Valve could literally ban gambling on all Steam games if they wanted to. stop playing devil’s advocate for billionaires, Gaben has enough yachts already

governor of poker 3

what a legend! i love terrorizing gamerbros by turning their gritty post-apocalyptic fantasy into a cottagecore game. i did that with project zomboid.

these apps are slop generating machines. the equivalent of relying on Nextdoor to keep your community safe. I’m waiting for any journalism or research papers to come out proving they didn’t just make the situation worse

sounds like it was garbage. IRL ice watch volunteers use Signal or Whatsapp

you mean Apple? the app was exclusively on iOS. it was a doxxing target from the get-go ran by an amateur that ran his database with unfixed vulnerabilities

what is it with tankies that has them always forming red-brown alliances instead of supporting trans leftists?

yeah, you got me. not liking liberals makes me a trump supporter. the overton window always ends at being a “progressive” slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan and anything beyond that is just the ice wall keeping us from finding out that the earth is flat

not surprising at all that you chose to go the blue MAGA “enjoy your camps, then” route instead of taking a step back. the only smug person here was you not realizing you’re way out of your depth

i hate to inform you that these lobbying groups are acting exactly like a state would, actually. maybe don’t lecture to trans people and tell us how the state works, we interact with the state way more than you will ever have to 💋

what are you going to do against oligopolistic payment processors taking away your rights?

idk, what are YOU gonna do? are cis people gonna finally fight for trans autonomy or are they gonna act like us having autonomy is too insane?

are you gonna finally listen to us like when trans sex workers told you a decade ago that banks, the police and payment processors are policing our money or are you gonna let the issue fester because you don’t want your family to know you stand with trannies and whores?

gotcha, my whole issue was with the whole state surveillance of “dangerous people” part of it, because trans people are gonna end up on that list just for existing

hot take: people ought to start forming morals outside of legal morality. a Lotta freaks are gonna end up illegal otherwise and the freak factor certainly includes some thing you do that your prudish neighbor doesn’t like

the Stasi are never gonna stop at the particular marginalized group you dislike. plus nobody’s offending shit, being a freak isn’t illegal (yet). acting like it is certainly helps move the overton window that way though

you mean gift cards bought at convenience stores? or do they buy them using a credit card and then the credits show up in your account?

regardless, Visa and MasterCard have hegemonic monopolies on the market. anybody not using them will see huge losses in sales.

it’s always been a pump and dump scheme, as all black markets are

not really. Russia made their own payment processor because of being kicked out from SWIFT but using their system would be immoral.

it would be interesting if the EU makes their own payment processor.

some people were peddling crypto as a way to regain autonomy but most consumers don’t have the skills to buy it using cash and sideline Visa/MasterCard. it’s also not as accessible to people without technical skills.

they look like a Gorrilaz avatar

wdym by actionable end state?

no, if anything it will increase them because prices going up is almost always tied to mass layoffs. austerity package and all that.

millions of people were sent to gulags because everyone wanted to join the Soviet Union, great revisionism

get that Nazi poster outta here

genAI apologists are so similar in mentality to the police bootlickers that regurgitate police news statements as if they’re the truth.

Krafton is lying to you and just because you saw them throw in an “ethical AI” buzzword you fell for it because you’ve been conditioned to be gullible and politically neutral when it comes to worker exploitation in the industry.

They’ve been caught ethicalwashing their Stable Diffusion use as being “an in-house proprietary model”. SD is the farthest thing possible from “ethical” genAI (it’s inherently an oxymoron anyways).

Here is them on YouTube boasting about how many workers they can lay off now that they’ve adopted outsourced exploited labor from outside artists for free.

https://www.thegamer.com/i-have-mixed-feelings-about-inzois-use-of-generative-ai/

reminder that Microsoft is on the BDS boycott list. the workers won’t be seeing any money from a 2016 game so you might as well obtain it through unofficial means 😉

believe it or not, it’s possible for 2 things to be true at the same time. ACS is cool even though Ubisoft is evil. what you call virtue signaling is just people having interests

institutions should divest from future and present contracts. most consumers don’t have contracts with Microsoft. selling your electronics doesn’t hurt them in any way nor is that something that BDS asks for on their website:

https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft

a question to parents/guardians of kids playing Minecraft or other Microsoft games:

if they uninstall the Microsoft version of Minecraft and switch to a pirated launcher, does that respect the BDS demands? also, does playing it on Linux Mint from the Software Manager benefit Microsoft in any way?

I’m aware of similar media boycotts such as SAG/AFTRA telling people not to promote targeted media projects publicly. Ofc, BDS is a different organization but I’m hoping someone could clarify if not promoting Minecraft while still playing is sufficient? I’m not personally invested in continuing to play, but would like to find ways to inspire my young relative to consume consciously.

they answer your question in detail on their own website

https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft

BDS does not imply you stop using whatever you already own. it’s about preventing future purchases

I was interested in using GrapheneOS but didn’t fully understand why the devs trust Google. turns out they don’t have to! thanks for the great explanation!

time for all of us to volunteer at your garbage dump like that dude who offered to buy his local garbage dump because his Bitcoin hard drive might be there

it lacks some of the few good features that discord actually has like seeing who’s in a voice chat before popping in and soundboards in voice chat.

from what I remember they use Jitsi calls. I love that Jitsi exists as an alternative to Zoom but compared to Discord it is indeed a subpar experience. when calling with friends over VPN it is an unusable option due to the lag. this might admittedly be due to us using a free instance I found over a commercial option like Discord has

because it’s not a discord alternative

I know there’s a way on the XDA forums to do it without going through Xiaomi. Also, in case your only option left is to run their software, you might be able to pull it off by spinning up a Windows VM and using USB passthrough?