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CarbonScored, 5 days ago

It’s already been proven that piracy is a causal factor in more sales. Any self-interested dev should be promoting piracy of their game.

CarbonScored, 6 days ago (edited 4 hours ago)

Windows -> Fedora

Been almost 10 years and no thoughts of changing. What can I say? I lucked out first time.

CarbonScored, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

William Osman comes to my mind for this one. He used to do fun, cute projects, but slowly got increasingly “edgier” and clickbaity.

After he did a 10 minute dive on how he stalked, catfished, harassed, and doxxed (never mind fraudulently getting a signature on legal documents from) this guy for calling him a “loser”, I was just left thinking “what the fuck kind of ass are you now”.

CarbonScored, 2 months ago

Automated tests are cool, but they definitely aren’t a panacea in place of humans

CarbonScored, 2 months ago

Is mass killing children via deliberate targeting not just like… automatically evidence?

CarbonScored, 3 months ago

Honestly as a power user for 10 years I very, very rarely come across a time it’s a good idea to touch anything outside the home directory.

CarbonScored, 3 months ago

You mean the conflict that literally started with the people of Donetsk and Luhansk taking up arms against a government that was explicitly shutting down their language and implementing outright oppressive laws against their ethnicities?

CarbonScored, 4 months ago

To be honest, I think the internet is in desperate need of an alternative to the Chrome/Mozilla/Safari trio. Why can I can no longer get a browser that doesn’t shove ads in my face and/or track my every move?

I know this isn’t being designed as a browser for everyone. But I’m pleased to see making a web browser isn’t an un-enterable area yet.

CarbonScored, 5 months ago

Forward three hours, me using thesaurus.com to try fit the whole gist of my change into the first line.

CarbonScored, 6 months ago

TL;DR: It’ll use a new, more secure key type.

CarbonScored, 6 months ago

rat-salute

CarbonScored, 6 months ago

This is the argument every single election. Every time, for decades, and yet things get continually worse.

I’d argue the belief that voting for an establishment party is any kind of a long-term solution is the biggest threat. By all means do it if it’ll help a little in the short term, but the ship’s still sinking.

CarbonScored, 7 months ago

Super cool, thanks guys for your work. And the join page is another way for people to find Hexbear, which can only be good <3

CarbonScored, 7 months ago

And does anything require Python v2 anymore? I work almost exclusively in Python and haven’t run into that in many years.

CarbonScored, 7 months ago

Labourers sell their labour, but they effectively have bodily autonomy, they get to walk away if they want to. That’s largely not true for hired murderers.

CarbonScored, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura still remains my favourite to this day.

The world’s setting is centred around how capitalism and industry affects society, how it pushed aside feudalism, how racism remains endemic and easily seen as normal, how history is swept away to hide attitudes, all sorts of complex things. Early on in the story, you get involved with a strike by exploited half-orcs and the wealthy factory owner who would rather they all died. Thinking back, it was a big part of how young me started to realise industrial relations are fucked up in capitalism.

One moment (of the many cool things) that really hit me, is that there’s an entire sub-plot across the whole continent that’s never explicitly mentioned, but is entirely noticeable if you actually pay attention and listen, not to the quest-givers or the industrial leaders, but to the servants of the powerful men you meet. If you’re lucky, near the end, you suddenly realise you just… swept all these weird characters and remarks under the rug as you had ‘important’ people to talk to. I had relegated servants and whole in-game races to an ‘unimportant’ role, when actually their stories are key to a whole second sub-plot of their own that affects everything in the world.

I know a lot of that behaviour is because I’m playing to typical game design, but, I dunno, having a real moment where you think back and realise you’ve been ignoring what should have been an obvious pattern of so many exploited people, and I just glossed over it 'til that moment, it affected me.

CarbonScored, 7 months ago

It is a war crime as defined by the UN.

CarbonScored, 8 months ago

If I wasn’t a slave constantly in fear of malnourishment, illness, homelessness, police violence, jail and/or pain, I might not care so much.

CarbonScored, 8 months ago

The association of the internet with mass amounts CSAM or Terrorist information. It’s a line that governments have been pushing ever since the internet evolved from ‘weird invention’ to ‘vague sense of threat to the integrity of nationstates’.

Are these real problems that need addressing? Absolutely. Though on a much smaller scale than gets exclaimed. And rather than the priority being hunting down perpetrators, the effort almost exclusively goes into shutting down or bugging any server that law enforcement’s whim decides. The reality is that with end-to-end encryption, most “real” criminals on the internet will be entirely unaffected, while the created laws are instead mostly used for political censorship, the ‘war on drugs’, etc.

As a line, it’s pretty much used to justify every act of censorship, privacy invasion, and restriction on the internet that satisfies a government’s awful interests.

CarbonScored, 8 months ago

The only ‘charity’ billionaires ever give is money they would’ve had to lose anyway, and almost always exclusively to themselves. Said donation either funds political causes to directly benefit themselves, goes to an organisation who can then do whatever at the billionaire’s whim, directly advocates for their other business profits, pays them or their family/friends excessive amounts, and is all donated so as to pay no more than they would’ve in tax anyway.

CarbonScored, 9 months ago

Assuming people are using words in the way they are widely and commonly accepted to mean (I mean, just look at Wikipedia for an easy starting point) is not a bad thing?

CarbonScored, 9 months ago

The CEO of Brave literally supports Censorship so hard that he wants to censor gay marriage out of existence - this actually affects people in real life. When you use Brave, you directly support that individual and their shitty politics.