Convenience and security.

Authenticator apps are still vulnerable to phishing, passkeys are not.

Like, you know he’s not personally involved in the design or manufacture of these things right?

Just don’t look up who made the design changes to stainless steel, aerodynamic flaps or tower capture.

The(y) didn’t pioneer reusable rockets

They did pioneer reusable orbital liquid fueled rockets, closest before that was the space shuttle’s SRBs (solid fuel, dumped and fished out the ocean).

and they’re not cheap either. They’re expensive,

They are incredibly cheap to operate by rocket standards, the reason why they haven’t lowered the pricetag is:

a. Would absolutely be an anti-trust against them if they didn’t stay close to competitors (monopoly by simply being too good is a thing)

b. Capitalism baby, they have no real competitor so they can make a crazy profit (and because of point A they basically have to unless they want to be sued to oblivion).

and they’re floating on government grants

Contracts* They have government contracts. Government requests a service, SpaceX provides the service, SpaceX gets paid, simple as that. They have gotten subsidies to expand Starlink, but every ISP gets that and even then they have been declined it countless times because AT&T, etc. have lobbied against them.

SpaceX s(ti)ll hasn’t done anything hat wasn’t done better long before.

I’m sorry, what other rockets and space capsules can be reused? What other rocket can be returned directly on the launch pad?

They do party hard (wh)en a rocket of theirs explodes, which I never saw NASA do.

Because they see milestones being completed in the testing program, it’s about where it exploded (it was gonna explode either way, planned or unplanned).

They managed to get their super duper new heavy rocket in an uncontrolled spin in low earth orbit! I’m sorry, Noy impressed by results that are less than half of what -again- NASA did in the 60’ and 80’ of the last century.

NASA sent a 50m tall, 9m wide second stage that was designed to be fully reusable with full-flow staged engines and then transferred super-chilled fuel between tanks? Cool! Which system was that? Would love to read about it!

GrapheneOS is a really easy process, hardest part is unlocking the bootloader (which isn’t hard at all).

Rest of the process is just clicking 3* buttons on a website and you’re done.

*Some buttons you have to click multiple times

They literally just need to enable it in the dev page of EAC and Proton handles the reat.

Were Valve to let its competitors implement SteamOS on their devices

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Mullvad is by far the best for privacy since you can literally pay with cash and all your account is is a number. No email, no phone number (unless you pay with Swish), nothing at all identifiable except your IP.

The pricing is honest and very consumer friendly, although being more expensive than average. There is no subscription, just monthly cost with no special discounts to get you to buy it “cheaper”.

And they got raided by police and provided them with everything they had: Literally nothing.

Much earlier than I expected, glad I waited.

And glad it’s a niche enough IP that I have yet to see a single spoiler.

Beltalowda!

Most of it is perfectly reasonable.

• IP: Simplest identifier for smurf accounts, also very ineffective since you can just reset router. But public info anyway.

• Game identifier: Obviously

• Hardware dev info: More effective identifier for smurf accounts and more effective form of banning (and decent way to check if you're in a VM, depending how hardened it is)

• OS info: Different OS's require different functions

• Game and system files: Don't agree with this one unless you're incredibly deep into e-sports (professional). For casuals, checking game files: Fine. Checking system files: Fuck off.

• Running processes: Checking for running non-hidden cheats

• File names: Not quite sure what they mean here

The text at the bottom also states that it only collects this if it detects potential for cheats, which obviously is going to include false positives, but it isn't constantly mining the data like other ACs.

BattlEye isn't the greatest AC so should be fine anyway.

No.

You get to break windows and get to freedom.