I think that in the database space MS-SQL was never the best option at any level or at least not for long.

Oracle could be said to still be the best amongst databases for high performance and very large datasets, but in my experience in the smaller and mid-sized databases space things like Postegres and even No-SQL databases surprassed MS-SQL already back in the late 90s, early 00s.

The Apache Web Server

You can configure launchers such as Lutris to run your games inside a proper sandboxing application such as “firejail”.

Just look into “Command Prefix” under Global Options in Lutris: a sandboxing app like firejail is used by really just running the sandbox app with the original command as a parameter of it, so that means you “prefix” the original command with the sandbox app and its parameters.

You can go as crazy as you want if you do sandboxing like that (down to only allowing access to whitelisted directories). In my case I’ve actually limited networking inside the sandbox to localhost-only.

I’m running the games in Linux, using Lutris as a launcher with a default configuration that wraps them in a firejail sandbox (for anybody interested, you add firejail as the “command prefix” under Global Options or in the System Options of the game) which amongst other things blocks networking.

In fact I went and figure out how to do all that exactly because I wanted to run pirated games in Linux in a safe way and you can’t just rely on the lower probability of Windows games of having code that tries to determine if it’s being run with Wine and accesses Linux-specific functionality and files if it is.

PS: That firejail stuff also works for Linux native games (it just wraps whatever you’re running to start the game, be it Wine or directly the game Linux binary).

Basically, EMP but directed.

How much of that effort to prohibit “hate” speech in the EU isn’t just the Germans supporting the Zionist Regime by claiming that criticism of it and their actions is “hate speech” in very much the same way as the Trump Regime claims that criticism of his own regime’s actions is hate and even terrorism, and trying to get it in place EU-wide using the EU institutions as a backdoor?

The EU isn’t exactly immune to the subversion of Humanitarianism and Rule of Law coming from Fascist regimes, especially when one of its leading countries, Germany, is quickly sliding back to it’s old ways, this time around under Zionist (an ethno-Fascist ideology, sames as the Nazis) puppet strings.

I’m definitely pro-EU, which is why I think we need to be very aware of the rotten apples we have in this basket and their attempts at spreading their rot.

Remember Cambridge Analitica, most of whose money came from wealthy Americans?

Maybe they were or maybe they weren’t in cahoots with Russia, but sure as hell it was the very same members of the American “elites” who supported Trump’s rise who also bought Brexit.

Britain’s careless openness to American influence makes it easy for Americans to play it like a fiddle.

Just to make it the clear to other readers were the difference is:

Lo siento, no hablo mucho español

Lo siento, no habló mucho español

It’s actually a more interesting solution for doing things the other way around: have some kind of mining operation on the moon and use a “cannon” (most likely a rail gun) to accelerate payloads from the surface of the moon into Earth orbit or even down to the surface.

But yeah, even that one wouldn’t be for squishy payloads such as people.

PS: That said somebody else is pointing out existing experiments were the object is accelerated around and around by a mass acellerator and then release at the appropriate speed, which might work for human payloads.

What has gotten much more expensive is the 3D modelling and level/gamespace making side of things, rather than development, which is why you see so many indies doing 2D games or simple 3D visuals and procedural generation of the gamespace.

This is partly why indie studios are far more successful at producing games with great gameplay than AAA studios - since they avoid going for hyper-realistic looks and massive hand-crafted levels they can focus on the actual gaming much more, plus its way easier to pivot main aspects of a game if it turns out they’re not actually fun if there isn’t a massive amount of time sunk into visuals and level design linked to them.

When and how exactly have the Houthis bombed American soil?

(You seemed to have forgotten to answer the very first line of my post during this goalpost moving maneuver of yours)

Further, when exactly did he Houthis “try and kill Americans” way back over a decade ago to cause America to start providing Saudi Arabia with bombs to bomb them with and keep doing so for a whole decade in the full knowledge of how they were being used?

You seem to be holding the “racist premise” that when America unilaterally acts in ways that kill non-Americans, those non-Americans aren’t entitled to fight back against America and its interests, which is literally you “holding a stupid double standard” and displaying “lack of self-awareness”.

When and how exactly have the Houtis bombed American soil?

In the post you’re replying to I literally made the point that these people being angry at America is the same as Americans being angry at Al-Queda for 9/11, so I literally treated as equally understandable that both people are angry at those who bombed them, which is the very opposite of what you claim I meant.

So you’re replying to whatever fantasy is going on in your mind rather than my post (which said the exact opposite of the fantasy you spun claiming that was my take), which means all those comments of yours about “lack of self awareness”, “holding a stupid double standard” and “that being a racism premise” apply to the only source of that imaginary “argument” you were criticizing, You.

These people have been having American and British bombs dropped on then for 10 years by now, via the planes of America and Britain’s ally, Saudi Arabia.

WTF do you expect from them other than hatred for America?!

Do you expect some kind of thankfulness for the whole “I might be randomly killed tomorrow when the bus I’m traveling in gets hit by an American bomb”? Because that would be like expecting Americans to be thankful to Al-Queda after 9/11 (only worse so because far more civilians have been killed in Yemen with American bombs by America’s ally than in 9/11) rather than hate the hell out of the fuckers that killing innocent people.

America’s actions in Yemen have basically been the equivalent of helping Nazi Germany bomb the shit out of France and the Résistance Française and then shifting to directly bombing the Résistance themselves with little care for collateral damage by using “they hate us” as an excuse.

It’s like the whole Iran situation:

• American Politicians: “They hate us for our freedoms”
• Iranians: *Hate America because after Iranians rebelled against and overthrew a bloody dictator - the Shah - Americans overthrew Iran’s first Democratic government and reinstated the Shah, who only came down after a bloody Revolution were the meanest and most extreme types of all - the ultra-religious - overthrew him again.*

And ditto for Palestine which is very much a similar situation but even worse.

I mean, you gotta be quite the tribalist muppet or extremely insular (or, more commonly, both) to keep on believing the same decades old style of excuse from American Politicians for killing people in far away lands which itself justifies giving tons of taxpayer money to military suppliers for weapons and ammo (the real objective) instead of putting it in Healthcare or Education, because there is no way you can’t put 2 and 2 together otherwise.

“Curious how the name of the person we’re calling for is the same as my name”

When it comes to finding oneself, the journey matters more than the destination…

His experience of the last couple of recessions has probably been:

• “The Markets, Politicians and Press do a lot of noise whilst poor and working people have to be squeezed even more whilst the Government makes sure rich people don’t lose any wealth and at the end of it we the rich are making even more money than before”

I mean, all that it takes is to look at the changes in wealth of the top 1% of the population compared to the rest in the aftermath of the 2008 Crash.

From his point of view a recession is a good thing because it and subsequent measures by the Government and Central Bank makes him even more money than “normal” times. Sure, it’s on the backs of the riff-raff, but who cares about the riff-raff when they’re so easy to lead by the nose?!

I don’t know.

The whole thing sounds like it will lead into fights amongst true book clubs because the members of each will think theirs is the true book, not the other ones, and the fights might even be worse between the true book clubs that were originally the same. I all sounds kinda dangerous.

Plus, how would I know if the book of your true book club is in fact the one and only true book if there are other true book clubs which like you book also claim to have the one and only true book and its a different book?

Do you guys have a new true book per week or is it more of a true book a month club?

God works in mysterious ways…

Elves, trolls, orcs, dwarves, ents and hobbits are real! It says so on the holy book: The Lord Of The Rings.