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Uncle Roger would have you thrown in jail. Haiyaaaaaa

The issue with Vim for me is that it takes years for the keybinds to be picked up as muscle memory. Learning takes effort, people can’t learn everything. And there’s an endless amount of things I can learn other than Vim that will give me a more fulfilling life.

On the flip side, Microsoft might be nervous that Sony can leverage other areas, like their film division, to make a game they can’t compete with.

Ding ding ding.

I encounter this personally. Family knows the owner of a construction company and almond orchard. They absolutely love the immigrants who cheaply tend to the trees or nail in trusses, he calls them the “good ones”, yet immigration is ruining the country and we need a border wall to keep it safe.

It’s about enough to make me lose hope for humanity.

The same VCs who caused some banks to fail because they all copy what each other is doing?

Guess what, you don’t own anything on the internet. Nothing is private. Everything flows through a domain name, and you never actually fully own a domain.

All these comments about “shouldn’t have done it on a private platform”. Well, new flash, the internet as a whole is a private platform.

I sincerely hope you have a problem like this in the future so others can mock you over your misfortune.

And some people like yourself think your comment is unique and insightful.

My god this story might make me leave HN again. I hope every “too bad” Musk-riding commenter here has their domain names names taken from them or something.

> Password management is just terrible. Vulnerable populations stand no chance against social engineering. Password manager apps are okay but the UX is pretty awful especially for non-computer savvy folks. People who think about this a lot -- is there a sane future

No there isn’t. Passwords are fine. Password managers are good enough. It takes only minutes to learn the following flow:

1) Reset password

2) Type in the new password into the app (many people are too lazy to do this)

3) Open password manager

4) Copy and paste the password into the text field

That’s all. If people can’t figure this out then quite frankly I don’t understand how they function in other areas of life.

> There’s been a major U-turn in people’s attitudes towards remote this year

No there hasn’t. Saying there has is just falling for executive corp-think.

That’s a valid complaint and I’m tired of hearing about Twitter too. But I just had to say something when the first comment I saw here was essentially mocking the original handle owner for thinking something they had for almost two decades belonged to them. It’s a sentiment I’ve seen in other threads about this.

it’s entertaining to watch Sony throw these tantrums after one of their prime complaints with the Activision + Microsoft merger was how it might give Microsoft exclusivity for CoD while forgetting how much they love exclusivity for Playstation titles.

I’ve found the setup of account-less browsing on mobile with Sink It and Wipr to be enjoyable. Sink IT removes the annoying attempts at forcing a sign in and the “use our app” banners, while Wipr is a general purpose adblocker. Seems to also hide sponsored results from the feed which is great.

Seems like them training ChatGPT on submissions + responses is having an adverse affect?

That sounds on point with my personal experience playing it. Got my first character to lvl 80 before I realized I haven’t seen a single exciting upgrade in 20 levels and there was another twenty levels to go before being able to try to fight the last boss.

Then seasons were started and Blizzard was asking players to repeat the same process without any meaningful changes.

It’s very clear the entire base game was vomited out and by the time people realized it was too late. Blizzard already has your money and they’re now focused on seasons to try to milk the whales with micro transactions. Casual players quitting is actually by design as it allows Blizzard to scale down their infrastructure and milk even more.

Then they have their lead designer talking on Twitter about BG3 and how “not all studios operate under the same conditions”. It’s unbelievable.

> Don't download Microsoft Teams if it claims an app developer with an unrecognisable name and only 500 downloadeds, don't download cracked games, be wary of the obvious free-to-play clones, and if a web page shows a flashing gif warning you that Whatsapp is outdated, don't install the APK file it's trying to push through your browser.

Ah, so pretty much all the warning signs people ignore when clicking on a phishing link or an advertisement saying they’re the millionth visitor.

I don’t want this coming anywhere near iOS. Maybe a controversial opinion, but I’d rather have that than my Grandma’s entire retirement account being emptied because of a malicious app.

Exactly. Those in charge told Musk he can screw up Twitter however much he wants but to leave the important stuff like SpaceX to the grown ups.

Look at the Diablo4 subreddit for an idea of just how little Blizzard developers cared for quality of life or how the endgame feels to play.

For example, in order to try out a new build it can take upwards of 200-300 clicks to reset the paragon tree. Devs couldn’t be bothered to add a “reset all” button. Meanwhile other games like BG3 have all these extras like twitch integrations.

Keep in mind that, supposedly, Diablo 4 was in development for about 6 years. Resources and development time aren’t an issue for Blizzard.

It’s stuff like this that puts big-name AAA studios to shame. I cannot imagine a world where Blizzard decides to dedicate dev time to a feature like this.

It makes some of the comments written by devs at billion dollar companies seem pathetic. Some examples:

> “It’s Rockstar-level nonsense for scope”

> Diablo IV senior designer Chris Balser also agreed with Nelson Jr., saying that it is important to remember that not all studios operate under the same conditions.

I guess they’re just intimidated by development studios that are still passionate for making games players genuinely enjoy as compared to their day job of working on battle passes and loot boxes.

https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/07/12/baldurs-gate-3-new-...

> ‘What did I do to the Americans?’ she would often say, ‘Why did they do this to me?’

Seems like they don’t blame their government all that much

So what does that leave us. Service industries? Good luck getting those youths to work in a kitchen.

I like to think those in charge put Musk in a playground sandbox known as Twitter.

I’d love to live in Utah if the state wasn’t run by a church.

Not exactly the same situation but I immediately uninstalled the Arc browser after it auto played some video with music and asked me to create an account before I could even see the UI.

Republican politics, in its current form, is a cult. It’s literally the only plausible explanation for Trump still being their front running presidential candidate.

I don’t have any evidence to back this feeling up so take it with a grain of salt: San Francisco has a drug problem simply because it’s one of few places in the country where it’s safe to have a drug problem. Other states pay for addicts/homeless to be shipped off to California and all of a sudden it becomes our taxpayer problem.

If drugs were legalized country-wide then SF wouldn’t have the concentration it does and it would seem like a nice place.

Oh look, another ChatGPT article summarizer.

fast.com is great because it’s Netflix-backed and is subject to all the same ISP throttling which makes it very easy to call your ISP out.

Anyone else notice that if you’re logged in via mobile browser you lose the ability to collapse post comments?

Normally I’d just think it’s a bug but I can see Reddit doing scummy stuff like preventing you from viewing anything without a login and then making the experience shit in order to finally drive users to the app.

Using SinkIt to block the login prompt let’s me click into posts and collapse comments just fine.

A lot of these construction jobs are fake advertisements to try to make it seem like the company employed more people than it actually did. Ton of PPP fraud going on in this industry.