paulryanrogers

IIRC, courts in the US ruled it's legal to produce entirely fictional art depicting children in explicit scenes, so long as no real minors were involved in production.

Right, Delve was the company I was thinking of. Thanks for pointing that out.

That I'm familiar with. Is it part of a trend or just one bad apple?

Can you name the names of SOC auditors that are rubber stamping?

Or point me to some public critiques within the industry?

Citation needed. This is not my experience at all, after participating in such efforts at three different companies.

Hasn't Deel been run out of business though?

IME SOC2 is still quite involved for any company, especially smaller ones without specialized security personnel.

How is this possible when StarCraft tournaments are dominated by the young?

Is it lower APM and therefore less RSI? A more niche market?

If everyone sets a cooldown, there will be no early adopter. Everyone is waiting for everyone else to be the canary, and the canary does not exist.

Except there are researchers chomping at the bit to download every new release of packages in search of vulnerabilities they can exchange for fiat, reputational credit, or both.

They only need to cancel the results they don't like.

Increasingly it's becoming necessary to disclose data to private entities just to survive and live a reasonable approximation of a normal life.

Why have constitutional protection against search if in practice nothing can be shielded from such searches?

But Apple (or Xerox) invented the UI paradigms we're still living with.

Others invented plenty of UI paradigms before Apple: swiping, skeomorphism, etc.

It would suck to pay more based on bad or poorly understood data. Especially since I doubt they'll willingly give refunds if their foundational data is proven to be problematic.

What makes me crazy is these big houses aren't even that nice. They don't have significantly more rooms. It's all just stretched out to maximize sq ft for minimal costs. Sometimes with so many cut corners they're unsafe.

So if you have a big family or multigenerational needs then often you have to do significant remodeling or sell anyway.

Major databases now ship effective HA tooling

Which ones? PostgreSQL doesn't have HA in core.

That stuff has lasted for as long as humans have existed, and will continue to exist as long as humans do.

No doubt. Doesn't mean I want to consume more of it via fiction.

Perhaps you can make some counter points and change my mind?

I was mostly speaking of nonfiction. Though I find most fiction doesn't age well in any medium. Appreciating it often requires social context I don't really have time to learn. And many fictional works from the past are chock full of racism, sexism, irrational social phobias, etc.

For those who put in the work, there isn't even a cultural bond to enjoy since most of the people who originally consumed those works are themselves dead and buried. (Modern niches and widely studied "classics" notwithstanding.)

It suggests someone is a little more comfortable with their own thoughts and doesn't succumb to constant tech distractions.

Could just as likely suggest they're affluent enough to have time to sit down and read vs listen to an audio book or just skim news in a magazine or on a screen between jobs.

The article doesn't distinguish reading books from reading anything else. Though it's pretty short and light on details. The article it cites strongly implies the reading is only books.

All that said, [I find] reading books is overrated. They're often outdated, low effort slop, and even more so in this AI era.

Does Xitter still have people complaining about class divisions?

(Genuinely curious, I hadn't ever seen that there though I don't go there much any more.)

You still have to track upstream and merge conflicts. Or else you have to get LLMs to fix all the CVEs in your fork.

Postres project also once lacked replication, calling it unnecessary to the core effort. Now it has two means of replication in core and I'd argue is better for it, especially after suffering through both Pgpool and Slony.

I hope they do develop a native, threaded pooling, even if it were incompatible with some libraries or extensions.

Running slowly for 10 minutes a few times ... isn't going to hurt anybody.

Heh, don't get old or be born with the wrong genes. I have to start at no more than about 2min at a time being middle aged now. Some of us are born weaker and more fragile. Aging only makes this worse.

Strength training can help, though I've accumulated enough stubborn injuries now that I'm just thankful I can do anything.

you should let your kids hurt themselves more

This is quite presumptuous. Even minor injuries can add up to long term damage. We don't need to keep our kids inside or wrapped in crazy layers to protect them. We also don't need them to get hurt a lot for them to learn what's good or bad.

I'm not talking about freeware games with paid cosmetics. I'm talking about paid products that are sold using words like "buy" which in reality are being rented out.

Valve is rich. They can afford to develop in-house expertise.

They're a small company which largely develops steam as a platform, not VAC or anticheat solutions for games

If anyone can afford to develop effective anti-cheat, Valve can.

I can still play the games I bought on the nintendo switch 8 years ago.

Good luck! I cannot play any of the digital Wii games I bought. And that's kind of my point. You pay the same price as a physical copy, using the same verb, and yet are actually renting for an undisclosed amount of time that may at any point be cut off.

Blockbuster never said I was 'buying' a game which they could take away at any moment. So why do we let these companies use contradictory or obtuse language at our expense?

how much money a company has is unrelated to whether they violated consumer rights or not

Billion dollar companies are less sympathetic. As a consumer I might take a worse deal if it meant supporting a small creator whom I knew was sacrificing a lot for art.

OK then it's not really 'easy' nor that different from "5 years ago"

Class actions are often barred by EULAs in favor of arbitration. Even if they're allowed, they are prohibitively expensive because courts aren't growing to meet demand, meaning justice is largely pay-to-play.