If that makes you sleep better at night, you are free to believe none of that is true and just move on..
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More seriously, they should notify the owner of the email address privately rather than displaying it publicly, this can be easily weaponized
But who cares right, they are monetizing the service..
only 6 out of the 50 most played right now aren't working
10 millions players ingame, 90% of players are not playing these titles
Only the UX has to feel native, the pixels are yours
https://www.csis.org/analysis/south-americas-lithium-triangl...
A smarter approach is to cherry pick the best elements from every model and redesign the parts that don't serve us
Not everything should be for profit, if you don't value society and collective welfare, it's meaningless:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/2...
You'll be forced to rethink that model anyway once post-scarcity hits
Abundance breaks capitalism, profit cannot thrive when there's plenty for everyone
Capitalism is a dead end, don't get too attached to it, it served us well, time to move on
-unable to execute a clean chip-architecture transition (while Apple shipped three clean ones)
-unable to modernize its operating system consistently (5 layers of different UI/UX and 30 years old DLLs spread all over the place)
-unable to harden its own software
-unable to design its own hardware
-unable to keep users's data secure
I could continue, but the pattern is clear
I will never store personal or government issued documents on a Windows device and I will never use any form of digital ID to login on infrastructure that depends on Azure AD
TPM, Secure Boot, Windows Update stories are the evidence that the more you entrust Microsoft, the worse it gets
GNOME ruined my Linux experience, I'm no fan of the tablet/smartphone UX spreading to desktop
If Apple were a country, it wouldn't just be authoritarian, it'd be a dictatorship with a 30% flat tax on revenue, no appeals, and the power to erase your business overnight
Hence the parallel, but yeah fair point, I wrote the comment too fast
Corporate tax in Apple land is 30%
Funny?
every year, Playstation ranks very high when it comes to GOTY nominations
just last year, Playstation had the most nominations for GOTY: https://x.com/thegameawards/status/1858558789320142971
not only that, but PS5 has more 1st party games than Microsoft's Xbox S|X
1053 vs 812 (that got inflated with recent Activision acquisition)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_5_games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_Series_X_and_Seri...
It's important to check the facts before spreading random FUD
PS5 had the strongest lineup of games this generation, hence why they sold this many consoles
Still today, consumers are attracted to PS5's lineup, and this is corroborated by facts and data https://www.vgchartz.com/
In August for example, the ratio between PS5 and Xbox is 8:1; almost as good as the new Nintendo Switch 2, and the console is almost 5 years old!
You say "underwhelming", people are saying otherwise
But that's not the point, if you want a society that's empowered by digital services, you need it to be safe and secure, 'chat control' (what a stupid name) is required
It was inevitable, this basically marks the end of affordable gaming GPUs, upgrade while you still can
You want to know why they'd tamper data?
https://seclab.cs.washington.edu/2017/10/30/rewriting-histor...
https://blog.archive.org/2018/04/24/addressing-recent-claims...
NSA already paid to back-door RSA, got caught shiping pre-hacked routers, can rewrite pages mid-flight with QUANTUM, penetrate and siphon data from remote infected machines.. what else could they do?
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
> Because _other_ people make poor decisions, we need to take that decision away from everyone.
Sports betting is to entertainment what ultra-processed food is to nutrition, engineered to be addictive, marketed as "pleasure" and technically a personal choice, but built on exploiting human psychology
You can enjoy a burger or a bet responsibly, sure, but the problem is the systemic design, it's optimized for overconsumption and dependency, not well being, you end up creating problems whole society have to pay for it, it's systemic harm
Accumulating traumas across an eternity would harm society
And I think it's unfair to reserve that for the wealthy, if anything, eugenics should determine who gains access, only the most genetically advantaged should be allowed, in an effort to protect and strengthen humankind
But I don't think our society is ready to have this discussion, hence why, aging and death should not be frowned upon
My experience with Stripe and disputes made me stop using them back then, looks like it's going worse..
Fraud detection is hard, sure, dealing with kids who use parents CCs is impossible to prevent
If you done nothing wrong and you win your disputes, you'll still loose money, this is all backwards
Lots of PayPal FUD around here, but when I had my online business, I effortlessly won most of the dispute cases, and they'd only keep the transaction fee, wich was ~3% only
Tutankhamun's dagger, for example, was crafted from iron and was probably a diplomatic gift from Mitanni (modern day Syria/Turkey)
Way before your Roman Empire
Launched by an anonymous author, it was almost immediately hailed as "the future of money, free from institutions"
That alone feels odd, Washington constaltly punishes anyone who threatens the USD/petrodollar system, yet over the years, and still today, no serious censorship was ever directed at Bitcoin
Stranger still, US startups rushed to adopt it (Coinbase), China too.. (Binance), yet any attempts from other countries would be met with heavy FUD, often times with arrests and murders, as if it would self control itself, and ownership would be guaranteed to whoever orchestrated it all
To me, it has always looked like a bait-and-switch, the promise of easy profit lures greedy actors whose capital finances blockchain R&D, while constant attacks force the technology to harden, exactly the stress testing you would want if your end goal were a resilient infrastructure for an official CBDC and government issued digital wallet/ID
Today, we are kinda getting the confirmation..
At the time it had no connection with Zionism
Because the word now circulates without that historical packaging, many people take "Jew" to be a racial category and imagine Jews, not Arabs, Assyrians, or other Semitic language communities, to be the only Semitic group, an assumption that reproduces the very Nazi racial taxonomy the term originally served
Its very design, framing Jews alone as the quintessentially "Semitic" target, censors every attempt to talk about the Middle East, because it buries the shared Semitic matrix (Arab, Assyrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.) under a racialized badge that only sticks to one side
Once the vocabulary itself encodes a single victim story, any mention of parallel or overlapping suffering sounds like denial instead of description, and the conversation stalls before facts can even be named
Here's a reminder of what the word 'Semitic' means:
"Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples"
No? Hmm, then you should not let Microsoft whitewash its record by taking credit for the very cause those workers were punished for defending
Ada seems pretty popular on Arch
This data is kinda worthless for popularity contests, since they may get picked up by aur packages, but this gives a solid insight into wich languages are foundational
I wish the same was available for other distros
You can do the same with docker images
curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/python/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
8244552364
curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/golang/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
2396145586
curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/perl/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
248786850
curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/rust/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
102699482