Cav's Place

Not being a social person, I’ve never been keen on social networks, the only one I was actually active on was Facebook, and I stopped any visible activity there as well close to six and a half years ago, when the network that I was in shut down. But I’ve seen some excitement about eYou […]

The recently revealed vulnerability of the Unity game engine, which had apparently existed since 2017 but doesn’t seem to have been exploited yet, just underlines another problem caused by so many games using these generic engines. Admittedly, I’m surprised by how rare security vulnerabilities seem to be, and I actually don’t recall seeing anything about […]

I’m going to “cheat” and say that, since this may show some things that may be of some use to others, I won’t consider it a personal post, even though it’s basically another statistics post, and I’ll also use it to mention that Matomo Analytics didn’t report any visits on June 29, though both versions […]

The announcement, which I wrote about at the time, stated that the Separation project of MilkyWay@home was going to shut down on June 20, probably around 4 PM UTC, and a later post clarified that the entire project will be turned off, not only work generation, so any work reported back after that moment will […]

Tuesday it was announced that MilkyWay@home is shutting down the Separation project. The N-Body project will continue, but that’s only available as a CPU application for 64-bit Windows and Linux, so those of us still on 32-bit will no longer be able to take part in MilkyWay@home at all, along with those on Mac and […]