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  • Trump signs bill to end shutdown but another budget cliff looms over ICE funding

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  • Oh no. Anyway.

    As far as I'm concerned DHS can stay unfunded indefinitely and we'll all be better off.

  • You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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  • It's not the whole country, it's the perfect storm of the absolute worst people who spent the last few decades working to seize power combined with the death throws of late stage capitalism. The political and economic elite in America (and most other countries) have merged and corrupted each other beyond redemption, but the ultra capitalist systems of the US means there are few if any effective checks to their power. In a properly functioning country the government checks the power of corporations via regulations and laws and in turn is checked by the will of the public but in the US the incessant corporate propaganda has convinced a depressingly large chunk of the population that government regulations are inherently bad and that everything works better when corporations are free to do whatever they want. That combined with the absolutely blatant bribery and corruption in US politics means that corporations control the US government rather than the other way around.

    The whole thing worked for a little while while the corporations were at least pretending to somewhat care about consumers and things like anti-monopoly regulations, but now that Trump has shown the government is very loudly and publicly for sale to the highest bidder they've all gone mask off and are just doing whatever they want. The problem of course is that they're also run by morons that either don't see the cliff they're all collectively racing towards or just don't care because they're planning to bail out with all the profits while the greater US economy burns.

    Ultimately this is the sprouting of the seed that was planted back in the 50s from an amalgam of the cold war anti-communism propaganda and the latent racism that was never properly dealt with following the civil war.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • Sure but it's also a badly done lawsuit for that. It's a class action of Valves customers when the percentage almost entirely impacts developers and publishers not customers. If this was really about Valves cut it would be a class action by developers. The reasons it isn't are that that's a much smaller group, consumer protections don't apply to them so that would be a much harder case to win, and finally they would struggle to find developers willing to join that lawsuit. There's also the slight problem that the 30% cut is the industry standard. Both Apple and Google take a similar cut. I'm not sure who originated that as the standard, could go all the way back to brick and mortar stores or it might have originated with one of the games consoles, but Epic is actually the odd one out in this case not Valve.

    As someone else pointed out there are things that Valve could be better about, things like lootboxes in some games or the frankly predatory CS item markets. The issue of course is that none of that is actually illegal even if it is anti-consumer. It would also be nice if Steam had some actual competition, but there isn't anything Valve can do about that, rather it's everyone else that needs to get on Valves level.

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  • Is this literally a video of Trump farting during a press conference? Is this what passes for politics?

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • It doesn't have anything to do with Epic, it's because Steam provides a great service with a ton of features nobody else offers, and Valve has demonstrated time and time again that they make policies that benefit consumers.

    It would be great if Steam had some competition, but Epic ain't it. What people want is another service of equal quality to Steam. Instead the best we have is GOG and that still falls well short of feature parity nevermind the anti-consumer cesspool of Epic.

    Suing Valve isn't going to do anything to improve the situation. Realistically what could Valve do to be "less of a monopoly"? Lower the percentage they take of sales? Consumers wouldn't see any benefit from that only developers. Ironically it would also increase Valves monopoly because if they took a smaller cut there would be even less reason for companies to sell on Epic as Epics lower cut is literally the only reason developers (outside of Epic literally paying some of them mounds of cash by way of exclusivity contracts) pick Epic over Steam.

    If Epic really wants to do something about Valves monopoly it's simple, they just need to offer all the same features that Steam does. Things like family sharing, streaming support, a cross platform store and launcher, and an excellent review system so people can better understand the games they're thinking about buying. Until that happens yes people will stick with Steam because it's the objectively superior experience.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • Keep collecting them. Each one you get costs Epic money and helps counter some of that Fortnite cash that lets Epic keep paying for exclusive contracts. Keep bleeding them and eventually they won't be able to keep buying exclusive releases.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • I still don't get this. As far as I can find, Steam doesn't allow steam keys to be sold cheaper elsewhere, but they don't bother with prices of games in other stores.

    This is tricky. Officially Valve doesn't have any rules about non-Steam game prices on other stores. Unofficially evidence has been put forward by way of emails between developers and Valve that seem to show that Valve unofficially requires price parity with other stores and will punish games that offer lower prices elsewhere.

    The charitable interpretation is that their policies are worded confusingly and some of their agents are misinterpreting the rule requiring Steam key prices to be uniform as applying to non-Steam keys. The uncharitable interpretation is that Valve knows such a policy would get them in hot water with anti-monopoly laws and so they're careful to make sure it stays an unofficial policy.

  • Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

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  • The best thing anyone could do with it is get them to rm -rf / their server.

  • Panicked Trump, 79, Ramps Up Deranged Hockey Warnings to Canada

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  • It wasn't over half. He won with 49.8% to Harris 48.32%. It was an incredibly close election (which is rather damning but that's a different discussion).

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • If you can bypass it in the middle it is by definition not end to end encryption. The entire point of end to end encryption is that only the endpoints are able to decrypt the messages and everyone in between only has access to the encrypted messages. If that's not the case that's just normal encryption not end to end.

  • Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes

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  • Translation: please keep pouring money into the bubble

  • ‘I'm Not Giving ICE Another Dime’: Schiff Says Republicans Who Vote To Give ICE More Funding Will ‘See More Americans Die’

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  • Most people do the same. While it is technically correct that congressman applies to both houses, it's generally understood that if you're referring to a member of the senate they're referred to as a senator rather than as a congressman and that therefore if you say "congressman" you're implicitly not referring to a member of the senate but a member of the house of representatives.

  • ‘I'm Not Giving ICE Another Dime’: Schiff Says Republicans Who Vote To Give ICE More Funding Will ‘See More Americans Die’

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  • ICE and DHS both need to be disbanded, they're useless organizations whose function can be met equally or better by other groups. DHS has always been a sad joke of an agency, let the FBI/CIA, federal marshals or state troops handle that stuff. Likewise ICE has no need to exist, anything they do can just as easily be handled by some other law enforcement agency.

    Worst case scenario they create a new agency with no law enforcement powers to handle immigration paperwork. Make them a pure bureaucracy that only exists to file reports and help people go through the immigration process. If someone over stays their visa then the immigration bureau can refer that person to traditional LEOs at the state or federal level. There's no reason at all why they need a dedicated law enforcement agency purely for immigrants.

  • Trump blames Democrats for killings of US citizens by federal agents

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  • The supremacy clause just means federal charges supercede state charges, not that federal officers are immune to state charges. If the federal courts want to bring federal murder charges against the ICE agents they could supercede the state ones, but that doesn't stop the state officers from arresting the federal ones either until federal charges are brought or for other state crimes. Police have a long history of throwing everything they can possibly think of at someone knowing most of it won't stick, if they wanted to I'm sure they could come up with a couple dozen state charges with no equivalent federal ones they could use to keep ICE behind state bars pending a federal court date.

  • Trump blames Democrats for killings of US citizens by federal agents

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  • You absolutely can. Nowhere does it say federal officials are immune to state laws. They normally don't because of mutual respect, but if a federal officer breaks a state law they 100% can be arrested by state officers just like a state officer can be arrested by a federal officer if they break a federal law. Nobody, not even the NSA, is immune from getting arrested, there just might be some interdepartmental jockeying to get them released. If the state cops want to play hard ball though they could absolutely toss the ICE gestapo in jail and let them rot until a judge can be bothered to set bail.

  • Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

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  • What you're describing is literally the KGBs playbook and no it doesn't work in anyone's favor but the ones spreading propaganda. All you'll end up with is an even less informed and apathetic populace and we're already struggling with that problem. That works in favor of dictators and fascists. Democracies on the other hand require an informed and engaged populace in order to function.

  • Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

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  • You're suggesting the solution to AI slop spewing racism is more AI slop somehow "debunking" racism? How would that work exactly? This sounds like a propaganda wet dream.

    You should look up how Russian style propaganda works. It isn't by lying convincingly but rather by flooding all channels with so much noise that it requires major effort to determine what's true and what isn't. When you're drowning in bullshit most people will give up and just decide to believe whatever agrees with their personal opinions rather than whatever the reality is and it's a lot easier to manipulate vibes than it is reality.

  • ‘Dangerous and wrong.' NRA slams U.S. attorney's response to Minneapolis shooting

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  • You also need to take into consideration that a significant amount of the NRAs funding was found to be from Russian sources. If not entirely compromised they have to be considered at least somewhat functioning as a Russian asset. Between that and their blatant bias towards gun manufacturers interests we really shouldn't be surprised when they fail to operate in the best interests of the American public.

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    48 Million Gmail Usernames and Passwords Leaked Online

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  • This is why you never enable SMS based MFA. TOTP is well established and just works. If you need even more security FIDO2 devices like YubiKey are a thing.