Каждый раз отправляя очередной апдейт игры в маркет есть шанс нарваться на идиотов в саппорте, которые отклонят мой апдейт.
Это случалось со мной много раз, но саппорт Самсунга, видимо, особенно одарённый:
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Operator! Give me the number for 911!
123ink, PrimeCables and ShopperPlus were hacked
Back in 2020!
And they have discovered this just now!
Because someone shared the whole database of 878387 accounts online for free.
It is whether they knew it since 2020 and didn’t tell anyone, or they didn’t know anything and their system might still be vulnerable.
According to their email, they have no clue what actually happened:
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Pixels for dollars
Facebook, like Twitter, will begin charging $11.99+ for a verified status.
And here I am, paying $10/month for Linode VPS (there is a cheaper option for $5) and having a website with games, a blog, my own mail server, a “VPN”, a backup server, a database, and an SVN server.
Basically, it’s just a regular PC connected to the internet 24/7 at 40/2 Gbps speed that can do anything I want.
Damn, anyone can run the whole IT infrastructure of a small business for just 10 bucks a month!
Compare this to someone paying $8 just to have a blue checkmark near their name; you still can’t write whatever you want, and your account can be blocked at any time, sometimes just by mistake.
Беларусь -1%
В моём посте про корону в 2021 я решил проверить статистику населения Беларуси и оказалось, что численость населения уменьшается.
В 2020 году даже население Минска сократилось на 10к человек.
Что ж, а вот и статистика на 2022:
В 2021 году население островка стабильности, только официально, уменьшилось на ~94к!
С 9,349,645 человек до 9,255,524.
Население Минска в 2021 уменьшилось на ~13к, второй год подряд население Минска падает, хотя до этого всегда росло, бо все, кто хоть немного с мозгами, ехали в Минск.
Официальная статистика, конечно, привирает и наверняка не учитывает тысячи уехавших, которые как бы ещё в Беларуси, но уже нет.
Так что да, население Синеокой в 2021 году уменьшилось на 1%, а то и больше.
Позiрк
Я не знаю, что в головах у этих людей, но с фантазией у них проблемы.
Где-то в далеком 2007, когда моему сайту pozirk.com было уже пару лет, появился pozirk.org, кучка змагаров, открыла бложик и строчила разгромные статьи, борясь с “крававым рэжымам” в интернете.
Пару лет спустя они закрылись, но осадок конечно остался, то есть гугл ещё долго помнил их и выдавал в результатах при поиске по слову “pozirk“.
Затем году так в 2012-2013 появился магазин контактных линз pozirk.by и опять всё это полезло в выдачу поисковиков.
Просуществовал магазин тоже не долго, а мне пришлось выкупать домен pozirk.by на аукционе, чтобы застолбить имя.
После этого я стал резервировать имя “pozirk” в каждой долбанной социальной сети, которая появлялась, намекая тем самым, что есть много других замечательных слов в белорусском языке.
Но не тут то было, и, сначала, в 2021 всплыла какая-то фото-студия Pozirk.studio.
А теперь в 2022 очередные змагары (журналисты с naviny.by) открыли pozirkonline.
Потому что, бля, кроме “позiрк” в белорусском языке других слов нет!
It’s not like I wasn’t expecting this…
But it is always fascinating to receive this kind of messages myself. 🙂
The good thing is there aren’t many people like that, it is basically only one so far.
A review for All-in-One Solitaire on Google Play:
Google employees are spamming my inbox
It’s kind of funny and annoying at the same time.
They took my email address from Google Play Developer page as most spammers do.
The purpose of this email address is to provide games support for Android users, but, as other spammers, Google just uses it for their “marketing”.
Of course, they have an unsubscribe link, an annoying one, where you have to enter your email address to unsubscribe.
But I have never subscribed in the first place!
Today’s email is especially “interesting”:
I disagree.
Fraud is in the air
I still remember this funny commercial by Axe:
Except for love and coronavirus (it’s 2021 after all) let’s see what else is in the air.
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Coronavirus data anomalies
First, according to stats, third wave is here and number of cases are growing.
iCrap
Did you know, that after around 5 years your iPad/iPhone will start to work slowly, apps will start freezing or crashing.
The same might happen to Android devices.
It happened to my iPad Mini, that I only used for testing.
It has iOS 9.3.6, it is still working, but veeeeeery slow.
Most apps stopped working, my own games just crash.
Battery is still fine, but Apple needs more sales, thus the results:
Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones.
The same happened to my test Samsung tablet, so it’s not just Apple.
The reason I’m writing about this is an email from one of the players:
If you can choose your next device, choose laptop. It small enough, it can work without battery, you can always delete ugly Windows 10 and install whatever you want.
It won’t die in 5 years or sooner, unless you drop it. 🙂
Online version of All-in-One Solitaire is always available to play in any modern web browser.
If you still want a tablet, try to not download and install system updates, stay with original version as long as possible.
Usually every new update has more “features” thus consuming more resources and making your device slower.
Keep calm and play Solitaire
Some random thoughts/events that happened to me last year or something. 😀
1. I’ve removed games for Mac and Windows 10, mostly because it was quite annoying to update them and not really profitable. You need Mac to build Mac games and you need Windows 10 to build Windows 10 games. (thanks cap!) Both OSes suck, one is overpriced (I can buy 2-3 regular laptops for the price of 1 macbook), another is soooooo buggy and annoying and always downloading some stupid updates. I haven’t seen BSOD since XP, but Windows 10 reintroduced it again!
2. I have added dark mode to all my game websites, was easy and fun to do it.
For example, All-in-One Mahjong website. Don’t know, if many players will appreciate that, but I like dark mode in everything more and more.
Now need to do something with Pozirk Games website design and this blog…
3. Google Adwords keeps telling me that my paused Solitaire ads are gambling ads and violate their policy. First time I’ve contacted them and they have fixed the problem, but second time I had enough and just stopped using Adwords. Bing is cheaper and no stupid emails about violations.
Same problems caused by Artificial Stupidy Intelligence with Admob and Google Play.
Admob was telling me that another developer’s game is violating their policies and I have to fix it. Seriously?
Google Play sent me an email that my games are not 64-bit compatible, but when I login to check I see “This release is compliant with the Google Play 64-bit requirement.”
In general, all the services from Google are getting worse and worse, and support is getting more and more useless.
As a client I’ve abandoned Google some time ago, switched to another email service and DuckDuckGo search.
As a developer… well, it will take more time.
4. Bing is cheaper, but generates fake clicks, they are aware about that, but decided to do nothing.
When I’ve contacted them with the following problem, 2 clicks per 1 view:
They told me it happens and offered me some promo codes.
The problem is, those double clicks happen everyday and while I can catch “2 clicks, 1 view”, what should I do with “3 clicks, 36 views”? How many of these clicks are unique and actually real?
Here is the answer from Bing support:
I believe Bing don’t have these fake clicks in US unlike in Canada, Australia and Europe.
5. Lots of clowns are still trying to “hack” my website. Everyday. I don’t know what their problem is, cause trying “admin/123456” as login/password didn’t work before and will never work, but so far almost 7k blocked IPs. Cool number, but this blocking is not really helping as every day I get another “admin/123456” attempt from new IP.
I mean, it is not always “admin/123456”, sometimes it’s “admin/password”, “admin/pozirk”, “pozirk/password”, etc. But result is always the same.
More fun details here: https://inside.pozirk.com/2018/09/28/cool-hackerz/
6. I’m planning to add 14 more games to All-in-One Solitaire, but waiting for a stable port of Feathers UI to Haxe/OpenFL.
One big flaw in my games is menu scrolling, it’s painful for players (I think so :)), cause I made it myself and it works really bad.
Feathers UI has nice scrolling component and should save me.
7. Suddenly I’ve changed theme for this blog to something simple, my old theme had some Flash elements.
8. Google is sending emails and calling me asking to advertise with them. No, thank you!
cool hackerz
Реально задолбали идиоты, которые брутфорсят мой сайт.
Эти доморощенные хакеры пытаются подобрать логин и пароль типа “admin” и “qwerty123”. Серьёзно?
Лезут с туевой хучи адресов, уже задолбался блокировать, только сервак нагружают в пустую.
Что вы там пытаетесь подобрать? Я сам свой пароль не знаю, даже сколько символом не знаю.
Если вы уже так хотите залогиниться на моём сайте, всего $9.99 в год на правах Subscriber, пожалуйста.
Картинка для привлечения внимания.
Гугл медленно скатывается в болото
И Амазон тоже.
Баги, которые не фиксятся годами, кривой саппорт, который отвечает штампами и ничего не может объяснить.
Гугл Адс, который глючит в Хроме.
Я блин даже с гугл поиска уже на дакдакгоу переехал.
Ух, выговорился. 🙂
Developer-friendly SlideME, not!
It’s not an easy thing for indie-developers like me to promote and distribute games.
Creating games by myself is lots of fun, but I simply have no time/experience/budget for good promotional campaign.
That’s why every distribution channel is important for me and every download is count.
Recently, I have submitted All-Peaks Solitaire game to SlideME, and was very surprised when my game was declined with the following reason: “REPETITIVE CONTENT: (No more solitaire card games permitted from this developer)”.
So far, I have only 2 solitaire games on SlideME, which is not that many. And they both are unique.
I’m definitely not that developer, who release just another copy of jigsaw/dress-up/slots game every week. 🙂
Being confused, I’ve sent a message to SlideME asking them to try my game and reconsider their decision.
Here was the answer:
So my account was “flagged for spamming”, just because I’ve contacted SlideME support staff!
I have never received such rude and disrespectful answer. I was contacting Google, Apple, Amazon and many others, but this is first time I’ve got such response.
I wish SlideME success in their business and hope one day they will understand, that developers are their friends, who bring them new content and thus new users, and not their enemies.
Pozirk.pro и Pozirk.info
Какой-то мудак купил домены pozirk.pro и pozirk.info и сделал точную копию моего сайта.
Если whois не врёт, то этот мудак:
Registrant Name: Aleksandr Stroganov
Registrant Organization: Private Person
Registrant Street: Matveevskoe p
Registrant City: moskva
Registrant State/Province: moskovskaya
Registrant Postal Code: 119501
Registrant Country: RU
Registrant Phone: +7.9836638348
Registrant Email: ffjfjff@gmail.com
Судя по тому, что за последнюю неделю на мой сайт валило куча спам-траффика с сайта onclickads[dot]net, мудила решил сделать точную копию моего сайта и загонять туда трафик, чтобы зарабатывать на чужом контенте.
Для мудака это, видимо, обычное дело, бо на его имеил зарегистрировано ещё куча других сайтов:
UPDATE: Тут только что заметил, мудак изменил мою страницу About у себя. Теперь разрабтчиком Pozirk Games являюсь не я, а какой-то “Azmun Dedich”:
Этот урод начал нагонять трафик на свой сайт по 100-200к в день, частично он перепадает и мне, бо некоторые файлы всё ещё грузятся с моего сайта.
Учитывая что на его сайте стоят мои Google Analytics и Google Adsense, а игры не работают, непонятно нахрена ему всё это надо.