Sure but Twitch is here suing people in a real court. It's not about whether Twitch is forced to host your speech or whatever. Here the government is getting involved.
To get people off their platform they have to serve a restraining order. If someone is hiding their identity the only way to get it is through the courts. For obvious reasons ISPs don’t give that info out to anyone who asks.
Doing that costs them a lot of money, so why shouldn’t they also seek to recover those costs?
I'm not sure they are comparable.
One force of VLC is that it litteraly runs everywhere.
MPC-HC only works on windows, so it's not comparable. mpv has also a lot of target platforms, but not as much as VLC. It's really nice though, and I think a bit of competition is good.
VLC runs everywhere, but do you really need something that runs everywhere literally? Is this like the old hat trick of running Doom on your fridge? I'm content using mpc-hc on Windows and mpv on Linux/Mac. What else is there?
I was pretty die hard against VLC (i've moved everything I do to mpv wrappers once MPC-HC became abandonware) but I'd give vlc another chance if you haven't looked at it in a while. It's come a long way if your opinions were founded nearly a decade ago like mine were.
I've gotten the impression that some places force you to be online on Slack all day and therefore receive notifications. Maybe the Slack admin can see if you disabled notifications even, which could mean you get reprimanded. But I'm not sure.
Some places (my company included), invite people from client organizations on slack. You can have cross-org accounts and limited access to another org's slack.
We are sadly utilizing this heavily. Disabling notifications in those channels is not permitted as essentially you are required to reply as soon as possible. They exist for the sole reason of instant communication, which I find counter productive but product-xxx people LOVE.
Those guests will not play by your rules. Those guests will play by their bosses rules, who might err on the side of yelling at you at first chance. Things like "QA didn't catch bug X" people pinging on a friday afternoon, rather than going in the process of opening a ticket.
Again you cannot ignore them, and you cannot change this, because these people are paying you. Usually it's team leads that are present in those rooms, so they get all the shit thrown at them at random times, and can only tell themselves "hey I 'm paid better than average so it's part of the job right?". No, no it's not part of the job. Whoever made this decision is dumb, and Slack unfortunately catered to the wrong feature requests and made this too easy to happen too.
Since I am seeing how trigger happy our product managers are to invite the client org's PMs to our Slack, I can only dream that in an ironic twist of fate when Slack's product people reviewed this feature request they immediately loved it too and on a friday evening pinged the slack team leads to hop on it :p
eh. I disagree. I find that with Slack there's this expectation to reply right away. And if your boss Slacks you, sees you're online, and you don't reply, it's perceived as not doing your job. And even if it's not perceived that way, we've developed our own fears that we'll be judged as being unavailable/ un-responsive or simply not doing our jobs well enough.
It may be cultural and not just app-based, but when millions of people are using a specific app, its hard not to draw conclusions...
IM is really useful lots of times, but I definitely think it's one of the main contributors to our 'workism' problem and what so many of u have issues disconnecting and eventually burning out.
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