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- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 1 month ago:
Ban them too.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
The real work of software engineering isn’t the coding. That is like saying that being a doctor is all about reading health charts. Planning, designing, testing and maintaining software is the hard part, and it is often much more political than it is a technical challenge. I’m not worried about getting replaced by AI. In fact, LLMs ability to generate high volumes of code only makes the skills to understand it to be more in demand.
- Comment on Threads? 11 months ago:
What are you talking about? I can’t find anything to back this up, but I am curious. Their about page claims they are funded by patreon donations, and doesn’t mention cloudflare anywhere.
Is it just that they use cloudflare services for traffic control, or they host on cloudflare? Especially if it is the former, that is pretty inane.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
Antenna pod is great. I switched to it from google podcasts a couple months ago figuring this would happen.
- Comment on Access home server from anywhere 11 months ago:
My advice: only forward ports 8080 and 443, then make sure that you have fail2ban or crossed properly set up on your reverse proxy. After that, you are pretty much fine as long as you keep on top of updating your containers.
I would be careful about which apps you proxy. Idk why you need to access the admin portal for pi hole worldwide. If you really want to do that, you should set up a vpn.
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 11 months ago:
Yeah, in general, but not necessarily in that circumstance. A lot of time talking to tech people (I’m a softwar engineer) they can can be smug about this while leaving out important context.
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 11 months ago:
Yeah, seriously. What is even the context of this? We have no idea. The cops might have been like “We need a warrant to look at that footage you idiot.”
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how the case goes.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
They usually sign an exclusivity deal in exchange for funding the development of the game. David is alleging that steam pressured him in ways not covered by steam ToS. It’s not like valve funded development of receiver.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
So what? Who cares if it “looks bad”? They have to compete on service. They need to find out why devs want to sell on steam at a higher price.
If other platforms want to compete in ways that make prices lower for customers lower for customers, so be it.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
Yeah, it sucks when mommy and daddy fight.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
That us all fine. David is alleging that Valve is trying to restrict other platforms wolfire can sell their cases on. Valve needs to compete, not threaten to stop distributing a game if they don’t like how it is selling elsewhere.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
Steam runs weekly deals and daily sales all the time. I doubt they have to check with gog.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
What right does valve have to discriminate against devs and publishers who are selling their game on other platforms? They have to compete for their business, not punish them for having a game that is more successful on another store that gives a higher revenue cut to the dev and a lower price to the customer.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
David said in a blog post that the suit is specifically alleging price fixing tactics for other platforms that aren’t key sellers, but sell the whole game. Whether that holds up in court - we will see.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
That hasn’t been my experience, could be a regional pricing thing.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
David Rosen of Wolfire Games (Receiver, Overgrowth, Lugaru) is alleging that steam reps have threatened to de-list his game if he lists it as less expensive on other platforms. Specifically not just steam keys but other distribution platforms.
- Comment on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps 11 months ago:
Yeah, this is what I’m talking about.
- Comment on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps 11 months ago:
So they argue that they want to protect users… from epic games? Like they are going to make a virus filled app? I kinda agree people need to be protected from fortnite, but its kind if a silly disingenuous argument.
- Comment on Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre 1 year ago:
Various parts of the US too, especially in distribution centers. It got a bit bad out there.
- Comment on Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre 1 year ago:
You are never supposed to be this close to a non collaborative robot during operation. Never ever. There are a ton of safety standards around deadmanning operations if someone breaches the Arms workspace. At least here in the US they are enforced through OSHA.
If this keeps happening in South Korea, I would guess it is an issue with however their safety operations are enforced. But you should never even get close to a robot like this while it is running without a light wall or something ready to trip. Even then, most places have the cells fenced off.
- Comment on US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity. 1 year ago:
Apple probably just lets it happen.
- Comment on Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery 1 year ago:
I guess that is what they are doing, but this particular change seems pretty reasonable to me. Discord can’t simultaneously be a chat application and a repository for all memes for all time.
Just goes to show that VC funded services are not sustainable infrastructure for anyone.
- Comment on Discord will switch to temporary file links to block malware delivery 1 year ago:
Its a good point. Eventually discord will find some way to enshittify, I am sure.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
Until you get to a prompt that doesn’t support unicode.
- Comment on Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens 1 year ago:
This isn’t a comic book. Its good policy.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
I think it definitely was a huge breakdown in academic’s to adapt to new technology, and it is at the core of a lot of the societal problems we face today. Of course, a lot of the reasons for this were by design at the hands of a few corporate actors, and they share a lot of culpability.
There are philosophical underpinnings too - a lot of academics are still caught up on modernism (which would rightfully distrust new internet sources in favor of legacy sources of proven idealistic knowledge) vs. Postmodernism, which would provide a framework to recognize the truth in these systems.
- Comment on What makes this website resistant to enshitrification? 1 year ago:
This is the whole point of federation, having multiple instances, and being open source. It’s also why a bunch of the people on here are Linux heads.
Keep on mind that lemmy isn’t owned by a single corporation ir organization. It is a bunch of individually owned instances that talk to each other. This means that if you own an instance, you have contr of how it is moderated, but you have to balance that freedom with making your instance a place other instances will have to connect to. Its very democratic.
This goes all the way to the source code, which is open. So, even if the devs try to change it and exert more control, it could be forked.
Of course, you could still be a doomer and say something could come along and ruin it. But, it’s at least better than private, venture funded internet platforms on paper.
- Comment on Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 1 year ago:
Thats what I did.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
What, is this because of botters?