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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the predatory advertising that Apple allows towards children in apps that Apple allows on their app stores going to be stopped by this bill, or does this only affect their competitors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you tell the o3 reasoning model to just search the web and give you the top results instead of answering your query it can actually be really useful for obscure queries. I was able to find specific spec sheets for my model of monitor when a google search would only produce the specs for basically any other model the manufacturer made. Even with the model number in quotes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree with others that have said to use a framework like Hugo to serve an RSS feed. I wrote an automation using Google apps script to scrape blog pages and manually update the RSS feed but it was more trouble than it was worth. Letting your framework automatically update your feed is much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Firmware is dumped almost immediately as well, not a big deal to update a switch offline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he’s being nasty to you. His frustration is with Rockstar for abandoning GTA to sell microtransactions instead of make content. A lot of people are mad at valve for not making Half-Life/Portal/Left4Dead 3 just like a lot of people are mad at Rockstar for taking 13 years to release a new GTA game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s probably cheaper in the long run to self host a tree instead, unless you live in an apartment with absolutely no green space. But I’d rather get a VPF and host a tree there if I had too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Corporate Sabotage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fediverse has some resilience built in. As users have a back up account. As an admin with concerns of government control, have a playbook to be able to pass off control of the instance to another admin in a different jurisdiction and that they can restore the instance to a new provider from backups.

  As for stopping corporate interference: making sure bad actors like meta can’t federate, good moderation practices, and anti bot defenses. Intelligence sharing between instance admins, cooperation not competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst person you know just made a great point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re cooked chat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if your changed your view on the issue after getting more context on carrotcypher’s histoy on Reddit but I’d like to share some of my quick thoughts

  1. I don’t think it’s probably fair to characterize him as a nazi but I do think it’s fair to find some of his views objectionable

  2. He let his personal politics influence his moderation decisions outside of posted community rules. It’s bad moderation when Lemmy.ml doesn’t it and it’s bad when he does it,

  3. Removing him as moderator is appropriate based on number 2 moreso than number 1

  4. Defederation from FOSStodon is a nuclear reaction that I don’t personally agree with but it’s a freedom that the fediverse is built on. Zealously demanding all (non-malicious) instances remain federated is a bad thing as much as zealously defederating from instances that don’t have the right politics.

  I often find myself outside the “acceptable viewpoints” on the fediverse and it hasn’t really affected me other than getting a few downvotes once in a while. The fediverse isn’t actually as ideologically pure as we think it is, I think the constant tankie/liberal drama is proof of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are willing to go against their own personal wants and desires if the majority of the community agrees. They may do it because they believe in democratic principles and whatever it is may be not what they want but doesn’t cross the their “line-in-the-sand” of what they are willing to do in service of their community.

  And when it does finally cross that line, people will step down like Kevin has done. I may not agree with the democratically elected government of America right now but I am still an American. You don’t have to agree 100% with the community to still be a member

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Fosstodon Drama | Kev Quirk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people volunteer and contribute out of their own good will for the betterment of society. Especially people who believe in FOSS which is a reasonable expectation out of someone who admins FOSStodon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pirates breathe air, therefore oxygen is enabling copyright infringement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to counter your anecdote with my own. But I have been getting a lot of email spam pushing books and workshops dealing with narcissistic or toxic employees and I don’t even manage anyone so it may just be that firing toxic people is hot right now as far as workplace issues and any trend has people trying to make a buck off it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you are aware of further developments than I am, Alphonso required permissions and provided a consent dialog so it could not be considered spying or eavesdropping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve is a private company owned by someone who is passionate about games and so unlike other companies with investors, they leave short term money on the table to make the best product for gamers. If its ownership model ever changes it will speedrun enshittification for the same reason other storefronts suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly is the value that steam provides with its 30% cut that Apple doesn’t provide? Not defending Apple by the way.

  Openness of the hardware is a valid point but that isn’t exactly a feature of steam (nor a distinction between the other platforms in OPs comment)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why people like steam. But as a steam hater, if GabeN ever dies and the kids or whoever is heirs are decide to sell to VCs or private equity. That 30% will be just as oppressive as anyone else’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  US Mobile is the best deal I’ve been able to find with their yearly unlimited plans. I pay once around Black Friday for what I paid for 2 months of service on Verizon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still worth it to red-pill people of the harms these algorithms cause and accept smaller network sizes that exclude people who refuse to “quit smoking” so to speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of static site blog generators use markdown to create posts. Lemmy also uses markdown for its’ post formatting. From my understanding what OP has done is that he made this post on Lenmy and has created a front end that basically retrieves the given post from Lemmy and displays it with a more traditional blog style CSS as well as a few other pages that aren’t hosted on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I did not like Pokémon Emerald.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you aren’t having fun there is no shame in that. I feel the same way and Sun and Moon.

  I am sure that there is a lot those games do right, like the island challenge instead of gyms and a different kind of elite 4 and other things but the early game is so boring that I don’t care to get that far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I did not like Pokémon Emerald.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to tell you that you gave up too early but most of the good things about emerald happen after the 5th gym when you get surf (the expanded story from ruby and sapphire, the battle frontier, improved gym leader teams and rematches, etc)

  Gen 3 has so many trainers so you shouldn’t be underleveled with probably the only exception being the 5th gym. The only trainers between the 4th gym and the 5th are 5 or so in the desert and the gym trainers. The gym leader also uses 3 fully evolved pokemon. If you don’t have a strong super effective move (which is likely) then that fight will be a challenge.

  The rest of the game I don’t think is that hard, the 7th gym is probably the next difficulty spike but I won’t tell you.

  Some pokemon are also just not good and so you probably shouldn’t bother using them. It’s not like in later games where even if a pokemon is weak you can use the power of friendship and drugs to power boost it until it can fight anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on Mario Kart World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The price is too high. They are going to sell skins and characters. The game is going to be fluffed with open world sections instead of actual content. I probably won’t enjoy it.

  My kids will though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For people that care about that sort of thing, that’s great. I just need the ability to subscribe to communities and comment on posts and Lemmy has been great for that while using voyager

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably app support. If Lemmy didn’t have wefwef/voyager during the API debacle of 2023, I probably would not have stuck around. The default UI is terrible for mobile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No disagreement that there are many more insufferable people on Reddit and twitter. But whenever meta discussion comes up about leaving those sites such as !watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works there is always a small handful of people that mention they were banned for “disagreements”. Not to mention the meta drama between .ml users and .world users.

  With regards to Dansup, the most common complaints I see are developing Loops closed source and not opening it to federation and still not open sourcing it after 6 months. And with Pixelfed being developed with laravel instead of a stack that is more scalable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because the average user doesn’t consider whether they should trust the platform, doesn’t mean the fediverse is less trustworthy. It’s not. Nothing online should be considered trustworthy if it’s not encrypted.

  You still have to consider whether Facebook is trustworthy with your posts and click data, whether the thousands of advertisers they sell your info too are trustworthy. Whether the persons you message are trustworthy and that they won’t get hacked.

  About the same risks as with trusting a fediverse instance operator except they don’t have the same motivations to sell your data.

  I’m not sure if you are aware of fediblock which allows instance operators to coordinate banning and defederating bad actors from the network. And of course you can always mute or block any user or instance you wish independently of your instance’s block list.

  Your data being leaked to “malicious servers” in this case also requires approving a follow to a user on that instance or having your profile set to public (and at that point you should expect your content to be public)

  I do think you are right that it is a paradigm shift of thinking for new users who aren’t familiar with federation. But I think anyone who wants to join will just either have to give up control to big platforms and stay put or shift their thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first started the reading I figured the person being bullied was the woman who was upset with dan because her concern about disclosure wasn’t really reasonable. I don’t think the bullying problem is innate to the fediverse, and thankfully we have a lot of tools to safely navigate the fediverse and tune out the abuse.

  But there is a not insignificant portion of folks on here that are here because they were banned or warned on mainstream platforms because they couldn’t regulate themselves and still aren’t regulating themselves.

  The vast majority of people I’ve came across are genuinely kind. Dansup doesn’t exactly follow best practices in his development which I think causes a lot of strife in the segment of the fedi population who can’t regulate when someone does something they don’t agree with.

  I don’t agree with how he has handled loops so I just don’t use it. I don’t think ill of Dan at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Half-Life Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the author’s assessment that Uncharted and the Last of Us use the right tool at the moment for their stories.

  I don’t get the criticism about Call of Duty and Halo following Half-Life’s success of limited cutscenes and scripted events to tell their stories. In fact as soon as the article started these were the exact games I thought of to rebut his point. They are the best story based FPS games of their generation and they don’t need an open world that’s believable in absence of its own protagonist.

  Far Cry/The Division/Ghost Recon are all Open World shooters with a believable world. They have terrible (IMO, feel free to disagree) stories though.

  I thought his analysis was interesting just not sure what the point was and if it was what I thought it was that Half-Life negatively influenced stories in games then I disagree.