During long and slow cardio workouts, I play turn-based squad tactics games on my #SteamDeck. I loved and finished Marvel's #MidnightSuns, and #Warhammer40k Mechanicus was a fun little squash match. So I thought I'd try #XCom2 next and, while I love the detail, it probably isn't for me. It's great, but the missions only feel playable *after* restarting them 3 times to figure out what they're all about. That's not the kind of flow I find manageable. I'd love to find other titles to try.
@feezus Thanks for the rec! Playable is often fine. XCOM 2 isn't Verified but some decent community controller mappings make it workable. I'm just getting weary of level design where the goals aren't shown in time to adapt to them. Playing a mission 2-3 times just to know what it's about is gaming for some people but not for me.
Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) can be divided into 3 categories, depending on where the authority resides:
- Secret key (did:key, did:pkh). - Server (did:web). - Blockchain (hundreds of them).
With a #DID derived from a secret key you can truly own your identity. Unfortunately, key rotation is not supported, and if you lose your key, you lose everything. This can be partially mitigated with distributed key generation techniques that make key recovery possible if only M of N shards are available, but they are complicated.
Servers can rotate keys, but they can also suddenly disappear, and again you lose everything.
Blockchain-based systems support key rotation and don't have a single point of failure (if done right). Sometimes they are called "servers with superpowers". However, popular ones are not suitable for the job because writing to them is very expensive and their clients need powerful computing devices and a lot of storage.
Is there a way around that? Yes. Blockchains can be very lightweight and they don't actually need a cryptocurrency, miners or stakers in order to work. There is a simple consensus algorithm known as Proof of authority, and one of the Fediverse competitors, Bluesky, seems to be planning to build such system:
>We are actively hoping to replace it with or evolve it into something less centralized - likely a permissioned DID consortium.
They are afraid to say the B-word, but "permissioned consortium" is exactly what it is. Of course, their identity #blockchain doesn't have to be the only one in existence. I think in the future we might see quite a lot of "identity cooperatives" of different shapes and sizes. Perhaps even a universal client, curl for identity, can be developed.
@mangeurdenuage >It's gratis for me in france. It's not actually gratis - SMS costs are just included in the cost of the phone plan (SMS routing companies charge a small, but 100,000x the actual cost per SMS sent) - as a result, if you send too many SMS's, SMS will be cut off for you (but you are very unlikely to hit the limit without mass SMS spam).