The difference is that if a TOS needs to be changed to support shitty behavior, it changes. That is often a canary in the coal mine as it were and people STILL cite google removing “Do no evil” and so forth. Same with the Unity debacle where a few people noticed things had been rewritten… and nobody listened until it became a massive kerfluffle.

Because yes. Admins can do (and see) whatever they want. Welcome to message boards. And I do think having a written TOS is a good step forward (even if this TOS is probably objectively bad for a lot of reasons). It provides a contract of sorts.

But also: I would very much say that NOT providing provisions for discrimination based on ethnicity/sexuality/gender/religion/whatever is a pretty big red flag almost to the level of “I don’t see color”. Because yes, it is not in and of itself support for bigotry (even if many will view it as such). It is an indication of not understanding the problems that others are facing and not realizing how important it is to call that out.

Like, there is a reason that “Wheaton’s Rule” is not actually something you can run a community on. And this has been demonstrated time and time again over the decades.

A lot of it boils down to the idea behind what a translation actually means.

One school of thought is that you do word for word translations. So you get very strange sentence structures and direct translations of idioms. Think the idea of (apologies to the French, it has been over a decade since I tried to write or speak any of it) “Il est drole” being translated to “He is to be funny” rather than “He is funny”.

The other school of thought is that you care about the meaning of the text and not the word for word translation. So that involves a LOT of updating/adapting idioms but also names. Among the weeb crowd, people lose their god damned minds any time a character has their name changed. But you get into a mess where “Hikari” is not meant to be an “exotic” name and is really being used closer to “Fred”.

I remember way back in high school we specifically read a version of Beowulf to demonstrate this. It involved the “original” Old English, a direct translation that is somehow even harder to parse, and then a version written in modern english.

And that is the basic idea. It doesn’t matter if Basic is English, Chinese, Russian, or (most likely) a hybrid of them all: What matters is that the reader/viewer understands what is going on and can appreciate the references.

Another example that usually comes up is how the movie A Knight’s Tale is one of the most “historically accurate” adaptations ever. Because yes, we have crowds of peasants singing Queen songs and Nike swishes on armor. But… that is a lot closer to what tournaments and jousting were than people playing equally inaccurate classical music. And I’ve made similar arguments for the god awful Romeo+Juliet where Luigi and Leo wield “sword 9mm” pistols.

It doesn’t actually make sense given the setting.

The Belters were subjugated, but not isolated. This is shown with a lot of the “security forces” largely being Earth/Mars based but also just general trade. Much like with the very large physiological differences (mostly in the books and season 1 of the show), ~100 years (since the Epstein Drive was invented 129 years before the protomolecule and it looks like Ganymede largely required it to be “colonized”) just isn’t really enough for that kind of divergence.

The “oriental fetishism” of Firefly/Serenity is a lot more likely with mostly being a hybrid of different languages based on who the original colonists were… and that was a much larger period of time with even more isolation which is just funny.

Also, this ignores regular communication and media sharing between The Belt and The Inner Planets. Like, there have been some interesting studies that point out how pervasive “california english” is becoming because of “hollywood” (which films everything in Toronto). So even the Belters who more or less live in a mine their entire life would likely still watch documentaries from Oliver Queen’s baby mama and whoever Mars’s equivalent of Kim Kardashian is.

Pretty much. Writing vague nonsense without even using vetted examples as a basis. And then spending more time trolling people than addressing concerns. And this follows on mysteriously wiping out entire mod teams because of a decision that a dark grey area is “illegal” (rather than just “a good way to get sued”) while actively not addressing the mods openly discussion said wipings. Or the flip flopping on whether to allow the piracy communities because apparently cranky users beat potential indentured servitude to nintendo.

Gonna be honest. I did not expect to re-live the 00s message board cycle in 2023. And probably need to start looking for a new home instance since we can already see the chuds coming out of the woodwork because they feel empowered.

… just in case we really ARE back in the 00s. Cliffy B. Cliffy B. Cliffy B.

“Just trust me bro” is never a good model.

Because maybe the current admins are all great people who will do right. But we don’t know if all future admins will be. And if we get a “rules lawyer” coming down on a complaint that some community is being horrifically racist as “Well, it isn’t against the rules…”

But also? The world is an increasingly shitty place. Twitter is run by a straight up white supremacist. Having this kind of verbiage goes a long way toward indicating if a place can even possibly be a “safe space” as it were.

But also: If the idea is that we should just trust the admins: Why have any rules at all?

Do you have a link to the EU requiring consent to detect ad blocking?

Most of what I can find is from the late 2010s but specifically says that consent is not required for adblock detection. https://adguard.com/en/blog/eu-defines-its-stance-on-ad-blockers.html

https://iabeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20160516-IABEU_Guidance_AdBlockerDetection.pdf

But also: I assume consent can be obtained with a mandatory TOS update.

Looked at that. Seems like it would have worked back back when ?single=1 didn’t break all images. But since the guides are broken up into multiple pages, the automated scraping tends to lose its mind because it will try to get the entire site. Rather than a subset of pages.

Thanks though

A few years back, CBS sold CNET (CNET, Gamespot, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, and probably one or two others) to Red Ventures who then sold basically everything but CNET proper to Fandom. If people aren’t aware of what Fandom is, just go to basically any video game wiki and see how many pop ups you need to close just to see some misinformation.

Anywho, Fandom have a decent record of killing every property they buy in the interest of monetization. And they can do that because they buy EVERYTHING. And as of a few days ago, one of the long standing admins at GameFAQs announced they were stepping down. Which… suggests Fandom realized they own GameFAQs and are likely about to start gutting it to add as many ads and autoplay twitch pages as possible.

This predates the pandemic.

I have been on both sides of things. I have had to deal with the literally hundreds of applicants that are completely fake CVs or so underqualified that I would be better off grabbing a random kid at a high school job fair.

And the reality is that if I have had to sift through hundreds of bullshit CVs, I am not going to be giving anyone “a chance”. Unless you specifically meet every single requirement AND look amazing on paper, you are in the bin because I already wasted hours of my life doing due diligence on the assholes.

I hate everything about workaday. I hate that it incorrectly parses my CV in new and exciting ways every time AND means I need a new account for every company, if not every opening. But I also understand what happens if you ACTUALLY make it as simple as filling out a template once.

And while the article is complete bullshit (gotta love the mysterious loophole of OPT as though it is some secret…), I do agree with the outcome. If you are a “skilled” worker going into a comparatively niche field, favor the openings that aren’t using workaday. My best interviews have been from using the automated linkedin application system that basically just sends an email. Hell, that is where my current job is from. But that is also because these were jobs in specific subsets of fields and not entry level positions or openings at Google.

If you’re applying, you probably want the job

In the sense that you would like a paycheck? Sure

In the sense that you are remotely qualified for the position or meet any of the requirements? Not necessarily. And I don’t mean “This entry level position needs twenty years of experience”. I mean “Understands that python is a language”

And a lot of those obnoxious timeouts and headaches are related to minimizing the “just apply for everything” impact on an applicant pool.

Honestly? This is actually a “smart” move… given the current husk that twitter is.

The Man Who Used An Emerald Mine To Finance His Hairplugs has made it pretty clear that the goal is to make twitter an Everything site and that people should trust them as an online bank. And the users have made it clear that you can have a frontpage that is nothing but animal abuse, misinformation, and musk posts (kind of redundant but…) and people will still stick around because a celebrity posted a meme.

So get people to pay “less than nothing” to get their payment info into the system to pre-seed future efforts and “offerings”. More or less the same with every instagram account becoming a threads account.

I don’t think this will make more money than the ad revenue back when twitter was a functional site (and that was already not enough) but… companies don’t want to pump ad money into a site that will post their brand next to a neo-nazi talking about how the latest school shooting was a false flag operation.

Not really, actually.

At an intentionally vague high level: The main components of a firearm are:

1. The frame
2. Levers/internal bits
3. The barrel
4. Metal springs and wires to connect the internal bits and make semi/full automatic fire possible
5. The firing pin

1 and 2 are 100% able to be made with plastic. And that is increasingly becoming a selling point for a lot of firearms because of “weight”

4 is trivial to pick up at any hardware store and isn’t even conspicuous.

Which leaves 3 and 5. Plastic/polymer barrels are not an issue for small caliber ammunition (e.g. pistol rounds). You just don’t want to use dirt cheap PLA for that. And probably futz with the infill settings a bit.

The firing pin: Most engineering analyses I have seen say that is the one part that needs to be “real” (and, thus, is a traceable purchase). But I’ve seen a few resources tiptoe around how this could be easily improvised from stuff you buy at the local hardware store. And if I cared enough to check The Dark Web, I am certain I could find step by step instructions on how to do exactly that.

And there are youtubers like Emily the Engineer who have made it a point to show how ridiculously strong 3d printed stuff is. She doesn’t do firearms (mostly because it would get her demonetized…) but 3d printed machetes, lawnmower blades, jacks for pick up trucks, etc are pretty trivial. And I would be pretty shocked if someone who was had a particularly well configured printer and some of the good plastic couldn’t make a (mostly, if not entirely) polymer firing pin (I actually have no idea how modern ammunition works. I THINK it is just compression of the charge which means no metal needed. But if you still need a spark of some form, that is a metal tip instead of a metal pin).

I haven’t gotten around to trying Streets yet (lately I just do a few factory runs and that is it), but that map is already pushing the “limits” of Tarkov’s use of Unity and is still new and prone to performance issues. So not surprised there would be problems with sptarkov.

I’ll just add on that BSG are a horrible example when it comes to delivering on “promises” and plans.

If memory serves, the official plan is still to do a steam release when EFT is “out of beta”. But they realized they make a LOT more money if they control the whole store so… Which is likely why they moved away from Steam Audio, continue to use their grossly incompetent anti-cheat solution, etc. Nikita et al will “heavily imply” they are doing stuff and then just ignore it because people keep buying top tier accounts so they can have maximum storage and so forth.

Also: SP Tarkov works REALLY well under Proton. Something about the new gui for the spt-installer needs more dependencies to work again, but the actual game runs great if you can be bothered to manually patch it.

I would recommend watching a few videos/documentaries on “Ghost Guns”. Vice had a really good one, if memory serves.

It isn’t JUST “hit print, rack the slide, bust a cap”. But with a properly calibrated printer and filament other than cheap PLA, it is real close. Download the STLs, start the build, and then head to the local hardware store for a few small springs and the (REDACTED) that becomes a firing pin. Then spend an hour or two screwing stuff together and filing down a few defects.

But also? Additive manufacturing is a vital part of so many industries at this point that I would not expect a crackdown on the STL files. Probably something similar to how DMCA is used with media files (which artists and engineers would generally tolerate, if not prefer, due to threads like this…). But all the drill bit holders and gunpla mods and the like aren’t going to go away.

Whether we start needing background checks/licenses for the printers themselves is still up in the air. But expect massive lobbying against that since “maker spaces” and even just a printer at the library are a big part of the industry and this is something where The West already do not have any meaningful advantage.

To put it in context. With a decent CNC mill, you can make a straight up “real” gun in a few days for probably less than 500 bucks worth of stock (although, I would not be surprised if aluminum block prices have skyrocketed). But those cost thousands of dollars. A decent 3d printer costs less than 500 for the tool and you need less than 100 dollars of filament for the gun. We don’t ban mills and lathes from private ownership. But I can definitely see something similar to medium sized drones where you need to fill out a form to legally own 3d printers of a certain size/quality

I mean, it is mostly his and his collaborators subscribers money. For a good cause but still

Its both, but it is also more SEO than copyright. Because yes, that theoretically protects you if someone steals the entire page (not really but let’s pretend it does). But stripping the actual recipe steps out is trivial. at which point we are back to “Can you really copyright adding 420 grams of flour and then mixing it?”

Whereas the giant blog post? If you talk about how your grandmother made this for you on cold November days, you now will show up if someone searches “recipe my grandma made” or “November dish” and so forth.

The vast majority of recipes are derived from other recipes and combinations. The more ethical sources will be open about that. J Kenji Lopez-Alt, Andrew “Babish” Rea, and Alvin Zhou are VERY open about what inspired a given recipe whether it is another cook, a dish they had at a restaurant, or just “tradition” and other cookbooks. Ethan Chlebowski and Brian Lagerstorm focus more on the underlying cooking techniques but will also generally credit the “inspiration”.

And then it is just iteration. Which is where Lagerstorm and Chlebowski are great sources as they had a semi-recent “podcast” where they made Taco Bell live or some shit and talked about how a single cheesecake video means they made cheesecake dozens of times over the course of a week or two.

This is WHY most of those recipe sites are hellscape blogposts. Because even the amateur chef likely put a couple hundred dollars worth of time and effort into that “ten dollar weeknight meal” and either they or the company that paid for the recipe need to try and make back some of that cash. Which generally means long ass blog posts for SEO and a shit ton of ads and affiliate links.

From message boards that steal content from all other sites?

Failing that: Paywalled sites that have a source of income that is not dependent on ads and SEO.

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