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Some people type insanely fast on on screen keyboards and might not be as fast on a small hardware keyboard. However for things like typing code, where you need a lot of special characters, can benefit from keyboard shortcuts and can't rely as much on autocomplete, hardware keyboards are much...

I've finished the main story part of Arkham City. Though I did quite a bit of side-missions and collectible-scavenging, the game tells me I've completed about half of it. I've enjoyed it and will probably keep playing a bit. The core is the same as Arkham Asylum but the move to a city...

I've played it a bit further but I wasn't having any fun. I think it's just not a game for me. It'll go in the "games with a cult following that I just can't get into" pile along with Metal Gear Solid and Blizzard games.

Oh yes that level... They give you a lightsaber, let you have some fun with it in the cantina and then put you in big open spaces filled with snipers equipped with weapons you can't deflect with the lightsaber, forcing you to stick to the guns. And not just for a short time, for the rest of the...

Finished another game of Hearts of Iron 4 (a "grand strategy" game where you lead a country from 1936 to the end of the war(s)). It's a really good game with nice strategic and tactical choices and options. It can get a bit overwhelming and need a bit of wiki research to understand some...

Be wary of disinformation. Social networks are effective propaganda tools and all sides of the conflicts have people skilled in using them. So think twice before sharing anything you see/read about the conflict.

I agree about tracking phones that have been turned off (great real-life example here: https://nitter.42l.fr/tomiahonen/status/1453797787452297225 ) The clock battery is unlikely to be able to power the GPS and antenna. At best, it might be able to send signals on a relatively short range...

I know some people who put a Samsung phone in airplane mode inside a high-grade faraday cage and monitored radio waves. The phone didn't emit anything. However it can still receive signals, so one could imagine a mechanism where the phone would react to some predefined signal and start...

Jedi Academy has a Pandora port so it should get to Pyra as well. However, playing the shooting part with the Pandora controls was a bit difficult, the lightsaber sections were a bit easier to play.

There are also remote hacks that will be blocked by a sudo password request.

I find it pointless to try to interpret that data without additional data or knowledge: - Hospitalisations don't show how many people require it, it shows how many people get in the hospital. If access to a hospital is more difficult or less common in a country (because hospitals are few and far...

They don't need any of that to hike prices. There are monopolies/oligopoly everywhere now so all it takes to rise price is for a handful of people to meet and agree to do it. There's clear evidence that this was a trend even before the COVID-19 crisis. It just got worse because the US gov. gave...

The scientific consensus is that such classification of races is either impossible or meaningless. What you're talking about is called typology and it has been completely discredited. But hey, feel free to think you know better than the scientific community.

Short answer: you can't reliably use genetics to identify different populations. There are too few variations and too much mixing to be able to do so. Even if you disregard the ethics of breaking people into races, it's just not scientifically possible to do so reliably. Of course, you can...

In humans, "race" is a social construct. There's no scientific base behind it. And while, today, we often associate "race" with "skin colour", it hasn't always been the case (and even nowadays it's not that clear-cut). That's why many people use the term "racialised" to talk about people who are...

Reminds me of Zuckerberg who said that privacy was a thing of the past and that people should stop caring about it and then bought all the houses surrounding his so that he could have privacy.

Finished (the main story at least) Killer is Dead a weird 3D third-person action game. You play an executor working for some governmental agency that kills weird things. The third (I think) level has you go to a castle on the dark-side of the moon and it's mostly played as if it was something...

Always important to take into account when you hear about a new low-priced project.

I've finished Pyre this week-end and I loved it. As usual with Supergiants games, it's gorgeous and the music is outstanding. But in both Bastion and Transistor this was, in my experience, held back by the fact that the game offered me multiple approaches and I kept having the feeling that I had...

Individual carbon footprint is something that's heavily promoted by the fossil fuel industry. It's a great way to redirect the public discourse from "how do we, as a society, limit our carbon emission?" (which would lead to answers that would hurt the fossil fuel industry) to "how do I, as an...