limitedduck

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[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I don't think I understand what you're suggesting. Are you saying encryption keys should themselves be encrypted?

FYI this story isn't about plaintext passwords, it's about plaintext encryption keys to chat history.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 51 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I kind of agree that this may be a little overblown. Exploiting this requires device and filesystem access so if you can get the keys you can already get a lot more stuff.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They've admitted they have a problem with getting new players so everything they do needs to somehow draw in new players. Getting their current playerbase to create and buy/sell isn't enough of a reason to create such tools especially if they don't think they can match the experience of the other platforms, hence the technological competition. They need to be able to provide excellent tools and an excellent way to host and share creations to draw in creatives who could become new players.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

There's little business sense to make it exclusively for the current player base. You'd be risking wringing your customers dry. It HAS to attract new players and thus new income sources. If they can't compete, then it's not worth the time and money to create and maintain those tools. You compete with other companies in a space purely by investing your time and money in that space because anything spent is expected to eventually turn a profit.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Someone could reply to your comment saying they just follow their municipal guidelines and they could be doing more than someone with a long list of whatever because their government has implemented better climate action systems.

Grilling individuals on their personal contributions is unproductive because climate change is a systemic, societal issue that is beyond any individual.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The problem really is the servers. There was a golden day or 2 just after the 3.23 patch launched and before everyone jumped on after hearing about it where things were running so well. Right now the servers are overloaded with people back to check out the big patch and new players from ILW. When the servers get full and errors start building up is when things get nasty. Their server meshing in 4.0 can't come soon enough.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 26 points 5 months ago

Users who don't want redundant dependencies will probably prefer AUR packages. It can also be nice to manage all the packages with just the helper app. I try to install the binaries of apps from the AUR if they're available to avoid the long build times.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

Was your old setup using docker volumes? Your old database could be in one

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a dadish guy in a Henley who looks like he's heading to the last farmer's market of the season on a brisk Sunday in the fall

What a fantastic characterization of Kyle Katarn

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Closed Alpha playtest isn't an invitation to publicly review, it's an invitation to playtest. They're trying to gather data and feedback on an inherently feature-incomplete and unpolished game to help with development. There are going to be private channels for feedback and the playtest data itself is like feedback so public channels are redundant. Obviously Marvel is also just trying to dodge criticism, but that's not a mutually exclusive reason.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

Alpha and beta aren't really the same though. Alpha is meant to be unstable and feature incomplete while beta is supposed to be simply missing polish. For Alpha reviews to have real value they need to provide that context. Otherwise, it's just an exercise for the reviewer

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