Didn’t you hear about the scandals with Steam and Itch with traditional centralised payment processors? Decentralised payments like crypto are a method of solving that issue.

Not all games work without DRM, but some do, for example you can find your Stardew Valley files and just copy the folder onto anywhere else, and run the executable from another device, and it just works.

YouTube looks like this now?

But it introduces barriers. It’s much more of a faff to do this than just use your own face, and they’ll probably remove the feature now people have made it public and force you to upload an identity document.

This is all terrible for privacy, and for the decentralised nature of the internet. For years it’s been being chipped away at, but now entire parts of the internet are going to be locked behind a few age verification services, and entirely inaccessible for under 18s or privacy conscious people. This is really bad for information freedom.

Of course this is bad for privacy. But the fundamental idea of trying to age lock information is also flawed. The government, or corporations, should not be able to decide who can and can’t see certain information, especially not because of an arbitrary characteristic such as age, which does not correlate to maturity at all. This is dystopic.

I was just referring to the last part

Of course, I just meant the last part

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/583:_CNR?

Is this a reference to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/583:_CNR?

The pound shop in the UK used to sell everything for a pound. Now it sells stuff in multiples of a pound.

When I update Fedora to a new version it keeps the old version available to boot to on bootup by default. Just another reason why I like Fedora.

Thanks, it was a good suggestion. Unfortunately, that wasn’t it. This book has many short sections with a question at the end of each one, but the one I remember has fewer longer sections without a question. And it has different stories.

No, but thanks. The title is something about philosophy generally, and it covers multiple topics.

No, but thanks

Everyone should be allowed to vote, as they get affected by the laws. Anyone who can comprehend how to vote, should. The only unfortunate things is that prepubescent children are likely to vote exactly with whatever their parents vote for.

Yes, it should be legal to not pay for copyrighted material

The most the payment processors can do is refuse to work for them. All the free games will still be available and they’ll have to find new payment processors.

Showing opposition is good, if they find the community is so against this maybe they’ll not grin and bear the nonsense of the payment processors. They could move to new payment processors, or use crypto to pay.

You can’t manage or view avatars in the Voyager app, but you can on the website https://lemmings.world/

I have a potion I need to take every week to stop me turning into a werewolf