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- Comment on Mewgenics Gameplay Reveal (Feat. Edmund McMillen!) 8 hours ago:
Going just off the name, I’m imagining a fascist Pokémon game.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 days ago:
I look forward to seeing these people suffer exactly zero consequences in the coming years. /s
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 days ago:
IMO, setting it up at home is not the bar for decentralization.
That’s exactly where I set the bar.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 days ago:
I’m not sure it’s a one-to-one fit.
It’s not a community; it just hosts images. There’s no comment section, for example.
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 2 days ago:
Image storage platform, like imgur.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 4 days ago:
Why do it, then?
Is this a proof of concept/MVP build, so they can iterate more efficient versions? A vanity project? A mistake?
- Comment on Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend (Aug 29 - Sept 01) 5 days ago:
Having no context, if I was that patron, I’d have not said anything if the exhibit was free.
Let people just walk around and enjoy a “Dali”.
- Comment on After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0 1 week ago:
Did they fix the whole Unheard Edition issue or nah?
- Comment on Comfortable is a table made out of comforts 1 week ago:
- Comment on Random Things that I never expected: Infinity Nikki × Stardew Valley Collab Trailer 1 week ago:
So cool of ConcernedApe to collab with smaller, independent creators in the cozy space!
- Comment on Comfortable is a table made out of comforts 1 week ago:
So we’re either Team comfort+able or Team comfor+table?
- Comment on Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines. 1 week ago:
The report doesn’t clearly establish a link between paywalls and a drop in site visits (which I would have liked to see).
One of the unpaywalled sites lost traffic mostly due to changes in the Google algorithm.
Overall, it just seems like a regular update of the website traffic rankings, juiced up by a clickbait headline.
- Comment on An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek 1 week ago:
Since April 2022, Kickstarter employees have worked under a four-day, 32-hour workweek… During this time, Kickstarter experienced the most successful period in its 16-year history, hosting some of the biggest, most groundbreaking projects ever launched on the platform.
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As we entered contract negotiations with management, we asked them to make the four-day, 32-hour workweek permanent—not as a pilot or a promise, but as policy. We also included flexible provisions that would allow management to temporarily return to a five-day work week in the event of true business need, ensuring creators and backers are fully supported throughout the week. They have refused and are determined to retain the ability to make us work 25% more hours for no additional compensation. In other words, they want the option to make us work more for free.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So how does this tie into what’s happening now? Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This law currently protects platform holders, providing immunity for any content uploaded to said platform that third-party users created.
By removing Section 230, platform holders, like Steam, would be liable for any “illegal” content uploaded to the platform, as opposed to those creating and uploading said content. If Steam were found guilty of hosting this content, the company could be hit with huge fines. Therefore, Steam, Itch, and many other platforms would likely place a blanket ban on any adult content, mitigating any risk of fines or other legal action. This, as pointed out on Reddit, would affect all forms of user-generated content, including fan art, mods, and videos, not just games themselves.
Seems like a deceptive headline.
The real takeaway is: Project 2025 guy also wants to do the platform-level censorship thing, but by removing legal protections (Section 230) instead of using payment processors.
- Comment on Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server? 2 weeks ago:
It works okay for audiobooks, but if you want it to save your place and track chapters, audiobookshelf is better.
- Comment on This is very funny to me. 2 weeks ago:
This could unironically be an okay prompt, depending on what kind of users you want to gatekeep.
The bots will hallucinate statistics and travel brochure copy.
The real ones will say nothing beats a jet2 holiday.
- Comment on 5 Wordle Alternatives That Will Challenge Your Brain in 2025(One is coming soon! 2 weeks ago:
I came to Lemmy to avoid clickbait marketing.
- Comment on Palestine was the problem with TikTok 2 weeks ago:
We are now facing a time where democracy is in critical condition, but a dragnet of surveillance and suppression has already closed around young activists, an entire movement has been intimidated into silence, and the social media networks appear to be pandering to the federal government. To adopt the logic of information-nationalism is to commit to a course of action that is at odds with democracy. Now, the things that we need the most in this moment are things we have already given away.
We have always been at war with TikTok. We have never been at war with TikTok. And if we are lucky, one day, we can all look back and be able to tell the truth about ourselves — how we imprisoned our children, dismantled our universities, and tried to ban a scrolling video app, all because we could not admit that we were wrong about Palestine.
This article reads like a college term paper.
It feels like they clever wordsmithing over making a clear point.
- Comment on Palestine was the problem with TikTok 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world’s weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
The good news here is that Bluesky has made enormous progress in true federation. The cost of operating a full Bluesky stack has fallen from tens of millions of dollars per year to tens of dollars per month.
That sounds great. I’ll believe it when I see normies posting on Bluesky from at @itsmenormie@whatever.com.
- Comment on Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children 2 weeks ago:
“It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” the standards state. The document also notes that it would be acceptable for a bot to tell a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.”
Someone, probably multiple someones, signed off on this.
- Comment on IGN Boss Leaving After Six Years Following Latest Mass Layoff 3 weeks ago:
I’d rate IGN a 7/10. It has a little bit of something for everyone.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not the BBC’s job to be an authority. Their job is to report what the (relevant) authorities are saying:
DeepSeek challenged certain key assumptions about AI that had been championed by American executives like Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
“We were on a path where bigger was considered better,” according to Sid Sheth, CEO of AI chip startup d-Matrix.
Perhaps maxing out on data centres, servers, chips, and the electricity to run it all wasn’t the way forward after all.
Despite DeepSeek ostensibly not having access to the most powerful tech available at the time, Sheth told the BBC that it showed that “with smarter engineering, you actually can build a capable model”.
That said, seems suspect that an AI startup CEO is getting this much airtime. I would have preferred an industry analyst or an AI researcher.
- Comment on TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor 3 weeks ago:
It was fun(?) and interesting for a few minutes. If that was my full time job, I’d better be getting paid decently for it.
- Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act 4 weeks ago:
Rather thanIn addition to this, they should leak all the websites that MPs are visiting.If it’s anything like the United States, we’re sure to find some embarrassing search histories (at the very least).
No privacy for me. No privacy for you.
- Comment on YSK: Bandcamp is waiving its fees today and all money is passed to the artist (until 12 a.m. PST) 4 weeks ago:
Not every Friday:
Bandcamp Fridays will continue in 2025 on the following dates:
- September 5th
- October 3rd
- December 5th
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- Comment on What's up with Kevin Kelly's '2049'? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t even know who Kevin Kelly is. Is he not normally a shill for the CCP?
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 4 weeks ago:
What’s more, they talk up how it’s open source and then don’t link to the repo.
Here it is, BTW:
