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  • The poison brewer would never try his own product 🙃

  • The name the website is giving them is weird, it's officially the "Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication", their mission is the same (fighting piracy) so it doesn't really matter but it's still weird to call them by one of their tasks.

    Anyway this is an interesting study because of the data, but the reading is obviously biased, they imply that the use of VPNs and what they call "alternative DNS" (yeah guess what, if my ISP blocks websites I'm still going to access them) is suspicious, they do mention security/privacy as one of the usages (it's the two main motivations for the majority of users in their results).

    Something interesting : NordVPN is the most used by the panel, I think it's reasonable to explain it by the heavy marketing NordVPN did on french youtube (almost every big youtuber had an ad segment with them), but their results say otherwise, 35% of the panel says it's based on recommendations from closed ones.

    I don't know why some in the panel of 3000 people would self report as pirating, it sounds dumb to admit to an infraction to the law.

    Edit : Their conclusions are absolutely busted, an example: 26% people using a VPN reported data privacy was their main reason (for 49% it was one of the motivations), next is securing their data against breaches for 23% (44%), piracy fall down as the 6th motivation with 7% (17%) ; their conclusion? "The choice of a VPN is rather simple, to not be tracked and access illegal content" what kind of botched logic is that

    On the bright side, Firefox has a 21% market share in France on desktops, yay!

  • They could, but they wouldn't, they would organize their work to be more productive and achieve the stone moving faster.

    Paraphrasing Proudhon's What Is Property :

    The capitalist, it is said, paid for the workers' days; to be exact, it must be said that the capitalist paid as much 'one day of work' that he employed workers every day, which is not at all the same thing. Because the capitalist did not pay for this immense force which results from the union and harmony of workers, and the convergence and simultaneity of their effort. Two hundred grenadiers in a few hours erected the obelisk of Luqsor on its base; one cannot assume that a single man, in two hundred days, would have achieved the same feat.

    Hiring 50 people to work on a project fundamentally changes the way the project is led compared to how it was by a single person, suddenly you will need additional workers to plan for the work to be done, to organize each task, to keep track of what's being done, and whatnot. Howard claimed there were 450 people working at Bethesda, and look at the state of Starfield ; Larian Studios allegedly grew from 100 to 400 people, and look at the state of Baldur's Gate 3 ; ZA/UM reported laying off 25% of their workforce, implying they were a team of 100, and look at the state of Disco Elysium (on release and/or Director's Cut, the ongoing legal battle is a whole other subject), it's a lot more complex that just numbers

  • I remember making fun of it in some discord, imagine spending so much r&d into some RGB gadget instead of contributing to research during COVID, the only certificates they had were for electrical products, none for health stuff

    This is from the E3 (or whatever that events name was) announcement

  • I just tried Manor Lords, very promising, will keep an eye on it, but in the meantime, does anyone have recommendations for more gridless city builders ? I don't know how common this type of game is, but I'm itching for something chill (sandbox-y?) and creative, Townscaper was super sweet, I think I'll try Foundation next, maybe Laysara too

  • I guess we need a c/tipofmytongue

  • You're in for a treat if you just discovered SGDQ and AGDQ, they're super fun to follow

  • I think you're right, I was about to "leave" the early parts of the game, I had already unlocked some powers but not leveled them up too much, I should really try to get back to it though, despite feeling a little bored when playing, I just can't forget the aesthetics

  • You may enjoy Control, I personally couldn't get past the rather uninteresting gameplay and mechanics, but the lore and snippets of story you find scattered around are something else

  • Also known as proto Edriseur v2.4

  • Yeah, but Helldivers 2 CEO described the challenges of live service games sounds a lot less interesting gotta pump those articles

  • You can gravitate for 65 revolutions and still remain within earth's attraction range 🤯

  • You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France 💀

  • Their post is a bunch of PR hidden by funnyspeak while not addressing people's concerns in any way. The worst is that they're officially ditching LoL on linux because reasons, they're forcing the anti cheat on windows BUT they can't implement it on MacOS because Apple won't allow it

  • They'll remove the game from one's account sunset D2, then unvault re-release it, and people will still buy it.

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  • I have a question, I'm guessing it's not using Reddit 's API, so how does it fetch the content, just scrapping?

  • The plan you mentioned is sadly no longer available

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    https://protonvpn.com/support/upgrading-to-new-protonvpn-plan/

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