… that they’ve disclosed so far…

I love that the cover image for this article about buying Chinese EVs is a car from a Swedish manufacturer (Polestar, owned by Volvo). Western media really knows jack shit about the Chinese EV market.

Is the “he” here not Netanyahu? If so, you can be certain he does not care about separation of church and state.

Yeah, for me, I’m looking for prettier not fastest after 120 Hz or so

(Apparently) Sony has been pulling this shit for years, so either no one noticed or there’s more to it. I wonder if perhaps any of these countries have laws restricting certain online services, which Sony doesn’t follow, and thus is not allowed (as opposed to simply choosing not to offer)?

This somehow makes me less trusting of the previous comment.

Honestly I’m more annoyed by the rootkit “anti-cheat” the game uses, than this Sony action. It’s easy enough to make a burner email account for Sony, and for better or worse, I’m not in one of the countries impacted.

They DEFINITELY need to refund all players that are from newly blocked countries - anything short of a full refund is unacceptable, but it’s not like people have cared that PSN is unavailable in Nigeria before this point.

All that said, I love seeing the community putting Sony’s feet on the fire for implementing even mildly anti-consumer BS. I just wish the outrage was more consistent

Great insight, really contributing to the community

So, like every multiplayer game released in the last decade?

Why have a policy at all around abandoning games? Only buy games that are DRM free.

Hell, why regulate anything? Let the free market decide, just don’t buy it, bro.

I think the regulation would kick in to force publishers to enable users to set up servers of they shutter the official ones

Hundreds is a tragic number, and I don’t want to minimize that loss and the impacts on their loved ones, but hundreds could be only like… One plane.

Again, tragic, but if you’re telling me one plane might crash at some arbitrary point in the future, out of the thousands of daily flights around the globe, I’m not dropping everything to go stand in that picket line

I think, regardless of where you’re donating from, this means less overhead and your money goes a little bit farther on the charity’s side, which is a win for everyone.

You’re right though that it’s not tax deductible for you, so the amount you can donate does not change, just the effectiveness of those dollars.

why are they ‘going away from being a 501c3?

You’ve got it backwards. They’re dissolving their old non-501©(3) Foundation that they use to manage their finances currently, and becoming a part of an existing 501©(3) called Software in the Public Interest (SPI)

TL;DR from the article, they’re doing this to:

1. Offload the overhead expense of independently managing their finances/accounting, by merging with someone who already has a robust system in place
2. Save money by becoming tax exempt
3. Allow themselves to accept matching gifts from donors whose employers support such things

This may be my unicorn, going to test out some time in the coming weeks! Thanks for the suggestion, stranger!

Google Keep

My wife and I use it all the time for things like grocery lists, packing lists, etc. It’s nice to be an able to collaborate in real time on a checklist, and I haven’t found an app that can replicate that convenience.

As you can read in line 35,863 of the Terms of Service you agreed to:

Fuck you you fucking piece of shit. We own you, all of your data, your computer, and your first born child. Just fucking try and sue us. Were worth a trillion fucking dollars, what are you worth? $150,000 of student loan debt for that degree you don’t even use? When we say jump you jump. When we say uninstall the software, you uninstall that fucking software. Capiche?

• Microsoft^© Windows^® Terms of Service

They definitely can dictate requirements, however that means that you’re now making your staff play document format police.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that it’s an additional headache. If I were working in that office, I’d die a little inside each time I have to go back to a consultant/contractor/community member and say “can you please resubmit this, the formatting is broken when I open it in Libre Office”

Yes, again, they have the authority to do this, and it is technically feasible, but it’s going to be a bad user experience for a long time until everyone is properly “retrained”. Especially if you’re working with partners outside of Germany who have their own document standards.

I’m not saying this is a bad move, just that I understand why they might be inclined to jump back and forth.

Oh, cool, so I can have multiple people editing a live document at the same time?

Definitely could be both, but I’d posit that it would still happen regardless of corruption, just because they’re taking on the ambitious task of trying something new.