It’s wild that a site with hundreds of millions of users, didn’t invest into multiple-account deletion tools.
True start-up mentality, that one.

Just shows how our “critical” social media is really just some hasty tape and bubblegum behind the scenes to keep the front from falling apart.

Local mail client (Thunderbid) -> IMAP/POP -> sync.
Once done, move to a local folder and delete from Gmail.
You can just backup the Thunderbird profile, if you want to keep the mails safe

He can touch deeznuts

Serving my car with 3rd party parts is stealing?

Yeah, and as the article links, this is just not about media, CDs, DVDs and games. It’s also about very physical products that we immediately associate as “owned” - like printers, phones, cars, tractors or even, (lol) trains. They’re all locked to manufacturers parts and repair services and increasingly difficult to circumvent.

Get a physical copy that doesn’t require internet activation then, assholes.

I think the point was, it is increasingly hard to find such products.
And even once you think you’ve bought such product, DRM makes sure it’s still not really yours.

There’s thousand different stats around this, but generally most analysts place consoles slightly ahead of PC with stronger growth potential, but it depends a bit where in the generation cycle they do their measurements.

Most of this has been overshadowed by mobile gaming though.

Smaller marketshare,
Pretty sure they’d release mobiile > console > PC if they could get away with it.

The PC release will be a year or so after to get people to double dip.

But at least MKBHD tried to say nice things about it in his video. He really tried.

What’s really wild is that you don’t have to go that far into the past (just ca. 20 years) when the Internet was all about Information wanting to be Free. It was hopeful time of people coming together around new technology. There were a lot new businesses with wild innovations.

And then, just in a decade it was all gone. Replaced by unregulated behemoths that merged until there’s a dirty dozen left, controlling most of global money and information.

Enshittification of the Internet.

The real problem with the internet isn’t Facebook or Twitter or Reddit, it’s the fact the entire experience is pretty much controlled by Microsoft and Google

I think the real problem is that the entire Internet is basically just a dozen multi-billion Big Tech companies and the entire “Internet economy” is so tightly weaved into advertising money.

Well that’s good. It’s a great game. I’ve been spared of some of the technical problems, so I’m good - but there are still some bugs lurking around. Could have used couple of more months of polishing before release.

Holy crap this was amazing work.
I was active during “the Providence Wars” (shoutout to all Ushra’Khan peeps) and it’s probably the most immersive MMO-experience I’ve ever had.

Good times with 4am alarm clock stront hauling ops

In words of Dan Geer from his 2014 Black Hat keynote:

Today the relevant legal concept is “product liability” and the
fundamental formula is “If you make money selling something, then
you better do it well, or you will be held responsible for the
trouble it causes.” For better or poorer, the only two products
not covered by product liability today are religion and software,
and software should not escape for much longer.

The EU legislation has good intentions. Software should not escape product liability. However, the current proposal is somewhat flawed (unless EU actually intends to finance security testing for FOSS projects!) and it needs some language to protect open-source innovation and distributed development models.

I’m hoping the EU will allow a model where FOSS developers can receive donations/charge for support without having to risk huge penalties.

fair enough

It’s 1,67 €/month, but sure, each to their own.

I’ve been using Inoreader for a good while now. It’s everything I wanted Google Reader to become.
Web based, runs everywhere, there’s a mobile app - supports keyboard shortcuts etc.

Does have free (ad supported) and subscription based models.
https://www.inoreader.com/pricing

My top 5 would be:

World of Warcraft (easily over 10k hours, been playing since release)
EVE Online
Crusader Kings
Stellaris
Blood Bowl

Mechabellum.
Very easy to pick up auto-battler. Short matches, but quite a lot of tactical depth.

I know there have been multiple patches that fixed bugs and gameplay

Yep, it’s been fixed. And it’s awesome. Well worth playing