Indeed, removing his full name is more of a good faith act. I don’t think much is to be achieved by leaving it anyway, so if someone is so discomforted by it that they ask for the removal - alright, I will. After all, we all need to remain good neighbors around here.

But, as you said, leaving your full name out in public and then trying to make it never see the light on the Threadiverse specifically is very inconsistent, and will likely fail at some point.

Good bot

A source spoken to by Kommersant suggests that the lawsuits are merely the beginning of a crackdown on foreign-made online games within Russia, a move which would likely redound at least somewhat to the benefit of homegrown games.

Not much. Russian gamers are mostly technically literate and either pirate their games, Russian or not, or use the roundabout ways to pay for their games abroad. Many also associate Russian games with slop, although that’s not universally true.

The only UI option to do so is to manually remove every single domain, one by one.

Removing all of them requires:

• Figuring out the list exists in the first place, and it’s primarily right-wing resources
• Manually figuring out the position of the list in the database and removing all the entries

This was done intentionally (again, according to Rimu himself) as an ideological step. According to him, software must be ideological, and he doesn’t like his software being used for any purposes that could help the right wing.

Fair enough

Congrats on putting yourself together and going for it, no matter what!

It’s good that you did it, and I believe in you. I only ask the original comment author not to dismiss the ways others are dealing with the problem. If novel research can help it, it’s good!

obligatory consult your medical specialist and don’t consume random drugs without prescription, this will end badly

“Less calories in, more calories out” is a technically true, but deceptively simplistic approach.

There are many variables affecting the outcome.

• Some people have hormonal/neurological/mental health issues affecting appetite
• Some others can’t have significant physical activity due to disabilities or other factors
• Some bodies store more energy as fat and release less energy during physical activity, leading to easier weight gains and tougher weight loss
• Some people require more sleep, while some others struggle with sleep deprivation, affecting appetite and metabolism again
• etc.

All of these things are treated differently. In many cases, maintaining calorie deficit without addressing underlying issues is either practically impossible or damaging for individual’s health.

She means the US

True as in “the current state of the world”

Wrong as in “it should be so”

The article shows she means the latter.

Because only humans are intentionally and thoroughly engineered after the God himself, the rest is decorations and game, obviously.

do not ask why God has urine and semen coming from the same place, where did He take inspiration for a woman and why the hell did He create periods, or a million other curious questions

It gets so so much worse once you unpack this.

Consider these two points:

• God is omnipotent, i.e. He can create or destroy or do anything He wants.
• God is omniscient, i.e. He knows what happened, happens and will happen, and everything about the world He created.

With the powers He has, He:

• Intentionally created humans that would fall for apple trick (as an omniscient being, He knew in advance they will)
• Intentionally created Satan to set the scene
• Dramatically exiled humans from heavens as if it’s their fault (knowing full well it’s His work, not theirs)

So, instead of just making a swarm of loyal creatures, he decided to be playful and make those creatures eternally ashamed of themselves, struggling to earn His approval even when He actively made their lives miserable through cataclysms, genocides, and all sorts of calamities.

He’s literally a celestial “why are you hitting yourself?” bully, expecting to bully billions of people into servitude.

I’m pretty damn sure the Pope never called for this.

I think Neo goes with a typical Apple premium, so it’s not cheap for what it offers, BUT:

• Many people are ready to pay that premium, maaning other manufacturers need to go way below that mark with a similar hardware, which benefits us, and
• This is closest we’ve seen to a netbook for a while. This is good, we need them back!

Preserving a mass while maintaining the ability to fly would require you to significantly increase in size, which comes with all sorts of drawbacks.

Humans can’t fly precisely because we’re too dense. Birds and other flying creatures have plenty of adaptations meant to reduce mass (or, rather, density) by all means possible.

Great news overall, but I feel a bit alarmed about the wording, and whether the post itself is made by a human. This doesn’t look quite like the normal Mozilla writing style. Might just be false trigger, though.

Indeed, environmental regulations have played a pivotal role in the development of Chinese EV market, no doubt here.

In some cities, ICE cars are borderline unusable since you can’t even drive them at will any day you want - assuming you can even get a license plate in the first place.

What I meant was that international pressure on the demand side is not as scary for Chinese companies as it is for many other places.

A huge domestic market is a strong advantage for Chinese manufacturers.

Even if every single country stops buying Chinese cars, they’ll still have a base of 1.5 billion potential customers.

With more countries actively partnering with China, this number goes up considerably.

This is actually addressed as well. The initiative doesn’t oblige currently developed or already released games to have such features, as it recognizes all the financial/legal complications that may arise. It only concerns future games, and refers to the experience of many old games being initially designed with player servers in mind, rendering it possible to play them even now.

It is absolutely possible and normal to do this, and it’s really only the recent practice to act otherwise, which is why Stop Killing Games arose just now.

That being said, of course this decision would affect the developer’s bottom line. First, as another commenter mentioned, they won’t be able to push new games so aggressiely if players can stick to the old one, forcing them to focus on quality and originality of content, which are both more expensive. Second, publishing server code renders them unable to break licenses and steal server code, forcing to make in-house solutions or compromise with open-source. This is, by the way, why Microsoft only now opened the code of MS-DOS - it waited until all the potential lawsuits on IP infringement are expired.

Stop Killing Games will force more transparency, and developers hate that, because they don’t want to admit they manipulated players and broke the law to get here. But they should never have done either in the first place.

Stop Killing Games initiative doesn’t force developers to maintain the game; it only obliges them to release whatever tools necessary for people to self-host a game server.

This way, if anyone still cares about the game, they can start their own server and keep playing it.

It’s not a wiretap, and it has no connectivity at all. Worth reading the full article.