Putting them in prison just feeds the prison industrial complex and the wealthy individuals who lobbied for the very same laws that give them their ability to act with impunity.
Perhaps a one-way trip to El Salvador would be a more appropriate form of justice, both for its poetic irony and the added benefit of depriving income from local, for-profit private prisons?
All you had to do was say nothing, Timmy.
You’re an asshole, but only PC gamers had a reason to care—because you tried to buy your way into a dominant position by employing anti-consumer, monopolistic practices like paying for distribution exclusivity deals with third-party publishers.
The best possible choice here, clearly, was to voluntarily align yourself (and by association, Epic Games) with Nazis and pedophiles. I sincerely hope the board forces you to resign, you absolute chode.
Republican Party right now: “they’re the same picture!”
Enough for a single, uninsured ride to the hospital. What a deal! /s
Anti-West fascists cosplaying as communists are still fascists. If there’s going to be infighting, interrupting it only helps them.
We see because we value facts and evidence, seeking out information to gain an understanding of the situation before making judgements about it.
The dumbfucks who voted for this and continue to cheer it on don’t. They appeal to authority, and when authority says to not believe the evidence of their eyes and ears, they cover them. If the regime says she was a “domestic terrorist” or radical leftist, they double down and blame the victim.
Her daylight murder will enrage and concern rational and reasonable people, but it won’t do jack shit for the instigating bootlickers who voluntarily impede solidarity and justice.
“OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear air moving. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”
There’s a whole lot of entitlement going on in that thread.
If the maintainers didn’t want to merge it because they had bigger issues to worry about, that’s that. Whining about it and trying to pressure them with prospects of “becoming obsolete [if you don’t merge this]” isn’t going to make a convincing argument.
They should either shut the fuck up and learn to RTFM, or maybe consider putting their money where their mouths are by actually paying to support the projects they seem to so desperately think they have a right to influence the direction of.
Clearly, one family won’t be able to fit in a 1-bed, 1-bath shack. With 3 kids, they’ll need at least 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. Include the grandparents on both sides, and that’s 6 bedrooms, 4 baths. And for good measure, add a guest room with its own bathroom.
It makes perfect sense to reclassify a “single family home” as a 7-bed, 5-bath McMansion. Anything less is just a rental suite, obviously /s
With large email providers’ spam lists being largely left up to ML these days, it might help solve the right problem. At least, until they bribe the providers to add them to an exemption list.
They’re political victims of the Democrat Epstein HOAX.
— Republicans, probably
At least you know the hardware will work and you can install your own distro (I know regular people won’t know how to do this)
That’s assuming the hardware vendor didn’t use a closed fork of the kernel with their own drivers hacked into it.
I feel like maybe the human DNA has degraded too much in 2 or 3 generations.
Ancient Greeks notwithstanding, being non-heterosexual was considered a disease to be eliminated or cured until people finally accepted that it was a natural part of being an animal. Would you say being gay is a consequence of flawed genetics, or would you like to try phrasing that remark a bit differently?
Looking on from the outside, Canadian citizens may be screwed either way the wind blows. Saying something as tone-deaf as this is going to convince people to keep strategically voting against him, so either he wins and sells out the country, or he loses and yall end up in the same two-party system that is easily captured by corporations and billionaires.
As a developer as well, I agree that they can get fucked. Bloated crap that wastes bandwidth and ruins first-time-to-paint on mobile devices by necessitating downloading and initializing a multi-megabyte bundle of npm packages.
As a user of the internet, I need websites to work, however. I would have disabled JavaScript entirely by now if it weren’t for the fact that doing so renders what feels like half of the entire web unusable.
Might be that there’s some way of blocking that behavior if you don’t like it, though, if I’m not seeing it.
Not without either breaking most SPAs (Single-Page Applications) or writing userscripts with site-specific logic.
The classic way of doing this crap was to make a placeholder page navigate to the article page. That leaves the redirect page in the history stack so when the user presses the back button, it just opens the page that navigates them forward again.
The modern way is to use the history API with history.pushState to add a history entry while listening for the popState event to check if the user pressed the back button. Unfortunately, both of those features have a legitimate use case for enabling navigation within a SPA. Writing an extension to replace them with no-ops would, in the best case, break page history in SPA websites. In the worst case, it would break page routing entirely.
You might be able to get away with conditionally no-oping their functionality based on heuristics such as “only allow pushState if the user interacted with the page in the last 5 seconds,” but it would still end up breaking some websites.
Add another to your list. It also started happening to me recently.
I didn’t want to make it sound too scary 😉
Seriously, though, git really needs an option to treat --force as --force-with-lease. In the exceedingly rare occasion where I might want to completely overwrite a branch, it should be extra explicit by having to type something like --force-and-overwrite.
One of PyFed’s selling points was that it was easier to work with than Lemmy. It’s going to be amusing when that takes a 180 turn and people start complaining.
Python is great for prototyping and iterating on small projects or as glue for modules written in C and C++. What it isn’t great at is linearly scaling on a single node. When the day that throwing more powerful hardware at the problem stops being an option, Kubernetes is going to walk through that door and fuck any semblance of simplicity up.
No entitlement necessary.
People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.
What people don’t welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren’t interfering with games they didn’t own.
What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.
The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.
If his decisions weren’t openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.
1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It’s not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.
2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.
3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.