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@sh.itjust.works

Just your normal everyday casual software dev. Nothing to see here.

People can share differing opinions without immediately being on the reverse side. Avoid looking at things as black and white. You can like both waffles and pancakes, just like you can hate both waffles and pancakes.

been trying to lower my social presence on services as of late, may go inactive randomly as a result.

Pika 6 points 2 hours ago

I mean they kind of asked for it.

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Pika 1 point 2 hours ago

If Valve decided to sign hardware contracts at the prices that are forcing them to do this, that's on them. I'm saying they shouldn't have done that in the first place. The project should have been held off until it stabilized.

clarification: There is no way they didn't have some form of forecasting on how much they would be paying per unit prior to signing said contracts. I agree with you, they probably have contracts in place now, but there's no way they agreed to these contracts without knowing the price of hardware they ate buying. It's not like they can sign a contract, and then two months later, AMD can be like, hey, by the way, you know that hardware market issue we have? Yeah, so that agreed upon rate you're gonna have. We're adding $300/p unit to it. Usually it's a I will buy X amount of units at Y cost over Z period, and then they renew/negotiate the contract as needed.

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Pika 1 point 6 hours ago

I agree. their best play here would have likely been to just delay release until the hardware market stabilized. its going to flop at it's current pricing.

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Pika 2 points a day ago

I think the company could still likely chase people who do that for damages if something broke or for lost profit since it would be pretty clear that it was intentionally disabled/intended to stop its function so it would be pretty clear in a civil court that there was tortious intent.

I wouldn't personally recommend doing it on these, they are essentially walking cameras.

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Pika 3 points a day ago

I cancelled my sub as well for this year but, my only experience with this was well I selected "prime day delivery" to get the extra 1% on the card. It told me the following monday which was only like 3 days away so only a day more than if I did normal shipping so im like "oh ok thats fine". It didn't arrive monday and was updated to the monday after. I ended up cancelling the order full stop and got it at a brick and mortar when I was out that wednesday.

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Pika 250 points 5 months ago

out of all the censored things, they didn't think to censor a product key before declassifying it. I wish I could say I was surprised.

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Pika 201 points 4 months ago

For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”

Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID's like they had been claiming.

Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I'm sick of companies lying and saying "lol yea we defo delete the data after"

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Pika 164 points 2 months ago

Shocking. Absolutely riveting outcome that wasn't expected whatsoever. /s

That being said though, the weirder part for me is the fact that apparently they weren't able to obtain the operatives behind the website. So this was essentially a court case that was filed, put into session and then given judgment without even ever identifying the defendants that are on trial.

That seems really weird to me.

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Pika 155 points a year ago

Furthermore, with the amount of telemetry that those cars have The company knows whether it was in self drive or not when it went onto the track. So the fact that they didn't go public saying it wasn't means that it was in self-drive mode and they want to save the PR face and liability.

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Pika 140 points 6 months ago

I'll be interested as well, but I don't think that it is a bad thing so to speak. Both CD PROJEKT and Michal have high values when it comes to DRM-Free and open gaming. Gog is mostly supported by it's backers and game revenue, I don't think that will change. I don't see the co-founder who created both the studio and the storefront performing a pump and dump on GoG. If anything we may end up seeing a more heavy push into DRM free areas now that it's detached from the game studio. Additionally CD Projekt's reason seems fully valid. It makes sense they would rather focus more on making games than distributing. Distributing games is no easy task, let alone maintaining an entire storefront that most of the corporate world dislikes due to the core principles of the storefront (I.E the push towards support and DRM-Free).

It could be bad but, I'm not going to be super concerned until actual evidence ends up on the ground for it.

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Pika 133 points a year ago

She has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is being held in lieu of $1,080,000 bail,

My initial thought for this was "How do you plea Not Guilty willfully leaving two children in a car for 90 minutes." but then I found this later on

However, her 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid is equipped with an automatic feature that turns the engine off if it has been left running for one hour while in park, police said. Police estimate that the engine turned off around 3 p.m. and the children were left without air conditioning until Hernandez returned around 4:30 p.m.

Still super shitty, but also I think change the tone a little. Her expectation was that the car was going to be climate controlled for the procedure. Still stupid of her, and kids shouldn't be left alone that long, but it defo let me understand the "not guilty" plea

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Pika 133 points a year ago

Mad props to the lad for not only having the self awareness that his role in the hierarchy likely gave you anxiety from that mistake but for also taking the time to reassure you it was ok. You don't see that every day. I love it.

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Pika 126 points 7 months ago

unpausable cutscenes. Nothing bugs me more than getting interrupted in the middle of a cutscene and not being able to press escape to pause the cutscene. You're forced to try to split your attention between what interrupted you and the cutscene or restart and see the cutscene from the beginning again.

Extra annoyance points if escape immediately skips the cutscene without any indication it's going to.

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Pika 115 points a year ago

that is my first thought as well.

"Shoot we didn't take into consideration that GROK will need to be able to see these somehow, so now we need to redo it"

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Pika 112 points a year ago

it's not an entire app but, discord profile decorations.

The fact it costs money isn't surprising, but the amount of money charged is hilarious.

17$ for some graphics that some look like they took about 20 minutes to make. Just to make your profile look different than everyone elses. Then the "discount" given for having nitro for it is even more laughable.

Whats equally insane is that people fall for it. I know some people that have easily spent 60$ on profile decorations. Spending equal or greater than the cost of discord nitro is insane to me, even if the decoration doesn't expire.

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Pika 110 points a month ago

I think that the OP(the article author) is not looking at this the right way. Like yea it sucks another exploit is found, but it's not like if it wasn't found it doesn't exist.

I think its much better to have them published and fixed then to live in blissful ignorance when someone could be exploiting it in the wild.

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Pika 98 points 2 years ago

It's actually quite worrisome, many projects exclusively have their troubleshooting or support on Discord now what's going to happen years down the road when all those Discord servers have closed or no longer active and the invite links expire this is going to be a vast knowledge base that's just lost to the world

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Pika 96 points a year ago

having a whole lot of "Accidental" topic suppression as of late aren't they?

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Pika 94 points 4 months ago

Personally, it seems like it's trustworthy again. The previous owner of the repo did eventually admit that they authorized the transfer, but, The entire transfer process was extremely sketchy and had no chain of custody or trust. It was just the repository got deleted, and then a few days later showed under a whole blank state again with a user with no profile, no contribution history, and it was just a trust me bro, I knew the original maintainer look I have the keys to prove it.

The maintainer of the Google Play build of it seems to trust them though, and they are established in the community, plus they archived their sync thing builds again in favor of just using one repo, so it's likely fine.

For future people wondering about it as well, it doesn't help that the new maintainer of the app has deleted every issue that had to do with the migration, so you no longer can research the issue for yourself. The only information you have available to you is the discussion chain listed on the community forums, But any type of issue that they link to were deleted.

Personally though, I plan on keeping my current version pinned to prior to the transfer until either I'm forced to update due to bugs or I feel comfortable with the current maintainer again. I'm not sure how long that will be.

For an app that contains very sensitive information, I was not impressed with how the transfer process underwent.

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Pika 92 points a year ago

Definitely keep signing, I'm really concerned at the speed it rose , and I'm really hoping there wasn't something else at play here.

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