Sony's excuse is bullshit. If they really were convinced these were counterfeit 3rd party controllers, they should've popped up an on-screen message "defective counterfeit controller detected, please only use properly supported hardware". That would've made the error clear. But random disconnects are just sabotage.
I disagree that fediverse is inherently libertarian/anarchist. In fact, a big selling point is that you can find an instance the administration agrees with your politics and will implement moderation policy accordingly.
Part of it is just today's polarized political climate, especially since the popularity of the Fediverse is partially a backlash to reactionaries taking over Twitter and the corporate enshittification of Facebook and Reddit.
Everything is a war now, and solidarity and boycotts are basically the only weapons that small, independent actors have. So people apply "don't cross the picket line" thinking to everything, even where it doesn't make sense.
Want to act properly? Contribute money and labour towards your instances. Help them build better moderation tools so they can handle the flood of crap from Threads, and onboarding tools and better UX so they can steal away the Threads users.
You can't redistribute your way out of a shortage. Any solution to the housing crisis that doesn't involve a shitload more housing is rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic.
God damn. Bandcamp is where I get my music wherever possible - they're an amazing platform and product and I like the fact that my purchases are going to support the actual artists instead of vanishing into the Google or Spotify machinery.
I knew it was possible after the Epic sale that they'd get screwed, but this worse than I expected.
And here in Canada, their main competitors for buying online music are Apple and 7digital. Not great options, considering that 7digital is also owned by Songtradr now.
I've edited the headline to make it clear that it's India alleging that this man was a terrorist (I'd previously written "alleged terrorist"). I'd rather leave that detail out but that's literally the only context the video gives about him, and it's what he has in common with the previous murder.
An important Sikh separatist leader was assassinated in Canada. Trudeau has said they have credible intelligence that says it looks like the Indian government was involved.
Now this has created a diplomatic spat. India isn't really saying Canada is dangerous, they're just being petty.
Also it's synopsis. Synapses are brain things. Sorry, I can't help myself but correct.
By the end of the meeting the question will still not be answered
Hah, I (a Sr developer at the time) once built an entire mapping layer in our ETL system to deal with the fact that our product had long and expressive names for every data point but our scientists used statistical tools that had no autocomplete and choked on variable names longer than 32 chars so they named everything in like 8 chars of disemvoweled nonsense.
God damn, no sympathy at all eh? Yes they're yuppies, but you're going to bat for a punitive rent hike because "they probably deserved it" or something like that? That's cold.
These women are losing their home because they argued with a landlord over raising rent. That's some Dickensian shit right there.
Who wanted this? Who asked for this?
Like, ytm has boneheaded problems like "wear os client only lists your first 99 albums". The fact that you can't sort albums by artist is bonkers. But they're adding comments? What???
Glass backs are the dumbest idea in the history of stupid.
The only way things like that could be defensible if they were easy to replace (bring back Moto-Z style magnetic backs!), but since phones are all held together with glue now, that's not a thing.