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New comment by Parsnip1 in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

Parsnip1 — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:26:47 +0000

There's a decent chance that this is also just an issue within a JSON parsing library that someone at R* decided to throw in and use. The parsing library was probably never intended to handle such large blobs, and R* didn't want to mess with the the OSS code.

I wonder if it might even be an incompatible OSS license?

New comment by Parsnip1 in "Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store"

Parsnip1 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:18:46 +0000

While it's probably not 10%, the transaction cost will come out of the transaction when processed by Epic. Normally that comes out of the 30% that Apple takes. Either way, the purchaser is saving $2 and the developer gets a larger share; this doesn't seem like a bad thing, especially when the developer is going to be spending a decent amount of cash fighting the App Store monopoly.

New comment by Parsnip1 in "VPS VPN – GhostiFi"

Parsnip1 — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 01:01:56 +0000

I'm a little unclear why I would trust that there is no logging. With root access to the VPS, I'd be able to determine that the OpenVPN service on the VPS is not logging the connection between my device and the VPS, but I obviously don't have any access to the infrastructure beyond the VPS. My ISP might not be able to see my traffic, but the ISP of the VPS would, and I'd be just as identifiable if there are logs matching my dedicated IP to my account.

New comment by Parsnip1 in "Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition"

Parsnip1 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:36:38 +0000

The only times I've used a bike share, it was because I was walking somewhere and happened to pass a dockless bike that seemed like a really good idea to just rent and use right away. These were invariable in places that would not have had a docking station.