Thank you for using a less charged title in the cross-post. It’s concerning stuff coming from the Proton CEO and Andy Yen using the official account to amplify it. However, I disagreed with it being characterized as “Full MAGA”.

If Elon can go fsck himself that would be great. I sense a systematic lack of integrity from him.

It’s good, he’s the originator, but the reach in Europe is not that great and there have only been a few multilingual channels that have picked it up.

Can it be expressed or represented approximately in IEEE-754 form?

I got my parents’ computer on KDE neon, with “brand new Plasma 5” years ago when Win 7 was going out of support, it had been solid as a rock and relatively problem-free over the years. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was out of date for over a year, and Netflix stopped working, so I bought a new drive, upgraded from 4GB to 16GB RAM and clean installed KDE Neon with Plasma 6!

This is a 12 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop that is still going strong. (As an email, websurfing and video watching machine).

I’m expecting people here to be smart, respectful and use their brain.

First, hate and bigotry are not to be tolerated. Second, context also matters in language in addition to words. Third, it’s also important to acknowledge that we are people with ingrained biases too, in order to tackle more subtle and casual forms of it. If people can demonstrate an understanding and willingness to give up their precognitions and learn from mistakes, they don’t have to be kicked out on the spot. Trolls with a pattern of abusing or playing borderline with the rules have clear context outside of the thread that they aren’t genuinely engaging and aren’t welcome until they drop that behaviour. Lastly, the community where the discussion happens (a shitpost community, a community made for a specific group, a news community etc.) should also be considered. Every example from the document is demeaning, bigoted, and inappropriate within that scenario.

With all due respect, I think most users can recognize when people mean well or not, while still being impassioned over a discussion. If one is genuinely confused, we can afford the opportunity for them to learn.

I’ll leak my policy: unless it’s clearly in an ironic sense, if I spot any of those examples here on the Fediverse, I will report them.

I wonder if we are going to get Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie: The Game.

If we ever do, then someone needs to mod in first trailer Sonic in.

The word “slam” has been reserved for headlines of someone giving minor criticism, can’t use that unfortunately.

The very first thing I checked for is which circuit it was, too, haha…

Of course the Loper Bright decision is going to be used to prevent federal agencies with helping improving anything. Judges be like “You can’t rein in this corporate abuse because there’s an app for it, bro. Totally different!”

Well this is a more or less solved problem in BC:

https://www.moneysense.ca/earn/careers/gig-worker-rights-in-canada/

The gig worker min wage is 20% more than min wage to account for the “non-engaged time”.

Hey you bring up a good point. I consider it innovative because they are trying to develop a non-Microsoft owned IP story/lore behind the Stormgate characters, even if in terms of game mechanics they are trying to achieve “Starcraft 2 with a new coat of paint and business model”.

Beyond All Reason (open source with FOSS engine), Stormgate (proprietary but made by ex-SC2 devs) are separate attempts at what I would call innovating the RTS genre.

AoE2 DE by Microsoft is tried, true and super popular still but many aspects are still from the original game 20 years ago. AoE 4 seems to kind of be the attempt at improving the formula, seems okay.

The Starcraft 2 engine is amazing but now under Microsoft ownership, I was hopeful initially but it looks as though it will continue to be left to rot. If only they could give it a Halo makeover using the same engine that would be awesome.

“They’re the same picture”

Just this week: The Settings app on my work Windows computer had a completely non-functional search feature. The other thing I was trying to set “Choose what happens when you close the laptop lid”, I have still not been able to find it outside of manually going to Windows 7-era control panel.

Ngl, it’s kind of cool! I put one of the two public facing images I have published of myself and it’s trying to guess some details, some right, a few hilariously wrong.

A human or AI sleuth could probably figure out where I live within 10km with information on the internet, but I just have to live with that. It’s a tricky balance between putting enough out there to show you’re not just an AI vs. not giving out so much info that an AI could convincingly impersonate you.

Information about me is scattered across the Net like horcruxes, and you’d have to know someone I know to easily piece things together. I am worried that AI has the ability to analyze these large datasets faster than ever before, whether it is my writing style or anything else, but it will still be computationally intensive with a large dataset to be able discern any details with confidence.

I lol’d at scam-normalized benchmark. Virtually ANY other method of financing an overpriced old prebuilt (short of a series of short-term payday loans) would be better than this hot garbage. Definitely fueled by corporate greed and a great way to dump old parts onto unwitting consumers while taking exorbitant rents from them.

Hehehe, we all know how that’s like. I’m sure this income will truly be used to improve their services and support robust and reliable API infrastructure.

Ha! Hahaha! Hahahahaha!

Do you want AI to push garbage/useless code to push garbage/useless metrics? Because this is how you get your most skilled employees to do that.

Perhaps, but it all depends on the judge’s decision whether X corp’s argument is completely bullshit or not.

For your Valve example, in the Subscriber Agreement you can terminate the agreement, or Valve can terminate it for a violation of the Agreement rules, with no refunds. For a termination without a valid reason, “no refunds” does not necessarily apply. I’m not saying it would be hard for Valve to come up with a bullshit reason to cancel anyone’s account on a whim or to change the terms so that they get broken easily, but it’s not automatic and courts can assign value to a specific license you have access to, based on the jurisdiction, in particular in places like Quebec, Australia, and the EU.

9C. Termination by Valve

Valve may restrict or cancel your Account or any particular Subscription(s) at any time in the event that (a) Valve ceases providing such Subscriptions to similarly situated Subscribers generally, or (b) you breach any terms of this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use). In the event that your Account or a particular Subscription is restricted or terminated or cancelled by Valve for a violation of this Agreement or improper or illegal activity, no refund, including of any Subscription fees or of any unused funds in your Steam Wallet, will be granted.

Addendum: I wasn’t totally serious with the second paragraph, nothing may stop X from banning The Onion/Infowars or whatever after the transfer is complete. But trying to disrupt the transfer itself over it seems a little ridiculous.