I am playing this game for 2 years now (The OG Pixel Dungeon) and i still find new content, like its infinite.

l'd say that Pixel Dungeon is one of the simpler roguelikes, honestly.

Nethack can't be the oldest, because it was derived from hack.

I don't know whether hack or rogue was first, though.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(video_game)

Hack is a 1984 roguelike video game that introduced shops as gameplay elements and expanded available monsters, items, and spells. It later became the basis for NetHack.

Looks like rogue was first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman with later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based minicomputer systems as a freely distributed executable.

I assume that it should read "executive order".

I wouldn't.

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit challenging the statutes in 2022, arguing they were too old to enforce

I mean, laws don't have a sunset date.

Unless there's a split between the upper and lower state legislatures and governor, why not just either pass a new law making abortion either explicitly illegal or repeal the old law so that it's explicitly legal? Like, what's the point of having court cases over some law from 1849?

What's the makeup of the legislature?

kagis

Ahh.

So the Republicans control the upper and lower legislative houses. The governor is a Democrat. The Republicans have a two-thirds supermajority in the upper house, but only a majority in the lower house. So basically, nobody has enough oomph to push through a change (at least if the division is along party lines, which it may not be in Wisconsin).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Legislature

So based on that, the Republicans need two more seats in the 99-seat lower house to have a supermajority there as well and be able to override a governor's veto, or to get a Republican governor, which avoids the veto issue. They're very close to being able to pass legislation without Democratic support, but not quite there.

The Democrats are nowhere near having a majority in both houses, so they probably can't pass legislation anytime soon without Republican support.

Nvidia is worth about $3 trillion at this point. France's GDP is about that each year.

I did some time back. I don't recall it being incredibly difficult to get running. What hardware are you trying to run it on?

Unexploded remotely-triggerable ordinance with a camera on it.

Ruling in the case Ukraine v. Russia (re Crimea), the European Court of Human Rights unanimously found June 25 that Russia is guilty of a pattern of human rights violations since 2014 in Crimea, as codified under the European Convention on Human Rights a

Russia withdrew from the ECHR. Presumably whatever specific incidents they're talking about were before that, but I'm not sure how much Russia is going to care about that.

Russia also terminated ECHR jurisdiction in 2022.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-parliament-votes-exit-european-court-human-rights-2022-06-07/

LONDON, June 7 (Reuters) - Russia's parliament on Tuesday passed a pair of bills ending the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisdiction in the country, a rupture provoked by Russia's war in Ukraine.

I'm not sure whether that ended authority over cases on issues prior to that time or not, in each of the eyes of Russia and the ECHR. But I wouldn't be surprised if Russia's position is that it did, as there wouldn't be much point to also terminating jurisdiction after leaving if it didn't.

That alternative would replace Ohio's current system for drawing congressional and legislative maps, which relies on elected officials, with a 15-member panel of Ohioans without close ties to politics.

Honestly, I feel like if districts are gonna be drawn, it'd make more sense to just choose some algorithm and have a computer do it.

Like, if you want to have non-partisan oversight of the algorithm selection, great, but I'm not at all sold that partitioning up the election map requires anything beyond a simple, mechanical process.

reads further

Fed up with politicians manipulating maps to ensure reelection, a crowd of Ohio voters took a key step toward offering a redistricting alternative on the November ballot.

The commission would draw maps that "correspond closely to statewide partisan preferences of the voters of Ohio." Unlike redistricting proposals approved in 2015 and 2018, this requirement is explicit and mandatory.

If you divide up electoral districts to try to clump similar voters, you kind of guarantee that you're ensuring re-election. In fact, from past reading, that's what gerrymandering tends to do. It isn't primarily that politicians try to get an edge for their party overall. It's that they try to ensure that they have safe seats without serious competition, even if that ensures that politicians from the other party also enjoy the same situation. Think of an oligopoly, where companies divide up territory or something like that, and each has a monopoly. Like, if you're going to mandate that under this district-drawing system, what you're functionally doing is minimizing the power of the public in elections relative to that of incumbent politicians.

kagis

Yeah.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/07/biggest-problem-with-gerrymandering/

Biggest problem with gerrymandering

Researchers found tactic, widely used in 2020, made little difference in partisan numbers but yielded safe seats, less-responsive representatives

Basically, what gerrymanderers principally aim to do is to reduce how much a politician in an electoral district tends to need to care about what their electorate wants, by eliminating realistic challengers.

kagis

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gerrymandering-competitive-districts-near-extinction

One of the most consequential outcomes of this redistricting cycle has been the continuing decrease in the number of competitive congressional districts. Under new maps, there are just 30 districts that Joe Biden won by less than eight percentage points in 2020 and, likewise, just 30 districts that Donald Trump won by less than eight points.

All told, there are now fewer competitive districts than at any point in the last 52 years. If the good news is that both parties emerged with reasonable opportunities in coming years to win control of a closely divided House, the bad news is that they will fight that battle on the narrowest of terrains under maps artificially engineered to reduce competition.

In the end, a closely divided House remains up for grabs, with reasonable opportunities for both parties to win control in coming years. However, barring unforeseen political shifts, most voters will watch that fight from the sidelines due to maps that artificially reduce competition. If Americans hope to reverse the long-term decline of competitive districts, reforms to create fairer, more independent map-drawing processes will be essential.

That's a good deal if you're an incumbent politician who wants to be in a position to make use of political influence without being at political risk. But it's the worst deal you could get in terms of your own influence if you're a member of the voting public.

Ted Linscott, the retired bricklayer from Athens, said Appalachians tell it like it is: "When we see BS, we call BS and the way our districts are drawn is BS."

I'm not saying you're wrong there, dude. But being happy about this proposal is kinda, well...I'm gonna need Gary Larson to help me out on this one.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/6a694b63-9618-4b6a-a685-a26f1be54bb9.jpeg

Video of the accidental ascent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0DOsZmr7g

Apparently it's an American English-British English difference.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_sale

1. (British, Australia) Available for purchase.

2. (US, Australia) Available for purchase at reduced prices.

I'd assume you, given that you asked.

That's not incompatible with what they said. They're saying that the rate of wage increases over the last year outpaced inflation. They also ran below inflation during the COVID-19 crisis.

COVID-19's impact started in 2020.

looks at graph in article

Okay, though it looks like inflation only took off in early 2021.

They're saying that from June 2023 to June 2024, real wages increased. But they also decreased for about two years prior to that, from a couple months into 2021 until about halfway through 2023 -- you can see the dark blue line being below 0 for that period (or, equivalently, that the medium blue line was above the light blue line). Halfway through 2023, it then rises above 0, and has been above since that point. But the period of time that it was decreasing (a bit over two years) was about twice as long as the one year that it's been increasing, and during that decrease period, was decreasing faster than it increased over the last year. So they're rebounding, but they won't be where they were immediately prior to the crisis.

"For whom", and it's an average.

Probably not authentic as getting a secondary monitor that's an old-school CRT and an an HDMI/DP/USB-C-to-VGA plug and sticking it right into an authentic CRT, but I'm on a laptop in a restaurant and can't screenshot that anyway.

You can still get the keyboard, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicomp

In 1996, Lexmark International was prepared to shut down their Lexington keyboard factory where they produced Model M buckling-spring keyboards. IBM, their principal customer and the Model M's original designer and patent holder, had decided to remove the Model M from its product line in favor of cost-saving rubber-dome keyboards.

Rather than seeing its production come to an end, a group of former Lexmark and IBM employees purchased the license, tooling and design rights for buckling-spring technology, and, in April 1996, reestablished the business as Unicomp.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/

I have one of their Endura Pros at home, which is an old-school IBM buckling-spring keyboard. That has the IBM Trackpoint nipple mouse. The buckling spring keyswitches will last forever, as far as I can tell, but I wore out the mouse button keyswitches. They might have fixed that over the years, but I would probably just one without the Trackpoint if I got another.

If you have one of those and are typing away ("click ping! click ping! click ping!"), looking at a CRT, that's probably about as close as you get to the BBS era.

Probably a way to rig up simulated 9600 baud too.

Running it in cool-retro-term with the IBM Dos profile:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/8923a5ee-e63b-48f9-991e-9116b428f42b.png

Theoretically, if run on a terminal that supports Sixel (most modern virtual terminals) or the kitty graphics protocol, and it got support, it could display graphical thumbnails and inline images too).

Cool-retro-term doesn't seem to have Sixel support currently, but it looks like someone is banging on it:

https://github.com/lxqt/qtermwidget/issues/552

Last month:

@tsujan @stefonarch I am working on porting the latest konsole sources to pure Qt. If I understand correctly, Konsole has sixel support. If I succeed in the porting work (I'm at least a couple of months from any reasonable result), we can have sixel support.

There's also an emacs lemmy client, lem.el. That has image support if you're running emacs in a GUI environment, though I don't know if there's a way to convince emacs-in-a-terminal to translate it to sixel or kitty.

That's true, though IIRC there are two planes, and I think that one of them -- and the more-numerous one -- is a variant of some multirole fighter.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal

Launch platform

• MiG-31BM/K
• Tu-22M3M
• Su-34 (reportedly)
• Su‐57 (planned)

Looks like two confirmed, another possible, another eventually (though I can't imagine using the rare, intended-for-another-purposes Su-57 if they could use the others).

I wonder if we’re going to see the return of machine gunner ball turrets with this new era

The reason for those was that the bombers were vulnerable to fighters approaching from below. I don't think that this'll be applicable for a number of reasons:

• No reason to use a large aircraft like that. All they need is a plane that can get altitude and hold two people.

• My guess is that one issue for the B-17 in WW2 was that they needed to fly in formation, couldn't maneuver much, to achieve the "interlocked fields of fire" that was their defensive doctrine of the time. So becomes harder to deal with a blind spot by maneuvering, so there's a need for exotic things like the ball turret.

• The drones that they're shooting down are defenseless. If Russia does start sending out drones with some kind of air-to-air capability, my guess is that a ball turret won't be a good counter.

• I'm pretty sure that those ball turrets used .50 cal machine guns. They probably don't need that. My understanding is that the round caliber in WW2 that a fighter carried depended on what they expected to run into. It was a the reason that the US only used .50 cal machine guns, not 20mm autocannons, in its fighters -- the 20mm was only considered necessary to bring down a bomber, where the thing was a big structure, big struts, could potentially absorb a lot of damage. The US wasn't fighting anyone who was going to be using much by way of heavy bombers against them. I suspect that the lightest of bullets will probably mess those little drones up badly. Honestly, they'd probably do best with a shotgun or automatic shotgun at the very short ranges that I've seen footage of them engaging at; that's more likely to expend kinetic energy inside the drone, hit a lot of stuff in there. Also reduces collateral damage to whatever is off in the distance behind the drone.

There was recent news about at least one, which I assume this is referencing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/06/10/another-world-war-i-style-dogfight-raged-over-ukraine-as-a-ukrainian-yak-52-with-a-rear-gunner-engaged-a-russian-drone/

Honestly, I wish that NCD posts would include a "context" link, since a lot of times they reference things that have happened within very recent periods of time. I get that some people are totally up on the news, but some people -- even if they generally follow military issues -- aren't going to know about the most-recent happenings.