Ok, then please tell me, in terms of giving one’s consent, exactly how the two are different?

Because I fail to see how opting out in either case is any way a different process than the other.

The developers are putting the onus on the end user that is affected, and relying on them having knowledge that their product exists. Then it is the users’s responsibility to figure out the process to remove themselves from the user group and trusting the developer/admins to actually take any action to do so.

This is the only argument I am trying to make - opt out is bad. Please stop using it when developing technologies that affect user’s data and/or privacy.

Saying that the bridge is nothing more than another ActivityPub instance is very disingenuous.

While it may be built upon the ActivityPub protocol, but its main purpose is to act as a bridge to non-federated platforms, which is unique to that instance. When signing up for a fediverse instance, it should be known to the user that their data will be shared within the fediverse network. But, no permission is given to share on any platforms outside the fediverse network, using non-ActivityPub protocols.

So, no, opt-in should not be necessary for all instances, but in the case of the bridge, it is, because it’s enabling a feature that users haven’t explicitly agreed too and isn’t a core part of the ActivityPub protocol. And since the bridge is being made open-source, should users also be expected to track down any other instances that pick up and use it and manually block and opt-out of those?

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Tbh, I wasn’t talking about the legalities of AI or copyright law. I was using that as an example of why opt-out is a shitty business practice that makes people frustrated and upset. Because people commenting on this post and defending the bridge don’t seem to understand that.

The other thing, that I see even more people upset about, is that the bridge requires you to Opt-Out, rather than Opt-In for being included.

It’s totally fine if you want to be included, especially if you have friends on BlueSky. But, it’s just a shitty practice that is all too prevalent in new tech. AI companies are doing the same thing - if you’re an artist, you’re supposed to magically know all of these new, obscure AI startups and somehow find how to opt-out of being included in their training data set. It’s ridiculous.

Same concept here, I would have had no idea this was a thing, if not for people speaking up about it. Some people make a conscious choice to join Fediverse communities because they want nothing to do with big tech and want more control of their data and privacy and who has access to it. Why is such a big deal to respect that?

The most realistic answer is - as long as movie studios deem it to be profitable to continue releasing them. I think there will always be niche companies like Criterion that will release physical media. I mean, vinyl LPs are still being produced to this day, so really it’s all about demand.

Personally, I am surprised that DVD format has lasted as long as it has, in regards to current technology. The majority of TVs available today are 4K, to which 4K UHD Blu-rays match the native resolution. 4K UHD is 4x the resolution of a standard Blu-ray(1080p), which are over 4x the resolution of DVDs (480p). So, they are really quite outdated/obsolete unless you still have an older 1080p or 720p TV and have a good player with upscaling.

I had the same problem. If you know your prescription, there are a few companies that will make custom lens inserts for most headsets out there. I bought some lenses from VR Optician for my HTC Cosmos and they are awesome. Totally changes the experience and makes it so much comfortable than squeezing your glasses inside the headset. Plus you avoid the issue of lenses fogging up. Definitely worth the money.

https://vroptician.com

Also in East Asian cultures, the number 4 is unlucky either because its pronounced the same or similar to “death”. So, they often don’t have floors with the digit 4.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

I lived in a condo building in a high Chinese population city in British Columbia, Canada and there was no 4th, 13th or 14th floor.

According to the article, Starfield was still nominated for best RPG… so, not really ghosted. More like they got the participation award for the unfinished, under-baked game they put out.

It would have been insulting to the other devs if they were nominated for GOTY, because Starfield isn’t even in the same league as the other nominees and Bethesda should play those to see what an actual polished game feels like.

YOLO

I just completed main story a couple days ago. Before that, I also did Pirates, Freestar, Terramorph, Ryujin and all the Constellation companion quests, except for Sam. Also did a lot of the activities and side quests. I’m not a completionist, so I feel like I’ve gone far enough and got to experience the majority of what the game had to offer.

I may go through just enough to check out Sam’s quest, but other than that, really don’t have any desire to go further than that or play through again as a bad guy. Outposts, exploration, crafting are too much of a grind with little payoff. Too many frustrating issues, as others mentioned.

The man is a billionaire with a private jet. It would only take, at most, 3 hours to get from Austin to SF.

If he can call it in for X, then it can work the other way around too for all the other companies. He just couldn’t be bothered to actually show some good leadership, for once.

If he can’t balance the responsibilities for owning all those companies, then he shouldn’t be running them and should sell them off.