If you expect any company, especially a startup, to act differently then you grossly misunderstand how companies work

Snapchat still is called snapchat, the company is just called Snap.

I'm not sure what it's like in other countries but in the UK most of the time they will not be able to say anything bad about you even if you were awful

I don't know if valve told him to stop the project or just advised him to stop. There are replacement libraries available if he really wanted to continue, or he could make the project require you to have a copy of the library to build

I swear Google operates more like a startup incubator at times, creating almost entirely seperate companies within itsself that are just expected to handle everything and then when it doesn't work they shut them down

You can use docker swarm (or a better container orchestrator) to have the containers automatically fail over to the second host

They do that?

Tons of companies break the cookie law already, but enforcement seems to be rare

People have been saying constantly that they need to stop having linus respond and instead of proper PR sanitised responses.

It was kind of inevitable that it would go this way. The business model that people expect the Internet to work in is directly at odds with how people want to use the Internet. Tech companies have been enjoying a 20 year long honeymoon period where they have effectively infinite money and no regard for sustainable profit.

To go back to sleep for another few hours

I think that generally the internet got more of those types of people and they got louder, reddit used to have subreddits whose names were just slurs or subreddits blatantly dedicated to racism. The idea of a "dogwhistle" on reddit didn't exist because the racists just said and did racist things without fear of being banned.