Sampling bias from the fact that you’re reading posts written in English, not Mandarin.

(By the way, I’m actually not as concerned with Chinese companies collecting my data as I am with American companies doing it, precisely because China doesn’t have jurisdiction over me, while the US does. Similarly, I would expect Chinese people to be more afraid of Chinese data collection than they are of US data collection.)

This is why shaming the idiots who say things like “what’s the big deal, it’s just a field in a text file” is so important. They need to be made to understand that solidarity is required to resist the tyrants.

Ah, a fellow SciShow enjoyer!

Trouble is, it also give them an excuse to “launder” copyleft software to use in proprietary ways.

I think if you did it quickly when it first became popular, they were actually purged. Later, Reddit implemented countermeasures.

It floors me that all these Internet companies that ignore accessibility aren’t getting smacked down by the ADA (and similar laws elsewhere).

I agree, assuming the game was released reasonably “complete” and with a minimum of bugs the first time. Or in other words, if the devs were held to the same standard as they were back in the '90s, when games got mastered to physical media once and routine, easy bug fix updates weren’t a thing.

It’s mildly annoying that the media doesn’t seem to know the word “extirpated.”

^{chirp chirp}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

Huh, I guess the person who runs FFmpeg’s Xitter account must live in western Europe (UTC+1:00).

Bold words for somebody with that hairdo.

Lots of unreasonable devs out there.

That’s a pretty old cat.

Can’t do that anymore with the new ones, AFAIK.

Nothing to do with gaming or tech, but the main thing I associate Condé Nast with is the discrimination against brown and female Youtube hosts at Bon Appétit. Fuck Condé Nast, even if they aren’t actively interfering with Ars Technica.

Also, at this point I don’t even care if the headline about Valnet owning “most” is accurate; I will always upvote threads raising awareness about the dangers of media consolidation.

Not time travel; Ben Sisko having a ‘vision’ of Benny Russel, science fiction writer.

Or maybe Benny Russell having a vision of Ben Sisko.

Barclay, probably.

Soft launch is when you make it available to the public for a while before advertising it.