Sounds like a prelude to bankruptcy. Also sounds like an incredibly badly run company. Difficult business to be in though I guess.

I wonder if their lawyers are getting paid...

Haha, so it was never AI? Just an Indian person getting annoyed at the people trying all kinds of weird tricks to see if they could defeat the 'AI' 🤣

The skull and crossbones has pirate connotations. Or just for danger/death.

It was added to Unicode in 1993 so it's an original emoji.

The historic high salary for COBOL Devs etc is also partially due to them mostly being old and extremely experienced senior devs

Surprised a company of their scale and with such a reliance on stability isn't running their own data centres. I guess they were trusting their failover process enough not to care

Any idea if this is a proper (shut down) bankruptcy, or a get cheaper leases bankruptcy?

You have probably never 'owned' a computer game. Even when you had discs/cartridges you owned the disc/cartridge, but had a single license for the game.

That's why it was technically allowed to copy the disk for your own use, but not to share - you only had one license.

Steam is the same, just without the disk.

Probably just deleting it 😂

It's a shame, the original windows.phone concept was great

Putting Riccardo straight back in would be brave... Might not be much better.

I guess that experienced drivers have a few years each of good driving before max destroys their confidence and skill, not sure if Riccardo is still up there though?

While us Brits love to complain about the BBC being biased (probably an actual issue for internal UK politics) its good to remember that it's still a world leading media outlet, and one of very few that can be considered not to be push an agenda. (I imagine I can find a lot of people that can probably disagree with that too....)

Even Routers has started editorialising, and I thought they were just meant to be raw facts!

The quality of things being self promoted will on average be lower than that of content being posted by other people. (If your posting other people's content, it's because you think it's good, if you are posting yours it's just because you made it)

This isn't necessarily a problem, in a small community it adds content and helps the poster grow their skills. But in a larger community it can result in a lot of low quality content.

If you're going to give it a go, look at my instance (science Fiction and Fantasy Alliance) or the literature cafe one. Hopefully you can get unbanned though.