It’s easy to think that Discord isn’t reading your messages or listening to your calls, because the utilize End to End Encryption.

It’s easy to think they’re reading your messages, because they don’t use E2E (only calls use it).
They admit that right in the link you sent.

They also keep scanning your computer for running processes with no way to disable it (for game detection).

tl;dr is if you care about privacy, do not use Discord, or at least not for anything more serious than sending memes.

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive…

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property, but Teslas are not cheap.

I doubt anyone who’d lose one would have their life destroyed.

The issue seems a bit misrepresented by the dev.

The mentioned section of the privacy policy is true only for the logged in users that have agreed to voluntarily share their data.

Without logging in they don’t even store a single cookie on my device.

That website actually promotes Firefox, you know. Not sure it fits this thread.

Yes.

It also gets some free publicity by claiming to be federated/decentralized without the user having to make any actual choices in regards to a server (because there isn’t really any choice).

I mean, maybe it is, but if so then it’s way above my level. :D

I’m not a native speaker either, but I see maybe one minor mistake. I think that person is overreacting, or maybe just doesn’t actually know English grammar that well.

It’d be funny if the other companies caught in the crossfire now sued those LaLiga assholes for blocking their services.

I thought coups are generally illegal and involve a military action.

This just looks like a legally elected politician doing exactly what he promised.
It may not be good things, but none of that was unexpected.

I don’t think being open matters here, it’s the part where it’s developed by big bad China.

All of these threats apply to other LLMs as well.

I was in a similar situation, I just told them I’m cancelling the account when they added the extra charge for extra users, and they’re free to make their own account if they want.

There was a bit of complaining, but it turns out no one missed Netflix enough to come back.

His latest game looks like yet another version of Bioshock, so that’s kind of a funny thing to say.

Why? Sounds to me pretty good that people won’t actually lose their jobs over numbers on corporate spreadsheets.

I mean… when did it stop being huge?

It’s just back to business as usual.

Yes, and another big difference is that Bottles refuses to provide any kind of help to package maintainers.
According to maintainers’ comments on the Github project, they have to figure out how to build it by trial and error.

I was actually really surprised that there’s isn’t any kind of build documentation.
It’s pretty unusual.

I don’t think it’s understandable in this case, no.

The entire project depends on Wine, imagine if Wine devs restricted Bottles in what way they are allowed to use it just because Wine project doesn’t want to deal with bugs potentially introduced by the Bottles dev.

But they won’t, because of the license.
And neither can the Bottles devs.

If they want to have total control over their source code, fine, but then they cannot claim to be open-source and release it under GPL.

It’s kinda shitty, but after reading the other links in the post I can’t say it’s very surprising.

Bottles devs seem weirdly hostile to the idea of anyone repackaging their software, because apparently they’re the only ones that are able to do it properly.

edit: devs also refuse bug reports from any version that’s not Flatpak, so in this context removing the button doesn’t seem that unreasonable.

edit2: now that I’ve had a closer look at the PR mentioned in the post I’m not surprised at all.
Bottles devs are actively hostile. Apparently with this PR it’s impossible to run Bottles outside Flatpak without the package maintainers patching the code.

Holy shit, this company is based in France and they’re publicly doxxing their users in the replies.

I don’t even know what to say, under GDPR they’re extra fucked now.