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Gunax commented on Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems english.kyodonews.net/art... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

echelon · 21 hours ago

The DOJ/FTC need to end app stores on phones.

Two companies can't own all of computing.

Smartphones are the internet for most people, and two companies have installed comprehensive paywalls and distribution gateways.

It's unnatural how large and complete their monopolies are.

Call your legislator and demand web installs without scare walls and hidden developer flags. With no phony restrictions on app type, technology choice, JIT/runtimes, or UI adherence.

We need complete freedom on mobile.

Gunax · 19 hours ago

And yet, people keep buying i Phones. They have a choice. And they are opting in to a closed platform. Likewise with PlayStations and Wiis versus computer games.

Consumers largely don't care and are not interested in esoteric concepts like free software. I would be careful about dictating how things should work.

Gunax commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

simlevesque · 5 days ago

Heads up to those who played CS:GO years ago and like money. I was a pretty active player from 2012 to 2014.

Back then I got dozens of crates that I didn't open, now worth as high as 31$CAD each. I looked it up last week and it's worth over a thousand dollars in Steam. I cashed in on almost half of it and now I have some cash to buy games for my family and friends.

Gunax · 5 days ago

I have some old crates, including the oroginal 'Weapons crate'. But looking at the steam store, it's only worth about $100 usd.

Is there a more valuable one?

Gunax commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

ToDougie · 5 days ago

Played an insane amount of WC3 mod with you guys. Thank you for all the memories.

Gunax · 5 days ago

Im also chiming in to say i remember these servers.

Frankly, i never liked the mod very much and only advanced a few levels. But i distinctly remember trying to kill enemies with some sort of lighting bolt move.

Gunax commented on U.S. alcohol consumption drops to a 90-year low, new poll finds sfchronicle.com/food/wine... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

mrtksn · 10 days ago

Such a sad development, Young people need to drink more and socialize. No wonder the virginity rates are skyrocketing. You don't get into situations by getting stoned at home.

Sure it is bad for your body but when used in moderation the benefits are much much more than that risk. What a scam the weed culture is. Maybe we should ban it again together with the social media to save the birth rates and the society in general.

Gunax · 10 days ago

We will all live long, safe, and boring lives

Gunax commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft

isaacremuant · a month ago

So many people advocating for this in HN and elsewhere when it's so clearly a draconian slippery slope for invasive surveillance and choice restriction. After these things get implemented people pretend it was always like this.

We don't need the governments to mass surveil us to protect us. We need them to sort the economy and stop invading countries and being deferential to corporate interests instead of the people they represent.

It's such an obvious push that If you don't want to see it, it makes me think you're shielding yourself to avoid contending with the reality: These politicians and govs all around, including the countries you claim "work" are absolutely power hungry and beholden to interests other than yours and will push for as much total surveillance as they can, including as much curtailment of freedoms as they can.

Obviously that won't mean elites will actually face justice or crimes will actually be solved because more surveillance is not accompanied with more government transparency, quite the opposite and bigger and more powerful burocracies, with more authoritarianism, allow for easy hidden exceptions that you can't question.

It's nothing new. Corruption is common. It's just mediocre to see "hackers" pushing for it just because the government and corporations tell them to, because foreign country bad, bad social media influences kids, drugs, word-ism, etc.

Gunax · a month ago

It's just information. Data. Bytes. We need a proper George Orwell for the digital age.

The internet used to be a bastion of freedom. That era ended around 2005.

Gunax commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint

x0x0 · a month ago

The idiots at my former credit union apparently subcontract out their credit cards to some east coast bank, whereas my bank and I live on the west coast.

I saw some bank from Florida, that I'd never heard of, calling me on my cell. I assumed it was some sort of scam and ignored it. They're too stupid to get a phone number which has caller id set up to read the name of credit union with whom I did business.

Just amazing.

Gunax · a month ago

Well, afaik caller id is actually unauthenticated and can be trivially impersonated.

Gunax commented on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto theglobeandmail.com/busin... · Posted by u/bookmtn

nikhizzle · 4 months ago

So which one is it? Code is contract and he should get to keep the money. Or crypto is governed by laws outside of crypto and so he violated the “spirit” of the code and hence is a criminal?

It seems like right now the crypto industry makes the decision to their convenience on a daily basis.

Gunax · 4 months ago

There definitely some hypocrisy, but it might work differently in the law.

As devs, we might claim that 'code is the law' but my guess is that the law does not care. That is, one cannot overwrite property laws by a few lines of code.

Consider how disclaimers work--we are increasingly putting limitations on what rights you can contractually forfeit.

This will be interting to watch.

Gunax commented on Born in the Wrong Generation samkriss.substack.com/p/b... · Posted by u/paulpauper

Gunax · 5 months ago

Well, I thought it was interesting.

Gunax commented on What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org/advertising/... · Posted by u/smnrg

crazygringo · 5 months ago

> The line is clear: is money being exchanged in order to promote a product? That's advertising.

The line is absolutely not clear.

Is ABC allowed to run commercials for its own shows?

ABC is owned by Disney. Is ABC allowed to run commercials for Disney shows? Is it allowed to run commericals for Disney toys?

Can ABC run commercials for Bounty paper towels, in exchange for Bounty putting ads for ABC shows on its paper towel packaging?

Literally no money is being exchanged so far.

I'm familiar with a lot of gray areas that courts regularly have to decide on. But trying to distinguish advertising from free speech sounds like the most difficult free speech question I've ever come across. People are allowed to express positive opinions about products, and even try to convince their friends, that's free speech. Trying to come up with a global definition of advertising that doesn't veer into censorship... I can't even imagine. Are you suddenly prevented from blogging about a water bottle you like, because you received a coupon for a future water bottle? Because if you use that coupon, it's effectively money exchanged. What if your blog says you wouldn't have bothered writing about the bottle, but you were so impressed with the coupon on top of everything else it got you to write?

You can argue over any of these examples, but that's the point: you're arguing, because the line isn't clear.

Gunax · 5 months ago

I think you articulated the vagueness very well.

One other example I was thinking was product placement. Are these characters eating pizza? Or is it Pizza Hut®™ pizza?