indog

@indog@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re parroting the line of dumb conspiracy theories known as Gamergate 2 pushed by a bunch of grifters farming engagement on YouTube.

  Narrative consultancy companies like SBI don’t force you to hire them, and if you choose to hire them, you don’t have to follow all of their advice.

  If you’re interesting of curing yourself of the mindworms the YouTube algorithm has planted in your brain, please check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGmESJM6BFQ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania Dominus Collection – Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SoTN is available on ps4 in a collection called Castlevania Requiem (with Rondo of Blood). It often goes on sale for 5 bucks or so. Though I understand the frustration of gamers without a ps4 or ps5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good that they have this, but there are a lot of situations involving cops where it’s not going to be safe to stick your hand in your pocket. I’ll just leave the biometrics off on my devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  However, the panel said the evidence from his phone was lawfully acquired “because it required no cognitive exertion, placing it in the same category as a blood draw or a fingerprint taken at booking…"

  If the precedent is that unlocking the phone is the same category as fingerprint taking, well, what happens if you refuse to be “coerced” into having your prints taken? Even if the legal precedent isn’t fully understood, but it looks like the reasoning here isn’t based on whether there was physical force applied, but whether the search required the contents of the person’s mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The general consensus has been that there is more Fifth Amendment protection for passwords than there is for biometrics,” Andrew Crocker, the Surveillance Litigation Director at the EFF, told Gizmodo in a phone interview. “The 5th Amendment is centered on whether you have to use the contents of your mind when you’re being asked to do something by the police and turning over your password telling them your password is pretty obviously revealing what’s in your mind.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So he was “only” coerced, ie likely verbally abused and lied to (which cops are allowed to do) about the consequences of refusing to unlock, instead of being physically forced. Such freedom.