Honestly when this kind of activity is becoming mainstream it means more people are aware of how fucked it is, which is arguably a good thing that people are waking up to the disaster of modern surveillance capitalism.

And yet old people claim autistic people didn’t exist when they were growing up.

I would suspect the market slowdown in VR purchases might be pushing some publishers to spend less money on it than when the Oculus Rift and Valve Index were fresh and new. Meta’s relative dominance of the arena and it’s tightly closed systems are also impacted by people who don’t want to give money to Meta. If the Steam Frame is successful, we might see a turnaround on that, but currently I think the VR market has been stagnating a little under Meta’s dominance. Zuckerberg abandoning the Metaverse entirely also is evidence of a market that exists but isn’t large enough for most publishers to justify the extra costs to include VR support when they won’t sell enough copies to offset those costs.

lmao God I can feel the frustration rising in me just thinking about it. I know these are digital rather than physical objects… but do these people fail to have object permanence?

Definitely, but sadly it’s his lawyers job to argue things like this to protect their client. It also means a jury has to buy it, which they probably won’t if this is actually allowed to be used as evidence.

I would hope publicly crippling them would be enough, but I’d rather they get actual justice.

Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…

Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”

There’s also just something beautifully melancholy about it all, on top of the dark themes under a candy coating.

In my dreams Flapjack, K’nuckles, and Bubbie retire on Candy Island. A man can always dream.

I felt disappointed a week ago when I made a Flapjack reference that seemed like very few people got. I absolutely love the horror/disgust screams during the gross-up-close-ups.

This represents my Captain K’nuckles Squad Goals.

Just to be clear, pirates are gonna do their thing. We were all kids once. Money and the economy is very hard. I get it," wrote the designer. "It wasn’t the piracy that bothered me. It was the people that flagrantly walked in here and wagged it in the faces of people who were waiting to play legitimately. That was the part that aggravated me. That and the Reddit responses that keep talking like i’m a millionaire. I’m very much [not]. I don’t own a home. I rent.

Sounds like a valid response to me. I got into piracy partially because of lack of money and partially because back in the day, I understood how badly record companies were ripping artists off and then using that money to sue their fans. Video games have always been a different beast, just like movies. They often employ so many people at so many levels that it’s not so easy to just say “If you want to make sure they get their cut just go buy it on Bandcamp Friday” in comparison to musicians. (back in the day we also bought merch and concert tickets to support artists, just less of that money makes it to them these days)

I often use piracy to be able to test out a game without risking spending money on something I end up hating, and giving myself enough time to decide that. I actually played Baldurs Gate 3 twice before I was able to afford buying it at full price shortly after release, but it was well worth it to buy an official copy even though I had already played it a bunch. I still played it even more after buying it. Well worth the full-price game.

If you’re going into it with an attitude of that all game devs are rich and that they’re somehow ripping off their fans and so you can feel justified in pirating and taunting them for it, fuck me, grow up.

Oh I was well aware at the time, but I had a lot of friends who still struggled with trying to use Matrix/Element so at the time I was seeking a simpler solution for them.

Further, a society that ends up relying on the work of vigilantes usually only happens in societies where the justice system is failing to do it’s job and people feel the need to become vigilantes to exact justice. Yet obviously what these groups do is not justice, although it may seem cathartic and akin to justice to people who think that hurting people who hurt others back is the only solution to anything at all.

It speaks ill about where our society stands and it fits in with the wider theme of conservatism wanting to dismantle modern society and make it fail to function so people stop relying on it. To them, the failure of the justice system and people turning to mob violence is part of the goal to keep citizens fighting among themselves instead of their masters.

These things really can destroy cases as a lot of stuff suddenly becomes inadmissible in court because it wasn’t presented through proper channels and jurists may be requested to ignore it entirely. At least this is how it can work in the USA in a lot of cases.

Further, depending on the circumstances of how the initial connection to the pedophile in question was made, it can be potentially considered a type of entrapment, as it may be able to be argued that if this person did not present themselves as a willing child to begin with that they may have never attempted to pursue such a crime.

The fact that they’re backed by right wing politicians kind of says everything: They’re way more concerned with looking like they’re doing something about the social issue of pedophiles while actually not doing very much at all. There’s also a suspiciously high number of people in these “catch a pedophile” groups who end up being convicted of some sort of pedophilia themselves, as though they’re projecting their own disgust with themselves and/or they think people won’t suspect them of it as long as they’re busy busting others for it. The conservative right wing only cares about appearances, not real solutions, while allowing the Epstein class to continue trafficking, raping, and killing children.

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This is why corporate promises can never be trusted, because a new CEO can change those promises on a whim.

It’s part of why despite being interested in Beeper, I never signed up for it because I had questions about if those privacy promises they made would be kept if they sold to a bigger company… which they eventually did.

On the plus side Bitwarden already made an official open source self-hosted version, which can be forked and/or return to the community developed Vaultwarden roots.

Meanwhile KeepassXC keeps on chugging along.

They will burn down the planet in an effort to replace us by telling themselves climate change won’t matter as long as they kill like 7.5 billion people in the process.

Danger, danger, high voltage
When we touch, when we kiss

I’m shocked, shocked.

Well, not that shocked.

'Member when all the liberals were glazing the New York Times simply because Trump called it “the failing New York Times” so they felt the need to get subscriptions to help the newspaper *checks notes… prioritize conservative voices and pave the way for a second Trump presidency.

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