Cav's Place

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 […]

I guess I won’t remove the links from my previous post, but it should be easy to understand why I won’t include any in this one, since the point is that it seems to be shockingly easy to inject code on HonestGamers and harvest passwords from anyone who views it while logged on. It’s sad […]

Oh, how “lovely”, the “new” MobyGames just hit, and took away what was literally the only site out of those that I frequently use, or used, that I still felt comfortable using, still being sufficiently “old school”, not plagued by “modern” design, crap meant for mobiles or touch on the desktop site, “streamlining”, feature removals… […]

There seemed to be a fair amount of pushback lately against such privacy violations and treating everyone as criminals in general, including by powerful enough forces to make authorities think twice about pushing forward, but it seems that method two still works, since the European Parliament approved by a large majority the proposal to allow […]

Now that the event supposedly announcing what’s next for Windows is approaching, I decided to check AskWoody again and saw a post asking for feedback for Windows 11… Which feedback is pointless to offer, of course, being pretty much the usual list of requests that Microsoft doesn’t care about, but on that site there may […]