The roguelike games also have a low barrier for people who want to write their own, as there are freely available graphical tiles, libraries such as Doryen to do the heavy lifting, and plenty of tutorials covering most programming languages. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Froguebasin.com%2Findex.p... for some tutorials.

Most existing games are open-source, so if creating a new game doesn't appeal, you can download your favourite and start changing it to be more to your liking.

The current draft is https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwik...

This is linguistic relativity, and used to be called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think it has not lived up to its early promise as a tool to understand the relationship between language structure and cognition, but there are times when it is a useful tool. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

That's exactly how my site works - it turns a folder structure of markdown(ish) files into a folder structure of indexed and cross-linked html, then rsync's the result to my server. No database, no dependencies, just files and a python script or two.

I even exported and converted 400 posts from WordPress using a small script.

I looked at pelican at the time. I can't remember why I didn't use it, but rolling my own was a fun project.

I ran a low traffic WordPress blog for many years. WordPress has many great features but between insecure plugins and a constantly updating core system, it just takes too much time to administer for someone who just wants to host a simple no-fuss blog.

My advice is for anyone starting a personal blog is to either use a WordPress hosting company or just go with something like Tumblr. You don't get the flexibility, but your life will be easier.

I got so fed up that I wrote my own static site generator to run my site. It doesn't have the nice features of WordPress but it certainly won't collapse under load and I get to laugh at the script-kiddies trying to hack the non-existent php scripts.

I remember you from about ten years ago. Most of the old admins do. I'm glad you're no longer thinking of harming yourself, and if you do want to return to Wikipedia in the future, I'll do my best to help the process.

In the mid-1980s I had a program called PC-Alien which ran on an MS-Dos machine and which could read almost any undamaged CP/M formatted disk. There is a more recent program which appears to have similar capabilites: OmniFlop, but I have no experience of using this. Such a program means a standard IBM PC, still reasonably commonly available, could read the undamaged disks rather than searching for an even older and rarer CP/M machine.

A third approach is to have a robot independent of the vehicle which can drive it, and presumably can switch from one vehicle to another. The best example of this I'm aware of is Yamaha's motobot which is capable of riding a motorcycle on a track. I'm not sure how much of the article is speculation rather than existing capability. http://pcmag.com/robotics-automation-products/39534/news/this-yamaha-robot-can-drive-a-motorcyle

Alas, there is no free PL/I compiler for Windows or Linux; certainly not one with anything approaching a full feature set and currently maintained. I learned PL/I at technical college in the 1980s and it was certainly better than the other languages taught then (COBOL, BASIC and RPG). I would like to be able to write a few programs in it for nostalgic reasons.

The problem is GamerGate started with the attacks on Zoe Quinn, which turned out to be complete fabrications.

The real problem is that even if GamerGates's allegations about Quinn were 100% true, nobody cares if person A slept with person B for an obscure review of a game on some website. It is literally the least possible social sin; people who go through the express lane at the supermarkets with more than 6 items deserve more scorn.

The big publishers spend literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising with the same websites and the self proclaimed guardians of journalistic ethics seem OK with it. This, along with the fact that the whole thing with Quinn was totally made up, seem to point to GG being a bunch of arseholes. I really want to believe that most of them are just morons who don't understand the game industry, journalism, or humanity in general, and are just misguided because I don't like to think there are that many arseholes around. But they just won't shut up.

A 6.4 metre wingspan is pretty impressive, but some of the pterosaurs were considerably larger. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FQuetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 10-11 metres and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHatzegopteryx was about the same size.

... or have a subdomain of your website resolve to 192.168.1.1

I never thought of this, that's pretty sneaky.

This is NOT a small, obscure problem for users of DLINK routers. Although it does not open up Wifi access or anything like that, having access to the configuration panel of your router is bad news even from inside the network. I can't think of anyway to automatically exploit it via a browser (XSS-style) but a small executable (or trusted Java applet, for instance) could do it.

Additionally, I wonder how many small establishments are offering free wifi using DLINK equipment. Those networks are now vulnerable.

If I was a bad(er) guy, the first thing I would change would be the DNS settings. Forcing all computers behind the router to use a DNS I control opens up all sorts of interesting ways to mess with people.