Ency

@tarkov It's cool to see a new and unique map like this with new mechanics, it brings a freshness into the current cycle of the game.

We've got an offer for you, Tarkovian. You subscribe to @tarkov and tell us what you think about Icebreaker in replies to this post - while we give away 10 EFT Gift Boxes at random! Each of these Boxes contains a set of unique EFT-themed items. The results will be announced on June 15. Don't miss the chance to acquire such an exclusive collectible piece!

@JenMsft Not really, as the sizes are now no longer obvious at a glance. Now you have to read the text instead of just sensing the length of the label.

We're rolling out a change in Experimental so file sizes in the File Explorer Details view now display using appropriate units (KB, MB, GB) instead of KB-only, to make them easier to understand at a glance Do you like it? 😊 learn.microsoft.com/windows-inside…

@veeron @AirwingMarine Early Access, not Electronic Arts

@AirwingMarine Wdym EA title?

2 Years in production already, probably a bit of time in pre production too. I wasn't expecting anything soon, but with this bit of info it might actually be closer than we think.... What say you guys? You have the stomach for another EA title (ASSUMING they go that route).

Lenovo has replaced the right control key on their otherwise-pretty-nice latest X1 Carbon (warranty replacement) with a copilot key. Fine. I won't begrudge some Microsoft PM "AI impact" in his self-review. But know what I do begrudge? The scancodes, plural. See, the copilot key is defined to emit not only a new scancode (0x6e), understood as F23 key (which archeologists believed wasn't a real key, but a legendary signifier of excess), but also left shift and left meta (Windows key). When you type the copilot key, the PC firmware sends the machine left-shift-down left-meta-down f23-down f23-up left-meta-up left-shift-up. That's a problem for remapping the copilot key back to right-control though. Even if we interpret 0x6e as right-control, we get a bunch of other modifiers we don't need along with, a press of copilot-r gets read as control-meta-shift-r, which is not what I want. Why did they do this? I have no idea. 0x6e by itself would have sufficed to identify the new key. All the other neokeys that seemed like good ideas at the time got normal scancodes. F23 would have been fine. The scancode 0x6e is so uncommon Linux had to be patched to recognize it. I'm determined to have a right control key, however, so now I run keyd to present a fake virtual keyboard to Wayland. Whenever it sees a left-shift-down or left-meta-down, it waits a few milliseconds to see whether an F23 has arrived. If it has, it synthesizes a right-control press. If it hasn't, it forwards the modifier presses. Now there's a whole new stage in the input processing pipeline, and extra input latency, that exists solely because AI is so special that it demands not only a new key, but for that ceremonial key to be carried on a litter of modifier bits as it parades into the OS and commands that inference happen now.

@dopeseabass @AirwingMarine @cor3corp @bstategames Yes, it is. See the trademark Nikita filed for it two years ago: uspto.report/TM/98480014

@AirwingMarine @cor3corp @bstategames the 3 in the name has me worried its some blockchain/web3 dog shit but guess we will see

Nikita confirming @cor3corp has nothing to do with @bstategames (or EFT). So all the made up nonsense about them abandoning Tarkov cause BSG was working on what ever this is going to be can finally stop. Tarkov, from a buisness sense, is a cash cow for BSG. Walking away from tarkov now would me monumentally stupid with all the future potential revenue of this project.

@AirwingMarine Yeah, the scratched disk with the broken copy of the RPG. BSG failed to properly remove the event, you can still find the thumb drives and get daily quests requiring this disk.

Targrad Tails CD in the reward?

@re3mr @siemaa22 Yeah, scav case and daily/weekly quest rewards. But I would consider that highly unintended and a bug, because the "official" way to bypass having to find the explosive is to either have a squad, or elite strength skill.

@siemaa22 Oh. How is that possible? You get it via a daily reward or something?

Terminal 1.0 Here's that 2D map over Terminal that I made. Still working on the 3D version but that's going to take a while. Hopefully this will do in the meantime! Good luck escaping! Available on my site reemr.se & the EFT wiki #EscapefromTarkov

The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.” Once again, they use “what about the children”, this time to install state spyware that would continuously scan every action on a phone or tablet and watch everything that is shown on the screen. This will effectively ban end-to-end encrypted communication and open source operating systems like GrapheneOS and forbid that people have administrator rights on their own devices. The bill also seeks “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” and wants “all regulated user-to-user services to use highly-effective age assurance measures to prevent children under the age of 16 from becoming or being users.” In practice, this means identity checks for VPN users, making things like anonymous whistleblowing difficult. The attack on secure and private communication is worldwide. Now is the time for resistance. Demand transparency from your politicians, and privacy for the people.

hi. your reviewer is lying. - he stated he spent 10 hours in PvP and quit to play PvE due to cheaters. - he didn't. He spent 30 minutes... maybe. 2 raids. The first raid is the tutorial mission in which you can't die. The 2nd raid he recorded for your "video review" and died to an extract camper, said this ONE PERSON was cheating, and quit to play PvE tarkov. - that person wasn't cheating. your reviewer showed the death screen in the video review. i attached a copy of his account details. he's a typical 800+ hour tarkov player that appears to have started just prior to or during tarkov's last wipe. - he stated he spent 120 hours in total in the game - he didn't. his account is 52h37m old, not 120. Much of that time is spent in your stash. So he had roughly 70% of that time in PvE raids (except 1, which I mentioned above already). - If your reviewer cannot be honest/lies about his time spent in game and his reasonings behind his opinions, it invalidates all of his first-hand experience when formulating his opinions and why. - Tarkov absolutely has its problems. There's a ton of jank, poor optimization, etc. That does not mean BSG is undeserving of a fair review from you and your organization, and it certainly is undeserving of claims being made by a FIRST HAND ACCOUNT that does not exist for your reviewer.

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now. Our App Store verifies the app store metadata with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with verification of the packages. Android's package manager also has another layer of signature verification and downgrade protection. Our System Updater verifies updates with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with another layer of both in update_engine and a third layer of both via verified boot. Signing channel release channel names is planned too. Our update mirrors are currently hosted on sponsored servers from ReliableSite (Los Angeles, Miami) and Tempest (London). London is a temporary location due to an emergency move from a provider which left the dedicated server business and will move. More sponsored update mirrors are coming. Our ns1 anycast network is on Vultr and our ns2 anycast network is on BuyVM since both support BGP for announcing our own IP space. We're moving our main website/network servers used for default OS connections to a mix of Vultr+BuyVM locations. We have 5 servers in Canada with OVH with more than static content and basic network services: email, Matrix, discussion forum, Mastodon and attestation. Our plan is to move these to Netcup root servers or a similar provider short term and then colocated servers in Toronto long term. France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects. They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed. We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries. We were likely going to be able to release experimental Pixel 10 support very soon and it's getting disrupted. The attacks on our team with ongoing libel and harassment have escalated, raids on our chat rooms have escalated and more. It's rough right now and support is appreciated.

@VeryBadSCAVR That's not your video to straight up reupload

Tarkov 2.0 Traders #EscapefromTarkov

@Polymarket It gets worse. He’s saying they have to start with non-binary numbers.

I’d argue (for myself) that PVE Tarkov is a camping trip with the boys where you get to kill something as a treat. PVP however is the primal thrill of tracking and hunting the most dangerous game of all - another real person. No other game has given me that experience. Gun legos is just a bonus.

@ThatchEffendi Wild that you can walk around dressed as an SS officer in America and the only consequence seems to be going viral.

@CounterStrike I wish I could give no fucks like this bro 😭🙏

@airwingmarine For a free-to-play game? Sure, maybe. But Arena is pay-to-play in the first place.

I really like this, I think it's a cool idea to gamify the progression. But $15 each season is just too much IMO.

These are the 2 things I see wrong with the Season 1 Arena Battlepass. 1) Systems like this should be attached to F2P games, not ones that cost $35.... Though a lot of us did get it for free, they are still charging for it as a standalone or if you buy standard tarkov... The monetization in practice is fine, but it being added on top of $35 just seems out of line with the industry. 2)The 'Ref Drops' will give you duplicate items that are just a waste of a roll... At least give some GP coins or something if it duplicates. With everything else, am I missing something? It all seems to be pretty vanilla to me, and none of it is required. The free side has tons of good stuff, and the paid is all cosmetics, right?... What's the big deal? If the Ref Drops were something you could sell or trade like people do in CS I'd be against it 100%, but the system just adds a bit of RNG do specific drops, for cosmetics... I think the customs map thing is overpriced. The only reason I might buy it is to do content about it and let folks know if it's worth their $15 or not. On top of that, paying this much for cosmetics I'd 100% want more servers added. Arena is hit or miss depending on which region you get connected too, and that greatly impacts how good or bad a match feels.

I don't understand why we keep having this conversation when the data is clear.

Wikipedia is one of the most reliable sources of information on the Internet, thanks entirely to its culture of cutthroat oneupmanship: The way the editors gain and maintain clout is successfully fact-checking other Wikipedia users.

i never saw this coming

The point that Linus makes is right but his style is not. It sets the wrong precedent for the younger generation to be just as toxic as this. You can criticise the code without being abusive. I've seen enough quotes saying this is based, it is not. If I tell my colleague I will not merge their code because of a style issue, they will learn and fix it, i don't have to call it garbage to cause trauma.