PowerShell does that by default, and it’s my least favorite feature in my most used language.

$ErrorActionPreference = Stop

At the start of almost every script.

-ErrorActionPreference SilentlyContinue

If I remember right, the devs of Nickelodeon All Stars Brawl and the devs of the GTA Remasters experienced something similar. They had bug fixes ready to go but had to fight with the rightsholders (Viacom and Rockstar, respectively) to be allowed to publish the patches.

For the era of tech shown, you’d also have tons of clicking and whirring hard drive noise as well. Old Hard Drives are noisy. You can hear all the seeking and read/write operations.

Personally, I find that noise comforting, but the inconsisent nature of it would make it hard to tune out.

I mean, Paypal is a bank that isn’t beholden to all the normal bank regulations and customer protection rules due to technicalities. They have been caught effectively seizing customer funds through locking accounts for questionable reasons before, and offer no reasonable way of recovering funds from locked accounts. Numerous stories of people operating online etsy (and similar) storefronts getting accounts locked for vague claims they were actively money laundering, with no means for appeal.

Anyone just now becoming aware of the paypal execs’ corruption hasn’t been paying attention.

I felt like Shadow of Mordor was a decent spiritual successor, and while I haven’t played Shadow of War it seems like more of the same. Same combat style as the Arkham games.

The recent Insomniac/Sony Spider-Man games also had a similar combat style.

Does Ross/Accursed Farms, the person who started this movement, not count?

Holy shit, the amount of pure seethe in the jkpress post could power a small city.

The more of Mullenweg’s posts and such that I read, the more he comes across as someone that took some professional/business writing classes and thinks that just because he’s using business speak conventions it means that he’s not coming across as a massive petulant child.

It’s a shame, because he does have some valid points it seems: that the proper existing process wasn’t followed for offering to take the lead, and questioning security and sanity controls in a distributed theme/plugin system.

But it’s buried so deep in barely concealed shitslinging that it’s nearly impossible to take seriously.

Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn’t it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.

Sad part is that he’s likely to get away with this pne since it’s not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.

Yup. Regulatory and audit requirements are a motherfucker.

Also, I don’t mean to speak down to devs, but as a rule of thumb you tend to think far higher of your skills just because you know the building blocks. Being able to build a boat doesn’t mean you know how to sail.

I know multiple people who are prodigous developers but know jack shit about basic computer usage and security. People who had to be guided to the control panel in Windows. Yes, even after they added the search bar. People hired to work in an exclusively Windows enterprise environment.

Now add that amount of potential that lack of basic operational skill carries for fucking things up to the least competent (or at minimum the least careful) co-worker on your dev team.

You (any dev reading this) as an individual would probably never fuck up that badly. You (any dev reading this) would probably do everything right, correct, and wouldn’t cause problems with root. But the rules aren’t written to protect against the competent, or against people never making mistakes.

You could try your post on other selfhosting communities in the meantime like !selfhost@lemmy.ml or !selfhosting@slrpnk.net

Yeah, I get that the devs probably don’t want to rehash the same level editor mechanics ad-naseum so instead they made the far more complex/in-depth Dreams, but I think there’s still value in simpler creation tools. I’m sad they moved away from LBP.

Simpler tools lower the bar for entry and can make creating things easier. For LBP it also enforced a cohesive art style, and unless the creator was insane it enforced a specific set of game mechanics.

With Dreams you have no idea what you’re in for, and there’s countless people taking time poorly reinventing the wheel for basic gameplay functionality. You can’t just go and use a highly polished “platformer mechanics” pack created and tested by a professional team like you got with LBP or more recently (and far more restricted) with Mario Maker. Every “starter kit” is going to have differing levels of amatuer jank.

It’s a great “intro to game development” tool, but I personally think it’s lacking in the “play high quality user created content” realm because there’s less quality content as a result of the complexity.

Holy shit take the L.

No one here disagrees with that, or is unaware of the “sUbTeXt”.

That’s just not how subtext works. You don’t get to say one thing, then claim you meant something entirely different (the reasonable take) and call it subtext.

Your user base must be better than mine.

Some chucklefuck over a decade ago caved to the “need” for a public shared drive. I can see the argument for things like HR policy documents and such. But they didn’t just give all users read access. Oh no, everyone got full read write. No fucking governance model, no process to check that PII wasn’t being stored there by people too lazy to follow proper procedure.

Thankfully that horror has been thoroughly killed, and MS Teams makes it so easy for people to spin up collab spaces and file storage that there’s no use case anymore.

Xbox has all of microsoft behind it, and they linked xbox accounts with microsoft accounts many years ago, allowing them to leverage all the security tools they’re making for themselves and corporate customers of Azure/Entra. They also effectively have infinite money.

Banks, surprisingly, do not. They also are often using third party systems under the hood for things like online access to your account. Those third parties tend to have less money than a bank.

Laws can’t keep up with tech developments in security, and getting all your ducks in a row to be legally covered in the finance industry is a fucking nightmare.

Lastly, banks (and companies) don’t stay afloat by spending money on things that aren’t necessary. Until it shows a significant impact through a breach or in customers leaving specifically for the reason of lackluster MFA options, and until that impact is easily communicated to the executives, trying to fight for some budget to improve shit is an uphill battle.

I am so so glad that the closest my work gets to customers, legal, or anything regulatory is data rentention policies.

Can’y speak for every TV, but some of them should support downloading the firmware update from the manufacturer, tossing it on a USB stick, and plugging the USB into the TV to update.

It made another insurance company walk back terms that were going to set a limit on the amount of time surgeries could take or they wouldn’t cover them. The company announced it the morning after and walked it back that afternoon.

I’m not sure it justifies things, or the cost this change came at, but it is prettt direct evidence of an insurance company thinking twice

This is also why there was such coordinated effort to shut down wikileaks, or to at least stall out the cultural movement that was building behind it.

If you give people a methodology to whistleblow that at least on paper allows them to stay anonymous and avoid putting their life/livelyhood/survival in jeapordy, that removes one of the biggest disincentives.

The difference between 4chan and Reddit is pretty small

I’m sorry, but I sincerely doubt you’ve been on 4chan recently.

Reddit All Hot:

Reddit All New:

Where have you guys been? Half Life 3 was confirmed December 13, 2007.

I’m sure it’s coming any day now.