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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.
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.
We’re going towards a dystopia…?
I mean…
Not with that kind of attitude!
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.
No. They’ll integrate with Threads.
I initially read that as medieval management and now I cannot read it any other way.
Pretty sure that was a joke…
“XL bully dogs”? Have we stopped saying “pit bull” because of and I never got the memo?
You got it backwards. It’s not about the people - it’s about the principles! What do you think the US cherishes more - medicine or guns?
My headcanon is that they are still there, forced to watch as Musk personally “improves” their code.
If they talk about the USA - then yes. Not because the government loves its citizens and respects their rights - simply because it hates China.
Not sure I’d chose to use the word “sweet” here…
When they reach the aspects of the game that they didn’t like they can just say “let’s skip this next part about CTF mode, because I signed a contract” and let the viewers deduce what they deduce.
Of course I know AI? Who do you think wrote this resume?
What do you mean by “improving”? This alarming warning appears because Firefox requires permissions. Let us look at the permissions listed there:
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”.