It's a cracked version of the game that has been heavily compressed to reduce download size. This is why the installer will eat a lot of CPU resources during installation. While you probably won't be banned, I would generally avoid playing these games through steam as a precaution. Usually multiplayer doesn't work normally anyways.

But what does it actually infer? The article is very low on details on that.

I wonder when the employees knew. From the news it looks like the closure had been decided on the C-level.

I would not be surprised if a new studio springs into existence from this.

I know this is the FOSS community but I personally recommend inoreader. It has great usability through its keyboard shortcuts and the ability to pull the full article from the website without clutter (similar to reader add-ons).

If anyone knows a FOSS alternative with similar features, I'd like to know.

A declaration of independence of cyberspace by John Perry Barlowe

Not really related to political philosophy but Uncle Bob's book on the philosophy of a good programmer also comes to mind: Clean Coder

There is always the web version that also runs on Android: https://vscode.dev/

Well, you can't get updates from other instances without it being connected to the internet and reachable. So for your usecase you do need it connected to the internet. On the LAN you will only be able to see other instances on the same LAN.

Lemmynsfw uses a custom version that that removes the blur for nsfw images but that's it I think.

Seems like you've already seen the major sites then. There is also Kuelap and las ventanillas de otuzco but I haven't been there myself. I was driving with my own car and you would just see markings for old ruins along the road ever couple of 100kms

It is still very young and I don't yet see any advantages over Rust, except that they want to have out of the box interoperability with C++. Let's see where they are in 3 years or so.

Second this, I have been traveling Peru for the last 2 months and the amount of archeological sites is mind-blowing. It really is a shame though that so much knowledge about these ancient cultures has been lost.