Oh fuck, I need to keep my wallet closed. Last time a person who obviously cannot get elected became the GOP candidate, I bet a lot of money against his win. :(

Fortunately, I did the same 4 years earlier when the same happened :)

Stop acting like you’re better than anyone else here

Doesn’t require much acting, usually.

So weird that it took them this long. Probably because pirating Windows was even less of an issue for them.

I guess they needed to wait for DHH’s example.

Even more, it’s starting to seem like just another API implementation. I guess technically, that’s what it is – just a huge and poorly specified one.

I tried playing Planetary Annihilation the other day. It has a native Linux client. It’s pretty broken in several small ways. The Proton version works fine.

Can we not just let this guy rest in peace?

Whatever his sin may or may not have been he still has a family grieving for him.

That’s a bit jarring to read on a forum that gleefully celebrates a murderer of an insurance company CEO.

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Sounds like he thought he was giving a “no” as an answer, but turns out that Proton actually means Linux support now.

Were they in China when they did that?

I don’t really trust it to be much better at respecting privacy than YouTube

Why would you trust it to be any better at respecting privacy?

They’re already dumber than the older generations, but hey, we can make the problem even worse. Why not.

I’m gonna have to work until I’m 110 years old probably just to keep the following generations fed and clothed… and I bet at least one of you morons will think “it’s the billionaires’ fault”. Try to actually read a real book.

Implies that people are largely still pretty incompetent with it. The pioneers have a lot to win.

Bluesky is pretty weird in its own way. It’s full of really irritating leftist politics plus a lot of unsolicited porn.

Nothing happens in Mastodon.

Twitter seems to be the only place that has anything going on in that style of social media.

They will absolutely come for the rest of the LGBTQ+ community once we are gone.

Once you are gone? Is there some indication that your erasure is actually happening? I mean are there fewer trans people now than there were 5 years ago?

I’m gonna go ahead and assume that Doctorow’s actual stance isn’t as idiotic as the title suggests.

This may shock you, but if you think like this, you might be a hardcore leftist.

Also, I’m reminded of the Ghostbusters (1984) quote:

Dr. Raymond Stantz: Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything! You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve WORKED in the private sector. They expect results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzC1Dgh17A