I support their appropriately-placed piracy, though!

They don’t assume we have unlimited money, they assume they’ll make enough sales to justify making it (and paying all the people who made it).

Yeah, some companies are making ridiculous profits and underpaying staff. This isn’t some pro-capitalism comment.

Taking things off of streaming platforms or not making old stuff otherwise available usually boils down to bureaucracy and legal stuff. Certain people need to be paid, or have the right to veto their content being sold, or stuff like that sometimes. And sometimes the companies have a legal obligation to either protect their IP or ensure things stay “offline”.

I don’t like it, but I know it’s not always simple.

Trying to stop kids from using drugs on school property is “stupid shit”?

It’s not surveilling children, it’s surveilling the byproducts of vaping.

…so kids can freely vape in school buildings during school hours?

That’s probably more commonly accepted. I defer to whatever my team is doing, but for my own files, I wouldn’t want things like UsStudentList or USStudentList which both look wrong to me.

USstudentList looks right to me, and if that’s wrong, I’m okay with being wrong! Haha

Camel case, but with a twist – if the next word is about to start after a capital letter, I’ll have it lower case.

topSecretFBIfile.txt for example

people share phone numbers to people they personally know.

This is about Signal having the phone numbers. I don’t think anybody “personally knows” Signal…

Whenever wifi is enabled, your device is sending out probe request frames, which includes your list of preferred networks/networks you’ve connected to before.

Discussion here

More details from an old article

I believe phones broadcast a sort of fingerprint when searching for wifi and/or Bluetooth connections. No MAC address needed!

If you’re walking around with a cellphone turned on with a SIM plugged in or Wi-Fi or Bluetooth turned on (even if not connected to anything), stores still have ways to track you. They won’t get your purchase info, but they’d know when you got there, how long you stayed, and maybe where in the store you went (if it’s big enough for multiple access points).

Meanwhile, I’ve just accepted that they’ll track me, and I’m fine if they give me a cut. Cashback and such to pay me for my data.

It’d be nice if I got paid for all the ads I see on the internet and outside.

Hard as hell, and unfair. Plenty of jumps powered by seemingly inconsistent mechanics that need to be done perfectly, otherwise instant death.

Played it recently as an adult after beating some other retro games from my childhood for the first time. In Lion King, I made it one level further and put the game down again…to level 3.

Well, I had gotten to Level 3 as a kid, but I was able to clear the Ostrich Run in Level 2 much more consistently after some practice. It was a fluke as a kid.

The game has 10 levels.

In the required (but generally ignored) Business Ethics 101 course, lol

With the lottery, you could also just win $1M dollars (assuming that’s the jackpot). But I get your point.

It seems like an unlikely claim from them given your experience, but are they still going to be around 100 years after making that claim? And if they are, is anyone who cares going to be around to call them out on it? Lol

Yeah, Reddit seems like it does the exact OPPOSITE of gatekeeping. It’s progressively lowering the barrier to entry to attract new people.

Before I signed up, it was very much “The narwhal bacons at midnight”, with people needing to understand the inside jokes and references, Reddiquette, and other “soft skill” kind of stuff to get upvotes.

I left with the API situation, but even by then, it was nearly mainstream. “Normal people” would tell people about things they saw on Reddit. Of course, nobody would share their username with anyone else. (Nor should they! Lol)

Even since then, I’m occasionally seeing Reddit screenshots from people whose phones I imagined never opened much else aside from messaging apps, image/video-based social media, and their camera app, lol

Email the company – out of business? Lol

I’m not sure what war you think one would be thinking about – I’ve only ever heard it used to refer to WW1.

“great” means large and significant. Nobody thought the war or enshittification was good

Wait, it does videos of websites? What are you looking to capture, exactly? Like, screen recordings of what the website looks like?

I’m interested in this when buying a product, but I can’t always buy new products. I also tend to go with the “buy once, cry once” mentality, which means I get something with high fidelity, but it’s a rare occasion when I can upgrade something else.