I just checked this again, first for game I had there for free but bought later on Steam - City of Brass - and couldn't find achievements anywhere. I then looked into Fortnite and League of Legends - also no achievements. I then found there is "my achievements" link somewhere in my profile, from where I could click "browse games with achievements" and turns out, from few dozens games I own there not a single one has achievements.

I enjoyed it like 3-5 years ago, but since then it shifted significantly towards kids and that was probably a morally respectable move given how many kids are playing but I don't like it anymore. Graphics is top-notch, don't confuse your subjective dislike of the style with it being unfinished or underdeveloped.

I like how many games they give away for free, but tbh I've never played any of them there. Some of those games I decided to buy later on Steam anyway just to do achievements (epic launcher doesn't have achievements, cards, any meaningful statistics, etc).

Do you think VPN doesn't necessarily prevent MITM anywhere between you and VPN server? Regarding DNS queries, here is a quote I found: “Full-Tunnel VPN routes and encrypts all the Internet traffic through the VPN. Consequently, DNS requests are also encrypted and out of the control of the Internet provider". I'm not sure how to setup VPN in a way that doesn't tunnel DNS requests through VPN server because I mostly use smart clients like Proton's one that route everything and have total killswitch.

To be honest, I'm not sure I fully understand how this works. What if the same troll registers on some other instance and posts the same content in lemmy.world communities? How is that different?

Turns out, a lot of other Lemmy instances allow using VPNs just fine. Here's thread with some recs: https://lemmy.world/post/19205545 In case you don't know how instances work, it's basically distributed system, we can access the same communities and post there from other instances (without VPN issues).

It's ok for internal admin panels and their backends as there are no security concerns in this case.

When consuming APIs you often want JSON in successful scenario. Which means, if you also have JSON in unsuccessful scenario it's a bit more uniform, because you don't have to deal with JSON in one case and plaintext response in other. Also, it sometimes can be useful to have additional details there like server's stacktrace or some identifiers that help troubleshoot complex issues.

Because it protects you from ISP or targeted MITM. Lets say your ISP decides to spy on users or someone cuts into the internet wire going from your appartment to ISP, without VPN they can fully see and modify all http traffic as it's totally unencrypted, in https traffic they can't see the content but they see domain names of sites you are visiting and exact time when you are visiting them. With VPN 100% of your traffic is encrypted and in similar situation absolutely nothing is visible or modifiable. Someone can MITM on VPN provider itself, but it's not really suitable for targeted scenarios, because those wires are in other part of the world than you, those wires are much better physically protected and even if malicious actors succeed they will have very hard time filtering traffic from different users from each other.

I got 401 from lemmy.world with the following response payload:

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": 403,
    "message": "Posting & Uploading blocked from VPN/Tor"
  }
}

PS: yeah, I know it says it's 403 in payload, but in response it's 401

Yes, this is response payload it gives when hitting "Reply" or "Post" from certain VPNs:

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": 403,
    "message": "Posting & Uploading blocked from VPN/Tor"
  }
}

I also use Proton VPN. Most issues were with DE servers I tried, multiple DE servers (like DE#526) didn't work for me, but some others seem to be working. I also tried some other countries and they were working.

Sorry for a bit of off-topic, but for a note taking app I suggest checking out Amplenote (there is a free plan for browser and mobile apps). I discovered it recently and it's quite a life changer for me. Proper tag system for notes is a killer feature.

Works for me as well. Thanks for a good find, I have much better ping with german servers than some other other exotic ones that are working.

But you have moderation. If you delete any illegal stuff and ban the user, you're clear, even if you're from France.

I tried DE#526 and it didn't work for me, trying DE#394 right now.

I always considered "MMO" as a synonym for "multiplayer". Anyway, if you take the word "massively" into account, you could also treat is as "massive number of players you could POTENTIALLY reach by joining one of the rooms" (word "potentially" as opposed to "actually reaching at any given moment"). In actual MMORPGs it's not like you can actually interact with all the people online at the same time, you still are limited by geometry and game logic of the world at least, like no one will ever gather in a single town because people are doing other stuff, or are from enemy factions, etc. And in many MMORPGs there is instancing going on, so even players in mob farming locations can be assigned to different instances and not see each other because of reasons.

I figured some servers are working while other don't. Multiple servers from Germany I tried are banned, even the most fresh ones.

Definitely all those Udemy / Coursera / Whatever paid courses for "Data Science", "AI" and whatever else is popular recently.

Well, something like this is actually quite popular in modular synthesizers community. They have one type of modules called "Clock generators" which generate gate/trigger signals for given BPM (Like 1/4 or 1/8 or 1/16 rhythmic pulses for 120 BPM for example) and another type of modules called "Bernoulli gates", which basically allow to specify probability of input signal going to the output. Those beat-skipping metronomes with configured probabilities are then used to trigger notes or samples or whatever. Also, this is modular where you can modulate almost everything, including BPM itself, but that's a different story... Stochastic music approaches like this are often called "alleatoric music".