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.
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.
You need to wander through links a bit to find it but https://ofourdan.blogspot.com/2023/10/xwayland-rootful-part1.html talks about the rootful and the recent changes.
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
Blame the Mastodon team, if you're not running a fork, you have to go into the source and adjust the character limit manually.
Nobody has to do it like this, Mastodon supports longer posts since other servers and clients support more, it's seemingly just a choice from upstream.
Essentially functionally stripped sudo, smaller in size than sudo. See also Pottering's thoughts about the ecosystem
Holy shit the comments on this one are vile. If you don't like the article, don't read it and go on with your day.
The footer of the blog shows a Nix file structure, skimming their blog they wrote a bunch of articles and guides for Nix, checking their repo they have a bunch of Nix work, they're not exactly a nobody (if you couldn't judge from the people saying they'll miss them on the Nix forum post)
This entire article is an extension of https://save-nix-together.org which is the actual thing that sparked the the gasoline covered Nix community, this will probably seem more coherent with that background.
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?
They take cracked games and compress their size down so that shipmates with low bandwidth can download them easier.
How do you imagine such a appeal process would work? If we're assuming distributed moderation doesn't work for appeals, you'd have to appoint moderators who have the (potentially absolute) power to decide on appeals. Who watches the watchers?