@Fast-Nop A government's laws only apply to that government's citizens and people within it's borders. Those laws only apply to citizens in another nation if the two governments have made a treaty that states as much. There are currently no treaties that extend the GDPR beyond the EU's borders.

I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this since you're doing nothing but repeating your claim without any argument to back it up.

@Fast-Nop No, they don't apply. The EU may say that they apply, but they don't. The EU has no power or authority to dictate laws to anyone outside their borders.

If the USA declared that no car with a USA passenger is allowed to drive faster than 20 kph, would taxi drivers in Germany have to drive slower when transporting USA people on vacation? No, obviously not, because USA laws don't apply to people in Germany, just as EU laws don't apply to people outside the EU.

This is such a basic premise of the world; a nation's laws only apply to people within that nation's borders.

> It applies if you're doing business in the EU, which in the case of a website means that you have EU visitors

@lbfalvy No, that's not how the world works.

If I live in the USA (or anywhere else outside the EU), am a USA citizen (or citizen of anywhere else outside the EU), and my website is hosted in USA (or anywhere else outside the EU), then absolutely no EU rules, laws, or regulations apply to me or my site, regardless of where my site's visitors happen to be.

Again, this is the most basic aspect of how sovereignty, government, citizenship, and national borders work; namely that I am only subject to the laws of my nation, the nation I'm physically in, and the nation where my site is hosted. Third-party governments, such as the EU, have no say in anything I do.

This is the same GDPR written by Europeans that think they can dictate laws to the entire world. You shouldn't expect anything they say to make sense.

Obligatory reminder: The GDPR only applies to companies with a physical presence in the EU and does not apply to any person or website outside the EU, because that's how sovereignty and laws work.

Yes it does. The person that came up with the idea of package-private access scope should be shot into the sun and the person that made package-private the default scope for unmarked methods should be strapped to the outside of the rocket.

C# abandoned? That's stupid. The language is getting constant updates with the latest one, preview features of C# 11, being just a few days ago.

C# was great for game dev long before Unity came along. XNA was a marvel of a simple graphics engine that made game developement a breeze compared to other options at the time. Even before that, using GDI+ drawing on a custom WinForm control was as good or better for simple game dev than a comparable pygame setup.

As usual, basically everything you say is nonsense.

@IntrusionCM I'm annoyed, cranky, and generally an asshole, but offended? Nah, not at all.

Yea, I'm sure the suits on this team were terrible, as most suits are, but anyone that unironically uses the terms "problematic" and "micro aggressions" is also definitely a big part of the problem.

I have no nice words. This place would be better without your stupid gibberish.

Covid is fake? Come on, even you can't be that dumb.

@imlost You're free to rant, we're free to respond. If you want a hugbox, this ain't it, "babe".

My favorite is when they are "hacking" something and if you pause to look at the screen it's just some html code loading google analytics.

Probably shouldn't tell others to "put in some effort" when you can't be bothered to type whole words, apply capitalization, or use punctuation.

Just regular minecraft with no mods? Weird, I didn't know people still played vanilla.

All clowns are software developers. Prove me wrong.

They're generally made by the art department. Some times completely animated, with either the actor matching the animation (when done in-camera) or the animation matching the movements of the actor (when the animation is composited in during post production).

Other times, like when a real site like google is needed or showing terminal commands, they will screen record the needed action separately and then either play or composite the recording in like they would any other animation.

There might be a few cases of a production throwing a little html or a few bash commands together to get the right look, but that would still be done by an art department.

Baring maybe a few exceptions that prove the rule, media productions don't hire coders to build fake sites or create fake software. It's all illusion and trickery.

@Zohiu It's not really a secret or anything. It's called Brave Rewards, they block all outside ads, then insert their own ads and give users tiny amounts of crypto for each ad they view. Yes, it's opt-in, but that doesn't make it any less gross that a browser is making money by inserting ads onto internet.

Brave is the only browser gross enough to actually insert ads on other people's sites. All browsers have their issues, but Brave are hypocritical dirtbags that somehow manage to be more unethical than Google itself.

So it's basically just another Chromium-based browser, but in this case with the added feature of being owned by a Chinese investment firm.

Yea, no thanks, I'll stick with Firefox or one of its derivatives until a better non-Chromium non-Chinese non-Big Tech browser comes around.

I used to think at least some of your weirdness was an ESL problem, but, nope, you're just as much of a whacked out loon in German as you are in English.

@LotsOfCaffeine @Earu The source code is licensed under the MIT License which is practically the definition of an open source license. If the source code is gratis and libre and has a proper license, how is it not open source?

> Maybe also a mirror of antisocial patterns still prevalent in [...] the developer industry.

Well, the tech industry was built by antisocial nerds for antisocial nerds, so I'm not sure why you say it like it's a bad thing. And all in all things worked pretty well until the normals arrived and shit the place up with their mindless socializing.

Eh, better to do it yourself and know it's done right than leave it to some failed ponytail that couldn't get a job as a real artist and also doesn't have the basic front end skills to implement their own designs.

So, because I use MS software for development, I don't care about my users? Yea, with all due respect, go screw yourself.

Coding is writing code.

Programming is writing code to create a program.

I don't know if this is a joke or a real claim, but either way Frank Sinatra would have been a better fit.

@Oktokolo Fair enough, but I have a fondness for tilting at etymological windmills. ;)

@Oktokolo Oh, no doubt marketers will abuse the term, as they already do, but abusing the term is exactly what they are doing.

What the metaverse is (or would be) is pretty clearly shown in Snow Crash and that's a single omnipresent internet-like cyberspace that is presented through fully immersive virtual reality. If it doesn't meet those requirements, then it isn't the metaverse.

Multiple different cyberspaces controlled by different companies? Then that's not the metaverse. Not accessed through VR or accessed through non-fully immersive VR? Then that's not the metaverse. Different in any meaningful way from the depiction in Snow Crash? Then that's not the metaverse.

It's just like the concept of a hoverboard. Companies can label any product they want as a hoverboard, but if it doesn't work like the boards in Back to the Future, then it isn't really a hoverboard, it's just marketers misusing a geek term to sell a product.

Web 2.0 was a marketing term from suits that didn't understand AJAX. Nothing more.

> Metaverse - AR and VR have been around before this dogshit rebrand, and they'll outlive it.

VR as coined in 1989 and AR in 1990. Snow Crash was released in 1992, so Neal had probably coined Metaverse at or around the same time that VR and AR were thought up. One thing is for sure though, Cyberspace was already several years old at this point and really is the OG term.

> How many times you consider yourself got bullied over the internet?

>

> Nonce

> Once

There seems to be a typo of "Nonce" instead of "None".