Video streaming is not cheap. Petabytes and petabytes of data transferred, stored, streaming, networked, etc., etc. YouTube is already barely profitable and only from pissing off their audience and streamers.

A comparison to Patreon isn’t fair at all because they have almost no infrastructure to speak of. What do they actually do? Host a web site with some forum software on it? Handle subscriptions and emails, with a light bit of payment handling? Really?

The entirety of the internet is unusable without ad blockers.

I mean, that all depends on what the MPL allows.

The engineers that work there certainly aren’t going to stage a coup.

What engineers? Musk fired all of them when he first started.

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

Q: How does Snoop answer the phone?

A: I’ll make the song.

Yeah, makes sense to North Korea, too. I’m not sure they’re an example to follow, though.

To be clear, nation states controlling the tools that their employees and, potentially, wider population communicate and access information is a dystopian vision, and I cannot agree with that point at all.

Wow, what a way to take the most extreme POV possible on an issue.

Yep, we already beat that dead IP into the ground, so let’s do it for another one!

Shitty tech opinions were flooding Medium before, so it’s not much of a difference.

Konami died the moment they fired Kojima and embraced the god of pachinko machines.

Chris Roberts is still rich, and could probably retire right now without worrying about anything. He could tank the company, and he wouldn’t care.

This guy has the most unhinged thumbnails.

The sad part is that most of the whales aren’t actually that rich…

Too bad FTC rules are useless, thanks to SCOTUS striking down the Chervon ruling.

3 * 2 = 6

3 + 2 - 1 = 4

So, close enough? How “close to 1” are you talking about?

If they didn’t want to be annexed by China, they shouldn’t have signed a treaty to do so.

If anything is a “Bethesda-killer”, it’s games like Outer Wilds, not The Outer Worlds.

It’s too bad about everything else about Hexbear.

Oh, they paid her legal fees? How nice!

Of course, that doesn’t fucking matter when she was put in prison for five years.