Ukraine's United24 Media, a government-run platform, shared a video of Ukrainian soldiers using the Steam Deck system to remotely control guns on social media over the weekend.

    • grandepequeno [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Is he? Varoufakis said that, back when he worked at valve, Newel had an "anarcho-syndicalist soul trapped in a private company" or something like that

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          Can't speak for the rest of valve but last I checked the actual developer portion of the company is run with a flat hierarchy and nobody enforces participation in projects, people work on whatever they want to work on. He does own it though.

          • Hexboare [they/them]
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            2 months ago

            Certainly elements of it but it stretches believability when he's a multi billionaire

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              2 months ago

              Maybe. Not sure how relevant it is today but this is the old "new employee handbook" that Varoufakis would have had on his first day there: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf

              Interesting read. Cool place to work tbh and as far as bosses go I do think he's on the better side regardless of the numerous criticisms I have of Valve.

        • grandepequeno [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Of course but that doesn't make him a libertarian. I'm not saying he's actually an anarcho syndicalist or whatever probably just a business guy

      • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        Maybe? But the guy still sold lootboxes as gambling for children, so he can't be that anti-capitalist.

        • grandepequeno [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Of course, I meant more that he's probably more of a hippie doo doo kinda guy than an ideological right-wing libertarian.

          I mean christ, look how he looks now