Anti-Corporate Movement
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15126981 > This comes after a sea of games have been lost due to the creators turning off the servers. While community remake projects like [RELB](https://relb.org/) for Lawbreakers, [Loadout Reloaded](https://gitlab.com/Bedebao/loadout-reloaded) and a [server emulator for The Crew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIo4l-BpK8s) exist, they're miles behind where we'd be if publishers just released a way to host our own servers before killing their creations. They need more signatures from European citizens and then the proposal goes to a board who decide what to do with it.
This community does have quite a couple of subscribers but so far we have no favicon/logo. What do you think we should use? Jeff? Bill? Elon? Some cursed „cousin“? The most popular idea will be considered. Still needs to be legally doable and somewhat represent the community of course. Happy hunting!
Hello World! We have done it! We opened the first openly anti corporate community on lemmy. The description has been carefully crafted but still needs a lot of work so feel free to suggest additions and give feedback. We will add rules and other stuff eventually. The discussion in here should remain respectful. People who defend corporations are still people. Please be kind. If they use rhetoric instead of arguments they will be banned anyway. Please report and kind of trolling and what you suspect as propaganda. Our definition of propaganda is the following: > Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.[1] Propaganda can be found in a wide variety of different contexts.[2] This is taken from the wikipedia.org article. We dont interject if someone is just passionate but if the language they use suggests that they are trying to get around making good arguments, we will. We're happy to have you here. Feel free to post something. Have a great day! :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
blog.tidelift.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1153465 > > In the second finding of the 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey, we found that the more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects. > > ... > > > In the previous finding, we reported that 60% of maintainers describe themselves as unpaid hobbyists, and 36% of maintainers describe themselves as paid (professional or semi-professional) maintainers, earning some or all of their income from their open source work. > > ... > > > When you break down the paid maintainers into professional (earning most or all of their income from their maintenance work) and semi-professional (earning some of their income from maintaining projects), it becomes clear that the amount of money a maintainer is making for their work has a large impact on the types of improvements they are able to make. Across nearly all major categories, professional maintainers are on average over 20 percentage points more likely to make key improvements to their projects than semi-professional maintainers. > > ... > > > In the previous study, 81% percent of professional maintainers earning most or all of their income from maintaining projects spend more than 20 hours a week maintaining their projects. This year, the percentage was nearly identical (82%). > > > Conversely, in last year’s survey, we found that the vast majority of unpaid hobbyists spend ten hours or less per week on their maintenance work (81%). This percentage also stayed consistent in this year’s survey, with 78% of unpaid hobbyist maintainers working ten hours or less per week. > > ... > > > We’ve heard from many maintainers that how they are paid for their work also matters. For many maintainers there is a huge difference between getting a one-time “airdrop” of money, perhaps right after a high profile incident where people are paying attention to their projects, compared to ongoing recurring income that they can count on. So this year for the first time we asked maintainers to tell us whether they would prefer to get predictable monthly income or a one-time lump payment. > > > An overwhelming majority of maintainers prefer to receive predictable monthly income, with 81% choosing that option.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20072658
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/10771034 > Personal review: > > A good recap of his previous writings and talks on the subject for the first third, but a bit long. Having paid attention to them for the past year or two, my attention started drifting a few times. I ended up being more impressed with how much he's managed to condense explaining "enshittification" from 45+ minutes down to around 15. > > As soon as he starts building off of that to work towards the core of his message for *this* talk, I was more-or-less glued to the screen. At first because it's not exactly clear where he's going, and there are (what felt like) many specific court rulings to keep up with. Thankfully, once he has laid enough groundwork he gets straight his point. I don't want to spoil or otherwise lessen the performance he gives, so I won't directly comment on what his point *is* in the body of this post - I think the comments are better suited for that anyways. > > I found the rest to be pretty compelling. He rides the fine line between directionless discontent and overenthusiastic activist-with-a-plan as he doubles down on his narrative by calling back to the various bits of groundwork he laid before - now that we're "in" on the idea, what felt like stumbling around in the dark turns into an illuminating path through some of the specifics of the last twenty to forty years of the dynamics of power between tech bosses and their employees. The rousing call to action was also great way to end and wrap it all up. > > I've become very biased towards Cory Doctorow's ideas, in part because they line up with a lot of the impressions I have from my few years working as a dev in a big-ish multinational tech company. This talk has done nothing to diminish that bias - on the contrary.
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www.eurogamer.net
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19624344 > Ex-[Sony Computer Entertainment Europe](https://www.eurogamer.net/companies/scee) president Chris Deering does not believe recent layoffs across the games industry have been a result of corporate greed. Instead, workers who have lost their jobs should "drive an Uber" or "go to the beach for a year" until employment settles. > > Deering was a guest on games writer [Simon Parkin's podcast My Perfect Console](https://www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole), where the pair discussed games industry layoffs. > > "I don't think it's fair to say that the resulting layoffs have been greed," said Deering. "I always tried to minimise the speed with which we added staff because I always knew there would be a cycle and I didn't want to end up having the same problems that Sony did in Electronics."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19519945 > Taux the rich: Petition (EU) > > Hi there, if you are from one of the EU countries that didn't reach the threshold (see on the page), please sign this petition. ECI (European Citizen Initiatives) are petitions that forces the EU to take a decision on the matter if they reach 1 000 000 signatures.
www.brusselstimes.com
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41690098 > "workers remain on strike on Friday morning and have taken the keys to hundreds of vehicles".
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geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/2628925 > Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it. > > Only two days ago Denmark passed its respective threshold ([I reported](https://feddit.org/post/2583105)) and just last night the Netherlands joined the club. Both countries did so after two weeks of virtually no movement in their numbers. > > To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. The Netherlands is the 6th country to pass the threshold. So who will be the 7th? Currently it looks like Ireland (69%) followed by Belgium (66%), France (64%) and Austria (62%). But as Poland has shown, things can change quickly. > > All that has happened already, happened in only just over one month since the initiative started accepting signatures showing a remarkable momentum. So let's keep the momentum going. If you haven't already signed and are a citizen of the EU (even one abroad) consider signing the initiative. > > *Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign.* Your signature counts to the 1 million goal. > > Relevant links: > - [ Sign the initiative here](https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public) > - [ Initiative homepage](https://www.stopkillinggames.com/) > - [ Video FAQ by the initiator on YouTube](https://youtu.be/sEVBiN5SKuA?) > - [ The same video on invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sEVBiN5SKuA) > > PS: Hi LTT crew. I'm honoured to be your source when reporting on the initiative. But maybe consider also citing the primary sources. The link "Sign the initiative here" leads directly to the page of the European Commission, which has even more up to date numbers than my screenshot.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13094630 > Link to sign EU initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home > > Guides on how to sign EU initiative: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
www.404media.co
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21533341 > You wouldn't pirate a medicine, would you?
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www.theverge.com
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16483931 > Google has to face a class action lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection > > "Google will have to face a class action lawsuit that accuses it of collecting users’ data through Chrome without their consent. In a decision on Tuesday, a federal appeals court reversed a December 2022 ruling that dismissed the case, saying the lower court should’ve reviewed Google’s disclosures and determined “whether a reasonable user reading them would think that he or she was consenting to the data collection.”...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18769750
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www.windowscentral.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19172415 > > Google's campaign against ad blockers across its services just got more aggressive. According to a report by PC World, the company has made some alterations to its extension support on Google Chrome. > > > > Google Chrome recently changed its extension support from the Manifest V2 framework to the new Manifest V3 framework. The browser policy changes will impact one of the most popular adblockers (arguably), uBlock Origin. > > > > The transition to the Manifest V3 framework means extensions like uBlock Origin can't use remotely hosted code. According to Google, it "presents security risks by allowing unreviewed code to be executed in extensions." The new policy changes will only allow an extension to execute JavaScript as part of its package. > > > > Over 30 million Google Chrome users use uBlock Origin, but the tool will be automatically disabled soon via an update. Google will let users enable the feature via the settings for a limited period before it's completely scrapped. From this point, users will be forced to switch to another browser or choose another ad blocker. > > [Archive link](https://archive.ph/VtbGI)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19179773 > Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages. How is this possible? Enshittification.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18643442 > Starting soon at 18:00 UTC (a little over an hour from now).
Today I encountered something new and dystopian: You can airplay from your iphone to an appletv but now youtube drops and locks the quality at 360p, making the content unwatchable on larger screens. Once you disable airplay, the quality jumps back to 1080p. If you choose 1080p before and enable airiplay after, it still changes. This hasnt been an issue for years. this new anti consumer move prompted me to order another raspberry pi to put kodi on.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12250966 > Link to sign EU initiative: > https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home > > Guides on how to sign EU initiative: > https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18182378 > >Filed in 2022, the Texas lawsuit said that Meta was in violation of a state law that prohibits capturing or selling a resident’s biometric information, such as their face or fingerprint, without their consent. > > >The company announced in 2021 that it was shutting down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others. > > >Texas filed a similar lawsuit against Google in 2022. Paxton’s lawsuit says the search giant collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and records of face geometry, through its products and services like Google Photos, Google Assistant, and Nest Hub Max. That lawsuit is still pending. > > >The $1.4 billion is unlikely to make a dent in Meta’s business. The Menlo Park, California-based tech made a profit of $12.37 billion in the first three months of this year, Its revenue was $36.46 billion, an increase of 27% from a year earlier.
www.dw.com
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/889819 > The EU General Court in Luxembourg ruled that the designation was warranted under the European Union's new Digital Markets Act (DMA) because short video app TikTok exceeded relevant thresholds including global market value and the number of EU users. > > Labeled companies are prevented from forcing users in the bloc to consent to have access to a service or certain functionalities. > > ByteDance had argued that its global market value largely came from China, rather than the EU. > > It also said TikTok does not operate an exponential user expansion model and that it was acting as a "challenger" to digital monopolies operated by established platforms such as Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet, which owns Google. Both companies are also designated as "gatekeepers." > > But the EU General Court rejected those arguments, finding that TikTok could no longer be considered a "challenger" on the market, unlike when it joined back in 2018. > > The judges concluded that TikTok had "succeeded in increasing its number of users very rapidly and exponentially" since then, and that its large number of European users does indeed contribute to its global market value.
cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/15200191
