where_am_i @ where_am_i @sh.itjust.works

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I understand. Safety and stability of embedded software is clearly overrated.

Why learn about stack overflow. Tomorrow some kid will press the "open" button on your device, will get rejected 64 times, and on the 65th the locking mechanism will crash. Makes sense to me.

They're making it unusable. YT is literally starting a massive war on users with AdBlock. And oh boy was lemmy angry.

I was there. And it stood on the shoulders of volunteers. And we collectively gathered money so our favorite imageboard could pay for hosting. And we discussed how unethical it was to block ads, cuz the imageboard needs to pay for hosting. So either donate or click on the ads, ane make sure the revenue flows. (Remember the tiny text "please click on the ads, it supports the site"?)

We offloaded imagehosting to shady weird websites with virus autodownloaders, where you absolutely had to block JS just so you don't get pwned. And so some suckers would eventually get pwned, have their screen locked, pay ransom, and finance our collective love for zipgifs.

I was there, Gandalf, I was there 20 years ago. YouTube and Tumblr were the holy saviors.

So, is OP donating to lemmy? Or self-hosting some content?

Or only leeching while explaining to everyone that this is how communism is supposed to work?

Because it explains you a broader legal concept in your default language.

I will pay for their single player if reasonable, I'll probably pirate cuz their shitty online tracking made GTA5 not even worth playing legally for free. A pirated version would've worked much better and wouldn't require their fkn launcher social club disaster.

But absolutely surely I'll know I'm not an anti-corpo warrior. Just a tiny rebel insignificant enough to ignore. And I only matter a tiny bit, because I actually would've bought their game if it was on GOG.

And if everyone always bought on GOG only, you'd see a much, much stronger presence on that platform.

Till then their answer to you will be "hey you've been playing this game and your friends did too, well in order to play together it's 10$/months, good luck pirating that".

Looks like your CS degree is actually teaching you CS stuff.

If all you wanted to do is center divs for 50$/h or so, a 2 months bootcamp would've been more than sufficient.

You draw new borders and stop shooting, that's a start. You then keep the agreement by having enough military for a new invasion to be undesirable. Simple game theory. Trust and promises only work for societies that mutually respect each other.

Until you self-host funny cat videos, OP, you're just a leech. Maybe like a poor kid or something.

Where do you get this attitude that everything should be provided to you for free and you're entitled to it?

There's a difference between "we removed landlords and prices went down" and "we allowed anyone to pay as much as they can, especially if they're poor, and somehow now the average rent is lower".

Clickbait title, but lemmy swallows as usual, cuz it fits the narrative.

Regular Teslas are still very desirable luxury EVs and sell like hot cakes. SpaceX clearly just had to rescue Boeing's blunder.

Those two will grow and big time. No matter how much you cry about the downfall of your beloved Xitter.

You want to portrait yourself as an anti-corpo warrior. But all you're doing is making corpo content a mainstream monopoly, and through that they will eventually find a way to make someone pay for it.

You will only make corpos go broke if you actually spend some money on alternative content. Meaning that content will get better, and there will be some follower base to enjoy that content with.

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/does-a-company-have-to-honor-a-price-mistake-made--229684.html

But hey, this guy has a 30-1 upvote ratio.

A customer, surnamed Wang, said she learned about the dramatic price drop via social media on August 28.

She bought three machines online, including two that usually sold for 1,699 yuan (US$240) each but were priced at just 299 yuan. And another that should have been 2,499 yuan but was labelled 439 yuan.

100% sure abuse of a scrivener's error. In fact, if the buyers will be honest about how they found out about this price and immediately decided to buy, they could be counter sued.

You're too far up your own asses most of the days, lemmy

It applies in your country too.

When you're signing a very obviously unbenefitial contract with the other party because someone forgot a zero, and you don't alert the other party, that contract will be void. This is called scrivener's error.

Believe it or not, you buying anything, even when you buy a hot-dog outside is a purchase contract.

So, you could argue yourself out of an incorrectly applied 10% discount voucher, but you won't argue yourself out of buying a new washing machine for 50$.

WDYM? There's a massive protest in the middle of London saying "stop arming Israel" and nobody's jailed for anti semitism.

I live in Europe, I openly express my opinion on Israel's genocide, nobody thinks I'm an antisemite. In fact, I probably don't have a sufficiently diverse environment around me, cuz I don't think I know anyone who's supporting Israel's atrocious war.

Is anyone calling you an antisemite?

Your identity, most of the time, is not revealed to the merchant. The payments online and through a credit-card machine are processed through a 3rd party. The seller doesn't get your info, only money on their bank account.

Doesn't your credit card provider still get all your data?

E.g. doesn't visa/mastercard know about every transaction? They charge fees and they have a fraud prevention systems. So, I think, they do, right?

Me in yurop, using a debit MasterCard, never needed a credit score. Who has my data, what are they doing with it, and how do I burn down their server?

(The answer, kids, is Stripe. Give it some years, it will be lit)

You think that exists in the UK? I doubt. You definitely don't get anything of that sort in the EU. A law is a law.