It would function simply: If a player puts their king into check on their own move, if the opponent sees it, they can capture the king on their turn either by physically taking out the king or announcing checkmate on their turn. If the opponent doesn’t see it, the game continues as normal. Likewise, if the opponent puts the king into check, both players can respond on their turn if they notice it, or it's simply a blundered opportunity.

The classical checkmate ending can be seen as an honorable ending, wherein the player effectively resigns/surrenders, or the player can be dishonorable by drawing out the game by making one more move. I understand the redundancy of this type of ending, but it would add more personable nuance to the game.

This idea can also be extended to stalemates: The only true stalemate would be one where a capturing of the king will not occur in a finite number of moves, e.g. move repetitions, or two sole kings on the board. A stalemate by trapping the king, ie the king has no alternative moves that wouldn’t put it into checkmate, should be a victory rather than a draw — the king would be forced to make a move into check, then the opponent would capture the king on their move if they notice the possibility.

By "push server" I mean something like Ntfy.sh.

By "push server" I mean something like Ntfy.sh.

I would like to know what your routine is in general, but I'm also specifically curious about what products you use, if you use them, and what the rationale is behind each product.

My routine:

Morning

1. Rinse face with warm water.
2. Scrub face and neck with warm, wet washcloth.
3. Apply facial moisturizer with SPF (I use CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30) to face, neck, and hands.

Evening

1. Shower.
   • While in shower, scrub entire body with an exfoliating mitt (ie this one).
2. Apply a retinol (I use Retin-A (tretinoin 0.05%)) to face, neck, and hands.
3. Apply facial moisturizer (I use CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion) to face, neck, and hands
4. Apply body lotion (I use CeraVe Moisturizing Cream) to whole body, excluding hands, and face.

I have used, and considered continuing using a BHA (also AHA?) liquid exfoliant (I have read that it shouldn't be used at the same time as retinol due to PH requirements, ie use it in the morning and retinol in the evening) (I previously used Paula's Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant, but I no longer because I have lost trust in Paula's Choice overall due to their borderline false advertising regarding their retinol product [1]), but I am unsure of what a good product would be, and the rationale behind it. I have also heard about Vitamin E, though I've never used it.

there is no worry about keeping to our release date of October 21st [for Factorio: Space Age and Factorio 2.0] [1].

I have a bunch of old VHS tapes that I want to digitize. I have never digitized VHS tapes before. I picked up a generic HDMI capture card, and a generic composite to HDMI converter. Using both of those, I was planning on hooking a VCR up to a computer running OBS. Overall, I'm rather ignorant of the process. The main questions that I currently have are as follows:

• What are the best practices for reducing the risk of damaging the tapes?
• Are there any good steps to take to maximize video quality?
• Is a TBC required (can it be done in software after digitization)?
• Should I clean the VCR after every tape?
• Should I clean every tape before digitization?
• Should I have a separate VCR for the specific purpose of cleaning tapes?

Please let me know if you have any extra advice or recommendations at all beyond what I have mentioned. Any information at all is a big help.

Solution

This is a bug in KDE Plasma [1.1][2]. It appears that it might be fixed in KDE Plasma v6.2 [1.2][3].

Original Post

I have noticed this behavior with Element and Signal while playing Deadlock. The game will have a pretty severe stutter, ie the frame-rate will substantially dip, for half a second or so at the exact moment that a message is received. It seems to happen with every message. Do note that these are only messages that would result in a system notification. All other messages that are silent, ie they have no pop-up notification, do not result in any stutter.

• OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: v6.6.49-1-lts
• DE: KDE Plasma v6.1.4
• WM: Wayland
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600

Updates

• I have tried disabling this setting in Deadlock:
• I have tried windowed-borderless
• I have noticed that the moment that the stutter occurs, my CPU spikes maybe 20% and my GPU drops to 0%.

There's currently 2 follow up videos:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t63zjRnJ9iI
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbGFnIhf-6Y

Git records the local timezone when a commit is made [1]. Knowledge of the timezone in which a commit was made could be used as a bit of identifying information to de-anonymize the committer.

Setting one's timezone to UTC can help mitigate this issue [2][3] (though, ofc, one must still be wary of time-of-day commit patterns being used to deduce a timezone).

Cross-posts:

• https://sh.itjust.works/post/24495692
• https://sh.itjust.works/post/24495744