Giooschi

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[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if Discord is the best example here, as it didn't support the screen capture portal for a very long time.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I don’t get sports fanatics…

Most people just want to watch a match of their home town/favourite team maybe once a week. This is very moderate, what's so bad about that? However in order to do that they either have to either spend an absurd amount of money to get access to all matches, or spend a bit less money to play lottery and hope the match they wanted to watch gets selected.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The only options you have are:

  • Dazn Standard (45€/month, 35€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to all the SerieA matches (and a whole bunch of other sports nobody cares about)

  • Dazn Goal Pass (20€/month, 14€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don't get to choose (and a bunch of other sports nobody cares about)

  • Sky (16€/month for the first 18 months, then whatever Sky wants after that) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don't get to choose (and a bunch of other stuff nobody cares about)

Most people care only about some specific matches, so your only option is Dazn.

Dazn is also a very crappy service, it often has connectivity problems and also has ads. Fun fact, if you get a connection issue while watching a Dazn ad, it will restart.

So, as usual, monopoly, high costs and crappy services drive piracy.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

If you distribute your app via Flatpak, what benefit is there over "disk space" (irrelevant for all but embedded devices)

Everyone always focuses on disk space, but IMO the real issue is download size, especially when you update a bunch of flatpaks together.

I still prefer the upstream flatpaks over Fedora's though.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL that Discover let's you change it. AFAIK there's no way in Gnome Software though

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is good is users having a choice, but Fedora Flatpaks are the default choice and users have no way to change it. Many don't even realize they are using them instead of the official ones from Flathub.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm also surprised "disk space usage" isn't an issue for many. I just cleared out dozens of GB of disk use by Rust, and I had to fix my CI/CD to clear itself properly.

For me it's just a matter or clearing the target directories used by older rust releases when I upgrade every 6 weeks. cargo-sweep is a godsend for this task

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, but then you're basically just pushing the mutability onto the container

That's the point, when programming with immutable structures you always pass the mutability onto the enclosing structure.

It's a good strategy at times though. Like say you're working in a language where strings are immutable and you want a string you can change. You can wrap it in a list along the lines s=['foo'] and pass references to the list around instead. Then if you go s[0]='bar' at some point, all the references will now see ['bar'] instead.

A list is an antipattern here IMO. Just wrap it in some dedicated object (see e.g. Java's StringBuilder).

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What you need here is not the stability in memory (i.e. of pointers, which you lose when you recreate an object) but instead just the stability of an identifier (e.g. the index into a list).

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

FYI there is an open source reimplementation of Flash from scratch called Ruffle that should solve all the security issues that Flash had. It runs on WASM so it's compatible with modern browsers. The New York Times is using it to bring back some old interactive/animated pages that relied on Flash.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

You keep the recovery codes unexposed to the internet or obfuscated in some way, unlike your usual password.

How is a strong password I used exclusively for Bitwarden "exposed to the internet"? I do see the value of this for people that don't care about security and reuse the same password everywhere. In that case you would need something like phishing to expose the 2FA code or the recovery code, just a leak of the email-password combination from another website would not be enough. But what's the point if I'm already using a unique strong password specifically for Bitwarden?

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

yes, that's the whole point, to recover your account if you lose your MFA device. what are you even trying to say?

If you can login without the second factor then what's the point?

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