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> EA takes in-game advertising too far with Battlefield 2142 (Oct 18th, 2006)

> A while ago, EA told everyone how they could keep prices down by putting in-game advertising in their games. When the advertisements are subtle, with things such as billboards, then there is really no issue. However, BattleField 2142 takes in-game advertising to the next level. EA notifies anyone who bought the full retail version of their latest game on the package that "When you use the software while connected to the Internet, the advertising technology may record your IP address and other anonymous information." This means that the advertising delivers in game advertising according to your tastes, not unlike spyware.

https://www.techpowerup.com/18764/ea-takes-in-game-advertisi...

Incidentally, I have recently come across some Mozilla job postings with salary ranges I would consider to be at a considerable "discount to market". For example, here is a senior role at 59 000 euro per year: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/7843229

I've been doing some light reverse engineering with Chinese models on Opencode and have found they are already far less reluctant. Just don't ask about Taiwan..

Why don't you just subscribe to these newspapers and give them a read instead of demanding other tax payers subsidize their business?

Unleash your chains: https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Sorting is not an algorithm?

Anyone dealing with notarization will also recognize the classic "Apple Is Holding My CI Pipeline Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service".

Euphoric reddit dwellers like the OP could step outside and immediately observe how ChatGPT slop art is already everywhere, and no one gives a damn. Actually, I would pay good money to see this kind of """socially literate""" internet dweller chastising the hard working guys of my local sushi buffet for daring to generate a sign with AI or something.

Thank you for the interjection.

ncdu is a lifesaver, RIP.

OVH has dedicated in USA and Canada

Just the "screeching voices of the minority".

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/06/internal-memo-at-...

Sounds like the marketing team finally won.

This can be done easily with Cloudflare security rules, where you can match against country and block all requests.

Age of Empires II anyone?

Hasn't AdSense been known to be a malware delivery vector for over a decade by now?

https://www.securityweek.com/malvertising-campaign-abuses-go...

> To add insult to injury the new Element X app on mobile is in some ways a downgrade because they integrated the cloud vendor push notification services into the app, so even though you have "sovereign" and "self-hosted" infrastructure you're still, on a good day, leaking meta-data about your chats back through to the people you were trying to decouple yourself from anyway. You can run your own push notification services for this mostly if you want and all your mobile clients are Android but like, why.

Probably because this is literally the only way to make notifications work reliably on mass market Android and iOS devices? It is no different from Signal or any other secure messenger on the market. Decoupling from these platforms is a story for another day.

That's a nice thought but how does it work in practice? Every time I sign up for a new service I have to dig up my "backup device" from the safe just to enroll it?

Google Authenticator used to be this way: no backup and restore, as if I'm going to spend a day setting up dozens of TOTP codes again and again every time I change phones. Thankfully, sanity has prevailed since then.

Spray painting a jet engine causes millions in damages, but it's a cute sleight of hand to insinuate it's just some graffiti on a wall or something.

I'll do you one better: Palestine Action is bankrolled by notorious pro-Russia tankie Fergie Chambers, who supports Vladimir Putin's genocidal campaign in Ukraine. So please add genocide sympathizer to your list.

[1] https://lamag.com/news/cox-family-heir-james-fergie-chambers...

Yet in practice, only the big boys are allowed to become "Trusted Publishers":

> In the interest of making the best use of PyPI's finite resources, we only plan to support platforms that have a reasonable level of usage among PyPI users for publishing. Additionally, we have high standards for overall reliability and security in the operation of a supported Identity Provider: in practice, this means that a home-grown or personal use IdP will not be eligible.

How long until everyone is forced to launder their artifacts using Microsoft (TM) GitHub (R) to be "trusted"?

[1] https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/internals/#how-do-i...

For the uninitiated: https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecu...

Do you actually believe that, say, Barack Obama [1] or Pope Leo XIV [2] are nazis? If the answer is "yes" you may have more in common with MAGA looney fringes than you think.

[1] https://x.com/barackobama [2] https://x.com/Pontifex

AWS also had to add some serious warnings into S3 console to stop people from blowing their foot off with public buckets.

It is actually a good thing to invest in blowing up fascists, especially in the context of an ongoing land invasion.

Actually there are a whole lot of musicians who find pride in "punching nazis" so to speak, but you are entitled to your Russian sympathies.

> In America big cities “squares” are associated with crime and homelessness. Times Square (NYC) and Union Square (SF) being two examples.

Oh, that's what the main train station in any western European city exists for.

People on Mastodon being insufferable, say it ain't so

And what happens when Apple permabans your account for buying a gift card? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297336