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You say that like I’m unaware - maybe I should needlessly remind you that most of these fines are generally in the millions of dollars. A step in the right direction is not a bad thing.
Regardless, I’m not sure shareholders will think of it that way if the anti-trust practices continue and the fines accrue. The EU likes to be punitive when their orders are ignored.
I’m glad that corporations are actually receiving fines that are commensurate with their earnings and scale. Hopefully it’s enough to get them to not do this shit.
That’s great - I am obviously not talking about you in that case. I understand why people want to use it, I just don’t think Discord’s features are good enough to justify the mass adoption and the walled garden and UI are bad.
Yes, that’s how I ended up there too. At the time, Skype sucked and Mumble/Ventrilo/etc. were seen as too old-school for my friends (and a lot of them didn’t have PCs, just smartphones). We also tried Google Meet, Zoom, and Facebook Messenger at various points but Discord always seemed like the most reliable.
Yes, exactly! At this point, some of these communities have been on Discord for years and have specialized bots for certain tasks. They don’t want to start over, and I don’t want them to either - there’s tons of real work that these communities have put in. I think that these messaging services that want to make headway in the space Discord occupies need to reduce the friction in switching because a lot of Discord admins do believe that the feature set is better, they just can’t easily move over.
This happens to organizations all the time and it’s a known issue - Discord communities are no different. I’m hoping something comes along in the next few years if it doesn’t already exist in its infancy right now. Even at the user level, I know many people are confused about Matrix. I don’t know how exactly to fix these issues, but they need to be priorities.
We’re not fixing Discord’s problems, oh my god. We’re trying to get their existing users to go somewhere else even though it’s what’s familiar and Discord works for them.
Also it’s definitely possible to code an import tool that scrapes a given server for info on how to structure things on the new platform, so idk what you think you’re gaining by insulting my comparison to an aspect of a service that makes users motivated to switch.
I don’t know who shat in your coffee, but get a fucking new cup.
Unfortunately, a lot of fandom communities, video games, and (ugh) hobbyist development projects have Discard servers instead of a forum or similar.
It provides a weird IRC-but-not-really type experience that is similar to MSN in some ways. A lot of younger people flock to it because they find computer stuff difficult and they just want it to work, be easy, and have an app. The UI is trendy even though it’s horrible to actually navigate due to all the wasted space and buttons.
I really just think it caught on at the right time, though the video calling is pretty good. What I have a problem with is that you need to join a server to access any information inside of it, so it’s not searchable from outside of the Discord ecosystem. For dev projects or large communities, that sucks and makes the internet a worse place.
Who gives a shit? The people who use it that you apparently want to switch to something else, for one. Shouldn’t it be easy to switch, like going from Chrome to Firefox? That’s how we get out of Discord hell.
Anything that wants to meaningfully compete with Discord will probably also need to be able to near-seamlessly port over existing Discord servers to the new platform, since it’s so established now. Is there a competitor that can do that?
Alright, reading is hard, but here we go. If:
pieces of art metadata are being traded like securities
Then:
yes, the SEC should regulate their trade
They should be regulated according to securities legislation. Wow! We did it! Does little baby get it now?
Probably yt-dlp, it’s a pretty popular and relatively simple terminal application.
To some extent, these types of videos advertise or promote a product, service, or experience.
Look at you, changing my mind with your logicking ways. I think information should be free anyway, but I thought media companies were being at least remotely genuine about the impact here. Forgot that lobbyists be lobbying and that Google wouldn’t have let them win if it didn’t benefit them.
Yeah, we’re at a point where there’s a large gap between the profit motive and the system we’ve basically been using for the last several hundred years (arguably thousands but that’s beside the point) to build a somewhat functional society that recognizes human dignity and that people require food and shelter to survive and continue to reproduce and labour.
I think that this marks an unprecedented level of control for an ownership class that’s largely out of the regulatory grasp of many nation states (developed or otherwise), and that’s why unfettered capitalism seems to be quickly careening towards mass inequality despite surplus resources and many places on earth being reasonably considered to be post-scarcity.
Seems like the myth of constant growth is a religion these days and the mandatory tithes of the common people are no longer able to prop up the church, if you’ll excuse a ham-fisted comparison.
If there’s no modern New Deal or progressive taxation reform incoming, expect mass defaults and a stock market overcorrection that leads to a significant recession. Not sure when, but probably in the next decade given how even moderately wealthy people (around $100k+/year for a single adult) seem to be legitimately struggling to pay their mortgages.
“Sorry, but democracy isn’t profitable. Later, losers!”
Edit: Should’ve said it’s not profitable enough. As the great Stephanie Sterling often says, corporations don’t just want some of the money, they want all of the money.
Local stores are more likely to get their product from reputable suppliers (yes, this varies) - on Amazon, you’re buying from whoever unless you specifically seek out an official store, if it exists. Also, Fluke has been posting about counterfeits for years; here is a post from 6 months ago, which would suggest it’s an ongoing issue.
Here is a 2021 post from Electrician Talk about electricians receiving multimeters that don’t ohm out correctly (kind of a big fucking deal). Additionally, if you buy products on Amazon from an unauthorized seller, even if the product works fine the warranty is generally void.
Edit: Also, to be pedantic, a multimeter isn’t an electrical safety device; I’m using that term to refer to protective devices like fuses, GFCIs, AFCIs, breakers, thermal overloads, etc.
I straight up wouldn’t trust Amazon for any electrical safety device. Go to a hardware store or parts distributor.
Even a surge protector from a reputable brand could be suspect - Amazon lets counterfeit products on the storefront all the time, and most sellers barely list any specifications on product pages.
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Maybe you could read the article and learn something:
Smartphones do a lot of things that might not be needed (look into how many different sensors they have). Sometimes a person doesn’t have access to a charger or time to charge a device and running out of battery could mean someone dies.