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- Comment on Take It Down Act Has Best Of Intentions, Worst Of Mechanisms 21 hours ago:
Oh, the way I read it it seemed like they were saying perceptual hashes used to be easier to calculate
- Comment on Take It Down Act Has Best Of Intentions, Worst Of Mechanisms 21 hours ago:
Why “no longer”?
- Comment on Beyond Good & Evil 2's troubled development due to "passionate managers" not getting along, says creator Michel Ancel 1 week ago:
There reaches a point with vaporware projects where it’s like, actually release something or I don’t care anymore, it doesn’t deserve to keep getting press
- Comment on Related to the recent question: A family member has told me that my inheritance after they're gone is for becoming a live-with landlord. Is that ethical? 1 week ago:
honoring the wishes of what is currently my last surviving relative (who I still remain in contact with and love dearly). Not to mention whatever might be a part of any legal stuff pertaining to her will. (which I know hardly anything about and still makes me panicked just typing about)
Regardless of what you ultimately decide about the ethics of it, consider that ultimately it is your life, your decision, and there are other ways to invest money. It’s really unlikely that the will is going to effectively prohibit you from doing something with it other than becoming a landlord, not sure that’s even possible. If you really want to prioritize honoring their wishes you can, but in the end you are the one who is going to have to actually live the life you build for yourself, not them, and no one has a right to make that kind of decision except you. Use your own judgment about what future you want and don’t feel guilty for acting on it.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 week ago:
No, because “caring about commoners” and “shitting on the rich” are not actually the same objective. People are happy about it because it feels good to get revenge or for people who treat others unfairly to be punished, but sating popular bloodthirst isn’t necessarily aligned with actually making society a better place. “Kill the bad people and the problems will be fixed” is historically very much a famous last words kind of sentiment.
- Comment on How to get over my reddit ""addiction""? 2 weeks ago:
I have a userscript that sets display = ‘none’ for urls matching reddit to remind myself to stay off reddit for a while. I adjusted it a little to support blocking only specific subreddits like you seem to want to do, maybe it will be useful to someone: greasyfork.org/en/…/520007-disableredditbysub
- Comment on New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games 2 weeks ago:
Even if they tried I don’t think they have the leverage to make that work. What games or publishers are big enough that such a move would go worse for Twitch than it would for them? Most of the time indie games make for better content anyway. Twitch could just ban games that don’t include an unconditional free streaming license in their terms of service and not lose much of any popularity, while the game publishers trying to extort them would lose their most effective marketing.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Each server would likely have to utilize a payment service.
Yeah but that would mean each server has to take custody of funds, have their own individual contractual agreements with game companies, handle refunds, bear all the legal and tax burdens of this, and get people to trust they won’t scam them. It’s just too much of a burden, these are all things that benefit heavily from centralization and economies of scale, due to the legalistic nature of payments. You would end up with one dominant instance and unused federation, if there was even anyone willing to deal with all that stuff to begin with.
I feel like you could solve this stuff pretty well with crypto, having payment go directly to the game devs, and a no refund policy or something to simplify things, but crypto is too hated so that wouldn’t work right now.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
hm that is a good point
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Why don’t people? Because steam is just better
I am skeptical that this is the main reason. I think people don’t like the idea of having their games library split across multiple services, and don’t like using/learning software they aren’t familiar with, or that other people aren’t using.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Main problem I see is payments
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Otherwise why would anyone use software they aren’t used to? Steam is really good, they’ve been putting massive resources into making it better for many years, and it has all the network effects.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
I don’t mind it, Steam is nice but I don’t want them to have a monopoly on PC games
- Comment on Will the price of Freeze Driers go down? (USA question) 2 weeks ago:
Dehydrators work reasonably well for many similar uses and are pretty cheap
- Comment on Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year) 3 weeks ago:
The definition is too vague and if you apply it to the letter it would include 99% of websites
I think that is their intention
- Comment on Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year) 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a link to the text of the legislation.
From what I understand they define it very broadly:
(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users;
(ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users;
(iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the service;
(iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or (b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules;
So basically everything Web 2.0 - ish that they haven’t given an explicit exception to. Lemmy totally qualifies.
- Comment on Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN 3 weeks ago:
Awful
- Comment on X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts 3 weeks ago:
They go into this in the filing:
Under both the Prepetition TOS and the Current TOS, all right, title, and interest in and to X Corp.’s services, including X Corp.’s various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, widgets, ads, commerce services, and other covered services (collectively, the “Services”) are X Corp.’s “exclusive property.” See Prepetition TOS § 4; Current TOS § 4. X Corp., as the owner of the Services, grants each user “a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non- exclusive license to use the software provided” to use the Services. See Prepetition TOS § 4 (emphasis added); Current TOS § 4 (same). In contrast to the Services, the account holders own the Content (as defined in the TOS) they submit, post, or display on or through the Services; however, the Content is distinct and separate from the Services.
So I guess the account itself is something they’re saying is part of the Services X provides, while the stuff you post on the account is yours.
- Comment on Wish there was a community called !furiouslyinfuriating for shit like this... 3 weeks ago:
It is really frustrating to me that data which is supposedly public cannot be simply downloaded all together as a large dataset, instead you have to go through a convoluted process to access only a very narrow subset of it
- Comment on Wish there was a community called !furiouslyinfuriating for shit like this... 3 weeks ago:
Why would “free US trade and tariff data” have any legitimate need for KYC?
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
Salt often tastes different when added during cooking vs after
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 4 weeks ago:
I think you might have some selection bias going on there if your job is to remove insect infestations from people’s homes. Anyway Soma is a very story focused game so watching a playthrough is a valid alternative to playing it yourself.
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 4 weeks ago:
Some more examples of the trope: the antagonists of the Scholomance books, and of The Interface Series
- Comment on Anon plays pretend 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that statistically what most twitch streamers do
- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 4 weeks ago:
I suspect games tinker with the formula behind the scenes, to accurately place people faster if nothing else. The more players the longer it could take for the skill of any one to show up in the numbers, so I bet they factor in other game specific metrics at least at first. There would be some risk of this being abused, but that’s less if they keep it a secret and maybe the progress numbers shown to players aren’t quite the same as the real numbers used to decide who to match them against.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 5 weeks ago:
I think a common conclusion in general, I dated a woman once whose mind went to that explanation constantly for all kinds of things and it was basically always a distorted picture of reality. I think people just don’t get needed validation due mostly to arbitrary bullshit and the world sucking and that makes it easy to buy into toxic self hating memes.
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 5 weeks ago:
Well I guess he will find out based on whether or not she ever contacts him again.
Really though this does seem like the kind of thing where “it’s because you’re sexually repulsive” only seems like the obvious explanation because of insecurity brainworms.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad to see it at least, though maybe it would also make sense to be posted on !reddit@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m still on Reddit too, and I bet a lot of people who came here from there are. Lemmy just isn’t a fully viable replacement yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That’s the thing about that sort of censorship though, you can only guess what it might have been. Your guess seems plausible, but it’s just a guess, and when the guess that Reddit mods were acting in good faith turns out to have been wrong, they don’t want you to know about it.