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- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
I think working out and eating healthy is a good trend and blood work is happy for it, and don’t need some super crazy work out plan to look better.
But the whole cosmetic surgeries and steroids which aren’t needed to be healthy is definitely overboard for the regular person who aren’t making living off their looks or athletic performance is overboard.
- Comment on Stellar Blade removes its region lock on Steam, now available in most of the world 3 weeks ago:
These days companies have started removing them after a year, since denuvo went to subscription route over a one time fee.
- Comment on Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally 3 weeks ago:
Yeah duck is all over bothered with since it came out since you don’t even need to login to use it.
- Comment on Has Reddit acknowledged the existence of Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Based on how nerdy reddit seems to be with all the Linux talk the demographic that is more similar to old reddit.
There was a period early in reddit when it seemed more techy. Later on it became more mainstream with a shift towards people posting in a manner more similar to Facebook and Instagram sharing more personal pics and memes.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 2 months ago:
To a non US company please.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 2 months ago:
Yeah for the masses they will likely always flock to commercialized easy to use social media that reaches critical mass the fastest, so them being willing to move and keep moving is best we can hope for. For rest of us stuff like fediverse will be there to use.
- Comment on Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes 2 months ago:
I wondered because Facebook. Mostly only know old people using it these days. Boomers and people who were young enough to have grown up using it when it first came out.
- Comment on Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes 2 months ago:
Are they old people?
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ve used heroic launcher, but a native launcher is still preferred. I like the GOG launcher on windows.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
Yep that’s my point. That they just assumed that it must be the case when that hasn’t been the outcome with innovation not coinciding with improved affordable living. Instead it’s just been further class divide despite advancements.
Innovation is its own separate thing from human outcomes, and advancement of improved human lives needs its own care and guidance. Its not going to improve just because science and tech is improving. Otherwise humans are no different than any other disposable resource from the view of the powers that be, and will be discarded and abused without care.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
Which are separate things from whether peoples ability to financially support themselves.
People can have smartphones and tech the past didn’t have, but be increasingly worse off financially and unable to afford housing.
And you aren’t a space explorer.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
Great for people getting fired or finding that now the jobs they used to have that were middle class are now lower class pay or obsolete. They will be so delighted at the progress despite their salaries and employment benefits and opportunities falling.
And it’s so nice that AI is most concentrated in the hands of billionaires who are oh so generous with improving living standards of the commoners. Wonderful.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 2 months ago:
Cloud saves, achievements, and tracking hours is something I do like. I have over a 100 GOG games, so individually managing exe files isn’t something I really want to do.
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 2 months ago:
I just see excuses being made for grown up who are too old to be given the benefit of the doubt like they are toddlers.
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 2 months ago:
And that’s on them regardless of the reasons, since these are grown ups not children. This constant coddling and excuses for grown ups gets old, since there are people in the same environment who make the choice to not make the same decisions.
Recognizing the larger forces at play is important, but this movement of shifting away personal responsibility is also a detriment.
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 2 months ago:
I’d make them come to me unless it was someone on their deathbed. A literal life or death scenario.
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 2 months ago:
Education is not a good defense when you weren’t given any different education than the rest. And it seems like an ideology that they choose even among those more educated and wealthier. This whole only poor uneducated fall for lies is misleading and passes off personal responsibility.
They are the ones who chose despite others not doing so. And even the worst people are capable of moments of kindness, but it doesn’t change who they are at their core and what they choose to believe when they don’t have to selectively filter themselves.
And feel bad for them all you want. It doesn’t change that people around the world are suffering because of their decisions that empowered the people in charge, since they believed they would be the exception.
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 2 months ago:
Got to be really deranged to vote for a candidate that ran on a platform of revenge and hate, and there’s at the minimum 70 million of those types of Americans which outnumbers many individual countries. Americans suck and don’t seem nice. Too many bad apples.
- Comment on How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact 2 months ago:
Don’t visit unless it is a life or death situation. I wouldn’t want to go into country that wants to finger print me, hand over social media, and copy my devices.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Especially a foreign social media company with algorithm that isn’t transparent and has the power to block whatever users and posts they want to push the desired narrative. Its not a free and open platform but a propaganda tool of a single billionaire.
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 3 months ago:
Those just come off as regular left to me.
When I think of radical left I think tanky types who are full on nationalists and pro authoritarian governments that suppress free think that they are indistinguishable from the far right other than just differences when it comes to stuff like government assisted programs.
- Comment on Albania to block TikTok in the coming days 3 months ago:
They should do the same for twitter and meta too.
- Comment on Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line. 3 months ago:
He’s successfully destroyed it in his country.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 3 months ago:
Plus side here is that people can move to another instance and start commenting right away as opposed to being shadow banned for a period in certain subs and having to build up enough karma to start not automatically having every comment flagged.
People aren’t stuck the the policies of instances they don’t agree with whether it be reasons for bans or what instances are blocked or whitelisted.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 3 months ago:
Reddit being the go to place for federal workers to explain what is happening on the fednews sub given reddit shadow banning new accounts and anti VPN stance is rather ironic with federal workers hiding their names and using stuff like signal out of fear of what the administration might do to them.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 3 months ago:
Freetube (desktop) and newpipe (android) is great for those who would like a subscription feed without an account, local Playlist, download videos, and save view history while remaining account free.
I use pipepipe on mobile with it being a fork of newpipe with sponsor block, and lets you use a throw away YouTube account it uses only to access age restricted videos.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Dammit really need to stop setting up HQs in US. It’s the same for archive.org and wikipedia.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 3 months ago:
Guess you never used forums.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 3 months ago:
It is interesting that forums had less people but felt very active and didn’t need the millions of people that places like modern day social media do.
And I think big part of it is the presentation of material with threads that get bumped up when people comment and can keep going on for years.
In reddit type social media a thread is considered dead after like a day or less, so needing a new one even if it is the same topic to start up conversation again. Even more the case for one off comment type social media like mastodon.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 3 months ago:
I hear echo chamber brought up a lot but never really have seen examples of a place that doesn’t have an echo chamber.
I think that’s just the natural result of people forming communities as opposed seeking out battle grounds for adversaries.
Only thing that can be done is offering people the tools to freely form as many communities as they want with the main barrier being who feels compelled to join the new echo chamber community.