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Steam store "refresh" is out in beta now, enwidening images and adding infinite scrollage to the homepage

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You can.

Open a publisher page, then in the top right corner, look for a gear icon. Click it, and there's an option to ignore this publisher.

Unfortunately there's a limitation. This works only for those having a dedicated publisher page. For publishers without a dedicated page, Steam will fallback to the search page, which doesn't provide a way to ignore this publisher.

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'

This CEO may think it's developer-friendly, but I highly doubt if Epic will keep such developer-friendly stance if Epic becomes a giant in this industry.

Epic burnt so much money on Epic store these years. If it succeeds, it's very likely Epic will try to earn it back. From player? Will players willing to pay more in Epic store than the others? If the answer is no.. Sometimes it really makes me wonder if these CEOs are really that stupid..

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007 First Light has Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM removed

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The problem is, some developers/publishers simply never remove Denuvo.

Some examples I can think of, Ubi seems to never remove Denuvo, SEGA has Denuvo removed for some (probably due to the Denuvo offer at that time), but most are not removed.

I guess some are simply too notorious to really get a sales boost. I really want to buy those Ubi games on 95% off. UPlay required? Bye.

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubles down on criticism of AIPAC

https://www.aipac.org/

AIPAC is leading the political fight to keep Congress pro-Israel, helping pro-Israel candidates win elections and helping defeat detractors of the U.S.-Israel relationship. AIPAC's members contribute directly to Democratic and Republican candidates through the AIPAC PAC. As the largest pro-Israel PAC, our members demonstrate that being pro-Israel is both good policy and good politics.

Americans will be mad if the word "Israel" is replaced by words like "China", assuming they can read.

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Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies

I have a feeling this can't be fixed unless they fork from a pre-slop point, which is highly unlikely.

The core problem with AI is not being incapable of generating working code, but the ability to maintain by AI or human.

AI has a larger memory (context size) than human. It can generate codes that are difficult for human to understand, and the complexity can build up fast, especially doing vibe coding without clear instructions (especially architectural).

On reaching a critical level, AI starts to make significantly more errors. At this point, no one can maintain, the codes are spaghetti. I think this is where Windows is at.

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Relying on Go

This AI slop is so baffling.

GO uses a garbage collector because it has to: removing this GC fundamentally complicates parallelism. If it's manual management, then who owns the data? Of course there are ways to work around, but none of them are free; in fact those can be even more expensive.

Assuming it enforces single ownership, then the allocator is responsible for freeing resources. How can it know the resource can be freed, if the resource is processed in another thread? Inter-thread communication? The complexity will be insane. Pass ownership? There's no move semantic in GO. Reference counting? No such a thing in GO either.

I even have a feeling that those 1.1k stars are fake.

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Co-op adventure, town-building and survival game Necesse hits the big 1.0

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I played this game earlier this year. I'm not sure about the recent development, but for the time I played it, solo was definitely not a problem. You can even recruit NPCs to help you in hoss fights, and these NPCs have a low cooldown on potion consumption. As long as there's potions, NPCs are unlikely to die. You can even focus on dodging and let NPCs bully bosses. NPCs also help in other perspectives e.g. farming and mining. Its QoL is the best in this genre, in my opinion.