I didn’t sound like a centralized system from the article. More like they want a third party like Verisign or something.

It’s going to be both. Bluesky will verify users, but they’re also going to have other authorized verification entities.

From what I’ve seen, there will be two distinct types of blue check- users verified by Bluesky will have one mark, and users verified by a trusted authority will have a different mark.

Now who will those third-party verifiers be, and how will they be selected, hasn’t been announced yet.

No, he cares for Twitter.

SpaceX lets him pretend he’s some great tech genius, but Twitter is what gives him the validation he craves. All the pro-Elon bots and stans there who fellate him feed his narcissistic desire to be loved.

That’s why he “sold” Twitter to xAI. So if Tesla does tank hard enough and he gets margin called, he can’t be forced to sell Twitter to cover it.

It’s been a minute, but off the top of my head:

• The story was ass.
• Not enough content for a “live service” game.
• Enemy levels scaled heavily with your gear level, so better gear didn’t make you feel any more powerful.
• The stats system for the gear was trash. Like, equipping one piece of high level gear and then keeping your starting gear for everything else was legitimately better than trying to get BiS for all of your gear.
• Gear had randomly generated buffs, and those might buff other gear. But sometimes it would you would get a drop for something your class could equip (not every class could use every weapon, for example) but with buffs to a weapon your class couldn’t use.
• For a game that was essentially “be Iron Man” they included an overheat mechanic so you couldn’t just fly wherever you wanted.

Anthem was a really great idea for a game that had an absolutely terrible execution.

And now Firefox is requiring you to hand over your data to them.

If you’re talking about the most recent news about the Terms of Service, that is a gross misreading of what they said.

For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit,

I’ll admit it: a $30k EV with 600 miles of range? You’d be an idiot to not consider that, until it was proven to be bullshit and Elon was proven to be a full-on fascist.

Man who never earned anything a day in his life continues streak by not earning video game achievements.

You mean like they did when Windows 7 went EoL?

Or when Windows XP went EoL?

Or when NT 4.0 went EoL?

This isn’t the first time Windows has gone EoL in a corporate environment; what makes you think it’ll be better or worse than previously? Some will begin the Win11 transition, some will pay for extended support until Windows 12, a few might switch to Linux, and the rest will run unsecured until circumstances force them to fix it.

Ever heard of the glass cliff? You might even see a name or two on that list that you recognize.