Funwayguy

But they did such a great job of feeding the world's most problematic corporations government IDs and photo identification of minors and storing it in databases ripe for hackers.

Brought to you by the government whose national health network failed its security audit last year, and had 13 million records breached through a 3rd party the year before that.

Let's be real, the main reason they're doing this is to have all that juicy video data on their own servers to sell to AI data centres instead of embedding 3rd party hosts that otherwise do the same job perfectly fine with far less technical overhead. The other is that they can sell video placements in replies hosted in house.

Australia has just the brand for this /s

I love it when common items that everyone generally knows the look of but isn't a strict shape intersects with things that are seldom photographed/discussed every day. Bonus points if its appearance/use requires object permanence in any way.

AI is absolute dogshit at any of it despite being a basic skill even toddlers know. It can't even fix itself without someone manually patching every dumb edge case people find.

I'm not sure where some of these arguments are coming from and there seems to be unexplained holes in some of the logic (ignoring lootboxes because that is valid).

For example, the region locking has been a thing for decades before the internet. Why are keys exempted? Why would they explicitly undo a protection for weaker economies agaist foreign scalpers? I get not everything needs region locks and they're not the most popular thing, but I can understand why they are needed here.

The MTX argument is a strange one because games like Warframe have both Steam and non-Steam transactions which haven't been an issue for many years. What specific kind of MTX are they really talking about here?

There's a lot of articles dog piling on Steam as of late but my tin foil hat observation is that it's always the same talking points that Epic cries about.

No no. If you read between the lines, they didn't explicitly say no. They only insinuated he hasn't met the criteria under international law yet... But they do acknowledge the assholery.

You say that but once they crack artifical wombs, that shit would create an utterly fucked dystopia.

This is the part that the "walled garden" arguments I see conveniently ignores so often. Humble games and key reselling, good and bad, exist because of this rule. That 30% otherwise covers Steam dealing with sales, key distribution, payment providers, and all the legal liabilities that comes with that for you. Unless you can securely and continuously run your own shopfront below that 30% margin, there's not a whole lot of incentive to do so... But Steam isn't stopping anyone, not even Epic in fact. The so-called wall is like a foot high.

The DRM isn't even that deep either and has known tools to remove it if you want. It exists as a bare minimum requirement for copyright law and Steam friends but not much else, hence why publishers often use things like Denuvo still.

We don't 'defend' Valve's monopoly so much as they really aren't doing anything special to maintain it besides making Steam libraries accessible on more hardware. They compete by merely existing in the same space.

Thiis article is doing some real mental gymnastics to come up with this BS conclusion. The reason is because the city infrastructure planning is so atrocious that our government keeps building tunnels and bypasses to avoid it like the fucking plague. On top of that, even when you do have to drive into the inner city, parking fees are extortionarely high under threat of towing or heavy fines. I would rather take a 50c train in and walk half the city any day than waste overpriced fuel dealing with that shit.

PS: The residential parking requirement was because the housing bubble is cramming more families into shoebox homes with nowhere to park. Would not be surprised if there were property investors backing tthe study.

Is it because they found water for their datacenters?

So we scaled up gun suppressor baffles. An old concept made new again.

The latter works better, then you can go full Lily Tino when called out and 'attacked' for the obvious BS.