Great question, and one I’ve struggled with.

I’m a big privacy advocate, and my personal devices and home network reflect that. Which really brings me to a difficult crossroads here.

I don’t have a good answer for you right now, the best I have are the problems I’m trying to balance:

• Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. And the collection of mass anonymized data in order to determine “what looks normal”, to spot abnormal (spoofing) behavior. How can I balance this against privacy concerns? It’s a rough one for sure.
  • This is the toughest one here. Likely I’ll need a combination of data retention periods and anonymization. At the very least sensitive data is separated from the rest of the game data, and is encrypted at rest. Likely there are clever protocols and solutions already out there I just don’t know about yet that can improve protections here.
• Audit Logs: When a player performs an action that interacts with a location-based feature, where they where when that action was performed it is stored alongside the audit log of that action. This ties in closely with Anticheat, and also enables pattern matching to try and find oddities (exploits, cheating, bugs, and other problems).
  • Right now these stay around forever, and can be used to simulate the global game state at any point in the past (really REALLY useful for debugging problems, especially when you don’t have a good repro). Eventually such state should make granular rollbacks possible in case of exploits or rampant cheating. (A game where you have to physically go somewhere to capture a mine means rollbacks have a crazy high cost, making them granular is pretty important)
• Analytics and Telemetry: Location data isn’t in use here right now. And I don’t see how it would be while also respecting privacy.

Selling the data: 😂😂😂 I’d rather light my servers on fire than stoop to that level.

Hey that’s totally valid!

I’m an avid player of Factorio and Dyson Sphere Project. Those really scratch the pure factory itch.

I’m aiming to scratch a different itch here. Persistent empire building in competition with others over finite resources is an itch that’s REALLY hard to scratch. And that’s what I’m aiming for here.

That sense that you have built something that feels more tangible than other games you’re accustomed to. There’s a real world element, you control something that someone else cannot, with that comes that empire building feeling I personally live, and want to build a game around.

I mean, that could be extreme, or really not that bad.

Refactors have a way of generating a lot of changes. Half our job is code review, kind of have to get over it and go read some code.

If someone put the effort in to write it, it’s your responsibility to put the effort in to read it and review it.

If the style is difficult to read and non-standard for your repository or not. Conventional then your repository and your engineering team should be following set standards to ensure consistency.

If you’re doing this then most PRS shouldn’t be that difficult to review.

I say this, spending a decent part of my week reviewing something like 40+ PRs.

I do! I’m actually using an NVidia Shield. Which runs android TV

I tried last year to install a recommended one but it required that I download a third-party APK. And I would have to jump through a meant hoops to be able to install it on this device when I was poking around then. If it’s not on the Play store, apparently it’s rather difficult to install?

On my tv, yes :(

Not only that, it’s easier to contribute. And generally more accessible to more developers. Which is a damn good thing.

Yes, it’s incredibly good.

If Firefox is trying to get more developers on board with working on it than being on the largest development platform helps them.

It’s a move that should benefit Firefox by making open source contributions more accessible And bringing in more developers.

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60 requests

Per hour

How is that reasonable??

You can hit the limits by just browsing GitHub for 15 minutes.

That’s actually kind of an interesting idea.

Is there a reasonable way that I could host my own ui that will keep various repos. I care about cloned and always up to date automatically?

Github has literally never been doing better. What are you talking about??

They have a shitton of other products, services, and tech though?

Just because it’s not marketed at you doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

I interact with the development ecosystem that Microsoft largely controls. They’re constantly doing new stuff there.

Shit megacorps? Yeah. No innovation? No.

Thank you for making no effort to engage in conversation and instead trying to shut it down because it doesn’t agree with you.

Insinuating that I’m repeating talking points as a way to dismiss my opinion is the kind of bad faith comments no one wants here.

I’m familiar with them.

These are projects sitting years, maybe even a decade, away from maturity. IF web standards and capabilities don’t change at all over the next 5-10 years.

Hopefully that puts this into perspective. These are really cool projects, but without a massive influx of engineering effort and organization, they will likely be perpetually, hopelessly, behind the standard rate of change required of browsers. Nevermind meeting the current standards of performance, security, observability, ecosystem, user and developer experience.

It’s always good to check in on these projects yearly, see how it’s going, see if they are accelerating or slowing down. Eventually one of them will take off, and potentially leech resources from other similar projects.

Though, the nature of FOSS is that 1000 people will work on 200 different projects all trying to do the same thing, instead of combining and organizing efforts to go after the same unified goal.

This isn’t really a statement of fault but rather a statement of reality. Without dedicated full-time organization, this is usually how scattered resources solve problems. Which is a core problem here in that dedicated organization to rapidly grow the engineering effort for a particular project usually requires funding and full-time employees. To both market it to engineers as an interesting project, mature documentation and DevX, mature the onboarding experience for devs, and to handle the organizational aspects of distributing said work.

Everyone always says it’s easy, but by God I cannot figure out how to easily pop the blinds into or out of their mounted holders.

It’s a nightmare every time…

More like yes please, I get better results and better customization, and no ads or paid results.

It makes my life easier and speeds my workflows up. And unlike free alternatives I almost never find myself reverting to Google.

Kagi literally documents how this works in their blog post about it: https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass

Perhaps you should start reading before writing?

Yeah, but they hold none of the actual real emotional needs complexities or nuances of real human connections.

Which means these people become further and further disillusioned from the reality of human interaction. Making them social dangers over time.

Just like how humans that lack critical thinking are dangers in a society where everyone is expected to make sound decisions. Humans who lack the ability to socially navigate or connect with other humans are dangerous in the society where humans are expected to socially stable.

Obviously these people are not in good places in life. But AI is not going to make that better. It’s going to make it worse.

Any fork will die a slow and painful death of it can’t get the necessary funding for project management and maintainer salaries.

It will also dwindle, hard, towards irrelevancy.

In world where the only viable browser is one owned and operated by Google.

CEO is paid for from the for profit. The majority of costs are engineering salaries for Firefox.

Wtf you on about?

The grand majority of all costs for Firefox are in engineering salaries. And there is no million dollar CEO relating to the nonprofit’s expenses, that CEO is paid for from funds from the for profit organization.

Browsers are CRAZY expensive to build and maintain. And teams of engineers are crazy expensive.