DoItToMe81

Doom had over 20 million players in 2 years. That's higher than some modern games. I don't know if something groundbreaking and gigantic like that can ever really be 'cult'.

It absolutely is not. Google has been downranking 'outdated' formats for years, and there is a dearth of independent communities to draw members from. Discovery is harder now than it has been at any point in the past.

My friend was actually targeted by one of these. His registrar investigated the report and binned it. He wasn't even informed until they started to hit his Cloudflare account, which never acted on the report.

Things seem to have gone pretty well, considering that it was audited and weeded out before entering into secure releases.

Reminder that every declassified doctors report has brought it down to mass hysteria, worsened by sleep deprivation and high stress. Symptoms ending when people leave would suggest this is not, in fact, a weapon.

This is almost unheard of outside of the US. It doesn't make sense.

Have you actually viewed Chinese TikTok? It's stupid cat videos and 'influencer' advertisements.

The Author's Guild is NOT this peaceful grandma's knitting association you're portraying it as. It has a long history of frivolous lawsuits, censorship, and copyright maximalism only matched by groups like the MPAA.

It also has a history of lip service against publishers, while in reality acting entirely in their interests. That is the reason why they joined in, not any heartful concern for the little guy. They have consistently fought against higher royalty digital publishing. (https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/30/authors-guilded-united-r... https://www.techdirt.com/company/authors-guild/)

What? What does Gamergate have to do with any of that? That's absolutely deranged and obsessed.

Has the list of approved chips leaked? I would be very interested to see what they consider to be alternatives.

It's clearly not. And it's not Cloudflare's job to be playing morality police when the content is legal in its state of operation, and legal in the state of the owner. I will not be using Cloudflare in the future.

Loli porn is disgusting and the people who view it are unequivocally pedophiles, but this is not that. It's weird, but it shouldn't be in the realm of such a takedown.

This company uses slavery, and your big concern is that they abide by tax laws? LMAO.

China and Taiwan, mutually, have hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in one another. War makes that all go up in smoke. With China's track record of zero wars in decades, I doubt this is much more than American fearmongering about Chinese nationalist posturing.

I've known Israelis and Arab Israelis. I would NOT call them 'first class citizens', there is discrimination codified into law and most state entities.

There were court documents implying he could get the death penalty and several plans to assassinate him. This is never happening.

Chinese child labourers have better conditions than the Bengali slaves and indentured servants who produce all my other clothes. I think I'll upgrade to Shein as a moral advantage.

How not? I have used it on about 5 devices in the last few years and it has worked out of the box every time.

You literally just install the non-beta client and register an account and then log in. It's that simple. I'm impressed that anyone could get this wrong and then blame the program.

My grandmother could use Matrix when she was starting to develop dementia. The only thing that tripped her up was the end to end encryption and key loss. It's not a UX problem, its a PEBKAC issue.

This is just stereotypical ineptitude and inability to RTFM or use common sense from somebody used to the spoonfed walled garden side of tech. I do not understand how anyone with a background in technology can't know "beta means buggy and poor support and use the flagship instance if you don't know what you want". I understood this as a teenager, as most people here also should have.

I think Matrix has a lot of problems. E2E encryption is too much for most laymen users to work with and it being so damn resource heavy being the too biggest ones. But come on.

The VPN is just an upsold Mullvad account, and the social media they run is embarrassingly knee-jerk overmoderated. If there has to be layoffs anywhere, I'm glad they're predominately there.

This is just a narcissist making a histrionic show over basic adult self control. I'm astounded the Guardian has such low standards.

Or, more likely, people want to see the interview of a world leader by a well known and popular journalist, and it being on a site already used by hundreds of millions of people means word spreads easily.

It's sad to see that no XMPP client remotely meets modern expectations, outside of the phone. The closest webclient I've seen is Movim.

Most "Twitter alternatives" don't deal with the fundamental, sensation-seeking oriented flaws in the medium and just turn out to be Twitter with more perpetually upset losers.

It's disappointing, because a lot of work has gone into these. Especially Mastodon and Pleroma.

Tox is alive again? I thought it was abandoned when the protocol was thought to have insurmountable security problems.

I'll believe it when it happens. Unsurprisingly, China stands to gain little from damaging their largest trading partner and one of their biggest sources of income.

WTF, no. Media absolutely shouldn't be lowered to children's cartoons for adults. That's absurd. And nobody in the world who isn't already completely insane finds gang rape 'cool', nor does this book or movie portray it positively.

There wouldn't have been an industry to begin with. Nothing would have been able to scale, legally, and hobbyist communities would have been annihilated due to bad actors abusing holes in moderation. As will happen if 230 is whittled down, and as is happening in countries where equivalents have been removed.

If Instagram can be held liable for not having the magic powers to preemptively police several hundred million people, would it not make more sense to put the man in jail for severe neglect for not giving his son the "Don't send yourself to strangers" talk?