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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is learning about archive.org for the first time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I buy this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy the Call of Duty Warchest for $30 and play CoDUO with us. The best part about PC games is that you can still play the classics online!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this some sort of misguided patriotism? I don’t see what the propaganda we are supposedly falling for is. Is it not as equally accurate to say that public opinion and outcry led to it not coming to a vote? I think keeping that public outcry is important to defeat future attempts to undermine rights. Don’t think it can’t happen in the EU. It’s happening if the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  .ml is moderated to be ideologically one sided. Pro-capitalism is literally not allowed and will deleted. Making a pro-west or anti-China or Russia comment is like a bat signal for .ml admins and users alike to dogpile on your comment.

  It’s their right to moderate their instance how they see fit, but removing content on ideological grounds is going to result in people thinking what’s left is propaganda.

  For the most part I like .ml users, I don’t care for the admin team and moderator decisions and that’s why I’m not on that instance. I could care less about the fact my instance is defederated from hexbear users or grad users. They do want to be polarizing and live in a propaganda bubble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple says EU should get rid of its digital markets law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about the USA adopts instead? How about that, Tim apple?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the relevance of upvotes in relation to quality and discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather than hard-coding an upvote to comment ratio, changing the default sort to effectively put a ceiling on how raw upvotes per comment might be a better way of accomplishing the same goal. And lets it be optional.

  An upvote is essentially a boost/re-post on mastodon which says I like this content and think it should be shared. Comments or discussion aren’t always needed for content to be good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go away scammer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a software authentication that can hold multiple keys for MFA. I’d love to switch to a dumb phone but that’s pretty much a requirement and I’ve never found a device for MFA that is as convenient for MFA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Following up on this, I think the studio ghibli is a good example of where community adding accessibility in the form of mods or cheats (or fan subs or dubs in the case of ghibli)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with making accessible controllers with special layouts and allowing custom control bindings to accommodate those who are differently abled.

  Those can be accommodated without meaningfully altering the game. Changing the gameplay is different however. Not that adding more difficulty options is a bad thing, I don’t mean to disparage anyone by calling it fake accessibility, just that I don’t think it’s the same as other options because it fundamentally changes the experience compared to other options that I considered “real”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it not fair for the game developers’ artistic vision to not be accessible to all? Accessibility is nice, expands the potential audience, but if it compromises my artistic vision and I’m ok with giving up reach and money to preserve it, that doesn’t make my game bad or my vision invalid.

  It would be ridiculous to call up the bar or the ama and complain to them that becoming a lawyer or a doctor is not accessible to all.

  One last addition, adding control remapping, color options, and text to speech are true accessibility. Easy mode is fake accessibility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good to know. My understanding is admittedly out of date as I haven’t really kept up with ATProto as I get much more activity from the AP side of the house. I have been excited about projects like Blacksky and such acting as alternative relays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of the hate is because of the realities of the real world implementation of the protocols. The fact that AT Proto is mostly run through the main instance with only nominal federation through other relays. And the fact that AT Proto requires the full firehouse replicated to all relays.

  I probably prefer most of AT Proto other than these two issues. Regardless I am on mastodon with it bridged over to bluesky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a loss of talent and shuttering of shows across his company’s channels that are leading it. I can only watch so many “reporting verbatim the benchmark results of new tech product” or “I made my family a sleeper desk” or “dark horse home theater for my kid” videos. I’d much rather watch the highly produced “Mac Address” videos with Jonathan or retro gaming systems and setups videos with Anthony but they aren’t a part of LMG anymore.

  Riley is doing well on tech linked but he’s talented enough to get a real job and after that, what’s the last interesting thing that LMG has? WAN show clips?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can fit maybe 5 games at 100 GBs a piece (which is pretty standard for PS5) on an 825 GB drive, not to mention that you have to leave up to 100 GB overhead just to update certain games plus room for the OS. If you have a family then you literally have a situation like mine where I have 1 game installed to the PS5 and Warzone, Fortnite, Roblox, Rocket League, Fall Guys, and Marvel Rivals take up the rest of the console storage space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be fine with an 8k TV if there was 8k content and they were affordable. I haven’t purchased a TV in over a decade however and my TVs all work fine so I’m not even in the market

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To Use PeerTube for Podcasting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they had video iPod shortly after the release of the original iPod so I think a video podcast still fits the definition of “iPod broadcast”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t be happy. The whole platform is to take the country back to before all of society started conspiring against the poor republican voter.

  The big lie is that the dog can never catch the car because it isn’t trans people or immigrants or minorities that are oppressing republicans. It’s their politicians, the corruption that is ingrained into the system, and the rich that fight to keep the system rigged that are oppressing them and clearly republicans will never fix that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dichotomy between the left and right on these kind of issues are probably more economic than anything else.

  The people I know that freaked out about these sort of things were typically maga types. Lower income, lower education, and relied on social media for all kinds of news, human contact, and such.

  Meanwhile most liberals and conservatives that didn’t, lived more comfortably with higher career and education levels. This isn’t even really a left wing vs right wing kind of thing. Even the conservatives I knew that had higher education and career accomplishment freaked less out about Covid and social media “censorship” too because they could just do without.

  If you can live comfortably and it doesn’t affect your living, you tend to not rock the boat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Missisippi lawmakers are too idiotic to know what the reducers is and their law enforcement is too busy to learn what a fediverse is to enforce it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong sub?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite developer Epic Games wins Australian court battle against Apple and Google⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst person you know just made a great point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a contributor to LibreWolf so I can’t speak with authority on it but I can’t imagine that they are so different from Firefox that they wouldn’t be able to just merge 99% of updates from FF with minimal effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Librewolf doesn’t just block Mozilla telemetry, it also has an easy to understand default for cookies and privacy settings so someone who isn’t a computer expert can rely on the librewolf’s defaults to keep trackers from being able to build a profile on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tom’s Hardware, Ad Block Plus, paying for YouTube Premium as a “work around”?

  Guys this content was by boomers for boomers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life 1 was the peak of this genre for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still playing Call of Duty: United Offensive multiplayer on PC nearly every day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy also can’t be used non-publicly so a pointless distinction considering the context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube still offers them a service in directing them new viewers. The big creators all lose viewers but YouTube funnels replacement views faster than they lose. They could host their own videos but they are gonna see very little growth without Google either in search or with YouTube as they start to lose the base that followed them.

  They also won’t be able to negotiate as good as rates for pre-rolls or in video sponsorships as if they were on YouTube.

  The only real alternative would be to band together like the creators that are a part of nebula are doing. Hosting on peertube really isn’t an option unless you are independently supported and you are doing it as a passion project and don’t care about audience growth or retention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It already has. Lemmy.zip if unavailable to users (of the admins own volition as they don’t have the capability to comply) in the Uk because of the law