It’s been a few days since this was posted, has google killed it yet?

The situation is tragic… their attempt to hide behind their ToS on that is fucking hilarious.

Friends at uni handled that problem by disallowing landscape view instead of handling it hahah

😭

Such a tragic and common ‘solution’ because it doesn’t actually solve it, it just delays it until someones minimizes the app for 30 minutes and re opens it, or one of the many many other ways that also trigger it.

I’ve had some apps that I do lock to portrait, but I would disable that flag on debug builds, since rotating the phone was the easiest way to test for some of those bugs. I didn’t worry about a good looking UI since it’d be locked in portrait, I just used it to test for bugs.

Pretty sure there was one over 100k file at one of my old workplaces. It kept growing and growing and was the most critical file in the business. Like if that file suddenly vanished, the business would be done or shut down for at least a year, maybe two kinda thing. Re-certifying the output of that file would probably take 6 months alone.

It had a partner file, also very important, but not as, which was much smaller around 20k-25k

For anyone who knows and understands Android development, process death, and saved state…

The previous dev had no understanding of any of it, and had null checks with returns or bypassing important logic littered all over the app, everywhere.

I could only assume he didn’t understand how all these things were randomly null or why it was crashing all the time so he thought oh, i’ll just put a check in.

Well, you minimize that app for a little bit, reopen it, and every screen was fucked visually and unusable, or would outright crash. It was everywhere. This was before Google introduced things like view models which helped but even then for awhile weren’t a full solution to the problem.

It was many many months of just resolving these problems and rewriting it the correct way to not have these problems.

I had some absolutely beautiful RxJava2 chains in an app I worked on once. Can definitely be abused and done poorly though.

The first time something goes wrong with that complicated setup, it probably pays for a decade half a century or more of it’s fee.

You can also use a post-install “Playbook” to rip all the adware and spyware out of Windows

Does that actually persist across forced updates? I know they’ve been known to re-install things on updates before.

I wonder how long ill be staying on my AM4 motherboard… those updated CPUs for gaming that AMD came out with might be my only option for a long time.

I went to a tech event recently and got to chat with other other tech people, and it’s been awhile since I’ve been able to do that. We nerded out talking about caching. It was great.

capitalists claim market prices are the true source of truth

Until any sizable amount decides to sell and it all falls apart because it’s actually not the source of truth lol.

AI can be such a good kiss ass, think of all the emotional suffering it’ll save existing CEOs from having to endure kissing ass of people they hate.

except their employee benefits package is guaranteed to touch companies impacted by it.

I don’t think it was a bug making the configuration change, I think there was a bug as a result of that change.

That specific combination of changes may not have been tested, or applied in production for months, and it just happened to happen today when they were needed for the first time since an update some time ago, hence the latent part.

But they do changes like that routinely.

7of9 as captain movie with a fresh crew?

Great story, had no idea this had happened and nothing has happened since. Those Russian pilots must have been freaked out.

Let’s assume for a moment that all OS are going to go this way.

Of all the modern well used OS, microsoft is the one I’d trust the least to do it.

I still think there’s a difference.

When people talk about wielding money like power, its more along the lines of

• if you don’t do what I say, I’ll destroy you by doing XYZ.
• you better change your laws or I can fuck shit up in some way.
• I can break the law because you can’t fucking touch me.
• Your example: the power to command other people to do your bidding.

For Twitter he actually used his wealth as actual money to buy something you would buy with money.

He did get power from it yes, but I still think there’s a distinction when talking about wiedling it as power vs using money as money.

Unless you buy Twitter.

These are forward looking claims on something they are building. It’s not quite the same.

FSD is closer, but it is an improving product.

It’d be more like if FSD wasn’t ever improving even and yet he still kept making the claims.

He should still be punished for the FSD stuff though.