Are you a bot?

No, of course not. I am totally not a bot. I just like to connect together unrelated events to see trends at scale.

Mark (=the person you replied to) has appeared in conferences.

Turtle WoW also attempted to rebuild the entire game client from scratch in Unreal Engine, using Blizzard's art, textures and maps.

Cool and Good.

I mean, thats basically what OpenRA is. Or OpenMW. Or many other indie games where they build a modern engine for old assets.

Except OpenMW and OpenRA don't charge players for access/extra content, they only accept donations and give everything away for free otherwise.

I wish for multiple-decades old content the laws did allow for charging, that way more projects like this could be funded to keep alive old content.

Good point, they absolutely should

Some more context here too:

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933

From what I've seen, there's actually two different levels of free tier. There's the one where you make an account and don't give them your payment info, and are on a free trial (availability of Ampere servers is severely limited in this, and they deactivate your account if you don't sign in often enough or use the servers you create), and the other where you give them payment information and set up a real account and get credits towards 200GB storage and the free tier compute.

My guess is that people who complain about their stuff being deleted are on the former.

When signing up for free tier the first month is actually a trial. After 30 days trial ends and you are downgraded to free tier. That causes the VMs to be destroyed. BUT! The storage with data stays and you simply recreate the VMs attach the disks and and everything continues to work.

Another possibility is that Oracle wants the machines to be used. So a simple `stress -c 1` in a screen is enough.

Actual title: "Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived"

This post's title leaves the word "huge" out, which breaks the readability.

+1. I've read in various forums they will only install it if the construction cost is less than a few thousand dollars. This means they will say it's "available" on the order page, but then decline to install it.

That's Spotlight, not Finder.

It’s not Apple Silicon specific either. I don’t understand the title. Maybe it should have been “Apple’s virtualization API and VirtIO driver support on Apple Silucon”

Technically, no. Effectively, sort of. When they transitioned to Apple Silicon they simultaneously transitioned to Virtio.

Indeed, Virtualization.framework already supported virtio in guests before, but that's when they added host drivers. By the way this:

> In the Virtio model, providing such support is the task of the operating system, not the virtualiser.

is wrong. Virtualization.framework is a standard implementation of a virtualiser that is shipped with macOS, and while it includes virtio, it does not have to be part of the OS; the same task can be done by anyone (for example QEMU).

The low-level, OS-dependent part of virtualization support is called Hypervisor.framework and it does not have any knowledge of virtio.

My years of watching TV shows has taught me that this guy is definitely a secret agent.

My years of reading "newspapers" and traveling with planes has taught me that this story is too good to be true. Taking a flight to US without a passport, from anywhere in Europe, is impossible. There are multiple passport controls and, unless you can fly to the plane, you can't make it.

1 in a 100 million chance of the right circumstances and holes existing? Sure.

Impossible? That’s different.

My years of reading "newspapers" and traveling with planes has taught me that this story is too good to be true. Taking a flight to US without a passport, from anywhere in Europe, is impossible.

or a time traveler

Sounds like an X-Files episode.

They are removing the Xorg server, but not X entirely. They will continue to support X through Xwayland.