https://movim.eu/

It’s based on XMPP, which means it’s open-source, federated, and has E2EE in private chats. It also supports video calls, including in groups (which most other Discord alternatives have problems with).

Also, there’s no phone number or even email requirement to sign up. You can set a recovery email, but you can skip that step during setup. Just pick a server, username, and password

The main thing it’s missing right now is “places” aka what Discord calls servers/guilds. But they’re currently working to roll that feature out soon

What about USB?

Movim seems like a much better option, they just need a few weeks to get a couple of extra features out

Multiple millions

So you deplatformed a single pedo who claimed it was from ignorance, after you destroyed their audience? I don’t buy their story.

And I have met people with ASPD who had managed to learn a little of the skill of empathy. It was hard for them to do, but not impossible.

They can understand it intellectually, but they don’t feel the same feelings. There’s a trait in autism called “masking” where you just learn to emulate what non-neurodivergent people do.

Also note that I never claimed that sociopaths are guaranteed to be terrible people or even vice versa. Just that they are an example of people that are unable to feel empathy. A couple of people with Anti-Social Personality Disorder learning to mask doesn’t change tgeir condition.

There’s a lot wrong about this post.

First off, you take great pains to establish and reinforce the assertion that evil doesn’t exist, but is rather a construct created from ignorance. But then at the end you assert that ignorance is being spread by the bourgeois in an evil plot. You’re just following circular logic by this point.

Second, the assertion that all evil stems from ignorance of the harm of others is concerningly naïve. Many rapists don’t have trouble understanding what their victims experience. Quite the opposite - rape and abuse is often about taking power over others, and the knowledge of marking their victims so throroughly that they’re traumatized drives that.

Third, sociopaths exist. Sociopathy is a recognized mental condition with one of the defining characteristics being the inability to experience empathy. It doesn’t matter how long you spend teaching a sociopath about how much harm they might do, because they can’t care.

You were going in a good direction in the first half of the blog post, and I don’t necessarily disagree with your point that the ruling class wants to keep everyone else pacified. But the route you take to try to connect those two points just simply doesn’t work. The unfortunate truth of the world is that some people are just evil. I recommend you take some time to think on your philosophy more, because trying to insist that evil doesn’t exist potentially opens you up to becoming a victim in the future.

Why would experienced devs join a vibe-coded project that barely works to overhaul it? Most of the time it’d be quicker and easier to start a new project from scratch with the same goals but coded competently.

You’re bending over backwards just to come up with a plausible-sounding excuse for vibe-coding. But unfortunately, “plausible-sounding” isn’t the same as “plausible”.

Vibe coding might be “good enough” for a tiny private project for someone who doesn’t know how to code and isn’t interested in learning. But LLM’s aren’t good enough to build usable architectures.

And all publicly available human-created code was already trawled years ago, and the creation of more is slow. LLM’s can’t get significantly better at coding by just throwing more data into their training because there is no more data left that isn’t already in the training.

Tbh, that sounds way more complicated than it should be. Which isn’t surprising since the Discord’s UI/UX for streams is really unintuitive and touchy

but you can only view one stream at a time

Tbf, that’s no different from Discord from what I’ve seen

And how is it supposed to get less shit if it’s vibe coded? The programmer didn’t learn anything when making the initial build

It’s like the difference bewteen publicly-traded and privately-owned companies. Publicly-traded companies are guaranteed to enshittify due to fiduciary duty. Privately-owned companies could enshittify, but it’s not guaranteed.

A human programmer could be shit but at least they’re not guaranteed to be shit like the vibe coding AI

they could afford to bribe their way out.

No, they don’t make a cent of profit. They can borrow enough money to bribe their way out, though right now they’re having trouble finding more investors with how much money they’re flushing down the drain.

Lick more boots

How wonderfully devious

And the AI are demon souls, specifically aspects of gluttony

This is a complete daydream, but what if this gets Valve to file an antitrust case against OpenAI?

There’s less than 10 that require secure boot, and they’re all toxic moneygrab multiplayer shooters.

Compared to the 10’s of thousands of gamed on Steam that don’t require secure boot, that a far cry from “they all requure secure boot”.

But go ahead. Lick the boots harder

I’ve wishlisted the game on Steam, because fuck Microslop

The Lenovo and ASUS options are all more expensive than the Steam Deck and have been available for years.

Their draw are just various “gimmicks” like a 1080p screen and running Windows 11 stock for better compatibility with competitive shooters.

Why are people willing to deal with reduced battery life from a 1080p screen and a bloated OD? No idea. Why would anyone want to play a competitive shooter on a handheld? Also no idea. Why would anyone want to play with a bulkier handheld that has less battery life and less performance? Also also no idea.

Unfortunately a lot of gamers/consumers have… interesting priorities, hence why they buy these things.

They were supposedly able to take a loss on the original Steam Decks, at least the lower priced 64GB models.

They. Did. Not.

The only thing remotely suggesting that is GabeN saying the price point was “painful” in a single interview.

Valve has stated that the Steam Decl wasn’t sold at a loss. GabeN was likely referring to the profit margins being very low, which is not the same as selling at a loss

Why the hell can’t this myth just die already?