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HKayn

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Admin & sysadmin of a Warframe-focused Lemmy instance at dormi.zone.

Developer of a UI mod for Vivaldi Browser: github.com/HKayn/vivaldi-vh

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Order of operations is too ambiguous, needs more parentheses

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My GOG and Bandcamp libraries.

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Dead Games News: Response from UK Government ( www.youtube.com )

From the videos description: News on what the UK government response means on the issue of game destruction by publishers! It's not all awful, just most of it! Also, some news on how the campaign to end game destruction is going internationally. Relevant links below:...

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I'm currently at work, so disclaimer: the following is an AI-generated summary.

  • The UK government has responded to the petition to stop game publishers from destroying players' access to purchased games, but the response is complex and not entirely straightforward.
  • The government's response suggests there may be some legal avenues to pursue, particularly around the requirement for clear information to be provided to consumers about the longevity of online games.
  • The key issue seems to be that most online games do not clearly disclose when their service will be shut down, depriving consumers of information needed to make an informed purchase decision.
  • Pursuing this angle through consumer protection regulations like the CPRs may be more promising than directly trying to prevent game shutdowns, which the government response suggests is not clearly prohibited.
  • However, there are many open questions about the specifics of how to report and pursue potential violations, including around time limits, penalties, and differences between UK and Scottish law.
  • The creator of the video acknowledges this is a complex legal maze, but believes there is potential to do "a lot of damage" to the industry if the right approach can be identified.
  • Gathering more signatures on the UK petition may help, but the creator is skeptical this alone will lead to legislative change.
  • Overall, the response provides some promising leads, but significant work is still needed to determine the best path forward and how to effectively leverage the apparent legal violations.
  • The creator expresses frustration at having to essentially act as "self-checkout law enforcement" to get the government to enforce existing consumer protection laws.
  • Despite the challenges, the creator remains determined to find a way to hold game publishers accountable and prevent the destruction of purchased games.
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Thank you for mirroring Proton's announcements here on Lemmy!

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I can understand the decision somewhat.

Putting "The Lord of the Rings" first in the title would imply that this furthers the main canon, when it's actually only set in its universe.

They could have indeed chosen a better subtitle though, like "from The Lord of the Rings".

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You're linking to a halfhearted attempt at an exposé written by someone who acts unreasonable towards any attempts at clarification.

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virtually no exposure at all

That is not correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314

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This basically boils down to "read the terms & conditions", which isn't unreasonable.

If a game states in its terms that access may be revoked at any time and you buy the game, then you have no reason to be surprised when access is eventually revoked.

Obviously when terms aren't clear enough or intentionally obfuscated, that's indeed an issue for legislation to act upon.

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I didn't say they deserve no protection at all. You are twisting my words because my opinion doesn't align with yours.

I advocate for games having a clear indicator for any online dependencies. I do not advocate for outlawing said dependencies or mandating "offline patches".

If you are clearly told that you're buying an ephemeral product and you are still surprised when it shuts down, then I don't know what to tell you.

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With GOG, you can at least have full confidence that the game will continue to work without any outside connections.

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Why wouldn't it be legal?

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Again, why would it not fly in the EU?

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I've seen hearsay that there have been Yuzu patches specifically to aid compatibility with TOTK before it was officially out, which would have greatly supported the "mainly/primarily used for piracy" argument in court.

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Just why do people on Lemmy need to turn every unrelated post into some anti-capitalist rant?

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All this wouldn't be necessary if gamers would just stop buying games that are obviously live services with remote kill switches.

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Expect to find more of this type of user on Lemmy.

I’m noticing a lot of people are just… “anti-everything”.

Edit: Case in point: The person further down this thread who said your comment was too long LMAO

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“I wish Windows would let me perpetually birth, raise and feed humans”

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Lemmy users will cancel this for not being hardwired to defederate with Threads :^)

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How are they ditching LoL on Linux if they’ve never officially supported it in the first place?

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It’s unsolicited advice.

It would be like you posting about a minor annoyance with Minecraft, and then having multiple people tell you to ditch it and play Minetest instead.

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I will now attempt to invalidate your opinion by parroting the words “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”. :^)

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and now that a new owner is taking them all

But they’re E2E encrypted? I don’t understand the issue here.

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But the entire point of E2EE is that you don’t need to trust them.

There’s a point to be made for web apps, but with their client apps, the source code that encrypts your data is right there.

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It’s already illegal if your content is large enough to be copyrightable.

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Don’t hope, be prepared. Back up your games.

Thanks Reddit. I'll continue to not provide any content since I shredded everything pre-enshitification. ( sh.itjust.works )

This just makes me angry. You need to write comments and get likes before you’re able to make posts. Most of the posts in that community could pass as boomer-Facebook-posts from what I’ve seen. The quality definitely went more downhill than Tony Hawk‘s Downhill Jam....

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How else do you expect the moderators of that sub to keep out raiders and spam bots?

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Who cares as long as it says “Microsoft bad”

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The last major holdout that is also financially dependant on Google. Chromium has consumed the internet in all but name.

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Thing is, people don’t need the Discord experience. People need the people and servers that are on Discord.

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Well, in that case you should never publish your code anywhere.

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“Guys, Arch isn’t unstable, you just can’t handle Arch if you don’t treat it a specific way”

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Holy shit you’re elitist

HKayn ,
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By that logic, is not updating for several months incorrect behaviour?

If so, that would be quite problematic, since even other rolling distros like Tumbleweed don’t have this problem.

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The issue is that the majority of people on the Fediverse are “techies” with specific interests, which skews the spectrum of content quite a bit.

The Fediverse is in an awkward spot. It needs more people like you to keep technology communities from becoming Linux circlejerks, but at the same time those circlejerks are driving people like you out.

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Honestly it’s a great way to get people who just read the title to self-report.

HKayn ,
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That’s obviously not what OP was referring to when mentioning “Firefox themes”.

HKayn ,
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And that was the end of GOG

How?

HKayn ,
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I don’t think the person you replied to actually knows what they’re talking about.

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Do you think comments like these are swaying public opinion in your favor?

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“How do you know someone’s a Firefox user? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you”

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Will there also be support for themes as CSS stylesheets?

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Please just use the original title. Semantic CSS is an actual thing and it takes 2 seconds to google what it is.

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People don’t actually care about the article, they’re just here to circlejerk about their hate for commercial software.

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I’m guessing it’s mainly placebo.

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Why did you list “privacy”?

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Can we please not editorialize news titles?

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The amount of hue shift in that phone display in the photo is hilarious.

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