

Just your normal everyday casual software dev. Nothing to see here.
I want to add, this was an existing ruling, they just clarified the rule. Every article it seems is using each-others clickbait titles(the linked article even references it in the edit).
The change that they made was that they added a dedicated section to the developer guidelines, where before they only had it on their pricing page.
This rule has been in effect for 5 years now according to steamdb.
Look at it this way. there is very little that you can do about it at the time being. It makes zero sense to hard focus on the bad things in life, even more-so when they are out of your control.
Enjoy the small things, and when the possibility to make the change you want arises again, then you can focus on the bad. Until then cheer up, live a little. Don't let the cloud saturate your personality or mind.
Good. This needs to be done. So many officials are just "resigning" as a sign of mutual respect as that is what is considered the norm, but honestly they should just wait it out (and if fired fight it out if there is legal recourse like this to do so), there's zero reason to keel over and let federal services get demolished out of moral obligations.
I hate you, I have had this song stuck in my head since I saw this post yesterday
I had been living in Blissful unawareness for years and you have reopened this hell
I'm just kidding it's a great song but man does it get stuck in your head
Honestly this really depends on how much you use the service $80 a year is probably four or five decent games that you keep forever versus every game that's part of the catalog which is constantly rotating. But if you are someone who plays a game once to completion and then never touches it again, using subscription-based services like this makes Financial sense, unless you're planning on using physical copies only and selling after
If you are more interested in games that you keep forever>! ignoring licensing clauses cause steam!< and you run on pc, I would highly recommend humble choice it's like 150/$160 a year and they give you like six or seven games a month that you can have forever, not all of them are great but in my opinion it's worth the money paid.
I feel like I need to add in this is being disingenuous. As someone who had the Ps3 during that time, for the most part PlayStation network was fairly reliable. With the exception of the 2011 Anonymous hack that took their entire system down for a month. But they came back and gave a handful of games free to everyone that was involved out of it.
Like sure it would be down for an hour or two at a time periodically during update windows, but that's standard and it was a mostly reliable service,
I would play the PS3 basically daily cuz I was a massive Cod fan at the time. I rarely ever had an issue of logging on and having the network be offline.
Because at the end of the day it's not worth it for the company, they don't have enough reputation loss out of not having the product available to Warrant the effort to put the system like that. They're not losing any money because the scalpers are still buying, Plus for some reason users aren't putting two and two together that if they didn't buy the scalpers products the scalpers would stop scalping and therefore the cycle just continues
If people would just stop buying cards at or above MSRP from third-party sellers, this problem would have been done away with 5 years ago
In my opinion they should have moved the entire series that way, that or implemented account based registration like the steam deck did, it's better than nothing tho
It's entirely possible the employee had more than one hat and was dabbling in customer service that day. it's not unheard of in the IT field for the buckets to mix when demand states it. Being said the better question is how you could mistake a shutdown/deactivate button as an apply button
apperently cloudflare thought the same as they removed the button from the panel the employee used lmao
100%, someone who used to sell the units the amount of confusion we would get from Grandma's coming in wanting to buy their grandkids a new console and having both the One X and the Series X out was tough to explain. It was always the same puzzled look of "who the hell greenlit that naming choice"
What I'm saying is that you have to look at the bigger picture. Not only Sony would be affected by that, back in 2011 when they were breached consumers were charged in the estimated tens of millions of dollars range. A figure that Sony only ended up having to repay about 15 million in settlement fees for after a solid year and a half.
Additionally, Sony still managed to go up in profit that year, despite the PR nightmare out of it. Going up from 1.2 billion after operating costs in 2010 to 1.4 billion after operational costs in 2011 and still made 1.1 billion in 2012 ( after the 172 million in damages was done)
I understand hating big business and their practices as much as the next guy, but I have a hard time getting a sense of satisfaction knowing that at the end of the day the company itself isn't going to be impacted by the hack more than a small itch, while fucking over the everyday consumer significantly more
Why would you want them to be breached? The only people that are going to be negatively affected by that are the users who was involved in the breach.
Understand hating a company but I find it to be pretty selfish if you're okay with third party being affected just to fit your personal agenda.
It's what separates the corporate tiers with the consumer level. The ability to care.
This doesn't bode well.
The last time this happened was when Anonymous hacked PSN and took them down for a month after they went after Geohotz(cant remember the spelling) for jailbreaking/reverse engineering the ps3.
Radio silence like before as well. I hope they weren't breached again.
they being the automotive industry or the citizens who voted overwhelmingly for it?
If the automotive industry wins (unlikely as they are arguing a fight that the Attorney General has failed to classify an independent entity, which the AG can somewhat easily remedy), I plan to reach out to my states representatives (I'm sure they are getting REALLY sick of me because I'm already sending almost weekly emails due to other issues with the state), in hopes that they can remedy the bill back into something that the people voted for, and not something that big business voted for.
If the auto industry loses: I plan to wait a bit for the implementation of the law to go into effect, then I plan to download the tools given for my current car that the automotive industry is required to provide. If said tools are not available I intend to report the company as non-compliant. These tools are not considered unreasonable by any means, and /should/ already be available for mechanics as part of their every day working of the vehicles. There is zero reason for diagnostic tools for a vehicle I own to be locked behind either a paywall or be restricted to only licensed techs. That is against right to repair as a whole.
Honestly though, what is likely to happen is, the enforcement of the law will be paused until the AG can place an independent party responsible, and then they will revisit the issue when the automotive companies inevitably refuse to assign a person to the party. Which will then go into a whole different can of worms with state fines to the companies refusing to be compliant.
might be in relates to issue link here
It was a good read, personally speaking I think it probably would have just been better off to block gotosocial(if that's possible since if seems stuff gets blocked when you check it) until proper robot support was provided I found it weird that they paused the entire system.
Being said, if I understand that issue correctly, I fall under the stand that it is gotosocial that is misbehaving. They are poisoning data sets that are required for any type of federation to occur(node info, v1 and v2 statistics), under the guise that they said program is not respecting the robots file. Instead arguing that it's preventing crawlers, where it's clear that more than just crawlers are being hit.
imo this looks bad, it defo puts a bad taste in my mouth regarding the project. I'm not saying an operator shouldn't have to listen to a robots.txt, but when you implement a system that negatively hits third party, the response shouldn't be the equivalent of sucks to suck that's a you problem, your implementation should either respond zero or null, any other value and you are just being abusive and hostile as a program
Man, not that I agree with either side here but, this is like the fourth or fifth drama incident regarding the kernel that I remember seeing in the last year of so, I can see why the argument that people don't wanna help with it is coming from.
Oh shoot okay, I was hoping it was a mobile setting drat lol
Wait there's a setting to turn it off? I'm off to find that setting cause comments on the autoplayers on shorts is so old
I wasn't able to find one, disappointing.
Yeah, even if that wasn't the intent that was the outcome. And honestly yea probably was done just using air tools, it's still blows my mind of how stupidly tight that was on there.
Thankfully though I live in a fairly low population state so there's never a line for any shops, usually most things can be a walk in or leave that night to have it worked on next day...you just have to be willing to drive 45 minutes to get to one. I do agree, finding a decent mechanic can be helpful, even if the only real work you ever need done is the yearly inspection.
It's a privacy activist stance, privacy and security are always at a constant battle. There was a post about it a few weeks back, every attempt at security compromises privacy, because private info is the easiest way to lock security down, so it's always the route that companies take. Personally I don't think a corporation should have to risk their company over it, but I don't think a company that isn't privacy oriented should pretend to be. It's misleading. I give them credit that they might be good for privacy but, the entire operation gets undermined when in order to sign up, it tries to force you into giving information that could identify you. The less information needed the better, and the less you can tell overreachers. If you don't have the information you don't have the information. That's signals motto, it's also Mullvads motto, and its the direction that proton runs in if you can find your way through it's hoops.