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You can actually tell, given the graph they posted.

The four states beneath Poland for 2025 are Lithuania, which slightly decreased from 2024 (though not enough to affect the ranking order), and then Portugal, Romania, and Slovakia, which are all in about the same spot (no visible increase or decrease).

So the factor in terms of it moving up four slots will have been Poland increasing.

That does sound like something that Trump would say.

It's an mp4, so maybe Jerboa can't handle that.

It shows up in Firefox in the Lemmy Web UI for me.

Another possibility

it's hosted on files.catbox.moe, and given that catbox allows arbitrary uploads of files, I'm sure that there's content that people have uploaded that violate pornography laws in some jurisdictions, and it's possible that you're in a country or on a network that that has some sort of network blacklist that includes catbox. You might try opening the URL directly in a Web browser. If you can't open that, probably it's your network provider.

https://files.catbox.moe/lqyfpk.mp4

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/21/g-s1-129200/ukrainian-attacks-russia-crimea-halt-gas-sales

He later wrote on social media that local gas stations would halt all sales to non-state companies and individuals for an undefined period.

"Fuel will be sold only to government agencies that ensure the functioning and security of the Republic of Crimea," Aksyonov said. "I ask everyone to remain calm and to only trust official sources of information."

Dear comrades, I want to say that the special military operation is proceeding strictly in line with the timetable, according to plan. All the tasks that have been set are being successfully resolved.

Vladimir Putin

There were increasing rumblings about the merits of the plan.

Just expend some more compute time on doing compression and we'll get those filesize numbers to a workable level.

$ stat -c %s enhance.png 
276773
$ convert enhance.png enhance.avif
$ identify enhance.avif
enhance.avif AVIF 1164x558 1164x558+0+0 8-bit sRGB 14391B 0.000u 0:00.000
$ stat -c %s enhance.avif
14391
$

zoom and enhance

$ identify enhance2x.avif
enhance2x.avif AVIF 2328x1120 2328x1120+0+0 8-bit sRGB 32448B 0.010u 0:00.000
$ stat -c %s enhance2x.avif 
32448
$

zoom and enhance

$ identify enhance4x.avif 
enhance4x.avif AVIF 4656x2232 4656x2232+0+0 8-bit sRGB 50758B 0.000u 0:00.000
$ stat -c %s enhance4x.avif
50758
$

Okay, that last one took 17 minutes to upscale on my GPU, so I'm not going further. But I'm using SD Ultimate Upscale, which is tile-based, so in theory that could be farmed out over a collection of GPUs and parallelized. Just need more compute hardware.

But as to filesize, that's under 50kiB.

Matrix Games. They're a publisher that specialize in wargames that I frequent to get some of my more-serious milsims from (though availability has improved on Steam). They also run an online store. The above three stores are the only places that I've bought video games for a long time. Well...tries to remember actually, I did get a few things on itch.io, and IIRC I bought Starsector directly from the company that makes that.

Well...

https://www.pcgamesn.com/pc-retro-tech/ega-graphics

Pity the poor PC of 1983-1984, before EGA graphics changed everything. It wasn't the graphics powerhouse we know today. IBM's machines, such as the IBM PC 5150, and their clones might have been the talk of the business world, but they were stuck with text-only displays or low-definition bitmap graphics.

The maximum color graphics resolution was 320 x 200 on a CGA graphics card, with colors limited to four from a hard-wired palette of 16. Even at the time, you'd have a hard time convincing someone that this was really the best graphics card you could buy. Worse, three of those colors were cyan, brown, and magenta, and half of them were just lighter variations of the other half.

You can see in the screenshot from The Secret of Monkey Island below that 16 colors make all the difference, with EGA on the left and four-color CGA on the right.

However, EGA had one big problem; it was prohibitively expensive, even in an era when PCs were already astronomically expensive. The basic EGA card price was over $500 (around $1,400 today), and the Memory Expansion Card cost a further $199.

Go for the full 192KB of RAM and you were looking at a total of nearly $1,000 (approximately $2,900 in today's money), making a top-end EGA card way more expensive than the GeForce RTX 4090 today. What's more, the monitor you needed to make the most of it cost a further $850 (approximately $2,500 today). EGA was a rich enthusiast's toy.

When they initially went on sale, apparently scalpers flooded the thing. They put a reservation system in place for the Steam Controller to aim to defeat scalping. This new shortage is with that reservation system in place, limit on two Steam Controllers per account and the Steam account needs to be in good standing. Now, I guess it could be possible that scalpers went out and figured out how to defeat that, like having a number of people collude to purchase two each, so one can't say that there's no scalping...

EDIT: It looks like the going rate on eBay for a sealed-box Steam Controller 2.0 is about $300, so I imagine that that's what market rate is at current levels of supply. Valve's selling them for $99.

I mean, they aren't going to stop making them if there are people buying them. I'm sure that, at some point, there will be enough manufactured to catch up with demand.

2026 has been a pretty exasperating year to try to get ahold of a lot of pieces of hardware, I have to say.

I'm wondering if

assuming Valve still is trying to release the Steam Machine this year, which according to the last news I've seen, they're still saying that they're going to do

this is gonna dick up their Steam Machine sales. I mean, the Steam Controller is a nice-to-have on a regular PC, but for people with a Steam Machine in the living room, they probably are going to want it even more

like, there it's a lot more important to have the touchpads to replace a mouse, remote power-on capability, etc.

NPR article from an hour ago:

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/20/nx-s1-5865006/fighting-lebanon-despite-ceasefire

Iran says Strait of Hormuz shut as U.S.-Iran talks set for Sunday in Switzerland

Iran's military said it has closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel's latest strikes in Lebanon, even as Iranian and U.S. negotiators prepare to meet Sunday in Switzerland for talks.

The U.S. military, meanwhile, denied the claim that the strait was closed, leaving a key piece of the freshly signed Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries up in the air.

On Saturday Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the strait closed, according to state-controlled Iranian media, citing what it called "the explicit breach of the first clause of the post-war memorandum of understanding by the United States" and the latest exchange of fire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Iran's state broadcaster Press TV reported the IRGC Navy was warning all vessels to "absolutely refrain from any movement in the Strait of Hormuz until further notice."

But U.S. Central Command said shipping through the strait was proceeding normally, insisting on social media that 55 commercial vessels had completed the transit successfully, carrying more than 17 million barrels of oil, and that "safe passage through the international waterway remained intact." The U.S. added that its forces remained "present and vigilant" to ensure all terms of the agreement with Iran were being honored. Even with this disagreement over the vital waterway, both nations appear to be proceeding toward the next phase of diplomatic talks.

Apparently the Iranian military and the US military disagree on whether the Iranian military has closed the strait.

https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCoAHfpcD9nLJ6FZwe3BnTQg