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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 18/07/2026

Well, the weekend definitely was a blast as we forgot to post on July 16th when it was our 9th anniversary. At least we finally recovered from an outage caused by the hosting provider's upstream. Our helpdesk is up again. That's the process of ours and thank you for staying with us.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 03/07/2026

The digital circus you probably already know is not where it is. #Russia strikes again with prohibiting non-domestic authorization methods, e.g. some OpenID Connect endpoint you have integrated long ago. Good old email logon is sufficient to avoid fines but headache will be gone with the GeoIP ban.

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Рунет без Google Login: что теперь делать с авторизацией

Вход — это важно! В России снова обсуждают вход на сайты через Google, Apple ID, GitHub и другие иностранные аккаунты. Повод — подписанный закон № 199-ФЗ от 26.06.2026 ,...

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 19/06/2026

Recently with Visual Studio 2026 we ran into an issue with ASP.NET Core Blazor components—if you run a debug session and edit at the same time, a few language server "features" will crash, e.g. Razor FindAllReferences or Razor Hover. Had anyone this happening in #JetBrains Rider?

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 20/04/2026

Saw this fluffy ball in the recent #JetBrains Rider 2026.1 Nightly build published on April 16th, 2026. #Cats are absolutely welcome!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 01/04/2026

@jsnover.com: "When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop." Yet another good read on #Windows software development! Should we mention that the last #Microsoft's UX/UI design guidelines had lost their consistency as well?

jsnover.com

Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold

A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 24/03/2026

This barely has any excuse given the state of most Unreal Engine 5 games.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 22/03/2026

A good read from @domenic.me. Here are our two cents—is the RAM shortage we have now is an aftermath of #Microsoft being ignorant on native app development for decades? Might be a conspiracy theory but vibecoded Electron/VW2 apps are the soup we have today. Unfortunately. domenic.me/windows-nati...

domenic.me

Windows Native App Development Is a Mess

I tried to build a Windows native app using Microsoft's latest technologies. Now I understand why everyone builds Electron apps.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 13/03/2026

Trivia: we wanted to use FreeBSD (but not OpenBSD at the time) for our e-mail server but urgency to deploy one called for Debian 13. Who knows, maybe we will adapt it, too!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 09/03/2026

During a weekend one of us walked through @youtrack.cloud's timeline on Wayback Machine. "Wait, that's a bird? I thought it to be a telescope facing forwards!" was a reaction when they looked at the May 2014 snapshot.

Partial screenshot of JetBrains YouTrack 5.2 landing page from 2014. In the center there is an artwork of two flying YouTrack logos, one is accompanied by an envelope with "@" character on it, the other with "help!" label. The logos may look identical to birds as the envelopes are in their "beaks".
The bottom left text under the artwork is a "Buy & Upgrade" link. The top right is a language selection dropdown currently reading "English" in it. The middle part is a link suggesting to check out release notes of YouTrack 5.2, captioned "YouTrack 5.2 is out—look inside".

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 26/02/2026

Sphere Matchers community spotlight: @deathknight.bsky.social had released a small program that allows Luxor and Luxor: Amun Rising to share more rich-detailed gameplay state in Discord. Try it, show everyone you're into the immortal classics! github.com/vaishnav67/S...

Screenshot of two examples of Discord Rich Presence representation of Luxor: Amun Rising (on the left) and Luxor (on the right).

The left one reads:
Luxor AR
Stage 1 - 3 | Toad's Factory
Score: 133900 | Coins: 8
Level playtime is 0:00.

The right one reads:
Luxor
Stage 1 - 4 | DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD
Score: 106200 | Coins: 12
Level playtime is 0:00

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 19/02/2026

A "very small indie IT company" that is funded by government of a large country had decided to charge users for being able to use IMAP, SMTP and POP3. Because they lose revenue from ads. Because nobody wants to use email service with no privacy. @vivaldi.com, perfect time for Vivaldi Mail, isn't it?

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 30/01/2026

Thank you, @bsky.app for verifying our profile. We're #AlwaysHappyToHelp our audience here get the most out of their communication on Bluesky with us.

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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 29/12/2025

Friendly reminder 💡

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 31/12/2025

Happy New Year! Let your business and personal things go silky smooth, stay healthy and everything will come along!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 22/12/2025

Our moments outside of business tasks with @vivaldi.com's Vivaldi Mail involved. One of us is doing an annual checkup of accounts to migrate to personal Vivaldi Mail account. Today they discovered they can move e-mail between accounts right within Vivaldi Mail's user interface in Vivaldi itself!

A snippet from Vivaldi Help linked at https://help.vivaldi.com/services/webmail/importing-and-exporting-emails/

Moving the emails from one account to another
Once you have set both accounts up, you can move emails from your current email service provider’s IMAP folders to Vivaldi’s IMAP folders. To move emails:
1. Select the emails using Ctrl/Shift key or by other means available in the mail client;
2. Right-click on one of the selected emails and select either Move to or Copy to (path and labels may vary).
3. Select the corresponding Vivaldi folder as the destination.
To move whole folders full of emails, hold down the Ctrl key and drag the folder to Vivaldi’s Inbox folder.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 16/12/2025

With help of @deathknight.bsky.social and @hw12.dev the problem of running Luxor, Luxor: Amun Rising and Luxor 2 from Steam is now gone after 13 years! Hayden did the most difficult part—a new wrapper that is compatible with Windows 8 and onwards; Steam DRM remains intact! modworkshop.net/mod/54642

On background, there is a Steam library window filtered to show only games that have "Luxor" in their name. The foreground window is "Luxor 1.0.5.34 S" (the original Luxor game developed by MumboJumbo LLC in 2005) at startup screen waiting for the player to click the "Click here to play" button. This window also conceals the Windows Command Prompt showing the operating system version the game runs on, which is Microsoft Windows 10.0.26200.7462, which represents Windows 11 25H2 with December 2025 security updates.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 30/11/2025

We chose to continue servicing our forums board. The new lifecycle policy—effective December 7th, 2025—determines activity windows and our responsibility for upkeeping them. No rocket science there!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 25/11/2025

We were directly asked if it is still reasonable to maintain our own forums board, EI Forums, due to low guest-to-users conversion and severe search engine indexing issues. The question was followed by suggestion to archive it and freeze in "read only" state. We will tell you the answer in a week.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 15/11/2025

Ouch. Vivaldi 7.7 offers some interesting interactions in the @cloudflare.social's Turnstile `iframe` but there's no way to click there. Bug report time for @vivaldi.com, we guess?

Cloudflare Dashboard login prompt with blank email and password fields. The "Let us know you're human" area was expected to show Cloudflare Turnstile but it failed to load.
The page load failure notification from Vivaldi browser is covered by partially visible "While you wait, try the most powerful in-" text, which is an offer to play Vivaldia game, a game by Vivaldi browser developers that is accessible both on Speed Dial and on error pages in some conditions. There is no way to launch the game inside the Turnstile widget area as the buttons are outside visible area.

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PVS-Studio @cody-programmer08.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

pvs-studio.com/en/blog/post... Not long ago, we took a deep dive into some bugs in the 86Box v5.0 emulator and explored a few ways to fix them. But we saved the best for last: one click is all it takes to break everything! No worries, though — @86box.net has already fixed it :) #cpp #programming

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Box of bugs (exploded): Perils of cross-platform development

In September, we broke down the 86Box v5.0 release, timed for the 30th anniversary of Windows 95 retail launch, and promised to show you something else. What is it that we promised? And why did we...

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 09/11/2025

It has been one month since #SteelHunters permanent shutdown. While most people consider it was a live service, we think it wasn't. Service can be considered "live" only after it passes the EAP phase and not any second earlier. We are not advocating Wargaming for decisions done but sharing thoughts.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 20/10/2025

On this Saturday, October 25th, we will be shutting down our #BlacklightRetribution server that was part of the #BLRevive project for over a year. We ran into severe technical issues. We would like to thank them for inviting us to the community of the game unusual to us, it was certainly a blast!

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PVS-Studio @cody-programmer08.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

86Box 5.0 attracts users' attention with enhanced hardware support and a new dynamic processor recompiler. And PVS-Studio was attracted too, but with errors that were neatly packed into this tiny box. @86box.net pvs-studio.com/en/blog/post... #86box #cpp #programming #staticanalyzer

pvs-studio.com

Box of bugs (emulated)

On August 24, 2025, 86Box 5.0 was released. The low-level emulator for IBM PCs and compatibles has received a new dynamic processor instruction recompiler, broader hardware support, and significant...

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 20/09/2025

🎉 Cloudflare turns 15! #BirthdayWeek 2025 is almost here — our biggest innovation week. What to expect next week: ⚡ Democratizing development 🔒 Securing the future 🌐 Performance & networking 📺 Full episode: youtu.be/-apo2xbgYCo 🌐 ThisWeekinNET.com 🌐 cloudflare.com/birthday-week

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 22/09/2025

Friendly reminder for those who hadn't upgraded yet: #YouTrack 2025.2 is available *only* as Docker images, ZIPs are gone. There is a detour—download the layer with YouTrack distribution only and do the upgrade like usual! Keep in mind that such upgrades are not supported and your warranty is void!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 24/08/2025

We still have our sealed #windows95 "For distribution with a new PC only" in our stash. Not voiding the seal as we cannot find that new PC that bundled this kit! 😅

A CD-ROM version of Russian Windows 95 copy facing Windows 95 Starts Here («С чего начинается Windows 95?» in Russian) interactive guide made by Microsoft Press Interactive. It conceals the still sealed jewel case of Windows 95 installation CD-ROM and the rear side of the Quick Start manual. All of that is packaged in a transparent heatshrink wrap untouched since it left the factory.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 11/08/2025

'The Day Before' was a victim of development mismanagement, which lead to its doomsday in first place. This game definitely set its name in stone.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 29/07/2025

(ex)Terminating bugs is such a pleasure, both for developers and users when they receive updates. Give PVS-Studio a try if you are a software engineer!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 23/07/2025

Online DRM applied to physical media, which was most notable on releases past 2009, in a form of attachment to some digital distribution platform, nullifies the point of owning a physical copy. On top of that in mid-2010s some AAA-developer put a DVD box with a... DVD-shaped carton.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 16/07/2025

It's been 8 years since we stepped onto the path to eternity or eternal oblivion. The path we build and everyone around us building. This #anniversary is still quiet, like on regular weekday evening or weekend. We thank everyone who's with us and who joined recently. And remember, K2MG is a process!

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NINA & Escargot @nina.chat · 14/07/2025

Updates and fixes for #ICQ #AIM and classic #AOL nina.chat/news/1205000... #90s #retro #RetroComputing

Screenshots of AIM 8, AIM mobile, and AIM 7 chatting

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 16/06/2025

You're welcome! It's so important to protect and support a #BetterInternet! #AlwaysHappyToHelp!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 15/06/2025

A shoutout to @youtrack.cloud—it takes significantly less time to deploy YouTrack Server even in a ZIP distribution. Thank you, JetBrains, we are glad of sunsetting Redmine in our work once and for all!

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 03/06/2025

Today #LestaGames was recognized as an 'extremist organization' in #Russia. There is a catch: it does not affect neither their clients, nor players. We are monitoring the situation to learn how it will affect Wargaming Group Limited as several news media mention Victor Kislyi as Lesta co-founder.

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 24/05/2025

On May 27th there will be a trial for #LestaGames on their shady business done with intellectual property of #WorldOfTanks (locally rebranded as Mir Tankov). While we silently monitor the situation in both communities, we try evaluate how would this impact players who also play #Wargaming games.

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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 08/05/2025

We don’t run on hype. We run on principles, a lot of coffee, and all major platforms. 😌☕️

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K2 Media Group Europe @k2mg.net · 05/05/2025

When developers experiment on users using A/B tests, we experiment on ourselves using recently launched platforms. With that said we launch our #Bluesky page to represent ourselves outside communities where we are already known.

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