It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

Wait, no – I’m thinking of somebody else, sorry.

Link.

Hold up (fta):

By this November, all creators can only offer a subscription-based plan on iOS as the app store doesn’t support other formats, such as first-of-the-month or per-creation plans. As a result, Patreon is rolling out a 16-month-long migration process that will shift all memberships to subscriptions by November 2025. At that point, subscription-based plans will be the only option available, unfortunately proving Apple’s far-reaching power.

I’m unclear on what this means: is Patreon eliminating first-of-the-month and per-creation plans on ALL platforms? Or just on Apple platforms?

Mobile strategy, I.E. lack thereof.

“BARF!”

*coin sounds*

in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies

But of course. That is why he bought the company – to become un-bannable.

Yikes, it’s even worse than I thought!

Wow, Elon’s really earning that 45 million billion pay package. 🙄

Edited to fix the number – thanks @RCTreeFiddy@lemmy.world !

AI writing, scraped by AI, producing more AI writing…

So not “gray goo” exactly, but “gray slop”?

“Strongly-worded letter to follow!”

I doesn’t seem unfair for executives to earn the vast rewards they take from their business by also taking on total responsibility for that business.

Time spent in pleasure is never wasted.

showing people ads is not anti-competitive

Sure. Sort of. But this isn’t about competition per se, it’s about abuse of an already dominant market position.

The ultimate purpose of ensuring competitive markets wherever possible is to protect and benefit consumers. Since firms that dominate their markets tend abuse that position to price-gouge or reduce the quality of their products without fear that their customers will go elsewhere – because they can’t – foiling anti-competitive practices is part of that consumer protection mandate – but only part. Preventing harm being done to consumers by market-dominating firms once they’ve attained that position is another part.

The fact that Microsoft has so many of their users captive (because their job makes them use Windows, or because it runs software they can’t get elsewhere, etc.) and is now forcing exposure to advertising upon them should run afoul of the consumer protection goals of anti-trust law.

The fact that they were once brought to heel just for bundling a browser that you could completely ignore with Windows, and yet face no regulatory blowback from literally forcing their captive audience to view advertising is what irritates me to no end.

Live Forever, by Oasis.

I dunno, but it might have something to do with external factors. Like, once upon a time Microsoft was sued by the US government under anti-trust laws for bundling a web browser in their operating system. Now MS force their users to experience unavoidable advertising when they try to use their own computers, and there’s not a peep from regulators.

“Guess what?”

“What?”

“CHICKEN BUTT!”

Meanwhile, toilets lobby to jail everyone that refuses to eat out of them.

Musk wants freedom of speech for people. But his definition of “people” is very, very narrow.

<3