flumpcakes

> multi PB library

Of? Ripped Blu-rays?

> Order of the Sinking Star

I was going to mention this game as a counter point but then realised that if I am doing that it's kind of the exception that proves the rule.

I do wonder why this is, perhaps there's more money in the US to build bigger games with bigger teams and you just get the 'too many cooks in the kitchen' syndrome.

I must admit most AAA games from the US over the last decade have been underwhelming for me.

Those games are so weird but stylishly alluring. I remember buying a big box of MDK and playing through the game in probably a day or two.

Why do you think that is? What would you consider a European masterpiece? And what would you consider something that falls short from outside Europe?

I'm going to hazard a guess and suggest that the Saudi Investment Fund is invested in many things that would not be considered polite in Saudi society.

Perhaps unrelated to this - a few days ago we had communications from a TLS certificate provider that we need to reissue all of our certificates by 21st 8PM before they will stop working. We pressed _why_ and was only told that Godaddy 'had a compliance issue with a batch of certificates'. Which doesn't make much sense for us as we have a few dozen and their renewals vary throughout the year.

I've only found one other person talking about this online.

What's very strange is that we don't use Godaddy directly and it's signed by Starfield G2 (now R1) - not the Godaddy root CA.

Has anyone else had the same communications around their TLS certificates?

Then guess what - people stop using those websites.

The big players who want to gatekeep you in their ecosystem do not want attestation - they want you to give them your passkeys for them to store under the guise of "hey, we'll sync it for you!".

A yubikey is easy to use. Buy a second as back-up. If you're clumsy and lose things all the time then set up recovery codes. Add a recovery contact. Use insecure 2fa like TOTP or really insecure 2fa like email/sms/etc. codes.

There's plenty of options for authentication in the modern world and passkeys are at the top. If users are 'too stupid' to use them then that's a user problem.

I'd rather spend the 5 minutes reading how these things work and then not hand the keys over to big tech.

It's common for devices to choose a new IPv6 address within your range at random to perform a new connection / rotate periodically.

Which in turn makes it harder to track vs. your /64 which is approximates your old NAT'd public IPv4.

"Scanned" faces in this instance isn't unique people.

500,000 individual checks could have been for the same person. While that is extremely unlikely, it's also unlikely they scanned 500,000 unique people.

Britain has become extremely soft on crime. For some people it's still not soft enough.

Perhaps not many criminals use train stations during the day, for example, people probably deliver drugs by bike or car so they don't walk around a busy place stinking of weed.

How many known criminals have biometrics of them in the first place?

Of the criminals that do have identifiable biometrics, do they operate in that area?

We also don't know the false negative rate. Perhaps it's very high in order to keep the false positive rate as low as possible.

These are things pulled out of thin air that could easily explain why 500,000 face scans (not people) provided no arrests/identifications.

The biggest reason probably being as you said... it was clearly marked. Honestly I would be shocked if they found a criminal dumb enough to walk past it, but not dumb enough to have yet to be caught.

I don't think there's a limit to the animosity people feel (rightly or wrongly - what's "correct" has no bearing on people's feelings) and we will end up in a place where previously unthinkable force or actions are now permissible due to nasty politics. The US is getting a small taste of that now.

I don't think it takes much imagination to connect the dots... it wasn't that long ago in European history where people were systematically eradicated by the millions.

Hot take: I think immigration and multiculturalism is going to be the the biggest and the defining issue of this century. The history books will have "AI" and climate change in the margins as 'exacerbating factors'. We've started to see it in the US, and we're beginning to see the start to it in the EU. Japan--rightly or wrongly--might be averting a future disaster here. Japan is lucky in that they are still a very homogeneous society, and also unlucky in that they are ahead of the curve in population decline. I think the western world is in for a bad time over the next 50 years.

Is this just the old 'Government is stupid' or 'EU is too bureaucratic' trope, or did you have a particular point?

> passkeys require using a manager as well, so there isn't much point.

No they don't. I use hardware passkeys for all my important accounts. It's extremely easy.