Techbros see all cyberpunk as an utopia, Zuckerberg even renamed his entire company after the Metaverse in Snowcrash when that’s one of the obviously dystopian cyberpunk worlds.

(Good) cyberpunk was always a documentary done through a slightly distorted mirror lighten up under neon glow.

If the nice people at the FBI show up to your door with a warrant from a secret court set up by Trump show up to your office telling you either implement a backdoor in your app or everyone goes to jail forever, what do you do?

All US-based apps and all the apps that store their data in US-owned cloud providers at very least.

Their lack of a patent for controller vibration prevented Sony from having vibration on Sixaxis - notice that despite all the BS that it interfered with motion sensing, Dualshock 3 came out just a few months after Sony managed to settle the suite with Immersion.

Since there’s no penalty for making a patent and not using it, it’s probably cheaper for Sony to pre-emptively register everything that comes from brainstorming sessions.

Sony patents random stuff just in case all the time. It doesn’t mean it’s ever going into a an actual product.

I also like nice graffiti but even those end up covered by a bunch of ugly and lazy tags. As for cities being soulless without it, I guess you never went to a city that is not a glorified parking lot.

Spray paint should be taxed high enough to pay the cleanup of all the ugly tags.

“identify”? What makes you believe that the CCP will respect the right to self-identity? As every other reactionary authoritarian party they see everyone with a working uterus as cattle.

This is the gaming version of XKCD 1172.

That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.

You can use git log --author=REGEX_THAT_EXCLUDES_DEPENDABOT ... .

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

It’s available in read-only mode since 21st: https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/

900 million can buy you almost entire legislature in any country easily. And I say almost assuming/hoping that a small percentage of politicians are not bribable.

500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.

Games have to put playability over realism even if they are trying to make a point. You can randomize the initial money for each player if you want the full experience.

They also shut down Yuzu forks using the DMCA. If they paid Ryujinx’s dev it was the equivalent of the Mafia bribing a judge while waving a picture of his family.

That’s definitely not the case for Switch emulators.