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A lesser standard still applies if it either embeds or redirects to a payment page. Again, shouldn’t mean shit, but still.

Because the alternative seems to be a Russian intelligence asset.

the only thing the app does is start transactions and check with the server if they’re paid

Yeah, but the whole PCI DSS thing means that the app must still be secured. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be tied to Google Play, but explain it to them.

IIRC they did coupons exclusively in their app a few years ago where I lived (haven’t checked since), and they hiked the price of everything, so if you don’t install the app, you get a 20% surcharge in effect.

That goes for every single shitty chain store as well.

I guess the problem is that app developers write the installers, and they suck at following conventions. Obligatory fuck Snap, as it creates a folder in the home dir, and it doesn’t even bother to hide it, and it is not even reconfigurable.

Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.

or /opt, or a binary in some hidden folder in /home…

I’m happy at least the Sun has time to rest at night, it would be so hard to keep shining all day

I would just like to point out that it can still get so, so much worse.

Outsourced to Asia, and you get phone pranks the quality of Jian Yang from Silicon Valley.

One other reason I could see is pure idiocy. Like I’ve seen that there is a bias to using every feature some software has, and if a max limit can be set, it will be set, to a “reasonable” value.

Imagine having to contract with a company in order for them not to fuck your life up with your own data. This is ridiculous.

Nah, we should have different days off, duh. Let me have Wednesdays off, some peeps can have Fridays.

Actually, I would prefer to have weekdays off instead of weekends, easier to focus with less people at work.

Some countries use YYYY MM DD which is also sane.

Condolences.

That, and society does not like it when you do so, and the more you get off the beaten path, the harder it gets.

To be honest, I’ve seen a lot of code in my line of work, and my experience says that if the speed of a language is your concern, you’re either in high-frequency trading or working on some real-time use case, or you’re wrong.

Most time you perceive as lag as a user comes from either atrocious programming, or network lag, or a combination of the two. A decently, not even well, but decently written Python vs Assembly subroutine will have differences in execution time measured in nanoseconds. Network calls usually measure in milliseconds, and something like a badly written DB query that reads a ton of data from a disk will do seconds or worse.

My point is, I’ll take a not-badly written Python program over someone claiming to have chosen C/C++ for the blazing fast speed in a user facing application, when half of CVEs ever have been submitted over memory safety problems in C/C++.

Simplicity of maintenance, and these help with good security.

Why?

“I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.

"This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.

What game is this even? I mean, why would any game need a graphic rape scene? Who is this going to sell to?

Don’t video games outside of Japan try to avoid getting AO rated any more?