tomc1985

Sounds like someone is trying to morally justify their success off the back of those sweet, sweet subscription revenues.

Heated seats is a luxury, sure. But what about music? Kitchen appliances? Movies and TV? Productivity software? Transportation?

All these things are things we own much less of (or "own," as it were, since we got to keep physical custody of the bits, and they didn't try to authenticate against a web service)

The situation is positively feudal, people are sharecropping increasingly large parts of their lives. And the lords sit in their castles, surrounded by yes-men, pushing the limits of legality and ignoring the cries of the people that make their businesses happen.

The Blu-Ray release of Star Trek TNG suffers from this a ton -- it was great seeing one of my favorite childhood TV shows in high def but it made all of the costumes, makeup, and sets look so fake!

> When I see someone who claims not to like when software gets frequent updates, I ask myself: "Do you even like software? I thought new functionality was supposed to be exciting!"

Taking away a much loved feature is exciting? Losing more and more control over your own computer, over things you paid for, is exciting? Waiting an hour for your PS4 to install mandatory updates because you haven't turned it on in a few months is exciting?

Good god this is such a naive opinion. I suppose you think all change is good? Even if the people implementing them are greedy assholes in search of ego strokes or power trips?

What if I changed the balance of your checking account to $0? Would that be an exciting change?

For every update that delivers on its exciting new promise, there are four others that have made the life of its developers easier at the cost of their users.

Developers are the ones getting paid beaucorp bucks here, making their life easier should not be a higher priority than supporting things that users want.

Speaking as a developer and lifelong computer nerd of 30+ years.

Yeah you should be playing AC: Black Flag then

Hmm, I have AC: Black Flag and I thought it worked fine offline. I will have to check now, because that game isn't much newer than this.

I think this is unprecendented with Steam. I have heard of games being delisted but I can't recall Valve ever removing them from peoples' libraries.

If I owned a copy of this game on Steam I'd be requesting a refund immediately; they have been known to make exceptions to the standard 2-hours rule under special circumstances.

Also, Steam has a game files backup feature, it might be a good idea to use that and wait for someone to figure out how to disable Steam DRM

There is a whole single-player game in there that doesn't need online connectivity.

How is any of this relevant when they will usually publish a photo of the accused?

I'm talking more about the sheer quantity of operating systems running in parallel on one computer.

Feeling, maybe, but only because it is intentionally cultivated to be so. Large shifts in company branding don't usual signal an equally large shift in the company's culture, though they might say otherwise.

If IKEA or Apple suddenly changed their aesthetic, they are probably going to be pushing out the same products... just with different packaging. The companies themselves remain the same as they were. People will have different feelings, depending on their reaction and how the branding people message this change, but ultimately the move is pointless as everything continues as before.

For an extreme example, look at the Blackwaters or Facebooks of the world.

Seeing all those OS logos in the corner of each VM makes me think this is enormously inefficient to run on a desktop/laptop

Like... Fedora and Debian? Why?

It is absolutely disgusting how much gets done in this world simply because someone needed to stroke their ego. Legacies, bonuses... pah. Pathetic how predictably selfish we humans really are.

What really strikes me is the lack of customer centricity in all this. Do they want the change? Do they think the existing look is outdated? Do they like the old look? Pah. Who cares! I have a legacy to cement and a bonus to secure!

(Besides the usual MBA word-vomit mumbo jumbo like 'modern utility', but we all know those are just made up excuses)

Maybe a brand should just be... a brand. A brand isn't your friend, it isn't human, it isn't alive, and it most certainly only exists to take your money and put it in their account -- and, in tech, more often than not through some rent-seeking subscription model because nobody likes us actually owning anything anymore.

I've worked with both extensively, though my experience with Django is mostly with very old versions. In my opinion Rails is definitively "higher velocity" than Django (recent versions of Rails have an answer to nearly everything you would need for a modern midsize web app), but I admired how simple Django was architecturally. Stack traces in Django were, at least then, easy to digest and you could comprehend most of the routing system by reading a few files, for example.

Whereas with Rails your stack traces are much longer and there's a lot more machinery each request has to go through. Rails has a lot more abstraction in general (you can blame Ruby's powerful reflection capabilities on that), but I found that I have to go delving into Rails' internals very little.

As someone who suffered under a Rails-powered microservice architecture: ew. Ew ew ew ew ew ew EW!!

As soon as I saw the opener with "one chatbot to rule them all" I knew this would be a fun time.

Was really hoping they accidentally made avibot say nasty or disgusting things though. That would have been even more hilarious.

There are plenty of experienced Rails devs out there. They don't need to be younger.

> it’s not as if I talk about hipsters with my German friends ;)

Yeah, it didn't really come up with German friends from other parts of the country. Though the Berliner epitomized "hipster" in the California definition of the word. I miss that guy...

> Uh, what? Maybe in some parts, in Germany hipster is absolutely negative.

Is this a new thing? I remember explicitly telling my Berliner friend that hipster had a negative connotation where I came from. Maybe all those things I heard about Berlin not being Germany are true :P

Where I lived in Holland the term was similarly neutral. (Also I saw an ad in Dutch "hipster" where it meant panties or women's underwear?)

This would be about 10 years ago though

The dude is burnt out, give him a break.

Also, from my own observations, in Europe "hipster" doesn't have a negative connotation, meaning simply "cool person"

Part of the reason I left software is because everybody expects this obnoxious puppy-dog personality out of developers. The grumpy old bastards just want to be left alone to stew

And that weird video with him literally babbling on about Scientology

I put in a reservation last year and it just finally proc'd

If you don't enjoy it then what were you doing working at a datacenter?

I enjoyed server admin, "back in the day", when your servers were pets and not cattle. But of course we have to make tech just as expendable as our workers, business school demands it! What if your pet server gets hit by a digital bus?!

Are you calling all creatives schizophrenic? Because, uh, citation needed, and that goes against my experiences of hanging out with nothing but creatives 90% of the time.

Us all being schizophrenic would be pretty revelatory if it was true.

Artists may be weird, but...

For the backend devs, it doesn't have to be this way but the business side of our community absolutely hates overprovisioning and are allergic to deploying power in reserve. It's that foolish "well I'm just leaving money on the table" mindset.

You know what? We don't actually need all this content that is being pooped out of everyone. Because most of it's shit, and not worth the time to even watch. Yet people remain convinced that we need it, and some of you remain convinced that they need to pay for it. What a lie.

Burn it all, I say.

I don't know about you guys but I got a hell of a lot done on a 56K modem all the way up until the mid-2000s. Hell, I was even doing group content on City of Heroes from the dial-up connection I had while working my night-shift hotel job, and the game played surprisingly well given the bandwidth and latencies I had.

It's an attempt at the 'pig-butchering' scam, they act friendly to get you hooked and then claim to teach you how to trade bitcoin. From what I remember reading it was a popular fraud in mainland China but they are branching out internationally because locals are getting wise to it and it is not widely known worldwide.

In my experience and in the other descriptions I've read, it is always a woman business owner from Asia, acts somewhat friendly and flirty, will talk about life with you in a very superficial way for a while in order to build a relationship. After a while they hit you with... a crypto scam or something? Like teaching you how to trade bitcoin but using some shady weird exchange that makes off with your money when you fund your account.

https://myclevertrust.com/post/34/2021-07-06-sha-zhu-pan-the...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/na8oax/asian_guygirl...

This sort of bullshit is exactly what causes companies to go downhill. Strong leadership would have handled these layoffs much, much differently, to say nothing to the fact that a good CEO should have been able to avoid them entirely.

Riccitiello needs to go. As another commenter put it, Unity is too important of a product for its stewards to be languishing like this.

I get that, but I am looking for specific examples. Suspicions without proof aren't worth a whole lot to me.

Kaspersky has been in the game for quite some time, and Russian secret services aren't exactly known for their discretion. So there must have been some kind of incident by now.

What evidence is there to prove this point? I consider their homing to be unfortunate but they do seem to be good faith players in the space