Microsoft and Activision have indicated that they may abandon their proposed $68.7 billion merger if federal courts grant FTC a preliminary injunction.
Atm, you can add anyone as mod to a community without permission. This is bad because you could add someone as mod to a questionable community to make them look bad
The FCC rules will force ISPs to accurately describe fees in labels given to customers, but Comcast said it wants the FCC to rescind a requirement related to "fees that ISPs may, but are not obligated to, pass through to customers." These include state Universal Service fees and other local fees....
What's with American companies and hidden costs? It goes from tips, to sales taxes not being included in the displayed price, to myriads of fees everywhere.
I don't know if it's due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012...). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around....
It's a terribly designed (and I'm being very generous with the use of the word designed) programming language, but to its defense so is JavaScript and people are not bashing NodeJS apps.
Newer versions of PHP seem to be dealing with lots of past mistakes, but it will always have lots of warts due to backwards compatibility.
You have things like type juggling which can hide nasty and hard to troubleshoot bugs. There are also inconsistencies because before 2014 the developers were YOLOying it instead if having a formal specification to stick too.
And then you also have older parts of the standard library that were done by people that didn't know what they were doing, leading to things like mysql_escape_string which doesn't properly escape strings in some charsets, meaning you should use mysql_real_escape_string and that lots of beginners used the wrong, unsafe, function.
Another thing that doesn't help PHP's reputation is that it used to be the language of choice of people that knew enough programming to be dangerous. I.e. people that know enough to do small applications, but not enough to take security issues or reliability in consideration. Which by the way, is still a big attitude issue in the PHP world seeing only 8% of PHP Websites use a supported version of PHP with security updates..
there is... a lot going on here--and it's part of a broader trend which is probably not for the better and speaks to some deeper-seated issues we currently have in society. a choice moment from the article here on another influencer doing a similar thing earlier this year, and how that went:...
Exactly. Celebrities already have a problem with people forming unhealthy parasocial relationships with them when the interactions are unidirectional, having something answering back is going to make it much, much, worse. Hopefully no one is going to be seriously hurt in the aftermath of this money-grubbing stunt.
It happens all the time. Bigger companies often decide that one of their products is not profitable enough or doesn't fit their overall strategy and then the options are to either close the service (which is what Google is famous for), spin it off as a new business if it's profitable enough, or try to see if someone is willing to buy that business unit (which is what happened to most of IBM for example).
"function in society" is a weird way of saying "hammering someone into a productive overworked cogwheel, because heavens forbid that we actually give people unproductive idle time or try to accommodate diversity"
Computers (including consoles) have limited resources, at some point you need to deal with tradeoffs, for example do you prioritize graphics quality or do you prioritize FPS? Do you want/need to have more resources available for the physics engine? That eats on the maximum possible FPS. Do you want to do real time procedural generation? Do you want to use the GPU to run some kind of AI? All this are design considerations and there's no one size fits all prioritization decision for all videogames. Clearly the people working on Starfield believe that for their intended game experience graphic fidelity is more important than FPS, and this is a perfectly valid design choice even if you don't agree with it.
Since we dont rely on ads we rely on sharing the plataform in other social media and when someone suggests Lemmy they always comment that they do not like the controversy there. Ban politics and Lemmy will grow faster
Besides, we already had this discussion with content warnings on Mastodon: what's political? Some people coming from a position of privilege decided to throw a tantrum because Black people and LGBTQ people talking about their daily lives is "political". In practice people use the world political to describe what they don't feel comfortable with and shut it down. Which leads to problem number 2, a society can only thrive if we are willing to discuss public issues (i.e. politics), if this doesn't happens the society stagnates and drifts into some shape of aristocracy or oligarchy at best and an autocracy at worst.
Google doesn't need to control the entire value-chain of the as market like it does now to be sustainable. Right now they are basically the ticketmaster of online ads.
If you read the article, the problem is not that Google has an advertisement business but that they control the entire chain. In particular they focusing on the Google AdX (Ad Exchange) which is only one of the components of their ad business, but it's the one that gives them an unfair advantage, because it gives them full control over both the buying and selling sides of the ads business.
They are explicitly trying to make a safe space for their users, and they are very explicit about that. The good thing about federation is that you can decide what kind of community you want to be part of, and there are plenty of instances with a more open policy.
“This is the most extreme type of monitoring that I’ve seen,” says Pilar Weiss, founder of the National Bail Fund Network, a network of over 90 community bail and bond funds across the United States. “It’s part of a disturbing trend where deep surveillance and social control applications are used pretrial with little...
I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has....
“We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression,” Blinken said in a speech in Finland, which recently became NATO’s newest member and shares a long border with Russia.
Microsoft may abandon Activision merger if federal judge grants FTC request (www.tweaktown.com)
Microsoft and Activision have indicated that they may abandon their proposed $68.7 billion merger if federal courts grant FTC a preliminary injunction.
You shouldn't be able to add people as mod without permission
Atm, you can add anyone as mod to a community without permission. This is bad because you could add someone as mod to a questionable community to make them look bad
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
South African President names 10 necessary components to achieve peace in Ukraine (www.pravda.com.ua)
On Ukraine-Russia trip, South African leader's delegation stuck at Polish airport over arms permits (www.washingtonpost.com)
Microsoft -Verse (feddit.de)
Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard (arstechnica.com)
The FCC rules will force ISPs to accurately describe fees in labels given to customers, but Comcast said it wants the FCC to rescind a requirement related to "fees that ISPs may, but are not obligated to, pass through to customers." These include state Universal Service fees and other local fees....
Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP?
I don't know if it's due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012...). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around....
Trump offered ‘Food for everyone’ – but Miami restaurant patrons went hungry (www.theguardian.com)
I almost placed this in Politics, but it’s more news than actual politics....
Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself (www.polygon.com)
there is... a lot going on here--and it's part of a broader trend which is probably not for the better and speaks to some deeper-seated issues we currently have in society. a choice moment from the article here on another influencer doing a similar thing earlier this year, and how that went:...
Squarespace buys Google Domains for $180 million - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News (domainnamewire.com)
America’s Love Affair with Adderall (www.thefp.com)
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U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors deployed to U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility in the wake of increasingly unsafe and unprofessional behavior by Russian aircraft in the region. (www.centcom.mil)
Starfield’s 30fps frame rate is “a choice,” God of War dev says (www.pcgamesn.com)
Ban politics from this instance, it is harming the growth of Lemmy
Since we dont rely on ads we rely on sharing the plataform in other social media and when someone suggests Lemmy they always comment that they do not like the controversy there. Ban politics and Lemmy will grow faster
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See which instances are blocked more than others
awesome-lemmy-instances adds two new columns:...
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance (arstechnica.com)
“This is the most extreme type of monitoring that I’ve seen,” says Pilar Weiss, founder of the National Bail Fund Network, a network of over 90 community bail and bond funds across the United States. “It’s part of a disturbing trend where deep surveillance and social control applications are used pretrial with little...
Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?
I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has....
US's Blinken says no to any Ukraine peace deal that doesn't include total Russian withdrawal (apnews.com)
“We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression,” Blinken said in a speech in Finland, which recently became NATO’s newest member and shares a long border with Russia.