supersquirrel
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- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 10 hours ago:
What authority consistently bans white supremacists at scale?
What superpower do you have to limit the voices of white supremacists at scale and what gives you the ethical grounds to use it without a community process to bestow you with that power?
This is babytalk honestly, you always need some kind of community moderators in some fashion or a community will collapse into a toxic pool of waste.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 11 hours ago:
Human moderators.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 day ago:
^ this is an important detail people seem to miss
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 day ago:
The fundamental architectural decisions are stupid in precisely the way all libertarian projects are and make healthy behavior maladaptive for potentially toxic agents that might otherwise remain relatively innocous.
- Comment on have you heard about ball? 2 days ago:
WHERE
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 4 days ago:
Truly a massive game that gets overshadowed by people talking about Factorio, which Factorio is of course a classic undoubtedly but Mindustry has been in pretty consistent development for years now and is a great game with a lot of good content, it deserves more attention!
I just wish the game was better set up for joysticks/gamepad control out of the box, last time I tried to set it up on my Steam Deck I got frustrated.
Also Mindustry is on Android too!
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 4 days ago:
Unturned is still in development too which is pretty cool, I think it occupies a unique niche!
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 4 days ago:
Xonotic
Cataclysm DDA
Luanti
Empires Mod
Mindustry
OpenHV
Transcendance
Zeus/Poseidon 3
OpenRA
Panzer Marshal/Open General
- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 6 days ago:
Literacy
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 1 week ago:
Not necessarily or exclusively? I am talking about tools like this…
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 1 week ago:
…like how people use custom terrain generating tools to spruce up multiplayer Minecraft maps?
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 1 week ago:
I would think for bonsai might be useful for custom terrain generation for luanti multiplayer servers.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Is this what hearing Vogon Poetry is like?
- Comment on TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 1 week ago:
Republicans obviously take majority responsibility for this turd of a deal and the corrupt shifting of TikTok ownership to Trump’s buddies. But it can’t be overstated what an own-goal supporting this whole dumb thing was for Democrats, who not only helped Trump’s friends steal partial ownership of TikTok, they saber-rattled over a ban during an election season where they desperately needed young people to vote.
As I’ve spent years arguing, if these folks were all so concerned about U.S. consumer privacy, they should have passed a functional modern internet privacy law applying to all U.S. companies and their executives.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 week ago:
The World’s Leading Genocide Computing Company
- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 1 week ago:
Do people use this with Luanti?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
ActivityPub is extensible, though. As part of our E2EE program, Mallory, Tom and I adapted the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) standard as an extension of ActivityPub to make the MLS over ActivityPub specification. The protocol fits the great MLS E2EE system onto the ActivityPub API and federation protocol.
But a protocol specification is not enough; it must be implemented. That’s why we’re so happy to announce that the Sovereign Tech Fund has commissioned work with the Social Web Foundation to coordinate two new interoperable implementations of MLS over ActivityPub. This investment by the Sovereign Tech Fund will help move the Fediverse towards more privacy for social web users, no matter what server they use.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is usually around $20 and seems worth it at that price and it is at $10 which seems like a genuinely great deal for a city builder/transit game.
isthereanydeal.com/game/…/info/
Riftbreaker at $11 is tempting too
- Why We're Boycotting Xbox (and Maybe You Should Too) | People Make Games - Youtube (Invidious link)yewtu.be ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page 1 week ago:
I gave two conference talks this year. In fursuit.
If that isn’t a flex I don’t know what is
- Comment on What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
NeoDB is committed to creating a free, open, and interconnected space for collecting and reviewing books, movies, music, games, and podcasts. Here, you can manage your collections, share your thoughts, discover new content, and connect with others.
Very cool!
- Comment on What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
hell yeah, thank you!
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- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 1 week ago:
Yes but today it is Palestinians, tomorrow it is us.
There is no correct amount to think about or talk about a genocide while it is unfolding, it is relevant to every single one of us in every single moment.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 1 week ago:
Forums are a type of social media.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 1 week ago:
This is social media!
- Comment on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification 1 week ago:
How fucking stupid are these chucklefucks?
The limit does not exist.
- Comment on The Digital Services Act and Theories of Power 1 week ago:
Embedded in the DSA is a theory about what X actually is. It treats platforms like X as communications infrastructure where speech happens, and the platform is conceptualised as a singular place, mostly neutral, with certain obligations for moderation and transparency attached. It views platforms as companies that are capitalistic in a textbook understanding of capitalistic companies: entities with the goal profit maximalisation, that are responsive to legal and economic incentives. This place can be regulated properly via transparency and via a set of complex process requirements. The platform companies that run these places will then implement these requirements as they are incentivised to do so via legal and economic pressures. The DSA’s approach follows from this understanding: establish transparency requirements, ensure researcher access, and prohibit deceptive design practices.
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X under Musk’s leadership operates in a manner that the architects of the DSA clearly did not account for however. Musk’s X is a major platform operated primarily as a political vehicle rather than a profit-maximizing business. There is little in Musk’s behaviour that indicates that commercial optimisation of X is his priority, from haphazardly gutting the workforce to alienating major advertisers, and altering the algorithm to favour right-wing speech. This resulted in cratering ad revenue for X. Musk’s choices do not make sense from the perspective of a business textbook, but do make sense if you understand the platform as Musk’s personal project, with changes made haphazardly and erratically to suit his needs. That his demands and ideas can instantly switch between petty and personal to strategic promotion of Musk’s affiliation with nazi ideology, is a further indication that the incentives of the platform are vastly different than what the DSA assumes.
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Where the EC treats X as a communications network, Musk understands intuitively that X is something more than that, although he does not spell it out explicitly. Social networking platforms are collective sense making tools. Social networking platforms, whether that’s X, Instagram or TikTok, are platforms that we use to shape our common knowledge, and to determine which political opinions are currently in-vogue. These platforms are used to create a shared reality. This goes from how TikTok and Instagram influencers can push Dubai Chocolate into a global hype, to how the conversations on X shape what’s inside the political Overton window. The algorithmic feeds actively shape which voices get amplified, which narratives spread, and which facts feel established. Henry Farrell summarises the problem as: “The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.” The fundamental power of platforms like X comes from its ownership over the tools to shape the collective understandings of the public, and allows them to be malformed in favour of fascism.
Viewing platforms like X exclusively through the lens of a communications network, without taking into account how the platform affects collective knowledge, leads to two problems, both on the individual level and on the political level. This misunderstanding operates at both the individual and regulatory level.
Fantastic article thank you for sharing!
- Comment on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification 1 week ago:
The amendment text specifies that any “relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”
It further defines “relevant devices” as “smartphones or tablet computers which are either internet-connectable products or network-connectable products for the purposes of section 5 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022.”
Under this clause, manufacturers, importers, and distributors would be legally required to ensure that every internet-connected phone or tablet they sell in the UK meets this “CSAM requirement.”
Victorian Age 2: The Boomers Strike Back
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 1 week ago:
“The current LLM tech landscape positions [neurodivergent people] to dominate,” according to the application. “Pattern recognition. Non-linear thinking. Hyperfocus. The cognitive traits that make the neurodivergent different are precisely what make them exceptional in an AI-driven world.”
What a load of bullshit, LLMs will be used in a million ways to sideline neurodivergent people in society whether it be BS AI “help” for a neurodivergent student replacing a human teacher or job applications using AI to illegally screen and filter out neurodivergent people, this is a bad decade for neurodivergent people and it is likely only to get worse.