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Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.

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I don’t believe there’s any issue actually building the app. However, the app store policies forbid them from shipping it or offering it as a side-loadable option.

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Always buy the best stuff you can get for your money, don’t give a fuck about the companies.

I’d add to this but just performance per dollar … but also things like:

  • performance per watt
  • how it works as part of the overall system you’re building (e.g. if you’re going to run Linux does it run well there)
  • will this decision hurt my ability to reuse other hardware in a timeframe I care about (a compelling point for AMD to me is you can reuse the motherboard much much longer than Intel)
  • what does warranty/repair look like for this? Is that something I need to worry about?

You can (if you’re in a comfortable position to ask this) also ask:

  • Where is it made?
  • Does that country have strong labor laws?
  • Does that country have strong environmental laws?
  • How does the company treat its employees?
  • How does this compare to the competitors?

If we collectively decide to punish bad companies by not buying their product just because they made their product a slightly better deal … I think we’re all a bit better off.

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Thanks for pointing that out! That’s … truly special 😂

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This comment is the worst misrepresentation of penguins I’ve ever seen. It sounds like a red herring. It makes me want to vomit. People get away with this because nobody actually knows what penguins are. They just take what the media writes and accepts it as truth.

On a serious note, plenty of people here surely know what net neutrality is. Net neutrality is the guarantee that your ISP doesn’t (de-)prioritize traffic or outright block traffic, all packets are treated equally. In other words it means you don’t have to pay $5 extra for high speed access to Lemmy because Reddit and your ISP (say Comcast) would prefer Lemmy not exist.

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But tiktok the company is?

Yes, among other things they’re also explicitly suppressing pro-Isreal content lemmy.world/post/14643617

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Hm… I agree that Instagram is not a neutral source. I also agree that there are going to be some biases imposed by the user base.

I don’t believe the US government plays a major role in Meta’s content moderation behavior. Meta if anything has shown a reluctance towards any political or news content in recent years. That’s not to say the US government doesn’t have influence but their influence is (from what I’ve seen) oriented around fighting disinformation and threats of violence … not cherry-picking the discussion of subject matter. I think there would’ve been a pretty significant leak out of Meta by now if there really was a strong political bias or government influence in content moderation.

I don’t think any of these lines particularly fall along political lines within the US either. There are people on the left and right taking different sides on virtually all of the topics with statistical divergence; many of them are unusually bipartisan within the US.

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So, I took another look at the report, they did do this sort of statistical bias correction. See “U.S. Politics” page 8 networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…

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Can’t you still get the old counter strike by using the beta channels?

And I mean… Ultimately blame Apple for being a pain in the butt and not supporting vulkan.

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Yeah… For battle royal and extraction shooters I think it would also be pretty hard to come close to the experience on private servers.

Granted, I wouldn’t mind being able to play e.g. Hunt Showdown with some friends on a private server/in a private match. It wouldn’t be what it is today, but it could still be fun.

It’s not like games with large populations are really getting shut down anyways. The games that are killed are already dead for most people. I really only am bothered by it when it’s a clearly single player/offline friendly game.

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The thing about them is you need people to be at close to the same skill level or they’re just not fun.

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I also found it pretty ridiculous there isn’t a close button in the escape menu.

You have to hit tab to bring up the quick menu, then hit the return to menu button from there.

Hitting escape and being about to exit out of the game is the paradigm for PC games. It’s absurd to hide that functionality on a non-standard key and place.

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I would be shocked if I ever saw Jagex do that… The state of their PR is abysmal.

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I feel like maybe Paradox expanded too much too fast.

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Programming is mostly copy&paste

I don’t know what y’all are working on but these comments always scare me …

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Be careful with that one. I’m not sure about your experience level, but a mistake newer (and some more experienced) programmers often make is taking DRY too far.

It’s easy to “dry” something up to the point where it’s spaghetti that’s overly clever about how it reduces lines of code resulting in some crazy inheritance hierarchy even you (the author) are afraid to change a few years down the road.

There are of course other times when someone just copy and pasted e.g. sort logic all over the code base … but that sort of thing is relatively rare

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I work on compilers (we can’t/don’t even have access to the C++ standard library in my case)… Most of the time, Google can’t help me ⚰️😅

It was definitely a bit more copy and paste when I was working on web applications… But even then, most of the code I was writing was fairly novel / more application and database architecture problems than trying tying libraries together.

Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule?

If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am...

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Proton is a greedy company that doesn’t like interoperability and likes to add features designed in a way to keep people locked their Web UI and applications.

That’s nonsense. Proton has built everything around PGP and allows uploading public keys for users not using Proton Mail so that you can messaging them with Proton’s PGP system automatically.

proton.me/blog/openpgp-crypto-refresh

There’s 0 vendor lock in (in the entire Proton ecosystem) and there’s tons of open sourced code.

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By that argument Microsoft could just shut down their IMAP servers tomorrow.

The fact of the matter is, Proton does currently provide tools to get your emails out of their ecosystem, that you can use today. Including a free tool (proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool) that creates EML files that can be imported elsewhere via Thunderbird.

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Other providers will return garbage to your mail client. The mail client itself must have PGP capability (plenty don’t).

The bridge doesn’t even provide everything a IMAP server does

I’ve yet to find any functionality missing from the bridge’s IMAP server that’s present in any other IMAP server.

and there’s isn’t a way to get get calendars and contacts.

There’s not currently a real time way to get that data, but it’s hardly “vendor lockin.”

specially on iOS for instance

There’s something ironic to me about chewing Proton out for alleged vendor lock in while using iOS / Apple products.

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Q: Can I get the information I put into Proton back out and move to another service without paying Proton any money or extreme hardship?

A: Yes.

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instead of just using an open protocol like XMPP they opted for their closed thing in order to lock people into their apps

That’s just not true, you’re severely misinformed on this.

Proton took the established practice of PGP encrypted email and put it in a nice package. That’s why you can add public keys and just message somebody that’s using Thunderbird.

There is no “open protocol for end to end encrypted email”, XMPP is not applicable here. There’s no “IMAP for PGP” there’s just IMAP, so they made a bridge so you can use IMAP even if your mail client doesn’t support PGP.

Could they have made an IMAP server that returns the PGP emails and requires your mail client to handle the decryption? Yes. However, that goes against a major selling point of the product which is that it manages all that encryption for you (like a password manager). Nobody in their right mind would use that.

This isn’t some matter of privacy coolaid and fanboyism; they did the open interoperable thing. You can even (as an example use case) if you’re a new customer that was doing PGP email on your own, upload your own existing PGP key, and use that with Proton if you don’t want to change the PGP public key people use to send you email.

Edit: Perhaps you’ve been confused by some falsehoods coming from Tutanota or confused the two proton.me/blog/proton-vs-tuta-encryption

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Because you’re paying them so you don’t have to do that. Why would you pay them a premium if you’re just going to do it yourself anyways?

Also that costs money to develop, maintain, and run. Which takes money/resources away from things most customers care about.

There aren’t red flags here, everything is open source, this is all verifiable information. You’re just refusing to accept that.

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The phrase Jack of all trades master of none really only applies to people. A company can just hire more people when it has more products.

Google’s issue is not that they’re “big” it’s that they’ve failed to truly innovate and invest in anything in years. The current leadership kills anything that isn’t an instant money maker despite the majority of the company’s profitable products taking years to become profitable. They’re also in a weird spot because their “magic” was always free services in exchange for advertising money and that’s a model that’s come under attack and been replicated to death by competitors.

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They can also lobby more effectively for privacy respecting legislation and privacy rights. I don’t like lobbying, but so long as it’s around, it would be nice to have a big privacy company that’s as invested in that as the average privacy enthusiast.

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It’s more like encrypted Evernote.

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Wind Waker was an amazing game

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I actually really enjoyed the size of the ocean it made me feel like I was really on a journey

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This. Headsets are never going to take off. I’m somewhat surprised Apple launched the Vision Pro; I think Steve Jobs wouldn’t have settled for anything less than lightweight minimally invasive AR glasses.

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There was a whole Mythbusters episode where they tried TONS of stuff to get a gas station to go up in flames (they couldn’t, not even smoking a cigarette – under near ideal conditions for an ignition of nearby vapors – per my recollection).

So yeah, I’m sitting in my car (especially if it’s cold outside).

“Static electricity” isn’t somehow more of a concern sitting in your car than standing outside one in a fuzzy jacket.

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Hey look… a fuzzy sweater.

I’m still getting in and out of my car. I get in, shut the door, get back out, and close the door. Plenty of metal touched. Sometimes gloves.

Here’s another one m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMfxPooeybg

Probably 1 in 10 million (and 2/2 videos where they didn’t shut the car door)… I’ll take that chance.

Edit: also think about it, if this was a real problem with a high enough frequency they’d engineer the fuel handles to prevent it. Heck, maybe they already did (accidentally or intentionally) plenty of them increasingly have a ton of plastic.

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What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense. If you’re engineering something to prevent a spark from a static charge, you engineer it to prevent a spark from a static charge. You don’t engineer it to “ground you at first and then fail” if you pick up a static charge for some reason.

EDIT: And there are a lot more ways to become statically charged than getting in and out of a car (which in a lot of cases isn’t going to give you a static charge anyways – e.g. leather seats on cotton clothes is extremely unlikely to generate a static charge).

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I have a degree in computer science, I’ve worked on electrical engineering projects, my father is an electrician, I have a close friend and mentor that’s a forensic electrical engineer, etc.

If y’all in the automotive space think this is a real problem, fix it. It is trivial to shield something from static electricity; TRIVIAL. Frankly it’s unacceptable it hasn’t been fixed if you’re so adamant there’s a serious risk to the public.

This reads to me as an “ass covering” article for a very very very rare event. At 1/10,000,000 estimated probability I’d have to live thousands of lives at the rate I fill up my car to ever see this.

I’m not going to worry about this more than I’m going to worry about winning the lottery or spontaneous combustion frankly; the probabilities do not warrant concern. Which I’m sure is the real reason nothing has been done here.

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I question your ability as an engineer if you can’t understand how to shield something from static electricity. Hint: use non-conducive material to create an isolated ground that never makes contact with the gasoline, they’ve been doing it for all kinds of sensitive electronics for decades. This technique is also used to prevent your metal kitchen mixer from killing you if there’s a short.

Am I “the expert” in this domain? No. Do I have plenty of exposure to it and other engineering disciplines to make a judgement call on the facts; absolutely.

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🙄

Thank you for your concern for my safety. I’m not interested.

My advice to you is, if you’re worried about this, never get in a car again.

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I really don’t see Nintendo publishing an emulator that runs on hardware they didn’t make (yay unnecessary e-waste).

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I’d never heard of it… It kind of reminds me of RuneScape from what I’m seeing. I wonder how Brighter Shores will stack up in a few months.

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It has its own index in addition to aggregating results.

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Yeah, this would be a weird thing for valve to do for sure. I think they could afford it… But they already have Source 2.

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To be fair, if your server is taken over, there’s a good chance your other devices have been compromised first/as well, in which case you’re already in trouble.

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You can have a server without a public IP; that’s totally doable. An internal server that’s only accessible from LAN or a VPN is still a server.

Also, the majority of compromises happen because of user error (e.g., someone opens/runs the wrong thing) or an unpatched machine, not because of an exploit in server software/because the machine is always on. This is especially true in the business world where it’s often a combination of human error and the network not being segmented/ACLs not being set properly/etc (lots of cases of human error).

It’s also not that unusual for someone to keep their e.g., desktop always on or their laptop/mobile device in a low power state where it still has network activity despite being “off.”

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I liked it when it was first a thing and you’d see huge crowds of people in their early twenties out in parks and things … but I don’t think I ever really liked the game itself.

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It says in the article they’re aiming for 4070 performance at the top end. So, still not quite 3090 performance sadly.

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Oh Christ, that’s not the same thing and you know it.

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You 100% should have to keep your systems up to date. It’s a danger to yourself and everyone else when you don’t.

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If you want to phrase it as a “personal responsibility” thing, then you should frankly be criminally liable if your system is used for a DDOS attack.

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You think it’s funny for your system to take part in an attack potentially costing billions of dollars in damages because you can’t be bothered to switch off of Windows because “you don’t like what Microsoft installs with their security updates” or “actually install security updates”?

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That’s not entirely fair either though… They can incorrectly summarize, omit important information, or just make stuff up.

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All I am saying is that it is fine to be critical of LLM and AI claims in general as there is a lot of hype going on. But some people seem to lean towards the “they just suck, period” extreme end of the spectrum. Which is no longer being critical but just being a reverse fanboy/girl/person.

Fair, nuance is an endangered species.

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