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New comment by fumufumu in "Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house"

fumufumu — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:18:10 +0000

I know Amazon tried. I haven't heard of Google trying. Sure they started Stadia but they had no internal game dev teams that I know of.

I have hard of MS's issues. The biggest issue is a game dev team is generally lead by a game-director. It's not a "design by committee, come to consensus" type of thing like software dev is at Amazon, Google, Microsoft. The way work happens is not the same. They might look superficially similar but as a simple example, at typical game dev team is 70% artists, 20% game designers, 10% software engineers (+/-) where as a typical team at Amazon, Google, MS is 95% software engineers.

New comment by fumufumu in "The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants"

fumufumu — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:27:36 +0000

I moved back to the USA, SF in June 2021. I stayed with a friend and parnter for 5 days. In those 5 days they ordered via doordash for ~8 meals (lunch and dinner).

New comment by fumufumu in "Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos"

fumufumu — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:16:45 +0000

Did you turn off updates on your phone as well? Because 99.999% of people have app auto-updates and every update could include an exploit.

I'm not saying you're wrong not to trust package managers and extensions but you're life is likely full of the same thing. The majority of apps are made from 3rd party libraries which are made of 3rd party libraries, etc.... At least on phones they update constantly, and every update is a chance to install more exploits.

The same is true for any devices that get updates like a Smart TV, router, printer, etc.... I mostly trust Apple, Microsoft, and Google to check their 3rd party dependencies, (mostly), but don't trust any other company - and yet I can't worry about it. Don't update and I don't get security vulnerabilities fixed. Do update and I take the chance that this latest update has a 3rd party exploit buried in a 3rd party library.

New comment by fumufumu in "Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act"

fumufumu — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 05:02:00 +0000

> Apple now allows alternative browser engines within the EU, as just one example.

Have any shipped?

New comment by fumufumu in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

fumufumu — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:20:22 +0000

Ad blockers still run in Chrome - just not ublock origin. Google's ads are still blocked by those blockers. If they really were motivated to stop ad blocking wouldn't they have blocked all ad blockers?

Note: I'm upset too that ublock origin stopped working. I switched to ublock origin lite and it's mostly working, though there are some ads sneaking through. I'm not sure if that just means

(1) it needs an update

(2) I should look for another blocker (IIUC ublock origin lite is not maintained much?)

(3) It's impossible in V3 to block these few things that are currently not blocked.

New comment by fumufumu in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

fumufumu — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:15:53 +0000

What ads are not blocked by other ad blockers though? I'm upset too that ublock origin is no longer usable. I tried ublock origin lite and it seems to be blocking most ads so it's still blocking google's ads and that's not banned. It seems kind of hard to argue that it's just about banning ads given plenty of ad blockers still block Google's ads.

I haven't tried others like Ad Blocker etc...

New comment by fumufumu in "Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener"

fumufumu — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:09:52 +0000

Is this a valid study? (most dietary studies are pretty poor)

Is it the lack of sugar or is that people who don't put sugar in their coffee have a bunch of other things they do? Maybe people who don't put sugar in their coffee are less likely to eat donuts. Maybe people who don't put sugar in their coffee are more likely to workout. Maybe people who don't put sugar in their coffee are more like to have better genes for T2D and that same collection of genes makes the predisposed to not put sugar in their coffee.

I'm not saying sugar isn't bad. It is! (I don't put sugar in my coffee) But, 1 teaspoon a cup doesn't sound like enough to have a measurable impact without knowing that everything else about the people is the same.

Reminds me this podcast

https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/252/gordon-guyat...