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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•BREAKING - Tiktok has now SHUT DOWN SERVICES in the United States, noting "A law banning Tiktok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate th7·6 months agoAs long as it’s completely legal for American companies to sell the data that’s allegedly so sensitive to anyone they please, the law does nothing except allow the president to target apps selectively. If it’s the propagandizing via the algorithm that’s such a huge concern, that’s still completely legal too.
Democrats shutting down TikTok over a do nothing bill is probably the stupidest shit they could have done with Biden’s last year in office.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•BREAKING - Tiktok has now SHUT DOWN SERVICES in the United States, noting "A law banning Tiktok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate th41·6 months agoOn one hand, yeah, on the other hand Biden literally signed the law banning it. If Democrats didn’t want Tik Tok being banned to be associated with them and to give Republicans an easy, obvious win by unbanning a wildly popular app, then they could have just… not done that. This was just completely an unforced error on the part of the Democrats.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish1305·6 months agoAccording to OP’s previous comments the dev of this has spent 600k of their own money on this. If that claim is legitimate then feel free to draw your own conclusions about why someone with 600k to burn would spend it on an NFT crypto reddit, but without images.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 29th1·6 months agoProject Zomboid just released version 42 beta, so all PZ all the time for me. I’m just living the farming life and getting into the new crafting system in between smacking zombies. Very satisfying.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud25·8 months agoIf you needed a trans person to come tell you this is not okay: hi! Here I am! Don’t do this. All it does is advertise that you view using someone’s correct name as a privilege that can be revoked for bad behavior.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history - Ars Technica15·8 months agoAlthough Teixeira asked Discord members not to share the documents, an investigative journalism group, Bellingcat, found that Teixeira’s friends spread the documents widely, first to other Discord servers, then to Telegram, 4Chan, and Twitter (now called X).
What’s the saying? Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@beehaw.org•To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks8·8 months agoI think the decades of family and social pressure telling me that my appearance defined my self worth which I experienced when I was raised as a girl is the reason I wear a hat to cover my balding head, thanks for asking!
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@beehaw.org•To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks9·8 months agoFriend, I am trans, I could reproduce if I wanted to with a dude (I absolutely do not want to). I’m also already married to a gay man, so my rainbow hat is not to pick people up, it’s to cover up my balding head. :p
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@beehaw.org•To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks18·8 months agoI mean, are straight people who are normal about it clamoring for the title to begin with? This seems like a problem invented basically entirely by the whiners. You could just as easily say it affects gay people who want an ironic title, or straight trans people, but for obvious reasons the whiners don’t really care about that.
All that said I have no idea what the price tag means in terms of gameplay time to acquire it. If it’s unachievable without 10 hours of grinding or something that’s a little mean, but not enough that I really care.
(Edit: accidentally a word)
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@beehaw.org•To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks31·8 months agoIt’s okay to take context into account and not just look at it as a math problem. Targeting a minority isn’t the same as doing it to people who make up 90% of society but are whiny.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@beehaw.org•To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks18·8 months agoPlenty of times someone’s sexuality is held above someone’s head, quite literally in the case of this casual fishing game where I feel it doesn’t even slightly belong
As a gay dude with a rainbow hat IRL this made me lol. I’m not wearing it to pick people up, I’m wearing it because I’m not ashamed of who I am. It’s not any different from wearing a wedding ring, couples shirts, or any of the million other displays of heterosexuality that you see and don’t think anything about.
PS: even if you are gay, internalized homophobia is a thing. Feeling that it’s super inappropriate to mention that you’re gay unless you want to fuck someone falls under that.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You26·8 months agoOh, I don’t even mean from lost sales, I mean because this service is fundamentally going to cost more than the “theft” (lol) it’s allegedly stopping. If any one employee (or even a team) is doing this at scale and a business needs AI tracking customers to pick up on it, there is something drastically wrong.
This service is basically pure AI hype. It’s not doing anything a minimally engaged manager couldn’t already do with the salary you’re having to pay them anyway. Except the AI is also doing it worse and at a higher cost. Yay!
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You61·8 months agoAbout a month ago, Israel-based Corsight AI began offering its global clients access to a new service aimed at rooting out what the retail industry calls “sweethearting,”—instances of store employees giving people they know discounts or free items.
Lol, I hope stores that use this lose millions on this stupid ass privacy invasion. Anyone stupid enough to believe the savings of catching a 10% employee discount used occasionally for friends or whatever is going to offset whatever the fuck this most recent torment nexus is going to cost frankly deserves to be swindled.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•Gender, Race, and Intersectional Bias in Resume Screening via Language Model8·8 months agoThe purpose of a system is what it does.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•BlueSky has been knocked offline by an exodus from Twitter20·9 months agoDoes Mastodon have the blocking features that Bluesky has (like lists, blocks stopping quote reply chains, etc)?
Other than on Blahaj, I’ve never found a place more chill to be queer online once you apply a couple of well maintained block lists.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@lemmy.ml•Dragon Age Creator Slams "Woke" Criticism: "You're an Idiot"392·9 months agoNot sure I’d consider things like the ability to make your character trans a symptom of anything other than the game being made in the 21st century.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Gaming@lemmy.ml•Dragon Age Creator Slams "Woke" Criticism: "You're an Idiot"872·9 months agoIf the game is dog shit the people crying about it being woke will still be the idiots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Games@sh.itjust.works•Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't beEnglish284·10 months agoIt’s okay, the internet drought is over, we don’t have to ration posts anymore.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future6·10 months agoEven if you perfectly solve crashes (doubtful, definitely not something that exists right now), the problems of microplastic pollution from tires and emissions from electricity generation are non-trivial.
The internet version of “the intelligence of the dumbest humans and the smartest bears overlaps significantly” trash can problem?