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- Comment on Taliban says it would support Iran if US attacks 21 hours ago:
This just goes to show what a bad actor Iran is. The taliban cannot provide meaningful support support in a conventional war. They only had “success” because they were able to fight an insurgency and even then the amount of soldiers they lost compared to the US was staggering.
- Comment on We live in the future! 21 hours ago:
Fake money for criminals is awesome I use it when im doing criminal activity online.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 21 hours ago:
You dont need to know iframes or combos. I do ok on Tekken online not knowing a single combo or any frame data. I just play my game jabbin and kickin duckin and dodging and sometimes i win sometimes i lose. Its fun. The only part I hate about online is fucking Brazil MFers with connection so bad we have to play the entire fight at 5fps.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 5 days ago:
your internet usage must be very limited.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 5 days ago:
anything communication wise its versatile.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 5 days ago:
Yeah I think these articles are trying to push people to leave discord and not actually reporting a real trend. Even on lemmy where people are far more likely to be halfway out the door or wanting to leave discord its still a low amount saying they left.
Across the 20 servers im in i’ve seen 0 movement. People arent even talking about it.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 5 days ago:
you need to create an account for everything so that complaint rings hollow. Discord doesnt even have a high barrier as an account can be created in a few seconds and you can use it in the web.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 6 days ago:
Ok so why do they need discord when they already have this information?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 6 days ago:
Palantir already has full access to the governments data which includes your ID. They dont need to get it via discord changing the way it handles age verification.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 6 days ago:
you mean the company that already has full access to government data?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 6 days ago:
source? I completely disagree that this is a result of extreme amounts of lobbying money being injected into politics. The issue is very very popular with the average parent and thats what politicians are reacting to.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
Filming people in public is becoming way to socially acceptable. I hate it.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
“Its all a conspiracy man, all the way up to the government man, all this is being done to collect more data having a picture of someones face is so valuable”. You do not live in reality and there is no logic to your story. Discord is not accessing this photo so they have nothing to sell. Discord gains nothing and suffers reputational harm for this change. Then the “nefarious” 3rd party age verification company who supposedly stands to benefit the most out of all this. There is fuck all money to be made as an ID verification service, they are not legally able to sell the data and will most likely be automated out of existence in the next few years. Lastly why the fuck would the government suffer reputational harm to do all this to access your ID, you may not be aware but they actually already have your id and sensitive information about you. You werent private on discord before this change and wont be after. Unless you’ve taken extraordinary security measures, Discord should be treated as a public forum.
Its not a change im happy about but its the way legislation is going around the world and it makes sense discord would comply. At the end of the day I operate on the internet under my personal info, i use a cc with my name, i use my personal phone number, i use my email. Im under no illusion that im not identifiable. If thats a red line for you then either dont access nsfw content or dont use discord you dont have to make up a crazy conspiracy to explain the actions.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
I think the argument that this is done to collect more personal info is stupid.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
how does that change anything?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
wow this is just what they need to know who you are… the final piece of the puzzle. You dont think discord can accurately identify most of its users already. They have email, IP, device, port scans of the network, all the people they interact with, contact list scans, social media and online account linking. This only affects a small subset of users and doesnt even go to discord as its done through a 3rd party service.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
Thats true but ID companies are not lobbying or making changes on a scale that matters. This change isnt going through because an id company lobbied the government. Its actually a popular position with the constituents of the democracy. Its supported by many different interest groups for various reasons good and bad. To simplify it down to “id companies lobbying the government to earn money” is in my opinion intentionally misleading.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
how is a government requirement for age verification forcing a company to implement a non profitable change the fault of capitalism? I guess the 10 years have been a good sample of what capitalism does to a platform. Discord saw a problem and used VC capital to build one of the most well engineered platforms on the market with hundreds of millions of free users and many happy to pay to support it.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 1 week ago:
I think it will come back. Given that its using a system notification to suggest an app that is suggested to me in every app I open, pinned to my taskbar, pinned to my start menu and built into my keyboard.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 1 week ago:
I hope you’re right because I am enjoying Microsoft’s failures and I would like them to continue.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 1 week ago:
I got a popup on my work PC 5 mins ago advertising co pilot. Image
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 1 week ago:
Thats bad actually, the free advertising to linux was a good thing. Now Windows users will slip back into apathy.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
yeah being casual in comp games can still be fun! I never got past silver 2 in CSGO and I had a great time. I was dogshit by all metrics but I way more fun than when I was Diamond in LoL(that was miserable).
People were more friendly, there were dudes ripping bongs and rapping mid round. I could play with any of my friends, I could play tired, drunk no worries, no ruining the game etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Its scum behavior but its smart. If you can get your product into a reddit thread that gives a ton of free high quality advertising. Its why the site turned to site so fast once normal people found out about it. Suddenly you had products being shilled in every community and threads created solely for the purpose of posting a reply that said to buy a product. AI is just a cherry ontop of the already souless reddit behaviour and quite frankly its what they deserve.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 weeks ago:
Is that true? I’ve seen devs list their games off steam for steamprice -30%. Often you can go to a devs website and buy the game $10 cheaper. However I still buy it via steam because i feel like i’ll forget about the game if its just a key in my email.
- Comment on De-Escalating Social Media 2 weeks ago:
It could be a hint to the algorithm to stop pushing the content because you wouldn’t want something incorrect circulating. But then people may not want to use it but also those people would be the same ones who are happy to lie in a viral tweet.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 3 weeks ago:
yeah this is a great example of him not being authorization enough to follow in ccp footsteps. For this to be a proper comparison it would have to be ice murdering 1000s of unarmed protestors not 1.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 3 weeks ago:
Why not? For most countries there is 0 point in switching to renewables since the largest polluter in the world is still scaling coal power and currently polluting more than the 2,3,4,5,6 biggest polluters combined. India will go through similar power needs and the world can barely handle a few more years of chinese pollution let alone adding india to the mix. The US is also scaling power using fossil fuels so it looks like any efforts done by the rest of the world will be completely pointless.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 3 weeks ago:
Not it hasnt. A small drop in exports to china isnt enough to send the austrialian economy into a tailspin. Chinese coal imports globally dropped only 9% last year (and domestic production increased to meet that deficit for all those thinking china isnt polluting the world). Keep in mind this 9% decrease comes after a record amount of coal imports in 2024.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 4 weeks ago:
Can other countries forgo their climate commitments and scale up coal productions to compete in manufacturing or only China? Is this a world we want to live in.
