Pixel 6a I uninstalled it no issues.

“Don’t be evil” never meant anything except don’t put ads before search results and they clearly abandoned that one a long time ago.

Bump. This is what I do too. So much easier to just avoid it entirely.

Spore was such a disappointment.

EDIT:

Shout out to Sim Copter and Jacques Servin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter#Easter_egg

The game gained controversy when it was discovered that the homosexual designer Jacques Servin inserted an Easter egg that generated shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other and appear in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. The egg was caught shortly after release and removed from future copies of the game. He cited his actions as a response to the intolerable working conditions he allegedly suffered at Maxis, particularly working 60-hour weeks and being denied time off. He also reported that he added the “studs”, as he called them, after a heterosexual programmer programmed “bimbo” female characters into the game, and that he wanted to highlight the “implicit heterosexuality” of many games. Although he had initially planned for the characters to appear only occasionally, the random number generator he had created malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently. Servin was fired as a result, with Maxis reporting that his dismissal was due only to his addition of unauthorized content. This caused a member of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a gay AIDS organization, to call for a boycott of all of Maxis’ products, a measure which Servin rejected. Some months later, a group named RTMark announced its existence and claimed responsibility for the Easter egg being inserted into the game, along with 16 other acts of “creative subversion.” Servin stated that he had received a money order of $5,000 from RTMark for the prank. It was revealed later on that Servin was a cofounder of RTMark.

Servin would go on to be one of the founders of The Yes Men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men

I am tired of the world pretending only the people who invest money are “invested” in a workplace.

Your example here is what I am speaking of.

We invest our lives in a workplace, with the hope that our labor will make the workplace succeed in the marketplace. It is an investment: of our time, of our effort, and thought.

When the business fails or decides we aren’t worth it, they are ignoring the investment we made in learning how the business works and doing our best work.

We are turned to the streets, nevermind the effort and investment we went through. No, because we didn’t bring money to the table none of that counts somehow even though we did all the real labor that make the business function. Labor the “invested” couldn’t do on their own, no matter how much money they had.

If DNS gets blocked, can’t sites still be accessed as long as you know the IP or Socket of the server?

It’s not even a lot of work, it’s standard IT backup.

How do you think Google does it? With lots of redundancies and backups.

They’ve got millions of failover servers and millions of backups, but even they’re not perfect and data gets lost. 99% uptime is great, but lots of people still lose data or get locked out of their accounts. That’s not a new thing with Google. They absolutely do their best to retain customer data, but even they are not perfect.

You call it “a lot of work” but it’s literally the bare minimum you can do to ensure you actually retain copies of your data. Just basic backup redundancy. Those kind of redundancies that allow Google to pull a 99% uptime, but that doesn’t mean all their redundancies are enough when it comes to your data.

Lots of people who placed all their faith in Google have either lost complete access to their accounts or have had significant amounts of data lost. It’s not a guarantee that your data is safe with Google forever and ever amen.

Because the best way to ensure you always have a copy is to have multiple copies in multiple mediums.

A live copy you can access on your computer stored on a local drive.

A “cold storage” copy that lives on some kind of removable media, usually USB thumbsticks but can also be full but disconnected drives.

And finally a copy in “the cloud.”

It’s about distributing the failure points so if any one fails the others are all still available.

Like, for instance, if your house burns down you still have your cloud copy if the ither two got burned. (I personally would put cold storage copies in a fireproof safe.)

On the other hand, if your cloud copy gets deleted, and your local copies are fine… All you have go do is create a new cloud copy at a different cloud site and you’re back in business.

This feels like wishcasting. As long as they can fake their numbers, I guess it doesn’t really matter because nobody calls anyone out on anything.

Tesla’s stock price seems unaffected by Musk bullshitting the most recent earnings call, or not enough to matter. Its still above $400 a share and this is after he finally admitted current hardware can’t actually do FSD.

The market is full-on irrational and invested in being irrational. Capital always aligns with fascism in the end. They will believe the bogus metrics fed by these companies for their “engagement.” The same people who fell prey to Elizabeth Holmes can’t see that all those profiles on Facebook and X are AI generated and automated.

Well for one the account this was sent from is on a Swedish-language Lemmy instance, so it’s already a barrier to message the admins there that this is a spam user.

And then there’s Lemmy instances like realbitcoin.cash where the users are obviously all spam/scam users. Reporting it to the admin probably wouldn’t do much since the admin is probably who made all the accounts.

The Fediverse Scamgirl!

Awkward Nerd Girls Want In Your DMs! They’re not in your area, just online!

I almost made this same post and then decided I didn’t care enough. This was my take on the same;

Also interesting that she has a different username literally everywhere and she’s speaking English, “from” Toronto, on a Swedish Lemmy instance.

Patrick Stewart with hair is somehow unnerving.

I know he had hair at one point in his life, but it just looks wrong on him.

Shout out to Brokep, nice to see folks using Njalla.

Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

Bibliotik baybeeeee

Hey they did support it until they were getting difficult legal contacts because some users were abusing it, and getting turned away by different hosting providers.

They shut it down to protect the rest of us who use it without abusing it.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports

Unfortunately port forwarding also allows avenues for abuse, which in some cases can result in a far worse experience for the majority of our users. Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable content and malicious services from ports that are forwarded from our VPN servers. This has led to law enforcement contacting us, our IPs getting blacklisted, and hosting providers cancelling us.

The result is that it affects the majority of our users negatively, because they cannot use our service without having services being blocked.

I know the port forwarding thing can be a deal-breaker for some people, but it’s not Mullvad’s fault that they needed to remove this to be able to continue providing quality services for the rest of their customer base.

This is sadly one of those “this is why we can’t have nice things” type deals because when enough people abuse it, it becomes a problem. I have no ill will towards Mullvad for taking it away when it became financially and legally foolish to continue doing so.

God damn it these fucking techbro loligarchs and their dipshit nerd humor.

Hurr hurr we’re making a fork of the US government code hurr durr.

What a bunch of juvenile fucking delinquents.

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft saying you’ll be able to play Xbox games on the Switch 2, implying that Game Pass is coming to Switch 2, was the thing that finally kicked their asses and gear and made them realize they were being fucking stupid trying to have so much control while Microsoft is out here with even tighter controls and a cheaper model (in a lot of gamers’ eyes at least, those who don’t care about things like longevity of studios or actual ownership of a product as opposed to rental licensing).

Sorry for the run-on sentence I don’t feel like fixing it.

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yeah I always forget the actual name of it I just memorized some of them early on in using Lemmy.