Assuming you mean texting style acronyms, yeah, we have them in German and I’d assume in other languages too.

Alongside the stuff borrowed from English 1:1, there’s stuff like bb for “Bis bald” (See you soon) or hdl for “hab dich lieb” (Love you)

I’d assume other languages do the same out of efficiency or laziness.

What about the uh… hate speech toggle…

I’m not sure if they backpedaled on that but come on.

Yeah, it’s a technically difficult problem to deal with because you’re probably often sharing an IP address or a block of IPs with bad actors. You can’t really share details about it without giving them a hand.

I guess cynically said, you could probably go through their VPN service to fix it, I’ve seen that from time to time.

Essentially, their entire schtick is being a middleman. By sitting between the server you want to visit, they can do helpful things like DDOS protection, being a CDN (basically store website assets closer to you), managing HTTPS for you and providing access to your website over IPv6 even if your server doesn’t have it.

By nature of that though, their position is quite sensitive since it has become a service that a good chunk of the Internet goes through. That causes concerns about centralization and pisses in a lot of people’s cereals politically.

I guess you could do some bullshit with RFID maybe

It’s the same thing with different presentation, I highly doubt Valve is not aware of it, quite the opposite.

It’s something that requires a lot of technical prowess to fix (especially to not disappoint the community now). I don’t blame Valve employees with not wanting to work with it, especially with TF2 code probably counting as legacy nowadays.

In all fairness, Linux got 64 bit and Vulkan so maybe there’s still some people interested but their damage control for bot chat spam (read, disabling chat for free to play) got flamed so that’s not confidence inspiring.

:3c

You’re correct but still please get out

I have a eating disorder so most vegetables make me retch, so I kind of don’t have a choice.

Also companies do way more emissions than I ever will, yet I’m asked to stop.

Actual context is that iirc the bot posts wikihow titles with a random wikihow image, sometimes leading to hijinks

Holy hell

We missed you, shitting toothpaste

In your hypothetical 30 years in the future scenario, this would still be a “more genocide” and “less genocide” pick. We should never have genocide but there’s no way to express that in the US binary voting system, so the choice would have to be tactical.

What do you propose instead?

Where and how do I vote for you?

Wasn’t the reason they couldn’t produce more because of the semiconductor shortage?

For Chess.com, that’s the icons for a forced move. Or at least that’s the file name, I haven’t been able to find a central place for the icon scenarios.

Ask and you shall receive

I mean, I’m young and I have a full on digital collection of albums on my drive.

I don’t like mixtapes for regular listens because I might like the songs in the album if I like one song already.

I do like mixes if I just want to listen to a specific kind of music.

I was picturing the train car being like a submarine, but it’s full of water so the guy is sitting in there in a wetsuit and waiting to reach South Korea