When I was learning, CORS was a pain in my ass. It’s not taught well, and often glossed over.

Yeah more or less. The Verge did a whole podcast episode on RAM over the holidays. It was a good explainer.

Basically, RAM that goes into AI data centers isn’t necessarily the same as RAM in your computer. There are only 3 companies making RAM. They are altering their fabrication lines to accommodate for the commercial/AI ram so they can make more money. That means they can’t produce consumer RAM.

It’s hard and expensive to build RAM and chip factories because there is one company that makes the machine that does it. So anyone who wants to stay a RAM factory is at their mercy.

The Verge reporter said he expects ram prices might go up significantly more in the next 6months to a year.

I’m not worried about password resets. They have my email but not my password. I use a password manager, and keep my email account locked up tight. As long as they can’t get in my email, they can’t change my password.

I receive password resets from nearly every app and service at this point. 🙃

Yeah. I just looked it up. That video was dumb and bad. Shouldn’t have made it up, but the article is still on their site. They did issue a retraction and update the story to correct the inaccuracies.

I don’t know if it warrants the Lemmy hate but I also know that Lemmy hates anything corporate so it is what it is. I’ll still read The Verge as long as they follow their own ethics policy.

Found it. Yeah that video was bad.

To their credit, they did issue a retraction and repost the story with correct steps.

The copyright strikes were definitely a dumb way to handle it.

Idk if true or not but in an Arstechnica story, The Verge’s editor in chief apparently asked the Vox lawyers to rescind the copyright strikes.

I don’t mean to sound like I’m defending them. The video should never have made it up in the first place, but people make mistakes. If you own it and apologize, I’ll give you a second chance.

I don’t always agree with their take on a topic, but for the most part I have found them to be factual.

I do also agree with many Ed Zitron takes about them tho. They could be doing a better job on AI, but over the last few weeks I’ve seen an improvement there.

TLDR: that PC build from 8 years ago was dumb and extra embarrassing, they should feel bad for it, but I still think some if the hate they get is unjustified.

I see a lot of people hate The Verge and I don’t understand why. Is it perfect? No. But, I think they have a pretty solid ethics policy and they call out bullshit.

I like 404 better but Verge is by no means bad.

Maybe there was an issue with them that I don’t know about? Idk!

My guess is the get the phone info from protests and then use the data from location data brokers to track further.

While you are right, sounds like they are mostly getting the data through location data brokers that use advertisement industry to track you.

Everyone should be using an ad blocker for this reason exactly.

Ads are often the culprit of data for the location data brokers. Fuck the ads.

A CSS framework that moves writing CSS into the html to make it stupidly long with annoyingly confusing class names.

I might be biased though. I hate it.

I’m very against Roblox. I know a kid who had a really hard time with online predators and a lot of it stated with Roblox. He’s 19 now. He and I were talking about it recently.

Parents think Roblox is like Minecraft bc of the aesthetics of the game. But, Roblox is not a game with a chat feature, it’s a chat room with some games. That’s a big difference.

They have 380 million users. Around 60% of the user base is under the age of 16. 40% is under the age of 12. That’s 152 million mostly unmonitored kids.

I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time, but in our experience predators meet kids on Roblox and get them to exchange Discord or other contact info with them.

Discord is also a problem here, but that’s for another rant in another thread. If you are concerned about your kids and want to discuss it with me, feel free to message me.

TLDR: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY ROBLOX unless you are actively monitoring the game.