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Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Got it. Transphobia and racism are the same as memes about eating pineapple pizza. Might as well make a joke about how your pronouns are Real/Awesome and all the other stupid bullshit.

Well, at least this indicates that removing that text was not an accident or an oversight. And it is good to know where lemmy.world’s admins actually stand.

Fucking clown shoes…

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

“Just trust me bro” is never a good model.

Because maybe the current admins are all great people who will do right. But we don’t know if all future admins will be. And if we get a “rules lawyer” coming down on a complaint that some community is being horrifically racist as “Well, it isn’t against the rules…”

But also? The world is an increasingly shitty place. Twitter is run by a straight up white supremacist. Having this kind of verbiage goes a long way toward indicating if a place can even possibly be a “safe space” as it were.

But also: If the idea is that we should just trust the admins: Why have any rules at all?

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Pretty much. Writing vague nonsense without even using vetted examples as a basis. And then spending more time trolling people than addressing concerns. And this follows on mysteriously wiping out entire mod teams because of a decision that a dark grey area is “illegal” (rather than just “a good way to get sued”) while actively not addressing the mods openly discussion said wipings. Or the flip flopping on whether to allow the piracy communities because apparently cranky users beat potential indentured servitude to nintendo.

Gonna be honest. I did not expect to re-live the 00s message board cycle in 2023. And probably need to start looking for a new home instance since we can already see the chuds coming out of the woodwork because they feel empowered.

… just in case we really ARE back in the 00s. Cliffy B. Cliffy B. Cliffy B.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

The difference is that if a TOS needs to be changed to support shitty behavior, it changes. That is often a canary in the coal mine as it were and people STILL cite google removing “Do no evil” and so forth. Same with the Unity debacle where a few people noticed things had been rewritten… and nobody listened until it became a massive kerfluffle.

Because yes. Admins can do (and see) whatever they want. Welcome to message boards. And I do think having a written TOS is a good step forward (even if this TOS is probably objectively bad for a lot of reasons). It provides a contract of sorts.

But also: I would very much say that NOT providing provisions for discrimination based on ethnicity/sexuality/gender/religion/whatever is a pretty big red flag almost to the level of “I don’t see color”. Because yes, it is not in and of itself support for bigotry (even if many will view it as such). It is an indication of not understanding the problems that others are facing and not realizing how important it is to call that out.

Like, there is a reason that “Wheaton’s Rule” is not actually something you can run a community on. And this has been demonstrated time and time again over the decades.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Just because the OP’s blurb really ignores almost the entire story in favor of some weird dog whistling:

Information about the engagements was still being processed, Ryder said. "We cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea potentially to targets in Israel.

So (allegedly?) Iranian backed terrorists in Yemen likely fired missiles toward Israel. US destroyer intercepted.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

I know this is mostly posturing at this point but:

“AI” has been in big budget games for decades. Hell, the big deal with Oblivion was that they had magic technology to procedurally place trees according to various heuristics. And I think that also added a resource management system to NPCs so that we could DB Apple them?

Same with coding and art and sound and so forth.

  • All that cool magic wand and fancy ass filter shit in photoshop? Those are increasingly “AI” tools that will analyze the image and extrapolate what should or should not be “behind” something and so forth.
  • Coding? if you AREN’T using a tool to generate stubs and even tests at this point then you are wasting your own time.
  • Audio? Again, the same “AI” filters already exist. Same with tools to detect pauses or to split up dialogue and so forth.

The reality is just using it effectively. Oblivion was boring as hell because the entire overworld was empty and lifeless. Same with BOTW. Whereas Ubi, for all their actual gameplay flaws, are spectacular at adding POIs and “events” in strategic locations so that you find something while you are hiking across a forest to get to an objective.

Same with art and even CGI. You aren’t going to get a good outcome if you ask dall-e to make your art for you. But you are going to get good results if you start with a solid base and then procedurally add rust or spatter to it. You aren’t going to get a good result if you have your actors on a studio lit stage talking to nothing (Hi Prequel Trilogy). You are if you add lighting relative to the scene (The Volume) and use placeholders they can act off of.

And… same with writing. Ask ChatGPT to write your screenplay? It is going to be bad. Use the proper prompts to get the “voice” of a character right or to generate some background dialogue that you won’t even correctly hear because the mics are focused on Meg Ryan faking an orgasm? Suddenly you have a better “product” than everyone else who just tells extras to wing it or putty around. Same with having a Black Scottish Chick sound like she isn’t written by some white dude.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

While I generally agree (and that applies to almost all “an LLM can’t do that” discussions):

Head counts are not going to remain the same. Well, it might in writing, but there is a reason the WGA went on strike.

If you can apply effective filters/transforms to a base texture, you can now do the same work that would have taken you weeks in a day or two. If you aren’t “wasting time” writing unit tests or making utility functions, you no longer need junior developers to punt the Charlie Work to. And so forth.

In some fields? Being able to do more with less means you do a LOT more.

But, generally speaking, that means you need fewer people and you pay fewer people.

This is one of many many reasons that we need to have been exploring UBI decades ago. Because we are increasingly going to see a decrease in employment as technology is more and more able to “get the job done”. And unlike with farm work and factory work… there isn’t really anything on the horizon for all the “creative” workers to do.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Do you have a link to the EU requiring consent to detect ad blocking?

Most of what I can find is from the late 2010s but specifically says that consent is not required for adblock detection. adguard.com/…/eu-defines-its-stance-on-ad-blocker…

iabeurope.eu/…/20160516-IABEU_Guidance_AdBlockerD…

But also: I assume consent can be obtained with a mandatory TOS update.

Tools to archive GameFAQs HTML guides?

So with the ever increasing news that GameFAQs is getting full fandom’d, I figured I would grab some of the more useful guides for when I want to play a “retro” game or just 100% a LAD. From quick research, it looks like the txt guides are more than covered but the HTML ones are still kind of in a void....

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever OP ,

A few years back, CBS sold CNET (CNET, Gamespot, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb) to Red Ventures who then sold basically everything but CNET proper to Fandom. If people aren’t aware of what Fandom is, just go to basically any video game wiki and see how many pop ups you need to close just to see some misinformation.

Anywho, Fandom have a decent record of killing every property they buy in the interest of monetization. And they can do that because they buy EVERYTHING. And as of a few days ago, one of the long standing admins at GameFAQs announced they were stepping down. Which… suggests Fandom realized they own GameFAQs and are likely about to start gutting it to add as many ads and autoplay twitch pages as possible.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever OP ,

Looked at that. Seems like it would have worked back back when ?single=1 didn’t break all images. But since the guides are broken up into multiple pages, the automated scraping tends to lose its mind because it will try to get the entire site. Rather than a subset of pages.

Thanks though

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

It isn’t good, but it also isn’t necessarily “bad”,

The entire region is getting destabilized. So if anyone can leave, they should. It is when we start evacuating the embassies that things are REALLY bad.

Like, to put it in context: I used to work a job where I was required to inform the US government when I went on international travel. I still remember having to explain to one of my interns that the downright terrifying message about being on high alert when going to the UK was the “official” way of saying “Trump is going to be in country and people will probably politely protest. Don’t join them”

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

The answer is pretty obvious, but I have seen a lot of folk on lemmy (and elsewhere) who think this is a good solution. Might be worth coming down on it:

Copy full text of article into an LLM and ask it to rewrite that article “to be more understandable”. There is the bot that automatically does that for every article (and mostly just increases the misinformation and what not…), but I have seen more than a few people suggest doing that for the text portion of a post.

Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why (www.wired.com)

Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why::Shikhar Sachdev wanted to reveal what made the process so draining—so he spent 11 hours filling applications. Now he has tips for both job seekers and hiring managers.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

If you’re applying, you probably want the job

In the sense that you would like a paycheck? Sure

In the sense that you are remotely qualified for the position or meet any of the requirements? Not necessarily. And I don’t mean “This entry level position needs twenty years of experience”. I mean “Understands that python is a language”

And a lot of those obnoxious timeouts and headaches are related to minimizing the “just apply for everything” impact on an applicant pool.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

This predates the pandemic.

I have been on both sides of things. I have had to deal with the literally hundreds of applicants that are completely fake CVs or so underqualified that I would be better off grabbing a random kid at a high school job fair.

And the reality is that if I have had to sift through hundreds of bullshit CVs, I am not going to be giving anyone “a chance”. Unless you specifically meet every single requirement AND look amazing on paper, you are in the bin because I already wasted hours of my life doing due diligence on the assholes.

I hate everything about workaday. I hate that it incorrectly parses my CV in new and exciting ways every time AND means I need a new account for every company, if not every opening. But I also understand what happens if you ACTUALLY make it as simple as filling out a template once.

And while the article is complete bullshit (gotta love the mysterious loophole of OPT as though it is some secret…), I do agree with the outcome. If you are a “skilled” worker going into a comparatively niche field, favor the openings that aren’t using workaday. My best interviews have been from using the automated linkedin application system that basically just sends an email. Hell, that is where my current job is from. But that is also because these were jobs in specific subsets of fields and not entry level positions or openings at Google.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Neither? Wildlands has some REALLY shitty depictions of South America and Breakpoint is that modern day ubi-Clancy of “Are they ironically spewing right wing propaganda or?”. And Ubi in general is a company with rampant employee abuse of a sexual nature.

That said: Wildlands is the much better game. Breakpoint “feels” better, but it is clear it was designed to be a co-op live game from the start with most of the missions not designed for AI. Whereas Wildlands was very much set up to just have three problematic bearded dudes lean out of a jeep and unload on anything you drive past.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Blaming Hamas makes sense if all you know is “We don’t think we did this and the org we are at war with are blaming us”. And I am not certain, but I want to say most of what you listed after that was less an Israeli Government statement and more The Internet (we even have shades of “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” in “hamas can’t make an explosion that big”)

But also? We are about 24 hours out from this. All news is breaking news. The Internet, much like The 24 Hour News Cycle, have made it incredibly easy to see every update as they exist (and, because of misinformation campaigns,non-stop FUD). But it is important to take a breath and wait for things to settle. Keep yourself informed, but avoid leaping to conclusions until there is time for third parties to vet information. And understand that, even now, we are still missing a lot of info.

And also learn how to vet your sources. because we are responding to a post that has decided the obvious answer to evidence indicating it was (probably) not the IDF is “Well, it was obviously a false flag by the IDF”. Which… gets back to crisis actor and “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” territory.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Information to people who don’t know how to parse it is dangerous and ever increasingly dangerous.

But… it is also clear that people are going to spew lies regardless. Again, “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”.

And, as it stands? I very much prefer that I know a few people and orgs I trust to analyze available data. And they also document that analysis. Which is a lot better than hoping CNN paid someone competent to write a piece for Anderson Cooper to read out on air.

Like, reddit doxxing multiple victims over the years comes up every time. And… that is a definite concern. But that also gets into knowing how to vet your sources. Because I don’t care what some rando on a message board says about “that sounded like a JDAM to me” or “hamas doesn’t have explosives that big”. I care about what people who used to be CIA analysts and have a solid track record AND who understand what information you don’t publish online have to say.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever , (edited )

I obviously don’t have a deep insight into FDev’s finances. But they have pretty openly said that Elite is a foundation of the company.

And yet, they have done everything they can to kill that. Cutting back on social media spending to more or less make every single Influencer say the game is dying. Turn updates into a trickle of “You know that thing that was added two years ago? They finally added enemy NPCs around it”. And even actively screw over the people who were dumb enough to buy the ten year pass by not even providing steam keys for the pre-ordered expansion (currently on two of ten or so?) to let people take advantage of Valve’s CDN.

It is genuinely baffling. Other devs are, if anything, focusing too much on keeping the bread and butter live game “live”. Whereas FDev seem to have decided that they can do whatever to E:D and the money will keep flowing… which might be true but…

Also, should be obvious but: Lapsed E:D fan who bought the lifetime pass like an idiot.

Just to elaborate on the community streams more. Most live games have their community managers (sometimes devs) do a weekly or monthly stream where they play the game, talk about what is coming, interact with the playerbase, etc. They are almost all puff pieces, but whatever. FDev reduced the frequency of those (I forget if by half or straight to quarterly) which was IMMEDIATELY fuel for “Frontier is sunsetting Elite”. And it isn’t like they fired the community managers. They just… do less streams.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Honestly? This is actually a “smart” move… given the current husk that twitter is.

The Man Who Used An Emerald Mine To Finance His Hairplugs has made it pretty clear that the goal is to make twitter an Everything site and that people should trust them as an online bank. And the users have made it clear that you can have a frontpage that is nothing but animal abuse, misinformation, and musk posts (kind of redundant but…) and people will still stick around because a celebrity posted a meme.

So get people to pay “less than nothing” to get their payment info into the system to pre-seed future efforts and “offerings”. More or less the same with every instagram account becoming a threads account.

I don’t think this will make more money than the ad revenue back when twitter was a functional site (and that was already not enough) but… companies don’t want to pump ad money into a site that will post their brand next to a neo-nazi talking about how the latest school shooting was a false flag operation.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

So protests should only be allowed if they don’t inconvenience anyone?

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Then what did you mean to say? Because you apparently think it is “reasonable” to arrest protesters if they get in someone’s way.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Everything you are describing are the constraints that have been placed there by those in power. The mere fact that you are focused on the idea of angry people stopping you from going where you want to shows that it works. The baddies aren’t the people destroying the world. It is the people who are forcing you to walk around to the back door of the hotel. It is the people who forced you to make a left on 5th street to get to work.

As for “What if they were neonazis”: Honestly, sure. Because if I have pissed off the klan to the point they are organizing protests in front of my house, I want them to. I want people to see just how readily the police protect nazis. And I want to know that I need to go into hiding.

Because if all protests and strikes have to be done in a way that inconveniences absolutely nobody: Nothing will ever happen.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

“rule of law” is literally the status quo. You are saying it boils down to how much you value the right to protest and seek change versus the protection of those in power.

Also: Politicians are controlled by “special interest groups”. Such as oil executives who are well known to use lobbyists and bribes to continue destroying the world. Protests like this are about getting others to become and stay aware of that in the hopes of either pressuring politicians to do their fucking jobs or to get concessions from oil companies to “save face”.

If you keep all protests in a designated location so that you aren’t inconvenienced: you accomplish nothing. Well, other than protecting the people killing the planet.

You are not enlightened. You are actively siding with the oil execs and praising the boys in blue for stopping people from complaining. Decide if you are okay with that or not.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

And by saying that you have already made it clear that you just view the dead as a tool. In your moral high ground, you make it clear that their death only had meaning if it means you can blame the IDF for it. Which was the “shallow” argument being made.

Believe it or not: you don’t have to have a take or choose a side on every single thing that happens in the world. And you can also wait a day or two until more information is known.

Or you can just shit on the memory of dead civilians unless they support your narrative. Works pretty well for the IDF and Hamas.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

It really isn’t. The IDF have been committing crimes against humanity for decades. Just like Hamas has been committing acts of terror. And the fact that EVERYONE stops caring once evidence suggests the IDF didn’t drop the bomb sums it up.

IDF did the bombing? Everyone condemns them. And we continue to stay “hands off” during this genocide Hamas did the bombing? They only commit acts of terror because Israel forced them to Third party did? They only commit acts of terror because Israel forced them to

Because, again, you make it abundantly clear that you don’t give a shit about anyone who died. You only care that you can use this to support your political views. And that is disgusting.

Israel to Release Footage, Recordings in Gaza Hospital Explosion (www.wsj.com)

Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a briefing early Wednesday morning that no Israeli strike, either by air, land or sea, occurred near Al-Ahli Arab Hospital at the time of the deadly explosion. He added that drone footage, radar information and a recording of Gaza militants indicate a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket...

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Weirdly enough, the excessive bombing and war crimes without hitting a hospital make me suspicious. I don’t think this is beyond the IDF, but I also would not be shocked to find out the excuse is true.

Very much a wait for evidence situation

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

I mean, this would not be the first time the IDF has targeted humanitarian efforts.

But it is one band of terrorists versus another band of terrorists and both have accused the other. I’ll wait for the third party (probably OSINT) breakdown.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

There are definitely journalists investigating. But this is also breaking news.

“News” tends to consist of three main legs. Reporting is what is happening. Journalism is what is really happening. And editorial is how people feel about it.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

It won’t be

MAYBE the IDF holds off for a few hours. Hamas moves troops and equipment while stalling. No hostages are released. Then the IDF starts back up and Hamas wins

More likely? IDF just don’t acknowledge blatant bullshit, continue bombing, and nothing changes.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

The Israeli people are victims of terrorist attacks. Just like the Palestinian people.

The IDF/Mosad/Israeli Government and Hamas have a long history of ever increasing war crimes against each other.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Supporting Israel probably IS the “best” thing for the world at this point, sad as it is.

The Hamas attack was allegedly bankrolled by Iran as a way to destabilize Israel and to disrupt potential alliance talks with the Saudis. There is the constant fear that things will escalate and… they kind of already are due to the various (alleged?) strikes at or near borders.

Right now, the threat of the US and other “Western” nations getting involved is keeping that somewhat in check. Without that, we are looking at another Six Day War situation… involving multiple nuclear powers.

I REALLY hope there are a lot of back channel condemnations and threats occurring. And I do hope this leads to, bare minimum, economic sanctions. But we more or less can’t say “Fuck it, you monsters are on your own”.

As for “a right to self-defense is not a blank check to commit war crimes”: Uhm… probably check out most (all?) of the wars of the 20th century. Sorry, “conflicts” because the w word is bad. Civilians suffer for the dick measuring of their leaders.

Does usage of third party youtube apps necessitate a VPN in the near future?

Greetings y’all. I’ve been using ways to circumvent YouTube ads for years now. I’d much rather donate to creators directly instead of using Google as a middle man, needing YouTube Premium. If even pay for premium for just a add free version, if the price wouldn’t be so outrageous. I’ve So far used adblockers, Vanced...

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

I would assume most free vpns will be blocked period (either intentionally or for triggering the adblock ban).

And if you are going to pay for a VPN to watch youtube… youtube premium actually IS a really good deal for the creators. The specifics are obviously unknown, but most creators have come out that it is incredibly favorable and a lot better than what they get for ad revenue. And that automatically goes to whoever you watch rather than forcing you to decide if you REALLY need to throw a buck or two at the lady who actually showed how to install a sharkbite rather than glossing over it.

Aside from that: Like with anything, just question how much it would impact you to lose a google account… or all your google accounts. If you can eat that loss, yolo. If not, maybe avoid getting into an arms race with John Google.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

If you already have the VPN then yeah, it is like anything else: What are the risks if you “get caught”

But I will just say: The “I pay for patreons” is largely bullshit. Don’t get me wrong, the big creators get paid. But the smaller creators, like the lady who ACTUALLY made a useful video that prevented your kitchen from flooding, get screwed over. Because I have no real problems throwing a few bucks a month at the Remap crew. I watch most of their streams and listen to most of their podcasts and it is awesome. But someone like Allen Pan who MIGHT have one video a month… it is REALLY hard to justify throwing enough to overcome the credit card fee at him. Even if I love his videos. And I have known quite a few people over the years who aren’t even “A Failed Mythbuster” and do it all for the couple bucks a month they get to “justify” the hundred hours or so it takes to make a funny video or to set up a camera to actually make a useful “how to” video.

I dunno. This is just one of those things where: If you wanna steal/“steal”, do it. You do you. But when people talk about how they want to support creators… and then actively screw over creators? It is downright insulting.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Again, are you paying every single creator you watch?

I keep referencing the helpful home improvement videos but… those are the kind of people who get the most screwed over. Because maybe you rotate between your primary channels. I do too. But maybe I am watching a climbing video and get confused by how that weird bar thing the caver is using actually works. So I search and find a genuinely useful video by some firefighter who was bored. I will probably never watch another video by that person, but I got a lot of value from that. Similarly, maybe I am fixing my dishwasher and can’t for the life of me figure out how to seat the sprayer and need to catch a similar one off video on that.

Ad revenue (or youtube premium money) is how those creators get paid and what encourages people to just do the one off videos. Otherwise, every appliance repair video is 90% an ad for the site that sells replacement parts and so forth.

And that also ignores the other elephant in the room that always comes up when these models are discussed. I have no problem sending William Osman a few bucks every couple months because he usually puts out one or two good videos a month. But what about Not an Engineer? New(-ish) channel. I’ve liked his videos a lot so far but he doesn’t really have a defined upload schedule and is only three videos in. So does he get to be part of the patreon rotation? And should he be less frequent than someone like Michael Reeves who posts one video a year but they are all bangers? Also, I don’t think Not an Engineer HAS a patreon yet so I guess he is just up shit creek for not doing sponsored segments or begging for money in the video about building a mill?

Again, I am not saying you need to throw money at them. I am just saying it is a real asshole move to pretend this is all about supporting creators while actively finding ways not to. Like, I don’t say that me downloading a movie that is only on netflix is about supporting the film industry. It is about me saying that I am not willing to pay 20 bucks a month on the off chance I want to watch The Night Comes For Us again.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Godot is pretty heavily documented at this point. I would recommend finding videos from over a month ago (so it isn’t just posturing), but it is consistently a solid “B” engine as it were.

But the real issue hasn’t changed. Because of licensing and ideological reasons, adding in hooks for console development remains a mess. And that is not something that any company (… okay, Rami Ismail/Vlambeer would totally talk about this and burn a few bridges in the process) is going to really talk about because it is a lose lose. It pisses off the platform owners AND will be viewed as “unfair” by the fanboys.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

I mean… it is basically the same problem as youtube/video. Audio is orders of magnitude less storage (unless you are a FLAC sicko), but it is also played a lot more. And people generally don’t want to have to plug their zune into their computer to grab mp3s before they go for a drive, so you still need a content delivery service. All of which costs money.

And then you have monetization. Just look around at all the people losing their god damned minds over youtube caring about adblockers. Hell, just look at how every single youtube video gets a bot reply that basically says “Hey, want to dick over this content creator? use this link instead”. And, evil google or not, most creators (who don’t get demonetized because of their content…) will point out that youtube is pretty nice in terms of revenue and that they give a very good cut of the premium ad-free subscribers.

Which gets back to music. Someone will probably pay for Tay-Tay’s latest album because she is the biggest musician on the planet. But Biffy Clyro? They are great to listen to in a mix but are they REALLY worth the 15 bucks for an album? I mean, sure you listen to them every single day but…

These kinds of arguments remind me of when someone (I think it was Snoop?) was ranting about how much they hate spotify and gave what, on paper, sounded like a small number. And if you actually broke down the amount of money per listen they were asking for and then normalized against the cost of an ad on various services, it was actually REALLY expensive.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Again, the normal case is not people maintaining their own giant collection of mp3 files. Just like with physical copies of games and movies, most people have decided they want the convenience of not having to manage an mp3 player library.

Same with purchasing. It is great that you want to pay the people who did the creative work. … Does that mean you buy every single album you listen to? Because you ARE going to have to buy a “massive collection” unless you only listen to one or two bands endlessly. Or, more likely, you will do what everyone does and decide “Well, I barely listen to that band and only like one or two of their songs so it it really worth buying?”.

It sucks for the artists who have lost their bandcamp revenue. But it was bound to happen because the model itself is fundamentally incompatible with the modern consumer base.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

I would recommend watching a few videos/documentaries on “Ghost Guns”. Vice had a really good one, if memory serves.

It isn’t JUST “hit print, rack the slide, bust a cap”. But with a properly calibrated printer and filament other than cheap PLA, it is real close.

But also? Additive manufacturing is a vital part of so many industries at this point that I would not expect a crackdown on the STL files. Probably something similar to how DMCA is used with media files (which artists and engineers would generally tolerate, if not prefer, due to threads like this…). But all the drill bit holders and gunpla mods and the like aren’t going to go away.

Whether we start needing background checks/licenses for the printers themselves is still up in the air. But expect massive lobbying against that since “maker spaces” and even just a printer at the library are a big part of the industry and this is something where The West already do not have any meaningful advantage.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Not really, actually.

At an intentionally vague high level: The main components of a firearm are:

  1. The frame
  2. Levers/internal bits
  3. The barrel
  4. Metal springs and wires to connect the internal bits
  5. The firing pin

1 and 2 are 100% able to be made with plastic. And that is increasingly becoming a selling point for a lot of firearms because of “weight”

4 is trivial to pick up at any hardware store and isn’t even conspicuous.

Which leaves 3 and 5. Plastic/polymer barrels are not an issue for small caliber ammunition (e.g. pistol rounds). You just don’t want to use dirt cheap PLA for that.

The firing pin: Most engineering analyses I have seen say that is the one part that needs to be “real” (and, thus, is a traceable purchase). But I’ve seen a few resources tiptoe around how this could be easily improvised from stuff you buy at the local hardware store.

And there are youtubers like Emily the Engineer who have made it a point to show how ridiculously strong 3d printed stuff is. She doesn’t do firearms (mostly because it would get her demonetized…) but 3d printed machets, lawnmower blades, jacks for pick up trucks, etc are pretty trivial. And I would be pretty shocked if someone who was had a particularly well configured printer and some of the good plastic couldn’t make a (mostly, if not entirely) polymer firing pin.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever , (edited )

I’ll just add on that BSG are a horrible example when it comes to delivering on “promises” and plans.

If memory serves, the official plan is still to do a steam release when EFT is “out of beta”. But they realized they make a LOT more money if they control the whole store so… Which is likely why they moved away from Steam Audio, continue to use their grossly incompetent anti-cheat solution, etc. Nikita et al will “heavily imply” they are doing stuff and then just ignore it because people keep buying top tier accounts so they can have maximum storage and so forth.

Also: SP Tarkov works REALLY well under Proton. Something about the new gui for the spt-installer needs more dependencies to work again, but the actual game runs great if you can be bothered to manually patch it.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

I haven’t gotten around to trying Streets yet (lately I just do a few factory runs and that is it), but that map is already pushing the “limits” of Tarkov’s use of Unity and is still new and prone to performance issues. So not surprised there would be problems with sptarkov.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Are you honestly playing the “It isn’t as smart and special as a human being” in a thread about stack overflow? Where the answer to the vast majority of questions is:

  1. An insult about not using search correctly and this being a duplicate
  2. Outdated
  3. Outright wrong AND argumentative

Also: There is a reason Microsoft bought Github. And you can bet that Atlassian and Gitlab are shopping around for buyers.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

I mean, it is mostly his and his collaborators subscribers money. For a good cause but still

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Yeah…

This is almost definitely “be ready in case shit goes really really really bad and WW3 starts”. Because even the dumbest True Believer understands that there is a big difference between “Yeah, I support Israel because they fucking murder brown people” and “I want to go protect The Jews” and this will be even more controversial than “You know how we injected you with like five hundred experimental vaccines? Now we want to inject you with one well tested one so you don’t die”

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

You’re right. And that is why we are in for a REALLY rough decade or so in the near future.

But once even “intelligent” tech workers, celebrity artists, etc are suffering? It won’t just be the cab drivers who “should have seen the way the wind was blowing and learned a new skill”. It is going to be widespread unemployment and suffering.

And that is when even just “We are going to investigate this” goes a long way.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

Its both, but it is also more SEO than copyright. Because yes, that theoretically protects you if someone steals the entire page (not really but let’s pretend it does). But stripping the actual recipe steps out is trivial. at which point we are back to “Can you really copyright adding 420 grams of flour and then mixing it?”

Whereas the giant blog post? If you talk about how your grandmother made this for you on cold November days, you now will show up if someone searches “recipe my grandma made” or “November dish” and so forth.

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