Potatos_are_not_friends @ Potatos_are_not_friends @lemmy.world

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"sigh"

(Unzips pants while looking at a nekkid lady)

Same. I think it's neat. But not "Yeah I trust you Microsoft" neat.

StackOverflow has been going down the shitter for years. Waging war against their users, pushing AI to answer questions, pissing off professional developers who no longer feel a reason to answer coding questions.

So Malware authors sneaking in and posting vulnerabilities and gaming the system is absolutely going to be expected. Then AI regurgitating those answers with no experts available to call out the problem before it's too late.

Welp, job security. Good luck!

In 2020 (?) joined that Google One program where the promise was you pay a monthly fee and every two years, you get a new Pixel phone "for free". Not the latest, but last gens model. It looked really good on paper.

I'm cheap. I did the math and it cost less to do this than buy used from Swappa. And knowing Google's awful track record for customer service and killing products, I joined fully aware to keep my expectations low.

After 2 years, I was eligible for an upgrade. And the program changed. It was no longer a monthly fee, but pay $500 for a new phone. And worse, that Google phone died two months after the warranty ended. Google wanted to charge me $300 to repair the phone.

If you buy anything Google, keep your expectations down. Like really down.

I went with eleventy and pure markdown files and I never looked back.

I say this as a person who loves WordPress and contributes to the open-source project.

This is actually really touching.

I absolutely cancelled after that Joe Rogan drama. I was already questioning why I needed Spotify. And seeing my subscription money go there, I bounced.

Now I'm watching more boneheaded moves and shaking my head.

I hate that more games don't do this.

I'm dressed like a freaking monkey clown and not a single NPC is going to address it? Granted, I'm also wielding a god slaying sword and two minutes ago killed Death Incarnate. But still... Acknowledge my ridiculous outfit!

The hero we need

I feel the same way as the poster. I was expecting acrobatic movement like in 64. But so many of platforming puzzle revolved around the FLUDD. Kinda glad Galaxy and Odyssey returned to more about Mario himself.

Peak film year.

Steam puts the player peak for the episode release at just 559 players, and it’s down to peaking under 500 even on the weekend here.

I dislike the smell of Fenugreek in people.

In food, it's fine. But if you cook with it, it lingers on your clothes. And that bothers me.

Hard to answer your question because it's a mixed bag.

As tech gets cheaper, it gets easier and easier to do malicious things.

On the small scale: I used to host my tech blog on a rinky dink raspberry pi.

I was getting hundreds of funny bot visits a hour, as they try to pen test and find any vulnerabilities. And that was after I set up some tools to block weird IPs. Two years ago, I was getting thousands, and the numbers kept growing. It didn't hit a point where user experience was taking a hit, but at some point it will.

I could get a beefier system (more expensive), or I can just sign up for cloudflare. And now the management of that layer is handled by Cloudflare, so I can focus on coding.

Now to talk About the enterprise level: same thing but hundreds of times more. We were actually getting DDos. We originally didn't want to use Cloudflare, and instead use in-house solutions. But after a hefty trial and seeing our AWS expenses skyrocket, we swapped to Cloudflare.

Signed up, swapped over to Cloudflare, and instant uptake. We are also paying a fraction compared to our in-house solution.

It sounds like a freaking ad for cloudflare.

But one thing I don't like is Cloudflare can easily monopolize the internet. As we all switch, Cloudflare now has a lot of power to tell sites to fuck off if they don't like their content. Cloudflare hasn't yet. They keep up White Power websites and racist shit. But they have taken down calls of violence and online gambling.

If you have your day ruined by Cloudflare, I'm going to either assume you run a bot network, you're trying to do something incorrectly, or you are part of the dark web.

Eeeh you know my feelings about them

Remind me what 1999 films were like?

Good? Bad?

Japan is obsessed with different flavored kitkats.

I wish I saw something like this.

I was going to argue against this but you have a point.

I was originally going to call out the Linux laptops selling worse, assuming that people were more comfortable with Windows.

But Chromebooks sold a LOT. So maybe the average consumer doesn't care as long as the laptop is easy to use.

I'd argue it's awesome because it's a great product that lets you play games on the go.

The huge win is that its running on Linux, and valve contributes to open-source with Proton!

In typical Valve fashion... They'll keep slowly working at cool things while their competitors continue to shoot themselves in the foot.

Microsoft's latest wtf with forced AI and screenshots of a user's daily usage is pretty terrifying from a privacy standpoint, not to mention the forced technical upgrade. Companies are even switching to Linux now, which will drive adoption.