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This is a "fun" idea, but I'm a bit troubled by the fact that you've chosen to release this right now.

Are you implying something? Not that subtle, truth be told. I'm not American, but hopefully there are someone here who knows the proper X-handle or other official authority to report this to.


So what you're saying is that we shouldn't put our trust into people who pride themselves on being master manipulators and deceivers?


The head of a underpants subscription telemarketing firm is probably trusting his underlings more than the head of the CIA.



As in the original, you can use alt + left/right arrow keys to strafe.


In Windows the issue is that alt+space will by default open the window's control menu (for minimize/maximize/move/etc.). Pressing space down and then alt will work though.


So this is just as difficult as every other captcha then


Good memory.

But very platform dependant, so maybe OP is on a browser or OS that doesn't let you do that.

I know it works on Chrome for me, but not on FF.


Probably because firefox has alt+(left|right)arrow as global navigation bindings, and is capturing them before the captcha can get them. requesting a fullscreen gaming mode avoids more key binding issues, but probably ruins the "captcha" feel.


nice, that was the first thing that I noticed that I kept trying to do. It makes it a lot easier. I forgot about how clunky controls can be for older games without retroarch rebinds and stuff. I was playing Perfect Dark last night on my Steamdeck and I was able to bind the controls to a modern layout (left-stick walk, right-stick look, etc...) and it makes the game a ton easier.


thanks, without strafing it's almost impossible


I've just learned that my colleague played it on phone and won with two attempts. She just didn't move forward, only left right and shoot


use , . for strafing. Not ideal, but it works.


Many people would say that coffee is an acquired taste. Are you saying that people who don't like coffee are in the wrong?


Why are tools using hardcoded lists of WHOIS servers?

Seems there is a standard (?) way of registering this in DNS, but just from a quick test, a lot of TLDs are missing a record. Working example:

    dig _nicname._tcp.fr SRV +noall +answer

    _nicname._tcp.fr. 3588 IN SRV 0 0 43 whois.nic.fr.
Edit:

There's an expired Internet Draft for this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sanz-whois-srv-0...


A plain

  mobi.whois.arpa. CNAME whois.nic.mobi
could've already solved the issue. But getting everyone to agree and adopt something like that is hard.

Although as fanf2 points out below, it seems you could also just start with the IANA whois server. Querying https://www.iana.org/whois for `mobi` will return `whois: whois.nic.mobi` as part of the answer.


The reality of life is that there are way more hardcoded strings than you imagine or there should be.


I have a feeling whois is way older than the concept of SRV records even


The first WHOIS db was created in early 70s, according to Wikipedia. So, older than DNS itself.


because people build these tools as part of one time need, publish it for others (or in case they need to reference it themselves). Other "engineers" copy and paste without hesitating. Then it gets into production and becomes a CVE like discussed.

Developer incompetence is one thing, but AI-hallucination will make this even worse.


The video with the tracker is only part of the final track, it's missing percussion at least. Here's the version of Vordhosbn from the Drukqs album: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ro1aHvhGec&pp=ygUJdm9yZGhvc2J...

Drukqs is a great album btw, if you're at all interested in music you should give it a listen. It's got everything from tender prepared piano pieces to his signature drill and bass. Syro from 2014 is also an amazing album.


He's got a catalogue of bangers I've always loved, but Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 was so unique when it was released it really took me by surprise. It was hypnotic, sometimes eerie, other times introspective and beautiful.

If you're to believe the account Richard James gave, he claims to have used sleep deprivation and lucid dreaming to compose the album. I used to listen to the entire thing beginning to end on headphones, and I believe it!

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/aphex-twin-selected-amb...


SAW2 is maybe one of the most important collections of ambient electronic music ever made. It's an astonishing exploration of the genre.

I've thought it to be compared in some ways to Bach's "The Art of Fugue" which pushed its own genre so hard that its often considered to be pinnacle work on Fugues and sort of forced later musicians to move along to newer forms.

While I personally prefer SAW85-92, I have to recognize the ways in which SAW2 pushes ambient and electronic music, even today, to areas that force it to be defined and to redefine itself. SAW85-92 sounds very much like a product of the time, but SAW2 sounds absolutely contemporary even today. It somewhat closed the book on Ambient electronica and then shoved that book firmly into the avantgarde. The individual pieces range from unsettling to mind-alteringly beautiful.

"...I Care Because You Do" just sort of continues the leap forward. "Start As You Mean to Go On" feels to me like plugging yourself into a power outlet in a hurricane. IMHO, RDJ is at his best when he combines a kind of odd, almost apathetic, idle but tuneful, framework to a song, then ignites it into a frenetic mind blending fire with absolutely bonkers rhythmic lines, or sometimes just leaves it to chill like with "Aberto Balsalm".

It's wild to think we're talking about music older than people who have graduated college and are considered almost mid-career in some fields. And yet he's still making mindblowing stuff https://youtu.be/e_Ue_P7vcRE


I've spent so much time listening to it, it really is beautiful.

Just noticed on Bleep that they're releasing a 30th anniversary expanded edition on the 4th of October: https://bleep.com/release/460396-aphex-twin-selected-ambient...


Nice! #19 (and #21) sound great and/but really nostalgic; remind me of Funki Porcini a bit.


Seconded - Drukqs is spectacular!

Random tidbit: around when the album came out I chucked it on my friend's CDJs (IIRC I skipped straight to Mt St Michael) - by chance the CDJs were set at some lower speed, maybe 50-75%

Highly recommend trying it out - being able to hear how much groove and complexity sits behind those super fast tracks is quite enlightening. We ended up listening to both discs of the album like that, just boggling the whole time

The track in question: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6kN4zRfnHm8

PS. Whilst YouTube has playback speed it's unlikely to give the same benefits - but if you've no other options it could be worth a shot


I love most of his work. Drukqs is his weakest (but still good!) album IMO - Avril 14th is a great track. His Analord series is also amazing and Rushup Edge under another alias - The Tuss.


Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but this take seems absolutely out of pocket to me. Drukqs is Rich’s most well-rounded, polished, and arguably revolutionary project. From a sound design and arrangement perspective it still sounds contemporary, more than 20 years on. It’s also the only one of his albums besides SAW 85-92 of which I like every track (and love most of them).

You do you, but maybe give it another dedicated listen and you might change your mind! :)


Interesting... Drukqs was my introduction to RDJ when it was released and to be honest I have never really gone back to give it a dedicated listen. Perhaps his other works stand out more to me because it was released (or I discovered them) later. Thanks for the comment; I'm going to revisit the album and maybe reconsider!


> Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but this take seems absolutely out of pocket to me

Made me laugh. We all have our tastes and loves/hates. Accept it.


Clearly I do accept it since that’s what I said in the quoted text??


The damage being that people have been conditioned to being unfree in a very fundamental sense.


can you expand on that?

I'm unfree in a lot of ways. Not all of them damaging. I cant walk into someone's house, use their toothbrush, and grope them.

It sounds like there is some theory of damage stemming from lack of specific freedoms, but it certainly hasn't been articulated.


For some people freedom means being able to violently deny others to roam the land, to deny access lakes, to deny foraging for berries and mushrooms and even to deny them access to the coastline and the ocean.

For them, freedom might entail being able to deny these basic modes of being e.g. based on monetary worth, social standing or even ethnicity (like country clubs in the US).

If that's what you consider freedom, I don't think I'm going to be able to convince you otherwise.


you didnt answer the question about what "the damage" is. It is a simple question.

Instead, you evaded it and tried to redirect the topic.


I already explained what I meant by damage. Being unable to see how the freedom of a tiny minority shouldn't trump the freedom of basic modes of being of the vast majority, that's damage.


What are "freedoms of basic modes of being"?

Is there a lexicon guide I should be referencing with definitions to these vague phrases.


The use of the land is removed from the people


So the damage is opportunity loss. What makes it a legitimate grievance opposed to a bogus one?

There are lots things that were once possible, but no longer are.

Of course, there is also the question of who "the people" are.


According to Wikipedia:

> At present, five significant events are known (7176 BCE, 5259 BCE, 660 BCE, 774 CE, 993 CE)

Seems like the Carrington event wasn't strong enough to be considered a Miyake event.


This is very entertaining, but it seems a bit too crafted for a specific audience with all the "those damned bureaucrats!" and whatnot.

For a similar naval hot shot, check out Peter Tordenskjold (lit. thunder shield):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tordenskjold

There are lots of amusing stories about his crazy deeds, but he employed people to do PR for him, so take it with more than the usual grain of salt.


Come to think of it, I'm sure there are other optimisations you could do as well.


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