Ja.

How hard is it to implement email verification?

Harder, actually.

That's the point of OAuth, which is what you're seeing there.

The idea is that you're you and you have a... google account. This shitty little website doesn't want to be responsible for you login details, because those can get stolen. Maybe they contain an email address, which is a problem. Software needs to be updated, it's all a big. They don't want to touch anything in terms of security that identifies you as you.

Maybe all the website does is save your favorite pepe memes. They don't need anything else from you, but they still need to have something to get a user id and make sure nobody messes with your pepe meme collection. That's where this system comes in, because the rest of website becomes significantly easier. They don't need to store anything personally identifying, all they get is an ID and they can connect it with your pepes.

The only downside to OAuth is, as you can also see, that it's corpos you don't want to trust that are offering it.

That's... mostly because of popularity and it depends on whether some service is offering OAuth and if the website in question is using THAT identity provider.

For example, mastodon is technically offering it.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16221

but this is the docs page:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/sso/

So the answer in this case is to just grow, promote and support what we're already doing: fediverse stuff.

All the smarter ones don't because an email can change, your google account unique id will not, that's the purpose of account IDs.

I won't deny that many people/websites probably do use email though. Which is bad. But I can't deny that that probably is what is happening.

Unfortunately that was just an example.

Bloomberg cites two high-profile cases referenced in the ongoing lawsuit, one involving Ubisoft, and another Warner Bros.

First of all, I trust Ubi and WB way less than valve.

Valve allegedly threatened to delist all editions of Rainbow Six Siege after Ubisoft offered a cheaper option on its Uplay store.

Yeah.

Because it violates their policy. That's not a "threat", those are the terms of the contract Ubi and WB agreed to. Terms that everyone has to follow.

Heck, Ubi and WB should be hit with a counter suit for trying to leverage their market position to exert control over valve and getting unusually favorable terms.

Clown suit. Ubi and WB are mad they can't break their contract with valve in a one sided way.

edit: I forgot some context:

The deal between valve and a publisher or dev is: they can sell on steam and elsewhere if steam is at least tied in price, or cheaper, but when they sell somewhere else, that includes the steam key and access to steam and steam's distribution at no cost.

What the devs and publishers wanted to do was leverage other features of steam and the steam ecosystem, while undercutting steam's price.

They are always free to just not sell on steam for a cheaper price. That's not what this is about.

edit2:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

"Steam Key Rules and Guidelines"

Mastodon dot SOCIAL did, the big public instance. Mastodon the software doesn't have these restrictions.

Also, updates.

"hey computer! Update!"

"Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?"

"y"

"ok... done!"

👌

Teen was third employee of city bike safety center to die in bike crash

Ah yes. It's not that A CAR crashed into her, it was a bike crash.

/s

Awful. Just awful that this keeps happening.

If you write something that you base on your previous work, but you don't cite your previous work, that's a problem.

How is the peer reviewer supposed to know who the author is, I thought obfuscating that was the whole point...

And to reward you, we’re giving you 24-hour visibility

(which is nothing special; there are 6 slots available for this visibility every day of the year for various Steam invitations).

He has no clue what he's talking about Steam in 2021 had 69 MILLION daily active users. WTF do you think is a bigger number 130.000 wishlists or getting even 1% of 69 million people to look at something in the reel?

People don't understand the size of steam or the value of that space (that one of six slots) sometimes. It's wild.

And also, THEY noticed, THEY informed him, THEY apologized, and THEY offered some form of compensation, which they legally don't have to.

I am soooooooooooooooo tired of indie devs blaming everything from the constellation of the stars to the quality of the donuts on a different continent for their game not doing well, except that maybe the game isn't that good, and also those 100.000 already sold units is the actual size of the market for that game.

Being a personal fan of video games isn’t necessarily required to succeed in running a gaming company.

What the F***, yes it is.

(that's arstechnica saying that though, not the new xbox boss person)

Ah yes. Work that tracks you, not by your output, but by whether your mouse jiggles a statistically correct amount. Nice.

The thing that's crazy here, and that imo clearly shows that this is a 100% political, manipulative move, is that it's a court. They don't just grab people and declare people guilty or flip coins or something. A trial can end in a "not guilty" verdict. That's the point.

There is only one reason to threaten a court: if you already know beyond any doubt that whoever is accused of something is guilty AND you don't like the outcome and consequences of a guilty verdict.

2025 is a banger year for open source and internet freedom.

A new report

BY THE AI COMPANY "WRITER"

and research firm Workplace Intelligent found a massive portion of workers across the US, UK, and Europe are intentionally trying to sabotage their bosses’ AI initiatives.

Please don't spread obviously doctored "reports".

Worse, Snowden did leak an absurd amount of gov details and documents and info and it did nothing to stop what's happening. People barely acknowledged it.

Maybe someone would martyr themselves. But doing it for nothing? Not appealing.

Also, Hanlon's Razor applies to individuals.

A small child dropping a glass? An adult causing an accident? Sure, that's incompetence.

A company shipping a bad product that kills people? Malice, and Greed. They could afford someone to check that people don't get hurt, they profit from the misery.

I'm not applying but I have a comment / suggestion:

A pattern I'm seeing here, in activism and open source is that you basically want the full package right now. While I understand that that is what you need, people like that don't grow on trees.

It would be good if there was a "trainee" position for people to gain the kind of experience you are asking for. And guidance, by you to make sure they learn the right lessons. Possibly including a private-ish best practices handbook or whatever. I know that that means additional work in the short term.

Thanks for reading, all the best wishes!

(Compare to linux' kernel team asking for kernel devs and the policy of "pick any topic you'd like to work on". Do I expect a fully course on everything, bringing me from "high school knowledge" to "kernel dev professional"? No, of course not. But a few book recommendations would be great. In that case. Not sure if you can learn moderation from a book.)

Bold of you to assume people have perfect knowledge of what they installed and what they use and how much.