“Go investigate yourself.”

…is… is that supposed to be a western liberal tough talk or something? Performative parenting at its worst.

Si. We’re about to see how the iron dome stands against it. Maybe Iran has figured out a way to bypass Israeli defences…

It’s taking away right of ownership. A direct license of ownership, a copy or copies, defines the parameters of which the user is allowed to operate.

Running locally with access to installer that can be archived allows for more individualistic control. Having access to a Steam library is one thing, but having a local Steam backup is also possible.

However, if a game relies on online functionality it could be frustratingly because it was a “live service”, “online only” or subscription based. In either of these cases, you’re being deprived of value, of control. It vests all the power in the distributor over the contents value at any given point and time, with control over scarcity and accessibility.

As such live services and subscriptions should be disparaged, because it only makes you subservient. Laws should be put in place to guarantee access to games executable and for them to be stored and run locally.

I say this because I think people at large are getting swindled right now and it’s so saddening.

One of my favourite legal disclaimers of all time. It reads like Bukowskian legalese.

Funny how a bunch of non-governmental institutions uphold colonialism and anyone who wants to partake has to play ball… it’s like as if there’s an empire, an empire with flags from China, workers from Mexico and intellectual property made by Indians… but I can’t quite put my hamburger on it…

If you subscribe to play video games, you’re an idiot. Musicians want to exit streaming now, while game publishers sees prime real estate for exploitation.

Sun Microsystems was once the great hope of the computing world, and technically the JVM was first to normalise the use of VM’s, albeit from a containerised perspective. It was Docker before docker, in some sense.

This coupled with Solaris and the SPARC systems that were Java-native (whatever that means) enabled this type of containerisation from a hardware level, which again: was a huge thing.

But, Sun turned for the worse once the JVM hit browsers and server stacks. That’s when their SaaS model was envisioned, that was the precursor to the acquisition by Oracle.

So it started nicely, but hit the enshitification velocity somewhere in the early 2000s.

haha java is terrible, mostly because of who owns it.

“Oh no, real competiton, in green energy no less!”

Bitch, are you for real?

“Oh no, it’s just a bunch of ideologs, demagogues, opportunists and fundraisers in what can be described as a very expensive sowing club?”

Always has been.

The director of NASA publicity walks out, dressed in drag, goes to the microphone and starts singing…

“Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I’m only falling apart~”

Damn. Debating every gay person in the military. That sounds like a lot of people to debate. Once again Pentagon is out here wasting money. Smh.

“…daughter dearest.”

“Wow, this guy programs.”

Goddamn “the deep state” concept is dumb.

It just throws out a crapton of psychological, sociological and economic theories, that speak to humans baser instincts and intelligence, simply to divine mob rule to overthrow a government and install the new new, that good good, which will most likely turn up as corrupt, if not even more so, because we continue to ignore those aforementioned psychological, sociological and economic theories.

You see some people salivate over a violent revolution, and let me tell you, you don’t want violent revolution. Because then we cite historic precedent, and whoopsie doodle, modernity was a lie, get back in the perpetual meat machine… but aren’t you glad you don’t have the previous government anymore? Surely it isn’t history repeating. It’s the circle of the same shit.

But go off.

Fair enough.

Man, now we gotta make propaganda for underwater plants?! What is wrong with us?!?

I knew it was lonely, but goddamn.

US imperialism*

Add it to the “reasons to stab execs in their face” list.

Orban is pro baby-rape, is how I’m going to frame that.