RegalPotoo @ RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

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Down vote away, I don't care, but they really aren't though.

Pretty big difference between buying a thing that stops working if you don't have an active subscription, and using an old LTS and being given the choice of paying for extended support or the free upgrade to the new LTS

Nah, all of the bots and AI systems and pretty much the rest of the internet is built out of the software equivalent of duct tape and offcuts of scrap wood. If humanity disappeared the whole thing will fall over inside of 3 months. The only reason any of it works at all is noone is really actively trying to properly break it

Not a 'murican so have no experience with firearms - what's the danger here? Ricochets off the water?

Oxygen, and some ongoing process to generate complex molecules to be oxidized - you need something to reduce the things that have already been burnt back into new molecules that can burn, otherwise you run out of stuff pretty quickly

For now. Eventually entropy will win and the darkness will be complete

It's pretty common for freelance developers to have insurance like this - if I screw up and you get ransonwared, insurance pays for a lawyer to explain the contracts indemnity clause to you using small words

Being in the car for a low speed collision wouldn't be fun, but it's better than being a bonus target in the middle of a game of car billiards

Take a shot every time someone mentions AI

"I never thought the leopards would eat my face" says local supporter of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

Caveat: depending on if you are getting a loan from a financial institution or taking private investment, they will either want collateral (if the business fails, we will sell your house to cover the debt) or will want a pretty big chunk of the equity (we'll take the risk that the business fails as we loose all our money, but in return we want to own 50+% of the business, have the final say on decisions, and take a good chunk of the profit if you are successful)

https://glitchtip.com/

API compatible, but lower resource consumption - is missing some of the newer features (big one for me is tracing, but just install Tempo).

Not actually tried it, but looks promising

We live in a society, and all must do our part to enforce the social contract.

It should be legal for anyone to key the shit out of cars that park like this

He doesn't though. He talks a big game about how rich he is, but it's all talk - he is leveraged up to his eyeballs, his businesses hemorrhage money, and sooner or later someone is going to start calling in those debts and the whole thing will unravel - this is what the NYC fraud case is about; he lied about his finances to get loans that he wouldn't have been able to get if people had known how little money he actually has

WFH until the printer is moved. Even if the fumes weren't toxic (they are) you shouldn't be expected to work in an environment like that

No, in general the code quality in large open source projects is just as good as in proprietary programs - for large projects, the majority of contributions come from professional software developers being paid to work on the project either by their employer or via grant funding, and those that aren't still get their changes reviewed by professionals, same as everyone else.

Smaller projects tend to be a mixed bag - the internet has a "one guy who has been maintaining this absolutely critical piece of infrastructure unpaid on evenings and weekends for the past decade" problem, but even then open source has one major advantage - transparency.

If the code is open source, it's relatively easy for anyone to look at the code and spot bugs - even if the first person to find a bug is a bad guy who keeps the bug secret, the odds are pretty good that someone else will also find the bug and tell the developers about it so they can fix it, and tell the programs' uses about it so they know that they need to take action to protect themselves.

For proprietary programs, there is a much stronger incentive to keep bugs secret, both for bad guys (it's harder to find bugs if you can't look at the code, so the odds of your useful bug being publicized is lower) and for the developers (bugs are bad for business and cost us money, so we'll sue you if you publish). Some larger players have "bug bounties" - if you find a bug and report it to us under embargo so we can fix it before you publish, we'll pay you - because being perceived as having a secure, trustworthy product is worth the cost, but these are often more marketing tools than actual security features

Don't know about Google specifically, but lots of places don't accept them, especially for subscriptions

You'd probably need a billing address and credit card from the country you are trying to register in. You can probably just pick whatever (valid) address you want, but getting a credit card would be hard, and billing addresses not matching the address registered with the bank tends to trip fraud detection systems

Most things that are powered have microcontrollers in them these days, and that usually means firmware of some kind - it's not always "field updatable". A product I was involved in the development of used a fairly standard li-ion battery pack, and part of the manufacturing process involved making sure the firmware on the batteries had been updated correctly

Because someone did the math and decided that the cost of development plus the cost of ongoing support was less than what they'd make selling the DLC, or was less than what they'd make selling TF2 hats or whatever

Because Google is great at naming things, you might be getting confused between a few distinct products:

• Android Auto lets you tether your phone to your head unit (via USB cable, some units support wireless connections as well), and access cut down versions of some apps on your phone via the head unit - it's pretty common on first party units on late model cars, and has the advantage that you don't need a data plan (it uses your phone) and don't need to keep your phone and your car in sync - everything is running on your phone directly. Apple has an equivalent called CarPlay
• Android Automotive is a special version of Android designed to run directly on head units - it's licensed to OEMs and usually skinned to match the manufacturers branding. I've never seen Android Automotive in the wild (it's only available on first party units for some specific model cars), and I'm not really clear if you can install arbitrary Android apps or not
• Some after-market head units come with Android installed (they are essentially tablets in a head unit form factor with the appropriate I/O connections on the back) - depending on how professional the manufacturer is, they might brand this as "Android Auto", even though it has nothing to do with real Android Auto. These typically will never see an update, and probably don't meet the IP as specifications they claim. You can typically install whatever apps you want, but make sure you understand your local laws, where I live having a screen playing video "within eye line of the driver" will get you a fine and points on your license, so playing YouTube while driving is probably a great way to have an awkward conversation with highway patrol