“Winning” is like making it to max level in a mmorpg. It’s not the end but it is the beginning of the endgame.

If you’re making a mil a year in revenue there’s a good chance your profit margin is tiny and licensing fees could obliterate it.

Doing the lord’s work

Lossless compression algorithms aren’t magical, they can’t make everything smaller (otherwise it would be possible to have two different bits of input data that compress to the same output). So they all make some data bigger and some data smaller, the trick is that the stuff they make smaller happens to match common patterns. Given truly random data, basically every lossless compression algorithm will make the data larger.

A good encryption algorithm will output data that’s effectively indistinguishable from randomness. It’s not the only consideration, but often the more random the output looks, the better the algorithm.

Put those two facts together and it’s pretty easy to see why you should compress first then encrypt.

Do they taste of borscht? I bet they taste of borscht.

No part. The part that’s clearly putin ball gargling behaviour is your commentary on it.

What in the russian propaganda bot fuckery is this?!

Lmao.

I mean. Sorta.

When you use some service you have some expectation that they’ll treat you fairly and predictably. Sure their Eula let’s them do whatever the fuck they want legally but that doesn’t change the fact that if they opt take certain actions (like arbitrary taking people’s usernames) then they risk losing user trust.

If the admin just took your username one day would you just quietly accept it? What if they edited or deleted your comments? Would you just shrug and say “well it’s their site they can do what they want” and just walk away?

Look what happened when Spez got caught editing posts on Reddit, for example. Massive user outcry.

Dude’s allowed to be annoyed about it.

You can trademark dictionary words.

You can’t trademark anything too generic, like you might struggle to trademark a drink called “drink” or something (although you might be able to trademark, eg, shoes called “drink”!), but there’s nothing stopping you trademarking words.

Oh, and, Adobe is an english word, too.

That’s an amusing name but they take a photoshop competitor to market using that name they’re going to lose a trademark dispute in milliseconds.

Good. Aspartame tastes fucking awful. I’d rather have food that’s less sweet than sweeteners.

we’re seen as evil because we’re helping DRM exist and we’re ensuring people make money out of games

No, you’re seen as evil because your software is an inefficient and invasive security risk that makes games significantly worse, and compromises/punishes your paying customers in the quest for more money.

I no longer pirate games (thanks to Steam), but I’ll never buy one with Denuvo.

Fuck allllll the way off.

Holy fucking shit what a ridiculous country.

https://www.rawstory.com/google-twitter/

Yeah they were already doing that, I imagine he took a look at how many inbound visits come from Google and quickly U-turned

Yes, exactly what I did. You can just buy a 2230 nvme ssd and slap it in. Process is pretty painless (just remember to take any micro SD card out before you take the shell off or there’s a chance you’ll snap it)

The hardest part for me was finding a usb-c to usb-a converter so I could plug in a usb stick to reinstall the OS.

I second this. Seriously one of the best things I’ve bought in years. 64gb + 1tb+ m2 is such a ridiculous bargain if you can operate a screwdriver.

They’re incredibly good emulation platforms too.

I honestly hope they just sell this model for a few years while dropping the price - something to be said for having a standard hardware platform with a huge install base.

I thought that was Alan Sugar.