Pup Biru

voyager automatically opens links in reader mode for me and it works about 80% of the time

(but this article it doesn’t work for)

this entire thread is about the STG petition, and thus about the theoretical possibility of how laws could change

mandatory minimum warranties are also not relatively minimal effort and yet we have laws that require those… most consumer protection standards aren’t minimal effort: that doesn’t mean we don’t make laws to ensure consumers get what they are expecting when they hand over money

why shouldn’t handing over source code to a game that’s being shut down (and apparently that nobody finds any value in since it wasn’t even bought in bankruptcy auction) be mandated as a last resort?

literally what STG is about

and the law is able to make license conditions illegal/unenforceable (like non-compete clauses in employment contracts)

usually in bankruptcy the game gets sold in order to help pay debts… whoever buys the game assumes the responsibility of contributing to run the online services, or provide options for others to… in the case that nobody buys the game (im not entirely sure what happens to the IP in that case) but it’s relatively minimal effort to release server source code or documentation OR even just remove the online parts that’s usually just for DRM which is now pretty irrelevant because you’re shutting it down anyway so why would anyone care if someone pirates it?!

not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop

A group of conscripted cooks took down a helicopter of landing marines

kinda reminds me of this: https://www.theage.com.au/national/collins-sub-shines-in-us-war-game-20021013-gduomk.html

during war games one of australia’s collins class submarines (diesel electric, quite dated at this point) managed to “kill” a los angeles class nuclear submarine (several times over?) when the US sub was also aided by 2 destroyers

perhaps worth pointing out too… focusing on the minimal abuse as a reason the whole program should be cut is very american. i think the rest of the world the attitude is much more that a thing is necessary and abuse is a cost of doing business (like shoplifting: just because there’s some shoplifting doesn’t mean you close the whole store)… it’s very much nobody “undeserving” should get rewarded before people need help

you can make very cheap to maintain peer to peer solutions

you can use a STUN server to discover your public IP and use a method called UDP hole punching to open a port others can connect to. STUN servers are very cheap to run: they don’t actually handle the data; just provide a kind of handshake service in the middle for coordinating

this is often used for peer to peer video chat etc

doesn’t mean it can’t do damage - like fox news

hell you don’t even need a lab for a lot of bio plastics: you can produce them in your kitchen

Even 50 days is relatively fine if it’s cheap enough to replace saran wrap for food products

well we already have that

and that’s 50 days total, so those big commercial rolls of plastic wrap are much harder because they’re now perishable too: you can’t just stock a warehouse up

and yet climate change is still an even more long-term important problem

https://www.victorianchamber.com.au/news/understanding-criminal-wage-theft-laws

this is the way

The new criminal offence of wage theft, which commenced on 1 January 2025, targets deliberate underpayment practices by employers.

Key changes:

• Intentional Conduct: Penalties apply if an employer intentionally engages in conduct that results in the underpayment of employee’s wages or entitlements.
• Liability: Both companies and individuals, such as directors, managers, or payroll personnel, can be held criminally liable for wage theft.
• Severe Penalties: The penalties for wage theft include fines of up to $8.25 million for corporations, and up to 10 years of imprisonment for individuals.

It is important to note that this offence is not intended to capture inadvertent errors or genuine mistakes.

my state (victoria, as) recently made intentional wage theft a criminal offense, and both companies and individuals (directors, hr, managers, etc) can all be liable … it’s amazing 😍

you’re on programming.dev so i assume you know that secrets is a generic term to cover things like your cloud account login (whatever form that may take - a password, token, api key, etc) for the robot vacuum service and you’re being intentionally obtuse

it’s a realistic attack scenario for some people - think celebrities etc, who might be being targeted… if someone knows what type of vacuum you have, it’s not “carefully take apart” - it’d take 30s, and then you have local network access which is an escalation that can lead to significantly more surveillance like security cameras, and devices with unsecured local access

just because it doesn’t apply to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to anyone… unsecured or default password root access, even with physical access, is considered a security issue

yes and no… i agree with the sentiment, but with root you can extract wifi credentials and various other secrets… you shouldn’t be able to get these things even when you have physical access to the device… the root access itself isn’t the problem

earlier than that: just nobody cared enough before then

+1 davinci… it’s incredible what you get in the free version, and the studio version is getting more and more worth the money in a value add way rather than a need it way