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The author mentioned Unity in the README, but every other game engine I know requires NativeAOT support. I hope it doesn't run into the limitations of NativeAOT otherwise it's just Unity-only.

I love this. Seriously.

I have teams with 1-2 permanent members and 8 more that may or may not want to check like... maybe once a week at most. Seat limits really mess with the "compliance officer needs to do something every once in a while but do we really need to pay for a separate seat?" issue with per-seat pricing.

A heavy user and a one-time-monthly user are different costs to the product but charge me the same. ;_;

https://cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.html

tldr; out of bounds payload on the dvd player

Agreed. I talked with them in the past and the pricing was far too expensive to make it worth it.

As always: “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

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It's a really old meme.

So if you delete your image the entire trained data set is invalid because they no longer have license to the copyright?

The fees are higher everywhere. Their pitch is "our fees are higher, but we have higher-end customers who spend more", which roughly tracks with reality. But a hot dog stand isn't gonna have whales but an upper-end store might, so it's not surprising to see less support it.

Good! I'm looking forward to having to uninstall a crypto miner on my mom's phone because it told her the only way to play a slots app is to allow third-party apps.

Unity has been on a buying spree including traditional TV/Movie CGI firms for some insane reason†. They're just plain _bad_ at spending money.

(† Yes, I know the growth potential from real-time to rendered. I still think it's a terrible investment.)

West coast US; and it’s awful. The only times a spot is free is at like 6am, otherwise you’re waiting at least 30 minutes (actively, so no one can take your spot in line) to wait another 30 minutes to charge.

Yes, I mean west coast US.

While this should be especially true for destinations, such as hotels or even apartments, there still needs to be fast-charging infrastructure for road trips. And right now, the not-Tesla charging infrastructure is hot garbage.

Half the plugs don’t work.

The other half is at 1/4 speed, or less.

And because it’s all mostly older people, they don’t understand that it takes like 30 minutes to go from like 0 to 50% but 45-60 minutes to go from 50% to 100%. Which is annoying because:

With so few chargers, and the ones that are working at slow speed, it is VICIOUS out there. People in Porches yelling at other people to get spots.

I don’t know what it’s like for Tesla people, since its twice as much to charge than at the other chargers, but right now the road trip experience for EVs is awful just because of so few working chargers.

This is before you get to the 20-30 minute charge times.

Related to anyone seeing this:

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/reviv...

If an update goes really wrong (ie. battery died in middle of an update), the Mac may need to go into DFU mode and get a firmware write over USB.

I don't know if this is the actual format the firmware update uses, but the ports listed in the official documents match the "special" ports in the wiki there.

Does it let me test the built-in browser? I’m starting to get issues only on Samsung’s built-in browser (as opposed to an Android’s Chrome default).

I’m not a huge fan of Shopify for a myriad of reasons. That said, I got my payment as usual.

The worst part is that the Shorts interface on the desktop web is awful. I hate having to watch a Short there because all the buttons and UI are all completely different. I accidentally scroll down to view comments to see the pause button and instead just get to another video.

I'm sure some PM made that so that they can increase "next view" viewership, but all it does is insult me.

Yes, I know Shorts can be viewed with the regular video viewer by changing the URL, but that's a pain to do that on every video. Just give me my regular UI controls back and stop enforcing this silly vertical video format on a desktop.

Again, I understand why vertical videos are being promoted; mobile is indeed king, content is now made for mobile. Fine. But desktop is not mobile so give me my standard 16:9 controls back.

Because it stores data on a user's computer, isn't using localStorage to track sessions still considered to be a "cookie" for ePrivacy Directive purposes? To that end, I don't think it's not "no cookie banner" compliant for the law as it exists today.

(Note: It _may_ be compliant for future updates of the directive coming in a couple of years, but iirc that isn't out yet.)

https://palant.info/2023/01/23/bitwarden-design-flaw-server-...

Bitwarden does some of the KDF operations server-side which means that a portion of the password (even if it's been through some KDF operations) is sent to the server.

EDIT: https://palant.info/2023/01/23/bitwarden-design-flaw-server-...

Even more hilarious: I have recorded customer service events specifically stating against all three of those.

I liked 1Password when it was an amazing Mac-only app. Now it's just another Electron app I can throw away and discard for different Electron app, there's nothing special about it.

The problem is that I don't see any particular alternative. I don't like Bitwarden's security (password is provided to the server to partially unlock so a malware server or MITM could get the password) and LastPass has known issues.

EDIT: And standalone apps are neat and cool, but doesn't let me share the Netflix password with my family.

Does this come pre-trained, or does it require training? What sources of data are you training on if so?

I restrict all usage of AI tools trained from publicly-sourced data because of an unknown copyright restriction, general unease, and lawsuits; however if this can be trained solely on my own codebases that are of clean providence, I can be 100% guaranteed against potential lawsuits.

Copilot is a cool tool, but super scary from a legal perspective. And even more heavily regulated industries (that I'm not in) would absolutely need their own firewalled version.

Simple shared email addresses maybe, but Groups is far from "Shared Gmail" when it comes to even basic features like tagging and archiving.

Good. The text message harassment I have been getting is awful and I wish nothing short of a swift death to the “lead generation industry”. They’re the reason why my default ringtone for non-contacts is silent.

I pay Google $6/month/user for email, docs/sheets, video conferencing, and some online space, and I still think I pay too much because many of my users only need email for internal messages. $12/month/user for a random side feature is absolutely absurd.

I'm against any and all per-user fees because it's death by a thousand cuts and I refuse to allow that to happen. I will take the time to setup an open-source thing that does the same thing, even if the hourly rate of my setup ends up costing like five years of service JUST BECAUSE I'm that against per-user fees.

Just noting from my experience that many e-commerce platforms like Shopify have started charging an extra "third-party payment fee" for not using their own payment platform so all the savings gained from lower fees would've been ate up by the other platform.

Being aggressive in banks is only half the equation. You also need to be aggressive against the e-commerce platform's own greediness.

Agreed. "Our spammy emails get low open rates and tons of unsubscribes" should be a signal to stop, not find a way brute force your way into my face.

This in particular has been in the news:

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/fifth-circuit-decision-...

The problem is mostly tax being across all vendors.

Sure, you can do it, but then it's $5/seat for thing A, $3/seat for thing B, $4/seat for thing C, and you can end up paying $50/seat for all the random software associated.

Yeah, for high value employees that's nothing. But for a warehouse worker to login and checkoff a compliance form once a month? It's not worth it, give them a shared login.

And then once shared logins happen, it'll just become habit for a bunch of small stuff that snowballs.

So that's why the first thing I look at for software is that if it has a per-seat cost, I'm going elsewhere because I want all my staff, not just the high-value staff, to be able to access and get what they need done.

You can "componentize" various parts of Rails and make it less of a monolith by using Rails engines.

I do it by having a new folder "components" on the Rails root and adding `gem 'name_of_component', path: 'components/name_of_component'` which looks like a vendored gem.

Rails engines has the ability to "isolate_namespace" which is I think the default for a new engine. This is where you can avoid global name spacing issues where each component can be thought of separately. Effectively, you have something _kinda_ like a microservice but it runs as a monolith. And if you need you can have each component depend on others so long as you don't wind up in a loop.

Note: I have a component "common_models" which is just for commonly used items across various components. The main app should have nothing in it's Rails.root/app since you instead have components.

I'm not related to this but here's a basic idea: https://cbra.info . (Pretty sure the author of this page made the Railsconf talk that inspired me to move to this years ago.)

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