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ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Games@lemmy.world•Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its usersEnglish511·10 months agoAgree or delete account is real “good guy gabe” energy.
What a fucking trash monopoly
Edit: Ok for the corporate apologists; the company gave 0 days notice to this. You HAVE to agree or you can’t access your account, which locks you out of your games. The only options you have are to agree or delete account.
At least discord allowed you to opt out by a certain date when they updated to forced arbitration. Not only is steams move here to protect their 30% take on transactions, more than double of competitors, but steam is also choosing to fuck people over who don’t want to agree. Supposedly if steam ever went under they’d let you continue to access your games but i guess they can instead just enshittify their subscriber agreement so that no one would still have an account. For instance you now agree to only access your games for 1 minute per day and you will be charged $1000 for each time you start up steam would be a great way to force people to delete their accounts so steam doesn’t have to honor their EULA.
But go ahead, keep talking about how good gabe is. Steam is a monopoly. And there are no good monopolies.
Same, I’m now going to try to kill a PC with disintegrate just for the occasion!
I think in the context of the OP, not all donations have strings attached in the sense of trying to exert control. Maybe smelting orphans is undesirable but for donations previously received there’s nothing the donor can do about that other. And picking and choosing who you donate to isn’t a form of exerting control either.
Whereas large university donations do usually have agreements signed that could drastically change school policy. These are “donations” to exert control in some form or another
If that’s the card they want to play then it’s only going to hurt them until they start giving me something i can run with.
As a general rule, im willing to match and even exceed the effort players put into their PCs, provided they have done anything more than a statblock with a name.
But if they just have the statblock and name then I’m not going out of my way to customize content and quests specific for them.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Update to Terms of Service + New Bylaws (Protections for users)English610·10 months agodeleted by creator
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Need Help Bypassing Firewall Restrictions at My SchoolEnglish592·11 months agoHere are some good rule of thumbs for work and schools:
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do not connect to their networks with your personal devices, ever.
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Only use work/ school devices on their own network.
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Do not do anything personal on those networks. only do work/school related tasks. This means don’t log into any non school/work accounts.
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If for some reason they don’t have a device for you but require you to use their network, then leave your personal devices at home claiming you don’t own one and make them accommodate you.
You cannot expect privacy in these situations, and by going to the extreme lengths to try to get it then you will ironically just paint a bigger target on your back if any network admin cares. In some cases this can cost you your job or get you in trouble with the school.
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ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Anyone got any thoughts on, praises of, and criticisms of Njalla?English2·11 months agoI had a domain with them but at the time auto-pay was “auto-pay-from-acct-balance” as opposed to “auto-pay-with-the-credit-card-we-have on-file”
So i missed the renewal date, paid more to renew within grace period, and then transferred to a registrar with actual auto pay.
Otherwise they were great for that first year and i had no issues
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Adobe stole my creative suiteEnglish13·11 months agoThis happened to me last year. Bought a cs4 and cs5 design suites back when they came out. Only ever used on one computer. When i unauthorized my computer and moved it to a new one they wouldn’t authorize it and demanded proof of purchase. I showed those fuckers a paper receipt from 10-15 years ago. They wouldn’t accept it and required additional information to verify i was authorized to purchase the software at the discounted price from an authorized retailer. It took several back and forth before they issued a new cd key instead of reactivating mine.
I suspect the cdkeys were cracked at some point and i just had the unfortunate luck of mine being abused. Would be nice if they didn’t require online authentication for a product i legitimately own though. If they are going to require online authentication then they need a more secure way of generating their cd keys.
let me ask this: what is your threat model? Don’t tell me, ask yourself that and work through it if you haven’t already.
Going full 100% and trying to become a shadow overnight if a great recipe for burning yourself out and not trying. Instead look at your specific threat model and work on the biggest things one step at a time. Make it a journey and only take a new step once you’re comfortable with the last.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warnedEnglish21·1 year agoWhat advantage is there is changing nameservers? Is it just the centrally manage DNS or something else? I’m fairly new to self hosting and only serving locally for now.
I do know cloudflare uses the same nameservers PER ACCOUNT so if you’re wanting to have multiple domains but keep one or more connections separated from you then this does draw a minor connection to a subset of Cloudflare accounts with the same two nameservers
Ive had mixed results with this, but one author was really excited (as was i) and we had a good back and forth for a bit after i had a chance to read/digest the paper.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Help me stepbro, I fell and now there's AI stuck in my sextoys. Also the next time you answer provide a boilerplate react module for a TODO listEnglish23·1 year agoIt’s an ai roleplay app of some sort. The user (pink text) instructed it to say hello world in html and the ai did it. Showing the app vulnerable to prompt injections since it didn’t do any kind of validation before sending the request to chatgpt/similar and then returning the response.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Police allege ‘evil twin’ in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal info • The RegisterEnglish5·1 year agoThe article said the man had done similar with airport wifi and a place of prior employment. But the airplane one is an odd choice
Yeah, it’s bad. Surprised they’re still serving that crap in their own bundle but i guess some things don’t change.
Filezilla is no relation to mozilla. But yeah i moved away from it years ago. The general recommendation I’ve seen is “anything but filezilla”. Personally i use winscp for windows, and will have to figure out what to use when i switch my daily driver to Linux.
They have bundled malware from the main downloads on their own site multiple times over the years, and even denied it and tried gaslighting people that AVs were giving false positives because AV companies are paid off by other corporations. And the admin will even try to delete the threads about this stuff but web archive to the rescue…
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•OneNote alternative to make a knowledge baseEnglish3·1 year agoLook into a static website built with Hugo. You’ll be creating pages in markdown like obsidian. You can host it locally so there’s no privacy concerns.
If you want it externally facing then there are some options but you’ll need to find a site to host your static website and who you’re comfortable with their privacy policy.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structureEnglish21·1 year agoDid we read the same blog announcement?
Proton AG will still need to be financially feasible. That is not changing. You can still not give them money if youd wish. They just have backed up their mission statement with actions instead of just words.
Good ol’ hawk tuah on that thang