Just a collection of helpful resources for Quake Champions, created by members of the community: The ↑Guide for Optimizing Fun in Quake Champions is a nicely done infographic pamphlet especially for those completely new to Quake games. Going more in-depth … Continue reading →
On collective participation in gaming culture, PCs and consoles, open and closed technological ecosystems, and all in all a bit of a rant … ;)
Continue reading →The copyright war was just the beginning The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war … Continue reading →
↑Steven ↑Levy, author of ‘↑Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution‘ (1984), among others, has written a comprehensive article, published at Wired, on the complex of problems comprising patents, the patent wars, and patent trolls. Along a suspenseful storyline, and by … Continue reading →
Two years ago I belatedly ↵reported on Shimon Schocken’s and Noam Nisan’s book ‘The elements of computing systems: Building a modern computer from first principles’ (2005). Since then quite some things have happened, and at the website ↑From NAND … Continue reading →
According to Kaspersky ↵Stuxnet has ↑an heir. Here are two snippets from Wired’s report on it—mind the rhetorics: “It’s pretty fantastic and incredible in complexity,” said Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab. […] “It took us … Continue reading →
When, ↵like recently, I am talking about the historical significance of cybernetics for contemporary culture and society I more often than not mention that in the process of marking itself off from mechanistic visions (Ashby 1957 [1956]: 1-6), cybernetics quite … Continue reading →
… get to the poetry faster This is way overdue. It must have been in the late 1980s or early ’90s that for the first time I saw ↑Marco Tempest perform live. It was at one of those bigger magicians’ … Continue reading →
Just a li’l rant in-between, because this is hilarious and I have to let off a bit of steam. I played through ‘↑Far Cry 2‘ (FC2) till 73% of the story mode, and now I am stuck. I … Continue reading →
Biohazard’s modding tool, the ↑Source Shader Editor, is a ↑WYSIWYG editor, which ‘allows the user to create, compile and implement new ↑shaders easily into a source ↑mod without any preliminary knowledge of HLSL. The shaders are based on nodes which … Continue reading →