azerial

@azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Could you just get an extension that changes your user agent? They exist. I wonder if it would work.

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As a release engineer for Electronic Arts for 13 years, this looks like to me a copy of either the source folder from Perforce, a devs machine that had synced a stream, or the same from a build machine. It's not uncommon to use batch files and python scripts to reconfigure a workspace to switch workspaces. I see a solution file in there.

I would bet that particular file is an automation script to configure a machine for development.

Even the devs hate denuvo. It slows down the build times and makes it hard to debug.

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Try being a e release engineer and having to use it. It's awful. You have to configure your nodes to connect to their servers and then wait for the "magic". Quite often it would time out and this was for a mega video game studio. Denovo is trash.

Ironic that ZD-Net is speaking of relevancy. Ha

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You should check out loose leaf teas. I find them to be less expensive and better quality. I like a mail order catalog called Upton tea imports. You can get 100g of earl grey for 7 bucks which is 18 cents a cup. They also have a cool quarterly magazine.

There are lots of other places to get loose leaf teas, like the grocery store in the bulk goods section. You can get little paper filters or get a strainer. I don't like the little clampy ball one, but it's cheap. I prefer the pour over basket.

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As a 15 year long editor to Wikipedia, this comment is exactly how i feel and it's hilarious.

edit: my God i just waisted 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back reading that article. 40 editors are a SPEED BUMP when it comes to editing the Wikipedia. Also what's up with the terms they are using for group of editors? Lol

What id like to see is the appeal to the admin thread on the Wikipedia. Instead we have a slate article about this click bait bullshit.

Right i posted the same thing on another nothing chats thread a few days ago. It's such a bizarre statement that's just not true.

Woohoo!! This awesome! As a game dev, I can speak to how awful the industry can be. That's really great news that they unionized. ๐Ÿ™Œ

You could always try volunteering for an organization you both like together. I've met several friends by doing this, plus it's fun.

Awe as a dev this kind of bums me out a little. I wonder that they used for DRM. Those sales go directly to the devs in way of raises and retention.

Granted this is not EA where i worked, but if you enjoy the game, i encourage you to buy it.

Also NOTE: I DO NOT SUPPORT DRM, just the pay checks of the devs as i was one for quite some time.

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The owner of Patagonia is also doing that.

And layoffs all the way down.

This makes me roll my eyes. From the Sunbird faq:

Will the app [sunbird] be open source?

Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

To help satisfy our own ambitious goals of providing total privacy and security, we are currently undergoing a third party audit that will validate our security, encryption and data policies and plan on receiving ISO 27001 certification after launch.

Sure Jan.

edit: source: https://www.sunbirdapp.com/ at the bottom

Right, that's what I was thinking. They need to fire their marketing company, because almost certainly it's tied to inventory and expiry dates. That's why at the restaurant I work at, our family meal is always something bizarre. Like last night it was pasta with a bachemel, grilled potato cubes, and fried chicken...... All mixed together. ๐Ÿ˜ซ

I switched. Still getting a handle on the ferdiverse. The developer for Sync said he was creating a Lemmy app. I use Jerboa currently.

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Omg same. I have been burnt so many times on "lifetime" scams, im done. I want to invest in your product, but part of that agreement is you doing what you say. I've had it!

Neat link. I really like using https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page when researching local candidates.

Here's the GitHub for it. I agree that I'm not one to just run a script blindly. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

edit: I'm such an idiot. My God. So i ran a different os hardening script. Guess what my dumbass forgot to do? Confirm the local admin username and password. Guess who's locked out. Me. Woooow lol don't be dumb like me. Create a checklist before hand. I guess i learned a fucking lesson lol.

At least you can have the freedom to be aggravated by a progressive. I live in Texas with corrupt politicians leading our state. Ever hear of ERCOT? I have, daily through text messages to "conserve energy or else". Just fix the fucking grid hot wheels. Stop wasting money on idiotic floating barriers that are illegal in the Rio Grande. I'm here for someone that wants to at least attempt to change something.

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If you're that dumb, it's natural selection at that point.

The best part of that robots.txt is:

Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.

Sure Jan.

I don't think they realized anything. I worked for them for 13 years. I think they are likely looking at a strategy to bring archived games with low hardware requirements to new platforms that can run them.

For example, I worked on NBA and Madden Mobile. These were ps3 games that were ported.

It's a good strategy. Why start from scratch when you can just port existing titles that had good sales.

I do this. That fucking troye sivan song haunts me now.

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I have my partner to make sure that doesn't happen. He's pretty observant.

Also I'm grounding myself by visiting my sister in a few days. She's my only living relative. It will be needed.

I love MAM

Just imagine if it's a build farm with hundreds of machines. Jesus. That's a hell I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy.

Yeah same, from a +44 number for me. I laughed and reported it as spam.

Visual Studio

Some trackers that i use, i indefinitely seed things and so i have a crazy ratio. My book tracker is one of these. Also quite frequently I'll use a token to freeleech the file, so it increases my ratio or I'll buy it as freeleech for the site in the next week. This might be what you're seeing.

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Alamo Drafthouse plays strange ads.. a lot of times they are movie reels from ages ago that follow the theme of the movie or it's a voice mail from an angry guest about how they got kicked out from the theater. Usually this: https://youtu.be/1L3eeC2lJZs?si=Z4i3cHrZ-twfVD_S or weird shit like this https://youtu.be/Ze5kyR3ogso?si=jTRIC-q6bcOjNHvC

My God same. Try being a line cook at a ramen restaurant with what seems like 400 garnishes. :โ 'โ (

Did you not like DAI? I liked DAI (and worked on it some), but that was a much different BioWare. I was lucky to not work for BioWare when they shit canned the whole Austin office and sold Star Wars: The Old Republic to Broadsword. I heard a loud of BioWare people also left, but what are you doing to do in the shit hole that Edmonton is? Not many options I've heard. Though I've also heard there are some small studios in Edmonton that have spun off, as they always do.

As someone who has worked directly with that team I'm hopeful but also hoping it's not another dumpster fire like Anthem was. I could go on forever about that project.

edit: small Edmonton studios

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What you don't want to go to "X"? I can't imagine why. lol /s same though. Also I refuse to call it x. It's fucking Twitter. It's like that line in mean girls, "Gretchen, quit trying to make fetch happen, it's not going to happen!" Lol

I wonder how long they've been working on this integration and i bet they didn't see this coming: Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 . I mean it's technically not the same product. RCS will replace sms/mms and "Nothing Chats" is an iMessage back door (?).

Yeah in the article they state:

And Korkerd is optimistic. โ€œWe have something like this in Thailand,โ€ she said. โ€œWe want people in America and Denver to try something new from Asia, and we donโ€™t see this in any way yet.โ€

I'd try it.

Lol this. Everyone's so paranoid with locks, this only makes sense if you live in a concrete bunker. Also, if they want to get in, they will. Self housing and using devices that are patched and communicate locally is the way. The only issue with this is you have to be on top of your system and ensure it's patched and up to date, but wouldn't you oil your manual lock occasionally?

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Oh 100%. You can try kagi out on a free trial, which is what I'm on. It's nice because you get different search results that aren't constrained to the Google algorithm.

What I mean by this, I search for recipes a lot, on Google all the recipes are identical. When I use Kagi, they differ with the main search team I want.

I plan on using Kagi and subbing when I have the money.

It's better to pay for a product than be the product imho.

edit: for the recipes I mean on Google it's the same promoted main steam food network bs, etc every. Single. Time. With Kagi I feel like it's smaller people with recipes with more relevancy to the terms I type in.

Holy shit thank you for this. I really appreciate it .

edit: i do intend on still doing tech as time allows. The information you've given me is invaluable. Thank you again.

Yeah i don't think another wiki is a reliable source. I think that would fall under user forums or some shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources either way, good for them lol