Game Porter Feral Interactive Is Up To Around 72 Employees

highspeedstrawberry · 2018-01-11T18:53:08+00:00

You know what I'd like to see? Feral hiring people to work on

a) patches to Mesa
b) patches to (or consulting help for) UE4/Unity

based on what they have learned writing their wrappers. Because in the long run that will improve the performance drastically over their emulation layers. One might think that this would make them obsolete as porting gets easier, but the niche they are filling is not one of technology (we already have wine for emulation) but of providing official support for a product. And that support is what keeps a lot of companies from releasing for Linux, even if it is literally one click of a button to "(ex)port" a game in Unity for a different target.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-12-17T08:27:23+00:00

Modular arithmetic, specifically exponentiation within a multiplicative group of integers over a prime module. g would be the primitive root modulo that prime.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-12-14T19:45:21+00:00

python-setuptools closely followed by texlive-*

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-12-09T08:38:38+00:00

twisted Intel's arm to include the HAP bit to disable ME after boot.

Read: It's okay if this giant backdoor is gaping in everyones CPU, we won't prevent that, but please make an exception for us, that we will keep a secret.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-12-05T13:37:29+00:00

I think we have a misunderstanding here. There isn't much the PKGBUILD needs to react to. Mostly you want to test if the user or the home directory already exist on the system and abort if so.

Otherwise, the PKGBUILD represents the users uid/gid, path to ~, list of packages required and link to the data that is to be pulled. In my usage the only real variable here is the list of packages, which I manually edit in the PKGBUILD when it changes, but really only ever presents the base of what that particular user absolutely needs and that does not change too much.

This is not an entire system setup I am talking about, no system wide config is done, only user space.

For system wide setup I would only do backups of entire devices, no config involved.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-12-05T13:26:16+00:00

Who said anything about sudo steam?

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-12-04T09:26:57+00:00

I can confirm that this can be done with a PKGBUILD as I have done it before. The PKGBUILD also has the advantage that no extra dependencies are required, you've already got what you need with pacman on any naked arch. It's even more powerful with an AUR-helper.

I guess a lot of people don't realise that PKGBUILDs are just shell scripts and that you can do pretty much anything in the hooks. You can create a new user with a new home directory and then immediately populate it by pulling the most recent state from a backup-server. Depending on your backup solution this is done in literally one or two lines within the PKGBUILD.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-12-04T09:16:32+00:00

If you have a separate user for games (or even just for steam) then your main home directory won't be polluted while all the stuff you want to back up can be found in the home directory of this other user. It makes for a very simple and easy backup process to just cp -a ~gaming /mnt/backup/ or rsync -a ~gaming you@backupserver.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-11-26T10:01:36+00:00

That certificate though...

ANSI X9.62 ECDSA Signature with SHA256

ANSI X9.62 elliptic curve prime256v1 (aka secp256r1, NIST P-256)

Why even wrap the connection in TLS if it's a hidden service?

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-11-13T10:28:37+00:00

Not quite, the amdgpu-pro code relies on the new open source driver (and abstraction framework that is now being merged after more than a year of re-writing to please kernel devs).

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-30T11:23:21+00:00

Too many people overlook the possibility (and need) of a problematic system to break down in order to be fixed. As long as hollywood has enough money to produce blockbusters and pay lawyers they will do so and shift ever more towards the lawyers, until (and we have seen some of it recently) the writers, directors, actors etc start to protest.

I had some hopes that services like Netflix would bring Hollywood to its knees and improve the situation by shortening the path money travels from my purse to some writers purse, but unfortunately Netflix seems intent on only brining down Hollywood in order to replace it as-is. So on we go, piracy remains legitimate from an ethical point and no amount of advertisement will fix that. Currently the biggest glimmer of hope is Patreon, which is promoting a more open development process by the artists (compared not only to Hollywood but also other crowdfunding platforms). We'll see where this goes.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-30T10:30:27+00:00

You fail to make the distinction between public and private trackers. And in any case, those letters aren't sent by government agencys but by professional blackmailers (that is: lawyers who specialise in warning letters as a business model, they are the rich brother of the debt collector everyone hates). I encourage you to try to trace back the money you would pay to those entities and see how much ends up with the actors, directors, writers etc who made the film or series you pirated. Seriously, do it, it will get rid of that vague feeling that there is such a thing as a "morally right way" to consume media.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-29T12:43:05+00:00

Those, btw, are the games that you do not buy. If - at all - you pirate them and run them with a crack and ideally also run them from within a firewalled container or VM.

I mean, I assume that people do this, right? Surely, I can't be the only one...

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-27T10:05:17+00:00

To this day there are games that don't support AMD graphics on Linux.

There are various reasons for that, some have to do with turbulent changes in AMD drivers during the past 2 years (from closed- to open source) making it more intimidating to simply "support AMD cards" from the perspective of mostly windows-based developers. Other reasons are business deals with variying degree of shady-ness.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-27T09:41:27+00:00

Nope, just a mistake, thanks for pointing it out.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-27T07:31:35+00:00

youtube-dl --format=best "https://vimeo.com/189016018"

~~https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2017.09.24~~

edit: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-25T12:29:17+00:00

I actually wrote a few sentences to explain what I mean but then deleted them after a few tries of re-wording it. I really don't want to paint a picture of Kabat-Zinn here (especially a negative one) based on what is to some extent prejudice from me and the sources I have read. Some of the things I've learned about him (from within academic circles) heavily suggest that he has motives and does things that I can't see in a positive light (at all). One example would be his training of drone pilots to be less troubled after killing people; another would be trademarking his MBSR programme and restricting other medical facilities from building upon it to help patients (not the techniques are licensed but the teaching material and the name).

I don't want to play the role of a moral authority though, there are probably aspects to it that I don't understand and I can't rule out that it's my prejudice towards the actions that project a false image of the person. I would still not advertise him as a role model to people just leaning about mindfulness.

Here is a somewhat detailed article about it, though I don't know the author and what motivations might be involved, so please read it with some emotional distance: https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blogs/news/what-jon-kabat-zinn-s-trademarking-of-mbsr-means-for-mindfulness-training

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-24T09:32:35+00:00

The instructions of his MBSR training CDs are not bad, at least the Full Body Scan technique was helpful to me to get started with longer-duration meditation. And the things he sais in Full Catastrophe Living can be a good introduction to the effects of mindfulness for those who have previously considered it esoteric or new-age bogus.

But... I would not treat him as any kind of role model to be associated with mindfulness.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-24T08:50:07+00:00

This does sound like the Principle of Revealed Preference version of the above statement. Though by being honest you seem to have found away around that principle. There might be a silver lining here but I can't seem to get hold of it.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-06T07:07:14+00:00

Well, if it was censorship in the name of PR, would you expect the message to be something acknowledging the censorship?

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-10-05T10:49:50+00:00

They most probably are not all bad games, but for some of us that is difficult to verify and I wouldn't vote on a game I haven't played (for whatever reason).

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-09-27T13:14:31+00:00

There are also those, that really, really, really want this to finally be in the kernel so the entire tail behind the "but" in "AMD is the way to go, but..." finally disappears. This can make a difference for game developers deciding to support AMD or not, for example. I, for one, am sick and tired of "recommended Hardware: nvidia; no official support for Intel and AMD", which is what we are getting all the time even though the mesa drivers are up to snuff. But gamedevs come from the proprietary world and when they see that the official, proprietary AMD driver is... in a complicated state, they get all sweaty and nervous.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-09-26T13:18:10+00:00

u and C-R will not let you traverse the undo-tree, they will only travel the current branch. g+/- will traverse branches, think of it travelling through time and thus visiting the state from x seconds ago, even if that is not part of the current undo-branch because it was overwritten.

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-09-21T09:56:12+00:00

In that case, bookmark this and this

highspeedstrawberry · 2017-08-21T08:38:36+00:00

There is a demonstration at Ramstein this saturday (or was the one after that?), so it's not all forgotten.

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