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- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 1 day ago:
“Linux is so bad it even broke the internet for one day. Windows managed to not disappear!”
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 1 week ago:
If you disagree, feel free to discuss, no need to be dismissive for no reason.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 1 week ago:
Really? The internet is always so quick to jump to extremes. Someone making a mistake at work doesn’t mean they need to be fired. Yes they are responsible, but if they didn’t do it on purpose then why do they deserve to lose their livelihood over a stupid email? Some compassion could be in order here, they will probably never hear the end of it at the work water cooler anyway and to me it seems like enough of a punishment. Assuming this was some deliberate dog whistling is just bad faith.
Fact is it wasn’t sent in Germany where Nazi symbols are a criminal offense and that tells you whoever did this knew.
Does it? Somebody wrote the email, then the email was sent to translators for different markets. The German translators noticed the problem and decided not to send the email, but didn’t report it back, or reported it back too late. What makes you so sure the person who wrote the email was made aware of this? Maybe they were, I don’t know, but you can’t just act like you are sure. I worked at bigger companies enough to know that things fall through the cracks all the time and trying to reach a department in another country is often a multi-day effort with no guarantee of success.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 1 week ago:
How is this a history of transphobia?
Link 1: They made a pun using a trending hashtag without checking what the hashtag meant. They apologized when it was explained to them. This is an example of cluelessness or laziness on the part of whoever was running the Twitter account, not of transphobia. Link 2: In their video game, containing themes like murder, rape, torture, and the abuse of society by megacorporations, they included a megacorporation misusing an image of a trans person for advertising. When asked about it, they confirmed it’s part of the evil fictional world that they have created, and obviously they don’t condone it, just like they don’t condone murder even though the game features a lot of murder. Is it transphobic to include themes of transphobia in a game, even though it’s shown as a bad thing? Link 3: They didn’t like a fan’s assumption that only men work of the company, and used the “Did you just assume their gender” meme. They apologized when they were told it can be offensive.
I don’t see a single example here of them being transphobic on purpose. And speaking of Cyberpunk, it features a major trans character whose struggle you are supposed to emphatise with, so they clearly care about the community.
I agree they should be more careful about what their post, but I think there is a big difference between being transphobic, and accidentally posting something transphobic without meaning it 8 years ago and then apologizing for the mistake.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 1 week ago:
The point is, the game portraits a terrible world. The game contains people killing each other, that doesn’t mean the developers condone people killing each other in real life. The game contains megacorporations misusing images of trans people for advertising, that doesn’t mean the developers condone that either.
I think it’s usually well understood that something being in a work of media doesn’t mean it’s representative of the views of the authors, in fact it’s very common for media to contain themes like violence and abuse, not because the author is condoning it, but because the author is building a dark world for their piece of fiction.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 1 month ago:
I am pretty sure it’s just anti-privacy actors trying to sow discord and generate infighting in privacy communities, and the person your are replying to is either one of them or ate the propaganda.
Any cursory look at the Proton guy reveals he’s a progressive who keeps donating to left-wing causes, girls education, pro-LGBT, pro-consumer. To try to paint him as MAGA for being glad about an objectively good thing the Trump admin once surprisingly did is just ridiculous, and obviously not done in good faith.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 1 month ago:
Yeah, the answer to “Is Framework ethical?” is simple, no they aren’t. The answer to “Is Framework more ethical than all the Big Tech laptop manufacturers?” is a resounding yes though. Which is a sad state of affairs
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 1 month ago:
I am aware they offer a feature. It is up to the game developer to include it though, Steam does not force DRM onto anyone.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 1 month ago:
You buy a game in Steam, you can’t play it without Steam
That’s not true though. For many games, after you installed it you can even uninstall Steam or copy/backup the game to another computer without Steam and play it forever. Yes, many games have DRM that will prevent you from doing that, but that’s the game developers doing. Steam does not have any DRM by itself.
- Comment on When did programming become "coding"? 2 months ago:
I see what you mean now, you were talking about what words people use, not whether the definition of the word program applies to something.
- Comment on When did programming become "coding"? 2 months ago:
How is a mobile app or a function-as-a-service not a program though? They are clearly programs, at least to me.
- Comment on The Sounds of Silence 2 months ago:
I watched it live, they did respond to his direct questions, but at some point Trump went into a monologue that didn’t end in a question, and they didn’t say anything back, keeping a silence going for an awkward amount of time until Houston asked if they are still on the line and they confirmed that yeah they heard everything. And said nothing else.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s what the article calls “key sources”. There are many more below (Mara bar Serapion, Suetonius, The Talmud, and more under “minor sources”).
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There are so many sources that there is more evidence for his existence than for any other person living at the time.
This article mentions at least 14 independent sources: en.wikipedia.org/…/Sources_for_the_historicity_of…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Definitely enough for a while separate Wikipedia page to list them all: en.wikipedia.org/…/Sources_for_the_historicity_of…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s incorrect. Virtually all scholars agree that Jesus was a real historical figure, based on many non-religious sources.
Of course most of stories about him are made up, but the scientific consensus is that he existed.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 months ago:
And why is that a problem?
Google searches also usually generate mostly useless results, which is impossible to combat. Thankfully the person doing the search knows what they are looking for, can try different solutions, and learn from multiple results to get to a working solution.
Why do you consider AI different? Nobody is expecting it always give correct solutions, just like nobody is expecting Googling something to always give the correct solution.
I’m not saying AI is useful, but I’m saying that a tool being fallible isn’t inherently a problem, whatever the tool is. As long as the user knows it’s fallible.
- Comment on Maximum Shareholder Value® 3 months ago:
How dare you. If it’s your last thought then you are clearly not answering the question and thinking about how you can do better afterwards!
- Comment on simpler times 3 months ago:
Unfortunately the money went to other people who had too much of it.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 3 months ago:
Not on Proton’s side, but whoever sent you that email obviously has both your info and your Proton address so they know it’s connected to you, even if Proton doesn’t.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 months ago:
And Facebook Messenger and Gmail Chat (or whatever it was called)! There was a glorious period of time where you could talk to pretty much anyone on any service from one chat app.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 months ago:
Steam could stop asking in California, since it’s now the responsibility of the operating system to tell Steam your age.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 months ago:
OP posed two main questions:
- why did Israel become an ally of USA
- why did Israel attack Iran right now
Saying that Israel is an ally answers neither.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 months ago:
How does that answer any of OP’s questions though? Israel has a lot of allies and yet it’s the USA in particular doing this.
- Comment on The irony 3 months ago:
Student loan debt is an American thing, but the sentiment is common in companies around the world. So it’s unlikely that’s the case.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It’s obviously subjective. To me this car just looks like a generic expensive car. Looks the same like every other car.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I don’t know, I think it looks cool.
Completely impractical, shitty car built by a Nazi that nobody should even consider buying. But in terms of looks alone I like it. I’d gladly drive one in, e.g. in a video game (if the look wasn’t associated with Musk, unfortunately it’s tainted now).
- Comment on Heartily agree 3 months ago:
It’s pretty ok in some European countries
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 3 months ago:
It’s a feature on Pixel phones
- Comment on Finally, a mortal who gets it! 3 months ago:
Makes me think, how much water would be needed to extinguish the Sun? I’m guessing a lot more than of it was a ball of fire, which would already take more than exists on Earth.