astreus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you’re being obstreperous or not…

  First, these are suffixes not prefixes. Second, this isn’t unusual.

  Xbox Series X was updated in 2024 with no update to show it was the second Xbox Series X.

  MacBooks and iPads aren’t released with suffixes.

  Amazon have released how many Echos by now?

  This isn’t some weird conspiracy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s how it works. The Xbox One wasn’t the first Xbox, DOOM didn’t get a number for its reboot, etc etc.

  But you are right that it’s the second one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Controller⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t find a reference to first - where did you see it?

  You’re right, of course. I still love my Steam Controller (and Steam Link) after all this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "Google never specified which of her 222,000 words was inappropriate. There were no highlighted sections, no indicators of what had rendered her documents unshareable. Had one of her readers flagged the content without discussing it with her first? "

  So much of her work could have broken the T&Cs that she can’t identify what it could be without highlights.

  Original Wired article says later in it that Google thought she was spamming

  Different author, but if that’s the case (and it seems this author shares files to over 80 people in one go) then it’s a spam filter issue? Again, non story.

  The headline is a complete lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we read different articles:

  This person was not allowed to SHARE the things written. That’s not a thought crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Romance” is such a crap term! She was writing porn. Likely with minors. I’m involved with a lot of authors, some also write porn open-door spice, and the only things that get Google bans (from what I’ve been told) are kiddie porn and extreme gore.

  While the dangers of handing your documents to Google can’t be overstated, don’t sympathise too much with this person.