Yup. They want people to quit.

Free hosting, for everyone, without ads.

Ut-oh.

(But seriously, while it wasn’t free, having an account with an ISP used to come with 10 MB of personal webspace without ads or anything. That’s something you never really see these days.)

Link.

Hold up (fta):

By this November, all creators can only offer a subscription-based plan on iOS as the app store doesn’t support other formats, such as first-of-the-month or per-creation plans. As a result, Patreon is rolling out a 16-month-long migration process that will shift all memberships to subscriptions by November 2025. At that point, subscription-based plans will be the only option available, unfortunately proving Apple’s far-reaching power.

I’m unclear on what this means: is Patreon eliminating first-of-the-month and per-creation plans on ALL platforms? Or just on Apple platforms?

Mobile strategy, I.E. lack thereof.

in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies

But of course. That is why he bought the company – to become un-bannable.

Yikes, it’s even worse than I thought!

Wow, Elon’s really earning that 45 million billion pay package. 🙄

Edited to fix the number – thanks @RCTreeFiddy@lemmy.world !

AI writing, scraped by AI, producing more AI writing…

So not “gray goo” exactly, but “gray slop”?

“Strongly-worded letter to follow!”

I doesn’t seem unfair for executives to earn the vast rewards they take from their business by also taking on total responsibility for that business.

Meanwhile, toilets lobby to jail everyone that refuses to eat out of them.

Musk wants freedom of speech for people. But his definition of “people” is very, very narrow.

I think the news is that he’s dropping his lawsuit, and the emails (which are old news in the tech press) are the presumed reason he’s dropping the lawsuit.

airhorn.wav

Oof, this is a tough one. Maybe…

Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself

Belle & Sebastian - I Don’t Love Anyone

And in a more “society won’t hold me back” kind vein: Black Flag - Rise Above

Every key, too! I may not know what the heck SysReq is, but I’m hitting it!

You’re right, of course. But there’s still a few games that don’t run on Steam Deck (looking at you, Henteko Doujin), that run fine in Windows. I’m able to play these games on my Ayn Loki Zero with Win 11 install, via Steam. Of course, I’m talking about playing indie shmups on a US $250 device, so I’m a bit of a niche case. So… situationally it’s a good-ish idea? For, like, three people? Not enough people to make a product worth selling, anyway.

20 years ago, the big question VCs were asking their startups was, “How do we convince Microsoft to buy this company?” Simpler times, back then.