You might be right, probably worth looking into. I just have so little time to invest in new titles or any learning curve or really any game that takes a ton of grinding before it’s fun

Let me share my Xbox experience? I’m mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.

I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.

Yet somehow there’s no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.

And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can’t play “online” and use my unlocked items even though I’m doing local play.

So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.

I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.

This is really fascinating to me!

I didn’t know about this Vine program. Maybe that’s what his company uses. Or I wonder if it is limited somehow … If all the sellers use it then perhaps instead of it being an advantage it just gets you up to sea level. I know those guys will do just about anything to get an algorithmic advantage.

Indeed you’re right. Amazon watches out for Amazon.

I was just talking to a Chinese friend who works for a company that sells various goods on amazon.

He told me they budget to buy between 50 and 100 fake reviews for every single product they launch.

He said that without the fake reviews, the products will never start to sell on their own.

Whether to blame Amazon or blame the sellers, I’m not sure. But Amazon writes the rules of the game.

Makes sense, it seems like Caddy is like a Swiss army knife and nginx is now the whole Home Depot.

A decade ago or so nginx was the swiss army knife to Apache

I’m an old school nginx pro. So I keep using nginx for reverse proxies because it’s what I know. What does caddy have to offer (or traefik is anyone wants to jump in)? Are they just optimized for this function and more modern?

UBI is probably a good idea but it’s coming too slowly for anyone to rely on. Even if UBI is fully implemented, I suspect it will be life sustaining but not a life fulfilling. So humanity still needs to find purpose.

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where someone cannot be trained to do something new. Isn’t that a core feature of humans?

Next, how shall we define value? I argue that humans can always create some kind of value that machines cannot, even if only because a human is involved.

We still value actual art over AI generated art. We value uniqueness and rarity. We value the faults that are inherent from things that are natural and organic.

Tons of the jobs people did a hundred years ago in developed countries are now gone or have been streamlined down to require fewer people. Yet there are more people on earth now than there ever have been before and arguably worldwide hunger is at its lowest point. So somehow we have figured out how to survive despite vast amounts of automation already. It seems unlikely that our new “AI” tools are going to somehow dramatically disrupt this balance.

Websockets are often used for quality of life features like notifications and websites that are dynamic without needing to be refreshed. Almost went website with any kind of chat will use WS for example. Turning it off will make web browsing a little more annoying.

However websockets are also sometimes used for anti-fraud related software that can also leak information you may deem private. Disabling websockets might prevent that data from getting out but of course all this depends on your threat model.

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A bit pissed at this possibility. Games that I bought many years ago require me to be signed in to use my unlocks, even during solo play.

Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.

For much of reddit’s best years, RiF was my top app.

So it’s a plug-in for WordPress that rips wordpress.org links out?

That’s hardcore lol. The world really is pissed at Matt Mullenweg.

Whoops, 18.1 just released breaking changes

Kinda sad the state of craigslist these days.

In its heyday you could get anything you wanted immediately.

5 guys to help you move to a new apartment in 1 hr from now, check

5 guys to plow your wife, check

5 guys to plow you too, check.

Also you could sell your old cassette tape collection for $2 negotiated down to $1 when the buyer showed up.

Well they are sure gonna have fun with all this equipment

It always involves

sudo rm -rf *

I wonder what would keep you in history’s mind longer: eating the whole Mona Lisa or eating half the Mona Lisa.

WTF she said it does!

Here in Thailand a lot of people have this cert and use it to teach. These jobs are competitive so don’t pay super well. I’d suggest you start on job boards in various places you might want to live to see what they will require.