Land of the free, home of the (wage) ~~br~~slaves

Already feels like this sometimes

Source?

Imagine getting a 404 or 500 error. Then archiving that on archive.org (and screenshot that dialog on steam) and accept the terms. If there's any problem and they say you violated the EULA, point them to the terms you accepted.

Keine Ahnung (Spahn), keine Erinnerung (Scholz),... ich glaub der passt da schon ganz gut hin...

Nintendo in my experience:

Physical: Get it right on release day (or in the first week after) in retail for about 40€, otherwise you will have to rely on rare good retail discounts to get it below 55€

Digital: Don’t you even dare to think about discounts

Too bad it’s not Faptember

Is the traffic encrypted?

If it is, look at the certificate. Which hostname is it for primarily? Which SAN (Subject Alternative Name - basically a list of all other hostnames the certificate is valid for) are set, if any? Which Certificate Authority issued the certificate or is it self signed?

Was mir hier etwas fehlt: welche Bürokratie wurde abgebaut bzw. soll reduziert werden?

Wenn über "zu viel Bürokratie" gemeckert wird, betrifft das oft irgendwelche notwendigen Nachweise/Dokumentationen/Prozeduren/... die eben dafür sorgen sollen, dass man sich an bestimmte Regeln und Standards,... hält. Wenn ich nun nicht mehr Machweisen muss, dass ich X befolge - muss ich dann X überhaupt noch tun?

𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝖟𝖚 𝕱𝖚𝖊𝖓𝖋𝖟𝖎𝖌 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖟𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉!

Worse yet. They switched licensing and costs several times and companies should prepare to get hit with new licensing fees:

When they introduced Java 17 (a LTS version), they published it under the NTFC license. This means, this version is usable for free, but only until the next LTS version has been out for a year.

On Sep 19th 2023, Java 21 was released another LTS version. That means, that Java 17 just switched from the NTFC license to the OTNLA license a few days ago - which means, Java 17 is supported until 2029 but you now need a paid license to use it.

Hope everyone upgraded to Java 21 or newer in time.

Unless you were the one writing the program and its error messages - then check, that you didn't mess up there...

But me took a second look!