rottingleaf

"Already done" it was when most people were on social media. It's a self-supporting censorship machine requiring no government intervention. Censorship is usually defined as government censorship, and a private business on their platform has right to do whatever they want about speech. And that's fine when those private businesses are physical diners, rented spaces for events and so on. But if there were 2 or 3 owners of all the spaces you can rent to have a meeting, and those would have policy on speech, you'd have effective non-governmental censorship IRL. Same with the Internet.

Then platform owners do that censorship simply because they can and it's convenient too.

Whatever governments order them comes much later and doesn't change much. We already have censorship for 10-15 years, affecting all we do.

That'd be a Nintendo reference, yes? Though I think somebody else stole Wine code and was caught. No huge consequences obviously.

One can see which torrents you share. So when they can't jail you for that - yes, but money makes laws.

Forgot they are dealing with Sony.

It is interesting, however, how those old games are emotionally worth as much as new ones, even more.

If we think about value equivalent, though, then 30$ for a game would be like 5 times more than a license copy in a bookstore in Moscow 20 years ago.

I miss those bookstore game stands very much, it's as if someone were carefully making a selection of the best things, I may not have played all of the games I've seen there, but any name I can remember is golden. I suppose bookstores attract a particular kind of employees. Would. Back then.

Anyway, I agree the games from that time are still good. Could we please resurrect all other good things about that ecosystem? Thought so.

Proton’s big sell is that they can be trusted to be truthful about what is safe and what is not safe for your privacy.

Which somebody who can be trusted wouldn't ever do.

Businesses sell goods, services, deals, not truth.

And privacy is not about trust.

A bit less than 20 years ago a new PC arrived in our home, and some of the letters on the drive inside it said "Seagate Barracuda". And that drive lasted longer than the motherboard in that box (and the CPU's integrated graphics started gradually failing a few years before that, so I was using a cheap discrete card).

Point is, I have good associations with the brand, sad that it's become this bad.

Of course it's biased. One company writing about another company is always biased. Imagine mods of one community collectively writing a post about another community, would the fact alone not be enough? Or admins of one instance about another.

It was common sense when I as a kid went online, writing all manners of awfully stupid things memories of which still haunt me today.

You'd be friendly and respectful with all people around you on the same forums and chats. But never ever would you believe them when they tell you what to think about something.

We live in a strange time when instead of applying this simple rule people are looking for mechanisms like karma or fact-checking or even market share to allow themselves to uncritically believe some stuff.

Telegram isn't P2P and isn't recommended. Signal is good, but not P2P. Matrix is decentralized, not P2P. SimpleX is P2P, I think, but not sure.

so that it looked like a bicyclist rode into it and killed it

That's how the Internet still helps my mental health sometimes.

Everything satirical and absurdist I've read felt very realistic.

But again, that's something most autists would sign under, I think.

They can surrender. Or what is the legal term.