anarchiddy
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- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 days ago:
“They lied” implies intent to deceive.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 days ago:
I’m still not arguing against their disqualification, I’m saying people need to lay off the sauce - it’s not hard to imagine how this could have been accidental and not malicious.
We don’t need to torch an effigy every time a studio mentions AI in an interview.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 days ago:
Still, there’s a lot of room there for some grace. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to strip them of the award, but the level of outrage I’m seeing in this thread and elsewhere isn’t proportionate to the offense.
People really need to chill with this.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 days ago:
People keep saying the problem ‘wasnt that they used AI placeholder assets, it’s that they lied on the disclosure’, but boy does that still seem like a reach
When you have dozens of people working on a huge creative project, it would take an almost omniscient creative director to know where every asset in every scene came from with certainty. It isn’t hard to imagine a designer somewhere on the team sneaking an AI asset into a pre-release build and forgetting about it. The fact that it was later disclosed suggests that whoever was applying for the award wasn’t aware of that asset being used and then replaced at the time of submission.
I dont mind having some awards dedicated to genAI-free works, but people really need to stop getting their pitchforks out at every mention, otherwise they risk turning into a lynch mob. This doesnt sound like an intentional omission to me.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 week ago:
China has many more socialized services and their income level is far less indicative of overall quality of life
It has honestly been a long time since I heard someone in the west suggest the chinese economy is struggling at all - i thought maybe something meaningful had happened in the last week or something that changed that picture
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
“Capitalism isn’t the problem, THIS is”
* points to the main thing capitalism does *
- Comment on Hi, I am TotallyNotForeignNational and only have the best interests of america in mind. You can trust me because this is reddit, not xitter, and I say good things about the American president. 3 weeks ago:
Oh my god they’re actually doing the south park bit
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 3 weeks ago:
identical morally
I think you are reading a different comment.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 4 weeks ago:
I consider it to be a function of when I grew up with video games and how my family restricted them broadly, but I have honestly never understood the appeal of competitive online games that require intense anti-cheat controls.
I grew up playing largely single player games, and the few online games I payed were limited to ones I played in private lobbies with friends i knew.
Any game that requires this level of policing for competitive play is an instant turn off for me. I realize I’m in the minority here, but I have no problem with a console that doesn’t support kernel level anticheat- to the contrary i find it to be a huge advantage
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 1 month ago:
Why do people keep sharing this as if it’s an achievement?
Newsom and his tech donors can go get fucked.
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
IMO this shitpost id bordering on parody, but dont let me be a killjoy
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Apparently? Idk, the conservatives i know have kinda shrugged it off at this point
That first week was fun though
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Not at all, I just dont think Republicans give a shit.
At least, not enough to effect their voting habits. Trump being a sex criminal isn’t a deterrent for them, but him looking weak is
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Look, im not saying its a little funny, but fascists dont need narrative consistency. Yea, mocking them about it isn’t a bad idea, but dont be fooled into thinking this is some serious line of attack for them. They are desperate to be taken seriously, but dont have any qualms about shifting the goalposts to protect their in-group
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Were people bothered by people asking about the emails?
Conservatives cared deeply, which is kind of the point
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Is it worse than using the US military to target political opponents and deport them to Guatemala?
Libs are pretending as if yelling about this will stop the stormtroopers in their tracks as they drag you out of your car in front of your family. Republicans do not give a shit about this - in fact, trump has already been found liable for rape and guilty of bribing a porn star to keep quiet about his affair with her. This is closer to a point of pride for them than something that they’d drop support over.
Its about as cringe as Schumer quoting Kendrick Lamar in a tweet.
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Just ask youself how much hilary’s emails bothered you in 2016, and you might have an idea how much republicans are bothered by epstine.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 2 months ago:
I cant wait for the conspiracy theories about this
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
This is the lib version of “where are the emails?”
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 3 months ago:
Im seeing this just after having a while conversation about conservative Christians making a big deal about ‘finding truth in faith’ after the Kirk shooting and this feels similar to me
There’s this clear implication that the ‘truth’ can only be found through your ideological worldview, and a complete abandoning of any attempt at justifying or supporting it through reason. Any piece of information that’s misaligned is dismissed as propaganda - but what’s especially annoying is that it doesn’t even have to be coherently opposed to truth but merely distracting from what’s supposedly more important.
Americans are one of the most propagandized populations on the planet - but I wouldn’t even put Russia in the top 5 sources of it.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 months ago:
You can disagree without a downvote option.
It’s more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 months ago:
I legitimately don’t even know why someone might think this.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 months ago:
Why? I don’t see a benefit to the button at all. Even being able to register disapproval is better done via comment, anyway, and having to articulate it makes you far more likely to self-reflect and temper yourself than if you can just downvote every comment in a thread
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 months ago:
This is just further evidence that we just shouldn’t have a downvote option at all.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 months ago:
That’s just how a federated exchange needs to work, though. Without sharing which user is creating activity, there would be no way of verifying the legitimacy of activity without some convoluted blockchain process. On the other hand, sharing IP addresses isn’t just unnecessary but more involved.
There’s frankly no point in making votes private, anyway. Why should it matter who knows how you vote?
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 months ago:
Important to note here, too, is that ip addresses of users arent synced across instances.
This is only a problem for people who care about the reputation of their user account - which is something people should be rotating out anyway if they care about their privacy.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 months ago:
IP addresses are not something that can be pulled from just any instance. You would need to be the administrator, and even then you’d only get access to the ip address of just your own instance users. AFAIK, at least - maybe they’ve made efforts to mask ips, too, but im not even sure how that’d work.
Federated posts and comments are copied from server to server. When someone from .world is looking at a comment from .dbzer0, what they are seeing is information that was synced from the dbzer0 server address, not the user’s.
There was a brief moment when there was a vulnerability with linked images sent via DM that could route you to an external server and log your IP address, but that has been patched now by most instances.
As with anything on the internet: assume your activity is not private at all times, or take active precautions to mask your identity, or both. No opsec is perfect and often the only thing standing in the way of a hack or dox is the endurance and motivation of the bad actor.
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- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 5 months ago:
A simple toggle, secured with a password would do it.
Yea, that’s the thing - I don’t think it would ‘do’ it for legislators. Like you mentioned - it’s not really about protecting children, but also the only way to enforce a law like this would be to log or register devices to specific people or children. This would essentially just shift the point of verification from the individual website to the point of sale of the phone or tablet. Verifying the age is the part that necessitates identification - the only thing a hardware-locked strategy does is centralizes that verification to a governing body instead of individual websites, but it still associates individuals with specific devices.
I get why this might seem preferable, but the problem of online privacy still persists.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’m so tired of this civility meta.
Lemmy is half as uncivilized as any other social media space I’ve ever been in, including reddit or Twitter. I think people are just confused by a lack of centralized authority to settle disputes on what is or isn’t ‘civil’ behavior - but it certainly isn’t the case that it’s any less civil than just about any alternative.
Maybe this places extra stress on instance admins for constantly addressing complaints of users on and off their server, but that has less to do with the kind of user civility people are talking about and more with a culture of mob justice evidenced by communities like MoG and PTB.
People seem uncomfortable with multipolar systems, and maybe it’s because of my political bent but I think distributed systems are way better.
