cecilkorik
@cecilkorik@piefed.ca
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 2 days ago:
That's definitely a stretch goal. But at least if we can start by stopping them from killing something innocuous like games it shows that we still maybe have some power over them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Oh I'm basically certain it will be at this point.
The good news is they already fired all the good people, so we can hope those people find their way into creating a wonderful spiritual sequel under a different name, as is tradition.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 3 days ago:
The French figured out how to solve that particular problem hundreds of years ago. Guillotines are efficient and reusable.
- Comment on The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory 5 days ago:
I had one of these. It was truly terrible, extremely limited, clunky, dim, with awful battery life, but sort of better than nothing. Barely. The days before white LED backlights were a really painful time for portable electronics.
- Comment on Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem. 6 days ago:
Piefed connects them and shows you comments from other communities on other instances.
- Comment on 6.3mm spade terminal with wire retaining clip printed in 1 week ago:
Piefed(.ca at least) is great. It doesn't really matter much to me where the community is hosted but it should be wherever you feel comfortable hosting it and I agree the Lemmy devs are very toxic.
Also nice design!
- Comment on A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting elections 1 week ago:
I wish you were right. I don't mind governments and political parties who aren't fascist. Democratic socialists and responsible environmentalists can AI-pump their ideology all they like and it's not going to do much harm to civilization. But if they are doing it at all, they're not doing it anywhere near the level that fascists and kleptocrats are. The latter benefit from radical change, and they are using AI to achieve that.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 1 week ago:
This also has big implications for consumer rights and society as a whole in other areas of digital technology and right to repair, it is a foot in the door to start actually holding manufacturers responsible for the full lifecycle of their products (digital and real) that requires them to actually relinquish their control when their product reaches end-of-commercial-life, instead of turning everything into digital garbage out of what basically amounts to apathy and compulsive rights hoarding.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think we can all agree it's probably a bad idea.
Does that mean you shouldn't? Maybe. But maybe not. Sometimes it's fun to do something "wrong", because you want to, and maybe you'll really enjoy it anyway. Maybe you'll learn a lot about why it's a bad idea, and maybe you'll find those learnings enrich your life and give you stories to tell. I'm not trying to recommend this at all, I'm just saying you should consider it from all angles and outcomes before you make a decision, especially if this is something he really wants to do for whatever reason. Life is for *living*, it's not for making a series of *optimal choices to result in the highest score*. Experiences, both good and bad, are their own reward. And as long as nobody's going to get hurt, and you go into it with your eyes open and an understanding of the risks and potential downfalls, and do what you can to mitigate and protect against them as much as you can, maybe it's something you can try.
If it's really something you're not comfortable with, and he is, well then you two are going to have to have a long and hard talk about it and come to some mutually agreeable compromise. But even if it is objectively a bad idea, you also need to think about whether he's just naive and is going to hate it, or whether it's going to make him happy that he tried it, and whether it's an experience he needs to have in his life. Meanwhile, is it going to cause you resentment if you go there and hate it and he loves it? Will he listen to you if you decide you really do hate it and don't want to continue?
That's not something anyone can answer for you, but it has little to do with whether it's a bad idea and much more to do with what both of you want out of life.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great” 1 week ago:
and why they treat their drivers like subhuman robots already.
- Comment on The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms] 1 week ago:
I am still of the opinion that they aimed too small and focused too narrow. Games are a "luxury" anyone can live without and it's hard to rally grassroots support behind protecting something that people only use for entertainment. Yeah it's low stakes to force them to let you continue to play it after servers shut down but the same low stakes also makes the petition itself pretty ignorable to anyone who's not a very invested "gamer".
Actual right to repair and right to continue to access to the software and services and devices you buy goes SO far beyond mere games, there are other huge impacts to society from exactly the same problem that leads to game servers being shut down, and this petition ignored them completely to focus exclusively on games. I know that was done purposefully, but I think it was a miscalculation.
I'm convinced it could have got a lot of support if it had broader aims. Yes if you go after the big boys who are locking down tractor parts and integrated electronic modules so they become obsolete and unrepairable and directly impacting farmers and our food supply, you're going to REALLY piss off some very big business interests who are going to try and kill your petition, but you're also going to help educate and hopefully get a lot of support from politicians who already know this is a problem and from the general public who doesn't care about games but does care about society (at least once they're properly educated about it, which is hard but also a necessary and positive step to even attempt).
- Comment on Day 340 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I still just can't respect a rainbow road that has guardrails.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 2 weeks ago:
I would absolutely and unironically fly this flag, although to be even more inclusive it also needs an alpha layer. Perhaps it should be a cube? Actually even that might not be inclusive enough, we need more dimensions. BRB I need to figure out how to attach a tesseract to my flagpole, I guess I'll need some kind of gordian knot?
- Comment on Mastodon: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content 2 weeks ago:
Mathematically right, the best kind of right.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 weeks ago:
It works: You can tell the real humans because they'll be the only ones unwilling to do this invasive bullshit. The bots will just come up with something fake to scan and carry on as they always have.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 weeks ago:
It's actually low-key brilliant. Start a gold rush, when you realize the gold isn't actually there, pivot to selling shovels and keep hyping the gold rush. Fools and their money are soon parted, and there seem to be an endless supply of them.
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 3 weeks ago:
xmpp is still the best, nobody's ever going to change my mind. jabber 4 lyfe!