What’s special about it?

the reason it looks to you like it’s just part of the crowd is because it helped define that crowd, in a direction that was distinctly different from 80s cyberpunk and far more rooted in our modern reality - which is impressive considering it’s approaching 30 years old now and the internet was in its infancy at the time. it was a pioneer in visual elements and aesthetic vis a vis the web, and it’s ingrained in counterculture as its initial popularity spread on 4chan.

i’ve heard it said that lain is to autism as neon genesis evangelion is to depression, so it may also just be that you’re not the target audience.

i’m so tired of nothingburger feel good ‘stories’ about search trends

this really is just reddit lite

thanks for comprehending the reading so i don’t have to

4.5 million seems like not a very high budget unless it’s only meant to be seed money and release into early access like last epoch.

Moreover, users of the satellite receivers were involuntarily taking part in attacks and might have experienced reduced device performance during these occurrences.

the article isn’t 100% clear, but this line suggested to me that they were being used to perform attacks themselves (although it also states “Allegedly, the functionality was needed to counter the attacks of a competing entity.”)

anyone else remember low orbit ion cannon DDOSing? i guess life imitates art

edit: receivers. doy. reading comprehension is hard.

if they expect you to do a consultant’s work, they should pay you a consultant rate

i don’t know if it will help, but you don’t have to care about achievements even if you haven’t gotten them

b) this is a remarkable incentive to NOT acknowledge criticism. I mean, if I’m Meta and I see this often, what is the incentive to not just force everybody to EULA away as much as possible?

how incredibly fucking dishonest. profit motive is more than enough incentive for them to continue to do what they’ve already been doing for close to two decades.

“don’t boycott exceptionally shitty companies or you’re responsible when they just get worse” is possibly the worst take i’ve seen so far on lemmy.

do you struggle to play peekaboo? how do you not grasp that they’re feeding into the same software ecosystem and your data is being stored in the same database?

not only did they gut the API for actual people, they carved out exceptions for “low volume users” to keep the bots inflating activity

now they’ve literally stolen from the people who paid to support the site in the first place. absolutely shameless

as a consumer product, yeah. but teams is ubiquitous in business and govt.

Terracotta

(super smash bros announcer voice)

IMMINENT LAYOFFS!

i’m holding out for an Index 2 but Valve really doesn’t seem to be in any rush

i don’t know what he had to say about/toward voyager, personally. ‘the record’ as far as anyone who’s paid attention is concerned is pretty clear about who’s in the right and who’s a libelous, manipulative fuckwad.

the short answer is that only a few apps were willing to play ball, and reddit corp was able to walk back their initial (untenable) terms to a point where they could keep those apps afloat.

the long answer is that during the course of these ‘negotiations’, huffman publicly libeled the shit out of christian which forced christian to defend himself against the accusations by releasing recordings, and none of this is conducive to a healthy working relationship. neither christian nor huffman have any desire to work with one another at this point, so they don’t.