That really depends in what you think 'ownership' is. You can download offline installers and patches. But you can not use the assets of the game to create and sell a new game. You also cannot just create and sell other games heavily based on those games. Or use the music freely in YouTube videos with enabled commercials, and so on.

You don't fully own it.

On the other hand, Stewarts is also right. An Instagram feed is not free speech, it's brain rot and propaganda and ruins society and lives. It needs to be regulated. Just letting then go on as they are while promoting alternatives misses the mark as to the threat posed by these platforms. Cohn seems to have a blind spot here.

I don't think so. She said she wants to make them unable to continue with their business like they did before, with regulations. Just not outright censorship, but instead go fight their data harvesting, decapitating their business strategy.

In terms of analysis, I'm annoyed at Cohn here. This isn't something we as individuals have control of. Her saying people individually have to make the difference is like saying you individually have to make the difference regarding climate change by making different choices, like recycling.

I understood her differently. I understood that she advocated into making it possible to leave platforms, saying that it currently isn't. She said the people are the victims here and often don't have a choice.

People cannot leave platforms because each platform is like an isle, and leaving it means losing connections to other people. It that sense they are locked-in, by social pressure.

This is is a natural monopoly which, gives social media companies so much power and prevents newcomers (like the fediverse) from joining the market.

Making the current social media companies less important, for instance via privacy laws, means people can connect and stay connected to other people via other means. It makes it easier to just leave twitter or meta, if they don't like it there. Instead of being peer pressured into right extreme politics, because the algorithm decided that it gets more engagement when surrounding thrm with nazis.

She made it clear that replacing an dictator with another dictator that censors differently is bad, so she made a point against bluesky and for Mastodon and the fediverse.

(Sadly ehe wasn't given the opportunity to fully complete her arguments though.)

"Halb Neun" könnte auch 4:30 bedeuten...

Viel von dem ist angelernt, und nicht intuitiv. Vor allen wenn man es häufiger mit deutsch zweitsprachlern zu tun hat ist klare Kommunikation wichtig.

"Dreiviertel Neun" und "Viertel vor Neun" ist aber auch ein ziemlicher Unterschied, finde ich.

Wenn man Neun hört denkt man an Neun nicht Acht.

Jetzt hab ich in meinen Klassen Kinder sitzen, die z.B. nicht verstehen, was gemeint ist, wenn man ihnen sagt, dass man sich um "Halb 9" trifft - oder eben um "fünf nach halb 9". In den obskuren Regionen, die Zeitpunkte bzw. Zeiträume mit Bezeichnungen wie "Dreiviertel Sieben" angeben, wird das ganze noch offensichtlicher. Klar - für die reine Uhrzeit würde es reichen zu sagen "Es ist Zehn Uhr Fünfunddreißig" aber darum gehts nicht. Die Kommunikation wird beeinträchtigt und damit die Fähigkeit, sich auszutauschen.

Also als ein Ende dreißig jähriger, der noch mit analogen Uhren aufgewachsen ist, finde ich immer noch so Zeitangaben wie "Halb Neun" oder "Dreiviertel Sieben" verwirrend. Das Ziel von jeder Kommunikation ist es sich einfach und verständlich auszudrücken. Und daher finde ich das gerade solche, leicht missverständliche Zeitangaben vermieden werden sollen, und deren Nutzung in gewisserweise die Kommunikation einschränkt. Daher Frage ich bei solchen Zeitangaben gerne nochmal nach.

Well... It cannot even search databases without errors.

LLMs just produce plausible replies in natural languages very quickly and this is useful in certain situations. Sometimes it helps humans getting started with a task, but as it is now, it cannot replace them. As much as the capital class want it, and sink our money into it.

Most wars aren't "won" anymore.

In german there is only one word for it, which is a gift for german speakers.

I only play single player games, but couldn't care less about achievements. It is all about exploration, story, game mechanics and modding for me.

People treat achievements as if they are a status symbol. I mean sure, if you don't know what else to do in a game, they can give you some goal, but IMO the game itself should encourage you to reach the goal, not some external badge. The experience doing the task should be the reward in of itself.

True, private companies are generally more focused on customer satisfaction, but that can suddenly change, for instance when the owner dies, and the new owners don't share the same ideals.

Private companies have a certain single point of failure built-in by having often just one or sometimes a small number of owners.

Nobody really knows what will happen when Gabe dies.

I just hope that valve becomes a worker cooperative... That would be the most stable form of company that probaly stays focused on customer satisfaction long term, since workers tend to favor providing long-term profits via good service instead of short term gains, for high frequency traders.

What I really like is that they double down on hackabilty by switching to metal torx screws, etc.

That, and a Linux system are IMO the main selling points of the SteamDeck, compared to any clones from Asus or Lenovo, etc.