There is no legal framework in the US for the federal government to postpone or cancel state elections.

Until the Supreme Court decides there is one, using some obscure common law ruling from 1600’s Britain as precedent.

Trump’s base doesn’t care what happens to Iranians. But schoolgirls? They had high potential under the Little Epstein Island Achievers program, so naturally their loss carries more weight to Republicans.

But you don’t start 20 lawsuits for the same thing at the same time against everybody. You start with one case against one company, and if it rules in your favor, that sets stronger precedent to go after the others.

As for why Valve, I’m guessing it’s easier to demonstrate more specific examples of harm when you have a larger pool of consumers to draw from, and easier to get an American entity in an American courtroom.

Fourth, if you count what he’s letting ICE do to his own citizens.

That’d be the argument if one was a computer application and the other was a brand of household cleaning products or something. But both of these Zooms are computer applications with a chance to be listed side-by-side in app stores and search results.

The Discord alternative formerly known as Revolt, now known as Stoat, had to change their name following a C&D from (purportedly) an online news outlet that was also called Revolt.

Feel like a C&D on their name is imminent with the video conferencing app Zoom.

What they’re describing isn’t just going to sleep, but putting a game on pause, doing whatever else you want (such as playing a different game) and then resuming exactly where you left off.

It’s basically just dumping the RAM to a file and loading it later, same as an emulator save state.

I think it’s “console enough” that it could still work. Current consoles are really just locked-down PCs anyways.

It’d be no different than the OtherOS functionality on first-run PS3 consoles that allowed them to boot into Linux. Perhaps simpler than that even, given that current consoles already use standard PC hardware and not the Cell architecture the PS3 ran on.

Independent emulation teams trying to keep older games alive are true heroes, but there is certainly something to be said for the quality of a competent team of first-party engineers who have access to all of the original code and architecture documentation. Truly some magic they were able to pull off.

Here’s hoping it still has that functionality, I don’t see a reason why it couldn’t.

Could be that they add that functionality into Windows. There’s nothing special about newer games that run on Xbox, they’re all x86 applications. Microsoft could just release the Xbox middleware as its own app and allow Xbox games to work on whatever PC it’s installed on, which is basically all that an Xbox is right now.

For older games (360 and OG Xbox), just do the same thing with the emulator that they currently run through.

You know, I’m okay with this. If it makes PC gaming more accessible, and if it offers meaningful competition for the Steam Machine, it’s good to have options. Sure it’s Windows, but if it’s just a PC running an Xbox UX, I’m sure you could change the OS to whatever else if you want.

If anything, it does make the PS6 a less appealing choice, because why pick a dedicated console when you can get an (assuming) comparably strong, comparably priced gaming PC?

Well, he thinks his dad was born in Germany, but yes his grandparents were German. His grandfather was a draft dodger who fled Germany to move to the US. Seems like draft dodging is a family tradition.

Hah, could be. Illegal immigrant who faked his place of birth to claim US citizenship. That’d be quite a plot twist.

They already took their millions in Tencent money and ran with it.

https://www.polygon.com/highguard-funding-tencent/

Hah, well your username may be more relevant than mine, at least!

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

The US is full of many good people who feel they can do nothing.

I had that sort of thought myself not long ago. If Donald Trump just showed up in front of me out of the blue one day, would I try to kill him?

I don’t consider myself a radical or revolutionary. I’m not gunning to be the next big-name presidential assassin to appear in the history books. I’m just a normal, everyday person trying to get by, one day at a time.

But I think I would. I dunno. Maybe a lot of other normal people feel the same way.

I think it probably doesn’t matter what he wants, it only matters that the data exists at all. If the owner is not giving permission, that’s one thing. But I’m inclined to believe that those American 3-letter agencies aren’t the sort to ask permission.

All it takes is one disgruntled systems engineer who thinks they don’t get paid enough. An agency comes knocking with a sizable offer of cash, and they’ll get the backdoor they want.

E2E encrypted messages in Matrix contain more user metadata than alternatives like SimpleX, nothing scary but a MitM is able to see origin points, destinations, and times of messages. Server to server, if you’re using E2E encryption, it relies on trust that the other server is not compromised.

And it seems Matrix.org is not the best at security disclosures: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/#matrix-response