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by tpxl 2y ago
A similar argument was tried with 'we sell all users data because otherwise we would not be able to run the service, thus we have a legitimate interest.' It did not fly there either. A service does not have a right to exist. The u
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by tpxl 2y ago
Discussion from 1.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430280
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by tpxl 2y ago
2) Are these even legal under GDPR rules? No. And nobody cares.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Some games, sure, most games, no. There are tons of games out there with dialog options that don't support choosing with numbers, a ton of games where you can't quickloot/drop with shift-click, comparing equipment is a chore,
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by tpxl 2y ago
> My point is that most of the cheating comes from structuring the game around pro-play This is incorrect. Both selling cheats and cheating are big businesses. In Escape from Tarkov, cheaters bought the game (50€), cheated to get in-game
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by tpxl 2y ago
Any decent payment provider and bank will include the country code with the payment. Have a ToS preventing them from buying, warn UK users (geoip?) and then reject any payments from the UK.
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by tpxl 2y ago
You absolutely authorized Microsoft Recall to do that.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Nope. If you give out your cc info, and it gets abused, the liability is on you.
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by tpxl 2y ago
The steam client is a web browser displaying the web page, with a few additional things (like installing games and such).
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by tpxl 2y ago
> Honestly, I don't see why a company should be required to expend any resources on something they've given up on and which they don't think is going to be profitable any more Because selling shit you're going to bric
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by tpxl 2y ago
Huddles worked just fine if you spoofed the user agent, they actively blocked the functionality on firefox.
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by tpxl 2y ago
> For example, why is the address bar so tiny on high resolution screens Because in the year of our lord 2024, we for some reason still don't know how big a pixel is. Making a textbox 1cm tall should be trivial, but is for some reas
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by tpxl 2y ago
> it's for the managers to know "what up" If a manager wastes 30 minutes of their teams time every day because they can't figure out 'what up' from their task management software or quick 1-on-1 meetings, I
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by tpxl 2y ago
Mayhaps the CTO would deign to do their work and ask their direct reports about the status, then compile a report with the desired information? The direct reports would obviously ask their reports, and so forth, until you get to the lowest
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by tpxl 2y ago
I went from an important cog with low pay but high responsibility to a much higher paying job with no responsibility. You can too with a bit of luck.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Maybe yes, maybe no. Parents stove does that, mine does not. Getting a burner to 1 out of 9 takes a stupid amount of time (~15 seconds).
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by tpxl 2y ago
Disagree. Mandatory access ramps exists because we have decided it's a problem to be fixed by society, not the individual. The result is far greater access for people with wheelchairs. It's not about who's at fault, it's
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by tpxl 2y ago
You can, and people do, resell Windows licenses in Europe. Microsoft seethes about it, but can go fuck itself, because this is legal.
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by tpxl 2y ago
They wrote their own json parser which used strlen() all over the place, which is O(n), resulting in O(n^2) complexity for json parsing. The guy shimmed the function to return a cached response if it was called with the same string consecut
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by tpxl 2y ago
Isn't this illegal as fuck? When they take 100$ in revenue, 10$ of that is their money, 90$ is your money (even though they handle it), which they can't legally touch, no? Or is that only for regulated industries?
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by tpxl 2y ago
I have no idea who you are, nor do I check who submits what (the merit of the argument, not who said it and all that), nor do I have a reason to know (I have no reason to follow FreeBSD at this point). I understand you do important work, bu
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by tpxl 2y ago
Amazon is not a traditional retails, it's a marketplace. Walmart buys stock, puts it on sale, gets data and makes decisions upon that. Amazon just skips the expensive first 2 steps by taking data from other retailers on their platform.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Novel stuff is AI, old stuff is statistics. Decision trees used to be called AI :)
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by tpxl 2y ago
Replacing the terminology is the first step to this methinks. You'll always be able to buy a bagel, but not a video game. It's still shitty, but it's not deceptively shitty.
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by tpxl 2y ago
Preventing hosting from a home server without paying for a static IP.
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by tpxl 2y ago
That is quite literally illegal where I live. Any annex to the contract (including base salary changes) must be _voluntarily_ signed by the employee. Forcing signing is illegal. When covid started, my company gave all employees annexes to r
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by tpxl 2y ago
Some of the Rayman games will allow you to control a silhouette of the character while loading. You can just run around a bit and attack, nothing major, but it's something to do.
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by tpxl 2y ago
It's been recommending that movie to me, and it looks excellent, but I know if I watch it it's gonna end up with me throwing the TV out the window out of rage.
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by tpxl 2y ago
While there are solutions, I won't comment on Valorant - free to play games are a whole can of worms the companies have nobody but themselves to blame. I will comment on a game I used to play though: Escape from Tarkov. The game costs
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by tpxl 2y ago
Gamers arent demanding this. There are tons of ways to detect cheaters, the most effective one being human moderation. But no, companies wont do MaNuAl WoRk because it doesnt sCaLe, even though they have more than enough cash in the bank.

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