I also left after the api drama after 9 years and many thousands of comments.

I’m happy with my move to lemmy. There are some rough areas in the tech and definitely some personalities to watch out. But I think the experience is good

Media is owned by the Epstein class.

This wasn’t always true. But after the consolidations and mergers the last 40 years, there are now very few media companies.

And most of the ownership is by those who need investigating the most themselves

So many senior citizens will be upset about this after their grandchildren explain this post.

If steam changed ownership and control, there is nothing stopping the new people from doing things similar to other big companies.

Many games are potentially a heart attack away from loss of access

I guess this will break millions of search links built up over the years

I got an angle on a better loan, but it that just tangential to the joke

Americans live five years longer, on average, in metro areas, compared to rural areas.

Democrats have more metro area districts

Proton is trying its best to be big tech; it looks different from other companies, but the way it’s developing hints there will not be much difference later besides good messaging, good public relations ( despite an awkward ceo) and a small increase of privacy.

This be a better option for many people , but it’s not that much better

An ancient asteroid made before long before our solar system ever existed… very cool

The thing about people like Trump, is that they always do worse than the most vile speculations about them.

I’m sure over his life he has been blackmailed several times, starting when he was a teenager.

Why stop now? Nothing in his ordinary business stopped now, and I assume the question is not who is currently trying, but which agencies and people are not.

If one cannot protect their database, then there is a lot of other issues going on besides how one authenticates.

Over the years , I’ve read about some security issues with different social logins, and a few of them have been serious. One never knows when the next vulnerability is.

At the end of the day, everything has a vulnerability, and the best way to mitigate against that is best practices, and keeping up with news. That, and a bit of luck.

I have created my own login systems multiple times, and probably violated over a hundred best practices. I don’t know what a best login system looks like, but I have enough experience to find flaws with all of them now. And I am not confident in anything I use. Even if I only use battle tested systems made by large groups of peoples

A Ponzi scheme

There are open source solutions to handle this effectively, which can be used in most projects; I would change the advice you gave to “ do not roll your own email verification, ever”

… builds character

I suspect in real life many people pee in isolation tanks; and sanitation after each customer is a regular cost of business

Movies with political or religious messaging have main characters who are pure in certain ideals; which is why they are boring to many.

This applies to any films with that since the 1920s

I would make an image with three eyes to lure people in. Email and text scams deliberately put obvious mistakes in the text, to weed out anyone but the desperate and uncritical.

I wouldn’t get many responses that were not making fun of it; but anyone seriously interested…

I do not use AI to code; but I have been programming for two generations now.

I’ve taken a few breaks in that time, and switched technologies at least ten times also, and it’s very easy for me to forget a lot.

Programming is like any skill, it requires constant practice.

Am I a good programmer? Probably not that skilled, but I’ve written over a million lines of code and have run the gamut of architecture from: “Break this large file into 500 lines each, now we call that as a function” to “all numbers are object oriented” to “if it works great”

A hotly contested topic

Yes