boonhet @ boonhet @lemm.ee

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I saw a mobile game use HOMM UI elements and I think some gameplay elements in their ad, I wanted to cry out loud.

No, I've never heard anyone use that term to refer to themselves. I just don't know a lot of arrogant assholes though.

Standardize a response body across your APIs that specifies the cause of the non-2xx response. Have an enum per API/service for causes. Include them in the API doc.

If anyone still doesn't get it, quietly dispose of them at your friend's pig farm.

I inherited a project where it was essentially impossible to get anything other than 200 OK. Trying to use a private endpoint without logging in? 200 OK unauthorized. Sent gibberish instead of actual request body format? 200 OK bad request. Database connection down? You get the point...

You must be trolling but in case you're not, the richest man in the world bought Twitter to silence left wing voices that were a danger to his ability to exploit the working class.

Now that he's functionally the president of the united states, he obviously doesn't want people to use Tor because that would make it harder to find and jail people who are against him.

I know like 3-4 people who I'd label 10x engineers and while all but one are male, they're all non-toxic both at work and outside of work. Huge part of being 10x is enabling the rest of the team to work faster as well. If you just shit out code 10x as fast but someone else needs to pick up the slack to fix your bullshit and you don't communicate at all because your work is sooo important, you're not a 10x engineer, you're an asshole. A true 10x engineer elevates everyone around them.

It's because one is the loneliest number.

I think that's to do with how permissions work.

Having wi-fi access can technically tell the app where you're located so you need to give it location access

Which is stupid because it then also gets GPS access.

I'm not Russian either but it's like Russian Facebook with all the problems Facebook has, but under Russian control rather than American. Supposedly even more deeply integrated with intelligence agencies than Facebook is.

It tries to be the only website you ever need to visit so it can always show you as and always track you.

The way modidng on socials works, people would be more than happy to have ICE harass people whose opinions they don’t like

People are literally happy to SWAT other games. You can't trust anyone with the power to bring shit down on other people.

The headline is what says there's a privacy complaint.

1. You can ask Google to take down malicious requests for your name. With ChatGPT it's never guaranteed.
2. ChatGPT is often used as a search engine so anything wrong it says IS spreading bullshit online.

My tinfoil hat theory is that a large part of it is incels. All the articles that young people are having way less sex than previous generations, etc. Young men are frustrated and instead of doing something productive about it, they start hating women. And hating women is a quick slide to the right side of the political aisle.

If you've ever visited the now-banned incel subreddit, it's a whole bunch of really frustrated young men who blame everyone else for not getting any.

And the other commentary who’s paid for 10 years with no decrease - what in the actual fuck???

Not to justify, just explain: That person likely only ever paid the bare minimum to cover interest. It's like when you have a credit card. You can make interest-only payments, or you can pay more to start clearing the actual debt.

There are SO many property owners who could not keep their house with a 5% increase on their house loan

But it's not a 5 percent increase, it's a five percentage point increase on the interest.

I'll take a loan calculator with typical Estonian values for an apartment, not a detached house, bought before the Ukraine war with the standard margin + euribor interest scheme.

250k @ 15% down, 30 years, 1.7% base interest + 6 months euribor. Euribor was 0, so we input that into the calculator. Monthly payment is 754 euros. About the same as rent for a decent 3 bedroom apartment, so not a bad deal, right? At least you get to keep it at the end of the 30 years, plus Euribor has been 0% for like a decade, it's never going to go up. Well, now Putin attacked Ukraine and it triggers raised interests because they've already been too low and inflation has been too high. Over the course of the next ~2 years, Euribor goes up to 4%. Now your interest has gone from 1.7% to 5.7% annually, with the euribor part being updated every 6 months. And the payment? 754 euros monthly to 1233 euros monthly. If you're making 2500 euros neto, 754 euros for a mortgage isn't a bad deal, but 1233 euros as the prices on absolutely everything is going up 2-3x? Suddenly it's a lot less affordable, at least if you have a family and such. For a single person it would still be doable.

Any time I need to buy something, I check if rtings has it as a category. If not, I give up and just buy something from a known brand with a long enough warranty and decent seeming specs, whatever they are.

How is DocuSign supposed to be a signature anyway? It's not your handwriting, and there's no cryptographic proof either.

Check out e-signatures like we do them in Estonia. The document has a cryptographic signature belonging to the person who signed it, with a date. Change the file in the container and the signature is no longer valid. It makes physical signatures pretty much obsolete because it's easy to use and WAY easier to prove that the signature is not fake.

There are issues of course - someone who knows your PIN2 could steal your device and sign something before you can get the certificate revoked. You do need to keep your PINs secure.

Who actually rebuys overpriced Apple products every time a new one comes out? Clout chasers maybe, but not normal Apple users.

Up until very recently, only Apple had over 5 years of software support on their phones. With others you'd be lucky to get 3 on flagships and yet Apple had 6-7 years on some models. You could use your phone for 3 years, pass it on to a family member and they'd get to use it for another few years, while still getting updates. I'd argue that if you had a Samsung, you would've needed to update more often.

On the computer side they unfortunately do force regular users to upgrade after 6-7 years, which for that market is significantly less than anything running Linux. Of course if you know how to google it, you can get new OS updates for more like 10 if not 15 years. Still scummy. But nobody replaces them annually. Companies replace laptops at 3-4 years usually.

You can sell used iPhones for hundreds of euros where I'm from, even 4-5 year old models.

With that in mind, the euros per month of ownership might be about equivalent or in favour of Apple when comparing to Android flagships.

Of course, flagships never have good value propositions in the first place.

The original article and headline don't mention AI, only the the headline of the English translation does. Shame to see them trying to clickbait international audiences. It's our national broadcast, they don't even make money off clicks. They usually have fairly good reporting too.

I'm guessing the editor Andrew Whyte had something to do with this. He wasn't credited in the original article.

Also if they're using AI for anything in the proposed system, it's probably to detect which photos have drivers staring at phones. Simple image categorization. Not AI but a machine learning algorithm at least.

Poor translation of poor wording.

In Estonian it's common to say "today we do x" to refer to status quo. If you say "today we've decided to do x" like in the article, it can sadly be taken in two ways.

Also that part refers to the lack of clarity on who would install average speed cameras IF we started using those. Nobody wants to pay for them basically.

But the core of the article is an autonomous system that would be installed on top of police cruisers and send out tickets without officer intervention. Check speed, check insurance validity Check if driver is looking at phone or if seatbelt is undone. Same system in stationary cameras would work as average speed camera. The insurance thing is just an API call, the other stuff is ML (image categorization) so I guess you could call it AI, but AI is not mentioned anywhere in the Estonian article.