Lisias

Unfortunately, things are still rolling on the rest of the industry too. Banner Saga Publisher Has Shut Down and Laid Off . On Xmas Eve… https://gamerant.com/versus-evil-banner-saga-publisher-shut-down-lay-offs/ Stray Souls developer Jukai Studio announces closure https://www.gamesindustry.biz/stray-souls-developer-jukai-studio-announces-closure Archiact, the veteran studio known for a host of VR titles, announced it’s laying off a portion of its staff. https://www.roadtovr.com/doom-3-vr-studio-layoffs/ And not only on gaming. Things are escalating pretty badly also on the Big Techs… https://www.axios.com/2024/01/03/tech-layoffs-google-microsoft-employees-impact-anxiety There's a light in the end of the tunnels, however (let's hope it doesn't "peeweee" on us): https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/it-hiring-starts-to-pick-up-after-a-lull-for-two-quarters/articleshow/105999713.cms Traditional, "boring" and less glamorous jobs appears to be the future biggest employers in the industry. I think there're some lessons to be learnt on this whole ordeal - and this includes, indirectly, who KSP¹ and KSP2 will gather traction on the modding scene in the next months (or years?). But I think is still a bit soon to talk about, I want to observe the new Zeitgeist before risking opening my big mouth.

Yeah, DOE is trusting the Current Working Directory in order to find its way in the file system. When that sad excuse of Software they call PD Launcher was released, it changed the CWD of the game to its own subdirectory, fixing it itself on second stage of the launching. To get rid of that crap, some less than skilled people decided to brute force their way on Steam Launcher, ignoring that Steam Launcher was hard configured (as I didn't managed to find a way to work around it on the Steam itself) had the CDW set to PD Launcher. This broke a lot of things, including KSP itself. If you care to check carefully, you will find some of KSP files (including the screenshots) inside the PD-Launcher's directory (unless you had installed something that patched KSP at runtime). So, nope, this is not something affecting only DOE, it's affecting KSP even until this date. Your REALLY safe option is to install KSSL or equivalent, what will preserve the new crappy status quo for Steam Users. But since people around here settled to cope with the mess instead of fix it properly, my add'ons will try to work around the problem. Apparently, I forgot to update DOE with the most recent version of my component that handle messes like that. I will check this right now. — — POST EDIT — — Well, I found a revision on the code that recalculates the ApplicationRootPath that was not published on DOE. I'm unsure if this is really the cause but we will discover it soon. Stay tunned. — — POST POST EDIT — — @Grem, I published a HotFix what I hope will fix your issue here: https://github.com/net-lisias-ksp/DistantObject/releases/edit/PRERELEASE%2F2.1.1.5 Please follow the instructions on that page.

On a second thought, I realised that simple text formatting appears to be allowed, but changing fonts doesn't. So it's not exactly a HTML sanitising component as I was thinking. check check 2 By inspecting the page's html using the browser's console I didn't noticed any URL being injected into the text when applying a font - and the tests above suggest some editing features are allowed while others aren't. Looks like a component denying access selectively to some features on the editor. This http 403 thingy can be related to some bill that was forgotten to be paid, leading to the component refusing to work.

> Nuke said: > on the running out of teeth front, i just had my very first root canal. just barely dodged another extraction. that's probibly a good thing and doesn't belong in the negative things thread, but il get back to you after the novocain wears off. I had a bunch of these, and later extractions. I feel you bro, getting old is a pain in the SAS... Take the meds religiously - one of my root got infected, I spent the month trying to salvage the tooth. And it hurt as hell. > StrandedonEarth said: > Forum acting up on me or maintenance? testing.... Nah, I think some ACL got screwed on the last update. I can POST pure text, but no links or fancy text formatting - my guess is the thingy they use to filter unsafe HTML got its permissions screwed.

P.S.2: By removing all text formatting, I managed to post on DOE's thread! https :// forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/205063-ksp-131-distant-object-enhancement-doe-l-under-new-management-21114-2023-0818/page/10/#comment-4355505 — — — Yep, at least one misbehaviour is confirmed: any non obfuscated URLs will trigger the http 403 . Everything appears to pinpoint to that security subsystem. Since pure text doesn't trigger the problem, appears to be something that tries to prevent unsecure HTML tags (as HTML formatted text also triggers the problem).

ANNOUNCE Release 2.1.1.15 is available for downloading, with the following changes: Closes issues: #37 Parallax may be inducing DOE to bork the Flares (invalid) #32 Body Flares are being deactivated when Dynamic Dimming Skies are See OP for the links. — — — — — This Release will be published using the following Schedule: GitHub. Right Now. CurseForge. Right Now. SpaceDock. Right Now. Being a simple fix release, I published it on everything and the kitchen's sink at the same time. Note: something on Forum is misbehaving, but I found that pure text posts appears to work!

Com check. COM check 2. Hi! I'm having some problems while trying to update DOE's thread. Something about "[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 () (10, line 0)". Perhaps this information can be of use. P.S.: I can't paste images neither URLs here, but I can post text. Interesting. In a wild guess, some security subsystem may have the ACL screwed!

So what in hell happened last year when I tried to reproduce the problem and failed??? Oh well… I probably borked the test session. I will redo it tonight. Yes, it will! Thanks! — — POST EDIT — — Embarrassing enough, I not only easily detected the problem as I already fixed it. Also understood how in hell I had borked so beautifully on the initial diagnosis (damn!). In the hopes to avoid screwing things again, I will delay the release for a few hours, as I want to do a full test cycle this time - had I done it last time I visited this issue, we would have it fixed already! Thanks for the heads up!

Sometimes, Paranoid is the right word!! Hey, this is a known issue that I can't reproduce on my rig!! Thanks for your log, you don't have that much add'ons installed - so it reduced a lot the number of variables!! https://github.com/net-lisias-ksp/DistantObject/issues/32 Alt + Right Mouse Button - you must activate the option on DOE's control panel, "Show names on mouseover". Welcome and cheers! (I will check that bug again, now that I have a smaller footprint to work with!)

Well, first a pretty stupid answer: did you clicked on the Apply? The settings are persisted between scene changes? Now, a wild guess. I found two instances of this Exception on your KSP.log: [EXC 17:57:59.436] Exception: [VesselSpawner Error]: No part in loader found with name: PotatoRoid. ProtoVessel.CreatePartNode (Part part, System.String partName, System.UInt32 id, ProtoCrewMember[] crew) (at ProtoVessel.CreatePartNode (System.String partName, System.UInt32 id, ProtoCrewMember[] crew) (at <39c0323fb DiscoverableObjectsUtil.SpawnAsteroid (System.String asteroidName, Orbit o, System.UInt32 seed, UntrackedObj ScenarioDiscoverableObjects.SpawnHomeAsteroid (System.Int32 asteroidSeed) (at <39c0323fb6b449a4aaf3465c00ed3 KSPCommunityFixes.BugFixes.AsteroidSpawnerUniqueFlightId.ScenarioDiscoverableObjects_SpawnAsteroid_Prefix (S (wrapper dynamic-method) ScenarioDiscoverableObjects.ScenarioDiscoverableObjects.SpawnAsteroid_Patch1(Scenar ScenarioDiscoverableObjects.UpdateSpaceObjects () (at <39c0323fb6b449a4aaf3465c00ed3c8d>:0) ScenarioDiscoverableObjects+<SpawnDaemon>d__33.MoveNext () (at <39c0323fb6b449a4aaf3465c00ed3c8d>:0) UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator enumerator, System.IntPtr returnVa UnityEngine.DebugLogHandler:LogException(Exception, Object) ModuleManager.UnityLogHandle.InterceptLogHandler:LogException(Exception, Object) UnityEngine.Debug:CallOverridenDebugHandler(Exception, Object) Well, this is pretty suspicious as the PotatoRoid is the part used to… well… Asteroids. And since DOE enlists too the Asteroids, perhaps there's something mangling with the list of celestial bodies DOE uses to track… Celestial Bodies. You are not using Kopernicus neither anything I know that could mangle the that list. So unless you forgot some silly detail (as clicking "Apply"), we have something in need to be dug here in order to be diagnosed… I will see what I can do between working hours.

Jean Michel Jarre is back to the action! Mixed Reality Concert at Versailles 400 (Click on the link, this video can't be embedded as it appears!)

For you too! This is a question to be make on the DMP Forum, because I don't have the slightest idea how it works. As is, I only support Stock (even other mods were delegated to a TweakScale Companion). What I can do for you is: ask DMP's guys about. If they say "nope", ask if they are willing to teach me how to cope with DMP and I will code a TweakScale Companion for DMP. Cheers! — PS — What I think I remember (I may be misunderstanding it with Luna, it's some years since the last time I checked about), is that the server must have all the add'ons installed too, installing add'ons only on the clients is not enough. So, perhaps, this is a question to be made to the server's maintainer, not even the DMP's.

One of the best of the Year! (hey, everybody walked from the stunt, and the aircraft could take off again with little to no maintenance - other than some totalled underwear, I call this a huge win!)

Additionally, check the PSU. It may be misbehaving when overheated. I had word of cheap PSUs without a lot of protections being sold as premium by shoving pieces of metal glued inside to fake the weight of the components they removed.

I think the Game Industry would be in a sensibly less worst position nowadays if the money spent on useless (at best) or counterproductive (more likely), terribly executed guerrilla marketing would had be spent on hiring better managers and team leaders. Dude, not every gamer is a 7 years old kid looking for a daddy/mommy replacement or a 15 years old teenagers in need to be told what to believe in. #prontoFalei

Today is this glockenspiel tune from this marvelous video, based on a Neil Gaiman's short history! Merry Christmas!!

1923 English Electric Wren. The stupid brave pilot had to live with a 3 HP engine to fly that death trap marvellous craft!!

And this is yet another one that you can try to build with KAX (and the wings of Open Cockpit as well some colouring add'on): And for the dues that really enjoy understanding these marvellous machines, a relatively comprehensive walkthrough : (The craft on this last video is a D17 - you can tell it as the flaps are on the upper wings, while the ailerons are still on the lower ones - older ones have both on the bottom wing) Excellent hint! And I found it on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5rvz4PJxbc&list=PLTVjl-yczKuo7Puo0O6qNpVSZUjQmKIX5

NOTAM Some weeks ago, it came to my attention that some users would be running KSP on a super user account (root on UNIX, Administrator on Windows) to workaround some mishaps (I'm afraid I was the cause of one of them, it is fixed right now. My apologies). I can't stress too much how this is terrible. Please, please, please, don't do that. If you think it's related to TweakScale (it was once), or even if by any other cause (this is too much important to deny help no matter the cause), please pesky me here for help and I will do my best to work on a solution. Because: I have evidences (but no hard proof at this moment, I'm being obliged to say) that KSP may be being silently monkey patched by the publisher or any other interested party. Every time you open KSP, it connects to a server. Without authorisation, without a (known) way to deactivate, other that completely firewall the program from the Internet - but then you may lose some features, as Kerbal-X. If this is used to inject code on the game (and it's a bug IF at this moment, I need to say), then running KSP as Super User will allow such third party to remotely install anything on your rig, from malware and botnets to criptominers). There's a new trend on closed source add'ons being used by the eco system, so there's no (straightforward and 100% legal) way to verify the code's integrity and good behaviour. We don't know even the real name of most of the add'on authors, there's little to no chain of trust on the whole eco system. There's a growing trend of add'ons to monkey patch themselves the game (using Harmony), adding yet another layer of insecurity on the runtime. There's a terrible trend on the communities to do anything to workaround any inconvenience, instead of doing things right. as running KSP as Administrator to workaround safeties coded to prevent mishaps (instead of fixing the mishaps!!!). Now add all of that and imagine how much time until an adversarial decide to use KSP to spread malware - it's hypothetical at this time, but heck - every single malware campaign in the past was hypothetical until detected in the wild. So, and again, if you see yourself in the need of running KSP as a Super User, whatever you are doing, don't. If it's a mod, downgrade it or just remove - even if it's TweakScale. Absolutely no game or mod worths the risk you would be taking by doing this. Scale safe!!!

Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead. A commentary on reddit made me remember this one.

Since I do not really know about you, there's a risk I'm going to talk some nonsense, but on the other hand, there's also a chance of telling something useful. So I a flipped a coin and… Let's go: Chances are that you will miss it in the future. Try to focus on the good things, and try to accept the difficulties as the price you need to pay to getting such memories. This will not make things easier, but it will allow you to build memories that will be precious later in your life. Christmas is a bittersweet time of the year to me - to the point that 4 years ago I didn't mind having to work December 24 and 25 (my son was visiting his mom, so no parental negligence here ). But yet, I have one big regret about this event: I had a friend, one of that friends that you make when you are a teen and carry on for the rest of your life. And by some reason, we ended up getting into the same troubles in life [EDIT: and doing the same things to fix them]. When I fired my family and moved away from them, I took some really harsh years - I made a bold move, I liquidate all my economies buying a home on the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (that also affected Brazil, only a bit later) and I took me almost 10 years to rebuild my finances - the sad fact of life is that somehow my poor economic state leaked out my network and by then all the job offers I got were paying less (because the <piiii> knew I had little to no choice due pressure on paying the mortgage). EDIT: This friend of mine did more or less the same, except by the jobs offer - he did way better than me on this one. No regrets here, I would not had afforded this home otherwise. But it took a toll on my friendship, because I was working all the time, including holidays, for some years to pay all the bills and rebuild my savings (not to mention trying to keep contact with my son, still a kid and living very away from me at that time) - what it means I neglected that friendship, because he was living a bunch of hours away from were I live and I rarely could spare that time at the same days he could and vice versa. What I didn't knew is that he had a serious health condition, and he were risking dying suddenly sooner or later - and, so, every year I failed to spend some days with him on the holidays meant smaller chances on managing to do it next year. And, then, he died. About a week before Christmas. On the very year I was finally sabbatical and could attend something with him. I can't say I regret all that years I spent the holidays working my cheeks out to pay the bills - my son and I have a comfortable life nowadays exactly because I did all that sacrifices. But, yet, I still regret not spending more time with this friend of mine even at the cost of some economical security on the short run. That friend of mine would die nevertheless - but I would have more memories of such friendship, and he surely deserved such. Buy a cargo cart. Second hand, third hand, build one yourself - but get yourself a cargo cart. One that you could use on the streets. I can't emphasise enough how my life got way less hurtful once I started to get old on the very day I bought one for myself. I bought it in 12 instalments to avoid financial risks on the short run, and so I ended up paying almost 25% more than if I had bought it upfront - but even this way, it worth it because I didn't hurt my back anymore since then and, so, didn't had my DayJob© jeopardised by pain in the back (the upper one! ). Check your home's power, you may have fluctuations sporadically on your electrical system. Additionally, do you have a neighbour engaging on ham radio? In a way or another, a HAM radio emitting near you would saturate your WiFi antennas to the point the MCU could not handle the noise and just crash.

"Those who would give up essential Fun, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Fun nor Safety." — Benjamin Kerman.

This beauty is too good to let it go unchecked, and I didn't found a better place for it as KAX has the engine used! 1909 French Blériot XI - allegedly the oldest airworth airplane in the World.

2023 is going to bite us until the bitter end! Jumplight Odissey was one of the games I was watching. Damn.

A new Success Case about Open Source came to my attention. In 2002, Palm migrated their hugely successful (and bitterly missed) Palm OS from Dragonball (mobile 68k) to ARM, and released PalmOS 5 - by far, the version most used. Unfortunately, due a lot of bad bets, PalmSource (the Palm subsidiary responsible for developing and licensing PalmOS) ended up being acquired by a company called ACCESS - but since it didn't acquired the rights for the Palm brand, they renamed the thing to Garnet OS. And the Source Code was never released, and so the eco system was locked down on emulations. Until someone decided it was enough, and not only reversed engineered parts of the hardware support for the OS, but also reimplemented it to modern devices and made it Open Source! And now we have a proof of concept running on a Raspberry Pico. Right now, it's possible to post PalmOS 5 (unofficially, as only the reverse engineered hardware support is now open source) to anything that supports ARMv4T or ARMv5T. https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/repalm https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27. rePalm For the sake of completude, the sad history of how Palm ceased to be can be found here: https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-inside-story-pre-postmortem Open Source will find a way.