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I have a fond childhood memory of discovering the emacs eliza on the family iMac, well before I would understand what emacs or eliza were. Like telnet towel.blinkenlights, part of me is sad to see that magic go.

Probably makes sense not to ship an old version by default anymore, though.

The economic value is still created even if it's not captured as currency. Look at open source software - would you say that ffmpeg hasn't created any economic value just because the developers aren't charging for it?

Through what mechanism do they "shut down speech"?

You can make cool shit without having to do the work of productizing and monetizing it

I understand where you're coming from, but I think this part of BP's nature is critical to its ludonarrative symmetry, in much the same way that OW's gameplay structure frames its narrative.

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Why would a state's worth of people give up health care so that billionaires could retain more assets?

"I know you are, but what am I" really is the peak of right-wing intellectual activity, huh?

The market for multiplayer games, shooters especially, is already a mess, because people don't want to play a game that doesn't have an infinite pool of players to matchmake into, or a game that doesn't have all their cosmetics, or... etc. etc.

So this ends up being easier said than done. I've had success, but that's my friend group out of however many.

Try to find a shooter with a playerbase that doesn't use EAC/etc. - it's a crapshoot, unfortunately. You've got Valve's stuff and one or two outliers, but if those don't meet your group's genre needs, you're whomped.

Jerking off in public isn't, bud

I call it like I see it ;)

Glad you don't think the part about you jerking off is delusional, at least!

Given that Newsom was on a podcast just last week caving to even the slightest pushback, I wouldn't count on him to be bombastic to anyone. He's 100% optics-driven-cowardice.

Session lacks forward secrecy, which isn't ideal.

As a rational consumer, how would you distinguish between some intentional "keep pulling the slot machine" failure rate and the intrinsic failure rate?

I feel like saying "the market will fix the incentives" handwaves away the lack of information on internals. After all, look at the market response to Google making their search less reliable - sure, an invested nerd might try Kagi, but Google's still the market leader by a long shot.

In a market for lemons, good luck finding a lime.

In other industries this would be a gross ethical issue and potentially a legal one.

In this industry, public criticism for public fraudulence is "harassment", I guess? C'mon, man.

Coming to the comments to brag about ignoring something you clearly didn't ignore (given that you're here in the comments) is actually pretty abnormal behavior.

Normal people don't jerk themselves off about being edgy in public. Hope this helps!

Forced movement is cringe, actually

So many of these component libraries get a11y wrong, actually (or don't even try - mat-ui select comes with a big "don't use this" warning label)

If you're going to put something on someone else's desk, you're going to have to own it.

If you don't check it yourself, then you're going to own whatever your tooling misses, and also own the amount of others' time you waste through what the project has decided to categorize as negligence, which will make you look worse than if you simply made an honest mistake.

How much of these signals actually matter? If the only reason "accept you'll miss things" didn't work was "anxiety", you need Zoloft, not Notion.

And we enter the predicted cycle of "new thing that's going to Connect Everything"

Just like faxes, the internet and the world wide web, sure, this new thing Could connect everything, but that's not nearly as much of a technical problem as a sociopolitical one. Same as it ever was.

I generally run BOINC during the winter in place of a space heater, but that's only a cold month or two of the year.

Generally speaking, no, since a lot of what it does is now available natively, the odds that you'll need something from it are much lower.

There's probably some corner-case stuff it still makes easier if you're not using some framework, but I don't think there's a reason to go out of your way to use it just for the sake of using it.

Wild that the CEO got acquitted on appeal.

>You keep talking about /v/. I don't understand why.

Given that you find not knowing the blog post guy's name disqualifying, this is extremely funny. The ground level of the whole shitshow wasn't /r/KiA.

(I'd love to see a scrap of evidence that /r/KiA did anything beyond "we did it reddit"-style conspiracy posting and going "hmm this dev is queer, is this an ethics issue?", but given that this was apparently traumatic for you, I won't force the issue)

If your grievance is "people don't take me seriously in arguments", then you could try deploying sources. There's probably still plenty of /v/ archives from back in the day, right?

But I think "people trust contemporary and retrospective reporting more than me, a guy who self-identifies as having a skin-in-the-game perspective" shouldn't be very surprising.

And, if it means anything, I was reading /v/ at the time, too, was initially sympathetic, and eventually realized it was all just an extension of existing /v/ grievance politics (from my perspective) - "people who disagree with us or make things we don't like are getting attention, which is evil".

I was there for threads where people were seething about positive coverage around Depression Quest before the "Zoe Post" blow-up, which was purely "we don't like that people enjoy experiences that don't suit our tastes".

At some point I realized that there just wasn't any actual ethical issues to speak of around the Depression Quest coverage, and it was just more /v/ seething about outlets liking things they didn't.

How would you characterize the initial blog post?

Does "someone doesn't know trivia about the inflection point" really demonstrate any of those things?

Like, if I asked you whether the anger at Depression Quest was downstream of a long-standing meme-feud on /v/ about whether visual novels are videogames and you didn't know that, that doesn't really mean anything about your understanding of anything other than /v/ culture wars of the 2010s.

I mean, c'mon, "five guys burgers and fries"?

The whole thing springs out of "someone who made a thing we don't like" and "an excuse to attack" - the lack of any actual ethical breaches in the coverage of Depression Quest should be immediately disqualifying.

Got any examples of articles to demonstrate that difference?

GG wasn't constrained to Gjoni, it was the reaction to his posting. One guy saying "I'm on this team" does not define the characteristics of the resulting events.

I was there, it was as Wikipedia describes it. Read the talk page.

Edit: the replies to this comment demonstrate why this problem is intractable: people are very emotionally invested into their idea of how things unfolded, and outright reject other perspectives with little more than a "nuh-uh!".