What do you mean suck up to? They're our mentors in genocide. And collaborators
I don't think some games costing $80 makes $50 for a 20 yr old game any less atrocious. Plus, they added new asdons just to increase that more. So even calling it a $50 game is incorrect. Bethesda/Microsoft is still a shit company. Nothing has changed.
All I'm seeing is how easily people get used to being scammed because there are so many youtubers and influencers play the role of manufacturing consent by calling it a "good deal".
And do not bring in developers getting paid enough. The issue is never the price for something this high selling. It's always the hierarchy and wealth distribution in the company. Even if the game cost $100 those people aren't gonna see much of it. A $20 game when so many people (in the hundreds of thousands or even millions) buy it can still pay the developers enough if they were actually paid their share.
Great! My current setup of Linux+Piracy has been hard to find support and community for. Glad to see at least the major part of the issue is a non issue here.
Love to hear it. I've been pirating pretty much everything for the past year and been hard to find discussions and community.
I've been meaning to ask. Is this community okay with piracy? Desperately need space to discuss stuff but it's been hard to find
As the other person who responded to you mentioned, things can get bad. At some level, trust is always going to be a factor with these things.
Matrix.org is still the most popular server - if I just tell people to download Element, they're going to pick matrix.org. Automatically, this builds a sort of lock in with the "default instance". Even if I host my own server, that's not something I can recommedn to everyone, nor do I have the resources to make it a public server.
Already there's trouble with hosting your own Matrix server due to how heavy the software is apparently. This coupled with point 1, things concentrating into the hands of the foundation is not a good thing.
Following from that, for example, what if they suddenly decide there's too many people with "radical" ideologies that are against their masters, the imperial powers? They have metadata (even if not content, because encryption) through the public servers they host that they can use to surveil.
The issue is not just that it's built by people with poor ideological rigour. It's that it's both a fragile structure that depends on trust and the people we're trusting have poor ideological rigour. That seems like a bad combo to me.
Imagine if they just wrote and worked on the protocol. That's it. No official apps, no official public servers. Then I wouldn't care coz it doesn't matter. People can check the protocol for suspicious stuff but that's it. Nothing else is in these organizations' control.
Yeah as soon as I read the sanctions bit I knew they must be using some shitty Cold War list from somewhere.
Which company involved is Israeli? That's the first I'm hearing of that.
Edited to correct typo
Caste endogamous marriages are still the norm, the jobs and positions are still barely spread out in some cases, not at all in a lot of fields, good education is still a pipe dream for the majority because only the oppressor castes can just purely focus on education with no other care and keep sending their kids to coaching centers to get through the national entrance examinations for the premier public institutions.
They don't need to be set up at the top. They already are. Some of them will call themselves "middle class", but that just doesn't exist. In India, anyone earning living above Rs. 25k a month is already in the top 1℅. Their only point of comparison or aspiration is the billionaires themselves, so, bootlicking is just as common here.
Just like with white supremacists, they are at the top of the social hierarchy already, but also have a victim complex with them being supposedly "threatened" by the minorities. In the US it's DEI and Critical Race Theory that fascists are against, in India it's the caste-based reservation system (affirmative action for the oppressed castes and tribes) and whatever small tidbits that are done for women in the name of the government being feminist (but barely) and progressive (like free public buses for women in some cities).
I don't know who to attribute the quote to but it's just the classic "resistance feels like oppression for those who've been long in the oppressor's shoes".
Edit: Also, the caste system doesn't need to be reimplemented. It never went away. Again I'm drawing the comparison to western politics in case this is someone from the west that's trying to understand. Slavery was abolished doesn't mean that there aren't other ways to practice forced labour and keeping people at the bottom of the hierarchy, right? It's quite similar here too. There are laws that say untouchability is not supposed to be practiced, but people still use different utensils to serve water for the domestic workers for example. Manual scavenging (the labour of mostly Dalit men cleaning sewers with nil protective equipment) is banned. But it still happens. Every week we see news that a few more people died from the toxic fumes or complications after.
He said times have changed and Republicans are now the party for the little guys. He later deleted that, but did not clarify or apologize.
He also said he likes the Trump nominee to the cabinet for antitrust issues. But people were quick to point out that that person used to work for Big Tech lobby groups. I don't think he ever took this back or clarified.
Why we should care - this is multifold, but I'll just tell you how I feel. I'm not going to immediately delete all my proton stuff over one guy's words. But I am definitely considering.
As I see it, there's two possibilities (both come from a very generous place if I may say so myself). First is that he's kissing ass like every other tech CEO right now (you can see the Trump inauguration pic), which is a really really bad thing because you need a spine if you claim to be fighting for freedom and privacy. Second possibility is that he's naive enough to think that some nominee Trump got in will mean good things for anything to do with privacy, which is also a really really bad thing because the other thing you need for advocating privacy and freedom is actually being able to read between the lines and see what are the upcoming challenges and how to prepare for them.
And guess who's going to pay for the naivete or the cowardice? The end consumer of these services - us, and a lot of other really vulnerable folks who use such sensitive services.
To wrap it up, I want to go to my earlier statement about not jumping ship because of one man's words. The problem is, it's been a while since that one man said this stuff and no one from the company or foundation has issued a retraction or taken any action. If anything they just seem to have doubled and offer more "explanations" that still don't mean much.
They are not mutually exclusive. Privacy is one of the most political issues out there because every fascist/billionare wants control and control requires surveillance. I have not completely given up on Proton because of one man's statements, but it's not looking good.
Those statements from the CEO suggest one of two things - naiveté (to think either US party cares about the "little guy" or about privacy and freedom) or cowardice (just sucking up to Trump like every other CEO right now). Neither of which is good for privacy or freedom because to achieve either, you need both awareness and a spine to stand up against this shit.
And the fact that no one else from the company or their board or foundation has bothered to jump in and take action means either they're on board with his statements or too powerless, which again, doesn't spell good things.
Expedition 33. Most sustained fun I've had in a long long time