For the majority of people who didn’t yet have a BBS or internet connection (or a friend who would copy the shareware onto a floppy), they also sold a boxed version of the shareware version in stores for a low price, like 5 or 10 bucks I think.

I actually recently blasted through the first 3 chapters of The Telwynium by the same creator, and absolutely loved it (I’d say it was one of the best point’n’clicks I’d ever played, up there with Robin Hood from Sierra, which is the sole departure from them where the puzzles all make sense), so I’ll definitely be picking up the drifter at some point (and the steam release of the Telwynium which will have the 4th chapter).

I liked exploring it as a kid, but going back to it as an adult it kinda lost me with how gamey some of the puzzles were despite it trying to sell you on the idea that this is a lived in world. Like, who is going to design a door lock to correspond to some nearby whistling holes in the ground?

From what I’ve read, the sequel Rivan did a better job of making the puzzles feel more integrated into the world, but I only played that briefly as a kid and haven’t gotten around to trying it again.

The ‘Company’ in the list is apparently the publisher, not the developer. The Westwood Monopoly is indeed the one in the list, as it was published by Hasbro according to the wiki entry.

Yeah that’s very strange indeed, wonder what happened between them?

Unfortunately can be kinda risky, as a pixel that was originally purchased through a Verizon plan has a locked bootloader thst I’ve read Verizon doesn’t generally unlock even after they unlock the carrier restriction, making it impossible to install GrapheneOS on. For those that go the used route, make sure it was not a Verizon phone.

Ah, good find. I guess technically Mint isn’t totally FLOSS, but it does seem a bit odd for them to phrase it that way.

A ctrl+f search doesn’t show that phrase anywhere on that page?

Ahh, that explains it. Eternity was my preferred app as well, but the developer unfortunately abandoned it a year ago, and it hasn’t received an update since, making it incompatible with newer versions of Lemmy.

You may want to switch to a different app that’s actively developed. I personally switched to Summit since it has some of the best mod tools in an app, but there’s a lot of other good ones too, like Blorp or Voyager.

I purposefully made my example not function to demonstrate how it’s constructed. If done without the quotation marks, and the ::: spoiler is on its own line, it should work and show up in your app.

Here’s what it looks like before posting on my end:

You can read it here: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

To do a spoiler tag write “::: spoiler This Is My Spoiler Title” on its own line (don’t include the quotation marks)

Then put the text you want to hide below it, separated by white space (enter key pressed twice).

Then end the spoiler with another 3 colons, again separated by white space.

:::

And it should work :)

Whether or not a poster considers themselves racist is irrelevant from the perspective of the moderator. Their job is to keep racist material from being submitted to their communities, and if someone is unwilling to adjust their perception of that content even if the community tries to inform them why it’s not welcome to post it here, that is the user’s problem, not the moderator. If they get a perma ban from that community, they still can post elsewhere with the knowledge that that type of content isn’t popular here and choose whether or not to keep posting it.

If they still refuse to reevaluate that type of content, keep getting reports on their content, and an admin instance bans them, then at worst they’ll have to make a new account on a different instance. throughout all of those steps the user has the opportunity to try to understand on their end why their posts are getting this negative reaction. If they decide that everyone else is wrong and continue posting things that are perceived as racist, then that’s on them. 🤷

Yes, the Zuckerberg thing was racist, but it’s also what I’d consider an example of some of the tamest and most common racist jokes. It’s very common to hear from people of all skin tones, and before the last 10 years or so it was extremely common. Most people I know would just roll their eyes at it

Doing apologia for racist material, and wanting moderators to go real easy on people who post it is an odd stance to take, and not one I agree with.

The user was temp banned for racist material, complains about it being called racist, other users explain why it’s racist, and they dismiss their explanations entirely. If they are not willing to acknowledge that it’s racist, they’re likely to post more racist things that they think isn’t racist. From a moderator’s perspective, that’s not someone you want in your community, as your users don’t want racist stuff showing up their feed.

The user was shown why their stuff was racist, it’s now on them to learn from that experience, or not. If they don’t, they’re going to keep getting banned if they keep posting that content. It’s not terribly relevant to a moderator that a particular user is incapable of understanding their content is racist even ever being informed of it.

Notice that the user who received the temp ban went on to complain about it, and even after other users explained why the memes were racist (including the zuckerberg post that you also agree is racist), the user dismisses the racism entirely and just says “not arguing everyone has to like the memes.” They are showing zero ability for self-reflection and refuse to acknowledge the memes were racist.

I still would’ve given a permaban based on the evidence at hand, were it my community. You can disagree with that and give them more and more chances, but posting one blatant racist meme which is indisputably racist (even you agree), shows that we’re not working with some innocent lamb who just isn’t keeping up with modern dog-whistles.

If someone had only posted the LOTR meme without that previous history, then I would give benefit of the doubt, and just remove it and explain why.

Their previous history of racist posting was pretty clearly taken into account, it wasn’t some random LOTR fan who happened to get misconstrued.

You may want to look up racist dogwhistles, and how they are used. Equating migrants to an invasion horde is a common racist dog whistle and fearmongering tactic.

It truly is, and learning that virtually every DE is also using it was a wake-up call for me of how deeply this has infiltrated FLOSS projects (I would’ve assumed they would be less apt to jump on the band-wagon, especially after the environmental and ethical concerns became apparent, but… Most don’t seem to care too much, if at all about that).

Especially disheartening that the kernel is turning such a blind eye to all this and ignoring you. They seem to be setting an example for other FLOSS projects to follow. I feel like it’ll continue until some of them get slapped with serious infringement cases, then maybe that’ll cause at least some to take action against LLMs.

Strange, how is it that you can see the posts that were deleted?

I assume I can still access them due to being an instance admin, that’s how I know what they were.

What’s racist about that?

I explained how that imagery is used by racists, and the previous racist meme is a good indicator it was posted with racist intent.

Notice that there’s 2 posts that were removed for racism. The other one was posted 15 days prior, and was an image of a black mark zuckerburg with a comment below it implying that that was the version who steals data, which is clearly a racist post. The moderator who removed it added the comment “Next racist post gets a perma-ban”.

The post with the Cueta post that got them banned had the post title of ‘Cueta right now’, but was an image of an invasion from Lord of The Rings, equating the Cueta migrants as essentially a ‘barbarian horde’, which has traditionally been used by right-wing media as a racist scare tactic to make their viewers see non-white migrants as evil hordes who are ‘invading’ their country.

Both memes were clearly very racist, but despite that, they only received a temporary 1-week ban (I would’ve given a permanent ban for such blatant racism, myself).

An update on the different DE’s stance on AI:

• LXQt won’t ban AI, and will allow code contributions.
• MATE’s Contributing.md on github explicitly allows AI contributions that are marked as AI.
• Budgie has Claude submissions right in their github.
• KDE’s team is divided somewhat, but ultimately accept AI code.
• Gnome allows AI code on most of their projects.

That leaves Cinnamon and Cosmic, both of which are currently unknown on their stance. If they turn out to both be pro-AI, that would mean most major DE’s are pro-AI, leaving us with the Window Managers to investigate like i3, Qtile, etc.

Edit: I see Qtile has claude contributions already so… Egh…

Edit 2: Cosmic accepts LLM contributions.

Not looking good. At this point I’m guessing Cinnamon will as well.