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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by echelon »

WorldMaker wrote: post #430
tyrfing wrote: post #399

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> Wherever a user gets a critical mass of a library built up first is going to be the winner. This is where they've been throwing money at the problem: giving away a ridiculous amount of games for free. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/22380895/epic-games-store...

Useful to note that Prime Gaming has been doing the exact same strategy (for longer), backfilling users' catalogs by throwing a lot of money in games giveaways. Once the games have been added to your Amazon/Twitch today you can download an EXE installer from a hard to find Amazon page or use a really bland "Twitch Launcher" app that clearly is the first stage towards "Vapor" or whatever the final brand would be. For…

It ought to be illegal for a 100B+ market cap company to operate in this way. They can just pour money at the problem until the incumbents shrivel up and die. Hyper fucking bad behavior that leaves the true innovators and people that care out in the cold.

On the other hand, it should be possible for consumers to claim products they own on different platforms by peering a list of their their owned (licensed) products.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by earthscienceman »

tediousdemise wrote: post #502
asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #498

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Just goes to show you how small the top is in streaming. Based on this data, and assuming twitch payouts are about a quarter the average streamer's income, about 300-400 twitch streamers get paid more than the total comp of senior staff engineers where I work. Let's be generous and say that these people have no staff to pay (false assumption, e.g. Pestily has stated that he pays hundreds of thousands on salaries for…

Getting paid 7 figures for writing code? That is an anomaly and is not in line with reality. Just doing a cursory Google search for Senior Software Engineer salaries puts the average at ~122k [0], nowhere close to the amount one of those Twitch streamers makes. I wouldn't call it rich either, maybe middle class or upper-middle class at best. [0] https://www.indeed.com/career/senior-software-engineer/salar...

Only someone on this website would call 122k per year middle class. This is why America is divided. Even if you're the only breadwinner in your household this is solidly above the 85th percentile in income. That's practically the definition of upper class.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by echelon »

junon wrote: post #446
gizdan wrote: post #295

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Amazon already has customers. If their other products are to go by, they'll just give you an account if you have an Amazon account. Probably combined with free games if you have a prime account and you can imagine that it won't take much to compete, at least not for a company like Amazon.

The free games on prime accounts is probably exactly what will happen, and will probably be what needs to happen for it to be any amount of successful. Look at Epic which offers free games but sees pretty slow growth outside of their flagships. Further, look at Amazon's lumberyard engine, which gathers dust for the most part. I'm not convinced that their 'weight' will automatically guarantee wide adoption.

Amazon engineers are poorly compensated, overworked, abused, and write garbage code.

That's not a formula for winning.

Unfortunately, Amazon has all the money in the world to keep throwing at the problem. Eventually some of the spaghetti will stick to the wall.

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Post by Loocid »

superdisk wrote: post #550
Loocid wrote: post #517

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These style of comments reminds me of this comic: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/259/257/342... Someone can want socialism while still participating in a capitalist society. Being a martyr is rarely worth it imo. On top of that, even if we lived in a socialist society, the top would still be rich, they would just be taxed more.

Considering many of these people advocate for "eating the rich," you don't find it hypocritical that they're... rich?

I think you'll find most socialists don't care about people having a few million, the issue is those hoarding hundreds of millions, or billions. Of course, I can't speak for everyone.

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

earthscienceman wrote: post #552
tediousdemise wrote: post #502

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Getting paid 7 figures for writing code? That is an anomaly and is not in line with reality. Just doing a cursory Google search for Senior Software Engineer salaries puts the average at ~122k [0], nowhere close to the amount one of those Twitch streamers makes. I wouldn't call it rich either, maybe middle class or upper-middle class at best. [0] https://www.indeed.com/career/senior-software-engineer/salar...

Only someone on this website would call 122k per year middle class. This is why America is divided. Even if you're the only breadwinner in your household this is solidly above the 85th percentile in income. That's practically the definition of upper class.

To me upper class means you don't work.

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Post by Lorin »

d3nj4l wrote: post #23
dijit wrote: post #15

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I worked for Nokia for a brief moment in time and the Nokia E71 (or another in that line) was internally codenamed "BeeBee" (like: blackberry) which was comical to me given that the phone looked a lot like a contemporary era blackberry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Curve

The E71 was a god tier device. Owned one for a good bit as a teen and it was the perfect phone for that time IMO. You could even WhatsApp on it until relatively recently.

100% agreed, my first smart phone and I still miss some features to this day. Really great. Shame no one makes a physical keyboard attachment or a follow up Blackberry device.

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Post by epse »

_hilro wrote: post #509
iuri1 wrote: post #461

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Either database dumps are in commit history (very common) or credentials like a password for a database is (even more common). A third reason would be finding a security flaw in the source code and exploiting it.

Nobody is putting production databases in to commit history. At the size of twitch, there's also no way any application dev has access to production. > credentials like a password for a database is (even more common). ??? What cowboy outfit is putting things which grant access to production customer data in to git?

Twitch, it seems https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch-leaks/#secrets-exposed

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Post by epse »

kawsper wrote: post #68
stevecat wrote: post #41

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Yep! E71, E72, and E6 were some of my most loved phones. My love of that form factor meant that my first foray into Android was the HTC ChaCha - that was a mistake.

I had a Qtek 8300 running Windows Mobile 5.0, it really felt like a computing device before smart phones appeared. It was slow and buggy, but it felt like a handheld computer. Qtek rebranded to HTC and I bought a HTC Touch running Windows Mobile 6.0, I am not sure when or what I switched to afterwards, maybe an Android.

Oh man qtek flashbacks. I had a 5050, great device but good lord the battery life ducked as soon as you connected to anything (and it only had mobile data, no WiFi, unless you put in an sd expansion card). No more battery? Then your data gets wiped

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Post by d3nj4l »

eric-hu wrote: post #538
d3nj4l wrote: post #29

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It's the exact same image, too. Feels like a ripoff, at least make your own dirty image!

What about the image is dirty? I don’t get it.

I think it's supposed to be a hairy testicle?
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