Godot is pretty awesome. Easy to learn, can do 2D or 3D, and can export to HTML5/webasm that works across all major OSes and browsers including mobile.
It’s far from perfect but I’ve been enjoying playing with it even for things that aren’t games and it has come a long way just in the last year or two. I feel like it’s close to (or is currently) having its Blender moment.
This is a slept-on feature of Godot, IMO. It's been my go-to native UI library for all my C# projects since I tried making a game with it 2 years ago. It perfectly straddles the line between drag-and-drop WYSIWYG and software defined layout.
Kensington make multiple trackballs that are ambidextrous. I use both the wireless and wired (on laptop and desktop respectively) versions of their “Expert Mouse” model for a fair few years now.
That was relevant when you were learning to search through “information” for the answer to your question, eg the digital version of going through the library or digging through a reference book.
I don’t think it’s so valuable now that you’re searching through piles of spam and junk just to try find anything relevant. That’s a uniquely modern-web thing created by Google in their focus of profit over user.
Unless Google takes over libraries/books next and sells spots to advertisers on the shelves and in the books.
In the same way that I never learnt the Dewey decimal system because digital search had driven it obsolete. It may be that we just won't need to do as much sifting through spam in the future, but being able to finesse Gemini into burping out the right links becomes increasingly important.
>I don’t think it’s so valuable now that you’re searching through piles of spam and junk just to try find anything relevant.
my 20 years of figuring out how to find niche porn has paid off in spades, thank you very much. I click recklessly in that domain and I end up with viruses. Very high stakes research.
I think properly searching is more important than ever in such a day and age of enshittification. You need to quickly recognize what is adspam or blogspam and distill out useful/valuable information. You need to understand how to preview links before you click on them. What tools to filter out dangerous websites. What methods and keywords to trust or be wary of.
And all that is before the actual critical thinking of "is this information accurate/trustworthy?".
Of course, I'm assuming this is a future where you aren't stuck in the search spaces of 20 website hubs who pull from the same 5 AI databases to spit out dubious answers at you. I'd rather not outsource my thinking (and media consumption) in such a way.
I have a folder of .ANS files I’ve collected from this site, and when my terminal opens it loads a random one from the folder. It’s a silly little things but it gives me that “connecting to a BBS” nostalgia feeling every time I open the terminal.
The personal data of more than 6 million Qantas customers has been stolen in a cyberattack believed to be part of a co-ordinated attack on airlines globally.
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a statement this week warning airlines not to pay ransoms to a cybercriminal gang called Scattered Spider, which is thought to be responsible for the attacks.
“The threat from Scattered Spider is ongoing and rapidly evolving,” the FBI said.
Qantas said a cybersecurity incident occurred in one of its contact centres, affecting customer data on Monday, when a gang targeted a call centre and gained access to a third-party customer service platform.
Although Qantas’ operations and safety remain unaffected, the airline said 6 million customers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers were taken. The airline said credit card and payment details were stored separately.
Last year, Qantas ruled out a cyberattack after an IT malfunction allowed customers to see and access frequent flyer points of other customers via the airline’s app.
North America’s Hawaiian Airlines and WestJet were both hit by similar attacks in the past two weeks.
It said no frequent flyer PINs or log-in details were stolen, and it was confident no frequent flyer accounts were compromised in the attack.
The airline joins a long list of Australian companies targeted by cybercriminals, including Medibank and Optus. Experts have called for the Australian government to ban the payment of ransoms to deter hackers.
“Qantas has notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Given the criminal nature of this incident, the Australian Federal Police has also been notified,” it said.
Chief executive Vanessa Hudson apologised to customers and said Qantas would provide necessary support.
“We are working closely with the federal government’s National Cyber Security Coordinator, the Australian Cyber Security Centre and independent specialised cyber-security experts,” Hudson said.
The airline is expected to bolster its cybersecurity expertise when it names a replacement for outgoing director Todd Sampson, who is set to leave the company at the end of this month.
> The airline is expected to bolster its cybersecurity expertise when it names a replacement for outgoing director Todd Sampson, who is set to leave the company at the end of this month.
Weird. Why would they have been delaying a cybersecurity upgrade until after a board member has left? Was Todd preventing/holding up the implementation?
I use the KanBan plugin for Obsidian and have quite liked it. It’s basic but it does the job and lets you sync however you want (it’s just a folder with markdown files).
Same to Australia. Things used to take 2-4 weeks to get here, now they're arriving within the week. More items seem to have the free postage option too.
It’s far from perfect but I’ve been enjoying playing with it even for things that aren’t games and it has come a long way just in the last year or two. I feel like it’s close to (or is currently) having its Blender moment.