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for a new feature request? a PR isn’t a commit, it’s a set of commits which would add to the line change amount.

Like even if you spread it out across 20 or 30 commits that’s still going to be the same line count.

I guess you could push not yet functional or used code to lessen the line count change, but that seems in bad taste. I’ve always gone off the working repo should always be in build or clean state and a push or commit shouldn’t break that.

is it auto reject, or just doesn’t auto approve and leaves it open for manual review

It seems weird that you can’t do a pr at all with 1000 line changes, any moderate size feature addition could hit that mark

I kinda get that for premium games but, huge offenders of this are free to play gatcha style games. Which all transactions are off platform via their own launcher system. I don’t think steam gets a cut on those. The monopoly thing has a lot of merit though, they have been super concerned about that ruling the last few years.

Yeah, which is why I think it doesn’t make sense that Steam allows it in the first place. Like, it’s actively letting a direct competitor use your platform. You get none of the benefits and all of the upkeep.

Fully agree. I think that Steam should make it a platform requirement that external launchers cannot be used on the platform.

It makes zero sense for me to hit play just to have a third party launcher open, and I have to hit play in that third party launcher as well. and I have to hit play in that third party launcher as well. At that point, I’m better off just buying it through the third party launcher.

The whole third-party launcher update process is also obnoxious… Every gatcha game does it. what’s the point of using steam at that point

I do the same, its so nice not needing to worry as much with cleaning.

Even then, the prompt could be as easy as a “recheck” button that the user sees on age restricted media. Kind of like how their age verification bucket was going to be. Database side all they need to know is a boolean of true or false of if they are a minor or not. or /maybe/ a trinary (0,1,2) system if that wanted a distinguishment of < 13 13-17 and 18+ It doesn’t have to check daily, it only has to check when the user requests access to age restricted stuff.

Even if deported, he has the money to live comfortably, he would likely either come back illegally anyway as a point, or move to another country and do his proceedings there. Him being deported wouldn’t remove his ties, or companies at all, as those don’t need US citizenship or anything. The only thing actually deporting him will do is but a blemish on him, and make a rich a-hole want to do everything he can to make the person who caused it regret it.

In the case of Musk, it would likely cause a massive political campaign fund for the either the direct opposing party or more realistically whoever runs for his party that the current administration does not advocate for.

The outcome is the same though, which is why I see no world where they actually try this.

Oh you poor soul, it’s not only that, they are likely going to tear down any monuments or rename them when you are gone as well.

I see no route where regardless of party who gets in in 2028 is going to keep any of the names either, like “Lake America” and “Gulf of America”, it’s such an insult to the rest of the world anyone running would decide against it and without any real opposition against tearing down the existing monuments made, I don’t see any real blockers.

I do think that they are likely right that the ballroom or whatever it ends up actually being will stay, but everything else? I firmly expect won’t be.

I agree with Matrix Sucking, it needs very heavy work on both frontend and backend implementations to be taken serious, that’s why I stopped pushing it to my friend groups, the people I convinced to join ended up needing features it just doesn’t support yet, like an actual permission system instead of the numeric based > x style, or actual custom emote capability that isn’t a patchwork decided by the software and the huge barrier of getting started. People don’t want to have to pick through 30 different frontends to find one that works perfectly for a server.

Matrix works amazingly for the techies, or for people who want a limited IRC style feature set. But for for the casuals who are used to what discord provides, it just isn’t a good competitor. It’s complicated to get going, isn’t unified and lacks features. Most people I have tried to suggest it have bailed due to that not long after joining.

XMPP being difficult though? I hard disagree. It’s well maintained, it’s super established, and for the most part unlike matrix whom decided frontend needed to make decisions on feature-sets, everything on XMPP is backend based. You have the same issues as matrix client wise but, for the most part client feature-sets are universal due to how long it’s been out. I would push XMPP long before I go back to pushing matrix again. I have had better luck keeping/maintaining people on XMPP than I have with matrix.

Yea this right here. People don’t remember, the only reason everyone left Skype in the first place, wasn’t because of skypes enshittification, although that didn’t help.

It was because during skypes implementation of said enshittification, their uptime was almost non-existent. Cloud servers crashed constantly, the linux program for it was unusable and required reinstall every time you opened. Messages weren’t sending and people weren’t getting notifications or history. People were forced to go elsewhere in order to remain in contact, so people moved to discord. The more people who moved the faster the transition become. Eventually everyone realized “Wow this is such a better product” and decided to stay.

yea, that’s exactly why they don’t do that. They know the only main feature that they offer that people who subscribe actually want is the emotes everywhere, they won’t offer a super cheap tier offering only that as the jump would be people on the 1$ tier and then people on the 10$ tier. Nobody would do nitro basic.

Google Wallet users can share a passport ID pass; Google sends Discord a birthdate, and Discord derives age from it without retaining that date.

… if google wallet is determining it anyway, why can’t google wallet just reply yes or no to the “is over 17” query… it seems like discord wouldn’t need to know exact age at all in that flow.

I think a big issue with it is that theres no real way to properly sue a project if the president ok’s it. It’s a lot of money to go after a case, and then since it’s a federal case the president has pardon power on it. An IP violation is almost always federal… which falls under that pardoning ability. It would need to either stay at a state level (which is unlikely given who is involved) or keep it in civil court, which I don’t think IP violations of this magnitude would stay contained.

Honestly with how the law currently is, I think the president could publicly execute someone(or order someone else to) for any declared reason, as long as said reason could be remotely tied to it’s position of power, and then for the crime they could just pardon it. There’s nothing blocking it.

Tetromino’s as a design implementation is not trademarked, but the concept and names are. The Tetris Company owns the rights to any use of Tetromono’s and Tetris in the gaming sector. Being said, the patents to such concepts have already expired, so unless they were using trademarks naming I think they are fully allowed to use it. I don’t know if the Tetris company has any legal standing here.

that looks similar to the HOA buildings that my aunt lives in in florida, it’s an enclosed pool but, the glasswork is similar.

I would love to live in a place like that as well, but I couldn’t deal with the HOA’s said locations almost always have

that’s interesting, I didn’t know that. Stupid design choices on so many pages suddenly make more sense.

Apple maps also took forever to update on the gulf change so I expect you are correct.

This becomes very sticky and is intentionally labeled the way it is in the US explicitly because it would be too complicated to coordinate with aviation. That is unlikely to change anytime soon.

Property rights used to classify your land as anything from your ground all the way to the planets. This was re-defined when airplanes were created because it became obvious that reasonably you can’t have that style of legal claim, because it wouldn’t be possible for aviation without an extreme amount of micromanagement and that’s just not reasonable.

Instead, they redefined it to be generally, starting 500 feet above ground becomes public domain controlled by the FAA. This doesn’t mean that you can build a house 500 feet in the air because you’re still restricted by your local territory ordinances. For example, Bloomington Minnesota doesn’t allow more than 2 story(excluding basement) buildings without permit.

This was actually ruled based on a chicken farm back in the 1940’s(United States v. Causby), believe it or not. because the military flew a plane of 87 feet off the ground and it was causing the chickens to kill themselves. The courts at that point did away with the heavens to the sky concept(well, technically, they did in 1926, it just took until this case to have actual solid rules for it), which was that you owned anywhere from the land all the way up to the heavens. and instead added an invisible barrier that separated the land that you own to the sky. In that case, the government was found to be at fault because it was flying low enough that it was causing harm to the farmer in removing control of the farmer’s land.

Note, this doesn’t mean that drones are not allowed in that 500 foot zone, that is still in a territory by territory decision. The general understanding is that non-commercial drones need to be following privacy laws that are in place. So, while they may be allowed in your 500 foot zone, that doesn’t mean they’re allowed to be at your second story window filming you. They need to be not impacting your use of the land.

This is somewhat unrelated, and already mentioned later on, but I also wanted to add in that drones are considered aircraft by FAA standard, so I would not advocate taking matters into your own hand, period, and trying to take them down, via traps, firing at them any type of damage that could potentially cause the issue on your land. Not only would it be highly likely that you would be needing to pay restitution for destroying the drone, but it’s also fairly possible that you would face felony charges for it. You need to rely on the existing legal system in order to take care of it or else you put yourself up to the potential of being in the wrong. Report the drone to the FAA, report it to your local police for privacy invasion, but do not, under any circumstance, cause actual damage to the craft.

I knew the name but did not know the face.

If I had to look at this without seeing comments talking about the name, I would have stated that he looks like basically every main non-anime protagonist strives for.