I was like "meh" too at first ("what are people TALKING about?") and, then, it just gets incredible.

The International (a DOTA 2 competition) has like $40m in prizes. EWC in 2025 was $70m. 99.6 million people watched the League of Legends World Championship final. And we're not even talking about the millions of dollars of sponsorship involved.

That's great your mom isn't competitive in Valorant, but massively irrelevant. It's like me saying "I play flag football with friends, there is no competitive football."

Anti-cheat is important because this is how the best players are discovered, this is how they're recruited. If a game is 50%+ cheaters, the game will die... DOTA2 would cease to exist today as a big deal. Same with Valorant.

Aside from competitive gaming, GTA V online makes $1 BILLION in ARR. That would be $0 if the game was flooded with cheaters.

Now this isn't me defending kernel level anti-cheat, I think there are better ways to do it and some games do a great job here.

But man, calling GTA V online and competitive e-sports a "tiny bubble" is like calling the NFL a "tiny bubble".

(Also, this thread's root was "regressive tax affecting the poor" which I assert again, is just a silly mischaracterization)

So yea, if you're poor, you're not driving your beater to SoHo and parking in a lot for $50 daily.

Of COURSE, October will be basically 0 sales. Who would have bought 15 days after the $7500 credit disappeared vs before?

You're going to see depressed purchases for a few months because of the mad rush to hit September 30. This is expected, we'll probably see the moved up purchases flush out of the system by Feb or so.

We are backfilling the comments and stories we missed. You should start seeing them in the search results page. I will update when it's all caught up.

Apologies for this again, didn't want to send an update until I had something and every time it felt so close.

We'll work on an HN update on what happened here and lessons learned. (spoiler alert: ownership has become muddled over 10 years so we had to figure out how the portion that stopped crawling worked. That was fun. We'll make sure to work on a clear plan here and be transparent about it. So sorry :( )

How is this any different than your email address being compromised? How is this different than having your laptop compromised and somebody downloading your .ssh folder?

The issue here isn't "is this reliable identification" - because it IS reliable. Your concern is "how likely is this to be compromised vs other things" and that's a fair concern - but there are plenty of very secure web sites out there. This isn't saying "I am john doe and this is my identity", this is saying with some confidence "this person on mastadon is the same person as the person who wrote this web site copy" and that's a totally fine piece of identification for the right context.

I use Chrome Remote Desktop to get into the box remotely. If the box does end up losing power/restarting, I also make sure to have SSH on so I can ssh into the box and start remote desktop before being logged in (Google provides instructions).

I found this to be the path of least resistance to getting it remotely accessible.

I agree, the butterfly keyboard was shitty but I absolutely love the keyboard on the 2020 rev. It's still not as great as my mechanical desktop keyboard, but for a laptop keyboard it's serious chef's kiss. Also, I have yet to find a trackpad that is anywhere as good as the Macbook. Precision trackpads are still way way worse.

Finally, the thing that always beings me back to MBPs (vs Surfacebooks or Razers) is battery life. I typically get a good 10+ hours on my MBP. Battery life on my old Razer Blade and Surfacebooks were absolutely comically horrible.

In fact, mid drive Tesla will auto-reroute you to a supercharger station with more open slots if the one you're going to gets busy while on the drive. The UI is extremely accurate (like I can see open station numbers increment when a car pulls out).

Are you sure you're not hearing complaints about non-Tesla chargers?

You ain’t scooting in Manhattan or San Francisco at 65mph.

I assume this was a Vespa style scooter, not a “stand on a board with no protective gear at all” type of scooter?