Counter offer, nationalize Starlink and/or force Muskrat to sell it off to somebody who isn’t a complete piece of shit and then let them buy Boost Mobile. The last thing anyone needs is Musk any more deeply involved with telecoms or satellites, owning the launch platform should be enough.
Article linked elsewhere seems to indicate it didn’t go to German users because the German QA team found the issue before it was sent, but due to an internal communication breakdown the issue didn’t make it back to the international team before the emails had already been sent. GOG immediately apologized for the mistake and changed their internal processes to catch these types of mistakes sooner.
It very much reads like an honest mistake, and even then it only impacted a subset of GOG users because it’s entirely dependent on the font used to render the email subject. The actual Unicode character used was a curved S (a letter from the Greek character set), but certain fonts render it looking more like the infamous SS symbol.
I’ve been very happy with Bitwarden for password management. Their hosted service is pretty good and if you want to retain complete control you can self host.
The most charitable interpretation is that they’re banking on taking at least one chamber of Congress and actually being able to remove him from office this time. That it simply wasn’t worth releasing any of this stuff before because they knew the GOP had control of everything and would kill any attempt to hold Trump accountable.
The less charitable interpretation is that this is just an attempt to swing the midterms more in their favor and no matter the outcome nothing meaningful will come of this.
I’m hoping for the more charitable interpretation, but even of it’s the other case if it moves the needle even a bit away from MAGA I’ll take it.
Trumps DOJ is too busy protecting the perpetrators to worry about protecting the victims.
I’ve been a professional programmer for over 30 years with some of the biggest companies in the world. I’ve worked with assembly, c, c++, c#, java, kotlin, perl, lua, haskell, rust, javascript, typescript, coffeescrpit, dart, php, python, and I’m sure 3 or 4 other languages I’ve just forgotten about at this point. Some of those languages are terrible and I hope never to touch again, others were great and I’d be happy to work with.
PHP should have been retired as a language 20 yeara ago, but WordPress has kept it alive all this time. The rest of the industry has moved on and learned lessons from what came before, but the sheer momentum of hundreds of thousands of WordPress installs has somehow kept PHP alive. The language started as a hack, and it remains a hack. It’s gotten faster over the years, but it’s still just as badly designed today as it was when it was originally created.
Of course it’s Primeagen. I haven’t watched this particular video, but I’ve seen enough of his videos to know he’s an idiot. I wouldn’t trust anything he says about programming, at least half of everything he says is wrong.
Most of the things wrong with PHP can’t be fixed, at least not without completely breaking all the existing PHP apps in such a fundamental way it would be tough to argue it’s still the same language.
It’s wild to me that people are still using PHP in 2026. It was known to be a god awful trainwreck of a language all the way back in like 2005 and it certainly hasn’t improved much since then. I guess that’s what happens when a language peaks right at the height of the dotcom bubble.
I’d assume many do, although some are likely just entirely out of their depth and are just listening to what the lobbyists are telling them.
There’s broad support for stopping predatory behavior by corporations that are targetting kids (and adults, but mostly kids). This is mostly the same stuff people have been complaining about for a decade or so at this point. Loot boxes, gacha mechanics, ad infested (and therefore stuffed with spyware for “marketing”), complicated multilayered digital currencies, battle passes, daily login rewards, etc. Basically all the well known dark patterns.
However rather than addressing the bad behavior directly, politicians either through malice or incompetence (likely at the behest of corporate lobbyists) keep putting forth these ID laws that just make things worse instead of actually solving the problem people have been complaining about.
They’ll never miss an opportunity to lie and claim their model can do more than it’s capable of. It should be obvious at this point that any time OpenAI (or most of the AI companies for that matter) claim their AI has done something you should be incredibly suspicious of those claims because it’s a near certainty they’re either highly exaggerated or just plain false.
At this point unfortunately both are needed. There should absolutely be official PSAs and news reports, but they also need to rope in influencers so that the brainrotted idiots who listen to people like Joe Roegan also get on board.
Yeah I suspect the actual number of games people care about has stayed largely the same, there’s just a torrent of slop that’s skewing the numbers. It’s easy to hit 50% when you more than double the number of games being submitted by spewing even more garbage than there already was. It’s so bad Valve is actually having to adjust their store algorithms and systems to try to keep the slop tsunami from drowning out the good indy devs.