I don't really mind, but you can't levy this same criticism against UPlay and it gets the same level of vitriol.
From the gamedev perspective it just looks like people have decided that Valve is the desired monopoly.
A fact that Valve are very content to use against game developers, it seems.
(I say this, owning an OLED steamdeck and being extremely pleased that proton exists; but don't forget that Proton exists because Microsoft was doing to Valve, what Valve does to game developers, and Valve wanted leverage)
But Uplay is trash. It's a totally unnecessary piece of drm with its own login that delays how long it takes to get to playing games. There is nothing positive about it. At the same time I don't think Ubisoft has made a game worth playing since far cry 3, so not buying their games is normal and good.
If it’s baked into the firmware of major cell phone manufacturers components how many people would it take?
A team of CS engineers at NSA.
1-2 people in privileged positions either at the point of assembly/programming deployment to ensure the code is delivered.
- for each company which is basically just alphabet, Samsung, and Apple or their chip providers which is about five companies.
This does not seem all that impractical - how many people are dumping firmware from in the wild consumer cellular devices and reverse engineering enough of the code to see if this functionality exists or not? Anyone with that skill is likely making a killing doing other work.
> increased social services and poverty interventions
In the US this is the job of local government, though the federal DoE does it's part (eg. Special Ed faculty salaries are underwritten by the Federal DoE).
There is increased support for these kinds of policies across the aisles through a mix of "early childhood equity" (D leaning) and "increased fertility" (R leaning) policies and talking points.
Because local governments in the US have vastly different resources (and potential talent pools), I think those words may be a nice way to admit "it's a structural issue that shan't be addressed anytime soon".
Because fixing them requires that we spend money. And, in the US at least, there is a significant strain of politics that blames poor people for being poor.
I disagree, their character does not matter, business incentives matter. Nothing would change, if other personalities were in charge, since profit maximization is still there.
The "it's just business" people will double dip and still inject advertising and sell your data while also directly taking your money for a product. Cable TV is a paid product that does both. Cellular carriers sell your data about your location and the usage behaviors of the services you pay for. Car manufacturers sell your movement data for a car you paid for. Sellers of any financial services are all in cahoots about your debt, incomes, holdings, credit worthiness, etc. Even brick and morter stores pull shit with rewards programs to track your buying behaviors to optimize advertising to you.
And when those same companies make public some front end framework, or sponsor a major open source product, or create some novel distributed acid compliant database we (the HN community) rally behind them and say huzzah.
I feel like I'm being trolled left and right here.
>Post history has importance when considering whether someone’s ignorantly sharing partisan propaganda or not.
Yes but it doesn't tell you whether the thing is good information or not! Not everything that is "propaganda" is bad information. Especially in cases of "partisan" issues, you have to look at both sides of it because it often happens that one side denies or misrepresents the other side. I can't believe I have to explain all of this...
You want a good one? Silent password truncation on account creation without a required relogin so on return my saved password doesn’t work and I need to reset it.
Making a throwaway for this since my main is linked to my real identity.
I worked for the online investment banking arm of one of the big Canadian banks a few years ago. Their passwords could only be eight characters long. At one point, I was tasked to do some work on their IVR system and discovered that your phone password was entered by pressing the corresponding letter key on your phone keypad. But they didn't say "2 for A, 22 for B, etc." which really confused me. How did it know the passwords were correct?
And that's when I had a terrifying realization and tested it out on the website - they weren't magically converting your phone presses into ascii characters. No, they were converting your password into the corresponding numerics and saving that. Every single user password was a 6-8-digit number.
They upgraded their whole login system around the time I left that company, including implementing 2FA. Though their 2FA was SMS-based rather than using an known authenticator app system, so it still wasn't perfect.
I've absolutely had this happen with some US bank in the last 4 years. I can't remember which one, but they had me essentially type in my password over the phone in the same way, with * being the button for any non alphanumeric character.
I had a bank that did this and it took me months to figure out WTH every time I tried to logon it failed, but when you reset the password it accepted longer length passwords while silently truncating them and getting you back into the account. I finally figured out their max password length was 8 characters anything longer would result in failures past the initial logon after a reset.
My bank used to do this too, but they were nice enough to silently truncate the password input on the login form as well, so you wouldn’t ever notice unless you accidentally did something to reveal the truncation.
It annoyed the hell out of me though when I was trying to put the required special character on the end of my too-long password after a required password change, and the only error message I got was that the special character was missing.
I had something similar happen with an HP Ethernet switch years ago. I was looking at a factory reset (and had no backup of the config... ugh...). I started re-entering the password with 1 fewer character on each attempt and finally got in. Maddening.
Yep I ran into this with an Oracle OpenAir. Needed to reset my password so I fire up 1Password, generate a 50 char PW and set that. It works for the first login but when I logout and log back in it tells me I have an incorrect password. Go through a password reset a few more times before I finally realize that they are just taking the first 12 characters of my PW and using that, and not telling me that they are doing that.
ugh this one is by the worst and the only way to discover is knowing your password is 100% correct. I usually will drop the password length from 24 -> 12 to sort it out.
Build rail and deploy bussing like you fucking want it. Make it so good Japanese and European civil engineers ask you for help.
Noise?
That’s an engineering problem.
Teacher ratios?
Your property taxes too low for the services your community needs. Notice how I said need - it’s necessary. 20-1 is high, 30+ plus and your local governance is criminally incompetent.
You’re distracted by change and upset that you need to adapt to a world that’s moved past you. Tale older than the dirt we walk on.
Its easy to say "just build trains." It is much harder to actually do it. New rail costs on the order of a billion dollars a mile in American cities. It is not financially practical to expand rail service because of this. What usually ends up happening when suburban areas densify is just that traffic gets worse. It makes sense that people are worried about that when theyve seen it happen many times.
I don't really care about how much it costs to make America look like a modern, 21st century place like the rest of the developed world. Americans deserve to live in a place that gives them services like the rest of the world has.
Deploy the army Corp of engineers, tie to a massive jobs program with expedited eminent domain. Fund it by closing loopholes on wealthy tax cheats, tax unrealized gains for billionaires, tax loans against stocks, tax private jet travel 100%. And on and on.
These are all solvable problems but no one has the will because the people empowered are too fucking comfortable watching the planet get destroyed while people die deaths of exposure and despair by the millions.
When you say "just bring in the army corps of engineers" everyone hears "we're not going to solve the problem" because the odds of that happening are extremely low compared to the odds of everyone just putting up with things being a little bit worse. We need to rebuild faith in our government in order to undertake projects that cause change.
