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What's with people not reading?

From the article which has also been updated in the blurb.

Update (9/11/23): A TikTok spokesperson told Media Matters that “WGA has been inadvertently blocked as part of the platforms’ protections against QAnon conspiracy theories.” (WWG1WGA is a common QAnon phrase.) The spokesperson added that searches for “Writers Guild of America” and “Writers Guild of America Strike” were not impacted. Searches for “WGA” and related terms now appear to function normally.

Um TikTok confirmed that it was happening.

That is false.

All of these sound so minor.

The question is whether it's a memory thing, or if this is the standard politician thing where they're focused more on the impact of the story.

What standard means of seeking information did you lose? You can still visit a library or ask a friend?

I don't think people remember what using search was like before google. All of the problems you mentioned weren't even possible 25 years ago.

On other search engines you had to know specialized query languages.

This is all possible because google collects this data from users. They've been doing it forever, and it does have some value.

We didn't have cyclists before Biden!!!

Right up there with the Naomi Wolf tweet about 5G in Belfast

pi-hole or some variant can definitely help in some situations. For example, if you care about your computer OS or your TV phoning home, it may block some of those (with the right list).

It may also block some ads on other devices too, but many places are working around this by tunneling the ad data through their servers.

It depends on what you're trying to do. What exactly are you concerned about?

Most 'adblocking' is only in a desktop browser unless you use solutions like pi-hole or some alternative. Pi hole can help block some apps, services, and other devices on your home network from doing certain types of communicating in addition to blocking certain ad-related connections.

I mean yes, but this has been true for nearly 20 years at this point. Some of this comes back as useful features for everyone. Spam filtering, grammar checking, predictive text, maps route planning, face detection for all sorts of things. The same is true for many modern cars too, security cameras, etc. It all has to be trained on something and to collect more edge cases to improve.

If you care, you avoid their services.

And about 95% there was never any cancelling occurring. Someone was just upset they violated some rules or a brand didn't want their image tarnished by a shithead.

Not just highways. Most of these are still going to travel on some locally maintained roads for at least some distance to drop off their goods. They should weigh less than 2 trucks, but will also potentially pack more weight into less space than 2 trucks (depending on loads).

What will this mean for red light durations and the yellow change phase? It takes a lot to slow these babies down.

I'd bet a sizable portion of steam numbers aren't purchases either. AMD was running the promo such that anyone buying AMD hardware from like July onwards got a free copy.

They're going to have a larger legal team than dev team pretty soon.

My argument is that it was inevitable at the time, and everyone saw it coming. It was going to happen regardless of whether Valve created steam or not.

You literally state this:

Turns out it DID make everything a nightmarish hellscape of big brother-esque remote digital rights control where you never own anything you buy. Those 20 year old veterans ruined it all.

I don't think any of that is true. You can avoid most of the shitty DRM today and the big brother-esque remote DRM. People who adopted it then, didn't usher this in.

Everyone saw the current landscape coming, and there was no way around it if we wanted online distribution. I hate DRM as much as the next guy, and love my physical collection, but it wasn't Valve and Steam that ushered in this BS. You can avoid steam, and a large amount of DRM if you genuinely care about. There was pushback years later and even Apple allowed you to DRM-less options.

After years of MPAA and RIAA BS piracy claims from cd & dvd ripping and declining physical sales, every company and their mom was looking into DRM to allay the fears of copyright holders and enable digital distribution. It was going to happen regardless of Steam. Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Philips, etc were all launching the same shit. Apple launched the iTunes store months before with complete DRM and people ate that up. Companies new years before people would adopt it if the benefits of digital distribution outweighed the inconvenience, and they were right.

Shit like Denuvo was going to happen regardless, as despite the push back on some of the invasive DRM, some companies remain unconvinced. They do it even on top of Steam.

It sounds like it might, but whether it stops them from working or just introduces liability such that they can sue is unclear. Likely the latter, but unclear.

Similar content has been posted, but I think this one has much more depth to the case and reframes some of the other reporting on it. Worth a read.

From a hardware perspective, that's been true since just after the 1983 crash, when it was sold to Jack Tramiel's company -- even before the Lynx and Jaguar. The software side was split into Atari games which has an even longer history of being passed around.

That really just means AMD gave them a lot of money, and they just made sure FSR2 worked. lol

Is it really that different?

The US is more of a representative democracy, which means that the politicians are 'elected' by the people to represent the people. So they're arguably 'hired' by will of the majority within a specific area.

The difference is there's just not a lot of rules, punishments, or even recourse for the majority that voted aside from waiting 4-6 years and voting a different way.