koluna

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by koluna 4y ago
There is absolutely no way they managed to do proper due diligence to understand who on the team is essential ("good bones" for the structure) vs. those that are not. It's been a week.
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by koluna 4y ago
On a server, sure. On a client machine where the bulk of the software I bought is 32-bit and it stops working overnight, that's less acceptable.
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by koluna 4y ago
Steam Deck is nice, but let's not kid ourselves that it's anywhere close to what Windows has to offer. Most games in my Steam library still are not Steam Deck compatible, and chances are they never will either because they are too
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by koluna 4y ago
Ah yes, the good ol' Linux "You're holding it wrong" mantra. Look, I don't know about you, but I don't have unlimited time to go fiddle with whatever emulation layer is there to make some game from 2017 work we
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by koluna 4y ago
I wasn't referring to the edge network for _startups_ to replicate. I was more wondering how AWS and others can replicate Vercel/Netlify and eat their lunch. They have no defensible moat as a company.
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by koluna 4y ago
The more I see these announcements, the more I wonder - what is the appeal of something like Vercel and the likes? On the surface it seems like AWS/GCP/Azure/whichever big cloud provider can replicate literally everything the
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by koluna 4y ago
Most smart watches are actually providing a lot of information that is useless for the consumer. Yes, you can track your heart rate and step count - but then what? What does that mean? Do you need to walk more? Sure, but you could do that w
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by koluna 4y ago
This is a well-known play on FOMO - there is that bit about the inherent fear of missing out on being top of leaderboard/in-game items/bonuses/etc. What's fascinating is just how easy this mechanic is applied to so many
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by koluna 4y ago
There is a big difference between "We enable others to access data with user permission" and "your game play, activities and usage of games and Xbox Services will be tracked and shared with applicable third-parties, including
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by koluna 4y ago
That's part of the problem - opt-in never works because it's an inherently an anti-consumer practice. The industry got so used to vacuuming up as much data as possible that the moment you give customers the option, they do not wan
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by koluna 4y ago
We're talking about MSFT here - what did they build in the past 5 years that did not have a dark pattern built in? Windows nags you about Microsoft account and won't let you install without it unless you know the magic CMD incanta
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by koluna 4y ago
I know this will sound like proposing a bandaid to a bigger problem, but that should be an incentive to drop Minecraft. Stop playing the game and move on to something different.
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by koluna 4y ago
More folks need to realize that their best bet (if they want to play games) is to buy them through DRM-free services like GOG, and not Xbox Game Pass or whatever flavor of subscription there is. You're right in that once you get banned
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by koluna 4y ago
Getting really tired of the game of cat and mouse with telemetry domains, but alas the vast majority of the population does not understand the risks to their privacy, nor are they educated about the extent of data collection and re-selling
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by koluna 4y ago
FWIW, I just assume that any data in the "cloud" is up for grabs to the highest bidder, with any service, no matter how "privacy-oriented" they are today. Once they get enough data, it becomes too tempting to start monet
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by koluna 5y ago
Despite what any website might say, all of the hype and “value” of crypto always comes back to dollars. If you take that away, I don’t see how anyone will want to stick around short of super hardcore techies.
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by koluna 5y ago
Value that basically doesn’t exist without real money behind it? That can be used as… well, money without the energy waste?
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by koluna 5y ago
I’m sorry, spit my coffee over the keyboard. What value does cryptocurrency provide other than sucking the world’s electric energy for meaningless calculations?
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by koluna 5y ago
Yes, and with Google you can also appeal. Problem is the same, though - you don’t know why the decision was made and don’t have the full view of the problem.
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by koluna 5y ago
No, they won’t. They can close any accounts without a notice or reason. https://www.helpwithmybank.gov/help-topics/bank-accounts/ope...
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by koluna 5y ago
What’s being missed in this thread is that nobody (streamers) is an employee of Twitch - Twitch graciously offers them their platform, but that’s like your local fruit stand offering you a place to juggle next to it. They can take that away
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by koluna 5y ago
So just like at will employment then? Anyone can fire you for wearing a shirt they didn’t like that day - this is your problem, not theirs.
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by koluna 5y ago
You opt in when you choose to buy a piece of hardware from a vendor, and when you sign up for a carrier. Apple needs to identify phones that are flagged as stolen. They also need to connect the user to the carrier through their software and
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by koluna 5y ago
> The phone IMEI, hardware serial number, SIM serial number and IMSI, handset phone number etc. are shared with Apple ... You’ll also be surprised to learn that Apple gets to know your phone number when you set up iMessage. Really? This
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by koluna 5y ago
No, they don’t. Ubiquity literally covered up a giant security breach to avoid backlash while putting every single customer at risk for 3 months. Imagine - for 3 months someone had direct access to your entire network and you didn’t know.
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by koluna 5y ago
I’m not holding my breath. Troy is a consultant. If they sent him that much free gear, what, he’s gonna backpedal and say “I’m removing everything UBNT out of my network”? Definitely not. “That’s a bad look” is a understatement for the gian
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by koluna 6y ago
You realize that the idea is the same, right? AI made an incorrect determination and people ran with it.
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by koluna 6y ago
You might be surprised to learn that there are many teams responsible for many things, and SRE is very likely a team different than the one that handles user experience decisions
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by koluna 6y ago
Kind of a ridiculous product to find. When asked why a user needs to pay $10/mo, the answer was “We'd like to fall into the category of other consumer SaaS products” That’s the reason? Just shows how jokes become reality - everyth
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by koluna 6y ago
Not surprised, considering that they spin every little feature into its own AWS service. it would be an insane task to easily control the data flow, retention policy and anything like that.

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