One time they had phone tech support for Google music many years ago and it was surreal to talk to someone at Google

That’s so messed up but I also can’t blame anyone who took the deal to escape Germany

Gotcha!

How so?

Haven’t seen something this unhinged in a long time

I used to care when it took a long time. But now that it’s pretty fast I don’t care.

My TV does this thing where for 3 seconds after you press power, it will let you cycle through the inputs (but you can’t see anything because the screen is still off). Then it prevents you from doing anything with a message “powering on” for like 10 seconds. Then the input button opens a menu that lets you choose inputs.

So when I turn it on, I mash the input button trying to change it to the thing I want before it starts “powering on.” So annoying.

I found cwebber pretty convincing:

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

The sad truth is that when Reddit blocked 3rd party apps, and the mods revolted, Reddit was able to drive away the most nerdy users and the disloyal moderators. And this made Reddit a more mainstream place that even my sister and her friends know about now.

Something something mutually assured destruction?

Doing God’s work.

That is too bad. Scary what the government can do. Sounds like you will need two devices if you care to have one that is open source.

I think for some apps you need a mainstream os. But maybe you can use the bank website instead?

It’s less convenient but it’s a payoff

Leafo

I’m the one running itch.io, so here’s some more context for you:

From what can tell, some person made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and Screenshots of the game. The BrandShield software is probably instructed to eradicate all “unauthorized” use of their trademark, so they sent reports independently to our host and registrar claiming there was “fraud and phishing” going on, likely to cause escalation instead of doing the expected DMCA/cease-and-desist. Because of this, I honestly think they’re the malicious actor in all of this. Their website, if you care: https://www.brandshield.com/

About 5 or 6 days ago, received these reports on our host (Linode) and from our registrar (iwantmyname). I expressed my disappointment in my responses to both of them but told them had removed the page and disabled the account. Linode confirmed and closed the case. iwantmyname never responded. This evening, got a downtime alert, and while debugging, I noticed that the domain status had been set to “serverHold” on iwantmyname’s domain panel. We have no other abuse reports from iwantmyname other than this one. I’m assuming no one on their end “closed” the ticket, so it went into an automatic system to disable the domain after some number of days.

I’ve been trying to get in touch with them via their abuse and support emails, but no response likely due to the time of day, so decided to “escalate” the issue myself on social media.

(OCR)