The biggest red flag is probably that they claim to just be the WireMin protocol, but haven't published any protocol specifications. In the spirit of open and unmoderated communication I would hope they would at least publish their protocol specifications, even if they won't opensource their own client for it.
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Releasing the source code would allow anyone to copy AND modify or extend the game as they see fit. Including all the inner logic that is normally compiled away.
Piracy or a compiled release without DRM (like GOG) only allows you to play the game and maybe modify some parts of it through modding after a significant amount of effort.
You think they can't earn money from users that are not logged in? Sweet summer child.
They will still show ads on the search page. The dirty affiliate redirects they will think off will still work in their browser. You are effectivly using a software platform they have total control over. Offcourse they are going to find ways to earn money.
It's like saying Facebook can't track me because I'm not logged in. Or Google Ads don't earn money from me because I'm not logged in.
That sounds interesting. Do you have anything going in depth about what data is being collected by Firefox? I haven't heard about that before now.
You are probably better off switching back to Edge, Opera GX, Chromium or even Chrome instead of Brave if you still want to use a chrome based browser. They have made some questionable decisions in the past.
BAT cryptotokens
So brave rewards you with their own injected advertisements with crypto, probably their most discussed feature. Could be a good idea if implemented correctly. But the real issue here is that they block advertisements and then add their own "privacy minded" advertisements back into the page for which you and they earn some crypto. So not only do you still see some ads with the default settings, now the site/content creators get nothing and brave earns money of your page views.
Creator donations
Speaking of content creators: At some point brave also had donation links on Youtube for those content creators that now earn less trough blocked advertisements and make brave money. Showing these donation links for specific creators, with their name and photo attached, with no opt-in or consent from creators themselves. Tom Scott even asked if they could refund everyone that donated to which they replied "Refunds are impossible". It looks like they changed the way that works after feedback though so no funds are being donated anymore unless the creator verifies in brave.
Affiliate links
At some point brave changed URL's from binance, even when typed in manually, directly to their affiliate link. They even publicly apologized after that. Which shows they are willing to change URL's to earn some money off you.
So yeah you could probably still use Brave even if you disable the crypto aspect but from actions in the past they have shown they really want to earn money off you. And they haven't hesitated to explore boundaries of what people find acceptable to get that money in the past. I personally wouldn't trust them to not do something questionable in the future either, crypto or no crypto.
Not 100% true according to the description on that page. It just hides the banner if possible but it will automatically accept some or even all cookies and tracking if it is required for the site to function. And their choice if they accept some or all depends on "whichever is easier to do".
And functionality of the website could be social media or video embedding which might be "required for the site to function" in the eyes of the extension maintainers. But which will send data to Facebook, Google, and the likes. That could be okay depending on what your stance but a good thing to be aware of.
Interesting idea but it should definitely not be on by default and if it is enabled it should still allow volume changes when content is open instead of a comment list. Breaking system default behavior like this on a non beta branch is just bad. A reason for me to start looking at alternatives.
One thing to remember is that the Voltage needs to be exact, but the supplied Amperage can be equal or higher then the original power supply.
So if you are trying to replace an originally 12v 400mA power supply you can also go with a 12v 500mA or 1A (1000mA) power supply. But 12V 200mA probably won't work and for example 19V 400mA might outright destroy your device.
There is also a much more in depth blogpost by Stephen Wolfram about his work for this movie. I don't think it goes much more in depth on the language aspect but he tells a lot more about the process and questions he got from the movie creators.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2016/11/quick-how-might-the-alien-spacecraft-work/
But the Dutch state instance isn't meant to assert power over user content nor is it meant to influence any information shared. Normal people won't be able to create an account on that instance, so they cannot see what people view or limit what people create.
The reason for the instance is to have a government owned instance to share things that aren't limited by another 3rd party commercial company. Now the government is in control instead of meta or Twitter and they can't decide to, for instance, limit view access for everyone with no accounts one day. (Looking at you Twitter)
Another additional advantage is that all the official dutch government accounts are now grouped on an instance with limited and screened account creation. So now everything from that instance is verified to be from the Dutch government. Possibly reducing fraud and impersonating accounts in the future once people get used to the federated usernames.
We are running the above pi tests with an extra (Gradle based) build plugin so that it only runs mutations for the changed lines in that pull request. That drastically reduces runtime and still ensures that new code is covered to the mutation test level we want. Maybe something similar can be done for C or C++ projects.
And let's not forget: it's full AAA price, but it feels like a finished game without hidden microtransactions for cosmetics or DLC that actually should have been part of the main game. Mod support is also free which is apparently not a given. Looking at you Bethesda with the starfield rumors.
Gameplay is modeled to be enjoyable instead of a time sink just to get you to play more.
You can play co-op with friends if you want but it doesn't force you to always be online.
Actually, the more I think about, it's sad how low a bar we have set for new games these days. And the worst part is, most new games can't even pass this...