MostlyBlindGamer
@MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com
Opinions are my own. Profile picture description: Black on white pictogram with a D20 showing 20 for a head and a game controller for a body and arms, holding a white cane.
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 2 months ago:
Right, making it look like you know what you’re doing is a great way to advance to the point where you cause real damage. I’m glad you don’t have to do that, and aren’t getting trampled by the people who do.
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 2 months ago:
Oh, uh. I’m wondering if I laid the irony down too thick. I think the comment you originally replied to is probably correct. I think your questions are typical escape hatches for men to be blameless in any situation. I can imagine you didn’t mean them that way, but that’s what’s usually meant by them.
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 2 months ago:
You’re absolutely right. The most likely scenario is that the person with first-hand knowledge misinterpreted the situation. These poor men and their sensitive feelings…
Irony aside, I’m sure it’s a complex situation with different relevant points to any perspective, but the events as told line up with my own experiences.
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 2 months ago:
I’ve witnessed many of the kinds of situations described here and I think the proposed mechanics adequately explain them.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How 4 People Destroyed a $250 Million Tech Company 2 months ago:
I can’t watch yet, but I have to know: how angry is Steve?
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
Sure, but also the broader “join my Patreon to get access to my Discord server” market. It’s actually a pretty clever move, if there’s a market for it (there is) and if it replaces more insidious revenue streams (it won’t).
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 7 months ago:
Or “How Signal is closer in functionality to WhatsApp by the day, because it turns out people like the functionality of WhatsApp.”
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
I was thinking about how this would happen and I remembered when signing up for services using Google login, I’d always get a list of information the website would have access to, including the name listed under the Google account. When I didn’t consent to that, I went back.
Now, is there a line somewhere between strictly getting a user’s consent and the user having an expectation of privacy? Yes, and they may have landed on the wrong side of it.
Suffice it to say, this is one of the reasons I prefer to sign up with an email address.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
Risks that are already described.
The headline does it’s job getting clicks by making it sound like reviewers names may already be public.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
I’m looking at it from a perspective of intentionality. Careless? Definitely. A risk ? For sure. But the situation is still not as the title implies.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
If I’m reading this correctly, they’re adding your name to your site profile, but that’s not visible and is not linked to your reviews.
That specificity makes the situation much less terrifying than the title alone would imply.
- Comment on Can't acess lemmy.world or any kind of content posted there. 1 year ago:
We’ve successfully centralized decentralization.