wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 day ago:
This restated question is not the problem directly.
The problem is the entire discussion/concept of “exposure to a dangerous idea in a pretend context maybe might maybe make someone more likely to emulate it in reality” when there has been little to no evidence found supporting that concept. Additionally the non-proportional amount of concern given to videogames in relationship to this concept as compared to literally any other form of media.
If there was even one iota of connection between “exposure to horrible things in media” (or even “pretending to do horrible things in a pretend context”) and “doing horrible things in real life”, the world would already look considerably different than it does. Militaries would be using these games as “exposure therapy” for soldiers. We’d be seeing crime rates of all sorts shifting in accordance with the media industries. There would already be measurable impacts after the decades of these things existing.
And more so than any of that: This discussion has literally been happening for longer than any of us here have been alive. I’m tired of having it.
Please stop letting the vague idea of “but it might help” override the logic of “but there’s no evidence to support that except a vague gut feeling”.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 day ago:
Tell me again how you’ve not actually read up on the issues with crypto as payment processor.
This shit has already been tried and the issues discussed at length. I think it was Mullvad that stopped accepting BTC and did an extensive writeup on why.
In short: the constantly shifting conversion rates make this unsustainable, as even if they accepted payment in crypto, they have to pay their bills in fiat currency. So their choices are to have crypto prices change literally every page load to reflect the exchange rate, or to just eat extra costs when suddenly 0.51btc goes from being worth $5 when the user pays to being worth $1 when they try to use it for anything else. Even with constantly updating prices, the shifting rates screwing them will still happen. The costs associated with even offering it as a payment type outweigh the actual revenue generated by an extreme order of magnitude, and even privacy/crypto oriented storefronts see something like under 1% of users using the option when it’s available.
And that’s my understanding of the short version.
There’s a big difference between “prioritizing short term profit” and “committing commercial/financial suicide to make a point”.
- Comment on Oven 1 day ago:
Get over here Davis.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 day ago:
Jesus Christ we can’t be back to this old chestnut.
We cannot, and do not, standardize society’s guard rails around the most extreme edge cases.
Leave it back with Jack Thompson in the late 90s-early 00s where it belongs. The horse has already been jellied by repeated blunt force trauma more than a decade ago. You’re just punching a horse shaped divot into the dirt at this point.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 day ago:
Short term profits? How are they supposed to make any profits if payment processors refuse to process payments to them? They can’t just spin up their own fucking payment processor.
Beyond that, how does limiting the sale of any products make them money?
I swear, were none of you people paying attention when this happened to the right wing ghouls in the lead up to the 2016 election? Nothing of value was lost (or would have been), but Visa, Mastercard, etc have already shown they aren’t above using their position in the transfer of money to enforce their will.
- Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position. 2 days ago:
Please get off your high horse and stop making assumptions. I’ve literally laid four eldery family members in the ground over the past 3 years. For some reason I’m always asked to be a pallbearer and I’m never going to say no.
All of them required care. While my wife and I weren’t full time caregivers (living 8 hours away will do that), we’ve done more than enough time in the trenches. Nearly all our time off from work from 2018-2022 went into help and care for elderly relatives. Everything beyond our own days off sick or for Dr’s appointments. Weeks at a time of giving round the clock care. It only stopped once stable care had been sorted out and we decided to start IVF (with the blessing of those family members still able to communicate so) to try and have a kid.
I’ve also been minorly involved in a few hirings. Not directly making the decision, but part of the “meet your potential co-workers” interview. Talked extensively with my boss about the approach, and read up quite a bit about the process. My feedback was part of the decision.
Your points are valid, to a point. Caregivers do tend to underestimate the work involved, and the skills required. It can be, and quite often is, some of the hardest work out there to navigate all the shit involved while watching a loved one slowly die. It changes you.
But I would still caution against listing it as direct job experience. Again, I would suggest listing it under an “Other Experience” section with any other skills from volunteering or personal life if they are particularly significant.
Resumes are all about making a good first impression, and there are tons of people out there who would see “Full time caregiver” and mentally file it the same as if someone listed “Stay at home parent”. I mean they would view it as an excuse and a cop out. It’s not necessarily fair, but I’m trying to be realistic here.
does this mean absolutely nothing to people?
Yes, this exactly. Anyone who hasn’t had direct exposure to the mechanics of elder care isn’t going to get it. That’s not a smart gamble to make on a first impression when job hunting unless you absolutely have to go all in on that gamble.
- Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position. 2 days ago:
Caring for a family member would have no relevance to just as many, if not more, positions than it holds relevance to.
Like any tech related position beyond (at quite a stretch) helpdesk, not relevant.
There’s something to be said for character reference in your resume, but most places are more concerned about more tangible skills.
Like another commenter suggested, maybe under an “other experience” section, but not in the same area as relevant work experience unless you’re trying to pad things.
- Comment on Day 371 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
The goblins being peaceful might be due to your combat level. Once you outlevel an enemy by a certain amount, they stop auto-attacking you and you have to initiate combat with them if you want to.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 3 days ago:
What do you mean? They are literally using the Microsoft provided solution.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 3 days ago:
This isn’t unique to Brave.
- Comment on Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say 4 days ago:
Awful showing by Washington Post. It’s multiple top severity CVEs against On-Premises (non-cloud) Sharepoint servers. These are zero-days that are in out being used against vulnerable systems in the wild.
More info should come up with a quick search. Don’t have time to find and link a better article at the moment.
- Comment on Surrealism, Abstract- and Datamosh Content 6 days ago:
That only works if you don’t manually make it a link. Just !surrealism@fedia.io
No extra markdown needed. It will be converted automatically just like /r/subreddit on reddit
- Comment on Xbox tests letting you stream your own games on PC 1 week ago:
I’d imagine this is their solution for Xbox exclusive games with their upcoming handhelds, since those are only going to have the Windows GamePass, no additional Xbox compatibility.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 1 week ago:
But it isn’t a PC with Xbox compat.
It’s just a portable PC with Windows Gamepass and some stuff toggled to make it easier to navigate using a controller.
- Comment on Day 362 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
So it’s been about two and a half years since I’ve played (before my daughter was born), so take this with a grain of salt. I think last big update I experienced was the addition of the Reapers’s equivalent of the Athena’s Fortune faction.
Unless they’ve changed how captained ships work, every time you log in your ship only has a basic set of resources (wood, canonballs, fruit). Stocking up from the outpost barrels is an every session thing. The whole captained ship thing was originally just a way to save your ship cosmetics and adding a bunch of ship specific achievements. Also gave access to a convenient one stop sell location and some “captain” exclusive quests.
Regarding PVP, natural “emergent” PVP has really dried up since they added in the hourglass (dedicated PVP match queuing) and the ability to server hop (lose all your sellable loot and active quest progress, keep the barrelled resources on your ship). So people up for scrapping usually hop servers until they find a popular and lucrative server event happening where there are likely to be other players. There already was the Reaper’s flag and emmisary to imdicate you were up for/looking for PVP too (both make you visible on the map to the whole server). So a lot of players left running around aren’t as bloodthirsty.
Also, unless they changed server limits again, each server has an absolute max of six ships. It’s a big sea for so few ships. Especially when we stayed around The Roar (volcanoey area at the east side of the map) we could go entire sessions without running into other players.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 1 week ago:
Hell, forget doing anything with the office. I don’t want to go back unless you have an on site private spa, massuese, catered food, and laundry service. Make it legitimately better than being at home and I’ll consider it.
Instead, the blue shirted girlfriend should be: “A valuable intangible workplace benefit that you can continue offering for free after you were forced to invest in it due to the pandemic”
People applying for my position will make job acceptance or denial choices off of whether or not they get to work from home. We’re already split across three “back office” physical locations when we are in the office and we’re more than capable of having a conference call going in the background throughout the day for chitchat and bouncing ideas around verbally if we really need to. We didn’t just survive during total work from home, we thrived. And we already have all the technical infrastructure, policies, and procedures in place to offer full work from home.
It’s like if they could offer health insurance to employees for free, but decided not to because upper management can’t figure out how to do their jobs when people have it.
Fuck this boils my piss.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 1 week ago:
They crawl wikipedia too, and are adding significant extra load on their servers, even though Wikipedia has a regularly updated torrent to download all its content.
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 1 week ago:
Most of these trimmed down portable Wiis boot into a homebrew menu as they don’t have the IR lights attached by default (the Wii “sensor” bar which is just two IR lightbulbs), needed to navigate the menu using a Wiimote.
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 1 week ago:
It’s a novelty. Hardware hackers have been making smaller and more portable Wiis for years, finding more parts of the motherboard they can cut off, ways to rearrange mobo parts and reconnect them without impacting functionality, discrete parts they can replace with more modern smaller equivalents, etc.
This represents the smallest they’ve been able to cut down Wii hardware, still have it be functional, and still have the core be the original hardware, not a general use CPU with an emulation solution running over top. It’s not a commercial product meant to compete with emulators on existing portable devices like phones and SBCs.
- Comment on Get the Borderlands series in the new Gear Up For Borderlands 4 Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
Does anyone really go back and play the older ones after the latest installment comes out?
Personally I just stick with whatever latest one I picked up.
I just don’t see it as the kind of series where “keeping up” by playing through the old ones matters.
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 1 week ago:
There’s a lot more to this article than the summary blurb would indicate.
It’s mainly talking about how regardless of actual quality of output, market forces around AI are now allowing manager types to require more output from “mid-upper” class workers, and it’s all shifting those positions downward to being treated more like assembly line jobs than they have been for decades.
Concerning trends, driven largely by market forces instead of any true quality or capability of AI.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 2 weeks ago:
This is shockingly “public” considering there’s legal proceedings now.
- Comment on Enjoying the outdoors 2 weeks ago:
Good old Jonathan Coulton. Guy who did the closing songs for Portal and Portal 2.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
So even this instance of personal responsibility is significantly offset by the actions of a few. I’m all for doing what each of us can, but that’s fucking hilarious.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 2 weeks ago:
Because you can buy other people’s code for cheaper than developing it yourself, as long as you use it within the restrictions of the license you paid for.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 2 weeks ago:
What? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.
- Comment on who wants coffee 3 weeks ago:
Yeah man! You hungry? Lets get some meat on those bones.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 3 weeks ago:
Good old firebase. Notifications are not entirely device local on android, or something lime that.
- Comment on Well, are you? 3 weeks ago:
hiss!
- Comment on Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 3 weeks ago:
Especially from Gartner of all places. Maybe this will finally start tempering the hype in the executives.
