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  • Didn't really use it because the scientific and medical misinformation going around on the site was tiring to see. Then Elon Musk bought it and I could see the enshittification coming up. Put up a link to my new Mastodon account, waited like a month and then downloaded my data and deleted my account.

    I'm still on Mastodon. Won't even look at Bluesky before they show they're serious about making it decentralised. And even if that happens, I'll still brace for the potential Google Talk 2: Electric Boogaloo.

  • Godot was already mentioned. Someone on Mastodon brought up the Bevy Engine as well.

  • I'd find it funny if in a future game that DM runs, the party comes across a group of blind and deaf adventurers fighting a group of mutant slugs or something stupid like that. 😄

  • I think about it along this analogy:

    You ring up your artist friend and would really like to see this specific thing drawn. Your friend gets inspired and is happy to oblige completely for free as they make art for fun. You give them specifications, they send you progress pictures and you tell them how to tweak those WIP pictures until you get the piece you envisioned, drawn by this artist friend of yours.

    Now, who owns the work? The artist, right? You don't get to claim ownership just because your instructions got that piece done.

  • Saw this screenshot on Mastodon. They won't tell how they're going to track it exactly but it sounds like some weird estimation work.

  • He's still mad at those researchers for scraping the data that shows that ever since he took over, the antisemitism, racism and general bigotry has gone up on the platform.

  • I can't view my achievements so I don't know. I assume no because there's no overlay. I actually forgot GOG even had achievements. I just don't care about them that much usually.

    Steam achievements work normally, of course.

  • You don't need GOG Galaxy. I play my GOG games through Heroic Games Launcher on my Artix Linux system.

    Path of Exile is rated Gold on ProtonDB and according to reports works out of the box through Steam Proton.

  • Asking others and even yourself "why?" when it comes to views is a really good thing to practise, I agree. And don't leave it to just one layer. Ask "why?" after every single explanation and see how deep you or whoever you're asking can get. It's one thing to have a view and a whole another thing to know how you got to that view.

    I've gotten out of harmful views by using this technique and realising that the only reason I held some views was because "others told me so", which caused me to look into things more.

    Of course this won't work with really stubborn people but it's a good start to make at least some people think.

  • Settings -> Post History

    The options you seek are there. c:

  • Oh look. It's Jim Pickens.

  • ă‚ŠăƒŒăƒ‘ăƒŒăƒ«ăƒŒăƒ‘ăƒŒ (Ć«pārĆ«pā), comes from the English wooper looper. c:

  • Personal tl;dr:

    • Affects only large platforms for now
    • Selling illegal goods is not allowed and there must be a way to report that content
    • Ad targeting based on sexuality, religion, ethnicity or political beliefs is not allowed
    • Targeting ads on children is restricted
    • Transparency on how recommendation algorithms work
    • Option to opt out of recommendation algorithms
    • Requirements for data sharing with researchers and authorities
    • Cooperation with crisis response requirements
    • Requirement for external and independent auditing
  • Which is why I am happy to have email aliases. Alias gets leaked? No problem. I'll just delete that one and make a new one for that service. Scammers and spammers have a useless email address and I still have my clean inbox.

  • Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We'd have the whole nine yards.

  • I think the algorithm for Lemmy's hot sorting is just based on interactions within time unit. The newer the post, the more valuable an upvote is.

  • Meme creator: "Eh. Close enough."