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If I own a community that’s related to a piece of software, service, or other community and someone who actually contributes to that wants it, message me and it’s yours. I stake no claim in communities, I simply want to see them exist and thrive.

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Were you on Justin.TV?

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Mastodon.social admin and lead mastodon dev Eugen Rochko signed an NDA with Facebook and has since been in support of Threads’ embrace of the Fediverse and asked people to give Facebook a chance. We won’t know if he’s made some deal (monetary or otherwise) with Facebook due to aformentioned NDA.

Many instances of the fediverse are anti-Threads despite his shilling though.

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Playnite on Windows is the premiere experience for multilauncher support. Highly customizable, and it has a UX that’s much better to lay-users than something like Gog Galaxy 2.0. Integrations are well QA’d and updated. It’s wild that this was built as a FLOSS project because it’s better than what billion dollar companies have done by a mile.

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Well, Epic instigated them to ban the app so they could claim the ban as a tort under competition law.

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I personally find them both useful. Well, Tiktok specifically not youtube shorts.

My thing with tiktok is that their content recommendation algorithm is best-in-class at knowing what sort of content I want, and it starts edging away from what I want, just marking stuff as “not interested” a few times will bring it back in line. By modulating my behaviours on certain types of content (i.e. making choices over whether to watch or skip, mark as “not interested”, view comments, comment myself), I can customize an algorithmic feed that delivers what I want.

Granted this is quite an amount of work to use a “social media app”, unlike the other platforms, it’s possible and it’s good.

Youtube (long-form) I think is extremely useful when I’m looking for something in-particular, especially if it’s something that doesn’t age very much. Guides and tutorials, let’s plays, retrospectives, etc. They both fit better with the long-form content, and are much easier to find on Youtube than Tiktok.

The content recommendation algorithm of Tiktok is what makes me use it, while the discovery of specific content and access to longer form content is what makes me use Youtube.

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Elon too, while misguided, wants to do good

There’s no reason to believe this.

But look at how his dad has treated him growing up

An explanation as to why someone’s a bad person doesn’t make them less bad.

Plus I’m pretty sure he’s neurodivergent.

He’s autistic. Most autistic people aren’t narcissistic megalomaniacs, and if they are, they should be called out for it.

If anybody wants to get him to see the error of his ways, more abusive language is certainly not going to help.

A moot point, he will not accept anything but the yes men he grew up around and lived the last 52 years being applauded by.

He’s being pushed into a corner and in his mind he sees a world that is increasingly broken by vile people who don’t understand him or his vision for improving the world.

I do understand his vision, and the vision is broken and harmful.

Elon has in fact done a lot of good for the world, but he needs people he trust to keep his feet on the ground.

He has? Like his racially segregated factories? Or the monkeys he experiments on the brains of?

That can’t be achieved by chastising him, but by praising the things he does well and getting him to spend more time among “normal” people and good role models

This is ineffective with people in such a power position.

In the meantime though, to protect the world from powerful broken men, we need regulation to keep them fenced off.

Agreed.

Ultimately, Elon Musk is a genuinely harmful and bad person, who is both uncritically malicious to those who dare criticize him, and is incredibly foolish at every endeavour he involves himself in. “His” successes come as a result of people he hired walling him off in his companies so that he continues to invest in technologies while being blind to any important part of production he might find interesting enough to meddle in.

Your take on him is one I can empathize with, and I even held myself for a while, but at the end of the day, it’s a benefit of the doubt he expressly does not deserve.

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I should add that I reject the idea of anyone making a choice. Neuroscience is pretty confident that choice is not an actual thing; it’s all cause and effect. The behavior we are seeing from Elon Musk now is caused by his genes, how he was brought up, and how people are treating him. We can control one of these three things to get the effect we want.

Is this how you excuse any wrongdoing of any person who’s ever existed? Holding people accountable, both in private and public, is a part of that influence upon who he is. At this point, I’m comfortable saying Elon Musk is a lost cause, and the best thing we can do is make him less capable of harming society yet further.

Not everyone gets a redemption arc, that’s only a thing in novels. Elon Musk has no desire to understand normal people, and that’s something is simply impossible to contend with.

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I don’t agree with punitive “justice”. It’s ineffective, bad, and wrong.

But I do agree that, while rehabilitative justice takes place, we must protect society from those who are doing harm to others.

The adult approach is to think about an effective way to prevent him from doing more damage while not giving the wrong signals to the rest of society.

Your “adult approach” allows him to continue to freely do harm to people, and in no way addresses it nor the harm those who think he’s acceptable perpetuate.

He has a tail of followers so care needs to be taken that he doesn’t become a martyr for them.

This is another excuse to do nothing.

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Determinism is actually a really silly argument to make for anything. Determinism doesn’t posit that people don’t make choices, but simply that the choices made are determinable, even if they in every way resemble “free choice”. We are a part of the variables that determinism says contributes to these choices, but your solution is we sit with a sock in our mouth because it’s so very mean to tell Elon he’s a cunt “because he has no choice”. You’re, put plainly, a fool, if you believe for a second that predetermined choices make someone any less of an asshole. Elon Musk is a harmful, narcissistic asshole is no different than “the total result of Elon Musk’s predetermined decisions are to behave as a narcissitic asshole.”

Yes, under determinism, he has no choice in the matter, just as a gun used to kill someone has no choice in being a killing machine, or a pencil in a 4th grade classroom has no choice in being a penis drawer.

Deterministic sophistry being used to soften, excuse, or in any way lessen the value of peoples’ individual actions is mere sophistry, and completely misses the point of the philosophical theory.

Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C (appleinsider.com)

Apple isn’t happy about India’s demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C::Apple has urged the Indian IT ministry to make changes to its single charger rules, as adding USB-C to older iPhone models will make it hard for Apple to meet production targets for India’s manufacturing and export laws.

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Well, that’s not exactly the demand. The demand is simply that if they wish to sell a product in the country, it meets their regulatory specifications by June 2025. Apple doesn’t have to upgrade their older models, they could also simply stop selling them.

But if they wish to sell a product, it must meet the manufacturing requirements of the region in which they wish to sell. Hardly a big deal if you ask me.

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India is 6% of Apple’s market, and growing.

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Ya, no pirate worth their salt would risk it at this point. It’s so infested with malware, with seemingly no moderation, and no meaningful original releases.

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Because these aren’t conservatives. Not in the economic sense. These are fascists who campaign under the guise of conservatism.

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So, you don’t believe in voting as a human right, and you think prisons have ever solved even a single solitary thing in their entire history?

Miss me with that lmao

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AniDB contains hashes for episodes of anime. They’re obviously not all there - really it’s a fraction of a fraction of them - but it’s the most comprehensive public database of anime file hashes.

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With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I'm interested in how people feel about it?

Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?

If those technical hurdles could be overcome, would you support your instance federating with BlueSky?

Does the same go for other commercially-owned platforms, such as Threads and Tumblr?

@fediverse

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Once they’ve transferred governance to some other entity, sure. That’s gonna take years though, they said so themselves. Standardizing a protocol isn’t something that can be done overnight, and that’s fully their intention with ATProto.

I’m keenly interested in the protocol, but I also question its flexibility as to the content it can be used to post and distribute. That’s something we’ll have to wait for federation to come to see people start playing with. If it becomes a standard, governed by a non-partisan body, and is flexible to a variety of content types, I see no reason to stay with ActivityPub except that the software’s already here.

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This is the opinion of !technology, but the !technology mods have chosen to not take a stance against it time and time again. It goes to reason that they think it’s fine in this community for now.

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Yeah, except .world’s fucking weird when it comes to piracy and keep actively trying to horde the userbase for some reason?

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No atomic purple q-q

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It’s yet another hole in his wallet… assuming it’s even him paying for it. I’ll say one thing, these troglodytes are good at just not paying for things they owe for. Whether it be fines for putting up an illegal sign, or lawyers and other service-people.

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J’apprécie les mots gentils. Je vais faire de mon mieux pour apprendre le français! Merci beaucoup pour vos meilleurs vœux.

Je utiliser plusiers outils y compromis mes amis, ChatGPT, et cours en ligne. J’espère que cela aide mon apprentissage!

Should say:
I appreciate the kind words. I will do my best to learn French! Thank you for the best wishes.

I’m using many tools including my friends, ChatGPT, and online courses. I hope it helps my learning!

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It’s not “stalking” and “harassing,” as you claim in the thread, for someone to defend defamatory claims that were made in public. That’s dumb. Also the fact you keep remaking this thread shows you know you’re in the wrong lmao

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Yes, it’s completely okay for Ada to defend themselves in response to defamatory claims, and is not proof of harassment nor justification to claim they’re stalking for doing so.

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It’s spying to be an admin? Maybe you should just run your own instance so people aren’t spying on you then.

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It’s not “stalking” and “harassing,” as you claim in the thread, for someone to defend defamatory claims that were made in public. That’s dumb.

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All games are flawed; SV’s unacceptably so and your copium just justifies GF getting worse on that front.

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Poverty prevents actually dealing with mental health as one’s mental faculties end up limited to desperate concern for housing and food security.

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On what basis do you say that? There’s tons of legit malware on there, just search for shit that implements denuvo.

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Why would Epic put a store launcher on Steam? This is a silly argument.

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It included a photo of Hitler with the caption, “At least now the world know, why he did, what he did.”

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    ram ,
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    Personally I prefer sticking with smaller instances of maybe a few hundred or a thousand users. The more evenly spread out we are across instances, the more democratized the federation is.

    ram ,
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    IDK where the lemmy admins are based out of, but many countries consider hentai depicting underage characters to be illegal; my country of Canada’s one such country.

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    Shut up, you’re wrong dingus

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    You just did.

    ram ,
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    You’re an asshole for paying industry execs to be vampires after you see they’ve managed to narrowly evade the enshittification of their studio.

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    but also the devs (even if only in scraps)

    If you’re buying games that are more than 3 months old, they do not. Bonuses are given for metacritic scores and launch quarter sales. They’re never given royalties.

    there’s not a whole lot of options outside of “only buy indie games” to both support developers and avoid filling the pockets of execs and investors.

    What’s wrong with telling people to buy indie games and pirate anything made at the directive of blood-sucking vampires?

    Remember when games were just the program on the disk and you didn’t need keys and an online connection to activate your copy?

    Remember when games were just some free software on Usenet that someone made because they thought it’d be cool, and shared because they were proud of it?

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    How do they compare to modern games in terms of entertainment?

    I’d comfortably argue that Tetris is amongst the best games ever made.

    Israel intensifies ground and air strikes on nearly cut-off Gaza while UN denounces 'war crimes' in conflict for first time and warns many will soon starve to death (english.elpais.com)

    “In the beginning, people could go to the market or to the stores. Now, no more. Stores have empty shelves. People are struggling to get food, but there are already people starving in Gaza,” warns Nebal Farsakh, spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, speaking over the phone....

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    Now with outbound communications nearly completely cut off, how often will we get updates on what’s happening on the ground? On the crimes against humanity Israel’s committing?

    I hope for the best, I really do, but I feel so helpless. I’ve already contacted my representatives and told them they need to do their part or I’ll be rescinding my support. I’m vocal within my community as well. But beyond that, there’s so little I can do but bear witness to what is happening.

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    So, when we include the eventual mobile prices too and we’re looking at a pricing scheme that’s roughly:
    $1 $2 $3 $5 $8 $11 $16 $21

    What's your Patient Gamer's Unpopular Opinion?

    Share your unfiltered, unpopular gaming opinions and let’s dive into some real discussions. If you come across a view you disagree with, feel free to (respectfully) defend your perspective. I don’t want to see anyone say stuff like “we’re all entitled to our own opinions.” Let’s pretend like gaming is a science and...

    ram ,
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    No game project should be AAA. It’s anti-creative, as developers must turn their game into something that appeals to the broadest audience, and it’s unstable, as companies bet their entire next 3 years of revenue on a single title. I’d much rather everything become B or C-tier developments. The great games that come from this development style simply are not worth it for the damage they do to the medium.

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    would they have called themselves gamers?

    I would

    a certain minimum degree of investment in a hobby/culture is required before you can name yourself as a participant

    The particular games you choose isn’t really relevant to this though. If you have 600 hours in Spider Solitaire, and you think it’s important enough to you that you’ll self identify as a “gamer”, who am I to be a keeper of the gates?

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    I agree that such games couldn’t have been made by smaller teams. I love BOTW/TOTK, don’t get me wrong. They’re among my favorite games of all time.

    Is it worth it though? Is the prospect of games like these worth the necessary instability, the restriction to creativity that they bring? I don’t believe so. Even if we lived in a world where crunch was illegal, that was enforceable, and it was perfectly enforced on a systemic level, I don’t think that our economic system is one where such games can be good for the artistic medium that is video games.

    ram ,
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    Unpopular opinion: MAAMA as a whole isn’t relevant to tech as in technology.

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    See? This is way less ragebait than the last one.

    ram ,
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    Waiting for a native port of playnite.

    ram ,
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    From the dev on disc when someone asked about smart tv support:

    Playnite currently has heavy Windows dependencies so it’s not even technically possible.
    Long term there is a plan to look into Linux support, but mobile or TV (Android in general) is very unlikely to happen any time soon.

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    Stripped of executable code. IIRC the issue in particular was that sidebars observed HTML and you could put an iframe with potentially malicious code into them.

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