alyaza
@alyaza@beehaw.org
internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she
- Submitted 22 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
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- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 days ago:
i mean if Roblox is any indication, Valve will probably bend the knee sooner or later. government scrutiny is obliging them to make changes and actually do even basic moderation over there:
The fast-growing children’s gaming platform Roblox is to hand parents greater oversight of their children’s activity and restrict the youngest users from the more violent, crude and scary content after warnings about child grooming, exploitation and sharing of indecent images.
The moves comes after a short-seller last month alleged it had found child sexual abuse content, sex games, violent content and abusive speech on the site. In the UK, Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science and technology, told parliament: “I expect that company to do better in protecting service users, particularly children.”
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 days ago:
RTFA before replying
- Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newellwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 53 comments
- Comment on US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android 3 days ago:
imo if anything the opposite causality is true: this DOJ was banking on a continuation of Biden in Kamala Harris, and because that is no longer forthcoming they’re now trying to get something out the door in the hopes it can stick. it almost certainly won’t, but most of Trump’s appointees are gigamad about censorship and they hate Google for “punishing conservative voices” or whatever so it’s hardly the most contrived hail mary if so
- US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Androidwww.theverge.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
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- Comment on ‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud 1 week ago:
it is not okay to deadname people for any reason (as everyone under this post already has stated), and if you do this again on the instance you will be banned from Beehaw for at least a week.
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- Comment on CouLSDon gets cancelled by Facebook’s algorithm police 1 week ago:
Surely it can’t just be because a town name happens to contain “lsd” in the middle of it?
Facebook is a remarkably bad website so i think you’d be quite surprised at how stuck in the past they are over there
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- Comment on What type of game do you want to see? 1 week ago:
one thing i’d be interested in: is it possible to make a fun 4X-style game that challenges the very premises of 4X (which are mostly patterned after the models of expansion we’re familiar with in the West)?
- To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish buckswww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 64 comments
- Comment on Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web 2 weeks ago:
The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, TechCrunch reports.
“Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” Brandon Borrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”
- Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open webwww.theverge.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 29 comments
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- Comment on Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details 2 weeks ago:
Dystopika (Steam, Windows) is a city builder in maybe the strictest definition of that two-word descriptor, because it steadfastly refuses to distract you with non-building details. The game is described by its single developer, Matt Marshall, as having “no goals, no management, just creativity and dark cozy vibes.” Dystopika does very little to explain how you should play it, because there’s no optimal path for doing so. Your only job is to enjoy yourself, poking and prodding at a dark cyberpunk cityscape, making things that look interesting, pretty, grim, or however you like. It might seem restrictive, but it feels very freeing.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 6 comments
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- Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sightwww.wired.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 3 weeks ago:
apparently, the path to profitability was “shamelessly sell out on AI hype bullshit”
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- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium 3 weeks ago:
As of 2019 the company published 100 articles each day produced by 3,000 outside contributors who were paid little or nothing.[52] This business model, in place since 2010,[53] “changed their reputation from being a respectable business publication to a content farm”, according to Damon Kiesow, the Knight Chair in digital editing and producing at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.[52] Similarly, Harvard University’s Nieman Lab deemed Forbes “a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism” as of 2022.[49]
they realized that they could just become an SEO farm/content mill and churn out absurd numbers of articles while paying people table scraps or nothing at all, and they’ve never changed