Great, now I’m eyeing buying FF8 again for the 5th time. What is wrong with me?

Seriously, are you worried they’ll sue? They don’t want to open themselves up to discovery on this one, I guarantee it.

Startups are hiring all of the time, they’re just harder to find because they’re always a company you’ve never heard of, and their job descriptions are sometimes a little more niche than they need to be.

In terms of implementing a vision without political power, the best impacts I’ve had have always come from forming a consensus with all of the different stakeholders at my level in the company before trying to move the idea up the ladder.

If the ideas are good they will probably benefit multiple departments. If your leader isn’t receptive to new ideas, working with other departments to get their leaders excited about the idea may be a way to move forward.

Roll 3d8 thunder damage. All Android phones within 10 ft have to make a constitution saving throw; what’s your spell casting DC?

They discovered that the malware can operate in a mode called ‘phantom’, which uses a hidden WebView-based embedded browser to load a target page for click-fraud and a JavaScript file. The script’s purpose is to automate actions on the ads shown on the loaded site.

Ooohh nooooo. Will no one think of the poor advertisers and their wasted ad money??

I know viruses are bad and this exploit could probably be used for more nefarious purposes, but I’m having a hard time getting upset about it.

Given its rocky path to get here, I have 100% confidence early access will be a buggy mess.

What remains to be seen is 1) if they can clean it up fast enough to stay relevant, and 2) if it will be a compelling enough upgrade to draw people away from Minecraft.

I suspect 2) is going to be incredibly difficult to get right. Sure the gameplay might be better, but Minecraft is one of the most overly documented and heavily modded games ever. If they want to convince people to give up years of work optimizing every aspect of that game to come play in their sandbox they’re gonna have to get clever.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071

Let communities follow each other!

In the past, Google would release the source code for every quarterly Android release, of which there are four each year. Thus, the company is now reducing its source code releases from four times a year to twice a year, focusing its efforts on the Q2 major update and Q4 minor update which both bring developer-facing changes.

A spokesperson for Google offered some additional context on this decision, stating that it helps simplify development, eliminates the complexity of managing multiple code branches, and allows them to deliver more stable and secure code to Android platform developers. The spokesperson also reiterated that Google’s commitment to AOSP is unchanged and that this new release schedule helps the company build a more robust and secure foundation for the Android ecosystem. Finally, Google told us that its process for security patch releases will not change and that the company will keep publishing security patches each month on a dedicated security-only branch for relevant OS releases just as it does today. (For more context on Google’s security patch release process, check out this article.)

Sounds like the main impact is quarterly feature updates, which will now be every 6 months. Curious if any AOSP ROM devs have any hot takes on this.

It gets better, from the product page:

Opting out of subscription will result in gradual feature deactivation, and ultimately reverting to a device running AOSP (Android Open Source Project).

I’m all for paying to support providers I care about, and I recognize development costs money as do cloud services, but to actively remove working features running locally from a device I “own” is crossing a line for me.

I have my phone set to go greyscale every night and I love it.

Not a bad idea for small businesses - having a central place to purchase direct from retailers is a nice idea, I think where it may struggle is:

Verifying seller authenticity / avoiding scam products

• In a fully open marketplace its hard to enforce accountability. Amazon has teams of people removing fraud items (and they still have rampant fraud).
• Amazon functions as an insurer on sales - if you receive a fraudulent item, amazon eats the cost (and tries to cover it from the seller)

Part of Amazon’s market dominance and convenience is owning the logistics

• Amazon operates massive warehouses and has tons of money invested in logistics, so orders can be consolidated
• All of the savings of not paying the “Amazon tax” will just become the FedEx/UPS tax

This is not to say it can’t be done but Amazon has billions of dollars of infrastructure that’s hard to replace with volunteer programming

“Coding this game in JavaScript is a lot of fun”

Quote provided without comment.

Oh sure, and next you’re gonna tell me the devs are outspoken about privacy??

I guess since you’ve found the source, can you find the patch titled “Google Firmware Secret Backdoor Patch”?

Ben Seaverston

Good. Infinite growth is bad for games.

Must’ve… If only GOS was open source and the devs were incredibly outspoken about privacy, we could verify this speculation through their statements (or lack thereof). Alas…

Pretty impressive to have an OS that’s “almost impossible to crack” with backdoored firmware.

For what its worth, I subbed to EasyOptOuts earlier this year, as recommended by PrivacyGuides and Consumer Reports, and have, somewhat anecdotally, noticed a MASSIVE decline in spam/scam calls.

I was getting 1-2 calls a day at peak, and now I haven’t had one in weeks. Could be a fluke, confirmation bias, or other unrelated crackdowns, but for now happy to keep my subscription going for a couple of years to not have to worry about checking back on those brokers constantly.

Hoping the CA Opt Out portal goes live soon as well, since that’ll be a huge win for millions of people.

Why should we, the developers, invest money into refining software when we can just get you, the users, to invest in more hardware?

Of course, if your manager requires you to turn it on, most employees will feel pressured to comply, but Microsoft stressed “it is not possible for admins to consent on users’ behalf.”

Pretty sure an Admin could remote into my computer at any time and tick a checkbox. I find it hard to believe that anything is “not possible”