Agreed. It’s the best of both worlds: retro-inspired games can pick what the retro games did right, and still add modern improvements.

Then I have no idea. (Is it even TTT at this point?)

Gotta agree with Lena, your art is great.

If the grid expands up, O loses; with the right moves they would tie instead.

If the grid expands down, O and X tie. With the right move O could ensure a win instead.

Either way they’re really bad at Tic-Tac-Toe. But at least they were nice enough to not force someone to draw an O on their own leg, drawing an X is easier.

I hope so, too. Their current situation isn’t currently the best (a lot of them went away in the late 10s, simply because people were using them less); I’m kind of hoping to see a revival, but that’s at the mercy of the STF, so I can’t completely rule out that the situation will evolve exactly like in the UK. It’s “let’s wait and see”, you know?

I’m also wondering the impact of that on chatrooms, that used to be extremely popular here.

When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

[Warning, IANAL] I am really not sure if the experience is transposable for two reasons:

1. UK follows Saxon tribal law, while Brazil follows Roman civil law. I am not sure but I believe the former requires both sides to dig up precedents, and that puts a heavier burden on the smaller side of a legal litigation. While in the later, if you show “ackshyually in that older case the defendant was deemed guilty”, all the judge will say is “so? What is written is what matters; if the defendant violated the law or not.”.
2. The Americas in general are notorious for sloppy law enforcement. Specially Brazil. Doubly so when both parties are random nobodies.

So there’s still a huge room for smaller forums to survive, or even thrive. It all depends on how the STF enforces it. For example it might take into account that a team of volunteers has less liability because their ability to remove random junk from the internet is lower than some megacorpo from the middle of nowhere.

Additionally, it might be possible the legislative screeches at the judiciary, and releases some additional law that does practically the same as that article 19, except it doesn’t leave room for the judiciary to claim it’s unconstitutional. Because, like, as I said the judiciary is a bit too powerful, but the other powers still can fight back, specially the legislative.

For context:

There’s an older law called Marco Civil da Internet (roughly “internet civil framework”), from 2014. The Article 19 of that law boils down to “if a third party posts content that violates the law in an internet service, the service provider isn’t legally responsible, unless there’s a specific judicial order telling it to remove it.”

So. The new law gets rid of that article, claiming it’s unconstitutional. In effect, this means service providers (mostly social media) need to proactively remove illegal content, even without judicial order.

I kind of like the direction this is going, but it raises three concerns:

1. False positives becoming more common.
2. The burden will be considerably bigger for smaller platforms than bigger ones.
3. It gives the STF yet another tool for vendetta. The judiciary is already a bit too strong in comparison with the other two powers, and this decision only feeds the beast further.

On a lighter side, regardless of #2, I predict a lower impact in the Fediverse than in centralised social media.

Normalmente digo “yerba mate” en inglés, para evitar confusiones, o preguntas como “ah, pero cual la diferenza entre yerba i erva?”. Ya en portugués llamo de chimarrão o mate. (Hago lo mismo con dulce de leche vs. doce de leite)

Alerta roja, alerta roja, skullgrid y bdonvr estan triangulando mi escondrijo! 🤣 (…soy de Paraná.)

…damn! Oh well I’m heating a bit more water anyway.

I’m glad it doesn’t mention empty yerba mate gourds or thermos, I’m too lazy to go to the kitchen right now.

The stick in question is off-site; it sees the PC once per month, then it gets back to the drawer in another room. And regardless of its fate, if I had a flood or fire affecting my PC, in the second store of a brick house, odds are that I’d have far more pressing matters than the data.

It’s mostly fluff kept for sentimental value. Worst case scenario (complete data loss) would be annoying, but I can deal with it.

That’s one of the two things the 3-2-1 rule of thumb doesn’t address - depending on the value of the data, you need more backups, or the backup might be overkill. (The other is what you’re talking with smeg about, the reliability of each storage device in question.)

I do have an internal hard disk drive (coincidentally 2TB)*; theoretically I could store a third copy of the backup there, it’s just ~15GiB of data anyway. However:

• HDDs tend to be a bit less reliable than flash memory. Specially given the stick and SSD are relatively new, but the HDD is a bit older
• since the stick is powered ~once a month (as I check if the backup needs to be updated), and I do a diff of the most important bits of the data, bit rot is not an issue
• those sticks tend to fail more from usage than from old age.
• Any failure affecting my computer as a while would affect both the HDD and the SSD, so the odds of dependent failure are not negligible.
• I tend to accumulate a lot of junk in my HDD (like 490GiB of anime and shit like this), since I use it for my home LAN

That makes the benefit of a potential new backup in the HDD fairly low, in comparison with the bother (i.e. labour and opportunity cost) of keeping yet another backup.

*I don’t recall how much I paid for it, but checking local hardware sites a new one would be 475 reals. Or roughly 75 euros… meh, if buying a new HDD might as well use it to increase my LAN.

No, it’s really not.

It is enough for my use case, considering the likelihood of my SSD and the USB stick going kaboom in the span of a single month is next to zero; if only one of them does it, I can use the other to recover the data to a third medium.

I mean just about anyone of sufficient size is susceptible to this.

Sure - the bigger the business, the more expendable each user/customer is. And Microsoft is really huge.

Just keep multiple backups.

Two are enough for most people (the 3-2-1 rule); sometimes one. The catch is that at least one of those backups must be off-line, and in a different medium than the original. While you can use the cloud to increase the reliability of the whole system, you should never rely exclusively on it.

Reminder “the cloud” is someone else’s computer. If you’re going to use it at least make sure the “someone else” isn’t a clown hat like Microsoft.

(This article also prompted me to update the backup of my personal files. I’m not following the 3-2-1 rule; a USB stick is enough. I do like to keep it updated though.)

That’s probably the best way to sing it. Sure, you have some great versions like Giorgio Gaber’s, but nothing beats a bunch of common people doing it.

Merdolini & friends hanging together
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'Sta mattina mi sono alzato…

In the meantime I had forgotten about the game. And now I lost it again!

This is just my guess but I believe so.

It’s clear that both Musk and Trump care more about their own egos than anything else, and this ruckus made of them a laughing stock - and they’ll likely blame it on each other. So Trump might implement policies in USA just to piss off Musk, and Musk might make public a lot of the shit Trump hid under the rug.

This will also have some impact in the next elections here in Brazil. I think the right will be less eager to create huge “acordões”, fearing they might turn out as in USA.