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Just randomly encrypting your application executables and forcing you to run the application inside a Windows VM on Azure - and paying for it, a.k.a Execution as a Service (or EaaS for short)…

I’m not even joking, that could happen.

You’ll have Euro Truck Simulator running in your brains.

Aaaaw, so cute ^_ This is what they’ll have running inside your brain when they put us all into capsules. You’ll have cables up your butt, but your capsule will also be a suppository that might be shoved up into the hive minds sphincter, which tightens and loosens depending upon optimal dopamine distribution, so that millions of others can also benefit from your heightened cortisol levels. Lucky you.

Well of course it is… you gotta render the service paid for lol let the Russian oligarchs get their money’s worth.

Gamers to game Devs: “oh sweetie, let me hold you…”

Gamers to game publishers: “you donkey!”

As it should be.

Your mom is easy… said the deep-pocketed founding member of the Rust Foundation.

I’m guessing it’s the Wifi business that’s going to be sold. Also, the prefabs might be spun off. But Intel still needs a GPU division, if at the very least just for integrated GPUs, but we might see the end of dedicated Intel GPU’s as they pivot to compete against AMD’s APU’s.

That’s my take, at least.

haha no.

What’s Meta need a bunch of fascist Christian nationalists for? It’s not like they have an overlapping demograph-oh yeah, ofc.

Mark Zuckerbot sure is a shrew bastard. Elon Musk wishes he had his computational brain.

“Bing bong, fuck ya life”

The sound the bolts make, the statement from Boeing.

Listen, if there isn’t a server you can download maps and umods on that allows you to fly a shark in the sky with redeemer rockets over a Burger King, then I’m not interested…

UT99 was too good for us.

The problem with automating everything is that suddenly consumers have no money to spend on products and services… you know what that means.

Universal Basic Income

That, or an oligarchy class keeps a distance between themselves and 99% of the people via privatised security, or even national security.

So socialism, or a return to the aristocracy. Take your pick.

This, and Bangladesh. All places that rely on wage slavery, child labour and unethical working conditions, because that which is unethical is also very cheap.

You can’t really compete with slavery, because again: it’s very cheap, and the way the Chinese state leads Chinese farmers and villagers into social lock-ins, whereby they legally become stuck in an area where there’s only grueling, deadly, soul crushing and back breaking labour that leads to a life of poverty becomes a problem for the rest of the world if it’s used to manipulate the markets.

I do of course realise this article is about “too big to fail” companies that corner every market, but I also think that the west and the east needs to think about what it means to partake in a race to the bottom where wage slavery is part and parcel of the market. It creates conditions whereby competition involves who can make the most horrible living conditions in the world, and do you really want that?

There are Chinese labourer families who have been trying to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” for generations now, and it’s all thanks to other nations enabling the Chinese regime - especially the west.

Yeah? If you play Shadow Warrior you get Viscera Cleaning Service, so you can be the killer and the cleaning service.

This is why you should be allowed to hack your car, but not only that, reverse engineered firmware should be freely available and open source, because the vendors and manufacturers can’t be trusted… and here’s why.

TL;DR secret sauce stupid, execs greedy, consumers subjugated, it’s dumb from every angle. Open firmware, NOW!!!

The excuse for these transgressions against the consumer is this: “certain digital features are premium add-ons, but we need to cut cost in manufacturing. We do this by putting these features in all cars and then put it behind a paywall for those who can afford the extra”…

Then why not just adjust the pricing for all and give everyone that feature? Because money, that’s why. Revenue stream go brrr. And before you say “developing those features cost money”, remember that the engineer have already been paid, the code is readily available and the physical features are already shipped with the car. It’s an arbitrary cost added for no good goddamn reason other than milking the consumer.

As it stands, there’s a cottage industry for hacking your own car, outside of the manufacturers power, that also pushes subscription services. In some cases you can’t even change the language of your car, unless you A) bring it in to a service centre and pay a lot for the “privelige”, or B) pay a comparatively nominal monthly fee of like $60 for the access.

Both cases are horribly stupid and shows how the consumer is being subjugated to such an extent that a straw has been permanently installed into their wallets, with the intent of sucking it dry in every way possible, which to me is solved quite easily:

Make all firmware for cars open firmware. “But what about security!?” I hear the executives shriek, as they grasp at their straws, hoping it’ll never stop leaking money. To them I say: what are you, IBM in the 70s?

For anyone whose been paying attention to pentesting - not only for computers , but also for car systems - knows that it’s just another example in a long, long line of examples of why the “SeCrEt sAuCe” fallacy is just that: a fallacy.

Buying simple, cheap little devices from some eBay seller means you could unlock pretty much every Tesla on the block, because, and this is important: you have no control over the authentication mechanism and the manufacturers have to get on that ASAP as they lobby governments to ban said software and devices, knowing fully well that they’ve now shoehorned it into the black market instead of letting people publicly test these things - which is dumb, because now you have to wait for the manufacturers to get their fingers out of their asses to fix the problem.

Much like Apple products, you don’t own anything. You pay a one time lease and pray that corporate doesn’t hand down a new spin-up curve for your AC system that’s better in terms of power delivery, because you know they’ll sell it to you for $2k as an “extra add-on”.

In as much, you have this spiritual corporate valet underling that will open your door for you and enable certain features, if you pay enough. They sit in your car with you, staring into the side of your face, reminding you with certain menu clicks: “you are our little bitch and there’s nothing you can do except give us more money.”

But if their firmware was publicly available, some Joe Schmoe could give you the same curve, and even give it out for free, because said Schmoe wanted his family to have access to better air conditioning without having to pay the toll. You’d basically be exorcising that spiritual valet back to the planes of hell from whence it came.

Hey, if you like this, here’s an idea, how about we democratically control these executives homes, their doors, their AC’s, through democracy? I’m sorry Mr Executive, but you’ve pissed off the masses, so now we’re turning off the AC so you have to sweat in your $30m beach property.

Oh wait, is that suddenly authoritarian?! You don’t say… and what in the blue blazes do you think this is? It’s a physical piece of property. The code should be gratis, complimentary, part and parcel of the sale. If they get to control their property, so should you. I can’t believe we still have to say this aloud.

In the end car manufacturers have to be stimied and slapped with anti-trust suits and the “sEcrEt sAuCe” fallacy needs to be defeated once more to give consumers actual power and control over their own property… it’s 2024 already!!! WHY IS THIS STILL A THING?!?!!

This is why Godot is so important and that source available can be something the EU has to consider for all newly designed games. Sorry, small, mid and big time game studios, and screw you publishers, what we need is to make sure that the barrier to entry for game developers is significantly lowered. What, you think I’m taking about video game conservation? Leave that to AccursedFarms.

What I’m saying is that you can more easily pitch games to publishers, using assets and engines that are already “standardised”, like Bethesda’s several Rube Goldberg machines, if they are available. I’m looking at Fallout London as saying to myself: why isn’t this on Steam, Switch, and every other platform Fallout 4 can run on, being sold by Bethesda?

Even split prices, one for people who already owned Fallout 4, one for who recently purchased Fallout 4 if they don’t have Fallout 4 - if you wanna be pedantic. But the point remains the same: these lovely modder devs, though they shouldn’t be forced, could have pitched this game to Bethesda, even as an “off-universe” game. Whatever.

But then we remember the Fallout 76 Store. Oh my god, no. And DMCA takedowns, claims of copyright infringement - even though “modified works” doesn’t exclude software - and what about actual live services and competitive games? Like could the community make the server instead? Can it be something even the Olympic Committee has a hand in, so the game can be vetted for the Olympics?

Like update your EULA. “May be used, modified and deployed for free if it’s used for education and development purposes”. I’m not a lawyer, so take them scribblings with a grain of salt, but something like that would really just add an extra level in participation in schools, clubs, organisations, etc, even as an easy way to recruit and receive games and new worlds, for free.

Free the engine! Free all of the engines! NOW!!! “The secret sauce” fallacy has been stupid, is stupid right now, and will continue to be stupid into the future - unless we do something about it.

Free the engines!

“You’re not fooling anyone, r/TigTooty - banned.”

r/BigBooty is going to be bone dry…

Unless Reddit actually monetizes the process for content creators, in which case, we need them to open up their books - because then they’ll be running a marketplace.

Gotta be one of my favourite genders.

Listen, it’s very simple. You need a game per category, and said game needs to be free, libre open source, because you need to ensure that it is a widely accessible sport.

I’m all for doing it in house, but NFTs? Really?