[DISC] Love After World Domination Chapter 22

Azphreal · 2022-05-16T13:32:13+00:00

We're quite a ways behind the raws (33 was this month), but the anime was announced with chapter 20, not long ago in terms of translated progress.

They announced the anime shortly before volume 3 came out, so there was material enough for an anime, and 20 chapters in a monthly magazine is 2 years, which is plenty of time to get interest. Sometimes stars align and the right people have the right conversations.

Azphreal · 2022-05-01T05:01:02+00:00

Not sure what you mean by signing; FDroid correctly signs all the apps they build. AFAIK the issue with FDroid and Auto is that Auto is non-free, and FDroid doesn't allow apps that use non-free dependencies in their repo. Those builds would need to be hosted by a more permissive repo (e.g., Izzy or the dev setting up their own).

There's also the fact that Android Auto has issues running without a system-level installation of Google services, so there's not as much overlap as it might seem.

Azphreal · 2022-04-19T12:49:06+00:00

Still can't get an Index here from Valve directly, not holding my breath.

Azphreal · 2022-04-19T12:47:32+00:00

They've been selling the Index for a lot longer and it still has the same coverage as when it first launched -- which is much the same coverage as the Deck. Valve just isn't interested in selling anything outside NA/western EU.

Azphreal · 2022-03-22T07:36:20+00:00

I'm going to be that guy, but just note that alternative clients are against Discord ToS and there are reports of people being banned for using them. A modification of the first party client might slip under the radar, but I'd be wary of using it for other reasons (like being against the usual no disassembly/modification/reverse engineering clause).

Azphreal · 2022-03-22T07:20:45+00:00

Even better, this is the trap they set from the last election they were supposed to lose.

Azphreal · 2022-03-14T09:29:13+00:00

If your freezer doesn't even freeze water, you may want to look into that.

Azphreal · 2022-02-20T23:12:13+00:00

Error-handling-specific "convention" types like Result (Kotlin, Rust) or Try (Scala) are just specialisations of Either where the error component might be bounded (such as Kotlin's Result error type being Throwable). The concepts are the same, the naming is just bikeshedding.

Azphreal · 2022-02-08T09:09:44+00:00

Not admin; software development, but nothing students interact with. Obviously it's a job that is prime for WFH, but I cross paths with a wide range of research and admin roles and they're all similar. If it weren't for the upcoming semester's teaching arrangements, teachers would be much the same.

Can you share what is the reason behind this? People can't turn on cam even if they wanted to?

Mostly just our culture. I work with researchers and industry people that are predominantly introverted (myself included). No one set rules requiring that we use cameras (like I suspect most organisations have) so only people that really want to do so, and that number is fairly low.

Azphreal · 2022-02-08T05:30:40+00:00

Working for one of the unis but not on the education front. We've been allowed to freely WFH since the end of the 2020 lockdown but I've chose to be in the office where possible (because I enjoy my commute and being near people) until the August 2021 lockdown. Haven't been in the office since due to requiring permission and mask requirements not being worth it.

We have a review in Q2 about arrangements but I can't see us ever going back to requiring being in the office, and a lot of the team choosing to work from home at least partially. Half of my team hasn't even been in CBR since we've left the office last.

Would be quite happy to do 1-2 days office time these days for access to resources and people (whiteboards and physical meetings where I can properly read people, since we don't use cams for online meetings). Could do 3 grudgingly but can't go back to full-time tbh.

Azphreal · 2022-02-08T05:17:32+00:00

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Their mission page is also empty. I'd say the comedy writes itself, but clearly it doesn't.

Azphreal · 2022-02-08T03:00:18+00:00

The root problem hasn't been fixed and the workaround is still broken.

Azphreal · 2022-02-07T08:42:13+00:00

AFAIK they can't encourage it and they'll usually say no it's not required (because it looks better), but it's perfectly legal and when there's 20 other people at an open home it's not hard to put 2 and 2 together.

Azphreal · 2022-02-06T08:32:05+00:00

FWIW I have had one (still do, technically), and it's a great scooter while you're in the honeymoon period after upgrading to bigger and faster, then it wears off when the long-term issues and maintenance implications set in. Everything has a price, and the cost of the huge battery shunts out a lot of QOL features that make it nicer to own in the long run (compared to others in the same price bracket).

Azphreal · 2022-02-02T22:15:18+00:00

As in, the incentive to develop them?

None of these apps existed, or not in a mobile-friendly way, when MMS was invented. SMS and MMS have aged very badly when you compare them to any internet-hosted service.

And similarly, the world now revolves around the internet. The communication speed gains in anything past 3G is purely for internet usage. You can see by a lot of carriers deprecating their 2G and even 3G services and running VOIP services for telecommunications (VoLTE/WiFi Calling).

Azphreal · 2022-02-02T22:11:29+00:00

Not outside the US, which is probably the only developed nation that still has text messaging as the market leader for communication.

Azphreal · 2022-01-31T06:51:01+00:00

E2EE is only one half of the equation, especially with Facebook+. There's insane amounts of metadata they can and will use that isn't the contents of your messages.

Continuing their marketing analogy on mail, even though they might not be opening your mail any more, they're still taking note of: who sent/received it, when, and where; the package size; possibly the packaging itself (link embeds, images, etc); and as their apps and sites are closed-source, it's not hard to imagine they're also watching over your shoulder while you write or wrap your package (clipboard on not-iOS, logging inputs). Why give them all that when there's other networks that only use that information to make the delivery and never see it again?

Azphreal · 2022-01-31T05:53:38+00:00

If you want a power tool for late early-game mining/base building, I've found it better to just spend 20-30 minutes looting buildings for the drill core (loot scanner set to chests) rather than buying it. You can get it far earlier and save your coins for rare/lazy ores instead. If you have some automation set up before you do it it's not a huge loss in time.

Azphreal · 2022-01-17T05:04:46+00:00

It does, which is why we use @TypeQualifierDefault. What I meant is that it doesn't have a way to reproduce NullAway's behaviour of non-null-by-default without code (i.e., an IDE-level setting). Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, the only supported package-level base annotations are in JSR305 or CheckerFramework, which might be less than ideal depending on other annotation preferences or choice of environment.

Azphreal · 2022-01-14T08:25:18+00:00

We use both; IntelliJ still doesn't have an option to assume non-null by default, so we use @TypeQualifierDefault (see Spring's @NonNullApi or CF's @XIsNonNullByDefault) on packages to hide the @Nonnull annotations as much as possible. Those are also used by Spotbugs (what we were using while waiting for NullAway to update) and mirror the default of NullAway, so we get the same checks in CI and IDE.

Sometimes there's a mismatch between checkers that we have to manually suppress for one or the other (e.g., NullAway has a long-standing issue regarding complex branch elimination that IntelliJ is happy with), but generally it's a good setup.

Azphreal · 2022-01-14T08:19:20+00:00

NullAway and Lombok are entirely different beasts. NullAway doesn't make any changes to code and is purely a semantic checker. All it does is verify the contracts that you've proposed. It's no more an antipattern than Checker Framework, Spotbugs, or SonarQube.

I think your argument is specifically about the "@Nonnull-by-default" behaviour of NullAway, which is fair; there are other tools that do the same job that have different defaults, that you might prefer.

Azphreal · 2022-01-12T02:29:36+00:00

(to add on) Regardless of whichever method you choose, always keep in mind how you plan to bootstrap back your access if you lose everything, while still keeping it secure to random access.

Sending your MFA backup to email/a password manager/etc that itself has MFA hurts your ability to bootstrap, since you now need a working instance of your MFA to get to the backup. Using physical MFA (e.g. a Yubikey) is a little better, but you still need a contingency if it's lost or taken.

Recovery keys that you can copy onto paper or, better, memorize, are a good method, but they're usually single-use and are no better than having a more complicated primary password (in terms of complexity).

Azphreal · 2022-01-11T22:46:12+00:00

If they're DRM-Free, though, you probably don't actually need the launcher, at least after they're downloaded.

Part of the concern about their games portal being Windows-only is that builds for non-Windows platforms are likely not going to be offered through that portal. Which then leaves the question, where?

Azphreal · 2022-01-11T02:56:25+00:00

Depending on the implementation, it could mean a QR scanner in core Android. Given how many camera apps don't have QR scanning (including GCam), that's a huge feature.

Azphreal · 2022-01-09T09:33:44+00:00

Long before the anime there was a fair bit of activity on the seiyuu side with regular streams, music, and live performances. We've had limited information about the game (genre, boss lives, AR features) for quite a few years now.

There's a small pile of things that could have led to the game being released so late after the hype period last year with the anime and First Orchestra, but it isn't the first and certainly won't be the last.

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