They probably have to use something like that a lot, like telling female employees: “You should be comfortable with this type of behavior at the office”
I will never unsee Gomez throwing his whole hand into the snap. Lurch has a bit of wrist flick, but Gomez is going whole enchilada, I wonder if it’s his fingers snapping or his wrists.
It does matter, because you can’t self-host nore audit the code. What you say isn’t wrong, unless they were to use a public facing reproducible build system ofc. But at minimum, if their server side code isn’t open source at all then you can’t even verify if it’s completely vulnerable spaghetti code or not. Some transparency is always better than none at all.
Yeesh, imagine getting this mad because of a post about a messenger. I hate explaining memes because it ruins them, but I guess I have no choice.
When most people hear about Threema, they believe that 5€ is way too much to pay for a messenger. Some realize that 5€ is not that bad, but without a continuous stream of money, a service like this will cease to exist once it runs out of money, so it’s better to avoid it. And if they read the entire website, and discover that the company is actually providing messaging solutions used by a lot of companies who pay them monthly, for each of their employees, it becomes clear where the money is coming from, and that the company won’t go bankrupt anytime soon.
That’s the meme. If you don’t like it, I understand. But you can fuck right off with calling everything that mentions a name of an app/service as an ad. I made memes in the past mentioning open source chat apps, and nobody ever called it an ad.
Would be cool if the server wasn’t proprietary and closed source. Until I can look through the source code of the server I’ll stick to Signal who has open sourced everything and a very well security reviewed implementation.
I can respect this, though just because they’ve released the source code it doesn’t mean that what’s in the repositories is actually running on the servers. It happened before, and while it is not a big deal, we can’t know what is precisely running on there at all times. And the stock Signal app doesn’t allow federating with other signal servers out there, so personally I don’t care whether the server side has a published source code.
The thing is that Steam doesn't have a history of shutting down a significant fraction of games they have available by themselves. Hence people don't criticize them.
Also you can (not saying that you should, I personally don't trust Gabe) put some tust in a private owned company if you trust the owners.
In case of public companies they are forced by law and major shareholders into making shortsighted decisions and prioritizing profit only.
The reason for that fanclub is that publishing a game on Steam does NOT require you to use any DRM at all. That’s a choice every publisher makes for themselves.
Furthermore, the Steam DRM itself is weak af (as in “circumvention has been automated”) and as non-invasive as it gets (a simple licence check). All of this is in line with their public stance (“Piracy is a service problem”).
I pirate more shit than i could ever play, but still buy games on Steam (But only the stuff i really want to keep playing like Baldurs Gate 3, or small indie titles that are just gems (i have to namedrop ΔV: Rings of Saturn and Star Valor here, because i come back to them ALL the time)
idk what was wrong with the games you named (except hl2 episode 3), yeah, the propriotary launcher is not so nice, but at least they support FOSS besides that, I love GabeN for making even games from other studios playable on Linux
Creating the loot box economy, profiting off cosmetics while hackers ruin the game, sequels that add small features, forcing a contained story to be episodic.
" love GabeN for making even games from other studios playable on Linux"
I don’t want to say they are perfect, but they are better. while they offer cosmetics in cs, others would have made it pay to win. portal 1, hl 1, l4d1 wouldn’t be playable anymore if it was for ubisoft, you get the point.
come to think, the only 2 things I’m mad at: propriotary launcher and they took down csgo with the community stuff
Brave keeps playing youtube videos (music) when you lock the screen on your phone. Haven’t found out how to do that on firefox and I won’t pay youtube for a standard feature they took away
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