It is a flight simulator, somehow I doubt it has more console than PC users. Consoles are just too limited to satisfy that particular demographic. Can’t even connect half a dozen different input devices to a console.

The way I read it the “proper” in the title refers to “proper support”, not “proper season passes”

What do you mean “the left”? It is from the US so at best it is from the “slight less extreme far right”.

Anything Sony is burned forever to me since they pulled that Rootkit shit a few decades ago.

Seems like the gaming version of this effect of not investing in enough disruptive innovation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkoCZ4vBSI

The way I see it meddling by incompetent corporations in competent teams is bad, meddling by incompetent corporations in incompetent teams probably makes something even worse, meddling by competent corporations in incompetent teams probably doesn’t nearly have enough influence to make something actually good and only meddling by competent corporations in competent teams might actually have a chance of helping at all.

Most likely they also never thought about not buying something that is “just $40” in their life.

I have a feeling the Fallout show is quite similar in terms of not being popular outside of people who already like that particular universe.

There were probably text based online games (MUX/MUSH/MUD/…) that had it even earlier.

Most importantly it takes a lot of effort and is essentially outdated the moment it is done unless you slow down and complicated every other process by funneling every change through the spec first.

As a sysadmin Python is very far from a better language than Shell, it is much too fragile over time for that. You can’t even rely on a Python script running unmodified on the oldest currently supported OS versions and the latest ones.

After reading LWN Kernel articles for a while now I would much rather have the Rust please. The C code base of the Linux kernel seems a total mess despite Torvalds having the final say on what is merged and what is not.

There might also just not be a single spec because the information is spread out over RFCs instead of being collected in a central location.

A specification is just another form of implementation that suffers from the very same problem you describe too.

Just don’t play them at all. Pirating still gives their games attention that will lead to extra sales when compared to a complete flop.

If the iPhone had been hyped like AI is today people would have claimed you could replace your hammer, saw, garden hose and cooking utensils with an iPhone.

Meanwhile current AI is pretty much useless for any purpose where you actually need to rely on a decent chance to get quality results without human review.

Is it really that hard to distinguish genuine revolutions (iPhone, Rust, AI, reusable rockets, etc.) from hyped nonsense (Blockchain/web3, Metaverse, etc.)?

It is funny that you list AI under genuine revolutions while I would list it (or at least 90% of it) under hyped nonsense.

From the perspective of a library author even evaluating if a given bug could be considered a vulnerability is extra effort that is not strictly useful to the project itself, just to those using it who want to not apply every single update.

I would say this very issue is at the core of the current CVE discussions that leads more and more projects to become their own CNAs.

Security people and corporate downstream consumers of security feeds want to invest the minimum of effort while pushing as much of the evaluation what is and isn’t a vulnerability on the authors of library authors as possible. However, this does not work. A vulnerability can only ever truly be evaluated by investing significant amounts of effort in the abstract way that is required to do it in an upstream project. On the other hand, at point of use it is often trivial to discard the possibility of an exploit because the potentially vulnerable code is not even used by the project using the library that contains the code.

Funnily enough the same is true for languages that have huge standard libraries. They put anything that is convenient to solve their immediate problem in there. That is how languages like Python end up with multiple of just about everything complicated in there.