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I was a Platinum subscriber for a few years. It's definitely not a scam, but in my opinion, they completely fail at detecting cheaters.

It's very frustrating when you lose a lot of games to cheaters. I cancelled my subscription and moved to Lichess — and although I still lose games, I don't feel like I'm being cheated nearly as often as on Chess.com.

Apache Superset 2 years ago

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My biggest frustration with chess online is the huge number of cheaters on platforms like chess.com and lichess. It really takes the whole fun away.

I never really understood WHY people are cheating in online chess games. There is no fame, no money in it. This is puzzling for me.

My frustration is that chess.com and lichess are extremely week at finding and banning cheaters. Sometimes is sooo obvious, when for example somebody blunders a piece in first few moves and from this moment starts playing just perfect moves.

Yeah. You have to realize that in chess there are two players and one of them is going to lose. Sometimes it's you, sometimes it's your opponent. To progress in chess you need to win more games than you lose. 50.5% win rate is enough in the long term.

My suggestion based on my own emotions with chess is that you should start playing quick games like 3+2 or something. The time and emotional "investment" in those games is low enough that you might not care when you lose. Just start another game and try again. Losing classical game that you were playing for 2 weeks is a different beast.

Pegasus was also used in Poland by the "Prawo i sprawiedliwość" ruling party (in eng. "Law and justice" sic!) to spy on the head of the opposition electoral staff during 2019 election.

EMule 0.60a 6 years ago

I would first have to find out if I still have that research data

EMule 0.60a 6 years ago

My own reverse engineering. There was a hidden packet in protocol implementation that opened a shell for you

EMule 0.60a 6 years ago

Please be aware, that the most popular emule server software available many years ago was backdoored. That's why it was distributed as a binary, without code.

Polish society is still liberal. Please do not think our current government and their actions are representative of what Poles think and support. Majority is at the moment fighting our own government ...

Typical mistake. Service price is never based on the costs of development but on a value it creates. You might have extremely expensive IT solution that creates no value to anybody and is worth $0. You might have email-based manually operated business that provides service worth thousands USD.

Postmates creates value both for you and the delivery guy. After all - you used their service for some reason and paid for it right? You get the quality service, delivery guy gets the demand for his services.

Alternatively the delivery guy could develop an app for himself only, put it on the appstore and wait for you to download it. But he would never earn anything this way.

Lyft Plus 12 years ago

It's most probably because they have KPIs to fulfil set by Uber and they are gaming the system that way. If I were Uber I would definitely monitor quality of service by measuring the arrival times for each driver.