atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  He also sells a lot of his “good side” via short form videos on Tik Tok and YouTube etc. So when you only get a snippet or two of him talking or answering questions, and he seems like he’s encouraging people to learn to code or do game dev etc it sounds nice. It sounds like he’s being supportive of his audience. It seems like he’s just a dude. But when you get right down to it, that doesn’t bear out who he is, even his actual online persona in his long form content or streams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  s3nd.pics is also a possible successor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  www.imgcat.io is being built by an imgur user but it’s not ready yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the people who use Tik Tok don’t see this as a red flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is going to stuff Midjourney AI images into your feed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What feed. Mm y Facebook exists to face tank all the photos my MIL shares. That’s it. I don’t like… Use it. Open it? Scroll the feed? Absolutely not. Don’t have insta. Don’t have messenger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.world/comment/18865484 Your welcome to read my other comment, but I doubt you are knowledgeable about this subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are woried about the swap I’m sure care exaust and tires particles which are know to damage environement a lot. Trains are electric so at least polution will be localized near power plants and thoose can be eventualy replaced by renewables.<

  Okay. So firstly, “the swamp” is an important and endangered part of the environment. It absorbs flood water and run off, it is a sink for greenhouse gasses, it absorbs a lot of the toxic pollution from cars including exhaust particles and the shed particles from tires. In Florida and Georgia specifically, flooding is a major factor in the civil engineering and design of roadways and population centers, and the elevation is mostly at or below sea level. Both of these states are prone to weather patterns that lead to storms, hurricanes, and tornados.

  There is 4 lanes, you can remove one or two and set train tracks which don’t have a lot of constraints compared to cars due to train wheel being steel and having better adherence.<

  So we’re not just talking about one set of rail on I95?

  I’m going to preface what I say next with two points. There is already a rail system down the East Coast (including the east coast of Georgia and Florida), with an Amtrak line that runs stops between Georgia and Orland Florida. Two, at least part of that railroad line is endangered because a lot of the East Coast, including parts of Georgia and Florida is sinking due to salt water intrusion.

  Additionally, I95 (one of the major interstate highways that runs from through Georgia and Florida) is also running along the eastern coast and is endangered more and more every year because of the same salt water intrusion and sinking coast line.

  There’s two options for rail. Diesel powered rail which would require refueling stations or at the very least places to store the fuel. But I doubt that’s what people mean. This would add to traffic (fuel delivery and maintenance isn’t going to be done using this train) because trucks would be required to carry that fuel.

  You’d also still need to build ingress and egress points for the rail, things like park and ride, things like stations, things like dropoff areas. This will have to be in addition to what is already there because what you’re expecting is that more people in Florida/Georgia will use rail rather than drive. So no. We aren’t just taking two lanes off a highway and dropping in some railroad tracks. That’s not how that works.

  To move the same volume of people in the event of a tropical storm, hurricane, or flood, a train has to be able to be powered. So I’m going to assume (since most people who argue for trains are people who think it’ll be more environmentally friendly) that we’re talking about electric rail. Meaning you’re going to need electricity to power those rail lines. What happens when power isn’t available? Where do we put electrical substations? Where do we put the rest of the infrastructure to support the rail? I’m guessing we’re clearing swamp land for that.

  People who still need a car for whatever reason<

  Evacuation due to weather is a big one. Can you evacuate on the train? If it’s running, sure. Should you? Questionable. Is it easier and are you more likely to be able to take things with you that you don’t want destroyed in a different vehicle? Pets? Old people with equipment like wheel chairs and other aids? And before you go “of course!” I’m going to remind you that building that are fully up to fire code expect paralyzed people to just figure it out. Elevator? Don’t use the elevator. Stairs? Guess I’m dragging myself down the stairs if I’m able bodied enough to do so. My multi-thousand dollar piece of medical equipment? Unless someone is willing to help me drag it down serval flights of stairs, the recommendation is to leave it. And it may not be reimbursed or replaced by my insurance company. Assuming I have insurance.

  Tickets on the train that is already available? $140 a ticket one way.

  High speed rail doesn’t pay for itself, and to get Floridians to use it you’re going to need to make it affordable. This will raise the taxes of Floridians and they don’t pay state income tax. Meaning this is going to be paid for using federal funding (which Trump has cut repeatedly in the last 6 months), sales tax, tax on titles and tags,.and property tax which sounds great until you realize that those people who still need cars when and if this is built will absolutely still use cars, and the people paying the property tax will fight this to the death.

  I was going to mention they “in good faith” bit and respond to it but in trying really hard to be chill about this since I’m obviously not talking to someone with any background data for this subject, up to and including anything about Florida, and its water table, or it’s elevation compared to sea level and the kind of storms and acts of nature it normally gets.

  There are other factors to, but I’ve spent enough time on this specifically.

  So if you would like to continue this conversation in good faith, do some research please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re saying is you advocate for the government to clear swampland (fuck the environment I guess), and continue to disenfranchise Native American peoples because you want high speed rail so badly?

  Yeah. Yeah. I know you didn’t say that. But that’s what can be extrapolated from your assertion that the government and billionaires could if they wanted to. Don’t normalize this shit. It’s wrong for the government to seize things that don’t belong to it regardless of the purpose they plan to use if for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just curious about what your thought is here? How straight are the roads? How often do they have to be resurface or maintenance? Just because there’s a road or highway, the are must be able to support high speed rail? Should they continue to clear swamp land in order to erect high speed rail? Is the plan here to usurp the highway for high speed rail? If so, what happens to those people who still need a vehicle in order to get where they’re going? What happens if they need that highway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness. The Okefenokee Swamp is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia and is the largest “blackwater” swamp in North America.” -Wikipedia

  Add to this Indian Reservation land, National Park/Preserve/ Wildlife Refuge land, the Everglades, other swamp/marshland, etc and you start to see that there’s several environmental challenges to a rail system from. Georgia to Orlando Florida.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipper Zero 'DarkWeb' Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security on Major Vehicle Brands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, the other fob shouldn’t be affected if it works the way I think it does. There’s usually a maximum number of keys synced to the vehicle.

  This attack basically forces the key fob the flipper zero is substituting itself for to fall out of sync because the flipper zero doesn’t transmit the rollover response from the vehicle back to the key fob. So the F0 sends the rolling code it intercepted from the key fob to the vehicle. Vehicle is like, yep, that’s matches, and then it does it’s rollover and sends out the rollover response. The response doesn’t get back to the key because of range etc and then the key remains a step behind the vehicle in the rollover sequence from then on out.

  Technically I think they key could potentially be resynced to the car. (My understanding is that a key of the correct type could be synced to any car that it can be programmed for so long as the key isn’t physically damaged, and the security module isn’t compromised with malicious code that would prevent it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have known this for decades. Maybe don’t buy iPads? I’m just pointing out that Apple’s prices for parts and repair were always high and even though it’s a more recent thing that you can get new parts for repairs (with the rise of right to repair), they have been in the business of all overcharging for oem parts for a long time. Back in the early aughts they used to code parts so that if you repaired something yourself with off the shelf parts (same part just not their branding) the device would reject that part on a software level and still not work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I really got hit with a "All men are predators, it's in the studies". 2nd wave feminism is a scourge on feminism itself.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. My point is that the “all men” phenomenon is a symptom of the bigger problem which is that one demographic is being victimized by a subset of a second demographic and that second demographic as a whole recognizes that there is a problem and doesn’t do anything to change that status quo in a meaningful way but won’t acknowledge that their continued lack of action may be the reason they are collectively being blamed. 

  Bigger problem -> overgeneralization -> backlash over the over-generalization while maintaining status quo. Wash, rinse, repeat. 

  If your point we’re just that “gender bias and the resultant discrimination are bad” you could literally have done that with “Men saying all women are whores/golddiggers are doing the same thing and that is also wrong.” 

  Instead, what you did was took an entirely unrelated analogy to a bad conclusion in what I’m sure you think is good faith, ignoring the circumstances and particulars of that situation so that you can try to make a point in the most clumsy way possible and when people give you pushback about it and add clarity of their own views in response it’s “moving goal posts”. 

  You made a hamfisted attempt to relate sexual assault and the over-reaction to it to racism and got called out. Let’s not forget what you were initially responding to which wasn’t ops post but a comment at the beginning of the thread which is context for literally just about everything else I’ve said in subsequent comments which plants the goal posts very much where they started out. 

  "In the US, of 100 rapes against girls and women reported to the police, 18 will be prosecuted. 

  Jeffery Epstein and his cohort abused hundreds of girls, and all anybody cares about is what powerful man might be embarrassed.  Has anyone proposed or suggested anything to protect girls from rich perverts? 

  From the founding till 1951, raping your wife was legal in all 48 states. And that protection extended in several states beyond the federal change. Some states even made common-law husbands immune. 

  The Christian Bible considers rape to be a property crime. in conservative circles, girls as young as 12 are regularly married off to their rapist."

  You are the one who acknowledged that the statistic for African American crime has more nuance but also didn’t not speak at all to the point of using it for the purposes of subjugation (something you conveniently ignored in order to try to validate your point). 

  You don’t stop over generalization by ignoring the root cause. Stop playing games with me. The root cause of the African Americans are criminals BS is literally that to continue to subjugate them and feed the prison population the institution has to make the general populace believe they deserve to be there. The general cause of “all men are predators” is literally that the patriarchy condoned sexual abuse so ardently for so long and continues to do so that the only way we even have conversations about sexual assault and abuse is in forums like this on topics like this one where the topic isnt even about sexual abuse but is absolutely about blaming women for overgeneralizing about it. 

  You are the one who once again argued poorly that as you spend more time around a bear the likelihood that the bear will attack you will go up, ignoring how that’s exactly what happens to women. The more time they spend around men the more likely they are to be attacked. The men the spend the most time around are very often the ones who end their lives or commit sexual assault against them. 

  And if you feel like I’m putting words in your mouth, maybe stop and think about what you mean and just say that. Don’t use analogies about subjects your clearly poorly understand. Don’t try to quote me to refute something I said that you take issue with when you didn’t understand it and your response bears that out. The questions I asked about what you were doing? Rhetorical. They were intended to make you think about the root cause of the situation. And also why more men don’t report sexual assault. You sure took them as an accusation though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I really got hit with a "All men are predators, it's in the studies". 2nd wave feminism is a scourge on feminism itself.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you encouraging men to come forward with their sexual assault to experience? Are you supportive of them when they are harmed in this way? Do you go out of your way every day of your life to prevent sexual assault or things that lead to sexual assault?

  You’re deliberately using something you know is inflammatory as a poorly thought out analogy. That’s my first problem with what you said.

  The second problem is that you’re deliberately ignoring how trauma (which most women have) affects the ability to communicate, and further affects how we as humans perceive threats. That’s the second problem.

  Third problem is that as it stands women do all of the heavy lifting when trying to prevent sexual assault. All of it. We’re the ones who pushed for rape and sexual assault to have legal definitions under the law. We’re the ones who pushed to criminalize a lot of the stuff that the original commenter for this thread bought up. We’re the ones who created and implemented strategies to lower the chances of sexual assault. In my experience it is women who go out of there way to look out for other women. Do men go out of their way to live ok out for other men?

  Men have most of the privilege in this situation and do just about nothing to actually help (to prevent sexual assault, or to make sexual assault/worse things unacceptable in society). Now they’re feeling the pressure to do something about it so they don’t get labeled or grouped with “the bad sort” and their response isn’t to blame other men. It’s to blame and shit on women. Their response isn’t to try to help prevent sexual assault or speak up when they see something. It’s to lash out at women for using hyperbole. Which you admit that all human beings do.

  You immediately assumed that because I don’t agree with what you said I must think all men are rapists or sexual assaulters, or that I think that it’s okay to accuse all men of this thing. That’s not the case. But what I’m asking you to acknowledge is that this is a story on the internet with scant details about the interaction from a person who’s got every reason to lie by omission.

  And you’re so stuck on not wanting to be labeled or grouped with bad actors that you are actively blind to what other people are trying to tell you which is that this is a problem created by a patriarchal society that is enabled by that same society and therefore is a problem created by men for men that men actively can help solve but don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I really got hit with a "All men are predators, it's in the studies". 2nd wave feminism is a scourge on feminism itself.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Don’t play the word games this way. Women and girls have to operate under the assumption that “all men” specifically because to do otherwise puts them at significant disadvantage and in significant danger. Unknown unknown - I don’t know this man, or those men, but statistics say 92.1 % of sexual offenders are men and 1 in 6 women will experience rape. There’s a sexual assault every 68 seconds.

  So while it may seem unfair to say “all men” because obviously all men, I have a lot of questions about how op wrote this post.

  All bears aren’t gonna try to eat you. There’s lots of circumstance where that’s not going to happen. But the question is do you assume you are in danger from every bear you run across?

  The thing about the statistics for African American crime is that a lot of them are deliberately misleading and weaponized against that demographic.

  If we’re strictly arguing against weaponizing statistics against a demographic I can understand. But if op is questioning a woman or women being cautious of him because they have a reasonable fear of being assaulted that’s not the same thing.

  Women take extra precautions as a matter of course in their daily every day lives to avoid sexual assault and worse. This is something they do both consciously and unconsciously. And still the mostly likely person to kill a woman is their male significant other or someone they know. Someone they probably trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of what I watch on YouTube are science videos, history videos, and cooking videos. I don’t get the “jailbait click bait” and I have never gotten that. My biggest problem with YouTube besides their ad BS is the random right wing propaganda videos that creep in.

  I don’t watch a lot of shorts but if I happen to see one it’s most definitely not “jailbait”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Let’s be real here Vine did it before Tik Tok was even a sperm in Bytedance’s ballsac. And it’s not like YouTube didn’t start out with short form videos. It’s just that they didn’t make it a separate video feed until 2020.

  I can certainly understand not liking shorts (I often don’t have that kind of attention/need something more substantial than a 60 second clip). And yeah. Hatred for YouTube. I hear you. I get that too. But like this isn’t a new phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that’s not what I’m saying. They would have been content to leave this woman without her account except that the threat of them looking worse in the media was held over their head. That’s the part that shouldn’t have happened. No company should be allowed to terminate an account used in the professional sphere while leaving no recourse to reclaim the account or appeal the decision in a straightforward and relatively low effort way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the way this article is written. There are concepts that it tries to convey that have major caveats it glosses over. Additionally it posits some ideas for alternatives that aren’t new currencies and doesn’t explain how most of them would work. It also seems to ignore the fact that content creators very often get paid in ad revenue by the very same companies that are exacerbating this problem with their GenAI models, as well as companies that are being hit hard by the lack of actual ad generated revenue due to loss of clickthroughs and impressions.

  That being said it does actually somewhat explain a lot of the problem with the internet being sustained via ad revenue and ads.

  Several of the companies who’s business model is built around ad aggregation are either investing in or developing/have launched GenAI products that are in opposition with their current business model.

  They seem content at the moment to starve other places on the internet of the very ad revenue they rely on to make money. This will hurt them in the long run but they are focused on the short term profits they will make in the meantime and they do not seem concerned about the future so long as they can be seen to be on the cutting edge of the new technology.

  I don’t really know if this will lead to a downturn in creator made content. A lot of paid creators are so invested in that eco system that they’d rather hop from one service to the next forever than give it up and go get a 9-5.

  The pay as you crawl system is going to be difficult to implement, especially when crawlers already ignore the .txt file. The startups are not in a position to necessarily pay to license data and I question if they’d be able to pay as they crawl either. Meaning there will be big conglomerate gate keepers like Meta and Google and MS. The pay as you crawl system also only works if it’s regulated in some way so that normal users and small creators don’t get caught up in being victimized by bots/crawlers ignoring such rules or laws, with those victims unable to have their case taken seriously or heard at all.

  As for determining where the information came from and providing attribution. Most people still aren’t going to click through to those pages. This is in part because a lot of them don’t want to see ads in the first place (for security reasons and because ads are an imposition on their increasingly limited time, energy, and attention). It’s also because they already have the information they need. You don’t care if Wikipedia gets your ad revenue so long as you can prove you were right about Brad Pitt’s height or his first job to your friend you made that bet with at the bar last night.

  They say sources would be compensated. By who? And how? We have already established that people don’t think there’s a lot of value in pay for chatbots. The vast majority of Gen AI LLM users have shown (through polling, and introductory costs that go up in price later) that they aren’t interested in and don’t find value in pay for them. So conglomerates (many of whom run chatbots at a loss) would be on the hook both for paying for their crawlers and for providing such services to their consumers (corporate or not)? That most definitely not sustainable.

  The other option is licensing but a lot of data has already been crawled and continues to be crawled without licensing or compensation.

  I’m not sure that changing this business model will lead to anything good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For it to have happened as a matter of course, and not when they faced the prospect of bad press over it, for a start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Games are entertainment. I wouldn’t argue that MS Office is entertainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo Pro 3 Controller Announced with Swappable Buttons, Available for Preorder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find this annoying. I have three different 8bitdo controllers hanging around my house. I have the original 8bitdo sn30 pro, the pro plus, and the pro 2. After I bought the pro 2 they came out with the Xbox variant. The difference between the pro 2 regular and the pro 2 Xbox variant? The additional rear buttons on the Xbox variant work and are mappable in steam os. Where the ones on the original pro 2 are not. Do both of these controllers have the ultimate software? Yes. But unfortunately one of them doesn’t contain the hardware to make those physical buttons work as physically and programbaly different than the other buttons on the controller.

  I can buy this. I could by the Xbox variant pro 2. But I don’t want to have to keep buying essentially the same controller to get functionality it should have had in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re upset about your use of UBO. They are actively targeting users who have it enabled. That’s why it’s trying to force you to sign in.

  For what it’s worth, I second the others. Don’t disable Ublock Origin. Try a different YouTube front end if you have to. Google can kick rocks with them s nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you also using something like ubo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re targeting actual creators rather than AI Slop though. Lots of creators have been talking about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. That clip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He may well have done but the only clip I have seen is the one where someone asks about it while he’s streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For those who don’t know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because his misinterpreted what it was supposed to do. He used his misinterpretation to spread false information about this petition leading to it not getting the support it initially should have.

  When the guy behind the petition made a statement saying he didn’t think the petition was going to get enough signature in part because of the misinformation being spread about it, PirateSoftware doubled down on his false claims and all of this lead to people doing the research they should have done in the first place and deciding to support the petition after all.

  What we should probably be learning from this is that we should do our own research, and find out things instead of taking the word of random people online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They may very well be on to something (anyone who thought about this for a bit after the first announcement, could figure out this strategy, but it doesn’t include an important factor). Xbox is predominantly a console that lives in the living room. The most expensive Xbox series x currently available is $729.99. The handheld they modeled this off is currently $899.99. The price increase when this handheld and it’s predecessor consoles have been popular in majority US markets during a financially unstable time where there exist things like the switch 2 and the Lenovo Legion series of handhelds, not to mention ROG’s other handhelds may make this untenable to consumers. It’s a great idea for them the drop a handheld with an Xbox interface. It’s not a good time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s just parents falling for this or older people.