This is shockingly “public” considering there’s legal proceedings now.

So even this instance of personal responsibility is significantly offset by the actions of a few. I’m all for doing what each of us can, but that’s fucking hilarious.

This is just a blatant grift. The link on how to add links just sends to a ko-fi page where you’re charging money.

And completely ignoring a whole bunch of reasons that “the million dollar webpage” worked that mean that something like this won’t.

Good luck I guess.

There will always be more content than anyone can keep up with in a single lifetime. I’ve long since lost the motivation to race along at the front edge of new shit.

I pick up new artists from shows, movies, youtube videos, and games. I also regularly let youtube music (revanced, so no ads) run past the end of my playlists and suggest new stuff. I used to use Pandora for this as well.

On super rare occasions (been over a year now) I’ll check out you groove you lose threads on 4chan and discover a few more artists.

Yeah. Anthropic regularly releases these stories and they almost always boil down to “When we prompted the AI to be mean, it generated output in line with ‘mean’ responses! Oh my god we’re all doomed!”

Because you can buy other people’s code for cheaper than developing it yourself, as long as you use it within the restrictions of the license you paid for.

What? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.

Since when have rights holders ever been held responsible for the actions of online players?

The only instances I can think of are when games exclusively target minors, like Roblox.

And in what crazy world would those scant responsibilities carry over to community servers after official support was ended?

What a cop out.

There’s a setting in the user profile to block/not block stuff tagged nsfw

Oh, when eleven runs away to the city? It gets even better: none of that shit comes back up again.

But it absolutely does keep leaning into teen romance. I always felt it was a decent show but overrated, and it dropped off hard.

Good old firebase. Notifications are not entirely device local on android, or something like that.

Yep, they are explicitly not banks or traditional financial institutions and therefore have none of the standard protections. They don’t only lack the protections of credit cards, but also of banks in general.

There are countless stories of people losing access to over $10k in their PayPal account with no option to appeal because PayPal decided their Twitch revenue looked too much like money laundering. Or because a single transaction involved a card later reported stolen. Or… just because. Some people aren’t even given a reason.

Especially from Gartner of all places. Maybe this will finally start tempering the hype in the executives.

It’s been hours now (and a very busy day), but I swear that half of that comment (including that section) wasn’t there when I commented regarding safer seas.

But there’s no mark showing the comment has been edited either.

Scurvy must be eating me brain.

Good news! No need to wait for unofficial servers. Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!

Good news! Over a year ago they opened a feature called safer seas where you can play without PvP!

The solution to that isn’t to post even more blatantly state controlled media just with a different flavor of boot sole.

Come on now.

And the Police won’t investigate because of whatever mental gymnastics of the day they come up with to avoid the paperwork.

“You never actually recieved it, so it was never your property to be stolen.” Or something.

I would be surprised if this didn’t hold true for many companies, especially when adjusting for inflation.

Yes, you’re correct.

But that rollout doesn’t make headlines like all the ones from the US government telling people to use encrypted messaging like WhatsApp or Signal. That’s what got them to WhatsApp to begin with. FBI tells everyone very loudly to get off standard texting. They jump as a collective to where half of them already are.

As I’ve already alluded to: this has precisely zero to do with the technical aspects of security. Ease of use does matter (why pushing to Signal didn’t work at the time the FBI spooked everyone), but only a little bit, and is overshadowed by momentum of where people already are.

I might be able to get my family off WhatsApp with the recent article about it being banned from (I think it was) Congress’s phones.

But again, this isn’t a technical problem where you can just point at what’s obviously the better choice. There are complications of personal relationships, individual resistance to change, whether or not you’re willing to train your family members, etc.

My grandmother is in her late 80s and it is astonishing that she can even manage WhatsApp to pariticipate in the family group chat. I’m not upending that and causing her the added stress, work, isolation if it fractures the family groip chat, and signing myself up for all that extra work to try and drag people to new platform and hold their hand through the bumps… just so I can be comfortably principled, using the best option, and trying to prevent Meta from getting info about me for a few more years that they likely are getting through other means.

I’ll revisit as the elders age off.

I care about my privacy, but I’ve thought long and hard about my specific threat model and what is and isn’t important enough for me to make a big deal out of. For me, this is an acceptable sacrifice.

Doesn’t have to be that way for anyone else. Just has to work for me and my life. And it does.

Ultimately I’m just trying to give reasons why people are still on these platforms. I took the initial comment I responded to at face value. I’m not really looking to debate here, and my opinions don’t invalidate anyone else’s.