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Thanks for sharing! It’s not clearly visible but they have personas of end-users they hope to target. Specifically civil rights activists, CISOs, state officials and journalists. Can be consumed through technical or policy reports, presentation decks, and news articles and more.

I was talking to a non-technical friend about this last night!

The gist being that grepping your nmap output may not be visual eye candy to us, but it can still invoke a sense of mystery and magic in others since they don’t have a firm idea of what’s happening. But they feel something important is about to happen as a result.

Nice, this is a timely challenge for me since I’m making a career switch from UX/UI design towards cyber security (background is CompSci so get to dust off some knowledge I didn’t get to apply much since graduation).

This is like an A/B test to optimize what kind of shitty behaviour they can get away with for their backcatalogue games.

Unfortunately you’re one of the very few that is willing to vote with your dollar and actually signal to Bethesda that being shitty can affect their bottom line (versus people who bought the game, become salty about it on Twitter but don’t ask for a refund because they need their Doom fix).

I’m leaning towards malice based on the original error message if you tried to play the game without an account. [1]

> A Bethesda.net account is required to play this title. Please connect to the internet to continue.

[1] https://twitter.com/MoeGamer/status/1154822321586094080/phot...

I’ve seen a few luxury condo buildings in Canada with a 24/7 convenience store and self-checkout, though with an entrance that only tenants can access (and I guess surveillance).

So this is starting to happen already, but proliferation really depends on expanding the social contracts that can enable this. The above convenience store wouldn’t last in an apartment building where the tenants weren’t exceedingly well-off as the world is now.

I gave up discussing this on reddit because it seems most gamers don’t want to look deep into the business or ethical issues about situations like this, horse armor, etc.

“Give and inch, take a mile”.

I’m also curious on what Bethesa sends back since there doesn't seem to be a lot of justification in having auth in the first-place (example: multiplayer is local only).

Not solely an autobiography but one I enjoyed reading the most recently was The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn. Starts off with a deep dive into the Jones family and goes down the chilling path from there.

From the news reports I’ve read, including Ulbricht's, it's enough for law enforcement to just find out who you are.

They can then set up a sting operation where the target inadvertently leaves their laptop exposed with the keys to the castle available while being arrested.

This works with many messaging apps, but I don't find it works with apps that don't have a textbox meant for pasting photos; the UI assumes the only way the user wants to share photos is by enabling Photos access.

So I’ve heard about this feature before but I’m not sure it actually exists? From the Photos app you can only share specific photos with specific apps that add themselves to the popout menu. If you disable Photos access to any of these apps they will just ask that you re-enable full photo access.

> "Anderson adopted the nomadic life partly out of necessity... He started making jewelry — wedding bands and titanium plugs, like the Space Invaders ones he’s now wearing — but it wasn’t enough to live on."

> "Today, he runs a warehouse, packing products for other Amazon sellers, and spends half his time on the road chasing product."

Not to be too judgmental. But it’s always sad to hear about a maker having to do something else out of necessity that is arguably less beneficial to society or themselves (not being able to user their talents to produce something).

What kind of jewellery would this guy have been able to offer if he wasn’t schlepping product between retailers to make ends meet?

I don’t use Soulver that much anymore other than while travelling, but it’s great for tracking my travel budget on my phone: able to clearly list what I’ve bought, for how much, what the grand total is in my home currency and leave comments on things.

Are you sure? Looking at my Soulver macOS receipt I did purchase it for $10 in 2012. I can't tell if it was a sale price but would be coincidental to have the same price cut 7-years apart.

This server is still running on my machine despite having "removed" Zoom a few months ago (macOS).

Guess I was a bit naive in thinking just trashing the .app and immediate artifacts in Library would do the trick.

EDIT: I missed the .zoomus directory in my home folder that had the culprit. Funny enough Zoom's instructions on how to uninstall the app on macOS just points to documentation from Apple and wikiHow (???) with standard methods that don't fully remove Zoom.

It depends on the specific industry in tech.

Do programmers in general tech startups have enough power? I’d say yes too. Do programmers in the gaming industry have enough power? Definitely not.

Working on my macOS image viewer app, VoidView. I hadn’t been serious about polishing it but now I’m adding some simple quality of life improvements, especially for making artists that use apps like Bridge or PureRef for displaying references happier.

https://github.com/ESWAT/voidview

I have my Pi set up with Pi-hole and an IRC bouncer.

I’ve had both a Kindle and Kobo. The latter seemed like the better device because it felt less-tethered to bloatware I don't care about that the Kobo has (Pocket, gamification, etc.) and has decent GoodReads integration.

Kindle does support mobi, but you have to convert epub files (this can't be done through your Kindle email address' convert ability for some reason).

See if there's a Shambhala centre (https://shambhala.org/) or another place that has beginners group meditation sessions near you.

The sessions will likely be longer than what you’re used to. But there's less chances for you to bail out and you might grow to have a deeper appreciation for it so you can stick with it.

FF logged into Google account: 0.9

FF incognito window not logged into Google account: 0.7

FF incognito window not logged into Google account through VPN: 0.3

FYI I have uBlock, pi-hole and a bunch of privacy widgets enabled

Mentioned in a few related threads about Facebook and e-commerce dark patterns: we don't put our peers to task enough and make them aware about the potential harm they do.

Another comment here also mentioned that consequential actions are abstracted in large companies; group diffusion of responsibility gently removes most bad decisions that would normally make a person think remorsefully about what they’ve done.

Having an ethics board would be a top-down solution. The bottom-up, which I’m more fond of, is releasing literature and material to anyone working in tech about how their work could actually affect their end users; we need to help each other develop more self-awareness of the results of our work instead of the breadth of material about the work itself.

I've seen ethnic groups and seniors mitigate this by turning malls into their communal places. Malls with lots of natural sunlight coming in, lots of seating inside and outside of the food court and have a "loop" structure that mimic an indoor track seem to do well to attract this.

Maybe we should be looking at the existing “cow paths” and figuring out how to make them more welcoming to the idea of being a shared communal space during the winter.

I recall in another FB thread that shaming employees was not totally frowned-upon if it planted the seed in the engineer that they should maybe reflect on what they're contributing to and consider alternative work.

Would shaming designers that are complicit in these dark patterns be a similar, favourable way of movement towards a better direction?

I actually finished a book that tries to do that[1]. But I don't believe enough designers are told from their peers that maybe the way they’re exercising their knowledge of design theory and psychology is being shitty towards people.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44432844-ruined-by-desig...

I just assume that if a product is mentioned descriptively by someone I don't know well—[product name] is a [category] that will [benefit]—and I can easily purchase it online, it's being advertised.

Maybe it's my past-experience of knowing many people in an MLM once and seeing the differences between them being themselves and them “working on their business”.

Maybe the answer to understanding what authentic advertising is, is being exposed to all sorts of it more, in a safe environment where your money doesn't evaporate, and being able to reflect and think critically about what you're experiencing and what the intentions of the other party are.

> It could be people prefer working at a desk and a screen in an air conditioned office to, say, schlepping boxes in a warehouse.

And judging from the article, agencies hiring content moderators are going to do more to paint the work more colourful and being a career-builder, by outright lying about what contractors will actually do day-to-day.

Of course that’s going to look more attractive at face-value than being pitched a warehouse job by the foreman.

BioWare is a good case study since a few articles and books have been written about their history (one of the co-founders also has a few videos on YouTube about how they managed the business).

If you read enough of of them you can see BioWare has had three phases in their life:

1. Shattered Steel to Mass Effect 2, where they were largely independent and taking on feast-or-famine work (more of the former given the quality of their work at the time)

2. Mass Effect 3 to The Old Republic, which ringed-in the EA era and cracks in the quality of their work start to show. The end of this era is also when the co-founders and some key contributors to their past games left.

3. Dragon Age 3 to Anthem, which ringed-in stronger ties with EA—specifically having to work with Frostbite—and where we see that a lot of the problems we saw in the last era were probably chronic rather than acute. Lots of key contributor churn.

I didn’t have Facebook,the social network way back, in my mind when trying to make my argument (I definitely should have made this clearer).

Remove the history behind Facebook and just look at the numbers of the LibraCoin consortium and you’re not dealing with just one person. That’s the lens someone wanting to make a competitor should be looking through, not that LibraCoin has a long thread tying back to “just” Zuck. That catalyst has little to do with the challenge of competing with LibraCoin as it has started today.