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Well I could have, but simply chose not to.

This isn't meant to be a call-out or anything, but I think we should resist the urge to explain how bad certain things in the US are by comparing them to scary nonspecific foreigners. It seems to me the worst aspects of US society are largely home-grown and then sometimes exported. Eventually the impulse to say "this isn't what America is/should be, this is what they do in lesser societies" stops making sense.

Yeah, and it also happens to get me access to the tool that was able to summarize this video without watching it. But most people would probably choose the $5 tier, I think.

tl;dw

• Cory Doctorow coins the term "enshittification" to describe how platforms start out benefiting users but eventually abuse users and business customers to extract all value.

• Facebook started by prioritizing user privacy over ads but now prioritizes profits over all else.

• Network effects are a double-edged sword - they lock users in but also make platforms vulnerable if users leave en masse.

• Low switching costs due to universality and interoperability allow competitors to reverse engineer platforms and plug in competing services.

• Mandatory interoperability and limiting data control can curb platform power by distributing control to users and smaller companies.

• Recent antitrust actions aim to roll back decades of lax merger policy that let platforms consolidate power.

• Breakups will take a long time so interoperability is a faster way to restore competition.

• Laws should limit abusive behavior rather than rely on platforms to self-regulate.

• Federated open services fail gracefully and encourage migration to better platforms.

• Political will is growing but change will be gradual - focus should be on harm reduction in the near term.

You keep posting this article but it explains clearly why it's not a big deal.

But that's not what happened at all with this game. I don't get it. The complaint seems very minor. The game uses epic for cross play features- so what? A lot of games use third party accounts for this.

And that basically confirms that it's a remaining problem with admin accounts taking remote mod actions. l suppose in the mean time I'll try to have an admin at lemmy.ml give my @bilb@lemmy.ml account moderator status as a workaround. The other original moderator who could do it isn't very active.

I couldn't find an open bug ticket for this on Github, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. I'll take another look and report it if I still can't find anything.

I think it's an alright compromise. I rarely move my expansion cards around. I use four USB-C cards and sometimes swap one out for a storage card that has Windows installed on it.

They don’t make real coffee

The coffee at Starbucks is real, I've seen it in person

Exactly what happened to Google Glass will happen to this thing so it doesn’t matter.

I'm not saying these will take off in any meaningful way, but I wouldn't be so sure the backlash will be as hard. Attitudes seem to have changed to be less concerned about privacy over time.

I've been pretty satisfied with Kagi. Not free though.

Flying is such a miserable experience from start to finish that I would opt for rail every time if it was viable, even if it took 3-4 times as long.