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Steps we're taking as a site for GDPR compliance
20 Apr 2018 at 4:33 pm UTC

Sorry! I confused uBlock Origin and uMatrix [External Link] (made by the same developer). The site shows up clean in uBlock Origin, but there are some google cookies blocked by uMatrix. It shows on any page, but the results are not consistent as it sometimes shows as 0 Google cookies blocked.

Steps we're taking as a site for GDPR compliance
20 Apr 2018 at 3:58 pm UTC

Strange, it's not consistent. It said 6 when I checked, then 8 when I rechecked, and now it says 0. It was on any page.

Steps we're taking as a site for GDPR compliance
20 Apr 2018 at 3:36 pm UTC

Thank you Liam! These updates certainly strengthen the trust in you and your website.
Spoiler, click me
Psst! If you don't support GOL on Liberapay/Patreon/Paypal yet and do have the opportunity, you now have a additional reason to start today.

Personally, while testing our site using uBlock Origin in Chrome, I don't see a single notification about anything blocked, so that's good.
Testing this page with uMatrix in Firefox there are 6 Google cookies blocked. I assume that it could be linked to the use of Google reCAPTCHA.

<script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js'></script>

Edit: uMatrix, not uBlock Origin

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
10 Feb 2018 at 2:35 pm UTC

Pierre-Loup Griffais back in march 2017 [External Link]:
Welcome keithp to the team! Our open graphics group is now 5 strong, but still hiring. Shader compiler performance people especially wanted.
Pierre-Loup Griffais this month [External Link]:
Welcome Daniel Schürmann to the Valve open-source graphics group! https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-February/184685.html [External Link]
If my math is correct we now got 6 dedicated people at Valve. :)

Single-player FPS 'Ravenfield' updated with custom vehicle modding support, it's hilarious
9 Feb 2018 at 12:05 pm UTC

Quoting: ElectricPrismSo what is this -- Gary's Mod meets Call of Duty?
Or maybe Minecraft meets Arma 3. In public Arma 3 servers there was a often repeated joke that people should be playing Minecraft, it seems someone took the joke a step further.

According to netmarketshare Linux hit 6.91% market share last month, higher than Mac
1 Oct 2017 at 10:34 pm UTC

I do not think that what we see is due to an increased proportion of Chrome OS users. The Chrome OS user agent string will be "CrOS". Therefore, Chrome OS is more likely to be found in the "other" category than being grouped as Linux.

GPUVis, an open source Linux GPU profiler similar to GPUView
26 Sep 2017 at 12:00 pm UTC

Something to take notice of:
- GPUVis has a LOT more pleasing visual design than the Windows equivalent GPUView
- The presenter from Valve comes prepared, he use Linux and you can see that he use KDE

Arma 3 for Linux updated to 1.70, it’s now 64bit and solves the texture issue I had
15 Sep 2017 at 9:04 pm UTC

Quoting: BrisseApex downloaded this morning for me, and I'm happy to report that it plays very well now :)
I fired up Steam immediately after reading this comment, and yes the issue is definitely now solved. Even legacy ain't no more needed for Apex. Hooray! Thank you!

Arma 3 for Linux updated to 1.70, it’s now 64bit and solves the texture issue I had
14 Sep 2017 at 10:06 pm UTC

The jet DLC works fine, but Tanoa (APEX) no longer works with the 1.70 update.

Everything else seems to work, but when you try to run APEX it throws you the message "Please switch off the game, wait until steam downloads the DLC and start the game again". Steam never do. Switching to the legacy branch or reinstalling does not solve it.

There's a thread about the issue here if anyone have something to add to it:
https://forums.bistudio.com/forums/topic/210513-17-released-but-no-access-to-apextanoa/ [External Link]

NVIDIA 384.47 beta driver released, includes a fix for newer Feral titles
11 Jul 2017 at 8:51 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: BeamboomWhat PPA source do you guys use to get this fresh drivers? I use the ubuntu graphics ppa, that's at v381 now...?
As of today 384.47 is now available in ppa:graphics-drivers.