It's not company data. Even when OSS was operating it's not their data. A cloud provider does not have ownership of your data (though some, typically the free ones, grant themselves a license to sift through it). Do you get sued every time your OneDrive client syncs?

What hacking charge? OSS was the vendor. You can't hack your own data especially when a judge requires you to access it. Two scenarios: Did you come up with some amazing big brain edge case here or did you not apply any thought to your post at all?

Maybe this is a reflection that their strategy of attempting to buy their way into the market by burning billions offering free stuff instead of making a compelling product has failed. I hope so. God knows they've promised so much about the EGS and delivered so little to date.

Please don't excuse this behaviour. There's no "opposing stance" here. There's no reason for him to have a comment on Linux about anything since it's nothing to do with competition of his business. No there are very many CEOs who very much realise that having a moderate (dare I say curated) public image is important for the health of the company. Tim Sweeny ranks among a few particularly toxic pieces of shit when it comes to "taking stances". In many of his public posts he has been outright aggressive to even his target customers.

He's not normal. (No CEO is normal, but he's far less normal than most).

Yeah but most places that's all there is. Just look at Slashdot. The most heavily discussed articles are the political ones, and the overwhelming amount of them are critical of Trump.

Editors aren't "in love" with Bluesky. Editors don't submit most articles. If you see too much talk about bluesky, maybe that's because it's the Slashdot readers who are submitting articles about it... which kind of also emphasises my point.

You're right, except of course that is if you live in America where the Federal Arbitration Act has leaglised precisely this kind of contractual escape clause and also preempted any state laws that attempts to bypass it. Once again showing that America is land of the free [to get fucked over]

Odds in a small claims court are much better... for Amazon. For starters people buying low cost rubbish that burns their house down on Amazon aren't the same kinds of people that go starting lawsuits in a country which lacks a loser-pays legal system.

This isn't about Amazon. Amazon is a symptom of a wider problem. The underlying question is, why on earth are you able to sign your "rights" away? What kind of legal system lets you do that?

And even they had the sense to attempt to encrypt their shitty feature locally. Like seriously WTF is OpenAI thinking?

Putting an article with the headline "Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust'" immediately above an article about OpenAI's tool which records sensitive information and then stores it for 48 hours unencrypted and sends some unknown data to their servers in the process is a complete master move.

Dear Anthropic, I don't trust you as far as I can throw you, and since companies are constructs not a physical thing I can't throw you at all, even in the slightest, even if I was god damn Thor.

Why would developers care about a completely underperforming store front with a small user base? I don't thing EGS Linux support will influence a single developer. Not one. There's a bigger store with wide spread Linux compatibility.

Do not confuse the Epic responsible for the games and the store (a true piece of shit company) with the Epic responsible for Unreal Engine. It's like chalk and cheese.

I'm sure the only reason Unreal Engine has Linux as a build target is because Sweeney and the rest of the amoebas working at Epic Games don't know about it.

Well given that EGS is an electron app I'm sure they could throw 5 tokens at Claude and have it done in their coffee break. I won't hold my breath for actual Linux support for the store or for any games that Epic has wilfully removed from Linux without reason. They have promised so much and delivered so little.

We have moved far beyond "store-front". Modern gaming platforms like Steam or EGS are expected to support a wide variety of in game things including matchmaking (implies external friends list, which implies a social media structure like chat, ideally as an overlay so it can be accessed from within the game) along side a world of other management tasks, such as mod management, update management, achievement management, and that's before you look at things like providing a universal input API to expand hardware support like SteamInput.

Epic did launch "just a store front" and were widely criticised for it.

But they have one thing going for them, their store front is just a web front end. That's actually the biggest criticism. Their damn Electron powered shitshow is an insane resource hog sitting in the background of a gaming session.

No we need to move away from god damn web front ends. Unless you're displaying basic images and providing just a download link, native code a damn app.

Another great example of denying reality by a MAGATARD.

I mean at this point everywhere on the internet that isn't Truth Social is a place to rant about Trump. He's the most deeply unpopular president in US history, not just locally, but also among his own base, and internationally.

I'd be worried about any platform that isn't filled with rants about him. *stares at the fuel price while in being 7800km away from the moron I can't vote for who caused it to skyrocket*.