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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I haven't heard of the game but see that it's going for $27. For me at least, buying a $27 game, I'd expect 10 hours minimum of enjoyable gameplay, which throws the free refund out the window if it would deliver.

It could be possible that they wanted to increase their game length to justify the price and stretched things if the first 80 minutes were tedious and slow. I'm sure there's some consideration to front load the enjoyment into the first few hours, with or without the refund, but I would assume lesser priced games would focus on that and not one going for this price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lost the 2020 election for one

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Wow the article is real and from 2015 and not published on April Fools.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

My take on it was they were all contributing their fears as part of the refinement process, and those were her other personalities. Those fears were pretty generic (dentist, plane crash, writing Christmas thank you cards), so it didn't really matter who did what. They needed Mark for the final fear of not being able to have a child as their ultimate test to see if they could remove her deepest fear from her personality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

One issue is that browsers and other clients have a difficult time handling certificate revocation. Let's Encrypt is stopping support for OCSP, and that had a lot of privacy implications where a CA could tell who is going to what site, based on the requests to check certificate revocation. Let's Encrypt is moving to CRLs, but the size of the CRL is very large the more certificates you have. For Let's Encrypt with only a 90 day validity period, their CRL is smaller than a CA which has certificates as much as 398 days old.

The size of the CRL is something not only CAs have to manage, on the client side, you may have to check a 10MB file to see if the certificate for the site you're connecting to is still trusted by the CA. With many CAs, these CRLs will take up a lot of space on disk, and need to be updated often. Mozilla published a system called CRLite which uses Cascading Bloom Filters to keep track of revoked certificates in the browser, which will save a lot of space. Having a constrained set of revoked certificates is useful to ensure the bloomfilter won't be too large for the browser to store and manage.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Did they forget Gilmore Girls or The West Wing?

This seems to be a link with all the results, but doesn't list every TV shows that was checked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This isn't an overnight change, we have 3 years until the 47 day certificates go into effect.

In terms of increasing their capacity by the 10x, having shorter certificate lifetimes means that CAs will have a shorter list of valid but revoked certificates, and also will have way less of valid certificates in the certificate transparency logs. These are checked constantly, so the reduced size means less costs serving this information.

CAs are already charging an arm and a leg for very little work of signing the certificates. Doing domain validation is an automated process, so unless the need is for OV certificates (which doesn't differentiate you anymore in modern browsers), CAs won't need to hire more people for issuing certificates. With Let's Encrypt being a free option that supports ACME, if CAs use this change as a cash grab, they'll probably see clients move away rather than put up with the outrageous costs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Does this mean your mom had a kid after 60?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Amazing. Every word you just said was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Every time I've encountered the ambiguous buttons, I have asked other people and have been told "smaller is for less water/bigger is for more water" and I feel like an asshole wasting water for a little pee. One time I did experiment and did try both buttons and didn't notice a difference really, but i couldn't measure it fully.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Or have the voting age be 18 years old to the average national life expectancy, although i really haven't thought this through too much. I assume if such a situation were to exist, it would be much easier to cut Social Security and Medicare without losing the elderly vote, so that probably would backfire.

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