I assume you have a consumer protection agency. Ping them.

Put it in plain words. "I have been paying... they made it impossible to access stuff I paid for and made it impossible to unsubscribe."

That's textbook fraud. They'll be fined and give you your money back.

I agree. The answer is regulation that outlines rules of engagement for "free" (you are the product) online services.

Australia is famous for having very strong consumer protection laws for purchased products (physical goods). It has been discussed many times here. How does this work in the digital universe?

Steam (ie Valve) used to pretty much not give refunds for games.

That changed after Australian's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) dragged them through Federal Court for it, comprehensively winning against Steam:

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/federal-court-finds-va...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/valve-loses-appeal-over-...

Thus the "refunds if you've not played for more than ~2 hours" policy that Steam then implemented (globally).

Probably the relevant quote to answer your question about how things work in the digital universe:

> "This important precedent confirms the ACCC's view that overseas-based companies selling to Australian consumers must abide by our laws. If customers buy a product online that is faulty, they are entitled to the same right to a repair, replacement, or refund, as if they'd walked into a store," ACCC Commissioner Sarah Court said.

"They", being a trillion dollar company, can effortlessly draw this out while you expend all manner of time and resources and still not pay you or resolve the problem. Any regulation that would change this to be better for the average consumer (and therefore worse for the trillion dollar company) will never pass because they have more say in the laws then you do.

This is a defeatist comment I know, but I do feel defeated when it comes to tech companies.

I cringed at those "aaa\0bbb\0ccc\0ddd" Map keys. That's much slower than nested maps and requires allocating the strings, giving GC more work to do.

Creating a custom tuple class to use as key could be faster though. Nested map lookups have less efficient memory access patterns.

> “Do not rubber-stamp weak work” and “You must understand findings before directing follow-up work. Never hand off understanding to another worker.”

:-D

You can see exactly on which humanity it q Was trained on ;)

It takes 10× as long to sketch in it compared to SolveSpace. At least for me.

Hi! Thanks for your hard work! I just want you to know it's definitely worth it!

I am using SolveSpace for my 3D prints because I just don't have time to learn anything else. With SolveSpace I've been productive in like 2 hours after launching it the first time.

So far you've saved me like $500 in things I've printed instead of bought. Just last week I've printed nasal manifold for my DIY sleep monitoring setup. Replacement specs legs a month ago.

If you really make fillets and chamfers a reality, please don't forget to open donations.

DIY sleep monitoring? Tell us more!

> And it seems to happen more often to institutions run by governments.

I've snorted my coffee. I happens to any organization that's run by people who are only in it for power, not outcomes.

Can we start organizing a strike of tech workers already? Pretty please? Just say the word.

Maybe reach out to Signal to implement some kind of one-way channel so you can reach people easily?

We need to put actual pressure on those fascists. Next time they even mention it, we flood the council website with an identical search query, say "Does no mean yes after all?" and if they persist, we strike for couple days.

With Lutris it just worked.

Not when I tried it the first couple of times. At some point Proton (and then probably Wine?) got updated to fix the bug triggered by one of the game updates months before that and it has worked since.

I'm no stranger to messing with Wine to get Windows executables to work. Whatever the GOG release did different, it just didn't work once the intro logos were gone, even with the same Proton version that worked with the Steam version.

Sadly, this. There are even networks. I know a person who begs on a specific interval of a subway line, has been for at least a decade, and has been pretty violent towards actual beggars who did not know the rules.

Some are genuine. People who went into debt, with health issue that prevented them from ever repaying it, fleeing from families so as not to burden them...

Smugglers who were found out, left with an unpayable amount of debt while the politicians that used to protect them went without punishment.

You hire caring direct reportees.