Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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Yikes, thanks for sharing that one!

Wowsers, I've been mostly on OSRS, I hadn't noticed the insane bond prices on RS3. That's absolutely nuts!

I'd be tempted to buy some ... but I'm also watching what happens with Brighter Shores/might jump ship to the Gower's new MMO after nearly 20 years on RuneScape.

Might want to check your sent mail to see what all is in there ... Maybe your account got hacked and used to send spam (?)

I'm a bit worried for how this will feel on PC... Definitely an improvement for console and easier on the eyes though.

Haven't used it first hand, but I think it's more promising.

Hot take: GitLab is sluggish, buggy, crap. It is the "Mega Blocks" of source control management.

If you have source files that are more than a few hundred lines and you try to load them on the web interface, forget about it.

They can't even implement 2FA in such a way that it isn't a huge pain to interact with. There's been an open issue for over 7 years now to implement 2FA like it is everywhere else, where you can be signed in to more than one device at a time if you have 2FA enabled (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/16656).

Not to mention this was not a GitHub failure, this was a failure by the NYTimes to secure their developer's credentials. This "just in house/self host everything and magically get security" mentality that's so prevalent on Lemmy is also just wrong. Self hosting is not a security thing, especially when you're as large of a target as NYTimes. That one little misconfiguration in your self hosted GitLab instance ... the critical patch that's still sitting in your queue ... that might be the difference between a breach like this and protecting your data.

There's nothing to suggest they haven't been able to spare the resources or hire more component people.

Hiring more people to work on new products is often a better route than hiring more people to work on the same product as well because there are fewer toes being stepped on.

Man I remember cutting myself on some of those toy and electronics boxes growing up ... All for a ban here

A company can do multiple things at once.

It's basically just pihole AFAIK but for the VPN.

OpenGL is an older graphics API with a lot of issues I won't get into here.

You're almost guaranteed to be better off using DXVK.

Don't give these guys money. One of the worst studios out there.

AFAIK, Windows firewall is perfectly fine, usable in commercial spaces, etc. You're probably going to be getting into more "hobbyist" firewalls even if you do find one ... and a firewall isn't something you particularly want that with. You want something that's well designed and well maintained.

(I say this as a guy that has run Linux on basically everything for ... over a decade)

There seems to be an abundance of the false notion that large corporations are somehow above governments on Lemmy ... and that's simply not true, at least for corporations that want have legitimate business within the country.

EDIT: So as to say ... perhaps the commenter (at least in the moment) was a bit awestruck seeing laws apply to tech (which often seems to feel as though it's above the law in some way).

If you're going to use Windows ... just use Windows firewall. There's no real reason that I can think of anyways to replace that one component with something FOSS.

FOSS isn't inherently left wing. It is often charitable work but that's far from unique to the left wing. That can also just stem from "I wanted this program to exist and it didn't, but I don't want to put even more effort in to monetize it." Plenty of FOSS projects start as someone wanting to learn something early on in their career as well (which is both a pro and a con because ... if you're learning you might be making some bigger mistakes).

Anarchism ... I just don't really agree with that at all. Lots of larger FOSS projects do very much have governing bodies that decide what to do and how it shall be done. In many cases FOSS authors are a one person governing body making all the big decisions.

Organized charitable work is far from anarchy even though anarchism dreams of everything being organized charitable work.

Even raw footage can be influential depending on how it's edited and selected of course

Proton because I get it basically for free under my existing Proton plan and because of Proton's stellar reputation.

That's not to say the apps aren't a bit buggy or missing (Linux doesn't have one) though.

Best for what requirements?

Lots of space? Ease of use? What devices? Web access? Etc

It's stuff like this that makes me distrust a lot of lifetime price guarantees and lockins. Take for instance pCloud (not to be confused with Proton Drive) and their purchasable lifetime cloud storage...