tiramichu

@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the creepiest publisher in indie games. Critical Reflex are “midwives bringing monsters into the world,” backing projects no one dares to touch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The beginning of this headline had me mislead.

  I read ‘creepiest publisher’ and with the state of the industry these days I thought it was going to be some exposé piece on a toxic culture of workplace misogyny and sexual harassment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, of course it will be online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare presumably don’t want to give away the identity of their customer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if only 1% of people used adblock, then that’s 1% of millions of dollars of ad revenue. It’s easily enough to put several people on this as a full time job if they want to.

  I’m sure Google saw it as only a minor issue at first, but the number of people using adblockers is presumably going up all the time.

  The irony being of course that adblock usage is skyrocketing only because companies like Google have made the Internet so thoroughly ad-polluted it’s intolerable to go without one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If unused Chip Dip gets thrown out or composted then it was never actually chip dip.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Put hummus in your sandwiches or something, it’s a great condiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demon Slyayer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “All publicity is good publicity” , maybe…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow yeah. That must have been a really infuriating gameplay issue, no wonder players were upset with it.

  A shame the game was so rushed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the bug and workaround? :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix org isn’t obligated to run a public instance at all - they could stick to developing the spec, and let other people run instances.

  And honestly maybe they should, because then we wouldnt have this huge consolidation problem on matrix.org in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, the unspoken premise of the game is that you’re a kid in 1986 with a parent or cool uncle who went on a business trip to Japan and brought you home a Famicom and a copy of the original Zelda - months before the console even launched outside Japan.

  The ‘Alien Language’ game manual is therefore supposed to mimic the feeling of trying to read the Japanese manual that came with the game, muddling through as best you can with the pictures, and a few random English words they included just because English is ‘cool’ in a gaming context.

  It’s a very cool mechanic, honestly my favourite thing about the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube "search results"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are incentivised because showing accurate results for what you asked for isn’t necessarily the best way to keep people on the platform.

  By pushing certain types of videos, such as opinionated content or loud shouty videos for low attention spans, YouTube hopes to keep you engaged for longer than they would by being accurate.

  There’s also a direct advertising reason to funnel certain types of video. YouTube creators earn different amounts of money for the same number of views depeding on what category (e.g. financial, gaming, writing advice, cookery etc) YT has auto-categorised your video as. We can infer from this that advertisers are willing to pay more money for ads in some categories than others, and therefore YT is directly incentivised to push those more lucrative categories in search results, even if they aren’t what you wanted.

  Plenty of reasons why they want to mess with results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats on the new service.

  I’m a UK user and unlike lemmy.zip, piefed.zip appears to be accessible to me.

  I assume this is simply because you haven’t got around to geoblocking it yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Promoting that the nunber exists as a actual thing people should use is good, yeah. :)

  The actual number isn’t so important, though. If ever needed to call the non-emergency number I’d search it up, which fortunately I can do given I’ve got loads of time because it’s not an emergency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure.

  If they’ve got a problem with non-emergency callers dialing 911, surely it would be best to try and reduce that problem through other means (such as fining persistent inappropriate use of 911)

  I don’t want to talk to a fucking robot when I’m on the floor dying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved that app and I still miss it (and reddit) in some ways, but the API Apocalypse was when I decided I had to take a moral stand and quit. No way was I going to be railroaded into the first-party app full of ads and nonsense.

  I haven’t looked back since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*pat pat pat*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God literally used the scale up tool on a seagull. I guess it was a Friday afternoon in the animal design bureau.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*pat pat pat*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are huge!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, it’s insidious.

  But if you’ve got a Pixel phone then you can save yourself from this problem by running Graphene or Calyx on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 - Official Story Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ship was one of the best parts for sure. Once you are competent it feels super liberating how nimbly you can zip around a planet.

  The other good parts of that game were progression, and death.

  I love that knowledge is the only thing retained between loops - the only currency of value. And I loved the feeling of making new discoveries.

  And with death as an expected mechanic, the game doesn’t have to put up any guiderails to save you from it. There are no training wheels. You want to go outside without a spacesuit? Bad idea but sure, you do it. You want to fall into a space anomaly and see what happens? Be our guest.

  Masterpiece game honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.

  “It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The classic example we already have of this is when you are stopped at a side road about to enter the main road, and a car coming towards you on the main road signals to turn in.

  Many people take the fact the other car has their turn signal on as a guarantee that it’s safe to emerge, but any good driving instructor will tell you to wait until the car actually begins to turn_ before you yourself emerge.

  They had their signal on but that doesn’t mean they’re actually going to DO what the signal said they would.

  Same with the front brake light. It would be like “Well their front brake light came on, so I assumed it was safe to step into the crosswalk” NO. They could have just tapped the brake a second, doesn’t mean they saw you, or they will actually stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d suggest not moving towards even more consolidation on the biggest instance. It rather defeats the point of decentralisation.

  I myself am a lemm.ee refugee (just registered this new account today) and I specifically ruled world out because it benefits the health of Lemmy more to spread users and communities around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m dumbfounded there are people out there who will tolerate spending upwards of $1,000 on a phone which then pushes ads at you on your lock screen.