This article has such a negative tone for Valve coming in and continuing to fix pain points in a feature/service in a complex ecosystem.

That's because the anti-Biden propaganda coming from Russian bots & alt-right astro-turfing is effective.

The astro-turfers are everywhere (including the fediverse) , and a ton of them present themselves as "concern trolls" since it's a little harder to identify them that way.

Fun fact. Dippin Dots, the ice cream of the future, is stored at -40 degrees

Extra fun fact. -40 degrees is where the Celsius & Fahrenheit scales intersect!

My biggest problem with lemmy is discovery.

I can't find shit I want unless it comes across all and I find it interesting.

I wouldn't say it's a either or thing. I'd say they're equally genocidal.

Petabit/byte is not a buzz word.

We use bits, megabits, terabits, and petabits fairly standardly in tech.

That's not to be confused with bytes, megabytes, terabytes, and petabytes. Server farms will contain Petabytes (PB) of data.

Technically there's also exabit/byte, zettabit/byte, and yottabit/byte as we continue to climb the chain of technical capabilities. It's estimated that the internet overall has nearly 200 Zettabytes(ZB) of information in 2024.

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Feet sweat. A lot. Like a pint (450g) of sweat a day or more if particularly active or you have larger feet.

So for me, daily at the least. On particularly active days, multiple times.

EPA regulations that car manufacturers used as a way to game the system by not focusing on ICE efficency, hybridization, transitioning to electric sooner.

This is the same reason sedans have gotten larger or disappeared in favor of "cross-overs".

Misgony.

From a high level.

• Woman creates a video game about her personal struggles with depression.
• Got favorable reviews, some from notable game reviewers.
• Ex-boyfriend of woman posts a blog post and releases cherry picked chat logs alleging notable reviewer gave her a positive review due to sexual favors/relationship between the woman and reviewer.
• Notable reviewer never reviewed her game.
• Toxic gamer boys got in a huff that a woman was promoted due to sexual favors. They cried "ethics in video game reviews" together.
• Toxicness spreads to other women in the video game industry because of the misgony.
• Gamergate being full of easily manipulated individuals that don't feel like they belong or are heard are now organized.
• Group is infiltrated by people that have a malicious intent to incite and recruit for far right extremeist movements.

The details are interesting, but in the end it's drama caused by frail male egos that led to a ton of misgony.

You do realize investigations take time? And that charges of this level tend to take even more time?

How long do you think the Watergate investigation took? I'll give you a hint, ~2 years.

With the number of players involved and all the shady shit that prosecutors and investigators have to go through, plea deals made, using that information to find corrobating evidence if it doesn't exist yet, possibly flipping another witness and repeating the cycles, new witnesses coming forward, etc etc, I'm surprised we're even seeing charges this year.

BBS predate chatrooms and are proto-forums.