Blu-ray drives can be expensive, but USB DVD drives are only ~$20.

I'd also expect anyone who would care about the "physical" edition of the next GTA only being a download code in the box would have a disc drive on the device they wanted to install it on.

You worked places with style guides? Did... Did you have a real testing environment that wasn't prod too?

I got taken off a project recently for being too direct about how the rest of the team was just spray and praying entirely AI generated code with no standards or review whatsoever, and they were charging ahead like it was a race to implement features we hadn't even discussed if we wanted/needed.

If you can't tell me how it works, you can't confirm that we actually need it, you can't tell me the upstream and downstream effects (or confirm they don't exist), and you can't even confirm that we even want it to do the thing it only supposedly does, then we have better things to do than go on a wild goose chase trying to debug it when there's a looming deadline for things that legitimately do not work that we need. Stop vibe coding and actually review the existing shit for fucks sake. If the requirements have never been clear, solve that instead of generating more slop. Maybe update some of the existing documentation instead of having AI wholesale hallucinate entirely new not quite right ones over and over.

Anyway, please tell me more happy development bedtime stories. I need to chase away the nightmares.

On paper, it's an official government news app being pushed over MDM to phones that are definitionally government property. There's not really ground to stand on here.

The fact that it's pure propaganda rather than an actually useful source of executive branch news is more a problem of the "White House News feed" or whatever you want to call it. It's a big fucking important problem.

But this is effectively whining that the fleet car you borrowed from work phones it's GPS location home. Oh no, a phone your work bought and paid for runs apps your work auto installs to it? Then only use it for work shit bozo, it's not your personal device.

Trump's too dumb to even consider wearing a mask to hide his racism, and his real face is far more grotesque than this drawing.

I struggle to even understand the point of this as an image, let alone as a meme. Just feels like pointless "preaching to the choir" shit to me.

Updoots on the left I guess? You're so brave?

There's no hard facts about what the hell they're actually planning, it's just a fluff press release.

They claim that PACTs will be some sort of token that sites and services that can confirm you are a human or "trusted AI agent" can grant you to allow other sites to better identify you as good, but that these tokens will also somehow be entirely anonymous and unable to be used to track an identity across multiple sites and services. At absolute best this will create a sort of "chain of trust" hierarchy where people who use more popular services tied to their real identity would gather more PACTs or have "higher trust" ones, just consolidating digital power further.

Also, the first quote from Cloudflare's CTO has them claiming that people are starting to use AI agents to order them meal deliveries. Lmao, in what universe?

Ask yourself:

• Could this meeting have been a liquid lunch?
• Could this phone call have been a liquid lunch?
• Could this email have been a liquid lunch?
• Could this instant message have been a liquid lunch?
• Could this thing left unsaid have been a liquid lunch?

Uh, just so you know OP, I can entirely put together this person's name from your screenshots. It's not censored well enough.

If you have any concern about your own privacy, I'd recommend cropping out that section of the images entirely, or covering them with a solid color block.

With a mother that would give him a first name like that, he wasn't dealt the best hand to begin with. They could have at least spelled it "correctly".

It helped that there were used and rental markets for relatively "modern" titles that are now almost entirely non-existent.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon. The dev is even active on Lemmy! ![email protected]

You do know this is made by the lead dev of Lemmy, right? And that you're posting from lemmy.world, right?

If you truly feel that way, piefed is right over there man. I'll warn you though, the lead dev of piefed doesn't even attempt to keep their personal opinions out of it.

Depending on the legality and safety of doing so, you may also want to look into tech for avoiding censorship and oppresive regimes.

Things like TOR, running your own DNS server, etc.

Edit: I didn't want to just leave this vague, so I looked up the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Surveillance Self-Defense guide hoping for some better specifics, but unfortunately it looks like it's mainly about making security plans, understanding your risk profile, using secure settings on your personal devices, using signal, using TOR, and selecting "the VPN that's right for you".

Like you really have a choice of "the VPN right for you" when they shut down things to only approved in/out IPs.

There might be useful info there, but it wasn't quite what I was hoping to point you at, sorry.

Considering the risks involved with hosting something like this, I would probably start with research on how you could host this safely/anonymously. That would be my first priority. Can't help people if they take you out.

Next step would be looking at piefed/Lemmy or whatever systems you're thinking about hosting and identifying what features/logs/etc you would need to disable, modify, or set up to clear themselves automatically so that you wouldn't have information worth going after in the first place.

try this Rick Roll (actual Rick Roll, not the link)

My tongue doesn't need to be any more depressed, thank you.

Entire GitHub repo is brand new. Set up 6 minutes before this post, with only one commit, uploading all the files.

Make of that what you will.

Pfeces, purine, and ptoilet ptissue

I did when I was younger. Had better fine motor skills with my "primary" hand. Eventually as I started playing more PC games and using computers at school more I got tired of always having to move the mouse around and having to reconfigure keybinds for every game (where it was even possible to do so). So I adapted to right handed mouse somewhere around 14 years old.

Beyond that, in my time in IT support, I think I encountered only three people who did left handed mice.

Unfortunately, I feel like it's kind of inevitable that when you have texts that are supposed to guide you how to live, and people who are supposed to guide you in how to interpret those texts, that there will be those who will abuse it for their own purposes. This isn't even a particularly religious issue. I've definitely found people twisting technical documents to use as cudgels in both education and my career.

People will misuse appeals and appearance of authority. In a religious situation where there is an ultimate authority above all else? Of course they're going to misuse it to push their personal beliefs, good or bad.

I personally believe that the Bible has overwhelming amounts of explicit text and context clues that show that God's love extends to all. Especially when you consider the people Jesus traveled and spent time with in the context of the era.

But ultimately I can only control my own actions and what I pass to others. I try not to worry about the assholes misusing it. One of the many practical comforts of Christianity is that we can believe they will eventually answer for it to that highest authority.

I get the idea, but I don't think there's any real benefit in intentionally muddying the waters further on this stuff. I'm not personally a fan of pouring more fuel on the dumpster fire, and there's been a lot of deep discussions about all of this already. There's not much room for "good faith" discussion in this shit as it is.

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Fuck those guys for soiling the term "grand wizard".

I've got the vague frame of a joke somewhere around that involving the only orbs they've ever pondered being their own testicles, but good wording for it isn't coming to me.