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Die Zahlen gehen heute sehr weit auseinander. Die Polizei redet inzwischen von 80.000 Teilnehmern, während die Veranstalter von 250.000 sprechen. Die Wahrheit liegt meist irgendwo in der Mitte.

Edit: Inzwischen spricht auch die Polizei von immerhin 160.000 Teilnehmern.

Ich war da und kann sagen, dass es auf jeden Fall so voll war, dass man endlich mal wieder ein kleines bisschen Optimismus tanken konnte.

Ich hoffe, das Momentum bleibt bis zur Wahl erhalten und schlägt sich am Ende auch im Ergebnis nieder.

That really depends on the service you're looking at and what your needs are. Google probably offers the best all-round package, but depending on your needs, there are often times good or even better alternatives available.

As far as I know, address completion is supported by almost every alternative. At least I don't know of one which doesn't support that.

The quality of directions not only depends on the product, but also the method of transport you want directions for and the geographic region your targeting. For example, Google is, in my experience, very good for cars, but terrible for cycling. At least in Europe, OSM based maps generally include far more paths and details, which, combined with a good routing engine, results in better routes. I have made very good experiences with OpenRouteService.

For SteetView-like images you're unfortunately pretty much limited to Google or Apple. Mapillary exists, but, as it's crowdsourced, quality and coverage just aren't all that great.

I think that there's a good open alternative for most use cases of embedded maps available, as few of them really need StreetView or traffic-based routing. If that's the case, though, you're unfortunately stuck with Google or Apple.

While this is definitely a great read and an interesting attack vector, I think the term „deanonymization“ is stretching it here.

As far as I can see, this attack would only let you determine which Cloudflare datacenter the target has been accessing. This would, in most cases, be one near the target, but it wouldn‘t get you a precise position or any personal information about the target. You‘d just get a pretty unreliable and very large radius of where your target might be.

It‘s also worth mentioning that Monitor anonymizes your data before checking it for breaches.

So there shouldn‘t be any serious privacy issues.

Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm getting your point. I don't think anyone's asking anyone to leave their favorite genre for innovation's sake. I just think these games show, that customers are totally ready to spend money on innovative games, even if they're certainly rarer than less innovative titles. So I find it hard calling consumers risk adverse, in general.

I think they're just adverse to games which aren't fun, which could arguably be more common with more innovative titles, but, seeing Ubisoft's downfall over the past few years, I'd argue that samey, "safe" games seem to be very low the average consumer's fun scale as well.

I think that isn‘t really the case though, is it?

Sure, there are those, who just play the latest Call Of Duty each year. But the success of very innovative games like Balatro, Papers Please, Vampire Survivors or even Breath of the Wild shows, that many consumers crave innovation, if it turns out to be fun innovation.

This also shows that these games can be found and appreciated, even if they‘re made by totally unknown people or studios.

Yup. It‘s from the Cave Johnson Announcer Pack reveal video. Which is definitely worth a watch, even if you‘re not into Dota 2.

That's not really the case, though. Blocking that pipe off doesn't fix any bug, it's just a design choice to tell inventive players that they must solve the puzzle before continuing. Removing that and allowing players to progress without having solved the puzzle in its intended way is just a different design choice. Both are equally valid, in my opinion.

There actually have been quite a lot of bugfixes in the 20th anniversary update, which have an impact on current speedrunning tactics, as can be seen here within the section 20th Anniversary update of Half-Life 2. In the end, it's pretty meaningless anyway, as most speedrunning of Half-Life 2 is done with a pretty ancient version of the game.

I think I‘ve stumbled across this at some point, but I think it has been updated since.

Thanks for finding it, I‘ll keep it in mind when I get around to trying VR on Linux again in the future.

I’m doing all of my PC gaming on Linux for years now. Except for VR. It’s unfortunately not running well at all for me. I’m running an Nvidia GPU with a Valve Index and whenever I was able to even get a picture on the HMD in the first place, the latency from movement to screen was about a second or so. Which is an incredibly efficient way to feel incredibly sick.

I’m not sure about your setup, maybe it’s better supported in some way, but, from my experience, I’d unfortunately recommend keeping a Windows partition for VR and saving yourself the (quite literal) headache.

I‘m personally very happy with kagi when it comes to features and, most importantly, the quality of search results. But, as they don‘t have ads, it’s pretty expensive to use.

I agree that both the map and the statistic I've posted don't take those country-specific characteristics into account.

I'm not sure how important that difference really is, though, as both the US and Germany seem to have pretty similar degrees of urbanization (US: 83.3%; Germany: 77.8%; source). So the rural population isn't really that big in either country, relatively speaking.

I'm not trying to say that the rural population isn't a factor, I'm just not sure how big that factor really is.