Links 15/05/2024: XBox Trouble, Slovakia PM Shot 5 Times
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Leftovers
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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Scheerpost ☛ Work Longer, Die Sooner! America's Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare - ScheerPost
Experts are clear that working into old age often threatens the health and well-being of U.S. seniors.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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More Xbox Games Are Coming to PlayStation, It’s Claimed [Ed: Microsoft giving up on Xbox already?]
According to a new report by Jez Corden, more upcoming Microsoft-owned games (Xbox first-party games) are in development for PlayStation under the codename “Latitude.” While Corden doesn’t go into detail on what exactly these games are, it was said that “they’re potentially obvious games you’d most likely expect.”
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The Register UK ☛ Return to office mandates had senior employees jumping ship [Ed: Layoffs without calling them "layoffs" or counting them as such]
Penned by researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Chicago, the study [PDF] analyzed resume data via People Data Labs from a variety of tech companies to measure what effect return to office mandates had on workforce demographics. They took particular interest in Microsoft, Apple, and SpaceX since these were some of the first employers to demand a shift back to working on-site.
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Meta to Discontinue Workplace Platform by 2025: Report
A spokesperson from the company announced that Workplace—which was initially launched in 2016 as a Facebook-powered alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams—will be available to users until August 31st, 2025.
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Vice Media Group ☛ Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.
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Notebook Check ☛ Gameloft to cut over 100 jobs in Cluj, Romania
With less than 150 employees left, the Gameloft studio in Cluj is far from the days when it employed around 500 people. Earlier today, the company confirmed the rumors about the closure of the Cluj studio, mentioning that all 136 employees currently employed in the location will leave the company.
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PlayStation 5 Outpaces Xbox Series X|S in Sales - COGconnected
Sony’s PlayStation 5 is significantly outselling Microsoft’s Xbox Series X|S, according to Daniel Ahmad, the director of research at Niko Partners, a firm specializing in video game and console sales data.
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Liliputing ☛ VMware Pro apps are now free for personal use (virtualization for Windows, Mac, and Linux)
Individual users can now download and use VMWare Fusion Pro for Mac or VMWare Workstation Pro for PC for free. VMWare still requires commercial customers to pay for a license, but the company has vastly simplified pricing (there’s now just one SKU that costs $120 per year rather than 40 different SKUs). But VMware is basically using the honor system here: you get to decide whether you need a commercial subscription, and there’s effectively no difference between the free and paid versions.
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Defence/Aggression
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Sky News ☛ Robert Fico: Slovakia prime minister in life-threatening condition after being shot multiple times | World News | Sky News
Mr Fico was attacked after leaving a meeting - with five shots fired and a bloodied man detained at the scene. Slovakia's government says it was an "assassination attempt" and that the coming hours are critical.
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Reuters ☛ Slovak PM Fico no longer in life-threatening condition after being shot, minister says
"I was very shocked ... fortunately as far as I know the operation went well - and I guess in the end he will survive ... he's not in a life-threatening situation at this moment," Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Environment Minister Tomas Taraba told the BBC's Newshour.
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BBC ☛ Slovak PM Robert Fico fights for life after assassination attempt
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life in hospital after being shot in a small town north-east of Bratislava.
On Wednesday evening Defence Minister Robert Kalinak said Mr Fico had been in surgery for over three hours and that the situation was "bad".
Slovak politicians including the president have called the shooting an "attack on democracy".
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Censorship/Free Speech
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The Guardian UK ☛ YouTube blocks videos set to Hong Kong protest anthem | Hong Kong | The Guardian
Court order compels Google subsidiary to block local access to 32 videos of Glory to Hong Kong, judged to be prohibited content
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Civil Rights/Policing
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Digital Restrictions (DRM)
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The Walls Are Closing In On John Deere's Tractor Repair Monopoly - Slashdot
For the last decade, farmers have been warning that John Deere, a company celebrated by farmers, country musicians, and politicians, has been doing something else very American: [...]
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Copyrights
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Technology and Free Software
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Asynchronously read STDIN in Drogon/Trantor
I haven't blogged in quite a while. I've been busy on other stuff but they are just non blogable. At least for now. I hope one day I can publish them. Anyway, I was working on some web related code in Drogon and I need to read stdin so the user can control the application. Problem being, C++'s `std::cin` blocks. Nothing on the same thread can execute while it's waiting for the user for input. This might not be an issue for most CLI applications - it is one for mine. I need some background task running.
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cgisesh - a tiny cgi session manager for games
I am making a minimal in-memory "session database server" for keeping track of user data, ideal for games. Any thoughts?
Every time I try to make a quick-and dirty CGI game or sketch out a simple application, I get really frustrated. Gemini conviniently provides user certificates which can be used to track sessions, but things get complicated very fast.
I am making a minimal subsystem for keeping track of user-associated data, ideal for simple games and Gemini doohickeys.
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Extreme Monopoly Board Game Knockoff, Boca Raton edition
About two weeks ago I was at a local Walgreens [1] in Boca Raton [2] when I came across something unusual. I meant to blog about it then, but alas, I just now got a round tuit [3].
Anyway, what I found:
[A picture of a game clearly based on Monopoly] Everglades University? Who ever heard of Everglades University? And in Boca Raton? I've been in Boca Raton for over 30 years and this is the first I've heard of it! [4] [5] [Back of the box showing the board game and pieces] A pretzel? Really? A pretzel? The original Monopoly pieces are better related to Boca Raton than a preztel! [6] [7] I amazed this even exists! I wonder who's idea this even was? The Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce [8]?
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.