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PolyMC mentions (60)

• Minecraft java edition

  Could I suggest trying a different launcher such as PolyMC? You can get this on deck in Linux linkand sign into your microsoft account to access Java. This version also has the benefit of you being able to get modpacks. Source: about 3 years ago

• Minecraft Modpacks

  Handles it very easily with the right launcher. Check out https://polymc.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

• Securing Open Source Organizations - A PolyMc Case Study

  To quote PolyMc's website, PolyMc is "an Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods. Focused on user freedom and free redistributability.". - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago

• About the PolyMC aur package and situation

  Rundown of the situation: The keyholder of the github repo of Polymc has gone rogue, sabotaging the project's github repo and discord server by removing everyone else's permissions after stating his strong, negative opinions towards gay and trans people, causing a lot of understandable backlash, with the majority of the team moving onto a new project, PrismLauncher Because of the fact that this dev has gone... Source: almost 4 years ago

• nOOb question on activating mods

  I use the PolyMC launcher, it allows you to install modloaders, mods and modpacks straight from the launcher without needing to open your browser. It also will automatically display available mod versions that are available for your modloader and game version and is very convenient. Source: almost 4 years ago

Medium mentions (3095)

• Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

  Why is a "Disable Javascript" option provided in every so-called "modern" browser Why would a user prefer in some cases not to use a third party's Javascript Depends on the user. For example, here's one user who publishes a website on the subject https://disable-javascript.org/ Consider the level of data collection and behavioral surveillance enabled by the SearchGuard Javascript at issue in Google LLC v SerpApi... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore

  'If we all woke up tomorrow and thought 'we need 10 million new homes'' The cost of 1 Million homes where people want to live (where your community is), would be roughly 0.5 Trillion to 1 Trillion USD [1]. So, I don't think this is true :(. Again, I want this to be true. But it is not today. [1]: https://medium.com/@dtxtransitposts/how-much-does-it-actually-cost-to-build-housing-14e5fcf35208. - Source: Hacker News / about 10 hours ago

• Our position on open-weights models

  The letter misses out the key issue here. Should the worlds public knowledge be enclosed by a few powerful private companies or should it be available to all? The original vision for the web was a decentralized, open information sharing space designed to empower humanity. In my view the effort to privatise that via LLM distillation is the antithesis of that vision.... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

  Quantenna used 1.1.1.1 for RPC to their wifi chip in their SDK by default. Should not have been exposed to global routing but of course people screwed that up. https://medium.com/@mrtcve/atts-misuse-of-cloudflare-dns-ip-1-1-1-1-e64901e41a09. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Jane Street: Incremental

  It depends on how you define the observable pattern. The fundamental components here are laziness and weak connections between graph nodes. Node values are getting materialized only when you observe them, and the system is flexible for live structural changes. Usually, you don't need to materialize the entire graph when you need to observe just some nodes. Additionally, you can halt computations at any point in... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago