Before I got laid off, I was told by my manager of the company I was contracted to that people higher than him were wondering why I hadn't installed the copilot extension in vscode; he strongly recommended I do so. So I did install it. I then proceeded to immediately set the ignored file types to "*" (which, for those who might not know, is shorthand for "everything".) I didn't hear anything about it afterwards.
I used to contract with a company where it was almost ubiquitous for someone to start a text-based conversation with the entire message: "Hey..." — ellipses and everything. It was bad enough that other members of my company that were contracted to the same contract would jokingly add ellipses to random things when messaging each other.
Roughly speaking, apps hosted on the internet can be divided into 2 parts: the frontend and the backend. The backend is the server that provides access to any of the data associated with the app, as well as handling any operations a user might request; this is typically done through sending specifically formatted data to specific URLs on the server. The job of the frontend is to make it more natural for a human to access the data and available operations.
A frontend can be many things; the most common, however, are webpages and apps. In the case of lemmy, there is a webpage frontend that comes default. There is also a popular third-party webpage frontend called Tesseract.
A few weeks ago, after updating the version of Tesseract they were using, the db0 instance noticed a large number of errors. In the end, they went through the code of Tesseract — which is publicly available on github — and found that it would silently reach out to a Tesseract server (importantly this is not the backend that whomever installed Tesseract was trying to communicate with), download a filter list, and silently apply it while disguising filtering any post you tried to access as an error.
The filter list was very opinionated, and often felt arbitrary; and due to the fact it was downloaded from the internet, it could be updated at any time without notice. Additionally, any of the options Tesseract provided around filtering had no effect on the secret filtering.
Because the code is publicly available, the instance owners forked it (made their own copy, with some ability to keep getting updates from the original source) to remove the secret filtering.
It's rounded to the nearest multiple of 10; it could be up to 5 (exclusively), and could still be listed as 0. It's why so many lower-calorie products are listed with a zero-calorie serving size in the US. I'm not sure about the specifics of regulations — if any exist — on selecting serving sizes; this particular example feels a little fishy to me.
Tesseract was an alternative frontend instances could host. Despite having configuration options for filtering or the lack thereof, Tesseract would silently both download and enforce a custom filter; this hidden filter could not be overridden by any custom configuration. The hidden filter included regex to block keywords, users, and instances, showing a generic error about anything filtered as being "incompatible with Tesseract".
It's purposefully worded that way to be misleading, even to native speakers. Explicitly calling something medicine or a cure means it would have to be tested and regulated. However, labeling something as being for wellness isn't covered by that, and is just vague enough to have people think positively about it. That's not saying that there aren't beneficial things labeled under wellness; roughly speaking though, it's can be used to sell whatever you want, while making people assume it's actively good for them.
It's blatantly a bad stance from them; but it doesn't even touch on games that use internal client/server models even when playing single-player — which includes Minecraft. If their argument were law, would I be breaking it by just playing Minecraft at all? With the way it's worded, I would think yes.
That doesn't even take into account that Minecraft in particular can turn a single-player client/server into a multiplayer with one button press. Would that be illegal? Maybe they'd argue not, because it's LAN only (which is a flimsy argument as well). But with a little effort, you could open up that LAN server up to whomever you wanted.
Very obvious they didn't think it through, they just want you to own nothing.
Natural Selection 2 is kind of like that
Before I got laid off, I was told by my manager of the company I was contracted to that people higher than him were wondering why I hadn't installed the copilot extension in vscode; he strongly recommended I do so. So I did install it. I then proceeded to immediately set the ignored file types to "*" (which, for those who might not know, is shorthand for "everything".) I didn't hear anything about it afterwards.
Reminds me of tangrams
I used to contract with a company where it was almost ubiquitous for someone to start a text-based conversation with the entire message: "Hey..." — ellipses and everything. It was bad enough that other members of my company that were contracted to the same contract would jokingly add ellipses to random things when messaging each other.
Roughly speaking, apps hosted on the internet can be divided into 2 parts: the frontend and the backend. The backend is the server that provides access to any of the data associated with the app, as well as handling any operations a user might request; this is typically done through sending specifically formatted data to specific URLs on the server. The job of the frontend is to make it more natural for a human to access the data and available operations.
A frontend can be many things; the most common, however, are webpages and apps. In the case of lemmy, there is a webpage frontend that comes default. There is also a popular third-party webpage frontend called Tesseract.
A few weeks ago, after updating the version of Tesseract they were using, the db0 instance noticed a large number of errors. In the end, they went through the code of Tesseract — which is publicly available on github — and found that it would silently reach out to a Tesseract server (importantly this is not the backend that whomever installed Tesseract was trying to communicate with), download a filter list, and silently apply it while disguising filtering any post you tried to access as an error.
The filter list was very opinionated, and often felt arbitrary; and due to the fact it was downloaded from the internet, it could be updated at any time without notice. Additionally, any of the options Tesseract provided around filtering had no effect on the secret filtering.
Because the code is publicly available, the instance owners forked it (made their own copy, with some ability to keep getting updates from the original source) to remove the secret filtering.
It's rounded to the nearest multiple of 10; it could be up to 5 (exclusively), and could still be listed as 0. It's why so many lower-calorie products are listed with a zero-calorie serving size in the US. I'm not sure about the specifics of regulations — if any exist — on selecting serving sizes; this particular example feels a little fishy to me.
Pretty good video on the topic, but it mostly just says what other commenters have said
https://youtu.be/kBTfo5xXH1c
It's not so rare now; but on the second day Silksong was out, I got the achievement for defeating Phantom when it was still 0.1%
Tesseract was an alternative frontend instances could host. Despite having configuration options for filtering or the lack thereof, Tesseract would silently both download and enforce a custom filter; this hidden filter could not be overridden by any custom configuration. The hidden filter included regex to block keywords, users, and instances, showing a generic error about anything filtered as being "incompatible with Tesseract".
It's purposefully worded that way to be misleading, even to native speakers. Explicitly calling something medicine or a cure means it would have to be tested and regulated. However, labeling something as being for wellness isn't covered by that, and is just vague enough to have people think positively about it. That's not saying that there aren't beneficial things labeled under wellness; roughly speaking though, it's can be used to sell whatever you want, while making people assume it's actively good for them.
I don't remember the specifics since it's been a while, but I think these are the John Wolfe videos that cover fake knocking
https://youtu.be/lmduRz2EGhM https://youtu.be/1_MT1n_Yz2E
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It's blatantly a bad stance from them; but it doesn't even touch on games that use internal client/server models even when playing single-player — which includes Minecraft. If their argument were law, would I be breaking it by just playing Minecraft at all? With the way it's worded, I would think yes.
That doesn't even take into account that Minecraft in particular can turn a single-player client/server into a multiplayer with one button press. Would that be illegal? Maybe they'd argue not, because it's LAN only (which is a flimsy argument as well). But with a little effort, you could open up that LAN server up to whomever you wanted.
Very obvious they didn't think it through, they just want you to own nothing.
Looks like a slower-paced YOMI
Came here after lemmee shut down; been loving it. Keep up the good work guys
Wilford
My Heart Will Go On — Dragonforce
Fun fact: if you can smell the chloramines at a indoor pool, then their ventilation isn't good enough, or their pool isn't being operated correctly
Love seeing mbmbam references in the wild
I think it's funny that I didn't even find the Last Judge until the end of act 2, so it was a pretty easy boss in my playthrough