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If you’re wtf-ing about votes being public, it’s an inherent and necessary part of federation, since there’s no central instance that counts votes and decides the score, each instance needs to add them up - and if each instance doesn’t receive the full list of voters, there’s no way to stop an instance from completely lying about vote counts (they would need to create fake users to attribute the votes to, or attribute fake votes to real users they have)

Two issues here

1. Governments tend to control how much trash individuals throw away, whether in terms of payment, catching people who don’t segregate correctly, or maybe even catching things like suspicious chemical waste
2. Efficient garbage collection at scale requires knowing how much trash to expect in an area based on population, and buildings will have appropriately sized storage for garbage. On top of potentially dodging payment, if people throw their garbage in somebody else’s building’s disposal, they could be overloading that area’s trucks come collection time, and especially if the bins are shared, could fill up the building’s bins preventing other people from throwing away trash in their own homes.

A bit of the second one, but not fully? I don’t think using “female” as a noun when talking about a person sounded good, but it’s appropriate for animals. I imagine incels chose that because it wasn’t the way people spoke, but was only weird at worst, so it wasn’t that suspicious initially.

Reminds me of a recent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/3201

It kinda makes me unable to properly focus on a word due to the visual noise of the next words fighting for attention, kinda glazing over and jumping ahead without having processed what I’m reading properly, having to go back and focus on each word individually.

You don’t need to confess that any more than you need to confess that sometimes you eat food.

An even more direct comparison is confessing that you don’t like spicy food and eat mild food. People will shame others over considering food too spicy, but simultaneously enjoying spicy food is completely legitimate itself.

People will argue over a mod that makes the game easier in some way. I imagine bullying does happen, though that might depend on your definition. I know I myself would laugh at somebody using mods that make the game easier while claiming they don’t, and while I don’t have examples for RimWorld, it reminds me of a funny terraria video.

To me the issue is, all kinds of mods have a place, whether it’s cosmetic, content expansion, quality of life, straight up cheats, but the categorizations should be respected.

What will absolutely cause an argument is somebody talking about difficulty or their accomplishments while using mods that make a game easier, especially if they’re not upfront about it.

I’m going to call out rEFInd for dual booting, since it doesn’t require you to configure anything and finds and recognizes bootable partitions at boot time. Less stuff to mess up, less work when you want to add/remove an OS.

The quote is that it can download an application though

To be clear, I think part of it is that Fairphone wants hardware with long-term support so they can continue supplying replacement parts, but they also aren’t big enough to manufacture their own parts from scratch - so they end up needing to use hardware that GrapheneOS deems as lacking critical security features.

Though of course there are the parts GrapheneOS said about security updates being late and unsafe signing keys being used, which are independent from hardware.

Pretty sure twitch has deals with streamers that restricts how they can stream. I think SimpleFlips had a video explaining why he stopped streaming on YouTube, he didn’t realize the twitch partner contract required him to stream exclusively on twitch at the time. I’ve also heard some things about how you can stream simultaneously, but twitch doesn’t allow you merging chats from different platforms, so if you want to show chat in the stream itself, each platform might need a separate box.

I don’t think the line is that fine in that case, considering all random mechanics in Balatro give ephemeral rewards that only last until the end of a run, which is an isolated instance of a game with limited playtime, those mechanics cannot be paid for with real money, the resulting rewards cannot be sold for real money or traded with other players, and generally cannot affect any other players in any way, not even visually through cosmetics.

As far as I know, Balatro is only really being targeted because it’s stylized after poker, with the enforcement having no actual understanding of what the gameplay looks like.

I think at bigger risk from actual laws would be MMORPGs where you can get random loot drops from enemies/chests, and those also tend to have markets where people grind valuable drops and use in-game trading to transfer them to other players in exchange for real money.

every wired connection is exclusive to the device and full duplex.

That doesn’t seem quite right in reality, since the moment you have multiple devices connected to one switch and both sending data to the router, they’re sharing the connection. Switches can handle multiple connections at the same time way better than an AP, being able to receive from multiple devices at once, but the bandwidth will ultimately still be shared between the devices.

I think an even more important aspect to me is something I don’t have a good term for, but something like honesty/intrusiveness. The key issue is that advertisement should be an honest, truthful, non-deceitful representation of a good/service. But instead ads are designed to catch your eye, insert themselves into your thoughts with catchy music, play on your emotions even using kids, all while avoiding really telling you what they’re about.

On the note of consent, it reminds me of a certain website for webnovels, which hosts ads submitted by users, for their own novels. It’s been kind of ruined by GenAI, but it feels very different when the ads are often badly made memes about the premise of the story, since that’s what you’re already on the site for and it’s the actual authors wanting to share their stories.

I do suspect suffering might be unavoidable in a transition period, it feels inevitable that as less work is necessary society will take time to adapt to the situation. It’s not that it’s impossible to adapt in time as the situation changes, but it seems implausible to actually implement that, and I feel like we should be accounting for it when discussing implementing automation.

In that context, I feel that automation and innovation are inevitable, and fighting them feels foolish (like by forcing coal mines and coal power plants to continue running), and we need to focus on improving peoples’ lives if they’re negatively affected.

I will also note that I’m negative towards GenAI, considering it unethical and (relatively) impractical. Though I’m also biased since my profession is affected :P

Yup, in a theoretical, say, socialist utopia where nobody has to work, most of the work would need to be automated. Anything where people need to work less demands automation to replace what currently needs to be done by humans. Automation does cause problems, both temporary ones by taking people’s jobs, and more long-term ones when replacing the jobs people want to do, but it seems like an inevitable and necessary step into the future.

How about I reach out to the editors and offer them 80% of that money to not play any sound effects? Though the interpretation of the editors in question being humans implies they will still know everything about my life in realtime, and I’m not sure I’d take that kind of sacrifice

But, a more practical and effectice way to address those things is to attempt to provide an alternate, more equitable, more transparent paradigm for its use.

Yeah, the issue is that I simply disagree, and consider the usage of models trained on data obtained without permission to be immoral, and thus unless the model is trained entirely on data supplied with consent (which is supposedly implausible), and thus people facilitating and/or promoting the usage of such to be… ethically unaligned me, and thus I don’t want to associate with them

All that said, I also don’t want to argue or try to convince you here, and want to thank you for being civil in the discussion

I’ve also seen a bit of this, and I also find it annoying… though 99% of the time that I see something like this, its some kind of like cryptobro, when lambo, diamond hands, type person.

I’m pretty sure some of the most popular communities on db0 use GenAI art for banner and icon - checking now, the banner art for piracy, ADHD memes, anarchism, yepowertrippingbastards appear to be GenAI (admittedly fewer than I expected), and the icon for the instance itself is suspicious.

Unfortunately though, that’s also not a problem exclusive to db0, and with the nature of federation it’s kinda inescapable when most people don’t care, unless I want to lock myself to niche communities.

I will also note, I believe db0 is hosting or participating in some kind of distributed GenAI network called The Horde, so it’s not just individual community members’ opinions, it’s an organizational endorsement of GenAI.

Edit: possibly relevant, apparently the game had some pretty bad bugs with the navigations on launch. I played it after those got patched, so my experience may have been different to yours

Unfortunately not the issue, I didn’t play it early after release, and tried playing multiple times over the years. The ship navigation alone isn’t too bad, but it can absolutely get tedious, and I feel like the game acknowledges it by giving you the option to skip it after some time… But you’re not in control of when that option to skip appears, and when the game dripfeeds you dialogue instead.

It mostly feels like good ideas that just don’t work well together for me, or are ruined by a few decisions that I find annoying, like slow animations everywhere.