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ram

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If I own a community that’s related to a piece of software, service, or other community and someone who actually contributes to that wants it, message me and it’s yours. I stake no claim in communities, I simply want to see them exist and thrive.

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ram,
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I disagree with Legault but I also disagree with you. Quebec and New Brunswick have no obligation to become English monolingual provinces. But we also shouldn’t be discriminating against people based on language (any language) where we can accommodate, especially if it’s one of the official languages of the country or province.

ram,
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Please read what I said again…

ram,
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The expansions are dozen hour campaigns and are the game. I think a good litmus would be whether a title has a HowLongToBeat page, which this legacy collection of expansions has three.

howlongtobeat.com/game/84960
howlongtobeat.com/game/97163
howlongtobeat.com/game/69475

While these require a base-game to play, expansions on MMO-style games are quasi-games unto themselves. It’s kinda difficult to explain, but the base game isn’t really actively updated and gets no new content while campaign gets added by these expacs. Expacs are what players of these games wait for beyond anything.

ram,
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End-game is party-based raids, but it’s fine to go through casually for the campaign as a solo player.

ram,
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I personally find them both useful. Well, Tiktok specifically not youtube shorts.

My thing with tiktok is that their content recommendation algorithm is best-in-class at knowing what sort of content I want, and it starts edging away from what I want, just marking stuff as “not interested” a few times will bring it back in line. By modulating my behaviours on certain types of content (i.e. making choices over whether to watch or skip, mark as “not interested”, view comments, comment myself), I can customize an algorithmic feed that delivers what I want.

Granted this is quite an amount of work to use a “social media app”, unlike the other platforms, it’s possible and it’s good.

Youtube (long-form) I think is extremely useful when I’m looking for something in-particular, especially if it’s something that doesn’t age very much. Guides and tutorials, let’s plays, retrospectives, etc. They both fit better with the long-form content, and are much easier to find on Youtube than Tiktok.

The content recommendation algorithm of Tiktok is what makes me use it, while the discovery of specific content and access to longer form content is what makes me use Youtube.

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With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I'm interested in how people feel about it?

Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?

If those technical hurdles could be overcome, would you support your instance federating with BlueSky?

Does the same go for other commercially-owned platforms, such as Threads and Tumblr?

@fediverse

ram,
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Once they’ve transferred governance to some other entity, sure. That’s gonna take years though, they said so themselves. Standardizing a protocol isn’t something that can be done overnight, and that’s fully their intention with ATProto.

I’m keenly interested in the protocol, but I also question its flexibility as to the content it can be used to post and distribute. That’s something we’ll have to wait for federation to come to see people start playing with. If it becomes a standard, governed by a non-partisan body, and is flexible to a variety of content types, I see no reason to stay with ActivityPub except that the software’s already here.

ram,
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J’apprécie les mots gentils. Je vais faire de mon mieux pour apprendre le français! Merci beaucoup pour vos meilleurs vœux.

Je utiliser plusiers outils y compromis mes amis, ChatGPT, et cours en ligne. J’espère que cela aide mon apprentissage!

Should say:
I appreciate the kind words. I will do my best to learn French! Thank you for the best wishes.

I’m using many tools including my friends, ChatGPT, and online courses. I hope it helps my learning!

ram,
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It’s not “stalking” and “harassing,” as you claim in the thread, for someone to defend defamatory claims that were made in public. That’s dumb. Also the fact you keep remaking this thread shows you know you’re in the wrong lmao

ram,
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Yes, it’s completely okay for Ada to defend themselves in response to defamatory claims, and is not proof of harassment nor justification to claim they’re stalking for doing so.

ram,
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It’s spying to be an admin? Maybe you should just run your own instance so people aren’t spying on you then.

ram,
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It’s not “stalking” and “harassing,” as you claim in the thread, for someone to defend defamatory claims that were made in public. That’s dumb.

ram,
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Older people ignore the comment sections in their factorization. I think this can be fair but also isn’t necessarily when we consider things like livestreams on twitch and youtube, where you will have actual communities form on the platform itself, who communicate and form friendships and relationships. Unlike message boards and forums typically have, there is a “main character” if you will, but I don’t think that makes it asocial.

There’s also the participatory, communicative environment people feel even as smaller creators. It’s not like film and TV where you need an entire network and brand backing you, and as such it’s pretty democratized to be a social outlet for people.

ram,
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OP ITT is really just jumping around screaming that they’re the only person on this platform who’s not in the CIA lmao

ram,
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Why are you always spending time with the CIA? Pretty sus, maybe you’re in the CIA, or a CIA shill, huh?

ram,
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On what basis do you say that? There’s tons of legit malware on there, just search for shit that implements denuvo.

ram,
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Why would Epic put a store launcher on Steam? This is a silly argument.

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    ram,
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    Personally I prefer sticking with smaller instances of maybe a few hundred or a thousand users. The more evenly spread out we are across instances, the more democratized the federation is.

    ram,
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    IDK where the lemmy admins are based out of, but many countries consider hentai depicting underage characters to be illegal; my country of Canada’s one such country.

    ram,
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    It’s not a view. It’s written into our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and empowered by our constitution.

    ram,
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    Ya, “Free Speech” as written in the constitution only covers congressional laws.

    ram,
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    Both the article in the OP, and the comment you’re responding to are using it in the legal sense.

    ram,
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    You’re misunderstanding something then.

    ram,
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    I have a similar issue from Lemmy wanting to block kbin.social. I’ve even considered asking to just get banned from the instance just so I don’t need to deal with their users.

    ram,
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    You just did.

    ram,
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    You’re an asshole for paying industry execs to be vampires after you see they’ve managed to narrowly evade the enshittification of their studio.

    ram,
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    but also the devs (even if only in scraps)

    If you’re buying games that are more than 3 months old, they do not. Bonuses are given for metacritic scores and launch quarter sales. They’re never given royalties.

    there’s not a whole lot of options outside of “only buy indie games” to both support developers and avoid filling the pockets of execs and investors.

    What’s wrong with telling people to buy indie games and pirate anything made at the directive of blood-sucking vampires?

    Remember when games were just the program on the disk and you didn’t need keys and an online connection to activate your copy?

    Remember when games were just some free software on Usenet that someone made because they thought it’d be cool, and shared because they were proud of it?

    ram,
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    How do they compare to modern games in terms of entertainment?

    I’d comfortably argue that Tetris is amongst the best games ever made.

    Israel intensifies ground and air strikes on nearly cut-off Gaza while UN denounces 'war crimes' in conflict for first time and warns many will soon starve to death (english.elpais.com)

    “In the beginning, people could go to the market or to the stores. Now, no more. Stores have empty shelves. People are struggling to get food, but there are already people starving in Gaza,” warns Nebal Farsakh, spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, speaking over the phone....

    ram,
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    Now with outbound communications nearly completely cut off, how often will we get updates on what’s happening on the ground? On the crimes against humanity Israel’s committing?

    I hope for the best, I really do, but I feel so helpless. I’ve already contacted my representatives and told them they need to do their part or I’ll be rescinding my support. I’m vocal within my community as well. But beyond that, there’s so little I can do but bear witness to what is happening.

    ram, (edited )
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    So, when we include the eventual mobile prices too and we’re looking at a pricing scheme that’s roughly:
    $1 $2 $3 $5 $8 $11 $16 $21

    ram,
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    Unpopular opinion: MAAMA as a whole isn’t relevant to tech as in technology.

    ram,
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    Only 1 in 4? I thought it was more than that now

    Our healthcare system is in absolutely shambles.

    ram,
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    Please don’t bring up LastPass in this conversation. They aren’t relevant to anything wrt security, and worse yet, they remain extremely opaque with their security protocols.

    ram,
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    I wish one of the options was Bill Gates’ 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists.

    ram,
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    It’s not even ironically unfunny, so no.

    ram, (edited )
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    lmao You’re pathetic.

    ram,
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    100%. These people cannot return to being “acceptable” to exist. Purge them from society and force them to retreat to the dark corners from which they’ve been hiding since the end of WWII.

    ram,
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    Wikipedia just summarizes the primary sources.

    Wikipedia actually much prefers secondary and even tertiary sources to primary sources. They have rules against original research, and follows the guideline that “secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic’s notability and avoid novel interpretations of primary sources”. It’s only with exception that primary sources are allowed, in which the primary sources “have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia, but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them.”

    Not disagreeing with you, just a bit of nuance.

    ram,
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    Is there a part of bluesky that’s under an impermissive license?

    ram,
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    It’s always from kbin.social, eh

    ram,
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    The fool who’s rampaging around in the thread here, who also happens to be OP

    ram,
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    Ah cool another kbin.social person lmao

    ram,
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    Man, chill, we already know you’re from kbin.social, you don’t need to keep riding it into the ground.

    ram,
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    As someone who’s not an EU resident I love what the EU does because it tends to make the market better globally. See: iPhone switching to USB-C

    ram,
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    Ya, I like that they’re tech dictators. I think everyone should be more dictatorial with big industry. Do I agree with all the policies and regulations they come up with? Absolutely not. But at this point I’d prefer bad regulation than what we currently have from the completely toothless US regulators.

    ram,
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    “because…?” ?

    ram,
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    Stripped of executable code. IIRC the issue in particular was that sidebars observed HTML and you could put an iframe with potentially malicious code into them.

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