The speech free platform continues to remove speech.

Isn’t this built into the Android OS already? I assume iOS has a similar feature

MSN messenger died for Skype

Skype died for Teams

We’re not on a great trajectory here

(Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)

Also tangentially related: one of Tim Berners-Lee’s regrets is the two forward slashes between the protocol scheme and the domain name

Also I love that the older BBC articles are frozen in time like this

Not a great look when the German intelligence agency has to tell you: we know from history that fascism is bad

Well one of the main problems people are having with AI is that it doesn’t get things correct every time.

I mean, if they adjust it away from the correct assessment that modern conservatives are actively malicious morons, it’s probably going to be so bent out of shape that it’ll be incapable of telling anything remotely truthful.

Proton for ARM is not (currently) a thing, if that’s a factor

If the court would now draw its attention to exhibit B

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(how long is this)

I’m in the same boat as you, with decades of projects I want to be able to open.

However, OP mentioned Reaper, which has a native Linux version! So as long as they’re not using a load of VSTs, and the ones they do play nicely with Linux, it could work out for them

The only way is to give it a go and find out though

Sure but that’s like calling Vice City GTA4. It’s not named that by the people that make it

A very nice change of recent trends across the world

IIRC valve outright said it wasn’t HL3

Y would anyone want one of those

TBF it’s not something I really read, just that I’ve heard of it. Though that’s a pretty clear signal of what the future holds for Polygon then

No, not at all, generally not a good sign whatsoever (unless you’re wall st apparently). I guess there’s the chance it was particularly inefficiently staffed, but then Vox seem like they should have known what they were doing, so that doesn’t seem likely.

The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant being the only one I’ve heard of though. Perhaps they’re planning a consolidation and this is the redundancy from that?

Not necessarily saying there’s a silver lining, just trying to rationalise

Hmm, had to look up who these guys were

Apparently they own XDA and Android Police too, which haven’t gone entirely to shit

I’ll tentatively put the pitchfork away

Oh that’s actually pretty sad to hear—I did not realise they had new owners

for some reason

I’m gonna guess they’re going to release an overpriced bundle of the games

I cannot wrap my head around why the game industry hasn’t already unionised massively—I hear horror story after horror story and everyone working in the industry seems to have convinced themselves they’re special and it won’t happen to them

It’s EA, this is what they do