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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • For RTS (especially AoE II DE) I use them as:

    • the SHIFT key(create 5 units instead of 1 when hold)
    • activator for a different action group, where the joystick are mapped to a circular menu. E.g. one of these menu assigns units to one of the 6 quick groups in my circular menu, and I can then select these units with just the right joystick (no button pressed). Another one activates a right joystick circular menu to go to a building (and I did map nearly all building types…)

    I can also combine these, to e.g. select all barracks














  • To give context I was never a good competitive player, so I’m talking about casual play. I think I’m slightly less responsive than mouse+kb, but playing on the train is just a blast!

    I also had to bind other buttons to improve response time:

    • dpad down to go to last notification
    • dpad to cycle between forums
    • dpad eight for inactive villagers, left for army

    Then Right Joystick is a radial menu to go to 6 groups. A is select all on screen. On top of that, I binded shift to L1 (the bottom left palet) which can be user in combination of most other buttons I binded: e.g. create 5 units, assign to group, select all inactive villagers etc…

    I went through the William Wallace campaign to tune my conf, but I find it pretty good now!



  • Actually, to make it with cryptographic guarantees is pretty hard… I know of at least one university professor in the PET (Privacy Enhancing Technologies)/cryptography space who spent quite some time on his startup to develop such a search engine. In the end it all fell apart because of one the mathematical assumptions being unprovable. This is just one example but I guess it illustrates pretty well why we’ve yet to see a cryptographically secure/private search engine as a product!