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This smells of AI. I can't quite find the usual artifacts I expect (though I'm not that experienced), but the positioning of the legs ~~and arms~~ don't make sense to me. edit: Which is weird because this seems to be an artist who has been at it for longer than AI art existed. Is this just a blunder?

The comments are worth a giggle but the AI voice ruins it. Also horrible choice of music.

You're wrong. It does also mean corner.

Presumably this is because a block is different from the content being removed. It simply means the servers stop communicating with each other regarding new communities, posts and comments. This could allow the instance to be unblocked and the old content to continue existing – say for example when an instance has been acting badly, but it gets fixed some time later.

Blocked instances should probably not show up in search, but if you have a direct link to an old post, perhaps this should still be available? Not being able to block a community when its instance is already blocked makes sense, and probably doesn't matter if you mostly check for new content, but I can see it being a bother when its shows up in other situations. One could call this a bug, or an oversight, but I suppose it depends on what the intended result is.

Politicians decide things, but to actually make stuff happen, the government needs to collect taxes to pay for services that are then provided to the public. I think the idea here is to take out the middleman. You won't solve the problem country wide, but you'll help some people, and that's still worth it. Work together without like-minded people locally, be an inspiration, and show that it works. I've only been very briefly part of an activist group (specialized in food saving), so probably best to look elsewhere for good advice on how to do this well.

Yeah, it should not be part of the text just like line numbers shouldn't be part of the code on a code hosting site, yet it can be visible, no? Later it does recommend using $ to distinguish command and output. Is it now okay for a beginner to be confused about what it means?

Is providing a number of commands to use that require user input really that bad? When people start tinkering with the command line, first of all they shouldn't trust just anything on the website blindly, which at the very least requires a basic understanding of how to enter commands, and respond to the terminal asking for input. The following "bad" example..

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt install python3.9

..is instead turned into this single command with even more confusing syntax for beginners:

sudo apt update && \
  sudo apt install --yes software-properties-common && \
  sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
  sudo apt install --yes python3.9

Sure, it's convenient, but if you just throw blocks of code at people to run, are they really learning anything?

A better approach would be to have a quick tutorial on how to use the terminal and what the $ and # symbols mean (though they could be CSS decorators that can't be copied), what sudo is and warning people about running untrusted commands on their system. Then you just link to that at the top saying something along the lines of "if you're unfamiliar with running commands, and the following seems confusing, check this quick summary", behind a question mark icon connected to each block of commands, or similar.

I can also recommend the NoScript extension.

It breaks a lot of websites – which you then have to unbreak by re-allowing scripts for certain domains, temporarily if desired – but you end up getting a better feeling of how bad the web has become when you come across places that want to load scripts from dozens or more of different domains. Like, you're intending to tell how many other parties that I've visited this website?

I'd say start with Apple's and Google's app stores.

I don't think I disagree with you, I just think Valve should be the last company that should be under fire for the 30% cut. As in, it should come after plenty of other companies, because they actually do offer many valuable services in return. I'm all for lowering the cut Valve takes, just make sure every other storefront that does objectively less is required to do the same.

It also feels like complaining about the food from one store being expensive, while you get larger potion sizes than other places for the same price. Yes, food should be affordable. Shouldn't the complaint be made towards the industry as a whole rather than the store that is (for now) objectively better than the alternatives?

It matters because they are not forced by law to maximize profit. They can and do make decisions that are good for the future health of the company, such as making sure developers and customers are happy, and unlike other companies they put that 30% cut toward at least some things.

Regarding worker coöps, I wanted to respond to the other commenter and didn't know how to phrase it. I'm currently leaning towards describing myself as an anarcho-communist, though I'm not well-read at all. However I question a coöp could grow to a size comparable to Valve. From some things I've read about the company, their internal structure might not even be THAT far off from that, allowing employees to choose what to work on and such, even if it's far from ideal.

Finally, Valve has done much more than any other company considering they push gaming on Linux. Also their handheld is dope.

They’re a capitalist company trying to make as much money as they can.

Unlike publicly traded companies, Valve is not beholden to shareholders, so they, unlike most others, are in a unique position to not JUST maximize profits. I think it's okay to point at Valve as an example for other companies to be more like, because most are still worse. But obviously we can always strive for better, as well.

(Also, out of curiosity: Under a capitalist system, can you have anything BUT a capitalist company?)