M1ch431
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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 day ago:
That’s just the inherent cost of going with general purpose engines.
Some studios are able to use general purpose engines very well, others not so much. It seems like there is a level of expertise needed to make well-oiled games.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
Doesn’t really make much sense for me to switch to a flip phone unless it was specifically built for privacy/security. SMS and regular voice calls are insecure, it likely could connect to fake cell towers uninhibited, it likely doesn’t have hardware switches to disconnect various features e.g. modem, microphone, or camera.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 week ago:
It’s absolutely heart-wrenching to see human potential being snuffed out, to see this level of suffering.
Truly, the only things we stand to lose by incentivizing positive action is our dysfunction. Good riddance.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know they weren’t. Regardless, I apologize for my bluntness. Everything they said is true if we don’t change and evolve.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 week ago:
If everyone owned a house real estate values would plummet.
If e.g. macroeconomics are working against human interest, they can fuck off. Real estate shouldn’t be something speculative and dominated by forces such as private equity and landlords.
Housing and property are a right and it would serve us to act like it.
If you gave everyone $1,000,000 the value of a million dollars willing crash.
If you gave everybody a million to be used to better their lives, their community, and society at large - let the value of the dollar crash in the lens of the old ways.
Incentivizing positive action is beneficial for everyone, as long as we don’t build a house of cards and we consider those around us. Incentivizing wealth hoarding, ruthlessness, and the consolidation of power is only beneficial for those at the top of the food chain and creates vast, untold amounts of suffering.
The dark secret about money is that it only works when there have enough for everyone.
Money is a distortion of value. And you don’t need to be valuable to the most greedy of us to deserve to live and be provided what you need to live.
Monopolization, market dominance, and stagnation has gotten us to where we are: individuals, communities, and societies of people powerless to affect society in any meaningful way, because of “the economy”, “the cost”, “the billionaires/job creators will leave” gasp D:
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
but I refuse to abide this style of using investor money to operate at a loss for years while deceptively capturing the market before raising prices.
No company should be praised or rewarded for emulating the moves that made companies like Walmart and Amazon big.
This capitalist hellscape would be slightly more tolerable if there was ample competition in every space. Companies need to be motivated to make their profit in ways that please the consumer, but also in ways that are increasingly more ethical.
But truly, as they say, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Modern slavery and third-world exploitation…even child slavery are rampant in our supply chains and offshore manufacturing.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
In this case, your assessment is fair - user is harsh, name-calls, and does talk down to the person they were responding to/the reader. I got lost in the chain.
Regardless, accusations of purity testing come up more than enough online for my liking and it isn’t always in response to righteous condescension, as you aptly described the user’s behavior in this example.
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 2 weeks ago:
It should be able to be wiped clean, and not ever be published to the internet without safeguards to prevent AI-scraping/people search websites for picking it up. These websites should block anybody without a legitimate or reasonable need to know that information - it’s also not news-worthy to systematically report on arrests that are e.g. victimless and not tied to a notable event.
If you want it completely publicly accessible, that should be a right upon arrest.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Not to take away from your points, foregoing sharing personal information with the wrong crowd is likely imperative, but it’s probably best to find ways out of unstructured servile relationships e.g. workplaces with any hint of drama, disorganization, or lack of focus.
If you don’t feel welcomed, if the hierarchy is oppressive, if your peers are seemingly jealous or readily find fault in you, if you are insulted - start looking for another job. Or never stop looking for jobs until you’re sure you’re safe… or just work remote.
I’ve had my fair share of similarly unbelievable circumstances - and what I’ve learned is to not mess around with unstable circumstances and potentially volatile individuals unless you’re absolutely sure you’re safe.
- Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’ 3 weeks ago:
Almost as “Libertarian” as Peter Thiel.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 3 weeks ago:
Companies that use child slavery and modern slavery in their batteries holding people hostage to their decisions about your personal devices…sounds about right.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 weeks ago:
“There’s no expectation of privacy in public.”
There’s no expectation of privacy anywhere. This has all been taken way too far.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 weeks ago:
Corporations have been already making profiles of various types for a while now in the form of ad-tech, social media, data brokers, people search websites, credit scores, etc.
Our society has been setup for mass surveillance in a thousand different ways as a form of social control and dominance by those who wield power.
It’s time people realize that privacy is a right instead of normalizing abuses of consent.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 3 weeks ago:
More info: youtu.be/7f_V9zZNzTY
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
You can be assured that it’s not just Russia and China feeding it garbage. There is a vast amount of propaganda in all forms of media that AI is trained on, and it comes from the west.
- Comment on Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza 3 months ago:
The company did not answer whether it or the outside firm it hired communicated or consulted with the Israeli military as part of its internal probe.
In its statement, the company also conceded that it “does not have visibility into how customers use our software on their own servers or other devices.” The company added that it could not know how its products might be used through other commercial cloud providers.
Microsoft said the Israeli military, like any other customer, was bound to follow the company’s Acceptable Use Policy and AI Code of Conduct, which prohibit the use of products to inflict harm in any way prohibited by law. In its statement, the company said it had found “no evidence” the Israeli military had violated those terms.
Those three quotes stick out to me as proof that they are pleading ignorance.
Forbid access and fact-find some more Microsoft or stop pretending that you aren’t complicit in AI being used for harm.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 4 months ago:
KDE was fairly seamless for me, Zorin does have lots of merit though for making Gnome/XFCE more usable/accessible. My workflow basically didn’t change.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 4 months ago:
Nice, that’s big.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 4 months ago:
I read enough of OP’s comments and looked at their past commenting/post history and it was pretty clear that it was a cry for help. It wasn’t for karma, they deleted their account.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 4 months ago:
Everybody deserves kindness, compassion, and empathy.
Ableist people also include people that idealize not being ableist. They come up with excuses like, “I’m not being ableist, I’m just giving you hard love!” or, “You need to do what I say and do it exactly how I say because I care about you!”.
There was a reddit thread where many people were dog-piling on a severely disabled person. The person was diagnosed with autism with intellectual disability, a severe heart condition, severe PTSD, and ADHD.
Many people came into the thread to say that they were making up their disability, that they should be institutionalized, that they were a troll because their doctor wouldn’t give them bad advice to deal with their heart condition, and so forth.
- Comment on The 2025 World Press Freedom Index is released 4 months ago:
100%.
- Comment on The 2025 World Press Freedom Index is released 4 months ago:
Truly, thanks for your response - I understand now that it does seem to be one of the major factors that goes into their ranking.
I just feel like ranking press freedom is flawed when things are this fucked. Here in the US, whistleblowers are persecuted or killed, accurate and unbiased reporting on events feels like it almost never happens, omission of newsworthy events is rampant, independent journalism is at the behest of a few corporations that have total control of the algorithms and the platforms that these journalists rely on, a couple corporations own the entirety of all mainstream media… I could go on, but I’d just be preaching to the choir in all likelihood.
- Comment on The 2025 World Press Freedom Index is released 4 months ago:
I am pretty sure their measurement of the USA is wrong.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 months ago:
“Someone stole my laptop and has physical access to state secrets that Hegseth has yet to blurt on Twitch chat”.
Thanks for making laugh. It’s been a while.