We love the Half Life community. In the last couple of days we’ve received a ton of messages of support and curiosity about Black Mesa. It’s heartening to see that the internet can still be a place where people send inquisitive messages while staying respectful - thank you. Thank you as well to those who sent the thousands of fake inquiries on our website, they made us laugh. We loved seeing the creative messages.

As many of you correctly assessed, we’re actually a real company in the Boston area. We’re working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production. As much as we would be honored to be part of any Valve game - we do not work in this sector at all. We are not secretly working on Half Life 3, Project White Sands (whatever that is/may be) or any other Valve title - we’re just nerds working to secure the global bioeconomy.

We <3 all of you, you’ve made us laugh quite a bit this week at a time when we needed it. We might put up a couple fun challenges and send the first solvers some swag. That is Black Mesa - the Boston biotech company swag.

Our love, The Black Mesa team.

PS: Gabe, call us. You know where we are. PPS: KingPotatoVII please reach out, we’ve been trying to send you some swag for cracking the cipher a while back 🙂

That’s a reddit thing.

There are no poop knives in the fediverse

Or it’s a contrived post with fake data

Yes I think your right

I know musk is bipolar. Is Altman too?

Bipolar can cause this kind of request. It’s called a delusion of grandiosity.

That’s a good call out. My user case allows me to terminate the phone app after it syncs, and battery doesn’t seem to be hit hard even if I forget. But it’s important to look at, and it might not work for you.

Resilio sync is outstanding

It’s free for personal use, but the license process is annoying (email)

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Best: Twix

Worst: peanut butter kisses

Thank God. It adds nothing and is user hostile

The best option is to get a new hard drive. You can find one for $100.

Then just connect your old drive to the PC with a USB to SATA adapter and copy any files you need.

With the extra drive there is no risk to your data from the install as long as you DON’T CONNECT THE OLD DRIVE DURING THE INSTALL PROCESS, since you could conceivably choose the wrong install disk. If it’s not plugged in then you can’t choose it

Seems anticompetitive

I’m willing to bet that Elon donated the money to be kicked back to Twitter in order to fraudulently make it look like revenue was improving.

Holy crap. Never heard of this. Thanks!

Agreed

But you can’t have privacy without security, and any privacy brand must have security in their bones.

It is a super important detail, but it’s still unforgivable for an app that expects privacy to be part of its brand identity.

This is freaking awesome!

How do you make it safe and inviting while also protecting anonymity?

Some anonymous users are prone to pretty awful behavior, and non anonymous users will be profiled.

China filters every byte of Internet traffic in and out of the country.

It seems naive to think they can’t accomplish the same thing for a GitHub mirror.

MWC is not deprecated or going away, but Material Design is no longer actively staffing its development.

I’m skeptical.