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@atomicpoet IOW, it doesn't even *matter* if it succeeds or how much it succeeds (e.g. Steam machines were arguably a commercial failure, but paved the way for everything that has come out since).

@atomicpoet customer trust is an extremely important point, and I would add to that another one: Valve doesn't even need the Frame itself to succeed. One of the things that Valve can afford to do and Meta cannot is “iterative improvements”. If you look at the history of the Valve hardware programs, the takeaway is that they don´t actually need to succeed as long as they're a meaningful increment and an experience Valve can learn from. Benefits of being privately own, I guess?

@atomicpoet I got that, what I was wondering was rather why not back up the game data to save it from the wipe? Couldn't it have been reused under Linux?

@atomicpoet may I ask why the wipe? No opportunity to “port it over” from your Windows installation to the Linux one?

@michaelgemar @atomicpoet I mena, they have to get revenge of all the US actors faking a British accent somehow

@cstross @fishidwardrobe have you ever had the opportunity to get some of the discarded ideas from a “thrown away” draft (dead end) to build a new work?

I've updated my article on #Google killing the #openWeb

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/

with some additional moments I had forgotten or didn't know about (thanks to the people who pointed those out to me), and a few additional remarks in an afterword.

I also rediscovered how much of this I had actually predicted in 2013, when classic Opera died.

And it's done

Google is killing the open web

The juggernaut is taking advantage of its dominant position to enclose and destroy the commons.

wok (wok.oblomov.eu)

If you spot any errors (e.g. in my recall of history) do let me know. If you know of additional additional (direct or by proxy) examples of the war of Google on XML, RSS and/or XSLT do let me know.
If you know of more interesting use cases for XSLT, do let me know.

Also, I'll probably add a post-scriptum in the coming hours or days, but I wanted to get this out now.

#Google #openWeb #indieWeb #XML #XSLT #selfHosting #RSS and many others

I'll probably be less active here today because I'm trying to finish a blog post where I pour all my hate for #Google's decade-long history of attacks to the #openWeb and #indieWeb and it's taking way longer than I expected.

EDIT: you can now read it here https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/ and now I'm going to go over a full day of backlog here on‌ Fedi 8-D

@atomicpoet
how the fsck do you get to an analogy between social media queries and spam? is any content you don't like in social media spam?

I haven't addressed it because it's irrelevant to the discussion. But if you really want to insist on that point, then you should be aware that just providing a link to support a statement does absolutely nothing to support the truth or validity of that statement, it just shifts the authority.

@atomicpoet

again, disagree. The answer to this “problem”, which is only a problem for you (and anyone who feels the same way) is for you (and anyone who feels the same way) to not answer social media queries.
It's not an indictment of social media queries (and answers) in general, it's your personal perception of them, which is trivially avoided ignoring them, which is to the benefit of both you and to anyone who actually enjoys participating in the discussions that may arise from one.

@atomicpoet or even the understanding that we're creating an environment where knowledge is shared, and if at any time in the future the “answerer” happens to have a question of their own, they might find an answer in a similar fashion.

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@atomicpoet OTOH the number of things Google actually managers to respond to correctly is going down fast, and the AI slop on top of it added by Google itself is not doing anybody any favor, so …