Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts 22 hours ago:
These nazis are desperate to share Kirk's fate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I get what you're going for, but by using a slur, you're throwing the LGBT community under the bus with Charlie. There are so many more horrible, yet accurate things we can call him; you should pick one that doesn't denigrate an unrelated group of people at the same time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Thank you, I was trying to understand what a partially-melted, dusty candlestick was supposed to represent.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 1 day ago:
As they should, honestly. While those bots can be used to track down and identify predators, they have also been used for harassing and doxxing innocent users. There's little to no security oversight with those bots.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 2 days ago:
In the age of $70+ AAA games with additional costs, not everyone celebrated the consumer friendly price. Some independent game developers have expressed concern that their games may not sell as well compared to Silksong and cannot afford to charge less.
Where did this line come from? I see no mention of that quote in any of the links from the /. post, and it doesn't help that the quote doesn't cite a specific developer, either.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 4 days ago:
we should never make jokes at the expense of the dead
Charlie Kirk made a career at the expense of the dead. Fuck him, I'm glad he's dead, I'm glad it was at the hands of another and not natural causes, I'm glad that it happened right in front of hundreds of other like-minded Nazis as a reminder of what awaits them, and I can't wait to see who the next dead Nazi is going to be.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 4 days ago:
Not everybody here is American, dude.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 week ago:
The skin on your body isn't uniform; it's at varying textures and thicknesses in different parts, and its absorbency varies in different parts, as well.
The skin around your anus is very resistant to infection due to its particular mixture of these properties.
- Comment on All in a day's work 1 week ago:
Why do metal keyboardists always look exactly like a metal keyboardist? Like... you all know exactly which one in this photo I'm talking about, too, right? Tell me I'm wrong.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 1 week ago:
I agree! I think the Fediverse needs more "normies" to be present around here. Not just for the sake of having more numbers and being a more popular platform, but we need difference of opinion, and it needs to be embraced much better than it currently is.
When everybody in a community agrees on 99% of things, they tend to become rather tight-knit. But whenever that 1% comes up which goes against the flow, the reactions around here tend to be quick and harsh, and the 99% of other things you previously agreed with that person on get thrown out the window all because they don't share the same opinion about Linux as you, or something.
It's not a healthy pattern for a growing community.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 1 week ago:
I notice that a lot here on Lemmy, and I think that's because most of us here have at least an above-average understanding of current technologies, and tend to forget that we're a very small minority of people. So when above-average understandings are commonplace in your online bubble, your view of what an "average" understanding is can become skewed.
- Comment on Fake history porn 1 week ago:
I can hear this picture.
- Comment on Good luck! 1 week ago:
Personally, I'm glad there's no door. I prefer to shoot from the 3-point line.
- Comment on The perfect use for spoons in the "bad spoon" drawer 1 week ago:
OP forgot to mention that he is Uri Geller.
- Comment on This bacon grease 1 week ago:
Bruh, fry an egg in that right now.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
General intelligence is substrate dependent, meaning that it's inherently tied to biological wetware and cannot be replicated in silicon.
We're already growing meat in labs. I honestly don't think lab-grown brains are as far off as people are expecting.
- Comment on Loops - short form video with ActivityPub - is now open source! 1 week ago:
So does this mean it's in a state where people can start hosting their own instances and begin federating yet?
- Comment on YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address 1 week ago:
And 100% of the referrer-hijacking. 🤣
I get that it's a neat browser, but I don't understand how people can continue supporting it after such blatant disregard for user agency.
- Comment on YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address 1 week ago:
Isn't Wireshark just a packet sniffer? What exactly does that resolve for this situation?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I thought CalcKey renamed themselves to Firefish, and then development on the whole project stopped? I know that Sharkey is a popular fork that still seems to be in development.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
That's 100% true, but YT also foots the bill that creators would otherwise be responsible for when it comes to just the basics. Free hosting/distribution of high res full-length videos, globally accessible, with a player app that is actively developed and maintained, a recommendation algorithm to put your content in front of viewers' eyes... That, alone, has tremendous value for a creator that they really can't get anywhere else without paying out of pocket. All of those things would have to otherwise be paid for/maintained by the creators. While it's not a direct payment, YT relieves a huge burden for creators.
It sucks because it keeps creators' success dependent on corporate oligarchs. But at the same time, it's also great because it gives them a fighting chance to get started.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
No, and neither has anybody else. Not saying that to be rude or dismissive, but just using their own numbers on the front page to paint a picture. They have ~3,000 paying members as of right now. Patreon has over 10,000,000 paying members, and even then only a tiny, tiny fraction of their creators are actually sustainable.
Paid subscription services like this are a great idea, in theory; I'd love to get away from ad-supported platforms. But the truth is that they just don't work for all but a few lucky people.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
If you want monetization and scalability, you're gonna have to get ads. Ad-free subscription services that actually benefit the creators are exceedingly rare. Very few people (less than 0.1%) are "making it" on Patreon and the like. The bitter truth is that most users can't afford to financially support their favorite creators, and damn near zero creators could get the level of exposure needed to be sustainable without an ad-based platform backing them.
Video hosting is expensive af. Ultimately, small-time content creation is completely dependent on corporate benefactors. This is why every video platform that's tried to compete against YouTube has failed. Nebula is trying, but that's only useful to creators who fit within its specific niche.
I'm not saying this as a vote of support for the current system. Just an observation of how the market has played out so far.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 weeks ago:
Wait until you hear about the 200 Flock cameras you drove past on the way to work this morning which already ID'd you and reported your movements to all of the 3-letter agencies regardless of whether you were suspected of anything.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 weeks ago:
Doesn't really matter if it works, as long as it instills the fear that it could.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 weeks ago:
At that point, if such content is already posted there and available for download, it doesn't matter if it is only allowed to be downloaded via clearnet or VPNs as well. Blocking VPNs doesn't make any difference here.
My understanding is that it's for tracking/reporting purposes, and to mitigate future offenses by banning those IPs. You can report an IP to an ISP for CSAM violations, but it's not as useful when the user's on a VPN.
I've seen a debate regarding lemmynsfw with some people asking to turn off caching/proxying for images. I don't know what's their current status on this, but on my instance even thumbnails were not visible for catbox images. I'm not sure if it's disabled or it's the instance server itself having trouble accessing catbox.
Yeah, I've also noticed that Catbox links don't seem to generate previews on Mbin, as well, so I suspect that may be a Catbox block of some sort. That's interesting... I wonder if that causes a Lemmy instance to attempt a live preview instead of giving you a cached one. If so, that seems like something that probably shouldn't be in place, IMO.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead creator teasing new four player co-op shooter 2 weeks ago:
I really wanted it to be good, too. They tried to modernize the mechanics so much that they lost touch with what made L4D fun in the first place.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 weeks ago:
This would be somewhat believable excuse if they only blocked uploading/posting under VPNs.
With CSAM, you want to block uploading and downloading, because both are problematic for a host.
In this scenario catbox images posted to Lemmy for example, they don't only reveal your IP the moment they are loaded when you scroll your feed
I'm 99% sure it doesn't work that way. The Lemmy instance caches a preview image for posted links. But scrolling past without clicking a link will not expose your IP to Catbox.
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 2 weeks ago:
If you ever visit Google, which 99.9999% of internet users will do at some point, you'll eventually be prompted to install Chrome.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 weeks ago:
I'll be honest, I don't mind a free file host banning VPNs. Yes, VPNs have tons of legitimate uses, but they also have illegitimate uses that (what I understand to be) a one-man team is likely not prepared to deal with. They already have to deal with CSAM getting uploaded as it is.