sudotstar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Crazy Taxi Game Will Be Live Service with a '100-Person Survival Mode'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My hope, though I'm keeping my expectations low, is that since these supposed live-service games will be supposedly releasing alongside remakes of the original games the IP is based on, that if the remakes sell significantly better than the live service games it might hopefully inform better decision-making around them.

  While they haven't been controversy-free in terms of their monetization practices, Sega has released a slew of back-to-back AAA games: Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Sonic Frontiers, that have generally been complete, single-purchase packages (with a few questionable omissions from base game moved to DLC that I'd consider "regular bad", but not anywhere near the level of egregious monetization seen in most live-service games).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Java Still Keeping Up with Modern Programming Languages⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm curious to hear about yours and others' experiences with containerizing Java applications in such environments. I used to work in a place that traditionally had such restrictions on JDK versions, but after the internal IT environment moved towards running applications within containers, either on Kubernetes or on public cloud platforms' container runtimes, that restriction became unnecessary since the application would be shipped to production alongside its compatible JDK.

  While there were still restrictions on exactly what JDK you could run for other reasons, such as security/stability, common developer experience, etc, it at least allowed teams to immediately adopt the newest LTS release (17 at the time I left) with little restriction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd probably pick something esoteric and then just stop programming, tbh. I enjoy being a polyglot programmer, and learning many languages and learning from many ecosystems is incredibly interesting to me, far more than hyper-specializing in a single language would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO this isn't a real "solution" to the problem here, but this article states Android 14 also allows Google to manage device CAs remotely and push updates via Google Play, and goes into detail about how that mechanism is poorly documented publicly and is basically only an option for Google themselves, not any third party device administrators.

  Google can easily claim that all security concerns are handled by their own management while continuing to deny access to all third parties to actually handle that responsibility themselves if desired.