UngodlyAudrey
@UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org
35 year old that enjoys games from 1980 to today. Pokemon/Final Fantasy fan. Loves RPGs. Twitch Affiliate. Trans woman. Other interests include bad movies, history, cheese and camp, leftist politics, and humor.
Mastodon profile: retro.pizza/@UngodlyAudrey
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 2 hours ago:
The title of this piece is clickbait as all hell, but I viewed it as more of an anti-Google piece rather than an anti-AI piece. Like, I do think AI has some merits, but those are massively outweighed by the nefarious Silicon Valley ghouls(like Google) abusing it to make all of our lives worse.
But I think this begs the question of whether search was any good before. It wasn’t. It isn’t.
Yeah, I agree. Google had such a stranglehold on search for so long that they could make their product worse and not lose any meaningful marketshare. They knew damn well that people weren’t going to switch to Bing or anything, so they could enshittify the hell out of search to wring as much profit out of it as possible.
I’m really hopeful that federation continues to grow and bandwidth and storage costs can allow a simple hobbyist to maintain a site/node for minimal cost while contributing to the greater ecosystem. Smaller communities where reputation actually matters instead of being gamified into upvotes and downvotes as some sort of facsimile of trustworthiness or quality. I think with a more personal internet, AI becomes less of a threat anyway.
Absolutely. We’ve got to start cutting back on our use of corpo-internet, if possible. Especially considering that many of these companies are either collaborating with a fascist government or are enthusiastically supporting and influencing said fascist government.
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- Comment on Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X 4 months ago:
this isn’t just dropping fact-checking. per the article:
Beyond the end of the facet-checking program, Zuckerberg said the company will be eliminating some content policies around hot-button issues including immigration and gender, and refocus the company’s automated moderation systems on what he called “high severity violations” and rely on users to report other violations.
Facebook will also be moving its trust and safety and content moderation team from California to Texas.
This is full bore capitulation to fascism, as capital will always do. soon, zuckerberg’s social media sites will be indistinguishable from musk’s x. everybody needs to defederate from threads if they haven’t already.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 5 months ago:
Yep, the moment you have to explain it, you’ve already lost; the normies will check out. That’s the thing, these sites depend on having a huge userbase and people just aren’t going to go to a site with “nobody on it”. I maintain an account on both Mastodon and Bluesky… they’re both pretty neat in their own way. But Mastodon isn’t ever going to be the virtual town square. I kinda like it quiet there, tbh.
- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
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- Comment on Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool 7 months ago:
This is why I never really understand when people go “Just use Linux!!”. It isn’t a feasible option for everyone. For me, I work full time and I don’t have the energy to constantly fix things if they break. When I switched to Linux, I took great pains to ensure that my computer use case is one that could work in Linux, built a computer with parts known to be fine in Linux(including an AMD graphics card) and run Debian Stable on because I wanted something that wouldn’t be constantly updating. I’m in a comfy situation now, but I did a lot of planning beforehand that you can’t really expect people to do. Like, it’s great if we get more people using Linux, but that’s not a trivial ask.
- Submitted 8 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Concord is going offline beginning September 6th 8 months ago:
oof. Yeah, they did the right thing pulling the plug on this for now. You’d probably spend more time waiting for a match to queue up than actually playing the game.
- Comment on Concord is going offline beginning September 6th 8 months ago:
Wow, this is absolutely wild. From launch to delisting in two weeks. Yeah, there’s a good chance that this is temporary while they pivot to a free-to-play model, but holy crap. Guess the PS5 player count must not be substantially higher than the abysmal Steam player count.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 8 months ago:
Yeah, hopefully the inclusiveness trend continues.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 8 months ago:
Then we’d be going back to having the vast majority of games having a cis male protagonist. No thanks. I don’t mind playing as them from time to time, but I want a choice, especially if the main character is one of those blank slate types.
- Submitted 9 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- UN Delegates Cheer As They Vote To Approve Increased Surveillance Via Russia-Backed Cybercrime Treatywww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
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- Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) 9 months ago:
Yikes. Well, at least we have something easy to point to when we’re asked why we’re defederated from lemmy.world.
- Submitted 9 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop Itwww.eff.org ↗Submitted 9 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Here's 3 reasons I'm actually pretty optimistic about Dragon Age: The Veilguard despite being an old school RPG sickowww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 10 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 12 comments
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 14th 10 months ago:
I’m doing a replay of Dragon Age Origins. Slogging my way through my least favorite part of the game(the Deep Roads) right now. I’m not that good at the game, so for the harder encounters, I’ve cheesed them by having one member of my party run forward to aggro one group, then run back to where the rest are in order to deal with them one group at a time. If I let my party fight normally, they accidentally aggro multiple groups and they get overwhelmed. That plus saving after every difficult encounter is helping me get through it.
- Comment on 98% compatibility 10 months ago:
Just so you know, you’re commenting in a Beehaw community, and we expect that people be(e) nice here. Being gatekeepy isn’t nice.
- Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new “Standard” tierwww.theverge.com ↗Submitted 10 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 21 comments
- Comment on Let's discuss: Super Mario 10 months ago:
Super Mario Bros. 3 was the first game I ever played, waaaay back in the early 90s. That hooked me into gaming for life, and every few years, I do a no warp playthrough of the game that started it all for me.
Then, a few years later, I tried Super Mario 64 in a Toys R Us. It blew my mind and I absolutely had to have an N64.
I despise Nintendo’s business practices, but there’s no doubt they had a formative influence on my childhood.
- Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permissionwww.neowin.net ↗Submitted 11 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 74 comments
- Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platformswww.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Importantwww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 12 comments
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- Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets | Game World Observergameworldobserver.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 19 comments
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