Russia must be loving this. Now nobody is talking about a third of their air force being wiped out by toy drones.

I’ll settle for whichever one annoys him the most.

You could always just fund the space agency you already have, instead of funneling money to a foreign billionaire.

I’m not the guy that guy replied to.

Just a random guy who thinks Gabe can put his foot down with these publishers. They already all tried going without Steam and they came crawling back.

Eh, not just America sadly. Half the world seems brainwashed into thinking that feeding children is controversial. The BBC did an article the other day about 500,000 extra kids getting them, and it got 9000 comments, split equally between “fair enough” and “but what about my tax money? 😢”

They should give the Libertarian nutcases a large enclave, and all the people who moan about their taxes being spent on other people should be forced to go and live there.

Oh, there’s a pothole on your road? Hope one of the residents can afford to have it fixed. You were burgled? Can you afford to pay the police company to look into it? No streetlights, sorry. That’s a waste. You carry a torch and light your own way. Pensions? Didn’t you save enough?

Stop worrying about the tax bills of billionaires, for fucks sake. They can get by with less.

If somebody put strychnine in the guacamole, I’d expect Walmart to remove it from the shelves and offer refunds to anyone that bought it.

If somebody distributed malware through Steam, I’d expect them to stop it also.

Not that there is currently malware in Borderlands 2, but their EULA says they could put it there if they wanted, and there’s nothing you could do about it.

As usual, money is the best message. So if they do put it into a game you’ve paid for, request a refund. If Valve starts losing money, they will change their rules.

You’re right that it’s not Valve they’re mad at, buuuuut…

They could regulate that no games they sell can have rootkits and delist the ones that do, as well as offer refunds if a rootkit is patched in in the future. They have lots of rules already, and I don’t think that would be a bad one.

Man, this is great.

I knew they’d fall out eventually, because they’re all so inherently unlikeable, but this one’s gonna be a doozy.

And I’m going to be here cheering it on like a playground fight.

Oh look, with the threat of a big enough fine, you can uninstall those things.

Or at least hide the front ends for them.

Not 100% sure. As a guess based on how I think the Fediverse works, I think they’d exist, but new comments and posts would cease to sync around, so they’d effectively be only on your instance.

I like Lemmy, but it’s not decentralised enough to avoid things like this.

I think it’s inevitable right now, even if it’s a lot rarer than it was during the great exodus from reddit. You’re reliant entirely on the goodwill of volunteers.

User accounts are unique only to an instance, and there’s no way to move them. If we want to avoid this, having multiple homes on an account would be a good first step. You probably don’t want them going everywhere (as that would need login details, which while hashed wouldn’t be immune to bad actors getting them). But making a new account elsewhere isn’t hard, it’s just annoying to lose your history.

Any lost communities are much harder to replace. Links get broken, etc. You can’t move those either, so have to make them anew and convince people to update any links before they vanish.

Honestly not sure if Lemmy’s approach is a good one or not. Recently we’ve had transphobic users from one instance harassing people on another, and without things like IP addresses, it’s hard to stop that. Your own instance also has to host a bunch of stuff from other places, and you can end up with illegal content being copied to your own hardware if hosting an instance. Maybe it should be on the instances to host communities, and on the clients to gather things from multiple servers.

When it’s just you, on your own PC, and you don’t value your time, it’s free.

Just from the license fees here, we’re talking what, roughly 2000 employees?

At that scale, you’re going to be paying for support. Whether through a third party, or employing enough people to fix all the things that can go wrong. And not everyone in IT knows enough about Linux to fix broken boxes.

I once recommended Linux for our customer servers, to be installed hundreds of miles away. And what I found was that employees who knew Linux (and specifically how to fix it when it fucks up) were more expensive than the trained monkeys we sent out to fix things, who at least knew how to copy data off it and reinstall Windows/slap a new drive in it, and that issues were my fault for recommending it. It was also easier to talk customers through some settings in Windows if it falls off the network somehow, than it was to deal with getting them to type things into a command line.

And that’s before you even consider servers and where your stuff all goes. With MS it goes into “the cloud”, and you don’t need to worry too much about anything other than paying for it. With your own hardware, you very much need to worry because if you don’t, then one day it won’t be there any more.

Ain’t no such thing as free.

Don’t worry. They’ll get a big discount on licenses and swap right back again.

The Tates sell their “be a man” coaching package. The message from the top of this bullshit, is that there is something you can do, we have the secrets, now give us money.

Mostly a Spain thing. They don’t even want you flushing toilet paper in Tenerife.

Unfortunately nobody told me that until the last day of the holiday…

Gets it fucking clean, I’ll tell you that.

Today Piers was not a twat.

He should frame that because it’s a pretty rare event.

Hasn’t tasted right since.

So saving a page.