Emily (she/her)

To my understanding the ruling doesn’t affect impeachment. Trump’s team argued that impeachment was the check and balance on presidential power iirc

Trump supporters live in a different reality. Because they’re in a fascist cult.

Not every change is going to completely overhaul the app. More than likely, the changes are a fix to some obscure bug not caught in testing that only affects a small percentage of devices. Just because you don’t encounter it with your workflow and device doesn’t mean it isn’t a critical bug preventing someone from using the app. It could also be a new feature targeting a different use case to yours. It could even be as simple as bringing the app into compliance with new platform requirements or government regulations (which can happen a couple times a year, for example Android often bumps the minimum SDK target such that apps are forced to comply with new privacy improvements).

Just buy a cheap Casio if that’s your budget. It’ll keep better time and is less likely to end up in a landfill

From a quick Google, it seems like Mullenweg is a complete jackass

I contribute and run some open source projects. Some projects receive sponsorships and contributions, some are backed by companies, a lot are just someone doing it on their own time, very few can actually meaningfully support the people working on them. Personally, I receive no money for mine.

After a certain point, learning to code (in the context of application development) becomes less about the lines of code themselves and more about structure and design. In my experience, LLMs can spit out well formatted and reasonably functional short code snippets, with the caveate that it sometimes misunderstands you or if you’re writing ui code, makes very strange decisions (since it has no special/visual reasoning).

Anyone a year or two of practice can write mostly clean code like an LLM. But most codebases are longer than 100 lines long, and your job is to structure that program and introduce patterns to make it maintainable. LLMs can’t do that, and only you can (and you can’t skip learning to code to just get on to architecture and patterns)

Mozilla’s next largest source of revenue is subscriptions and advertising (source 2021 financial report), by a wide margin. That “useless shit” is their other revenue, and they’re investing in it because they know they need to diversify revenue to fund Firefox. You’re suggesting they kill it because it’s not their core (unprofitable) business?

Yeah, for some reason they only let you charge the NES/Famicom controllers as if they were Joycons. The SNES controller just uses USB-C so I don’t know why they didn’t do that across the board.

But this conversation has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand

They stop their ads for the same reason you don’t shit talk at a funeral: its disrespectful and makes you look like a prick.

I’m using an ✨analogy✨ to explain to you why, even if they are “serious about the topic in the ads”, they would stop them when someone dies or a tragedy occurs. Its not some conspiracy about “planned division”, it’s because speaking ill of someone under those circumstances makes you look like (and be) a disrespectful dick.

I’m not asking if you remember them as an arsehole and speak of them like that. I’m asking if you do that at their funeral.

I’d be interested to hear whether you regularly attend funerals and speak ill of the deceased. They stop their ads for the same reason you don’t shit talk at a funeral: its disrespectful and makes you look like a prick.

She drew crosshairs on congressional districts and tweeted it with the text “Don’t Retreat, Instead - RELOAD”. That is stated in literally the first paragraph of the article your citing, and I can’t help but feel you’re intentionally misrepresenting it to draw a false equivalency.

Making a breaking change to the mobile API also breaks old outdated installations of the app. Websites and their APIs are usually synced, apps not so.

If they were really motivated to stop your method, they could just obfuscate the frontend with webpack and break your scraper every time they make an update.

I suspect that any of the methods proposed here would be prone to a C&D, but IMO the safest legally would probably be the RSS method (not a lawyer though). Reddit’s RSS feeds are public, documented, and available without the need for private APIs, authentication, or an API key, so I don’t see how they could claim that a wrapper is unauthorised/illegal. Documenting their private API however seems like a gray area. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. found that APIs are copyrightable, but this use may constitute fair use.

Is there a reason you’re scraping data rather than attaching a network sniffer/reverse engineering the official apps and documenting the results? Or map the RSS feed to an API? The main thrust behind my comment is that I think scraping is pretty fragile, so I’m interested as to why other options are infeasible.

Thank you for adding this! If people want a real life example of the effect shown in this pseudocode, here is a side-by-side comparison of real production code I wrote and it’s decompiled counterpart:

    override fun process(event: MapStateEvent) {
        when(event) {
            is MapStateEvent.LassoButtonClicked -> {
                action(
                    MapStateAction.LassoButtonSelected(false),
                    MapStateAction.Transition(BrowseMapState::class.java)
                )
            }
            is MapStateEvent.SaveSearchClicked -> {
                save(event.name)
            }
            // Propagated from the previous level
            is MapStateEvent.LassoCursorLifted -> {
                load(event.line + event.line.first())
            }
            is MapStateEvent.ClusterClick -> {
                when (val action = ClusterHelper.handleClick(event.cluster)) {
                    is ClusterHelper.Action.OpenBottomDialog ->
                        action(MapStateAction.OpenBottomDialog(action.items))
                    is ClusterHelper.Action.AnimateCamera ->
                        action(MapStateAction.AnimateCamera(action.animation))
                }
            }
            is MapStateEvent.ClusterItemClick -> {
                action(
                    MapStateAction.OpenItem(event.item.proposal)
                )
            }
            else -> {}
        }
    }

decompiled:

    public void c(@l j jVar) {
        L.p(jVar, D.f10724I0);
        if (jVar instanceof j.c) {
            f(new i.h(false), new i.r(c.class, (j) null, 2, (C2498w) null));
        } else if (jVar instanceof j.e) {
            m(((j.e) jVar).f8620a);
        } else if (jVar instanceof j.d) {
            List<LatLng> list = ((j.d) jVar).f8619a;
            j(I.A4(list, I.w2(list)));
        } else if (jVar instanceof j.a) {
            d.a a7 = d.f8573a.a(((j.a) jVar).f8616a);
            if (a7 instanceof d.a.b) {
                f(new i.j(((d.a.b) a7).f8575a));
            } else if (a7 instanceof d.a.C0058a) {
                f(new i.a(((d.a.C0058a) a7).f8574a));
            }
        } else if (jVar instanceof j.b) {
            f(new i.k(((j.b) jVar).f8617a.f11799a));
        }
    }

keep in mind, this was buried in hundreds of unlabeled classes and functions. I was only able to find this in a short amount of time because I have the most intimate knowledge of the code possible, having written it myself.

It’s not impossible, just very labour intensive and difficult. Compiling an abstract, high level language into machine code is not a reversible process. Even though there are already automated tools to “decompile” machine code back to a high level language, there is still a huge amount of information loss as nearly everything that made the code readable in the first place was stripped away in compilation. Comments? Gone. Function names? Gone. Class names? Gone. Type information? Probably also gone.

Working through the decompiled code to bring it back into something readable (and thus something that can be worked with) is not something a lone “very smart person” can do in any reasonable time. It takes likely a team of smart people months of work (if not years) to understand the entire structure, as well as every function and piece of logic in the entire program. Once they’ve done that, they can’t even use their work directly, since to publish reconstructed code is copyright infringement. Instead, they need to write extremely detailed documentation about every aspect of the program, to be handed to another, completely isolated person who will then write a new program based off the logic and APIs detailed in the documentation. Only at that point do they have a legally usable reverse engineered program that they can then distribute or modify as needed.

Doing this kind of reverse engineering takes a huge amount of effort and motivation, something that an app for 350 total sneakers is unlikely to warrant. AI can’t do it either, because they are incapable of the kind of novel deductive reasoning required for the task. Also, the CarThing has actually always been “open-source”, and people have already experimented with flashing custom firmware. You haven’t heard about it because people quickly realised there was no point - the CarThing is too underpowered to do much beyond its original use.

Guy’s profile picture is literally of Joseph Goebbels. I don’t think their opinion has much weight, nor are they worth spending time arguing with

…I know? Believe it or not I’m aware of those decades and their aesthetics, I didn’t need you to condescendingly explain that to me. I was just saying that it was my first instinct, especially since some do resemble pride flags.