Techinically I can build a Postgres DB on Durable Object on Cloudflare right? I'm kinda tired of SQLite migration cascading all of my tables now. Has anyone tried to implement that on DO?
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Why is bullshit detector ringing as hell right now??? This sounds like another billion-dollar-Markov-chain-IP that claimed to change the world, opening with a paper with flying colors.
I always think Valve as the "ideal" capitalist company, because what they do fits the idea of "invisible hand" perfectly, that each individual acting in their own self-interest end up benefiting everyone.
And you'd be right, that Valve is nothing special, if that idea is correct, because in that case most companies will be like Valve. But just look around, do you see many companies like Valve? No, that's because capitalism is bullshit and that makes Valve stand out.
Valve cuts 30% of your revenue no matter how much you earn. They also cut 15% of the transaction by being the middleman on the market.
They also ignored the gambling/trading plague for too long, until a lot of countries threatened them to stop indirectly promoting gambling (which definitely hit them financially).
They are sitting on a money printing machine and their job is making it print no less to buy GabeN another yatch. They are like the cigarette company who donates shit load of money to the charity and cancer prevention lab while making more cigarrate then ever because people love smoking it.
I don't think they wanted or planned to be monopolized, but they are definitely taking the advantage of being it.
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AV1 is not new anymore and I think most of the modern devices are supporting them natively. Some devices like Apple even have a dedicated AV1 HW-accelerator. Netflix has pushing AV1 for a while now so I thought that the adoption rate should be like 50%, but it seems like AV1 requires better hardware and newer software which a lot of people don't have.
Hey I think I've just found a new marketing stunt for a new vibe-coding platform:
"Worried your vibe-coded app is about to be broadcast on the internet’s biggest billboard? Chill. ACME AI now wraps it in “NSA-grade” security armor."
I've never thought that there will be multiple billion-dollar-AI-features that fixes all the monkey patching problems that no one saw them coming from the older billion-dollar-AI-features that fixes all the monkey patching problems that no one saw them coming from...
You are absolutely correct. Valve's linux push was driven by developments in the windows platform, specifically around the release of windows 8. Microsoft was pushing a windows store similar to Apple's app store, and Valve was unequivocally stating that they were worried Microsoft would basically lock down the platform and only allow software sales through their own store, destroying their steam business. Gabe said it plainly himself (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377):
> Mr Newell, who worked for Microsoft for 13 years on Windows, said his company had embraced the open-source software Linux as a "hedging strategy" designed to offset some of the damage Windows 8 was likely to do.
> "There's a strong temptation to close the platform," he said, "because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say, 'That's really exciting.'"
> This is seen by commentators, external to be a reference to the inclusion of a Windows Store in the Microsoft operating system.
Having an open platform is good for consumers, but Valve is primarily looking out for themselves here. Gabe realized that windows could take Apple's IOS route (i.e. https://blog.codinghorror.com/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the...) and lock down their OS, and everything he's done since has been an effort to protect his company against that existential threat.
Well actually they tried with Windows Phone, Windows RT and Windows 10 S but failed miserably. Even Apple didn't even try to lock their macOS from installing 3rd party app.
They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users. I don't believe that they do it out of kindness, but that's actually a good thing for a long term investment.
> They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users.
Until MS (or worse, Oracle) shows up with their half-baked clone (like Xbox Machine or Larry Cube) and ruins everyone's party
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I believe the same but,
> they are just protecting their business and protecting their business "accidentally" also protecting the customer's benefits.
part is wrong. From my observation, they are protecting their business through protecting their customers' benefits.
Plus, they're building a moat collectively and from an open source stack. So, given the stack gets enough momentum, having Valve or not as a company won't matter anymore.
It's trying to get the elephant out of the bag, and once it's out, then there's really no way to put it back, because it's being out is better for everybody. Game companies and gamers alike.
> From my observation, they are protecting their business through protecting their customers' benefits.
Yeah that's what I mean too, that's why I put the "accidentally" in a double-quote.
This sounds like what Red Hat is doing, they created an open-source software, prove the importance of it in the community then sells the support package to enterprise who interested in using it.
Hope that they will not close the door when Microsoft, AWS or Oracle making their own GabeCube and call it SatyaCube, BozosCube or LarryCube
> The reason they move to a lesser known Git provider sounds more like a marketing stunt.
We had technical problems that GitHub had no interest in solving, and lots of small frustrations with the platform built up over years.
Jumping from one enshittified profit-driven platform to another profit-driven platform would just mean we'd set ourselves up for another enshittification -> migration cycle later down the line.
No stunt here.
Well that explains a lot, because I thought that you guys moved due to their direction sounds more like a political act.
Btw why not GitLab?