mriswith

@mriswith@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest one by value is Meta with €1.2b. Although their revenue is in the $150b+ range, so not maxed out by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 1 and 2's source code isn't lost after all, thanks to one hero programmer: 'I made it a quest to snapshot everything'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone not reading the article: She was the co-founder and was putting together a collection of games they were selling needed the source code:

  I asked for the source and was given a blank stare. I went to the COO’s office and he gave me a cardboard box that looked like it was run over by a truck and it had some of the source on floppies. I ended up contacting friends at Electronic Arts to get a copy of the source we sent them when Wasteland shipped.

  After that she started keeping ones of everything she worked on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing as Lufthansa is German company, they might have some massive fines incoming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a weird read for a non-American.

  A private company is selling cheap tablets to inmates to let them communicate with their family. That’s not a bad thing, then you notice that the cost. They have to use “digital stamps” to send messages, 35 cents a piece and come in packs of 5, 10 or 20. Each stamp covers up to 20,000 characters or one single image.

  They also sell songs, at $1.99 a piece, and some people have spent thousands over the years. That’s also now just going away.

  Then you get to the part about the new company. Who already has a system in Tennessee where inmates have to pay 3-5 cents per minute of tablet usage. Be that watching a movie they’ve bought or just typing a message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did I get so old⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008…