They’ve never actually used it, so it prevents others from doing that. Good guy Sony.

Just kidding, if they didn’t think we’d tear them to shreds over it, they’d do it in a heartbeat.

And don’t even get them started on doors.

I’ve been asked for a referral twice in my life. Both times the person the referral was for still worked for me, so I got them to write it and just sent it on.

If somebody wants more money than we pay I won’t stand in their way. I also don’t care if you get a good employee or not. Shit, I’d write a complete dumb-ass a glowing referral if you’re a rival company.

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.

All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.

Fucking WOKEYS! They’ve turned SPACE gay!

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.

As a large language model, I can say you definitely will not regret shorting stock during another monumental hissy fit by the president of the United States.

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.

Happy Red Face is definitely a Linked In “CEO” of a blog that he imagines will make money if only he licks enough boots.

No.

With regular investing, you buy an asset (e.g. a share for $10) and sell it later. The most you can lose is that $10.

With shorting you borrow a share for $10, and sell it. Then you buy it back later and give the share back. The idea being that you buy it back for $8 and you’ve made $2 profit. But what if the price suddenly rockets up to $100? Now you’ve lost $90. More than your initial stake.

It can waste a human’s time, without needing another human’s time to do so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Honour_killing_in_the_United_Kingdom

Yes, and for generally just disobeying men.

Investing in any single thing is gambling in my book.

Sure, it can pay off, but it can go badly too, and “knowing what you’re doing” is what everyone thinks they’re doing, right up to the point where they don’t.

Although shorting Tesla might not be a bad plan right about now. Seeing Trump and Musk destroy each other is what I live for.

Email is the original Fediverse.

Shorting: Like investing but you can lose more than you put in.

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.

Gotta be Jason Isaacs, surely?

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.