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by Scaled 3mo ago
Space data centers are an intrinsically cool idea, and honestly I hope we see at least one for the sheer marvel of such a project. But to be cost efficient, it has to be cheaper than rural US, cheaper than buying some island, cheaper than
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by Scaled 3mo ago
Age verification is not the will of the voters. It is the will of large political donors (specifically tech companies and religious censorship groups). It is certainly not the will of adult citizens who use adult websites, who have overwh
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by Scaled 3mo ago
Didn't know ACM was anti-privacy. Glad I haven't paid dues in who knows how long if they're spending them to platform these noxious opinions.
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by Scaled 3mo ago
I vaguely recall some crypto project that was 'blockchain for domain names'. I scoffed at it at the time, but maybe there is a real need for something like that after all. (Or some other system for domain names you truly own and
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by Scaled 3mo ago
Another juicy threat vector is forcing the app stores to stealthily ship a modified version of the app that sends copies of the IDs and/or tracking data to US intelligence services. (Reminder: we know Persona's verification softwa
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by Scaled 3mo ago
For private code, it just feels safer to self host that -- ideally behind wireguard for an extra layer of security. For public code hosting, GitHub have banned too many people/projects for comfort. From security researchers to 18+ gam
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by Scaled 3mo ago
I had my identity stolen this way before. Since then, I do not allow the scans anymore. It is a dreadful feeling showing up to a hotel not knowing if you'll get turned away at the last minute because you take a stand for your privacy.
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by Scaled 3mo ago
Gitea action runner has a bunch of different ways to setup and doing the isolation properly looks tricky. The documentation doesn't provide any isolation tests to administrators, either. The biggest mitigation is that gitea documentat
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by Scaled 3mo ago
I'm glad to hear the queries are free now! I somehow managed to blow through the free quota, not by like a crazy amount but enough that I started thinking in most circumstances why pay extra for basic dns when registrar's is free
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by Scaled 4mo ago
Lol, no. Face scans are being bypassed using video games. Meanwhile the data has shown 90%+ porn users are unwilling to do them and switch sites instead (citation: https://pornbiz.com/post/17/the_scam_of_age_veri
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by Scaled 4mo ago
I would have nope'd out so hard if they asked for face pictures.
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by Scaled 4mo ago
Yes, but seems unlikely to be prosecuted... The government directly benefits from higher tax valuation.
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by Scaled 4mo ago
People should file comments at that Federal Register link as well as FCC. (The FR is the official way for citizens to comment on proposed agency rulemaking. Since it's independent, it might go farther, but it's worth doing both.
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by Scaled 4mo ago
You can also file a comment at the Federal Register for the next 16 days -- It looks like the proposal is 2026-10407 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/26/2026-10...
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by Scaled 4mo ago
It lets politicians see how unpopular something is and how many votes they will lose.
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by Scaled 4mo ago
FYI for adult content, there's a standard called RTA-Label that already integrates with all parental controls and is already deployed on all major adult sites.
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by Scaled 4mo ago
Same but in my parents case it was even worse -- there is a web portal but it's locked unless you use the app to unlock it. Tried contacting support and they could do nothing. Completely arbitrary requirement. Ended up buying a repl
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by Scaled 4mo ago
Transaction fee is going to be what... $3,000+? Instead of a $30~$50 wire fee. That said, I'm sorry you lost the account. As a heads up they often hold the money six months so if you're in a cash crunch you might want them to ch
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by Scaled 4mo ago
Common misconception - it's the merchant who pays for fraud and the 3% is pure bank profit. If there's a fraud transaction, the merchant has to pay the whole amount back and ends up negative the transaction fee and the chargeback
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by Scaled 4mo ago
FYI there was a lawsuit about this a while back and part of the settlement was merchants can pass on fees now.
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by Scaled 4mo ago
Not true. Regularly had FAANG want to double/triple my salary to leave games.
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by Scaled 4mo ago
While I fundamentally agree with the concern about unions raising costs in a market where most titles cannot absorb them, GTA/Rockstar definitely can. Especially since the union is fighting for basic quality of life like no crunch ins
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by Scaled 4mo ago
My first AAA game industry boss said to me only 10% of people make it 10 years in games. This has been, if anything, optimistic, with there being a sharp drop-off at 2~5 years. (And in indie it's way worse, it's more like 1% maki
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by Scaled 5mo ago
It's really surprising how much cheaper colo becomes if you have an even vaguely predictable workload. And you don't have to be a major customer, either -- the data centers will happily sell you single U's or a couple U&#x27
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by Scaled 5mo ago
And if they do, you can walk over there too and ask a human why in person. (Or just call the NOC)
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by Scaled 5mo ago
One of the greatest cyber security mysteries of our time. Regardless of what actually happened, I hope the author is okay. (The story implied to me that the author was forced to post that, or was disappeared and the website was changed by
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Adult game industry complaint to FTC regarding Visa/Mastercard (2025) [pdf](avvn.org)
4 points by Scaled 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Scaled 5mo ago
Filed last year, but I don't think previously shared.
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by Scaled 5mo ago
I have spoken to others in my field and we all have good chargeback rates. The problem is the VIRP/BRAM requirements push adult content into using only a handful of acquiring banks, and thus there is insufficient competition to get the
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by Scaled 5mo ago
I applied to stripe recentlyish as an adult game project with excellent processing history and very low chargeback rate and got denied.

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