re havin’ a crack at open-sourcing it before it carks it.”

“Furthermore and completely unrelated, the employee who called for the investigation has retired, effective immediately”

It’s not even all usage, it’s all the other fees they slap on to make more profit.

I know someone working there. I was in a few group calls he organised using teams where I used an anonymous login. Then Microsoft forced you to make an account to use it, so I declined after that.

Skype used to be peer to peer. Your call went from you to your friend (whomever). Microsoft decided that they couldn’t mitm that setup to scrape data; so, soon after they acquired Skype, they made all calls go through their servers.

Then they tried to make Skype make more money, since those servers aren’t free. Then they made teams and copied half the code into that, and cludged the rest to make it hold together.

Just like my local dive…

Companies are made up of people. Companies save money by firing the most expensive people, the most experienced. The ones left have a lot less experience.

Everyone I know has their contacts backed up to google or apple. Enter your account and password into your new phone and your contacts are there. Zero benefit.

Just to b sure, I’m going to set mine at 200%, to be double sure.

$1000? That’s a lazy afternoon for bitcoin…

However, it might be interesting to use some sort of verifiable storage format where hashes of checkpoints are distributed elsewhere, so that if someone does manage to get into The Internet Archive, they can’t go fiddle with past things without it becoming visible.

Why not use a write only medium, like CDs but obviously bigger capacity. Write once read many kind of thing. It’s an archive, it should not be able to be changed.

And no insurance

Motion on my RPI. I didn’t want it to save videos or photos, so I turned it off in the config. But it still saved them. So I tried a few other places in the config to turn it off, but nothing worked and I’d run out of space within a day. So I changed the save directory to /dev/null.

Then I tried to upgrade the pi, and the new version of motion has a different config, incompatible with the old one. So I’m running the old one.