furikuri

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[–] furikuri 2 points 6 months ago

PRE-SUBMISSION EDIT: This is a long-winded reply and goes increasingly off-topic as it progresses, sorry. TLDR I agree

Anecdotally, I've also noticed a rapid change in the last decade or so as politicians become emboldened by Trump's success. For example, the premier of a major Canadian province has done the following:

She was previously head of the (now defunct) Wildrose party before defecting and indirectly leading to the historic 2015 election, which marked the first time a left-wing party formed a majority government in almost 80 years.

But even then the most controversial thing she said (publicly) was that 'the science on climate change "wasn't settled"', still inane but a far cry from what was to come after her return to power in 2022

[–] furikuri 3 points 6 months ago

Who said it was the US government? Additionally I'd wager that the people who vote both vote independent and browse these sorts of forums are people who would otherwise vote democrat. Note that there are currently many interested parties that would benefit from a republican win at this moment

[–] furikuri 4 points 6 months ago

I'm not too familiar with the details but there is this excerpt from a blog post by Wolfire Games from 2021 where they say this wasn't the case. Haven't checked it's validity or if it's relevant information to this case, but it is something

When new video game stores were opening that charged much lower commissions than Valve, I decided that I would provide my game "Overgrowth" at a lower price to take advantage of the lower commission rates. I intended to write a blog post about the results.

But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM.

http://blog.wolfire.com/2021/05/Regarding-the-Valve-class-action

[–] furikuri 7 points 6 months ago

Yup. If Steam wasn't around I'd have the joy of choosing between Epic, Origin, GOG (actually not bad but no official Linux client can be annoying), or GFWL (which would probably still be around in this situation)

[–] furikuri 10 points 6 months ago

Probably operates closer to corporate software licensing deals, i.e. "we might not catch you but if we do it's over"

[–] furikuri 1 points 6 months ago

If it's an external SSD I could see it being useful in order to keep native compatibility with Windows and MacOS (IIRC their other option would be FAT32 but I don't use a Windows machine so who knows)

[–] furikuri 3 points 7 months ago

For fun or to play around with transpilers?

[–] furikuri 4 points 7 months ago

Happened all the time over on r/androiddev. Small company brings on the wrong person/uses the wrong SDK/wrongfully fails an review and their account is then banned via "association", which then propagates down to countless other employees. Only way out is to hope and pray that a human sees the appeal or try and blow up online

Happened so often in fact that the subreddit even created several guides on how to avoid it. My favourite part is that even unpublished apps must be updated in perpetuity to abide by Google's ever changing requirements

Or this other occasion where viewers of one of the most popular YouTubers in the world were banned for typing in chat

[–] furikuri 1 points 9 months ago

Why single out TikTok and not Chinese nationals buying US real estate, driving up the cost of commercial and residential rents?

Heavily agree that this is equally problematic, but unfortunately it seems like the choice has already been made that real estate "investments" cannot be allowed to fail. It's the same reason why they aren't also targeting US-based companies that have been shown to have ties to foreign rivals, they're literally just playing politics. Sucks, but for now this at least opens the door for further regulation in the area

[–] furikuri 1 points 9 months ago

This is why I'm having trouble understanding why people are confused about the bill's purpose, especially in the context of the last dozen years or so. Allowing a political rival to maintain control over a platform like this is granting them soft power. Even if I agree that companies like Meta should be more heavily regulated (though not in this manner), I can see why they've put a bandaid on the issue given that there's a non-zero chance that TikTok's content has been actively in the past few years

[–] furikuri 2 points 9 months ago

Me when I find out that it's illegal to sell your organs for profit

[–] furikuri 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably doesn't help that Reddit has spent years cultivating some of the most advertiser unfriendly content available (out of the top 100 visited sites). I doubt anyone's chomping at the bit to advertise on pages like r/jailbait, r/piracy, and r/fatpeoplehate. Even if the worst of the worst have been banned the overall "culture" can't be erased as quickly

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