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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
There is no world in which the barely marginal convenience outweighs the additional cost (and near certain privacy invasion of a microphone equipped dryer).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m fairly sure the update cadence is set by the game dev/publisher, not GoG.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please let Pillars Of Eternity's surprise turn-based mode spark a wave of turn-based updates for all other games⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
There are a lot of people who want the challenge and skill expression of a game decoupled from reaction time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harley Quinn Fartacular: Silent Butt Deadly #1 review | Batman News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Wow, what a surprise. This is my surprised face. The character they’ve been assassinating for use as fap bait for ages gets an honest to god fetish comic.

I had thought that the general consensus online from the moment of the announcement was that this was pretty clearly fetish material, but I guess a site named “Batman News” has to maintain an absolutely absurd level of “benefit of the doubt” lest they drive away their readers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
No, because you can literally look this shit up, or talk to most hiring managers or business owners.

Surely if that was how it worked then someone would have posted the documents, or emails, or any sort of paper trail. Come on, we’re all waiting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Or speed. Some of the homebrew mods are ridiculous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks! You want some glue? I brought extra!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-handed games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
XCom and XCom 2 can be played entirely with the mouse. Minor typing if you want to name your soldiers, but nothing requires quick reflexes. Everything is turn based.

Emulation opens up a lot of options for old school turn based games. RPGs, turn based strategy. Any of the Pokemon games gen 1-3 can be played one handed with some clever button mapping. Any game made to use just the Wii-mote as a pointer would also work, but I don’t know those off the top of my head.

You might want to look into one handed controllers, or something like the FLIR USB dongle that you can use to map IR TV remote signals to keyboard button presses. Just need to use a remote that doesn’t already control something.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Thoughts, Ideas or Theories of the Bambu H2D that they have been teasing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wait, they’re adding vinyl cutting to the extruder? What in the mad science hell?

I can’t see a world where that works well unless the cutter is on a different part. I’d imagine that a vinyl cutting head has entirely different design considerations and constraints.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lil silly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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So is this (unfortunately the comment was edited after Cranston responded to it).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Which is intensely frustrating for people who actually care about free speech. Can’t talk about it without setting off everyone’s “that guy is probably a nazi” alarms.

It’s absolutely an intentional trap to attempt to get people to support moves against free speech by tainting the concept through negative association.

We shouldn’t tolerate hate speech. But I’m concerned about where we end up in a few decades if the concept of free speech keeps the current connotations.

And people might consider even this comment as sealioning or something.

Meanwhile we have people unironically using phrases like unalive and censoring swear words in screenshots so they don’t trip the automated content filters on mainstream social media. That should be more concerning than people seem to take it. People joke about “literally 1984”, but unalive is blatant newspeak.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you a chicken?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Gonzo ass mf
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake launches in July⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s cool, but I hope they have some sort of “all in one” version with 1 and 2 as well. Isn’t the dream getting all the content in one package?

I get that wouldn’t work with the games that are more unique, and the ones with plot and RPG elements, but I would think that it would be possible with the mainline games at least.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Does 1984 simply mean “dystopia” now?

What, you expect people to read? To be familiar with a piece of media before they reference it?

At this point there’s been a meme for years about people misusing it.

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fedi 4chan?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
4chan’s style as a concept doesn’t work too well with the concepts of the rest of the fediverse. There’s no benefit to federating anonymous image and text posts across multiple servers and merging those feeds together. Especially if the content is meant to be ephemeral, why are you wasting bandwidth replicating it? Hell, with the average lemmy server’s replication delay the original content would be gone before it could replicate anywhere.

There’d also be no reason for each “instance” to not be its own separate entity with no federation. It’s not like 4chan really does crossposting between boards, you just can link between them.

Also, having spent far more time on the chans than is in any way healthy, there still isn’t any real solution for good or consistent moderation. Federation doesn’t inherently make moderation better or easier, if anything it complicates things in that regard.

Federation is not a magical pill for better quality. I direct you to explodingheads, or plenty of other examples of shit instances documented by fediseer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I used to have that up at my desk when I did tech support.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Terms of Service (ToS) are regularly not upheld in court, and their terms are worded so poorly that as written, it would not be a difficult case to defeat.

The Firefox specific terms for the precompiled binary link to a more general terms page meant to be additional parts, but the additional parts they link to specify that the additional terms only apply to use of Mozilla “services” (sync, vpn, etc). The concerning shit on the ToS lies in the terms for their services.

It’s a clear contradiction of scope, and unfortunately not Firefox’s first fuckup of this kind. So far, with a multi decade history, none of these contradictions have been used to fuck over their users.

They already have separate terms for use of the source code. Those are what making forks, and what compiling the source yourself, fall under. They do not make any reference to the services ToS. Use of the source is not effected by any of this so far, on a technical (can the bad shit be removed) and on a legal (are forkers allowed to remove) level.

Hacker News has some deeper discussion about the finer points of the ToS mess.

And apparently Mozilla has clarified that the wording changes in their summary (not the actual ToS) are because California’s definition of “sale” of information includes just communicaring it to a third party as part of normal operations support. Thanks again to Hacker News discussion of Mozilla’s latest statement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And again. 100% open source. There is no way for any functionality (including functionalitt that does that) to exist somewhere that people making forks can’t modify/remove it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So… entirely vibes based take. Maybe take some time to step away and come back later.

Spamming a doomerism opinion, when not backed up by anything but feelings, helps nobody. It’s an overactive immune response. The fever worse than the illness your body is trying to burn out using it.

I get that it feels like the world is going to shit, and especially when things you thought were trustworthy start doing this, it’s a blow. But this shit (repeated as fucking much as you have repeared it) makes the community, and people who need a non-corporate controlled browser, weaker and more vulnerable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What? I’ve grown up around people in the nuclear industry, and nothing I’ve ever learned about the function “wastes” water.

Some rambling on how I understand water to be used by reactors
You’ve got some amount of water in the “dirty loop” exposed to the fissile material, and in the spent fuel storage tanks. Contaminated water is stuck for that use, but that isn’t “spending” the water. The water stays contained in those systems. They don’t magically delete water volume and need to be refilled. Outside of that you have your clean loop, which is bog standard “use heat to make steam, steam move turbine, moving turbine make electiricity, steam cools back to water”. Again, there’s no part of that which somehow makes the water not exist, or not be usable for other purposes.

Not saying you’re wrong. Renewables are absolutely preferable, and Texas is prime real estate to maximize their effectiveness. I’m just hung up on the “waste water building reactors” part.

Guessing it was some sort of research about the building process maybe, that I’ve just missed?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What? Some proof here please. Firefox is 100% open source. You can audit the entire code for this.

It’s not like chromium with the pre-compiled binary blob in the middle provided by google.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I doubt implementation of terms will be optional.

You are all up and down these comments repeating this statement.

Why?

How exactly has Mozilla handled changes like this before that leads you to this conclusion? Do you have anything to back this up other than your own dogged insistence?

Surely there must be something I’m missing for you to be so adamant on this point. Please enlighten me, because to my knowledge about how all this works and has worked in the past this just seems like baseless fearmongering to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why wouldn’t they be optional? Every other change like this has been before.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, they allow full avoidance of any potential data collection through the browser, if they remove the collection features.

Mozilla would need to change their licensing terms to prevent forks from being able to remove things like that, and forks could just use the last version of the code before the license change and just backport new features.

Also Firefox is fully open source, unlike chromium which relies on a closed source binary blob in the middle. Some chromium forks have replaced the binary blob with open source code, but the default is for chromium forks to have a nice chunk in them controlled by google that no one can deeply inveatigate what it does. Firefox does not have this issue.

Mozilla can’t hide any potential data collection in Firefox due to the full open source nature (unlike chrome forks). They also can’t stop fork devs from stripping out any data collection functions. And as of today, they have not introduced any data collection that is not supremely anonymized, and they have not introduced any data collection that cannot be opted out of through the browser settings (and about:config).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Under the end of the readme, the section labelled releases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hi, I’m ~~Nicole~~ wizardbeard! I’m a ~~proud~~ aromatic ~~Polish~~ Abyssal ~~girl~~ tube sock with googly eyes from ~~Toronto~~ the space between your walls (~~29 y/o~~ 50 ft)

I’m currently taking the ~~pre-health sciences program at George Brown College~~ socks from your dryer hoping to ~~get into the medical field~~ find a broodmother for the spawn that will form the ranks of my holy army someday!

You can’t add me on Friendica. *It’s far too late for that. Far far too late to do anything to stop this.

Your socks may be returned to you but they may never be the same.*
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
To summarize my comment on your post of this article on lemmy.ml:

Literally who?

How in the absolute fuck does any group not involved in hosting the largest fediverse instances even begin to justify looking for $1.3 Million in funding?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
- Some fucking line breaks would considerably help your point be easier to read. Right now it comes across as a crazy screed.
- You’re complaining to a void that doesn’t want to hear you or care, and this is definitively not the right community to post this in. There are various rant, off my chest, and unpopular opinion communities. This is a stretch for a community meant for meta discussion about your specific instance.
- Lemmy was never meant to be free speech specifically, or accepting of all opinions. Just more open than Reddit, and with the ability for people to host their own spaces if their opinions were being suppressed by other instances. There was no goal for every instance to be open to every point of view. Lemmy’s lead dev, Dessalines, is a transphobic “hard tankie” marxist leninist, who runs the Marxist Leninist instance lemmy.ml.
- You will find this kind of “suppression”/“bullying”/“negative responses to out-group ideas and thinking” everywhere online. Especially in spaces set up like Lemmy/Reddit/HackerNews etc with voting effecting content visibility. It is inherent to the design. Even on sites without this format, like 4chan, you still see this sort of behavior. Best get used to it.
- Also, from personal experience, just block communities and users that are assholes. The Fediverse has a low enough count of daily active users that blocking actually makes a difference in the content and viewpoints you encounter.
- Lastly, there are right wing lemmy instances. They tend to be filled with actual nazis and pedophiles, which is why no instances will federate with them.
Spoiler: I agree that calling Jan 6 an attempted coup is a stretch. The most heavily armed group in the US tried to overthrow the government and there was minimal firearm based violence?

That said, none of the chucklefucks that broke into buildings deserve any sort of pardon. They broke the law fair and simple. Feelings of righteousness don’t change that. Only coordinated legal and political effort does.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not unreasonable to ask for a NSFW tag so I don’t casually scroll into an image with the business end of a pocket pussy on my feed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feel vindicated about loops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

My morality and logic is just different.

Holy shit you cannot be real. I just choked on my water.

Man you are like the postershild of that meme about playing chess with a pigeon. Knock over the board, shit on everything, and strut away with every fiber of your being reinforcing the idea that you “won”.

You’re more than welcome to find retroactive justification for your actions, or to shore up in your head the concept that the end result justifies your means. But that doesn’t mean “I’m just built different I guess, teehee!” like some sort of badge of honor.

From life experience, and from knowing a number of people like you over my years: If you continue with this sort of attittude towards life, and general pattern of behavior, it will come back to bite you hard someday. When it does you will likely not find many people sympathethic to you or willing to help you, due to your own behavior.

I’m fairly certain that you aren’t the type of person capable of reflecting on your behavior or the responses to it in the last thread or this one and learning to ba a better person from it, but in the rare chance:

Your own descriptions of your own actions meant to portray you as being in the right instead portray you as an impatient asshole with the emotional and psychological maturity level of a 12 year old, who also has an absurdly inflated idea of the value of themself and their actions.

There is not much worse in this world than self righteous fuckstains taking actions that were never asked for or wanted, with the motivation that they are only doing what is best for other people who never asked for their help.