SweetCitrusBuzz
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A lover of fruit, fun and helping people out.
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 1 day ago:
Yeah. I never really got into pokémon as I didn’t like the idea of capturing creatures and forcing them to fight, but Cassette Beasts doesn’t have that problem. Oh yeah, good point about them being doubles. I do like the aesthetic/graphics and that it’s avaliable on every platform, unlike pokémon.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 1 day ago:
Cassette beasts and soon Lost Records: Bloom and Rage, Tape 2
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 2 days ago:
We think Minds tried something like this (though it might be different tiers) and it didn’t exactly go well, forcing users to pay one way or the other always leads to economic pressures to keep users around, even if they are being toxic at least from what we have observed.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 3 days ago:
clashing with their users’ need to stay isolated from users who are toxic to them.
Sadly Lemmy does not solve this problem as the creators think like a corporation or do not want to be fully cut off from other users and thus do not have proper blocking (which is something built into ActivityPub mind you), for now it is only one way blocking which does not solve being isolated from toxic users as it still allows for some toxic behaviour etc.
If Lemmy ever gets that feature it would actually prove that it is dedicated to user safety, but a lot of people in the open source social media world seem to be ‘concerned’ with not being able to see everything due to entitlement, as others unrelated to Lemmy also are lacking the same or similar features.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 3 days ago:
Maybe, but social problems cannot entirely be solved with technology.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 3 days ago:
Yes, I meant more long term but didn’t express that fully. So you are correct.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 3 days ago:
Corporations cannot create nontoxic social media, the incentives will always be there to make it toxic.
The only way to do it is something like mastodon where actual people run it and thus can deal with people who are being toxic either by blocking etc because the fear of losing money, or the likelihood of the entire site/platform disappearing etc just isn’t there (obvioiusly individuals sites go down sometimes but the entire network is unlikely to disappear).
- Comment on Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after bans in the UK, Canada, and Australia 4 days ago:
I can do them, but honestly I would prefer to have played through many without such a mainstay of games. It just often gets in the way of what I am really there for, the story.
I think though killing and rape are not exactly the same, women are historically treated very poorly in game spaces, both in games and outside of them, this kind of thing just adds to it and honestly makes me question what the developers are really like.
As someone else said “check whether there are women in the developer’s basement”
- Comment on Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after bans in the UK, Canada, and Australia 4 days ago:
Good. Honestly most games in the sex space are pretty bad for both consent and treating the characters like actual people.
The dialogue is pretty unrealistic too.
The only good one we have come across so far is Cute Demon Crashers. It is heavily about consent and the writing isn’t that bad either. True, it’s not going to be ‘realistic’ in terms of character models nor have fully fleshed out sex scenes but since most in that genre seem to be terrible in general perhaps that is a good thing.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 1 week ago:
Yeah, really more open source products need to move to the fediverse through forgejo which would make them a lot harder to take down ioo.
Tired of GitHub being the Defacto despite its ties to ICE, stealing open source code through copilot, not allowing contributions from certain countries and now this.
When will developers learn? Github is not on their side.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 1 week ago:
Will this finally mean developers stop using github? We can only hope.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 1 week ago:
‘Created’ is a strong word.
- Comment on Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws 1 week ago:
I was talking more generally but thank you for the information.
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
Ah, well we are working from different base assumptions then. I’m not cynical, I’m an optimist but yes still an idealist.
I don’t really get your point about politics as politics is everything so yes, it is a way to determine who’s right or the most ethical as well as many other things, I think you might be referring to only electoral politics, otherwise I’m not sure how you could be seeing politics as a way to not determine that.
I disagree, people are forced into things they do not want to do all the time.
Maybe, but it could be a lor fairer than it currently is, my hope is one day it won’t be necessary though or at least not to the same degree that it is now.
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
Oh, it does? How so?
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
I don’t think money or any form of it is the only way to reward people for their work (not that all people need a reward in that sense). I think that is it is might be because of this current system showing that the only way to be rewarded is through monetary compensation.
Also, I’m going to quibble here that the only reason why a lot of jobs currently done require a ‘reward’ is because of the conditions under which people labour, remove those conditions and there will be less of a need for incentives to keep people doing things they either don’t like, or do like but not under such conditions such as long hours or under a strict hierarchy.
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
Right, which is why we need to stop money existing or other forms of economies that allow for wealth/power inequality
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
… what year do you think it is?
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
Well, the only reason I can see them liking proprietary is because that money still exists and that money allows propietary companies (and open source to be fair) to do more. If money didn’t exist there would be no need for proprietary companies nor a need to ‘protect’ their ‘property’ and in my perfect world money doesn’t exist, therefore no need for proprietary code/products.
- Comment on Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws 1 week ago:
Piracy is a service problem. Allow us to just buy DRM free files for movies and TV like both the music and games industry do and you’ll have much fewer pirates.
Get rid of the 20 million streaming services and just allow us to purchase the things we want outright without DRM from the comfort of our internet connected devices and this problem will lessen.
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
Why in a perfect world would anything be proprietary? I just don’t buy it.
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
I do wish them dead, we need fewer proprietary companies which help cops and steals code for their LLM bullshit. Also less FUD and smears against FOSS, they are not FOSS’ friend and the sooner FOSS developers realise this and move to codeberg or their own forgejo instances the better.
- Comment on Microsoft celebrates 50 years 1 week ago:
50 years too long. Let’s hope fewer developers use your things and move to actually good products that don’t have tires to some of the worst scum avaliable. Like moving from github to codeberg, for exampleso they aren’t helping ICE, or LLM bullshit.
- Comment on T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children 1 week ago:
Perhaps just don’t use technology to track people? It’s pretty gross.
- Comment on Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes for Cyanide Ice Cream and C*m Soup 1 week ago:
Why did you censor cum in the title when it’s not censored throughout?
- Comment on have positive reviews destroyed games? 2 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls 2 weeks ago:
We have heard of some here and there. The biggest problem is instances with open signups, they’re the ones that tend to get CSAM. That and instances that see nothing wrong with ‘lolicon’.
- Comment on Palworld Predecessor Craftopia Gets Massive Spring Update 4 weeks ago:
Some important takeaways include new items including the “Massacre Drone” and a “Killpower Switch,”
Yeah, pass, this developer seems to enjoy the slaughter of things, especially if they are cute and innocent.
- Comment on People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Is this the new ‘female presenting nipples’? 🤣