Making this event into an excuse to crack down on any kind of group opens a door that nobody, left or right, should ever want open. JD and co. are playing a deadly game here.

I'd be curious to see how this works in an internal corporate setting. I tend to notice that 1+ page email blasts about some technical or process change at my employer (who I do not speak for) tends to get ignored. If you ask people if they know about the process change, they generally have no idea what I'm talking about. A quick email that says "Hey we've migrated the schmission engine from forkilate to quantilate, please stop using forkilate by August 7th" tends to get a lot of attention!

Yes, an AI requires more, but it's still the same basic idea. I'm still not comfortable with using AI to replace artistic functions in particular for a variety of reasons, but the person you're replying to is definitely within the realm of reason.

Honestly headset weight is more of an issue for 4+ hour working sessions than exercise.

Of course at the same time they have tons of junk in the store. It turns out the trick is to just use a publisher.

I doubt you can ever build a perfect fix for this, but it could be a lot better than it is right now. Unfortunately it's just an abandoned project at this point, and the inevitable Mario Maker 3 will likely just have the same issues.

In the case of being a small business, it’s not even about being shady. Imagine you were building a simple step tracking database for a pedometer app. All it does is store a user id and some daily steps. You have zero intent to market or share it in any way, no ad personalization, no third parties, etc. Before GDPR you’d just spin this up and be fine. Now you need to deal with data consent policies, data deletion tools, potential exfiltration policies if your DB isn’t in the EU, etc. Enjoy the engineering and legal costs there.

Mega corp can just ignore most of this and pay later. It’s a massive difference.

A small company that wants to survive has to spend a lot of effort and engineering hours becoming compliant with the legislation. If they fail to do so, the following legal battle and potential fines have a high probability of bankrupting them. They must be proactive to avoid this.

Large corporations instead get to be reactive. They comply where it’s convenient and otherwise operate on an “ask forgiveness later” mindset. Legal battles and billion dollar fines barely register and instead of becoming destructive events, just become minor taxes on doing business.

As much as I appreciate the spirit of the legislation, the implementation has actually empowered large companies and is squeezing out small business.