In CS2, a huge portion of cheaters can be identified just by the single stat 'time-to-damage'. Cheaters will often be 100ms faster to react than even the fastest pros. Not all cheaters use their advantage in this way, but simply always make perfect choices because they have more information than their opponents.

Is there some place I can still buy TV shows or movies? Preferably DRM free

You can try to buy physical media. A surprising amount of shows and movies are still published as Blu-rays.

The release there is usually a bit delayed to streaming releases though and will set you back more if you buy it new. The used market can be your friend here, especially for older media. IME local libraries might also have quite a good offering depending on their funding and priorities.

The clear downside here is that you can't really follow along with others though (if that's your jam) as these releases are mostly in-full and not per-episode.

The only DRM-free video TV media sources are usually non-legitimate (torrents etc.). Many shows/movies are also interestingly ripped from streaming sites first though. You can of course legally format shift your physical media for private use to non-DRMed files depending on your region.

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the what?

Best phone I ever had, the 12 mini

Still rocking mine

it was like that when I signed up in july last year too. Just waited a couple of days and I was able to signup.

except... i store my password for work in bitwarden, so I dont want to also keep my work passkeys in the same place. For my personal stuff, that is a risk I can live with so far, but for work it seems dumb.

Your Bitwarden should enforce the necessary 2-Factor auth for this scenario, but if you’re worried just make sure to be careful when registering that single passkey.

Yeah, definitely don’t mix work and personal credentials. But many password managers allow using different accounts/vaults on one machine.

4 months ago I was incredibly dismissive. After having used Claude Code extensively since then, I think these LLM tools definitively has a a place in software development, but with every new tool in software development, the floor has been raised for what can be completed with less resources. I'm more worried for the junior engineers coming in now.

Why would you be worried about junior engineers? I see this expressed a lot. It seems kind of condescending to me. It's just a different build toolchain. We can build faster, and having a lot of experience helps you know how things should fit together. People figure shit out. There are plenty of juniors that are way smarter than you or I. Do you mean like a junior who is not as clever as you will have a hard time getting their foot in?

Let me tell you why.

We have a junior in our team. In the past 2 years he hasn't written any code himself, because he can't code. He's been using chatgpt to write his code for 2 years, and he mostly delivers stuff, but the code is shit. Our manager isn't aware because he doesn't read our code, but I do and it's super obvious. But the point is the junior can't code.

Over the past month the company deployed Claude internally with tools etc. I, who can code well, picked it up in about 2 days despite the fact that I had never regularly used AI. Now I can produce code using Claude as reliably as the "experts" in our company (to be clear in our company by "experts" I mean good users, not people who actually understand how these machines work). The junior is still struggling go get Claude to do what he wants.

The point is the following: This new technology, like all new technologies, raises the minimum amount of things you have to be proficient at in order to even be at the bottom of the corporate ladder. The more you know the faster you learn, therefore those who know less (juniors) will struggle for longer with the new technology than without it.

I feel like I've been doing multiplications with pen and paper and the other guy doesn't understand the concept of multiplication. Now someone gave us a spreadsheet. I can do multiplications a billion times faster, and the other guy still doesn't understand the concept of multiplication.

You can say that our junior is especially bad and I don't disagree. But the phenomenon of "the more you know the faster you learn therefore new technologies impact juniors harder" is on average true regardless.

Im just worried many will give them less of a chance to learn, in the same way we were given.

Because you need to understand the output of coding agents when there is an issue or even a decision to be made. Even Opus-4.6 gets into rough states where it spews out garbage or suboptimal code and juniors might not catch it. Reading somebody else's code and evaluate it quickly is a tough skill to learn compared to writing one's own code; slow thinking vs fast thinking mode.

> People figure shit out.

True, but junior developers used to provide a lot of value while doing this. Now their value, while they are still figuring it out, has gone down immensely. For a company, there is no value in letting a junior dev write code anymore. And for reviewing the AI output, you need someone more experienced.

there will be plenty of "juniors" who can still code circles around you and me and will do just fine.

Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, this security is appalling. Might as well just give remote access to your machine.

Is there any point to switch to Forgejo for my open source projects? Wouldnt I just be leeching resources from the guys at Codeberg/ whereever instead of Microsoft?

Codeberg _wants_ to host open source projects; it isn't leeching any more than adding articles to Wikipedia.

If you feel guilty, you can self-host Forgejo, contribute to Forgejo, or become a Codeberg member and pay them a yearly fee of your choosing (https://join.codeberg.org/).