Anyone who's played an online game in the past 30+ years knows that nothing is secure on a client machine. You have to rotate offsets and encryption keys constantly, and even then you buy yourself a few days at the most. You'd think google would have actual good engineers, what are they paying all that money for?

The amount of anxiety I have when asking a question there is insane. And I have 6k+ rep. They weren’t wrong, I do know the site well. I have used it a lot. But like, of me, an experienced user, is afraid to ask a question that’s messed up.

Yup that's practically the same problem I had. I posted maybe one question over the past 15 years. I got crapped on by one of their power users for not doing something properly and I never posted or asked a question again. I don't even remember what account I originally used, either.

This is sort of why I like ChatGPT, I don't get harassed for asking something incredibly stupid, and the crappy answers are about as bad as the "marked as duplicate" nonsense that gets me nowhere anyways. Why bother trying to interface with those communities ever again? IT in general already tilts heavily towards salty misanthropes, I'll pass on that.

I remember going to the vmware communities looking for help almost 20 years ago and some smug person was really upset that I didn't use the right wording when I was starting out. He spent something like 2 whole days worth of posting. It was a chore to divine what he was saying while stumbling through his weird rant/lecture about proper terminology. I eventually called him out on it and never went back.

So long story short, communities and companies who don't nip this kind of behavior in the bud and heavily moderate the assholes almost universally turn into the next expertsexchange community. Stack Overflow kind of leaned heavily into enshitification because of this, they eventually just stopped caring about what was being put on their forums, maintaining high content quality, and getting rid of argumentative power-users. Ironically reddit was a much nicer community and usually you'd find an answer or get help without the attitude, especially in the IT space.

Like @Lockely@pawb.social mentions, they did intend to clean house by dropping the board with a buyout.

I, personally, am not too bothered by the consolidation of game studios. There are plenty of AAA game developers and indie devs are filling other niches (and sometimes become AAA themselves). It's a different industry from something like making cars with high production costs and huge barriers to entry.

My thought is are they from different lots and are the batteries from different manufacturers and different lots? You don't want to have 5 devices and them all from the same batch and all fail in the same way. A company not concerned by safety probably wouldn't consider any of this. I also bet their SOP didn't include changing batteries every time, so you have to rule out that these spares probably weren't getting charged up or have their batteries replaced either.

There’ll need to be a serious rethink about the safety design.

The owner is on record saying he thinks safety regulations are bogus an he's actively looked to cutting corners because you can't live in safety our whole life.

This whole thing was a stupid mess. I can't even really muster any sympathy for this situation because everyone made boneheaded decisions every step of the process. Including controlling thrust and control surfaces with a wireless PC controller because you're too much of a spedthrift to spend 10k on some deep sea cable glands and build an actual fly by wire system for your 1.25 million dollar trips to the bottom of the oceans.

The return of phpbb, who had that on their 2023 bingo card?

Plus discord's forum piece is straight up garbage. Moving your entire platform to discord is as crazy as doing it to reddit honestly.

I'm thinking that's why that memo got leaked, there's already dissension among the ranks. I'm sure he's absolutely livid like his idol Mr Musk.

Sure, that is pretty crappy. But I liken that to employees who build their budgets and personal financing around bonuses. Nice to have, but not a guarantee and wrong thing to assume you'll get them. Always assume equity will be zero, IPOs benefit C-levels and investors heavily.

I can't find much on reddit's equity offerings for employees but I imagine it's, at best, a pittance. Their other benefits are top notch though. No wonder they "don't turn a profit".

Fidelity dropping reddit's valuation by ~40% made me go "oh boy that's bad news" when I saw it at the start of the month.

Imagine thinking you're cashing out at 10 billion and now you're only getting 6. The horror.

Don't forget the 4 AITA subs, a few subs for some fandoms because admins can be trash (Making a Murderer has like 3 itself). It's fragmented on reddit too.