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Readit NewsEDEdDNEdDYFaN commented on Ground control to Major Trial virtualize.sh/blog/ground... · Posted by u/plam503711
You're absolutely right that businesses act within whatever constraints exist — and yes, we were a bit naive. We assumed that if someone had a fully functional, free, open source version available (well-documented and easy to install), nobody sane would go out of their way to abuse the trial system instead.
To be clear, it’s not just trial abuse — it’s actively ignoring the better, freer option in favor of repeatedly faking evaluations just to get the “easy mode.”
We’ll definitely tighten things up going forward. But in nearly a decade of doing this, they're the only ones to push it to this scale. So yeah, they've earned a spot in our open source hall of shame
To be fair to them - they've been doing it for 10 years without a problem!
EDEdDNEdDYFaN commented on Ground control to Major Trial virtualize.sh/blog/ground... · Posted by u/plam503711
Isn't this a failure by the company to recognize free trial abuse sooner? and to not close the loophole immediately seems like even more of a weak behavior. Calling them out but not taking decisive action beyond claiming that they are acting immorally ultimately accomplishes nothing. Businesses are not beholden to your ideas about what is nice and fair, but whatever the rules and constraints are to your system. if you keep a practice like this that allows free trial abuse forever, why would they spend money?
What’s the point of sending a fake student to a community college? What’s the end goal of the people running these bots?
literally in the first few paragraphs of the linked article?
EDEdDNEdDYFaN commented on Show HN: We made a Meta Quest3 see through walls 0xredj.medium.com/how-we-... · Posted by u/sleepingreset
cool shit
extremely misleading headline implies that it just happened.
EDEdDNEdDYFaN commented on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/Leary
> Has there been any other behavior like this in the past where a company "shut themselves down" to make a big political statement and then almost immediately undid the shut down?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...
lol perfect
EDEdDNEdDYFaN commented on Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation medium.com/@tomysshadow/f... · Posted by u/davikr
Very good read! love detailed explanations on the "bad" original code and steps taken toward improving it. a lot of it comes down to personal preference and the author did a good job at respecting what might have been an intentional design decision with their optimizations by making it all configurable
thought this would be a mystery about a coder who disappeared that surfaced via pull request
it wasn't even a cursor specific extension it was a vscode one. completely misleading