A massive, massive astroturfing campaign Epic Games paid for in hopes of tarnishing Valve and Gabe Newell’s reputation to try and bolster their failure of a shop ecosystem.

Unfortunately, it worked, because there are people on the net who don’t remember the and days before steam, or even the initial versions of steam that people had Actual problems with, and not just made up ones.

./shrug It’s always seemed well known to me, but like I said I also know a LOT of people born in 1988 who ran into it.

Fact check time!

He praised trump for appointing someone into a role who is a big tech sceptic.

Actually, no. See, she spent some time doing that, then left the FTC in 2014 to join the Internet Association, which is a big tech lobby group involving Google/Amazon/Facebook/eBay/etc. She was the vice-president, then later General Consel. While she was there, she helped spearhead the opposition to a California data privacy bill that would have required internet service providers to gasp obtain customer permission to collect and sell their browsing history. So basically, if you cherry pick her early career, sure, she’s skeptical of big tech… but if you actually look closer she pivoted later in life to become a big tech advocate/lobbyist that is strictly against privacy.

However the issue is he then went on to make a broad generalisation about the republicans being the party of fhe people and the democrats being by the party of big business. Someone from proton doubled down on the assertion on social media.

Several people from proton doubled down on that (blatantly and hilariously) false assertion on social media, several times, over several days, at one point even stating that it was Proton’s official stance. (That message was later deleted, and they tried to pretend it never happened, until proof was given. The pretending was then also deleted.

That has caused offence in a era when US politics is extremely polarised and divided. The attitude is “if you’re for the other team, you’re the enemy”. But also people are angry at the company having an apparently right wing political stance.

That’s a very passive voice you have going on there. You could write for US major media with that kind of skill.

The fact is, right now we have a political party that is illegally rummaging through our personal information using unelected goons who literally stormed federal buildings and guerilla-installed unsecured personal servers to siphon off the data. If you think that shouldn’t ‘polarize’ people, especially when the point of gathering that information is to send innocent people to actual literal Guantanamo Bay, you’ve outed yourself. A right wing political stance in the US is, right now, a stance of being against privacy, against rights, and against due process. None of which are things the CEO of a privacy company should be.

Personally I think this is overblown. I think its reasonable to be happy if someone anti big tech is appointed, but the broad sweeping comments about the parties was ill judged. However they have backed away from this position and made clear that proton in politically neutral.

This is a VERY generous interpretation, followed immediately by blatant lies. They never backed away from this position- they doubled down on it over and over again, trying to justify themselves in front of waves of evidence otherwise. When the evidence grew too great, they simply stopped making statements and tried to pretend it didn’t exist and never happened.

As for the absolutely absurd lie that proton is politically neutral, privacy is never politically neutral. Frankly, trying to pretend it’s politically neutral is a giant red flag. While it SHOULD be politically neutral, it is not. A privacy-focused company should very much be in favor of political advancements towards privacy and personal freedoms, which IS a stance.

I see this as bad PR and on the spectrum of someone saying something stupid on twitter and then regretting it, but some people are treating it as an existenial threat for proton and a huge red flag.

If 9 Republicans are at a table talking, and Andy Yen sits down at the table to chat with them, how many Republicans are at the table?

It’s been a thing for a long time. I know several people who ended up abandoning favored, long-held user accounts that they had ending in their 1988 birth year because they kept being mistaken as nazis… typically by nazis who thought they had found ‘brethren’ and started spewing some hateful shit.

No, it’s much simpler- distro maintainers moved to it because it’s simpler for them to roll out, and they don’t get blamed for the problems.

Why are you pushing this guy to replace the non-working spy unit with a WORKING spy unit?

That’s a nice big load of nonsense you have there. Unfortunately for you, it’s already been proven that Chinese interests are funding anti-american/Republican think tanks, non profits, and politicians.

I take issue with Americans taking their business to foreign governments that are happily and gleefully accelerating the corruption of said domestic powers into the exact behavior that is causing Americans to want to shop elsewhere.

It’s going “I dislike how my government is treating me, so I’m going to support the people that are contributing to why my government is treating me that way.”

Nice straw man.

Good, that means you’re smarter than all the people in this thread using it.

Imagine being so addicted to low effort effort memes destroying your attention span that, given an opportunity to break free, you double down and prostitute yourselves to a hostile foreign power.

uh… ok? So now it’ll be controlled by someone who DOES want to be the next Musk or Zuckerberg?

I mean, that’s kind of my point though. You either get worse than useless, over detailed to the point of useless, or you have to spend weeks pulling hacky crap with tags to try to jury-rig your own useful billing system out of their clusterfuck.

Amazon’s billing tool is the most useless thing I’ve ever seen lol. it’s like “$XYZ of your bill was server compute!” like, there’s 40 ec2s, elastic beanstalk instances, fargate, kubernetes, like what the fuck is ‘server compute’ and what’s the breakdown of the actual individual parts?

It’s not even unhelpful, it’s literally worse than useless lmao

The other thing they forgot to mention is that getting Amazon to actually tell you what anything will cost, or a breakdown of what your bill is, is like pulling teeth.

If you think Mozilla is the canonical of browsers, you’ve been consuming too much of Google’s anti-mozilla propaganda after they announced v3 manifest.

Of course not, active servicepeople are just another currency to the military-industrial complex.

If you’ve noticed, they’re doing everything they can to make him look less attractive. Shitty aspect ratios, bad white balance, editing the picture, terrible focal lengths…

They’re scared. It’s hilarious, because they’re so blatantly obviously scared.

SCART is a european (french, technically) audio/video connector and standard. It’s sort of like composite/component video in the US, except it’s far better, so retro game enthusiasts love it.

He made $12000 off each fired employee.