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Well, it'd only be a deal, if it was very advantageous and good for us, but bad for the US - if they're really trying to speak his language ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, see also this diagram: https://www.digitalberry.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DNS-challenge-process.png

You use an ACME client (either explicitly with e.g. certbot or a webserver that has a client Iintegrated like Traefik, Caddy,...) to communicate with an ACME server (the CA, e.g. Let's encrypt). Your ACME client asks for a certificate with a DNS challenge. It gets a code that you/the client needs to publish as a DNS record. Only then the client talks to your DNS provider and tells them to put a specific TXT record on your domain (or onanual mode: the client prints out the value and you need to put it there manually). After your DNS provider published it, your client tells the server to check the challenge and hand you your certificate.

Your DNS provider in this diagram is just that one small rectangle in the lower left.

Note: There's nothing stopping your DNS provider to just do all of this, generate a certificate for you and providing you with a button in your account where you can download a certificate with a single click. Also if you are at a webhoster and only host a simple page there, they will probably also provide your with a TLS cert with the click of a single button.

In general yes, but… that game is now 8 years old, has a successor AND a remaster. So… I don’t really think this is a spoiler anymore at this point.

A toast!

I read this as they're even generating the frames with AI:

The tech demo is part of Microsoft’s Copilot for Gaming push, and features an AI-generated replica of Quake II that is playable in a browser. The Quake II level is very basic and includes blurry enemies and interactions, and Microsoft is limiting the amount of time you can even play this tech demo

While Microsoft originally demonstrated its Muse AI model at 10fps and a 300 x 180 resolution, this latest demo runs at a playable frame rate and at a slightly higher resolution of 640 x 360. It’s still a very limited experience though, and more of hint at what might be possible in the future.

VR ist nicht zwingend Scheiße - ich hab mit Kumpels mehrfach in einem VR Playspace ein paar Multiplayer Games gezockt. AAAAaaber es ist IMHO nur begrenzt nützlich für zu Hause - auch aus Platzgründen. Wenn Spiele direkt dafür entwickelt sind und ggf. auch den Raum entsprechend mit einbeziehen, ist das super immersiv.

Die grundsätzliche Idee mit AR, was ja in eine ähnliche Richtung geht, ist auch nicht komplett "blöd", aber eben situativ. Techdemos von Büroarbeiter, die mit einer AR Brille ein Excel-Fenster irgendwo mitten im Raum schweben haben? What? Wozu? Dasselbe mit technischen Dokus und evtl. passenden farblichen Überlagerungen der Realität zu einer Maschine, die ich Grade repariere? Vielleicht schon sinnvoller. Aber eben technisch anspruchsvoller als ein Excel-Fenster im Raum zu platzieren.

“We’ve talked about game preservation as an activity for us, and these models and their ability to learn completely how a game plays without the necessity of the original engine running on the original hardware opens up a ton of opportunity.”

No, I don't think that you're talking about preservation then. Not even game emulation. You're talking about game hallucination.

IT'S A TRAP! chomp

Da kann ich nicht. Geht auch Dienstag?

Ist halt leider der Verfassungsschutz, der die Verfassung vor Übergriffen von links schützen soll /s

"Das U in Kungel steht für Union" oder so?

The DNS provider needs to provide an API, but not an ACME server.

Your server contacts Lets Encrypt and wants a certificate - say for homeserver.example.com. It tells Let's Encrypt to use DNS based authentication. Let's encrypt answers with a challenge code, that you now publish as a txt record with a defined name via your providers API for this (sub)domain. Let's encrypt then checks the TXT record and if it finds the challenge there, it sends you the certificate.