NeatNit

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 220 points 5 months ago (5 children)

no list of apps anywhere

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How could you not mention Windows XP in this comment. MS kept up support for a surprisingly long time while encouraging everyone to upgrade (and rightly so), but even 5 years after they completely dropped support, they had to release a security update to protect against a widespread attack because a ton of organizations were still using XP.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This approach is doomed to fail, so long as the general public isn't aware of the problem or its scale. Government regulation is the only way.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Depends on what country you live in. Just because they call is that doesn't mean the law and courts will see it their way.

Relatedly, check out www.StopKillingGames.com. When you buy a game without an expiration date on the box it either is illegal or should be explicitly made illegal to destroy your copy of the game when the company shuts down their servers. Stop Killing Games is a campaign to stop this from happening, and it's actually getting some progress like being noticed and picked up by politicians. If you know Freeman's Mind, Civil Protection, or Ross's Game Dungeon, this campaign was started by Ross Scott (Accursed Farms) who made all of those.

Edit: quote from the FAQ in the website:

Q: Aren't games licensed, not sold to customers?

A: The short answer is this is a large legal grey area, depending on the country. In the United States, this is generally the case. In other countries, the law is not clear at all, since license agreements cannot override national laws. Those laws often consider videogames as goods, which have many consumer protections that apply to them. So despite what the license agreement may say, in some countries you are indeed sold your copy of the game license. Some terms still apply, however. For example, you are typically only sold your individual copy of the game license for personal use, not the intellectual property rights to the videogame itself.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Did you entirely rewrite the application and then release the update with the update log: "* Stability improvements related to message sending." ???

Edit: to cancel out the negative sentiment, good job. I personally don't really interact with the app enough to notice that it's changed, but if it needed to be done and you did it right, I commend you! Just seems a bit weird that the "what's new" message is so bland. Is it even for the most recent version? The release on GitHub has a completely different changelog.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

Trickle down economics works perfectly fine. It's just that billionaires are subhuman and so are further down than the rest of us.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

I think there may actually be some truth to this, but I don't know nearly enough to say so with any confidence

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

It's not super relevant but Israel doesn't allow offshore voting, the only way to vote if you live abroad is to physically travel to Israel on voting day. (This doesn't apply to those on official government business, like ambassadors or navy soldiers or whatnot)

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have heard that at least the main ingredient being advertised must be real and the actual product. So for example, in a McDonald's commercial the patty must be an actual edible McDonald's patty, but the vegetables and bun can be made of whatever.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

it should be noted that on a home network tunnelvision is not a real risk, only on e.g. restaurants and stuff like that

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All of them. The nonsensical overlay when he looks through the binoculars. The CGI shots of the crane that don't remotely match the environment or look and feel of the rest of the footage. How the writing in his notebook is so obviously different in the two shots where they are visible, and how the amount scribbled/crossed out is way too much compared to the timing and audio of it. The weird bright flashes near the end that don't seem to come from anywhere. Even the explosion doesn't look right somehow.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

These are some of the worst visual effects I've ever seen, and I can't tell if it's incompetence or fully deliberate and self-aware.

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