u/DGolden

FWIW if you have a DNS domain name, and have a google account, turns out you can go to the https://gmail.com/postmaster/ gmail postmaster tool and use it see what gmail thinks of your DNS domain name - https://i.imgur.com/PRDzr4Z.png

It uses basically the same custom DNS TXT record check as the google search console does to establish it's your domain name, but that is something you have probably already configured given google's search engine dominance (sigh, but that's another rant), don't panic if you add your domain name to the postmaster tool and it initially shows up as unverified, configure the TXT record if you haven't already, give it a bit of time, then click verify on the domain name's dropdown menu in the postmaster tool.

They may have different tiers of trust in different IPs/providers or something, I dunno, probably some aggregate pass/fail score of a number of factors.

Recently without the full rigmarole the major corpie e-mail hosts are definitely weird about it in my experience Google started requiring sender to have configured rDNS, TLS, SPF and DKIM since Feb 2024 even below their 5000 e-mail/day bulk sender watermark.

I send nowhere near that of course, but still needed to avoid the new scary-warnings/spam flags on e-mails I send - many less technical people and businesses in my country are (most unfortunately) on either google or microsoft e-mail/webmail services, however dubious and evil-mega-corporate they are. I personally do continue to self-host or, well, pseudo-self-host on rented vps though, but anyway I definitely had to implement DKIM to avoid my e-mails having problems. Once you've done SPF+DKIM you might as well do basic DMARC too of course, but that's in itself fairly straightforward.

Yes, there's a number of versions/variants. I say variants as ISTR some variation in level sets, not just improved features i.e. it may not be the case you just play the latest.

https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/list.php?list_individual=ed-mackey

https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/megaball-v4-0 - seems to have been the last one, at least the last lemonamiga knows about.

once you've programmed the 68k in assembly

... That is a thing I personally did back in the day actually (I think PhxAss probably the last m68k asm I used on Amiga). I moved to Linux in the late 1990s via Linux/m68k dual-booting on a heavily expanded Amiga, after a period of using ixemul.library/geekgadgets (conceptually like cygwin) on top of AmigaOS.

m68k was/is certainly nice and clean compared to historical pre-x86-64 x86, and especially compared to ludicrous 16-bit real mode segmented x86. Though x86-64 has actually fixed a lot of old x86 issues long ago (e.g. adding relative addressing and a sane number of named registers)

I basically only play native linux builds from gog etc. I don't need my system cluttered with windowsy nonsense.

The Amiga community has been doing strange things e.g. there's a group that has produced unofficial "68080" ISA extension of m68k to 64-bit, x86-64 style, and including "ammx" SIMD, implemented as FPGA. Not open source unfortunately, but m68k corner of retro computing world still has a lot going on.

=> No reason someone couldn't do a 64-bit Linux port to 68080 now, apart from relatively high cost of obtaining one of the 68080 FPGA machines and questionable sanity of doing so.

http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=coding&tl=1

This link has the list of official Dublin city events for the season. Note they're on several days around Halloween, not all Halloween night itself.

https://bramstokerfestival.com/en/page/whats-on/

Do we need to book tickets

Yes, that is sometimes necessary, see link, though not for everything. It can be quite crowded and busy.

There's supposed to be one this year again actually. They're not huge but it's still cool I think.

https://bramstokerfestival.com/en/events/fiain/

I have/hoard a lot of old 32-bit game binaries, but in fact the way I run them tends to be with a set of 32-bit chroots with schroot as I've outlined previously elsewhere e.g. /r/linux_gaming/comments/1w8o2v1/its_funny_games_that_have_a_native_build_for/p85l4pz/

i386/amd64 multilib arrangements provides current versions of 32-bit libraries on a lot of distros, but you often want old versions of libs the game was linked against too. Simply chrooting back to old debian version for the game's era solves that too.

At some point it'll probably become necessary to run them in 32-bit vm / emulation, but good ol' schroot works nicely for such simple use cases on Linux as at 2026. Perhaps recent arrivals from windows may be unaware it's even a possibility while old linux folks like me don't mention chroot / schroot enough. Yes, there are more newfangled fancy ways of doing such things, like containers, but schroot is very low bureaucracy and maintenance overhead relatively. It does not constitute full isolation though.

1804246 but I just saw they've reached out by e-mail this morning, replying to them there -thanks!

triangles, squares, hexagons. Thems are the easys ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdoCR1jQp7I - Apple II, Battle for Normandy, 1982

(also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xMnQZ3rARc - C64 Battle for Normandy port, 1983 )

Just saying, hexes not some new thing for computer strategy games.

If I think of "strategy game" I kinda think hex grid by default actually, if probably partly because of Amiga Battle Isle and Historyline of my youth.

Your "Tax information" address field is not accepting my fairly normal Irish address in account settings. Tried a bunch of variations of it but no success. Obviously not putting my address in a public reddit comment but your system's validation seems to be against some partial database of addresses or something rather than free-text. Presumably no eu tax info -> no payout, which is fair enough, but awkward in this case...

Irish addresses admittedly used to be odd - but since the introduction of a sort of postcode system they're more systematic, can look them up fairly readily.

re issue number #1804246 / #1792883 / #1792758 - but chatbot assistant keeps directing me to the tax help docs and marking the issue solved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KJ__06kyxs

Also for future use, please drop support-related questions in the r/mindrift_help channel's weekly thread only :)

Just to note, commenting seems to be restricted there, you may be getting no issues there because no-one is allowed comment...

https://i.imgur.com/ICfgVkg.png

Security model is laughable at best, for example.

Sortof. Problem is the closed/classic Unix vendors perhaps treated the various higher (or at least different) security X11 features/extensions as a bit of a value-add back in the day. Their X servers had them. But the open XFree then Xorg X11 impl favored on open/free Linux/BSD never really implemented them (n.b. I don't mean the basic "security" (sic) X11 extension that we do mostly use but is pretty limited, I mean things like the much more advanced Trusted Solaris Xtsol X11 extension providing fine-grained security labelling back in the day).

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1483/windowapi-1.html#scrolltoc

This chapter describes the Trusted Extensions X Window System APIs. This chapter also includes a short Motif application that is used to describe the Trusted X Window System security policy and the Trusted Extensions interfaces.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54808/gmceg.html

The X server controls which clients can access the server. Clients with access to the server can display windows or images on your screen, receive keyboard input, monitor mouse movement, and interact with the other clients on the system. The Trusted Extensions feature of Oracle Solaris adds security features to prevent labeled clients from accessing the X11 display beyond their security range. For more information, see the Trusted Extensions Label Administration.

I'm not saying the likes of Xtsol is perfect by modern standards either, just aware it existed because I'm old, and perhaps Linux folks may sometimes mistake deficiencies of Xorg impl for deficiencies of what was possible - or well, once-possible, looks like solaris doesn't have labelled desktop support anymore - in the X11 world more generally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Solaris

The labeled desktop support was removed in Oracle Solaris 11.4

edit: Actually I think there was some work on the open X11 side looking into it - XACE / XSELinux. But not sure where it went with the hype around Wayland....

In Irish [Gaelic] it's actually typically just Racún (plural Racúin). While no doubt borrowed straight from English Raccoon originally, Irish is a different language and it's a full loanword, with grammatical masculine gender and a normalised plural/genitive form.

The closely related Scottish Gaelic, in contrast, apparently actually uses Mathan-nighe (~ "washer bear"). Seems less lazy than us, hah. While both Gaelic family languages descend straight from Early Modern Irish a.k.a. Classical Gaelic, currently they do have two separate official language standards bodies and have diverged a bit (in quite large part because of a sweeping mid-20th-century Irish spelling reform).

So as is often the way with Scottish Gaelic as an Irish speaker, I can basically understand Mathan-nighe - or, well, I'd work it out, in my case also being aware of the German Waschbär etc. and also aware that the less common word in Irish for English Bear is Mathúin ...though, uh, Béar more usual now. And of course Nigh is Wash in Irish too, though in Irish standard post-spelling-reform spelling of the specific grammatical form Nighe is actually Ní (a bit confusing as Ní also means a bunch of other things, sigh, and you'd still be understood if you used the clearer Nighe in Irish, but anyway). So anyway, one could just make a direct Irish equivalent of the Scottish Gaelic. However I think most Irish speakers would in fact just say Racún like the previously linked Irish dictionary entry suggests.

It's almost like a dream.

Odd Amiga game Weird Dreams is itself intended to be dream-like hah. Rather long shot, though it does have a funfair/carnival setting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVsU8Yyu4g

laser squad is another famous turn-based one. maybe not a close match, but if space crusade seemed similar, may be worth a look to eliminate.

https://www.lemon64.com/game/laser-squad

D'oh, though I guess the comparison page I linked was also taken in, as they described djev as "available as a free preview with announced pricing.". Bah.

Well, djev isn't local either afaik

https://api.djev.dev/docs#access

https://huggingface.co/blog/sora-2/jev-ai-vs-djev-vs-laya-vs-openjev-vs-semif-which-d

Well, this is /r/localllama, it makes sense for some posts to mention jev - in a context of the new crop of local alternatives to jev like kev (heh)

https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev