The technology that managed to accomplish what NFTs couldn’t.

Don’t boast about “defeating pride” in your engagement photo unless you had to wrestle lions to get her to say yes.

Windows uses AI to determine what’s best for you. GNOME just decides it generally in advance.

Swords clash with other swords. Swords were always gay.

This is Rust. You don’t need a safe word - safe is the default. You need an unsafe word instead.

What do you mean by “improving”? This alarming warning appears because Firefox requires permissions. Let us look at the permissions listed there:

1. “User device access”. From the docs, I’d say the browser needs it for rendering?
2. “Download folder read/write access”. This one is obvious - the files you download with your browser go there.
3. “Can access some specific files”. This one, I’ll admit, is a bit cryptic - what files does it need to access? But this one is on Flatpak for making the permission so general.

App permissions should not be about “this app cannot be trusted because it asks for scary scary permissions”. They should be about “take a look at the list of permissions the app requests and determine whether or not it make sense for such an app to need such permissions”.

Nearly every app should have a warning

No. If you put a warning on every app (except for the most trivial ones that don’t actually do anything useful) then the warnings mean nothing. The become something more than ass-covering legal(ish) BS.

Not me. I make the effort to get out of bad, go to the couch, sit on it, and dissociate there instead.

We’re going towards a dystopia…?

I mean…

Not with that kind of attitude!

\cdot master race. \times users should just use Microsoft Word (unless it’s for a Cartesian product or for cross product, of course)

Sorry. Terrible wording on my part.

My argument is that instead of attacking Valve for being big, you should attack them for doing bad things. Your “other comment in this thread” (I assume https://lemmy.world/comment/10668748 ?) describes an aggressive practice done by Valve. Why not lead with that? The problem is not the size of these companies per se, but the way they’ve reached that size and the way they weaponize it against competitors. Focusing on attacking the size and the monopoly status of the companies is just saying “it’s not okay to be successful”.

Attack from that angle then, not from something that strongly correlates with it.

Maybe not financial, but intrusive thoughts are a thing…

Yes. The subtle distinction between having physically fit legs capable of kicking babies and actually kicking babies.

I think the whole “monopoly bad” notion is a bit off. You start opposing monopolies, but then people realized that duopolies are also bad, and next thing you know we talk about triopolies and centiopolies and whatnot.

So I think the actual number is not the thing that matters, and instead the thing we should be worrying about is cartels.

The defining feature of a cartel is the ruthless action it takes to kill competition. The monopolies everyone are so mad about are cartels of single companies, but the bad thing about them is their cartellic behavior - not the fact they are along in the market.

Steam is not a cartel.

Travel is never a matter of money but of bidet.

You wanna be careful sharing that GIF.