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The increase in bots and cheaters got progressively worse as matchmaking took over and ate away at the ability of private servers to maintain a community. Also before that, TF2 becoming a giant microtransaction experiment certainly didn't help.

Still though even today I can open up TF2 and still have a few favorited servers that have been going for a decade+. I can join those servers and play bot and cheater free for the most part.

It would also result in cheats getting identified and reported by the community.

The TF2 dedicated server mailing lists, back in the day, were filled with new cheats, crashes, and exploits being found and reported by server admins.

I played plenty of unranked LoL back in the day, it was generally a better over all experience.

Mostly because ranked games were full of tryhards that raged constantly and in general didn't actually treat the game like a game.

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In fact now that I think about it... some of my funnest LoL games back in the day was when I got paired with someone way out of my league in unranked and they would spend a lot of the game mentoring teammates.

And when the opposite happened, we would get stomped quickly and would be able to into a new match quickly. No one felt the need to drag out a unfun/mismatched game because their ranking would get hurt. Wasn't really an issue.

Don't be a snarky ass, especially when you are wrong.

The community HAS figured it out. If you want cheating reduced you do server side cheat detection not just client side and/or you release real dedicated servers.

Neither of which shitty game companies are interested in, because it either cost more money to implement or means a minor loss of control.

Server side cheat detection is not just about actually detecting active cheating on the server side. It's also about the server providing the client the absolute minimum amount of information needed to function/render.

Ranking/competitive systems truly are a cancer on games.

So many quality of life standards have been sacrificed just to let jackasses feel superior to others in what is supposed to be a fun game.

Naw this is all bullshit.

If apex legends released a real dedicated server tomorrow, within a month there would be a large selection of well moderated community servers and cheaters would be mostly a non-issue.

EA doesn't care to actually moderate cheating, because that either takes ongoing money to pay people or a loss of control by releasing dedicated servers. They instead just want to pay 1 time to "automate" their "solution" to cheating... even though that pretty much never works long term.

Sometimes it's silly to think about EA being voted the most hated/worst company of the year, multiple years in a row.

And then I remember they literally spend their free time thinking of ways to piss off their own customers.

I've been wondering what to do to backup our github repos other than keeping a local copy and/or dumping them on something like S3.

I would love to use this to serve as a live/working automatic backup for my github repos on CF infrastructure.

gitlip is not a good name, but you can be sure that if a new name does not include git it will be a worse name.

I think they were simply speaking of the final pads the rocket rests on top of the chopsticks have 5cm of error either direction.

But judging from the bouncing the rocket did when in the chopsticks the error for positioning into the initial catch position is much larger in all directions. The chopsticks coming closed around the rocket do the heavy lifting for final alignment to that 5cm I imagine.

It can only accomplish #1 and #2 for 30k rules, most of which must de defined at the time of the extension release/update. As soon as that limit is exceeded an adblocker loses it's ability to accomplish #1, #2, #3, #4, or #5 effectively.

And if we are being honest about those limits, they have already been exceeded. Ublock origin is going from 100,000 to 500,000 dynamic rules to just 30k rules(only 5k of those can be dynamic) in the lite version.

Adblockers have absolutely been neutered in v3.

Explain to me how uBlock Origin can realistically go from 100,000 to 500,000 dynamic rules down to 30k rules(only 5k of those can be dynamic) in the Lite version without losing the ability to actually block everything?

These limits are easy targets for ad networks to overwhelm or outmaneuver.

    That's what everyone was saying

Everyone was saying that the new API is less capable than the old API at blocking things. DeclarativeNetRequest IS less capable; that's just a fact.

No one was saying that adblockers would literally stop working, so it's beyond disingenuous to dismiss people's issues with these changes by just saying 'works for me'.

What evidence would you actually accept anyway? Do you need a leaked internal document from Google saying literally 'devs, go neuter adblockers' before you believe Google might have bad intentions surrounding people's ability to block ads and tracking?

If security and performance were the actual driving forces of DeclarativeNetRequest, then they would have simply added it in addition to the existing webRequest block functionality. uBlock Origin and most extensions would have happily moved the majority of their rules to the static list if it meant better performance and privacy while keeping around the webRequest blocks for the things that actually need it.

Google has gone from having only one nuclear-level option for influencing adblockers (aka delisting) to now having its boot softly pressed against their necks and plenty of levers to pull. And you want me to look at that and go, 'There's no direct evidence of malicious intention there... so perfectly normal and/or acceptable behavior by the world's biggest ad company'?

This is just because Google was especially insidious about how they crippled ad blockers in v3.

Adblockers do multiple things:

1. Visibly block ads from the user

2. Block the user tracking that's attached to those ads

3. Protect the user from malware

4. Save bandwidth and cpu cycles by not loading all that junk

5. Allow control to users over how a webpage is displayed to them

Arguably uBlock Origin Lite can only accomplish some of #1 and a sprinkle of #2 now. And even those abilities are compromised by artificially low limits imposed by chrome in v3 that will eventually allow ad networks to overwhelm those limits and get ads through to users.

Google is 100% boiling the frog here and you/the average user is left in the pot unaware.

Down here in Guatemala I see a large portion of corn fields have also planted beans but I've never seen squash intermixed.

Do you have html/js/css minification turned on in your cloudflare account/domain?

It seems from the articles conclusion that it shouldn't be related. But I had similar issues with SVG and css when I first deployed my nuxt app to CF pages. I only thought to try turning off CF minification because there was some tiny footnote about it being an issue on CF somewhere in the nuxt docs or maybe GH issues.

It's pretty surprising looking at this list that all these sites are paying $2000+ for a bimi cert.

We actually do use mxroute for our marketing email just fine, but we are also low volume and go way above and beyond qualifying leads.

Nobody likes a cold call/email.

mxroute for real projects, or migadu for tiny things

I think it's the exact opposite honestly. I use chatgtp because it's not a google or facebook product and this isn't a unique sentiment among my developer friends.

My insurance just flat out says therapists are excluded from coverage.

As someone who deals in both the administration of email servers and lives in a country where the postal service was privatized and later shuttered, I can't imagine a more hellish suggestion than this.

The amount of privilege it takes to describe the USPS as an "antiquated annoyance" is incomprehensible. USPS is a literal gift from the gods as far as I'm concerned.

A mini horror story related to this just last year.

When I deleted the cloudflare DNS for one of my domains I also completely lost access to the cloudflare registrar for that domain.

Even though they should not be coupled at all and the UI makes it very much appear like they are decoupled.

I imagine this is a bug that's been fixed by now but it was still super panic inducing in the moment.

So ya keep those DNS and domains separate if possible.

This is a feature I've really been missing since switching from grub to systemd-boot.

Has anyone figured out an easy way to get this back with systemd-boot?

Trying to freeze a term that is in everyday parlance to an entity that hasn't existed in decades is a silly silly thing indeed.

I think your Ted talk should retire to YouTube tidbit channels that go over the unexpected origins of everyday sayings.

Unless your actual goal is to sow misunderstanding and distract from actual discussion.

Ya as far as I've seen from traveling they end up in every "2nd/3rd world" countries. Not sure if Africa is really any more likely than other places for donated clothes to end up.

I'm sure the flood of clothes could be seen as an issue to some but it sure does help keep the cost of living down. I cloth my kid for pennies on the dollar thanks to pacas here in central america.

Booking.com delete account process is also just a single "feedback" form that goes into a blackhole.

There does not seem to be a way to actually delete your account.

Not really, at least for B2B stuff.

I have access to a bunch of big marketing lists and there are always at least some Phonewords in there. The only big lists without them are the ones collected by forms that only allowed digits in the phone field.

Also on a personal level I have a "joke" number of (404)myname that I put into contact forms that allow it. Developers I talk to seem to have an easy time remembering my # because of the joke.

Lots of extensions are written like that.

This article also completely skips over Phonewords, eg 1-800-Flowers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneword