urist

urist, 9 months ago

I used to be a reddit lurker. I would go into a thread for a post and look for the thing I would have posted, and upvote it.

I can’t do this on Lemmy, I actually have to write stuff now I guess, otherwise it doesn’t show up. I don’t like it.

Feels weird man.

urist, 9 months ago

I can see it (I am using Liftoff for iOS).

Cute lil thief

urist, 9 months ago

I completely agree with this take. These developers, if they don’t like Google’s hybrid work policies can just change jobs?

Like, I’m happy for developers who can figure out how to work from home, and it sucks when their job changes so they can no longer do that. I hope they can fight for their rights so they can continue to work from home.

But let’s be realistic: It’s a hotel that is optional to stay at for $99 a night. This isn’t at all like company script, and I’d much rather be the developer being asked to return to their office job than the housekeeper employed at Hotel Google figuring out how to pay rent in California. I’m not sure that people realize this but hotels take a lot of staff (housekeepers, front desk, laundry workers for sheets/towels). II’d hope that Google is paying them fair wages, but if I had a bet, they’ve contracted a hospitality company for this. Those workers are probably underpaid.

This kind of feels like what-a-bout-ism, but techy spaces like this seem laser-focused on what are basically white-collar worker problems. Comparing charging for a hotel to working in a coal mine for script is deeply out of touch.

urist, 9 months ago

In the US, you are innocent until proven guilty. Civil asset forfeiture runs against this idea. The burden should be on the government to prove this stuff is ill-gotten gains, anything else is unamerican.

urist, 9 months ago

I can’t speak for everyone but, no actually. I think a lot of us just left and took our content with us (comment deletion). I couldn’t care less if people are creating bots or being trolls to “destroy reddit”, but no, I’m guessing that most of us aren’t going out of our way to pollute communities that we no longer enjoy.

Sounds pretty toxic honestly.

Though, I don’t agree with this pre-emptive federation. Seems premature.

urist, 9 months ago

Why isn’t anyone talking about how much this link is exaggerating all of it’s points? Did anyone read it? Disclaimer: I use steam and I take the good with the bad.

It collects your address, CC info, name etc – It’s an online store. You give it this info to purchase things. It’s quite clear why this is happening. Don’t like it? Don’t shop online. Actually, don’t use a credit/debit card at all because they are certainly recording your spending habits and selling that data.

t was proven that Steam’s VAC system records your internet history and uploads it to an official Valve server – This claim is from a Reddit thread. These redditors reverse engineered some VAC stuff (anticheat for some games like Counterstrike) and found that Steam was (and may no longer be) hashing visited URLS. These hashes were checked locally (within the software, not over the internet) against a list of known hashes for URLS for cheat software. If positive, these hashes were sent over the internet to valve, and could be used for evidence to ban cheaters. This is bad! It is recording user’s internet habits without their knowledge or consent. HOWEVER, it is a total exaggeration to claim Valve is just recording all your internet history and sending it to a server somewhere. Could they do it? This is a risk for closed-sourced software but this isn’t what was happening.

Steam records and publicly broadcasts your program usage habits – Steam does track your program use habits and this is bad! Every console does this now, though, unless you decide to not connect it to the internet. But this site also claims it does it publicly and this is an exaggeration: You are anonymous on steam to the “public” unless you de-anonymize yourself, and you can turn off your “public” broadcast of game play in the settings. The author seems to think steam is a social media network: It only is if you use it that way. It doesn’t recommend friends to you or send you news articles or whatever.

Steam attempts to collect your telephone number – Account theft is a problem on steam. The phone number thing is a way they can implement two-factor for people allergic to learning how to secure their accounts (some people on steam are also children, I must point out). This makes their platform harder for scammers to use. I use their phone app for two-factor authentication, I don’t know if they accept other 3rd party authenticators.

Steam requires an internet connection etc It’s an online storefront program??? You knew what you were getting into when you downloaded it. I don’t like how it needs to be constantly connected, this is bad, true.

Steam is self-updating software – It’s DRM yes, true. It’s annoying, sure.

Yes, I totally get it, I could live in the woods, just use cash to purchase everything and only play unpatched games on offline consoles I don’t connect to the internet. Don’t all AAA games come with some form of DRM these days? Does the person who wrote this article also avoid streaming services and digital cable because it also records your entertainment habits? Do you, @zer0? Are you addicted to streaming services and debit cards?

Anyway, this is a ridiculous burden for the consumer to avoid all this. That’s my point. If you’d like this to change, it needs legislation to restrict what corporations do with our data, not SCARY CAPS LOCK IN RED TEXT.

urist, 9 months ago

I don’t need to do this. I already gave it to Steam, why don’t you write an email and get it from them?

urist, 9 months ago

Why did they do my boy \mathds{X} like that?

Now nobody will use him for an algebraic ring :(

urist, 10 months ago

Hi, I’m on that instance.

The admin wrote that message to us, the people actually on the instance. She wrote it so we could be informed about the content we could view on her instance. Your instance is federated with ours so that’s why you saw the post. There is no way to make a post viewable only to the local instance so it has been spread (because it seems like drama).

You will still be able to view lemmynsfw so this does not effect you. Especially since blahaj is an “unimportant” instance. You’ll be totally unaffected by it.

urist, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Yeah I can’t say I disagree with Ada’s sentiment.

Everyone deserves to be loved even if they are an adult who has a baby face. I’m not interested in associating with people who think this content needs to be collected/curated because the involved people appear underaged.

To give some context, I am an adult women who appears younger than I am, and when I have had my body compared to a child’s body in a sexual way… well frankly, saying it was unwanted is an understatement. I just don’t buy any of these excuses lemmynsfw is giving. (Edit: I’m not trying to imply images are showing up on lemmynsfw without their owner’s concent. I just don’t want to be around a community that curates them because they look too young)

urist, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I get the feeling there’s going to be a lot of comments here from people who disagree.

This is not your instance. This is not even my instance, I am just signed up here (and thank you Ada, I like it here and I approve of this decision. CSAM-like porn is icky). There is no need to focus on the morality of sharing porn that ends up being viewed as CSAM. Hosting porn involves legal risk, and federating with an instance that has porn on it means that eventually you will host porn images. If you have your account here and you don’t like this choice, consider moving instances or hosting your own.

Not only that, does anyone remember /r/jailbait on reddit? They did not do anything about that subreddit because the images were “legal”, but the userbase they attracted began sharing real CSAM in the DMs. To be clear: I don’t know what community we’re talking about (lemmynsfw does not appear to have a jailbait community, I did not look hard) but you do not want the sort of people around that this attracts.

edit: remove unintentional link

urist, 10 months ago

I totally forgot about this. It’s so sad that you’re right. Sharing stuff in DMs was probably just the justification they needed to ban them without conflict (and oh my god, there was still so much drama.)

urist, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

This was my workplace. Not a breakroom, this pinboard was previously for job-related information. I took this image after we reopened because I found it dystopic, and I have posted it now because I think no one will remember.

My workplace:

Re-opened only months after being forced to close

Is not an essential industry

Frequently crowded, not retail. Think entertainment.

Low-paid workers forced to return before it was truly safe and before vaccines were available

Low-paid workers were drawing unemployment. Most made more on unemployment due to federal support

Low-paid workers would lose unemployment if they refused to return to their job.

edit: formatting

Edit 2: the emoji poster existed before COVID and above it was boring job stuff. When the outdated job stuff was removed, the poster survived. The pinboard has job stuff on it again and the poster remains. It is eternal.

urist, 10 months ago

I tried googling it and I’m still not sure