Linked List: January 2021
Saturday, 30 January 2021
- Weekly Highlights 18 ✶
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A few highlights from the past week of streaming:
- A tough start with friendly fire fail resulting in having to call in some amateur mercenaries that are still alive and causing trouble for the local dictator despite my incompetence in Jagged Alliance 2.
- Riding the fenders and talking about architecture in Arma 3.
- Emergency medic field landing in a Neofly career in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- Feeding reptilian bambis in No Man’s Sky.
- in Grand Theft Auto 5.
- Surprise smile for office visitors in Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
- Escape under heavy fire in Watch Dogs: Legion.
- The guy that just fell from the sky, police chaser enthusiasticos, staying frosty, and trying out the BF Weevil in GTA Online.
- Starting a list of every video game I have ever played, made from memory.
- New laugh out loud emote!
Wishing you a lovely February.
—Simon
Monday, 25 January 2021
- Weekly Highlights 17 ✶
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A few highlights from the past week of streaming:
- APC goes boom in Arma 3.
- An SRV dance by Schippah during a stream with Kirer and a follow by CMDRGURU951 in Elite.
- Landing in Washington, D.C. in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- Flying from high orbit to space station to meet ItsDommit and Tyrvingyr in No Man’s Sky.
- Helping Mr. V with motorcycle jumps in Grand Theft Auto 5.
- Enemy commander interview in Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
- Fixing Big Ben plus jump-on-back-and-slap and Jedi trick takedowns in Watch Dogs: Legion.
- Mid-air collision between my Hurricane and a Bf 109 in IL-2 Sturmovik.
It is good to have adults in charge and slow news days, again.
Have a good week.
—Simon
Sunday, 17 January 2021
- Weekly Highlights 16 ✶
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A few highlights from the past week of streaming:
- First death in Project Zomboid.
- Psychiatrist roundhouse ninjitsu, falling file clerk takedown, and an Aubion-activated motorino accident in Watchdogs Legion.
- Space hoverbike boom, landing clannnnng, a special audio test, an inter-ship space walk mishap, and a rendezvous on a planet in Star Citizen.
- Sidearm gunnery, and downing an A.I. Bf 109 in a a quick mission and a human-controlled Bf 110 during Friday Night Flights IL-2 Sturmovik.
- Becoming the 1600th follower of 8BitofFun’s channel.
Wishing you a happy last few hours of the past four difficult years.
—Simon
Thursday, 14 January 2021
- Decentralised Content Moderation ✶
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Martin Kleppmann:
I fear that many decentralised web projects are designed for censorship resistance not so much because they deliberately want to become hubs for neo-nazis, but rather out of a kind of naive utopian belief that more speech is always better. But I think we have learnt in the last decade that this is not the case. If we want technologies to help build the type of society that we want to live in, then certain abusive types of behaviour must be restricted. Thus, content moderation is needed.
Friday, 8 January 2021
- Weekly Highlights 13, 14, 15 ✶
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A few highlights from the past three weeks of streaming:
- Solstice rescue ship, SRV orbit attempt, and consequences of typing and flying in Elite: Dangerous.
- Burning carvalanche, plane to car direct, laugh attack, reporter chasing runaway vehicle, talk of a werewolf, witnessing a failed attack, coming to the end of the line, 1st person mode achievement, in hot pursuit, hunting down fugitives in helos and trucks, and celebrating a new year with friends in Grand Theft Auto.
- Rammed by a ram in Red Dead Redemption 2.
- Van-Claude Gendarme and a the first play of a new follow animated GIF in Arma Antistasi Virolahti.
- Landing on Mount Kenya in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- Getting into a situation with a septuagenarian, answering a call from mom, and performing some ninjitsu with special operative Claire in Watchdogs Legion.
Been a busy few weeks here which is why I have been falling behind on the updates, but should get back to weekly ones the end of next week.
Happy 2021!
—Simon