vastly expands the pool of potential victims
I’m not brave enough at the moment to say it isn’t some kind of crime, but creating such images (as opposed to spamming them everywhere, using them for blackmail, or whatever) doesn’t seem to be a crime that involves any victims.
I’ve just noticed that this is in c/piracy. I suppose there’s lots of interest in the story here and everywhere else, but I’d just like to remind you all that ad-blocking is not piracy.
A good review but from what I remember of the game I would add that the “quick-time events” can be annoying. Do not play if you can’t handle scenes of gratuitous button mashing.
Ah, I see. I was only around the past few years but over that much time it has changed a lot for sure. There’s more of everything. If you preferred the old-school fedi experience though it seems like lemmy is the wrong place to look, as it’s designed to be something else. As is mastodon for that matter. There still exist quiet corners where people do things more in keeping with the old ways. The ones where I started have since disappeared but hopefully some will hang together.
You mean c/fediverse? Or lemmy.ml? Or all of lemmy? Or all of the fediverse? Or the whole world?
Fedi is all about different communities coexisting, sometimes uneasily, alongside each other. Lemmy doesn’t need to have only one monolithic community identity. I hope it grows in scope and diversity until everyone can find one that suits them.
the most toxic Redditors migrated over
Nah, the most toxic redditors will never leave reddit. Their souls will be consumed in agony as it collapses into a fiery little black hole of hate. The ones who made it over here can’t be all bad no matter how stupid some of them appear at first glance.
that could get you fired some day.
Among other ways it might make you better off, a tendency to boot linux on school-issued devices could also very much help get you hired some day. Although perhaps not in the education system. Seeing a teacher discourage it is even more depressing than seeing a student fear he’ll be punished for it. So long as you’re not breaking any laws, it seems like a fine idea.
Maybe. On the other hand, it’s much more privacy-friendly than that guy says.
Sane and reasonable people spent several decades advocating the use of cash instead of cards since at least the 1970s, until we mostly gave up. Who knows, maybe the newly invigorated crazy people will do better. They can’t do much worse.
Firefox being free software, it wouldn’t make much sense for them to try and do something like this. So obviously we know that Mozilla would never go along with such an absurd law and start doing censorship on behalf of France. … right, Mozilla? Slightly strange that you didn’t say so?
Just a rumour that was going around, I don’t think it’s too likely.
Who cares what big-time tech execs think about it? There ought to be protests in the streets about this. They’re trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption. They’re not even really trying to hide that any more. If they succeed, the UK won’t be the first country to do so. Signal isn’t threatening to leave because they’re worried about the potential ethical implications of the new rules. They’ll be leaving because their product will simply be outlawed. The UK will be joining the ranks of other notable countries who’ve gone that way, such as Iran, China, Cuba, Egypt, and Oman.
That seems likely to be one of the fake ones, of which there are some. Not sure what they’re for, other than to steal your login credentials.
Canada has not yet introduced its version of an “Online Safety” bill, but it will be coming soon. Right now would be a very good time to write to your MP asking them to do what they can to stop it from including any of this kind of stupidity.
Who are all these extremist wackos who don’t already want to abolish capitalism?