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popcar2@programming.devto
Privacy@programming.dev•Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifying
55·20 days agoWhat a stupid, nothingburger article.
The company is considering releasing millions of old email addresses that were originally created by bots in its early years. These accounts were disabled almost immediately, but the addresses lived on. […] The problem is that many of these addresses are extremely common.
So what? The author rambles about the horrors of getting emails from people who have accidentally written in a generic email handle. It’s not a huge deal. Tons of people using other email services like Outlook and Gmail also have generic usernames, it’s a user’s choice on whether to get one or not. These are old bot accounts that have been disabled for almost a decade, so it’s not like somebody would send emails assuming it was the old person using the handle.
Proton says it wants community feedback, which is good, but the fact that it is even considering such a reckless idea makes me question the company’s judgment.
“I’m mad that the company is surveying their community”, great argument.
popcar2@programming.devto
Privacy@programming.dev•Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifyingEnglish
8·20 days agoHave you read the article? These are old bot accounts that have been disabled for almost a decade. It’s in the very first line.
popcar2@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending BugsEnglish
42·22 days agoMicroblogging has always sucked IMO. It’s always been more geared towards shouting your opinion and leaving, and it actively discourages any discussion by hiding reply threads and making it a nightmare to follow. Most people aren’t ready for this take, though…
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!English
74·22 days agoI don’t know what weird-ass stawman you built, but it’s obviously not from anything I said
your position seems to be “we won, everybody drop your weapons and party, google is good again”
No?
and you follow by bashing linux phones in your subsequent comments…
“Bashing” Linux phones by saying they’re buggy and won’t be ready soon, which is literally true. Even PostMarketOS says the same thing on their website. I guess you’d prefer I gaslight people by saying Linux phones are awesome, let’s all switch to phones that barely work, lack any phone apps, have a terrible battery life, etc.
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!English
252·22 days agoDeluded or in bad faith for sharing official news?
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!English
143·22 days agoThe Linux phones that exist today (including Pine Phone) are more like early dev kits. They have really weak specs, are incredibly buggy, lack all sorts of features you’d expect, and I’m not totally sure if you can even make calls through them because phone carriers require a verified device and proprietary tech to work.
There are efforts to get things in order but these will take maybe 10 years at this rate.
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!English
502·22 days agoI’m guessing they’re going to hide it in developer tools with a bunch of warnings and no explanation on how to get there so regular users don’t turn it on by accident.
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!English
2823·22 days agoThat’d be nice, but Linux on phones is still a pipe dream.
popcar2@programming.devto
Television@piefed.social•What TV series introduced a plot point, only to abandon or never properly explore or address it??English
5·24 days agoI mean the series did peak in season 1, but season 2 is the worst one by far. If you do pick it up again you’ll probably have a better time once you get through the bad parts.
popcar2@programming.devto
Television@piefed.social•What TV series introduced a plot point, only to abandon or never properly explore or address it??English
60·25 days agoStranger Things very famously had that one episode in season 2 where Eleven travels and joins another group of teenagers with superpowers - it was an extremely unsubtle attempt at greenlighting a spinoff that never happened.
After that episode this was never mentioned or brought up ever again.
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Television@piefed.social•Pluribus - Series Premiere Discussion ThreadEnglish
5·25 days agoAnimals seem immune. There was some throwaway line in episode 2 about how one of the survivors told a giraffe to shoo and go away but it completely ignored her.
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Television@piefed.social•Pluribus - Series Premiere Discussion ThreadEnglish
3·25 days agospoiler
I think you’re on the money. The signal humanity got is also most likely from an alien species that suffered the same fate, it’s a virus trying to spread to the whole universe.
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Television@piefed.social•Pluribus - Series Premiere Discussion ThreadEnglish
14·25 days agoI just finished watching the first two episodes and thought it was excellent. It’s been a while since a show hooked me from the very start.
Episode 2 theory
After finishing episode 2, I now have a theory on where this is going. When the hivemind says that it can’t hurt anything, I think they mean it literally. They are not allowed to hurt any living thing and are completely docile.
The reason they have a seizure when shouted it is that they want to hurt Carol back but aren’t allowed to, so they deadlock. They also seem to do 100% of everything they’re told to do. Nobody noticed this yet in the show but potentially this could mean someone could order around everybody on earth to try and rule it, which could be wild. Curious to see where this goes and whether I’m right.
As long as main menu storage works, I’m sure people will find other ridiculous bugs to finish the game quickly.
popcar2@programming.devOPto
Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•I made a guide on how to setup NTFS drives for linux gaming!English
1·30 days agoYou don’t have to use NTFS. In fact, it’s not recommended, but the biggest reason you’d want to is if you were dual-booting Windows and wanted to access the same files from both operating systems.
popcar2@programming.devto
Godot@programming.dev•Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 3 – Godot EngineEnglish
3·30 days agoThe new theme is nice and all but condense layout for arrays in the inspector is so beautiful. I have an old project that became unwieldy because of how much space the inspector was taking to edit anything.

popcar2@programming.devOPto
Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•I made a guide on how to setup NTFS drives for linux gaming!English
22·1 month agoThis is good info, thanks! I’ll add it to the fstab entry in a bit.
Edit: I’ve tested it for a bit and made sure the symlinks still work with non-Windows characters. Added it to the guide :)
popcar2@programming.devto
Hollow Knight@lemmy.world•What's the most stupid way you lost a steel soul run in either game?English
6·1 month agoI walked into the crusher trap in Crystal Peak
“Surely I’m not going to run into it again”
I ran into it again
“Surely I’m not going to run into it again”
I ran into it again and lost my save file. I think I ragequit for like a year before coming back and getting the steel soul achievement.
popcar2@programming.devto
Programming@programming.dev•How to create a typing visual game for kids ?English
14·1 month agoHelp you how…? If you want to make a game, learn game development.




















I’ve yet to see any AVIF in the wild. I think support for it is not quite there yet, everybody is still relying on WEBP.