LainTrain

So you want to make a frontend for emulators like emulationstation?

Exactly, so you agree that this bill is shit?

It makes their product shit

yawn

If it's not on Steam or GoG I pirate. Console children should go touch grass or go to school so they understand something other than defending multi-billion dollar megacorps.

Not open-sourcing it is a terrible idea, it just creates more black boxes and gives corporations a further upper hand.

Your link links to lemmy.worls seemingly in an attempt to hide the source, which links to some random site. Gonna need a fact check on this one boss.

Great related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7jqbGwHUI

Now I want to play some Forza just for a chance to race Miatas with the creator of Miatas!

Christian Taliban

Aka the "y'all Qaeda"

Oh all the places you'll forget who you were in and vomit all over a pizza express as families out on a Sunday afternoon watch on in horror and murmur about how they "don't smell weed".

For all the time of VK's existence? He hasn't been involved with VK since 2014, it says that literally at the top of his Wikipedia page.

2014 is the same time that Russia's real fascist face started to show in terms of the laws the duma was putting out internally and of course the actual invasion of Crimea and the attrocities carried out by Russia that followed. Lots of businessmen saw which way the wind was blowing and fled.

I do not trust any billionaire asshat, least of all a tech billionaire asshat, and if you read the libertarian new age techbro drivel the guy says on his telegram announcement thingie you just know his political opinions are probably dogshit, but I don't think he's in open cooperation with the fucking Kremlin.

The only suspicious thing here is the unbanning of Telegram in Russia. There's of course the explanation that it was practically ineffective, and roskomnadzor unblocked it to save face, as they were made quite a laughing stock of at the time by the public (I am Russian originally and was still in touch with the russian internet scene back then, so this is my personal experience). But it's also very possible they paid him off, so I'm not necessarily defending him either.

As for his visits to Russia, it's clear for what purpose. I don't think visiting e.g. family is an issue necessarily, so it can't be used as proof of collaboration. I am also not sure whether it's true.

I "trust" him in the sense that now that I am a resident of a five eyes nation, I would not use a western company's service because backroom dealings will always be done and compromises will be made, much like how if I was still in Russia, I would only use west-aligned services with whom the Russian state is unlikely to deal with. His arrest is only further proof of it.

Unless it's just a power grab due to the role Telegram started playing in the information war during the war in Ukraine, in use by both sides.

People babble on about E2EE and how there's only metadata, but shit, you can infer a lot from metadata, depending on how extensive it is, and you will only be able to do more now with ML.

What telegram has that other messengers don't is a solid business model that doesn't rely on data collection. Meta definitely does not. Signal also does not. The pressure is on them.

If signal was usable at all I would use it, if you could send actual .gif files like a normal person in WhatsApp, I would use it, and if Matrix had more than 5 users, I'd consider it.

Was banned for saying that it's not very difficult to self-med on !@[email protected] due to "bad advice", by some overzealous janny. When this guy just shows Dread it's a-ok though. Literally 1984.

In general self-medicating safely is something us ADHDers should come together around and build a community to share advice on how to do it while minimizing harm. For those of us who are also trans, this is not at all unfamiliar and most trans people I've known either self-medicate or used to.