[Running Your Computers in 2016]

If you connect to an unsecured network, you are broadcasting your passwords through the air to anyone with a packet sniffer running on their computer. If you are using password-"protected" wifi, then your data is encrypted using the same password the coffee shop employees are handing out to everyone else...meaning that your passwords can still be easily read.

 

That's not entirely true. WPA is only a link-level protocol. This means that the message is decrypted when it reaches the access point. The same holds for your cellular data. Once the message reaches the wire, it could theoretically be eavesdropped / modified by any node between your router and the destination. For actually securing your data you should use a transport-or-higher-level protocol, like SSL/TLS. Most websites with a login-functionality offer HTTPS (which is a form of SSL/TLS) and only allow their login over HTTPS.

 

TL;DR: HTTPS keeps you encrypted even on public WIFI.

[Protecting Your Early/Pre-Release Builds]

You should note, however, that the hardcoded ids are found in the compiled assembly-code and won't stop someone who is slightly experienced in binary editing.

[Vegetation Research - Pt 2]

This is really amazing.

How does this scale with lighting and physics?

I would assume that there is not much overhead involved in the lighting calculations, which should be basically independent from the number of objects.

However, the physics for all the trees at once would be a major problem.

Do you have any tests or thoughts on this subject?

[Vegetation Research]

Woah, that's impressive! On what hardware do you get the 130 fps?

[Small behavioral change]

Just because something isn't intuitive is no reason to abandon it.

e.g. take blender: When you first use this tool you have absolutely no clue, what to do but once you get used to it, you will see, that it is designed to save loads of time!

 

Another very important example for this is the command-line-editor vim.

Hell, you will curse it a thousand times but if you take the time to actually learn to master it, you can be so much faster than with any other text-editor!

 

I think, that the potential to be extremely fast is more important than intuitivity. But these things can go along with each other. Just have it enter the name automatically into the field, if you drag it and everyone is happy...

[Leadwerks 3.3 Released]

@ScottBrady

C++ is also available on Steam as a DLC

[Werkspace Banners are Back]

Well, in Chrome I now have a horizontal scrollbar which can move by like 5px because of the banner .

[Leadwerks 3.1 Pre-orders Now Available, Indie Edition coming to Steam January 6th]

Kickstarter backers are receiving version 3.1 as was promised in the campaign. Is that what you meant?

Yes, thx.

[Leadwerks 3.1 Pre-orders Now Available, Indie Edition coming to Steam January 6th]

I guess you forgot to add the not-already-customers of Leadwerks 3.0 who pledged $200+ to the section for the receivers of the 3.1 upgrade.