It’s a bad headline dude. Really misleading.

Thanks for pointing that out, it is Discovery’s decision. For their part though, Sony is still at fault as they didn’t demand perpetual use rights for content sold on their store, or at least a full refund for the customer.

This is not gonna be the vote winner they think it is. And fuck them for trying.

Link?

And if you upgrade to an annual 1600 dollar pro license that becomes a million dollars and a million installs before any per install pricing comes in.

Doesn’t seem wild to me.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/08/07/after-nigers-coup-the-drums-of-war-are-growing-louder?giftId=4e8d7c17-e3cc-4737-9979-dde2527e6236

This article covers a bit of the background.

I think this is the journalists addition. The paper doesn’t mention it being unforeseen at all.

Do you mind? I’m trying to be righteously infuriated over here.

The feedback loop is positive? I’ve not read that anywhere, are you sure? There’s a number of tipping points, some which we may have passed already but I don’t think there are any beyond the ability of mankind to counter by simply reducing emissions. Seeing as we’re the greatest contributor to greenhouse gases by a mile.

The reputation damage has been pretty bad for Reddit in my view. They’ve handled things really badly and in the process lost a lot of good will and positive sentiment to their brand. They had good will by the bucket load, that Meta and Microsoft would kill for, and have spent a lot of it in return for very little.

All they had to do was a quick ‘sorry, we have listened’, act like they’re addressing some of the concerns and everyone walks away looking good.