Oh ye, in case of torrents its not all one guy. It never is. In case of consoles it was paradox, or team executor, or … (All financed by max in this case, but hes never alone).
And even with trackers i sure hope and assume its different teams.
I didnt mean to say piracy is evil itself, thats like saying all arm-base phones are evil.
Just saying there is way more evil and devils there than you think. Mobsters are a thing

Did i say i am paying to pirate?

Who runs the trackers? Who gets stuff on the trackers? I have also never spent a dollar, but if you do, your money doesnt not always go towards who you think. And in this day and age, not spending money doesnt mean another party isnt profiting.

Not to be a party pooper but piracy too is run by the devil. You dont notice it because its more hidden that the fuckfaces at google, meta, amazon etc but its still run by mobsters and people like (but not specifically) andrew tate.

Piracy groups dont do and release things just for fun you know :p Source: ive dug a bit too deep into console piracy scenes since gamecube-days. Its all ran by one fuckface : Max ‘MAXiMiLiEN’ Louarn.
The fuckwad has ran off with millions in tool sales, ad revenue, and downloads while he gives 0 shits about bricking your consoles. If apple or whoever is bad for such practice’s, he is too.

And thats just console piracy stuff, im sure movies, series and music is the same thing, or worse

Oh lordie eeuw. But ye i asked for the general vibe because quoting it would be useless haha

As a .world user, in broadlines, what did they say?

The only reason they want the status quo is because if they would want to separate taiwan would be hell on earth lol

The architect was brought in to make designs for code and solutions. He was not only a solution architect but also a design architect. And also, im the senior developer that did (i no longer give a fuck) what you said :p
The architect just happened to be in the meeting when one of the discussions broke loose hehe

Thanks, shits been getting worse recently when the architect joined, and took things in his own hands at one point and told somebody he was talking shit. The architect was right, but was instantly ignored afterwards. which is why i asked the company to look for a new project because fuck that. And seeing the architect agreeing with me made me realise how bad it was and that what i thought wasnt wrong.

Either case, i learned from this project that some product teams can not be changed and its better to say fuck it.

Up to better moments and share our knowledge and ways with people that do care!

Good point about the ci/cd and i think i need to start asking that question in job interviews!

Oh man, i felt that one. Thats full on red flags and if i were in your shoes, and being fired didnt stun me, id have sent a mail to all teams and managers involved (including ceo and cto) and shown the emails and reports showing the toxicity. Wouldnt have gone down without a final fuck you haha.

That said, sometimes its best to let it go and start something new somewhere else, like you did.

Im also in a semi similar scenario at the moment. They want me, and 2 others, to make a new version of their program in .net. Thats all fine and dandy. We get functional input when asked and all that.

We chose to create .net code/windows that are executed/called from inside the old client. However, when push comes to shove there is no support whatsoever. The other client team doesnt want to implement our stuff and delays it as much as they can. The server /api team does whatever the fuck they want, constantly breaking everything and choosing anti-patterns on their end. Manager will (and suspect he has already) thrown me and the architect under the bus because we have exposed the bullshit of said server team.
Besides functional input we are completely on our own with no support, on the contrary. We have to fight for every choice or design. And god knows when our code will get released… Its been 3 fucking years and our code has been done for a very long time.

Hell, even release was hard. “Can i push release from devops pipelines?” “No.”
“Can i execute the needed script automatically from devops?” “No”
“You want me to do release manually?” “Yes”. " not going to happen mate".

I also made several packages and helpful tools to make communication with the system easier, but dont you dare think anyone has promoted that internally to other teams. Hell, when i do get feedback and report that, nothing gets done with it. No ask or preasure to server team to implement the api calls.
So many issues they could solve if they just fucking listen

Id send the mail i was talking about here too when i get out, but im a consultant. I should not throw my company under the bus for this when we find a new project for me to do but ive been really badly wanted to do it and have the ceo in cc because fuck that

People like you and i should not doubt ourselves because of shit like this. From your story you know your stuff and listen to what the team has to say, you consider their experiences and what they are prepared to do. Thats good skills for an architect!

Oh thats easy, android uses ( or at least used it in the past ) these services for location.
Android will first try gps to get your location. However, gps needs direct connection to a satellite and can easily be either turned off or not working correctly.
It then tries to triangulate your location using cell towers and their location, which gives a rough estimate on your location.
Then it scans SSID’s that are near to hone down some more on your location, and its this step that needs that data.

Edit: it used to also scan, and save, SSID names with a rough estimate location to fill and update this database. I say used to, cause thats how it worked circa 2009, so idk how it works nowadays

Which is what you see happening when updating or reinstalling a gpu driver.

Funny thing is, gpu drivers can still cause a bsod by causing fuckups in the directx driver, which ive seen happen :')

You think ive touched the apt commands in linux…?
I mean, youre right, but thats because i like to be hands on. But i dont have to if i wanted :p

Op inverted. apt update updates the local package cache of apt so it knows what packages have updates. apt upgrade then installs those updates.

No you dont. Lineageos supports a lot of phones that are still supported by their manufactures. Hell my fp4 is still in support too, and lineageos runs fine on it :p
Youre thinking of unofficial lineageos builds and ports to non-supported-by-lineageos phones

The individual members of the foundation most certainly do linux dev, which benefits their specific company. Think kernel or driver adjustments or supporting newer hardware for servers/datacenters.

However, that doesnt mean its only the foundation doing the work, thats just the paid work being done. The rest is all passion projects of people

I think it has to do with the google certification you have to go through to sell hardware shipping with android. All devices need to be certified by google or they are not allowed to run gapps or connect to the playstore. This is what huawei lost after trump banned them, so they had to make their own shit as a replacement

Yes, think cheap android tablets that are so shit google store can barely run on it. Those devices are usually chinese knockoffs and do not ship with google services, google store or any gapps.

Imo there is a difference between script.kiddie and coding junkie

Its imo the difference between being a code junkie and a senior dev/architect :/