FMecha

Japan and South Korea has their own "digital sovereignty" to a lesser extent too, given how dependent their users are on many local services run by (de facto) keiretsu/chaebols (YJ/LINE/Softbank/etc in Japan; Naver/Kakao/etc in South Korea) - though the trend is declining in Japan.

So, if the Great 78 Project lawsuit ends up in favor of record labels, which groups will be next to go after them?

It is a legitimate growing concern for men's fitness content and the (young) men who watch those. But if their focus is on women's thinspo stuff (given the title concerns both weight and fitness), that could be a "one stone, two birds" situation, assuming the exposure restrictions work.

Ironically, men's fitness content creators are also seen as pipeline for the "nutjob" stuff, straight from the fitness content creator themselves.

Other factor in this decision appears to how fitness/workout content tends to have a politically right-leaning slant that can push one into reactionary rabbit hole: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pandemic-fitness... (2022)

Which appears to be related to how gym people/environment tending to lean conservative in general.

>At this point, the Internet Archive should consider simply moving to another jurisdiction.

Except international copyright treaties exist, which makes copyright enforcement effectively extraterritorial.

Mastodon is too fragmented for the common people, and any chance of that being popular is getting usurped by Bluesky anyway.

Sources are reporting that they do threaten fines of R$50,000/day.

Paid hobbyists, you mean.

In sense that they get paid thru a Patreon/Ko-Fi or something, because these hobbyists likely still want to be compensated.

Also, BAT being a cryptocurrency already turns off people who aren't fan of crypto.

My perception is that AR is also a gimmick that won't seem to take off any time soon. How many times AR technologies have come and went in whimper?

The government wouldn't let GM go out of business for the same reason they wouldn't let Intel met the same fate - even from said invisible hands.

They tried to do this in 2000/2001, but it didn't result in a breakup.

>I absolutely want electronics built into car! Requirements for antilock brakes, electronic fuel injection, and other electronics in vehicles has made them safer and more efficient.

There are car people out there who would rather drive a fully analog car without any electronics such as ABS - though that typically means a hardcore sports car such as a Caterham.

Don't the court already did #1?

With regards to games - I wonder if stuff like Limited Run Games also qualify as "heritage physical media".

Google also tried to push PC OEMs to pre-install Chrome on their new PCs when Chrome was new.[1] Sony/VAIO is the only manufacturer to have known to take the bait.[2]

[1] https://www.crn.com.au/news/google-may-pre-install-chrome-br...

[2] https://thenextweb.com/news/sony-computers-google-chrome-bro...

Stood corrected, only to notice that the editing period has ended.

There's also the issue of latency, which is why Smash Bros. Brawl tournaments were primarily played on CRT TVs.

RHDN has multiple staffs, but only one head admin (Nightcrawler). The issue apparently bows down to infighting regarding the site's future, with Nightcrawler apparently considering shutdown in December 2023: https://twitter.com/GideonZhi/status/1819215914988196204 / https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1819215914988196204.html

Only for PC gaming, at the very least (thanks to popularity of Steam). Sentiment to save physical games are primarily a console gaming thing.

>Current execution stumbles do not diminish historical triumphs

Not for those who have "$THING was never good" mindset after repeated, multiple stumbles in a row. You see this with anything that closed/died in disgrace.

I imagine there are people out there who think that Intel might file for bankruptcy/insolvency if they can't right themselves from this issue.

Not just monetization, these types of games also pivot towards building parasocial relationships with in-game characters to you. This leads to people building zero tolerance for what can be perceived as other characters interacting to them - an issue that affected Girls Frontline 2.

International Genshin players, however, do seem to embrace "shipping" (pairing two in-universe characters in relationships) instead, but these also have their own internal controversies - look up "shipping wars".

The UAE for example has laws that some interpret as being anti-VPN, with some also using it to get around anti-VoIP laws in that country, but the enforcement of that is pretty much weak.

Making everything rely on subscription (consider European TV license fees as such) and word-of-mouth is what you end up with. Except in the case of former, over-subscription is getting into a problem too.

>Where are you getting this information?

From personal perception every time I read articles on Taligent, Copland, and Workplace OS (which did result in a demo PowerPC port of OS/2).

>This had nothing to do with Microsoft's monopoly.

Admittedly I had that comment in mind to pre-empt any potential narrativeposting.

Because desktop PowerPC was unpopular for anything other than Mac, and PPC NT wasn't designed for Open Firmware. Though you can blame Microsoft's monopoly tactics - in which loyalty to x86 was the prime directive, alternative OSes on PPC Macs were not a widely accepted idea either - people stuck around with classic Mac OS, in (ultimately) vain hopes that Copland/Taligent would deliver.

Not necessarily tech, but how/what about Sega when they left the console business and have to merge themselves with Sammy?

I always find Windows Mobile/Phone as like Sega's console-making endeavors, by the way.

Because PC Blu-ray drives didn't really take off?

How's Clubhouse even doing nowadays? Got crushed by Twitter's Spaces I guess?