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It looks like it's a Windows default program issue (triggered outside of Chrome). Perhaps it can be solved via a "toggle" for handling "mailto:" links.-publicdomain (January 26, 2022, 11:14 PM)
Steam Deck Launching February 25th
Hello, the day is almost here! On February 25th, we will be sending out the first batch of order emails to reservation holders. Customers will have 3 days (72 hours) from receipt of their order email to make their purchase, before their reservation is released to the next person in the queue. The first units will be on their way to customers starting the 28th, and we plan to release new order email batches on a weekly cadence.
In addition, we're sending out press units for full review shortly. Press review embargo on Steam Deck coverage will lift on February 25th, but keep an eye out for some preview coverage and impressions before that. In the meantime we're working to tie up the last few loose ends and polish some rough edges, and are excited to get these out to you at the end of next month!
Additional details for the curious:
- We will start sending invites shortly after 10:00 am on February 25th, PST
- Order emails are sent in the same order that reservations were made.
- You can only order the Steam Deck model that you originally reserved.
- Your reservation deposit will be applied to the final price of Steam Deck, and shipping costs are included.
hey Mouser, do you have a copy of my EinGame and thinkfast, i can't seem to find it anywhere?-relipse (January 23, 2022, 09:09 PM)
I am trying to finish my 30 part youtube series on how to efficiently film a youtube boardgame channel..-mouser (January 22, 2022, 02:24 AM)
I read somewhere that the best word to start with is "roate" because it eliminates more options than any other word.-Deozaan (January 18, 2022, 10:11 PM)
or quote or quite or audio or or or-Target (January 18, 2022, 10:33 PM)
^ yes, it will only accept words. I got very stuck yesterday, had one vowel correct (o) and didn't get the other one (it was a y). In the end I gave up and put in a word I knew was incorrect.the solution wasproxy-tomos (January 18, 2022, 02:59 PM)
How do you guys collaborate with others (if at all) when using plain text? Say real time (like gdocs; MDhack for example) or asynchronoulsly (github for example)?-urlwolf (January 18, 2022, 10:00 AM)
What clues? I mean, there are cues from where you place the letters, but no clues about the final word, are there? Or did I just miss something?-wraith808 (January 17, 2022, 06:04 PM)
that's what I was referring to. I usually get as many vowels in play as possible up front (that's 2 attempts), then its a case of working out what words I can see from the remaining letters and any confirmed vowels. Sometimes I throw in a word I know is wrong just to rule out some letters, depends how stuck I am (eg 1 known vowel in an unknown position doesn't give you much to work with...)-Target (January 17, 2022, 07:13 PM)
I miss days a lot. I still don't see how anyone gets it in the first 3 guesses without any other clues.-wraith808 (January 17, 2022, 08:15 AM)
depends on the clues...I got it in 3 yesterday, but lately I've needed all 6 a couple of times-Target (January 17, 2022, 05:26 PM)
Well, there's Letterle as well, pretty much making Wordle obsolete.-Tuxman (January 17, 2022, 05:58 PM)
doesn't seem like much of an alternative to me, just enter letters until you 'guess' the 'right one'....-Target (January 17, 2022, 06:01 PM)
While I agree there are better formats than markdown, I don't even care anymore lol. For me, I have achieved the dream of writing text files any way I wish (as long as it's markdown format loll), in terms of I can do it in a text editor, obsidian, zettlr, who cares. Beautiful! Next, I can have webpages created instantly as I modify. To me, this setup is basically future-proof, and now I'm just creating content.-superboyac (January 17, 2022, 03:30 PM)
they can surely revert it or remove itRemove yes, revert no.-wraith808 (January 13, 2022, 11:41 AM)-Dormouse (January 13, 2022, 03:27 PM)
I think what we have here is the difference between a minion of Capitalism (the system with its licenses) and Capitalist's possession of any degree of Charity. Capitalism excludes the need or place for Charity. If we have any question of "what is right" it has not place in Capitalism.
I am saying that I think Tuxman is right in his estimations of what the licenses allow. I agree, that the fellow who borked his own code was within his rights, even if they were malicious - because that's how *that* system works. It precisely follows the laws and licenses to the letter and that with a material goal in the ultimate end (who gets the money).
However, I also agree with Deozzan in that what that fellow did was not right for him to do - it goes against Charity. Charity is an entirely different law with a different scope.
So, I think what we have is a conflict between Law and Morals. According to the law, the fellow was within his rights because that law excludes the reality of Charity and Malice.
If we discuss the law (and the licenses that protect software, also subject to the law) within its own boundaries, we cannot also discuss Charity. However, if we discuss Morals, then we can definitely discuss the law. That is because the moral law (Charity) is higher because it guides the will and not only the material doings.
The thing is that the law doesn't have the welfare of people in mind; that's how it can work, but not be just.-BGM (January 13, 2022, 09:17 AM)
Denying someone's right to define what other people are allowed to do with his software by explicitly stating a license and claiming that a developer does not own an application anymore when he decides to publish the source code - which literally contains the word "copyright" - is not a "conversation in good faith". Note that you are not the culprit here.
I will not discuss this in more than one thread. No more source code for you, folks. If you don't want to respect the license, you won't get a chance to disrespect it anymore.-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 09:09 PM)
As a long-time member of DonationCoder has declared that publishing the source code of an application effectively ends my copyright on that application, I removed all references to the source code from this NANY entry. Future contributions will be closed source as well. I am not interested in having my copyright violated just because I published my software in good faith.-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 05:39 PM)
Again, he hasn't shown that he reached out to Microsoft before posting this.-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 01:25 PM)
A free software developer should not have to ask anyone, certainly not Microsoft, for permission to destroy his own code. That's pretty much the meaning of free software.
GitHub has some mechanisms to prevent "hacks", including 2FA. So you're only allowed to make your own code unusable if you can prove to Microsoft that you're really you? What kind of crude understanding of free software is that?-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 01:34 PM)
It has to do with the effect of that code-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 11:54 AM)
I can't remember a rule that says that I can't commit code to my libraries that break my libraries.and I'm sure the complaints from others-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 11:54 AM)
So if other people - including large corporations - decide to take my free code that is licensed under a "no warranty" license and my code breaks their applications, Microsoft is allowed to modify my code?-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 12:02 PM)
Judging by the changelog on both faker.js and colors.js, however, it looks like his suspension has already been lifted.
Because if something is checked into a repo that is obviously wrong, it can be construed as a compromise of the account, resulting in the locking of the account.-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 11:08 AM)
So Microsoft (I will not say anything about Windows Me here... or should I?) has decided that you must not check in obviously wrong code into your own repositories?-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 11:22 AM)
From what I read, he posted malicious code to his repo. Is that correct?-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 07:48 AM)
He committed code that did not work as expected into his own repositories containing his own free code.
Why exactly is Microsoft entitled to deny that?-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 08:07 AM)
Anyone here still using GitHub?
Enjoy losing access just because they don't like your commits.-Tuxman (January 09, 2022, 09:27 PM)
CodeTour 🗺️
CodeTour is a Visual Studio Code extension, which allows you to record and play back guided walkthroughs of your codebases. It's like a table of contents, that can make it easier to onboard (or re-board!) to a new project/feature area, visualize bug reports, or understand the context of a code review/PR change. A "code tour" is simply a series of interactive steps, each of which are associated with a specific directory, or file/line, and include a description of the respective code. This allows developers to clone a repo, and then immediately start learning it, without needing to refer to a CONTRIBUTING.md file and/or rely on help from others. Tours can either be checked into a repo, to enable sharing with other contributors, or exported to a "tour file", which allows anyone to replay the same tour, without having to clone any code to do it!
