What about my butt?

It didn’t work for will.i.am, it won’t work for them.

Only in high value places.

It depends on what they’re left owning.

The problem with judging Steam as a monopolistic platform is whether it uses its market position to maintain its monopoly or not.

Valve doesn’t really engage in vertical integration. There are a few games that Valve makes as a first party exclusive, but nowhere near other competitors like Nintendo or Activision Blizzard. There also isn’t a gaming engine that ties to Steam directly; the closest is Proton but that isn’t required.

Valve doesn’t seem to seem to require onerous requirements on third party game studios to publish on Steam. Outside of banning ad-supported gaming, Valve doesn’t seem to demand preferential treatment.

Valve could easily become a problematic monopoly, but it isn’t there yet.

LBJ had one on his farm. He loved to pretend that his car lost control and would crash into a lake to numerous guests.

If you have a good AI model, how could you tell?

What’s to stop that from happening to Lemmy?

Makes sense given he couldn’t condone Jim Carrey’s buffoonery.

It has been a running gag with friends when I had to help my mom save a file on a disc, it took over half an hour, and it still failed.

That’s good on them for doing that. It is also good for Mastodon in general since it means they are building the staff that can grow the service.

And I’m expecting it to get worse.

Yeah they are. It just doesn’t correspond to pre-internet political groups.

Nah.

We are already seeing bubbles from where people are getting wildly different news and other discussions. As the echo chambers solidify, you are going to be seeing more where different political groups can’t even discuss the facts of an issue. It is only going to get worse.

That isn’t uncommon for international companies.

Politics sucks more as people curl up in their small echo chambers.

The name IP has been sold off between various companies. The company that made Quake ended up buying the rights and renaming itself Atari.

It is similar to how Cingular Wireless bought the name AT&T and remained itself to AT&T.

Because 2:00 = 1:60

Or are we going to implement metric time?

Outside of Gemini, Google has done a decent job at packaging AI features that have a tangible benefit to users. However, they seem to be more purpose built instead of LLM’s.

It was common for kids to have a day without being watched by parents in dense cities a generation ago.