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- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
This is the correct interpretation and the crux of the matter in Valve’s view. Why should they be forced to allow other retailers to sell Steam keys at whatever price they want, effectively taking money out of Valve’s pockets, when it’s Steam providing all of the actual services for said key to function?
This should not be confused with gray market key resellers, by the way (e.g. G2A, Kinguin, etc) . Those aren’t the same as retailers like Fanatical or GreenManGaming.
There was another case in 2021 that originated this complaint and some of these plaintiffs in the 2024 case actually broke off from that one to start this one. We’ll see what evidence they actually end up bringing to court to argue their case and how legitimate it is. All I know, is this will likely end up with Valve stopping third-parties from selling steam keys entirely.
- Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits 1 month ago:
They’re only doing this because of the class action being brought against them. It’s cheaper to let this go to court than to try and settle tens of thousands of individual arbitrations. In fact, there are plenty of companies now reversing course and realizing how badly forcing arbitration can backfire.
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
I guess the anecdotal evidence I’ve seen among all my peers and social networks contradicts those numbers, so we can agree to disagree. It’s easy to massage those stats, especially with the advent of bullshit jobs like “AI prompt engineer,” as an example.
Anyway, good luck to anyone that gets laid off. Shit sucks regardless, and that was really my main original point.
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
Oh for sure, it’s just that lots of folks want pure WFH so they can live wherever they want, especially since the cost of living near these companies tend to be stupid expensive. So while hybrid is better than nothing, it still greatly reduces flexibility in that regard.
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
I should clarify that I was referring to the US. And I have to also disagree it’s voracious for all tech workers, that’s why I said depending on your specialty within the IT field. Hell, there was just a post on the r/cybersecurity subreddit the other day with hundreds of comments agreeing that it’s not a great time right now in the US. It hasn’t just been FAANG companies laying off tech workers, it’s been all over:
forbes.com/…/the-great-tech-reset-unpacking-the-l…
These are not isolated incidents. According to Layoffs.fyi, 384 tech companies have laid off more than 124,000 employees in 2024, adding to the 428,449 tech workers who lost their jobs in 2022 and 2023.
That’s over 500,000 tech workers in just under 3 years. A huge chunk of job postings for IT jobs are just ghost jobs, meaning they’re perpetually posted without actually ever intending to fill that slot. There are lots of reasons why companies do this, but that’s off topic and lots of articles already cover the topic, e.g. stackoverflow.blog/…/the-ghost-jobs-haunting-your…
Anyway, hopefully this slump recovers soon.
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
This is just Amazon’s way of cutting employees without having to pay severances/unemployment. Those workers looking for new 100% WFH jobs are in for a rude awakening. The market is not what it was a couple of years ago. Tons of companies have moved back to onsite or a hybrid model, requiring 1-2 days in office per week.
And if you’re in IT, good luck. Thousands of IT layoffs this year alone, so there’s a lot of competition in that field. My job forced us back to a 3 days in-office per week policy about a year ago, but we were getting a new director who promised more flexibility so I decided to just passively look for jobs here and there versus really trying. I now wish I had focused more aggressively on looking. Ah well, 'least I still have a relatively reasonable job, which is more than many can say.
Anyway, good luck to them. Fuck these parasitic C Suites and fuck this corporate and governmental anti-WFH movement.
- Comment on Is there a way to see user likes and dislikes on lemmy? 11 months ago:
Honestly, I think it’s due to the overall demographic here. I know there are younger folks, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the overall median age range on the fediverse was higher than Reddit. Although, I believe FB’s age demographic tends to skew older nowadays (younger generation has abandoned the platform while boomers and gen X have stuck with it), so maybe that theory doesn’t hold much weight.
That being said, I’ve also seen plenty of assholes here, but that’s to be expected with any online forum. Fortunately, they seem to be much less prominent compared to bigger platforms.
- Comment on Is there a way to see user likes and dislikes on lemmy? 11 months ago:
That seems like a weird feature to include, as I’d think it’d scale badly down the line if kbin becomes extremely popular. You’d be wasting a ton of resources having to query the database and retrieve potentially thousands of users for very popular posts/comments.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
As others have said, encryption is far safer and easier, please consider that path instead if you’re truly in danger of having your ideas read and being punished for it.
However, if you insist, there are tools for what you are seeking. Conlangs (constructed languages) have been used by spies in the CIA and other agencies to converse in plaintext environments in the past. Usually it’s a last ditch effort to communicate in an emergency, but there was that one website that the CIA was using for years before they were finally discovered.
Anyway, there’s sites like this: forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org/?m… It’s weird a fuck, right? Yeah, that site has a lot of conspiracy around it, but the generally accepted thought around that site is it’s a conlang and linguistic hobbyist site. Unfortunately, due to how weird it is, it’s attracted a lot of alien/UFO folk who’ve started shoveling their ideas into the website, so be aware there will be some posts on there that are pretty out there.
Just look up conlang generators and tools, I believe the administrator of that website has emails discussing how they generate a lot of the far out there languages on the site. Think they mention using some python tools, but my memory is rusty.
Good luck. Also, again, please consider using encryption instead.
- Comment on What's wrong with 'eggs'? 11 months ago:
What is that wiki article supposed to be?