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  • Unsurprisingly, what the author describes as "containment" is the exact same thing they already tried when attempting to "defeat" Russia.

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    Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th
  • I was involved with an Indie game that was priced at roughly $15. It literally sold for 10 cents in those regions with Steam's recommended pricing, mainly due to the accelerating inflation, and within hours of release, 20% of the sales came from these regions because of people abusing VPN. The pricing was quickly adjusted before that percentage could grow any larger.

    When people can just get a freshly released game at a 99.5% discount, you might as well not sell the game at all in those regions.

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    Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th
  • Relatively speaking, games already were practically free in those countries to begin with, so it's not like piracy would make a difference to the vendors.

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    Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says
  • A) necessary for stopping the butchering of palestinians,

    B) had any chance of stopping the butchering of palestinians in general, as opposed to giving israel the perfect excuse to start carpet bombing with no restraint

    This implies that you have proof that the killing of kids was intentional (IF it even happened, there's still no concrete evidence for that yet either).

    Do you have proof?

    Because saying "killing kids is bad" will not convince me that Hamas is actually doing this.

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    Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual?
  • It's just gonna pollute the internet with even more bullshit. Language models don't really understand topics, they just put together words that are likely to appear with each other. Biases are inherent to this design.

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    Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful.
  • Well, at least in terms of information security a lot of progress was made, you just don't tend to hear anything about that. I'd say the 2010s was the time where all that was being put into place, actually.

    That exciting early 2000s Internet was unbelievably shitty. Nearly every widely-used protocol was easily exploitable or had massive flaws, hardly any encryption being in place, bad password practices and very little security-awareness among users, very widespread malware, etc.

    There's definitely a lot of answers that are looking for a question out there, with lots of corporate greed in play, but I don't think it's quite as grim as you make it out to be.

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    Stop using Brave Browser
  • "I just want to browse for god's sake grillman "

    If you don't want to be informed, fine. Nobody's forcing you to use a different browser either.

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    China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD
  • Yep, they are.

    There's two major factions in today's right wing, one pro, and one anti NATO. In the USA, they are represented by the Bush-Cheney, and Trump conservatives respectively.

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    Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?
  • Not sure how it is nowadays, but back in 2018 Libreoffice Calc was struggling to handle even a single sheet of data entries, performance-wise, let alone multiple sheets.

    I'm not expecting it to have every feature imaginable, but I do expect it to not freeze when processing even a relatively small dataset.

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    which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?
  • Fuck Ubuntu. Buggy as shit updates, forced snaps, always had problems whenever I was forced to use it, which I've never had again when I switched to Debian.

    Debian >>>>>> Ubuntu

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