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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I was a Teenage Exocolonist This is effectively a stat raising card game with a focus on story and with exploration elements. The name helds the important elements of the setting. The atmosphere...

    I was a Teenage Exocolonist

    This is effectively a stat raising card game with a focus on story and with exploration elements.

    The name helds the important elements of the setting. The atmosphere is hopeful yet grim sometimes and the artwork can be cute.

    It is meant to be played multiple times and the first playthrough will be grim. The subsequent ones then can vary in tone.

    It is casual and nonjudgemental in how it views gender, relationships or society.

    There is far too much grinding. Especially if you want to play optimally and more so with multiple playthroughs.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Chat control 1.0 passes even though majority actually voted against in todays vote in ~society

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    My understanding was that the measure actually passed on Tuesday and this was simply a vote that could overturn it with absolute majority. If the results two days ago were the same as today it...

    My understanding was that the measure actually passed on Tuesday and this was simply a vote that could overturn it with absolute majority.

    If the results two days ago were the same as today it would not pass, but today it was not enough to overturn it.

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Chat control passed, on Thursday only an absolute majority can stop it in ~society

  5. Comment on The end of reading is here in ~books

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    It is still possible to be intentional about not consuming it. In the case it is absolutely needed for some reason only accessing it from desktop is also possible. I don't think I would last long...

    and social media is a far different beast than prior inventions, since it's always in our pocket and we can't be intentional about consuming it (it's just always there)

    It is still possible to be intentional about not consuming it. In the case it is absolutely needed for some reason only accessing it from desktop is also possible.

    I don't think I would last long about consuming digital crack intentionaly so I avoid it instead.

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows in ~tv

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    They seem to have fully embraced metrics driven short term goals and are optimizing their shows and how they surface them as such. Funny thing about metrics is that they never tell the full...

    They seem to have fully embraced metrics driven short term goals and are optimizing their shows and how they surface them as such.

    Funny thing about metrics is that they never tell the full picture, or at least the highly compressed narrow numbers won't.

    They have gained a reputation for cancelling shows and instead of having ever growing catalog that someone could come back to they have unsatisfaing productions left hanging on cliffhangers.

    The few times I've been subscribed to them in the past few years it was also strikingly empty.

    Par down the shows in which I have no interest in due to their themes or genre, then bungled up shows that are either unfinished or low quality and there are maybe low double digits number of series. A lot of them I've already seen and trying to find anything in their awful interface is a chore so now I am heavily disincentivized finding anything new when I am subscribed to them.

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Why does WhatsApp drain so much phone battery? in ~tech

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    Seems pretty logical for them. It's so much easier to lock basic QoL functions behind paywall then to provide added value someone would want to pay for. And without paywalling enough to threaten...

    You have to pay to be able to pin more than three chats!

    Seems pretty logical for them.

    It's so much easier to lock basic QoL functions behind paywall then to provide added value someone would want to pay for. And without paywalling enough to threaten their network effect.

  8. Comment on Chat control passed, on Thursday only an absolute majority can stop it in ~society

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    Technically it's not done yet but sixty more MEPs would have to vote against than today. It was a narrow vote but still thirty more voted for it. You have to have general engagement for democracy....

    Technically it's not done yet but sixty more MEPs would have to vote against than today. It was a narrow vote but still thirty more voted for it.

    You have to have general engagement for democracy. Instead in general elections 60% of eligible voters is considered a large turnout. That will include an unknown number of people who are voting on low information or vibes.

    Then we have the general apathy about everything that is not here, now and directly affecting the person.

    If someone here recognizes me it is likely either due to Chat control topics or various rants against apathy and incuriosity. They were always for technology but that is the vehicle that is making this possible.

    It is a process going on for decades now.

    20 votes

  10. Comment on Nations previously opposed voted for Chat control, next vote July 6th in ~society

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    https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/procedural-trick-before-summer-recess-pushes-eu-parliament-towards-capitulation-on-chat-control/ A more informative article. The vote is also Tuesday, not today....

    https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/procedural-trick-before-summer-recess-pushes-eu-parliament-towards-capitulation-on-chat-control/

    A more informative article. The vote is also Tuesday, not today.

    I've said it a few times already. Usually purely in the context of technology but the principle remains. If you do not care someone will be very happy to care instead.

    10 votes

  11. Comment on Nations previously opposed voted for Chat control, next vote July 6th in ~society

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    I am not sure what is there to say at this point. They will obviously keep trying. The news coverage is nonexistant and the average citizen does not seem to comprehend the implications of mass...

    I am not sure what is there to say at this point. They will obviously keep trying.

    The news coverage is nonexistant and the average citizen does not seem to comprehend the implications of mass indiscriminate scanning of private messages.

    22 votes

  12. Comment on Nations previously opposed voted for Chat control, next vote July 6th in ~society

  14. Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles in ~games

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    In the end the contract of those affected was with Sony. The company should forsee these kinds of problems and structure their contracts to prevent these issues. Failing that they should take...

    In the end the contract of those affected was with Sony. The company should forsee these kinds of problems and structure their contracts to prevent these issues. Failing that they should take responsibility and offer full refunds to those affected.

    The users bought the movies and the details of agreements between Sony and Studio Canal are irrelevant. And while in the TOS somewhere is that the license can be revoked for any reason the wording at purchase and the lopsided positions of the parties should mean that terms such as these are unenforceable. At least in society that respected consumer rights.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Papa Johns can predict when your fridge is empty in ~tech

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    The techniques used are many and they are by now extremely sophisticated. I won't say I actually understand what they are all doing but the essence is very simple to comprehend. Someone is...

    The techniques used are many and they are by now extremely sophisticated. I won't say I actually understand what they are all doing but the essence is very simple to comprehend.

    Someone is observing what someone does and uses that to take advantage to them.

    Maybe there is some disconnect in digital and physical privacy in the minds of most people so we are where we are. In reality the difference is for most intents and purposes negligible.

    7 votes

  16. Comment on Papa Johns can predict when your fridge is empty in ~tech

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    So basically they are using grocery shopping data to help target consumers when they would be susceptible to an ad for pizza. Presumably the grocery service has collection of data buried somewhere...

    So basically they are using grocery shopping data to help target consumers when they would be susceptible to an ad for pizza.

    Presumably the grocery service has collection of data buried somewhere in TOS that no one reads and cannot reasonably be expected to read.

    It's not too surprising, your data can and will be used against you. It seems a lot of people simply do not understand what can be done with granular knowledge of their activities and how much it will end them costing them

    It would be nice if businesses competed on quality of products instead of who can exploit psychological flaws better.

    17 votes

  17. Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech

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    They should care, I have said it here a few times already with the replies usually mentioning real life concerns keeping people occupied. Tech is real life concern and a large one at that. Whether...

    They should care, I have said it here a few times already with the replies usually mentioning real life concerns keeping people occupied.

    Tech is real life concern and a large one at that. Whether someone likes it or not. Personally I actually don't.

    Ignoring it means being defenseless, nothing more. Various laws being debated right now could not pass if even a significant minority of people were trivially tech savy.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on AI adoption and IntelliSense in ~tech

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    I don't know what a generalized answer would be but personally I either do these things myself or use the LLM to give me the code to do it which I then debug and understand anyway. To just use it...

    I don't know what a generalized answer would be but personally I either do these things myself or use the LLM to give me the code to do it which I then debug and understand anyway. To just use it as is would be good way to create long term problems for myself.

    I tried to use LLMs for data transformations a few times but in the end it is easier and more accurate and better able to iterate on without using a giant text predictor black box.

    Unless it is a trivial and trivially verifiable one off of ten data points or less.

  19. Comment on Too Much Media in ~movies

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    The problem for me is that the few movies or series that I would want to watch are either unavailable or on different streaming services. I'd rather just pay for high quality DRM free file(or by...

    The problem for me is that the few movies or series that I would want to watch are either unavailable or on different streaming services.

    I'd rather just pay for high quality DRM free file(or by this time at least just a license to watch them indefinitely on a clean platform I could have at least a shred of trust won't yank them without refunds at some point). but apparently that is not legally available unless I'd want to hunt down the shrinking supply of physical discs and rip them myself.

    Add to that the awful experience on basically every platform. From horrible discoverability to artificialy limiting video quality I already paid for to terrible UX. I only bother on average a month per streaming service per several years.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech

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    It's another in a line of user hostile moves but I don't think it likely it will negatively affect reddit. I know I effectively stoped being active there and that is likely the case for other...

    It's another in a line of user hostile moves but I don't think it likely it will negatively affect reddit. I know I effectively stoped being active there and that is likely the case for other logged out old lurkers. The few mods and high effort posters left will be logged in anyway.

    I miss the days where websites and apps were made to be usable and not a digital equivalent to crack meant to extract any scrap of value from the user they possibly can.

    The old interface is actually pretty bad but the new one is deliberately not usable.

    Are there even any remotely sane, sort of big alternatives left? Tildes is nice but doesn't have enough users for a lot of niche topics.

    Edit: I feel that every change to any mainstream site or sw nowadays is negative one. I don't recall a time anymore where update made things better instead of worse except for niche sites and sw

    21 votes