As fucked up as this is, thanks to these methods we have progressed in many fields. For this instance in particular, fuck Musk, this isn't necessary.

Yeha, that's monopoly talk. I guess I was expecting something else when I read "evil".

I don't really think people are locked-in by any means, there are so many alternatives. People just prefer Google because it provides the best search results and they don't care about privacy. The alternatives are pretty good, but people just want the best. I usually have to go back to Google to query something whenever DDG isn't providing good results.

Before downvoting, at least explain why people are locked-in. Aren't there alternatives to Google? They are definetely creating a horizontal monopoly by acquiring all the companies in the chain, from advertisers to operating systems... but there are alternatives to Google (the search engine). I use DDG everyday, how am I locked-in to Google? I'm not arguing against the monopoly, I'm arguing against the lock-in.

Google- DDG, Swisscows, Qwant

Google Chrome - Mozilla

Google Cloud - DigitalOcean

Android - /e/

Google Phones - Fairphone

Google Meets - Zoom

Google maps - Waze

Google photos - Dropbox

YouTube - Vimeo

I really don't see the lock-in. People just want monopoly-grade service quality without the monopoly. You can't have both.

Exactly. They are twisting reality to justify their shirty actions.

Yeha, that's my point. They automatically put you in the far-right if you don't agree with a principle of communism.

Is 1.5M users "the masses" to you? Reddit has like 400M active users monthly. That's the scale I'm talking about.

Registered users is a very bad metric too.

Without ads YET. Once the "masses" arrive, donations are no longer an option.

The only security threat would be the site itself. How do they know other users have the same password?

Options:

• They have your password in plain text in their DB. CHEFF KISS

• They aren't using salts.

• They are using the same salt for everyone.

All of them concerning.

People creating functions as objects inside of other functions. A few days ago saw a person create a function with two object functions inside, then passed one of the functions as an argument to the other function. Then returned the second function.

It's hard to find such a mess in other languages. Yeha, functions as objects are cool. Closures are also cool... But why abuse that shit?

Yeha, it's fine. Everyone is allowed to have preferences. Why do you feel games like God of War are a waste of time?

God of War, Dark Souls, Elden, The Witcher... All of these games have a system to optimiza your character without the need to grind for hours non-stop. Armored Core will also have a complex build system for the mechas.

The problem with Diablo for me is that it is just that, just building a character that hits hard. If you have a good build, everything is waaay too easy unless you are going into dungeons 20 levels above yours. And even then, it doesn't feel rewarding because killing the enemies isn't hard, it just takes too long. Like, it was taking me 10 seconds to kill a basic minion, and even that felt better than going into a dungeon and obliterating everything.

Maybe I could enjoy building a character if I didn't need to spend hours and hours grinding to level up and to get the right items with the right affixes. The grinding is just a torture, I feel I'm wasting my time.

— OK, imma fight this fucking floor.

— Damn, shit's rock solid.

— stares I'll get you one day motherfucker.

And they can do anything they want with their property so they'll block you if you do that.

But that is the point!! Don't use their service man, nobody is forcing you :)

There are many forms of entertainment out there, you're not tied to any of them. Be free, enjoy your life.