Perhaps I worded it poorly, but my point was that companies shouldn’t go bankrupt when they make a mistake.

If you keep doing it after you’ve been told, then you’re no longer just making a mistake it’s obviously malicious, but I don’t think then Apple should go bankrupt when they incorrectly implement a new law.

While I personally don’t think it’s accidental, you should be more lenient towards a first offense for any new law (unless you can prove it was intentional, which is incredibly hard).

Various servers using various software that can communicate with each other.

While true, 568m is a significant cost of doing business. Also remember that a punitive action should not make the company go bankrupt, it should make them rethink.

And if they don’t, the fines will go higher, until they do rethink.

Steam is equally shitty, they just have the advantage of not being publicly traded which means they can create long term strategies and execute them successfully.

Doesn’t mean they’re pro consumer.

That intro song from Lion King, just the initial “haaaaaa”.

I read some researches about certain genes making it more likely to be gay. Though it’s been a while, can’t remember the specifics.

Another interesting research I read (which I need to check for new info) was that each subsequent male child was more likely to be gay and it was actually the mother’s body that caused them to be gay because that lowers the competition for the oldest children.

Another likely cause: you’re posting to a non-local community and you got hit by federation issues, while your instance thinks the post got created, the target instance doesn’t know about it.

Happened to me a few times.

Wait, they were hinting someone is gay? Outside Ymir/Historia that is, that was kinda obvious.

I’ll take pessimist takes on technology over calling everything porn any day.

Well, the only I’ve seen was Requiem for a Dream and it’s one of my favourite movies, so I’ll go with that one.

Attack on Titan, in the anime they decided that having a mother tattoo her kid was too much (in a show where giants casually eat people alive) so they made her do an embroidery with the same symbol instead.

During season 4 where the tattoo was relevant for the first time (and they included it in the show), it was fun watching anime-only watchers complain it was a total ass-pull with no prior setup.

Every troll server gets defederated from by everyone. And every troll gets banned on the normal servers. I think the federated nature is a blessing, those assholes have their own part of the internet which is usually far from my part of the internet.

Indeed. And what fascinates me the most is how well it holds up after so many years, there’s no other book that’s still so engaging for me, especially given I’m a very different person than I was 18 years ago.

Sapkowski’s writing is awesome.

It got awkward when King decided to be a character in his own story. But aside from that I really enjoyed them.

Witcher, I’ve read it at least once every two/three years for the last 18 years and it’s still entertaining.

Your PUK is wrong. The PUK isn’t actually checked until you set the new PIN. It’s stupid but it’s been that way since forever, I definitely remember it on my Alcatel OT 302.

So you should definitely find the correct PUK before trying again.

I said better, not more secure. It’s not as easy to accidentally leak the message. It’s equally easy to intentionally leak it.

I mean, have you ever read anything about any dictatorship?

But if you officially operate somewhere, they can sue you, I thought that was common knowledge?

Anyway, not complying with local laws and operating in the country can get you in some serious trouble. And the trouble will escalate until you comply or pull out of the country.

Kim Jong Un can sue anyone. Like, they can sue Signal if they want. Sure, they have no way to enforce it, but they can sue (and win the case). It’s not like this would be a first, that happened quite a few times. Especially in dictatorship.

There is a reason: you will be sued out of existence. And the bit about North Korea made me laugh, so thanks.