It’s wild that a site with hundreds of millions of users, didn’t invest into multiple-account deletion tools.
True start-up mentality, that one.

Just shows how our “critical” social media is really just some hasty tape and bubblegum behind the scenes to keep the front from falling apart.

Simo Häyhä has entered the chat.

Local mail client (Thunderbid) -> IMAP/POP -> sync.
Once done, move to a local folder and delete from Gmail.
You can just backup the Thunderbird profile, if you want to keep the mails safe

He can touch deeznuts

Serving my car with 3rd party parts is stealing?

Yeah, and as the article links, this is just not about media, CDs, DVDs and games. It’s also about very physical products that we immediately associate as “owned” - like printers, phones, cars, tractors or even, (lol) trains. They’re all locked to manufacturers parts and repair services and increasingly difficult to circumvent.

Get a physical copy that doesn’t require internet activation then, assholes.

I think the point was, it is increasingly hard to find such products.
And even once you think you’ve bought such product, DRM makes sure it’s still not really yours.

There’s thousand different stats around this, but generally most analysts place consoles slightly ahead of PC with stronger growth potential, but it depends a bit where in the generation cycle they do their measurements.

Most of this has been overshadowed by mobile gaming though.

Smaller marketshare,
Pretty sure they’d release mobiile > console > PC if they could get away with it.

The PC release will be a year or so after to get people to double dip.

But at least MKBHD tried to say nice things about it in his video. He really tried.

Yes, because the last two years have been so full of fantastically good news.

What’s really wild is that you don’t have to go that far into the past (just ca. 20 years) when the Internet was all about Information wanting to be Free. It was hopeful time of people coming together around new technology. There were a lot new businesses with wild innovations.

And then, just in a decade it was all gone. Replaced by unregulated behemoths that merged until there’s a dirty dozen left, controlling most of global money and information.

Enshittification of the Internet.

The real problem with the internet isn’t Facebook or Twitter or Reddit, it’s the fact the entire experience is pretty much controlled by Microsoft and Google

I think the real problem is that the entire Internet is basically just a dozen multi-billion Big Tech companies and the entire “Internet economy” is so tightly weaved into advertising money.

Mastodon has user defined word filters, you can completely mute this crap (of course people love misspelling his name).
I wish lemmy/kbin would get something similar it’s really annoying to have this fucker in my feed daily.

20% seems really low, but I guess it’s better than 0%

I wish international law regarding war crimes was actually enforceable. There’s a long list of world leaders who’ve gotten away with mass murder with no consequences.

In words of Dan Geer from his 2014 Black Hat keynote:

Today the relevant legal concept is “product liability” and the
fundamental formula is “If you make money selling something, then
you better do it well, or you will be held responsible for the
trouble it causes.” For better or poorer, the only two products
not covered by product liability today are religion and software,
and software should not escape for much longer.

The EU legislation has good intentions. Software should not escape product liability. However, the current proposal is somewhat flawed (unless EU actually intends to finance security testing for FOSS projects!) and it needs some language to protect open-source innovation and distributed development models.

I’m hoping the EU will allow a model where FOSS developers can receive donations/charge for support without having to risk huge penalties.

fair enough

It’s 1,67 €/month, but sure, each to their own.

I’ve been using Inoreader for a good while now. It’s everything I wanted Google Reader to become.
Web based, runs everywhere, there’s a mobile app - supports keyboard shortcuts etc.

Does have free (ad supported) and subscription based models.
https://www.inoreader.com/pricing

Mechabellum.
Very easy to pick up auto-battler. Short matches, but quite a lot of tactical depth.

I know there have been multiple patches that fixed bugs and gameplay

Yep, it’s been fixed. And it’s awesome. Well worth playing

I’m a 47 year old guy and I’m not ashamed to say that I enjoy video games. I always have, from playing Head over Heels on a Speccy +2 to ESO and Valorant on my self built PC.

I’m 51. I have house, wife, two kids and I run my own company. I could never, ever think about stop gaming. I’ve been doing this since the 80s. It’s my hobby and my way to socialize and wind-down. It is my go-to when I need to get my mind off things. I’d be a literal wreck without it. I’m not ashamed of it and I will talk about it with anyone curious. Just like they might talk about sailing boats or golf trips. No difference.

Due to various life circumstances, I’m also on the dating scene and to most women I meet, around my age, video games are anathema. When I say that I like them it’s usually meet with an “oh dear” or a “my son would probably love to talk to you about them, I find them really boring”

That is a really shitty and demeaning way to speak to someone. What the actual fuck? Very rude.
Have you ever tried to tell them that insulting someones hobbies isn’t the best way to go about meeting people?

Will this cost us Half-Life 3?

Rich business dudes threatening other rich business dudes with… business.

There’s not much “technology” in there.

I’m 50+ and while my kids are old though to manage without me, I still have plenty of other responsibilities.
I don’t really “track” my gaming and I think the focus on hours spent is a bit silly.

I play when I have time to relax.
It’s mostly WoW, single-player RPGs, Paradox Grand Strategy games, online chess etc - stuff that doesn’t need twichy eye-hand coordination, too old and slow for that - games like that make me frustrated, because I used to be competitive in Quake back in the day. Just can’t keep up with the kids :)

Mechabellum has been my latest addiction

First - we’re all using alpha/beta software (Lemmy is 0.17.4, Kbin is 0.10.). None of these services are “production quality” software yet, so let’s keep that in our minds - we’re all early adopters.

The points mentioned in the OP are a bad look. Naturally. User should have expectation of their data being deleted on request - especially since this request might be regulatory privacy request (GDPR related). It’s a clear failure from the software and should be improved and iterated upon.

The expectation shouldn’t be “oh well it’s on the Internet, live with it”. While Facebook might keep mining your data after deletion request, our software shouldn’t behave like that, we should strive to be better with this stuff.

And finally, ensuring privacy in federated system is hard. Mastodon suffers from same problems. We shouldn’t give up on the idea though.

Once, many moons ago, a group of devs at my old work got deny on internal zone-to-zone Firewall open request that they needed for integration between two internal systems, so they ended up making a script that e-mailed the info to a hotmail.com (SMTP was open) account and then wrote a script to login and screenscrape the mail info from hotmail back to the other server (https was open through surf proxy).

I think you might like it. It is turn based (but also, fast - just not in the twichy way)

Meta should be considered “harmful to humankind” (the list of atrocities is long) and I personally really don’t want anything to do with them.

It was only matter of time before one of the big players took interest. Too bad it had to be Meta, but I don’t think the others would have been much better.

The protocol itself isn’t secure, so if anyone is worried about data harvesting, better log off now and never return. Meta and anyone else can do that already (and is probably doing) without having to roll in with their own instances.

Federating with someone who might have 1.2 billion MAUs is kinda scary because most protocol implementations (like Mastodon) are huge mess of bloat and inefficiencies under the hood. Someone paying their hosting out of their own pocket or trusting on kindness of strangers should be wary of the amount of data that’s going to hit them with federation.

It’s probably silly to expect “unified blocklist”. Some people are fixated with the idea of growth and equate mass popularity with success. Others would rather “wait and see”. Let them. The fediverse used to be much more homogeneous place 3-4 years ago, but we’re nearing 10M users. That’s simply too many people and voices for there to be just one response.

Luckily there doesn’t need to be. The protocol allows for creation of spaces that don’t have to interact with Meta.

I’m always annoyed how these types of news are categorized as “technology”, when they’re clearly just “business and finance”.
Yeah Elon owns companies that do “tech”. He has lot of money, because he’s “business and finance” type.

I wish we’d talk more about actual tech than just the rich white dudes who sit on a pile of gold.

From Mastodon side - you can actually decide how the content you’re posting gets distributed.
Post visibility options

Turns out, pretending the entire Internet is equal to 5 apps from mega corps (largely fueled by pretend money) wasn’t the best long term play.
Who would have thought?

This is just it. Software is software. You can spin your own instance and moderate it as you wish. It’s open source, so you can change and modify it.
But right now they’re asking for donations to run their instance and help with their code.

So before you donate money and your time/expertise/code - it’s probably a good idea to know who is asking for it. It’s not entirely clear, to be honest.

There’s also these:
https://raddle.me/f/lobby/96713/heads-up-the-tankie-behind-lemmy-ml-got-banned-from-r
https://raddle.me/f/TankiesGonnaTank/89852/the-lemmy-ml-admin-is-banning-anyone-that-mentions-stalin-or
(google cache since the site is down) https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KNky1TdNscwJ:https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=se&client=firefox-b-d

And I believe there’s some allegations of them hosting the lemmygrad.ml instance, which is basically full on tankie home.

Basically, they don’t think Uyghur genocide happened, they don’t think Stalin did anything wrong and they love Xi.

And now they’re asking for your money

great that there’s a Twitch rival trying to get serious

Kick is not it though.
Their mothership Stake is crypto gambling casino and it’s shady as fuck

Exactly, props to Ars and Sharon for giving mods a voice in this. Really wish more news sites would do this, all I see is articles where Spez gets to control the narrative and tell his view on things (mostly, how wrong mods and users are).