I was listening to a podcast on the impact of cement recently. The majority was about new production methods or grading for cement, but they touched on using more wood as building materials where *some* cement might typically be used instead (they were in no way claiming 1:1 replacement). Must say I find it intriguing - both intuitively obvious but also filled with questions about durability, weatherproofing etc..

Unfortunately the adoption of things like the UK Online Safety laws, while (at least ostensibly) well meant, means returning to the old ways isn't viable. I could no longer host a small forum for instance, as I'd need people's real names and identities for age verification and I'd also need to be actively policing the forum to some sort of legal SLA for taking down content. Having those names also brings in GDPR....naah, I'm out.

Years back I ran a very small web hosting business that existed primarily just to cover its costs so some of us could get reasonably priced web sites. I and a friend administered the email, the web server upgrades, the OS upgrades etc. and everyone else could just publish a web site.

I shut it down decades ago when all this lot started raising its head. There started to be talk of providers being liable for user content, and for log retention, and, and...nope. Done.

Eddie Cue says Safari, Google state Apple's 'devices and platforms' - emphasis mine. The one need not contradict the other. If people are backing Siri/Apple Intelligence with models that search the web, they're likely hitting Google at some point. So what is Google counting as a 'platform' here?

It's been so long there'll be plenty that haven't played and don't really know Half Life. I'll be honest - I skipped it for some reason at the time, not sure why, and haven't played either.

Worth them doing a relatively simple remaster on 1 and 2? Meaning not going full-on Oblivion Remaster gold standard, but just upping some text resolutions and any simple graphical changes that are easy to pull off.

Dungeon Keeper 2 is fine from both GOG and Steam.

There is no Dungeon Keeper 3. Never happened. La la la la la la la la la.....

I have reread the nonsense I apparently typed. I have decided to retire to a cave and become a hermit.

Oh not to me in that situation it wouldn't have been, no. Was more referring to the seriousness of allergic reactions. In the case the post is discussing, it would similarly have been someone unknowing - they have a peanut allergy, but there's no peanuts here so all good! And then later...

That's what I meant.

Thanks for that. For a slightly comedy ending - all got sorted, everything well. I was in the middle of a ward, all beds full but they put up screens and a camp bed for me to be with my son. They handed him to me at 2am in the morning saying "We've pumped him full of adrenaline and all fine now - have a nice sleep.". A toddler pumped full of adrenaline, at 2am, in the exact centre of a ward of people trying to get some rest. Yeeeaaahhh....

That whole experience was truly something else. We had no idea they had an allergy, and discovered it when they manager to get a brazil nut (this was near Christmas) and put it in their mouths. All good now but flaming hell that was an event.

Have you ever driven a toddler to emergency care in a hospital, with their face and throat swelling from anaphylactic shock, knowing this will quickly kill them if you don't get to the hospital in time and get this looked at right now?

I have. It's a somewhat less than fun experience. I learned two things: firstly, going to the desk and screaming "anaphylaxis!" while waving a dying kid around is a really, really good way to skip any queue that might exist. Secondly...you do not want to ever be in a position where that information might prove useful to you.

This guy removing allergy information? They are extremely lucky no-one died. It is very, very serious.

This summary generated by Apple Intelligence.

I played pre the rules split, and then had the Basic and AD&D ones. The AD&D books were much prettier but the game we still played? Basic all the way - simplicity was key to not getting in the way of the story.

Here was my take on it - A month or so back I was wondering if people had a lawsuit claim. And yes, yes they do.

This one was really a self-inflicted panic shot from Apple. I really don't see average people clamouring for AI, only tech-hype investors. This was "we've got one too!", misleading and shamelessly done. Really not a fan.

Not the case here. Codeweavers actively contribute back to the main upstream WINE project, so they are actively involved in making themselves irrelevant if you want to look at it like that. WINEis 'good enough' for lots and lots of things. Codeweaver's commercial work adds the polish plus lets you play with experimental things before they make it into upstream.

That GVCE one sounds exactly like what isn't needed.

"While remaining compatible with the traditional CVE system, GCVE introduces GCVE Numbering Authorities (GNAs). GNAs are independent entities that can allocate identifiers without relying on a centralised block distribution system or rigid policy enforcement."

So suddenly we've got multiple entities, potentially giving different IDs to the same vulnerability and potentially giving it different ratings. That doesn't sound like a good thing.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Doom Limited Editions...