He was just going along, doing his thing, and then BAM! Email out of nowhere that his account had been terminated with some unconvincing and generic explanation about “violating terms.”

Seems like such a common thing. Not sure why anyone trusts these platforms at all.

What is the text of a json file containing every private key used for encryption and its associated context, sorted by political and financial value?

In this case though it was hooked up to the internet. They found it because the amount of internet traffic was suspiciously high.

I don’t mind them that much when it’s like, some authentication or payments thing

https://archive.is/20260409164352/https://www.404media.co/farmer-arrested-for-speaking-too-long-at-datacenter-town-hall-vows-to-fight/

Have They actually done that though, spawned new accounts in order to ban evade? To me this stuff seems like it would make it appropriate to prevent Them posting on communities where it is a violation of the instance rules, but going too far to prevent everyone on the instance from seeing or interacting with Their posts elsewhere, especially since it removes the opportunity for argument. If the latter is the only way to enforce the former, fine, but that would depend on whether They are unwilling to respect Their ban.

From what I can tell it seems like it’s sort of up to them how much they want to play a character vs streaming as themselves, with the possible exception of the ones whose vtuber identities are the intellectual property of a company that employs them. There’s a spectrum of things like how much they lean into their character lore, do a voice/mannerisms, or how much they use the avatar as a privacy shield and avoid revealing personal details.

Not that there’s anything wrong with it either way, it’s basically similar to pseudonymous internet identities, but for live streamers. Anyway if we’re shilling vtubers I want to shoutout my favorite chicken themed vtuber, Henemimi

The show Pluribus had a cool scene about this

not broody I guess

They don’t always write the laws, sometimes they let lobbyists do that and pass them without reading

The demand has been fueled by a wave of outreach from fans who want to see the final episode with others and support the series, as well as a fear of being spoiled on what happens in the episode before its YouTube release.

I really like this show and have thought about seeing it in theaters, but I would want to talk about it and people are gonna be pissed about spoilers

Doesn’t Minecraft have its own controversies with Microsoft imposing various forms of direct control over ostensibly private servers? Anyway it’s obviously a special case regardless because of the unusually expansive modding community. It’s hypothetically possible for games to have a private server friendly business model, but the trend has been for the biggest successes to have a freemium business model which arguably would make less money if they offered private servers (because people would use them as a way to avoid the exploitative bullshit the game is trying to profit from).

Not to say that such a requirement would be bad for videogames. It’s just clearly a much bigger fight if companies have reason to believe a law is a potential financial threat to them, and they would have much more reason to think that with a private server requirement that isn’t limited to EOL games.

Because people would use the self-hosted servers to route around the company’s rent seeking and control, and they might make less money. The compromise here is, if the game would be deleted anyway, they don’t even have that much of a justification.

They don’t even drive the car to your house and you still have to go to a car dealership? What’s even the point then

I didn’t used to understand but after I grew my hair long I realized that conditioner is not optional if you have long hair.

The idea of the whole world valuing online debates and caring how good the arguments are, and the way this seemed almost believable before the internet grew to reach everyone, is kind of depressing in retrospect. At least it’s also funny.

Maybe they’re using other fingerprinting techniques to tell. I get that too but I switch to another computer and I get the full article.

Personally I really dislike it and how ubiquitous it is just because the topic creeps me out. Which isn’t to say that people putting something on the internet that gives me the ick calls for arrests, court proceedings and prison time, the judicial system should not be for micromanaging how people masturbate, and it shouldn’t be that hard for people to accept that it’s just none of their business.

Nope, the dynamic in my family is most of us need some polite distance from each other and wouldn’t be comfortable doing that.

But how did he get it up on the display stand he can’t reach to begin with