Real and based. If you get them on GOG, you can download offline installers with no DRM. My GOG collection isn’t as big as my Steam, but it’s also fairly significant as well. Heroic Launcher on Linux is sweet for GOG games (you just have to plan out wine prefix and directory structure to properly have updates install).

That’s quite a lot of peanut butter. Is that also like peanuts just dumped on the hood?

This both brutally cruel and absolutely hilarious. I can’t figure out if I would ground those kids or reward them for creativity and effort.

Who up heating they meat rn

You would think that’s what every parent would prefer…

To be clear, this is just how Doctorow has always been, he’s always been that annoying nerd who needs to come up with new words/phrases. Enshittification is just the one that caught one.

See also: Whuffie, metacrap, and Schneider’s law. Those are all from before 2005. Like I said, this is who he has always been.

I am of two minds on Doctorow: One one hand, I appreciate his thoughtfulness and insight, and on the other hand I cannot stand how much of a weirdly pedantic nerd he is, especially when it comes to his own ideas.

Also I remember him kind of really sucking at journalism at first in the early 2000’s. I recall an article about Napster where he said “Napster’s original goal was to sell music to people” which blew my fucking mind because it was always meant to be a peer-to-peer network and my god, we have both lived through this era, how could he manage to get it so fucking wrong? I was especially galled because he had just been given a class to teach at UCLA while my friend who actually had a masters degree and his thesis was on the social network aspects of piracy and the co-evolution of control and resistance in computer networks was struggling to find a job as a teacher.

So due to those early memories, I may be a little biased.

Absolutely, that’s my point about them being widely abused.

This is an article by the guy who coined the term enshittification, so uhhh, pretty sure he knows what he means.

After reading the article:

Enshittification: The process by which a company starts by giving away everything seemingly for free, doing everything they can for both users and business customers. Then, after they have achieved enough network effect to keep people tied to their product, they begin to degrade the experience for users to make more money. Eventually, the same process happens to their business customers as well, as they have an effective monopoly over the space.

Technocarcinization: The tendency of technology companies to become both more surveillant and controlling of their devices (which they truly treat as theirs, not as ours) over time. Essentially tech companies all slowly become 1984 Nanny States in corporate digital form. Yes, enshittification is part of this process, but they are different things.

Why get a PC when it won’t work in a year they said.

Interesting because my Steam digital purchases go back to 2007 and I can still play them all.

My first digital purchase was the Orange Box and my second purchase was Psychonauts.

I had purchased Half Life 2 as a physical copy and it still works, too.

Sure they’re all just licenses, but a lot of effort has been put into me being able to continue playing them, including on Linux.

Yes, Valve is a different story because they’re a private company, but 20 years of license when I could play on any computer I owned at any time I think is showing that digital licensing isn’t inherently evil as much as it is widely abused for control.

That was kind of my point?

That just because it’s “dangerous” for children doesn’t justify banning it wholesale. Sorry I wasn’t more clear.

Yet Microsoft allows people access to host a private server while also putting up scary warnings for kids telling them to stick to the “safe” realms servers or whatever (are they even still called Realms? fuck if I know). On the one hand, it’s good they haven’t removed it entirely, on the other hand, it seems like that may be their eventual long-term goal with how they treat the private server ecosystem.

I also think Discord and Roblox contributed to people not knowing what the fuck “server” actually means anymore.

So is Microsoft who owns Minecraft who definitely presents private servers as dangerous (which for children may very well be true).

Essentially suits who don’t and have never gamed making decisions on gaming. They have no idea what the players want and don’t actually care because caring costs money.

True, but I still think there would be plenty for HR to be mediating in terms of employee-to-employee relationships. However, it’s a big ask for HR to stop being a “cover your ass” department that is otherwise dedicated to making sure things like sexual harassment and hostile workplace environments don’t impact the company itself despite existing in the company all the same. Because that too is a large function of HR.

I dunno about an xyz domain specifically but njal.la has good privacy protection with domains starting at 15€ annually.

edit: sorry nevermind just noticed you said ten years somehow my brain skipped over that.

Actually you know what, you’re right, I’m here for the Cajun holy trinity. I basically use those in everything.

The murderer was …

If only there was a whole department at schools that was made for exactly this… I heard they used to have one way back in the olden days. What would it be called? God the art of naming things is so difficult!

(Seriously, this is what happens when you defund the arts programs in education, you end up with teachers who are not trained in art doing their best… and their best is really really bad)

Like how Ford just had to hire back all their old greybeard engineers after the AI was not actually up to snuff (shocker).

I lied tho I actually did award you points hehe

Isn’t this enough proof that these chucklefucks are a drain on company resources and time and the FIRST thing to replace AI with is the bosses so workers can organize collectively while the AI helps them stay organized without the AI being in control.

I mean, I guess that would make too much sense.

Genuinely though, if the first thing they do with AI is outsource their own decision making, isn’t it just rock solid evidence that these people are useless at their fucking jobs to begin with? They aren’t even making the decisions anymore, the AI is. Let’s cut out the middleman, which is all a boss is now if AI is running the show. I mean, it’s what they did with all the junior developers, because they had forced the juniors into using AI and then asked themselves “why not cut out the middleman.” And they hadn’t even considered that maybe the cost of AI would outpace the cost of an employee. How the fuck are these short term thinking idiots in fucking charge anyway? A lot of bosses are just fucking charlatans.

EDIT: Clarified first sentence.

You’re not gonna be able to believe all these rooms! Den! Library! Parlor! Attic! It’s like you’re playing Blue Prince!