Zedstrian

People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.

Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.

Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.

Unfortunately that also wouldn’t satisfy the requirements put in place by several operating system level age verification laws.

The Federation Checker lists incoming and outgoing defederation for inputted instances.

Might be a pain to use in bulk though.

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The far right criticizes NATO when they either don’t do “enough” by their standards (even though NATO is purely a defensive alliance), or “too much” by defending against Russian aggression.

Counter-probe the U.S. for forced labor in the American federal and state prison systems.

Important to note that it’s vibe coded:

AI has been used to create functions that the founder was unable to write himself, or when he got stuck. All AI-generated code is tested and verified before launch!

The code must meet the following requirements:

AI-generated code must display correct values.

AI-generated code must function as expected and provide a basis for further development.

If the creator doesn’t know how to implement something, they arguably aren’t qualified to know whether the vibe coded output is proper or not.

This energy crisis is temporary; the environmental damage from fracking wouldn’t be.

When you can’t trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you’re seeing are real, you’ve lost the foundation a community platform is built on.

Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful. The lack of distinction between real and fake content serves to attract marketers and propagandists to such platforms, with most users remaining due to the network effect. With its venture capitalist funding, Digg would be just as willing to benefit from spam if it held market dominance, and thus only distributed Fediverse platforms like Lemmy or Mastodon are viable solutions.

Generative AI products in general need to be better regulated. With more and more consumers trusting the output of LLMs, companies can use them to collect more consumer data than ever before and infuse marketing and propaganda into LLM outputs with no distinction, to the detriment of the genuine sources of information upon which they depend.

Penalties that are lower than profits encourage companies to rob consumers again in the future.

They are losing in the context of not being able to benefit from those resources themselves at a later point.

Gr0lum shouldn’t have revealed the IP addresses of YGG moderators and could have handled aspects of the leak better, but the YGG admin’s rebuttal post is undermined by disgusting transphobia:

The rules of the competing tracker, set up by these same individuals, clearly show their true colors: anyone who doesn’t buy into their woke ideological vision isn’t welcome. “LGBTQI+ phobias” are placed on the same level as fascism or racism, and any “debate” on the subject is purely and simply forbidden. In other words, if you’re not comfortable with the idea of dad putting on mom’s wig, you’re not welcome on their platform.

It exists purely to license the rights to Tetris.

Fascists aren’t satisfied with simply causing climate change, they want to accelerate it too.

The device in the picture is a ROG Ally, not a Steam Deck. Without trackpads it’s a lot less useful, in my opinion.

Preventing Iran from acquiring a bomb is one of Trump’s stated war aims

Something that could have been achieved through continued negotiations, resulting in far fewer lives lost and less money wasted. Assassinating Iran’s leaders and threatening to invade only serves to bolster their justifications for seeking nuclear weapons in the first place.

Because food is better in Europe than in the U.S.

Wish I could get affordable smoked salmon, comté cheese, and real baguettes in the U.S.

The problem with that solution, from Valve’s perspective, is both the cost of providing the voucher (they would have to pay developers at least 70% of the voucher value) and the risk that an end-consumer that doesn’t intend to use Steam simply converts it to money by selling Steam gifts, replacing a sale they would have otherwise had while not generating additional sales from the Steam Machine user.

The ideal means of doing it to diminish that risk would be to make the voucher not usable for gifts, though Valve would still need to price the system to account for the cost of providing the voucher.