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- Comment on Mistakes were made 1 day ago:
Eye infection time
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 6 days ago:
If that was the case he could have deleted /pol/ and banned its users. 2016 would have been a great time for that.
- Comment on As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper 1 week ago:
That’s not even necessarily them being nice, if your audience can suddenly afford less, that changes what the optimal price would be for maximizing sales * price. The cost of producing an electronic copy of a DLC is zero.
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 1 week ago:
Open source code doesn’t mean open API though. Bluesky seems to have made a whole thing out of their technical architecture, and I get the arguments that it’s centralized in practice, but wouldn’t it mean basically scrapping the whole thing to lock down third party clients? Even if that didn’t mean anything I think multiclients could be a good idea anyway, if people were using those and there was a Reddit situation, some portion of users would want to stay with the same clients rather than using whatever proprietary app they try to push.
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 1 week ago:
Fair, I use Open WebUI + Ollama personally but it’s slightly tricky to set up, wasn’t aware there were open source options with a built in model browser and hardware compatibility estimates
- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 1 week ago:
If we’re wishing for things that probably won’t happen, how about a government agency for game preservation? Source code gets submitted before release, approval for sale is conditional on them being able to successfully build and deploy it. Then 20 years later it gets automatically published to the public domain. That way even online only games will end up being preserved.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 1 week ago:
One possible reason I’ve read is that the people moderating it have had their identities leaked, so imagine being the person responsible for banning 4chan users and now also they know who you are, seems like a very unappealing thing to volunteer for.
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 1 week ago:
I don’t use these so maybe I’m missing something, but why would you have to choose? Bluesky is centralized but it seems like its design is committed enough to open technology that it would take them a long time to walk it back, and in the meantime there shouldn’t be barriers to using unified clients that put content from both in the same interface, and possibly override any opinionated content algorithm from the company (not sure if that’s feasible or not).
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 1 week ago:
LM Studio is probably the easiest way
- Comment on U.S. Added to Global Human Rights Watchlist Over Declining Civil Liberties 1 week ago:
CIVICUS outlines the state of civil rights through five categories—open, narrowed, obstructed, repressed, and closed. “Open” is the highest ranking, meaning all people are able to practice liberties such as free speech, and the lowest is “closed.”
The U.S. has been classified as “narrowed.”
So, we used to have a 5 star rating, but have been demoted to 4 stars
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 2 weeks ago:
Any details you could share about how you obtained and processed the data, it seems like there’s a lot of interesting things that could be done with this but I’m not sure where the best place to start would be
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 2 weeks ago:
These explanations make sense to me, but they seem to conflict a little with what’s being said in the post, where it’s implied that game journalism sites get a decent amount of traffic but it isn’t worth as much because advertising as a whole is collapsing somehow:
It doesn’t matter how many millions, or even tens of millions of people are reading a website if the means of financially supporting that writing are evaporating.
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 2 weeks ago:
The free internet as we’ve known it for the last 20 years is collapsing as the ad market evaporates and corporate media ownership becomes increasingly unhinged in response. As belts tighten and profits dwindle across all media–not just video games–that rising tide could begin claiming more and more sites that even ten years ago would have seemed immortal.
Why is this happening? The post alludes to Google and Meta hogging all the ads somehow, but why would advertising on things resembling traditional media now be worthless? Everyone started using adblockers or is there something else too?
- Comment on Even if it sounds smart, it might be dumb. 2 weeks ago:
This is why you try to filter out signifiers of credibility that are just word choices. What’s the actual idea being expressed, and what’s backing it up, that is what to pay attention to.
- Comment on Retirees 'stunned' as market turmoil over tariffs shrinks their 401(k)s 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how many people living below the poverty line have substantial investments in the stock market though
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I would be concerned about the privacy implications, but imo it is ok to do if it makes you feel better and isn’t causing problems in your life. Seems kind of similar to something like writing fanfiction or keeping a diary, only you have a tool to help prompt what you write.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 4 weeks ago:
I disagree about Soma being an isolated setting, there are actually lots of characters, it’s just that they’re all insane cyborgs who mostly happen to have their own personal reasons for attacking you.
I can’t seem to find them, but before the game came out there was a series of live action video shorts made in association with it to help establish the concept and setting, I’d imagine a show being along the lines of those but fleshed out more.
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue. 4 weeks ago:
Perfect example of how censorship is still dangerous even if it isn’t the government doing it
- Comment on Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ 4 weeks ago:
I bet it would be pretty good if their family is desperately poor and needs the extra money to survive…
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 weeks ago:
Yeah he is just being a huge asshole in this presentation, basically shitting on all art that plays on reactions of horror to uncanny movements, there’s no meaningful commentary on technology here.
- Comment on Young Americans lose trust in the state 5 weeks ago:
While the Gallup poll does not cover the direct repercussions of US President Donald Trump’s second term, experts believe that rising political polarisation is likely to lead to a sharp drop in trust in future surveys.
And the survey doesn’t even take this recent shit into account, soon literally nobody will trust the government
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 1 month ago:
“If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”
It did turn out that way anyway right
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 1 month ago:
You don’t need to be an “absolutist” to believe in free speech. Open exchange of ideas is valuable. Not needing to be suspicious of everyone hiding what they really think out of fear is valuable. Censorship powers are very tempting to abuse and the consequences of their abuse are terrible. Believing in free speech can just be understanding this stuff and having a bias against shutting people up as a go-to solution.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
How do you know they are going to reduce military influence?
I don’t, but it seems like other countries are getting the message that they can’t count on the US to defend them and their alliance is shaky, which seems like it could lead to working towards replacing our role and becoming less dependent, which would be great, because again, we’re the bad guys.
How are tariffs going to help people who are struggling to afford anything as it is?
They are not going to help with that, unfortunately. A worse economy is the price of cutting back on free trade, and the current administration will put as much of that price as they can on the people least able to afford it. Done right, it would be in combination with redistribution to the people who are worst off.
If the goal is to get people to buy American, what is stopping everything from only being controlled or made by corrupted people or corporations who set up on American soil?
To me, the desired outcome of inevitably mutual tariffs isn’t getting people to buy American, it’s reducing the leverage and influence of international corporations, which are malevolent and can use that influence in harmful ways. If local companies have a built in advantage, divide and conquer tactics shouldn’t work as well (ie. cut safety regulations or face retaliatory job loss). The typical corporate pattern of building up a monopoly and then using that leverage to extract money by fucking everyone over shouldn’t work as well on an international scale. Free trade agreements that give companies rights at the expense of people will hopefully have less appeal and make less sense.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Not accelerationist, I think tariffs are genuinely a good direction to go, and so is reducing US military influence.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
I’m not a republican, but from my perspective the US empire has been a force for evil in the world for almost all of its existence. International free trade elevates the power of corporations above countries (ex. international IP law enforcement). The neoliberal status quo sucks, and even if tariffs and pressuring US allies to build up their own militaries and not rely on us are being done for the wrong reasons and not in the right way, they still act to dismantle it. I can see it being better than the alternative in the long run, at least for the world if not for those of us living in the US.
- Comment on nets 1 month ago:
Straws become the focus because people like them and find them useful and make them a part of their culture and then proposed bans threaten to take them away. People do focus on them, I’ve seen plenty of online arguments about straw bans and the ethics of straws, which happens because they are a part of the lives of the people arguing about them, unlike fishing nets which they never use or see.
There is a side of environmentalism that comes off as being smugly superior about your lifestyle and disparaging and seeking to shame and control in small ways (usually poorer) people who don’t live that way, with the pretext that it’s about saving the planet. To me that sort of thing seems like it’s mainly just a dumpster fire of political capital, purely counterproductive.
- Comment on GitHub - vogler/free-games-claimer: Automatically claims free games on the Epic Games Store, Amazon Prime Gaming and GOG. 1 month ago:
For me I get prompted on redeeming a game, almost every time
- Comment on GitHub - vogler/free-games-claimer: Automatically claims free games on the Epic Games Store, Amazon Prime Gaming and GOG. 1 month ago:
How would it get past the captcha? EGS always has a complicated captcha