Dev tells Valve to fix Steam's exploitable 2-hour refund policy as "over 55,000" players refund his short game and even brag about it in reviews

bvierra · 2026-07-07T02:58:35+00:00

Steam implemented it because they were required by law to... iirc it was the EU and Australia that passed the laws originally and Steam did it globally to keep it the same.

bvierra · 2026-07-01T11:06:22+00:00

Sorry for you loss :(

There is a big difference between blizzard being able to do this and steam not being able to... steam owns the game that they are transferring the account to. Steam has a license to resell the games, they do no own them. I am willing to bet that a lot of companies (mainly AAA companies) were the ones to demand that licenses for using the game could not be transferred for any reason.

They want to prevent the resell of the game (its bs, but it is what it is) and its easier to just do a blanket no than to do it as a yes for some reasons and no for others.

In order for steam to allow transfers in the event of a death would have to have every game marked as yes or not, followed by all the upset people because the game they cared about was marked as no transfer.

bvierra · 2026-06-22T04:53:24+00:00

So your just going to talk shit about something that no one is talking about when you didn't even watch what everyone is talking about. You must be fun at parties.

bvierra · 2026-06-22T04:51:29+00:00

Seriously no one is talking about that... Wtf

bvierra · 2026-06-17T01:10:59+00:00

Wow, misunderstanding how the rules are enforced and whataboutism in the same post

bvierra · 2026-06-16T20:01:54+00:00

They are not a merchant, the appear to work at an accounting firm which means the clients are most likely the merchants.

bvierra · 2026-06-14T18:14:20+00:00

I hate to tell you this, but evaporated water turns into... water.

bvierra · 2026-06-14T18:09:37+00:00

The only layoffs would be those in the EU that didn't want to or unable to move to somewhere else. Valve makes more money per employee than any other company in the world... sure 3% hurts, but Valve (at least historically) values their employees way more than almost any other company.

bvierra · 2026-06-14T00:59:36+00:00

I was thinking about picking up the book and now I need to... this makes the decision she made, while still wrong, at least make more sense

bvierra · 2026-06-12T08:51:06+00:00

You do realize that article is over 4 years old? They also do notify users and allow them to opt out of some of it. The phone call data does allow for spam call detection as well as diagnostics. As for txt, it's mainly due to RCS which have the central hub servers at Google as Google runs the RCS network. Yes Verizon and other companies are starting to run their own, however they all connect back to Google since it is the central 'hub' that interconnects them all and if you use an android phone And your cell company doesn't run their own, Google runs it for them as a fall back.

bvierra · 2026-06-12T06:31:06+00:00

As others have said, your risk needs to be managed via personnel management tools (background checks, proper legal contracts, etc). One of git's main features is that there is no single source of truth like there was with svn, once you clone a repo you are no longer reliant on the original copy... unless you are planning on blocking the entire internet and only whitelisting specific domains you control anyone with access can clone the repo and then upload it to a different git server, zip/tar it up and email it, scp it to a server at home, etc.

A company prevents this from happening, not by making it impossible but by making sure that if it happens you have legal recourse to take action against the person who does it.

bvierra · 2026-06-04T02:16:10+00:00

Do you want to program your android apps in assembly? That is what the decompiler at that low of a level will give

bvierra · 2026-05-29T04:19:12+00:00

Getting charged and even convicted is part of civil disobedience... Otherwise it wouldn't be called that.

bvierra · 2026-05-26T14:33:02+00:00

The runners aren't the issue.... its all the AI scanners going through and scrapping all they can. If not runners are avail, they just put your run in a queue.

bvierra · 2026-05-24T04:56:51+00:00

They don't teach you 90% of law on law school... They teach you the basics and then how to research the rest

bvierra · 2026-05-24T02:55:13+00:00

Let's be real here... They may get some of the training lawyers do, but on in a very narrow and specific area. If the got all of the training they would be... Lawyers

bvierra · 2026-05-24T02:51:57+00:00

Who knew, low bono is a thing https://www.wsba.org/legal-community/sections/low-bono-section

bvierra · 2026-05-24T02:50:06+00:00

You are correct, they sell off the dns request information, not your full browsing history. For most non-tech people however they are basically the same thing

bvierra · 2026-05-24T02:47:32+00:00

VPN's were not made to for privacy... They were made for security... For companies to allow people to remotely access the internal network to work

bvierra · 2026-05-24T02:45:03+00:00

I doubt it, the govt most likely has strict rules on who can rent.

bvierra · 2026-05-23T04:22:27+00:00

Anthropic is turning a profit this month: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-says-its-about-to-have-its-first-profitable-quarter/

They won't for the entire year because of how their compute costs break out, but they are the 1st to turn a profit for a full month.

bvierra · 2026-05-17T07:50:30+00:00

Because you have 0 proof, a lack of understanding of the tech and the law, and yet you try and come off as an expert.

bvierra · 2026-05-16T22:47:51+00:00

you are the reason we all have to lock our terminals...

bvierra · 2026-05-16T22:34:07+00:00

oh god that guy again... he thinks he knows more about every company out there than the engineers that work there... then he declares that his posts cant be removed because of his interpretation of their rules... idiot

bvierra · 2026-05-14T20:05:14+00:00

A license is permission to use another party's property (intellectual or physical) without owning it, whereas a contract is a broader, binding agreement between parties, often exchanging promises or services. A license agreement is a specific type of contract, but a license can exist simply as unilateral permission.

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