Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business. They’ll only do it if there’s real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

I’m worried that what they’ll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can’t dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

Copyright won’t help here. Extending it to allow the protection of concepts as well as literal implementation is what Oracle tried to do, and would’ve resulted in a few megacorps demanding licensing for core concepts that no one can really make quality, functional software without.

Of course, software patents are also stupid, even if the general intent of patents seems reasonable.

I made the switch to Manjaro in January, haven’t needed Windows once for gaming.

Most difficulty I’ve had was with Cyberpunk 2077, but that’s because GOG broke some shit on their end that requires a workaround hack to stub some phone-home code that checks what DLC you have or whatever.

For the most part, shit just works now.

Gotta practice that passive language to avoid laying blame anywhere. Wouldn’t want to step in it themselves, right?

I hope so. Room temperature superconductivity would make so many things economically viable overnight…

I can’t wait to overhear people sharing conspiracies about it, like they did with Tim Hortons and nicotine-lined coffee cups.

“The government is printing circuits in the warning messages so they can spy on you while you talk during your smoke break!”
“I heard it’s full of chemicals to make you compliant!”
“I bet the only reason you really get cancer from these is because of the ink!”

Seems like a retaliatory move for Threads. Might need to be careful of this for the same reasons, too. “Publish articles” screams threadiverse to me, so maybe he’s also trying to move in on this gig before the communities finish establishing themselves?

I don’t know anything about the Netherlands’ civic structure, but if it’s anything like the model spread around by the British, then they were probably staring down the barrel of a no-confidence vote, which would effectively end the same way.

Don’t fight it, embrace the neck rolls.

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I have no idea why you’re being downvoted; this is literally what those walls full of game boxes were meant for (even back when they actually had shit in 'em).

The downside is investing tons of time making and testing code that ultimately accomplishes nothing that wouldn’t also be achieved by making your own instance.