Just your normal everyday casual software dev. Nothing to see here.
Porkbun 10$ for a year iirc for my .com
I moved there from Namecheap who wanted almost $17 for my domain, and didn’t provide API services
Just be aware that porkbun is one of the ones that has started identity verification. It started with some smaller regions, but they have moved to doing it on most of their regions from what I saw.
This happens whenever you’re talking about any topic that the AI model provider has decided arbitrarily they don’t want to do.
I got temporarily banned off deep-seek the other day because I was curious about how well generation technology has gotten for self-hosting. So I asked it about setting up Comfy UI because I had never used it before. Woke up the next morning to a your account has been suspended because we have deemed you broke terms of service. In order to appeal you need a Chinese phone number, it made me chuckle.
Considering the only two questions I asked it was about comfy UI or how to make a recipe similar to the now discontinued flaming hot cheetos Mountain Dew(I missed the production window sadly!)
I’m leaning towards the comfy UI being the reason.
edit: wrong software name
I firmly believe, at least in the US, but it’s probably true for the rest of the world as well, that as soon as somewhat crackdowns on what is allowed to be gathered for data is done, that a model or two after that you will start seeing significantly less smart features in vehicles and it will only be more convenience and safety items, I believe personally that a lot of our infotainment system style designs will go away because the primary reason for running those style designs is to allow for data collection.
And that’s because there’s a lot of money in data collection. Be it law enforcement buying it for location data on someone or the onstar wanting it for analytics of where cars are going or how they’re being used to insurance agencies wanting to know how often an individual goes over the speed limit.
It’s also incredibly useful even for the first party and knowing what features are used the most in the vehicle for research and development.
But yeah, once the financial incentive is significantly neutered, I believe you will fairly quickly see a lot of these features becoming optional add-ons or no longer offered period
zabbix with ntfy for short term alerts and a telegram bot for long-term alerts.
No its not us based, I’ve never had a self check here that has that issue. They lock down for if they think you are stealing (I’ve never had repeated scans trigger that its usually if you try to hide a barcode or something) or age restrict but other than that as long as it isn’t an operator issue its pretty streamlined.
man age checks on energy drinks must suck, we don’t habe that here or I likely would dislike doing self check a little as well.
I would still do it because its defo faster but it might cause me to at least potentially think about it
Alternative Operating Systems other than Windows.
Yes most alternatives probably /could/ work but I don’t want to become the tech support for it and I also don’t want to give the trial by fire method. If someone was actually interested in it, chances are they would reach out themselves any time I mentioned about being on Debian, at which case I would help them get started and answer questions but, I’m not about to actively try to persuade people to change.
I never quite made it to the drones part, but I remember the machines that could harvest resources for you.
Oh man, I haven’t played the second one, but the first one I felt was pretty grindy. Are you saying that it’s even more grindier in the second one? That’s disappointing I ultimately stopped once I unlocked the research area in the first one because the game became too much of a grind.
edit: I typod. I’m comparing the first to the second, saying the first was pretty grindy.
This is such an embarrassment to this country, but regarding this administration, I’m not at all surprised.
Yeah, I do agree your jurisdiction may vary.
In the US at least, you can’t change a terms of purchase via a terms of service.
So if it was stated at point of purchase that your system will be getting 10 years of updates, and then they decided six years in, you know what? We’re actually only going to do six years of updates, and then posted a terms of service that changed how long they were able to update it. That wouldn’t be legally binding.
In this case, though it doesn’t sound like they’re changing existing buyer’s agreements, it sounds like they are changing the purchase agreement for new consumers who haven’t purchased the product. which is far more legally enforceable as no agreement has been done in that case.
Still a shitty thing for them to do though, considering that they had promised that Chromebooks would have 10 years of updates but I don’t think they’re in violation of anything since it sounds like it’s only going to new consumers.
you are correct, if they sold them with a paper saying there will be 10 years of updates they are required to provide 10 years of updates. If not then they could be taken to court for either fraud or false advertising. Which they would likely not show up to cause that’s usually their go to.
Another great example in the US is the warranty void if open stickers.
They’ve been unenforceable since 1975.
The only benefit I could think of isn’t going to be in the areas that they want to deploy this service.
Like, I could see this being advantageous in lower populated areas that don’t really have DoorDash drivers.
But yeah, if you’re in a populated area, I don’t really get why I would want this over. Just having a traditional driver that arrives.
I guess if the system told me that it was going to be delivered by drone, so therefore I knew not to tip ahead of time? idk
yea 11m changes is quite a bit at once but, I wouldn’t expect a constant change like that. After all, the monorepo itself is a little over 3m lines, 1.37m of it being lang/locale files for every language for its front end, 600k of it is comments, and 1.5m is the rest of it.
For perspective, the watch division makes between $35 to $40 billion annually.
This commit was the refactor commit from the private dev flow to the open source repo. The process basically added a lot of files and deleted a bunch as well. it was long overdue but I wouldn’t expect constant 11m line code changes
That would make sense, although I think it’s unlikely that it embeds itself into the mods. It would probably replace itself. Since in order to embed itself into the mod, it would have to know how the mod is made/structured but I guess it would be possible if it was able to completely replace the existing mods with the worm.
edit: Yeah, a post-work summary was posted today, and it basically did exactly that, it replaces all workshop mods created by the user with a copy of the worm, which then spreads. Honestly, I feel like this is also a vulnerability on Steam’s behalf as well because I don’t see any realistic use case of why it shouldn’t require either a 2FA or some form of validation before pushing an update to the game, especially one that changes the entire mod out for something else.
This one happened to be allowing C-sharp integration, which is how the original infection happened, because that allowed for compilation at runtime. However, this vulnerability could technically happen with any Steam Workshop-enabled game. It’s really concerning that there’s no check system in place. The Steam depot should not allow you to be able to do a full mod replacement using a session or with token.
I’m glad you added from 2025 there because otherwise it would have been super deceptive.
I definitely thought it happened again, and I was gonna be like, well that was fast. Like we all know it’s going to happen again, but that would have been extremely fast.
You have correctly identified the core issue with open source.
Personally speaking, as inefficient as it is, I think that donations is the best way to support a self hosted open source project.
Followed by paying for licensing to be able to get support for the product.
If your project is open source any other restriction out there, you can’t really do because they can just fork and patch the software to remove the restriction.
Due to that restriction(or lack of), I’ve always personally seen most open-source projects to be more of a hobbyist or personal project then a project that someone wants to do to make money.