@Pika@sh.itjust.works
Pika
Just your normal everyday casual software dev. Nothing to see here.
People can share differing opinions without immediately being on the reverse side. Avoid looking at things as black and white. You can like both waffles and pancakes, just like you can hate both waffles and pancakes.
been trying to lower my social presence on services as of late, may go inactive randomly as a result.
member since 15 Aug 2023 06:50
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- on The People Playground Workshop has been subject to yet another Virus, though this time it actually stole and destroyed personal info and Discord logins. The workshop is, once again, removed for now. in c/games@lemmy.world · 12h ago
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on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15h ago
I’m glad you added from 2025 there because otherwise it would have been super deceptive.
I definitely thought it happened again, and I was gonna be like, well that was fast. Like we all know it’s going to happen again, but that would have been extremely fast.
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on The People Playground Workshop has been subject to yet another Virus, though this time it actually stole and destroyed personal info and Discord logins. The workshop is, once again, removed for now. in c/games@lemmy.world · 15h ago
Yeah, that’s how I took it, but the developer acted like every system that was on the workshop was infected. They never listed a mod that caused the issue and instead just issued a blanket statement of this is what happened. It’s very weird.
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on [AIP] Last weekend I published Plume RC1, my side-project for a self-hosted, flat-file publishing platform built to simplify independent publishing in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15h ago
I was originally going to add that usually different services can use the same name as long as there’s no overlap, but you can’t even use that on this one because they’re both blogging platforms.
Yeah, unless they have authorization from the original project this is likely going to require a name change.
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on The People Playground Workshop has been subject to yet another Virus, though this time it actually stole and destroyed personal info and Discord logins. The workshop is, once again, removed for now. in c/games@lemmy.world · 15h ago
I don’t own this game or project or whatever it is, but I’m confused. How does a mod getting hacked on a workshop make it so every player that’s on the workshop has a virus?
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on What are the better places to get a domain without any selling data nonsense? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 1d ago
yea a few months ago
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on What are the better places to get a domain without any selling data nonsense? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
Most do now, When I swapped from namecheap to porkbun they id checked me. It was surprising
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on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Wasn’t Shopify one of the first companies to go all in on an AI infrastructure? I seemed to recall reading that about a year or two ago.
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on Should i give up on signal? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5d ago
It sounds innovative, but at a subscription I don’t know about that one, chief.
Any benefit you gain in being able to use a phone number is going to be thrown out because I don’t think anyone’s going to pay for a messaging client.
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on Should i give up on signal? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5d ago
I gave up on signal just because when I swapped none of my friends did, so therefore, there’s no reason for me to use it because I’m just partying by myself.
Being said if you got people to actually go with you then I wouldn’t feel bad about it because obviously they wouldn’t have swapped if they didn’t want to.
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on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5d ago
I don’t think anyone’s going to solve the problem in general, to be honest.
Like, Let’s Encrypts goal is super novel, but also expensive as shit to actually run, and requires a lot of coordination because it needs to be a trust authority. If this ever happened, it would probably be at the backing of some government structure, because I don’t see many people wanting to jump at that as an expense.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
the ironic part of this is in some cases it can. Pirate broadcasts and media boxes are becoming increasingly common to have subscription models for way cheaper than you would having the traditional streaming subs.
We are in a world where even piracy is starting to cost money in some cases fair cause convienence, but its still weird to think about. Everything always goes full circle.
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on PlayStation Blackout Had ‘No Significant Change At All’, Analyst Says in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
I wouldn’t sell your gear, put it in a closet, or continue using it without purchasing any more in their ecosystem. But if you sell your gear, you’re going to enable someone else who is willing to purchase into the ecosystem. Where if you just closet it or only play with what you have, then they won’t gain anything else from it.
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on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
for a new feature request? a PR isn’t a commit, it’s a set of commits which would add to the line change amount.
Like even if you spread it out across 20 or 30 commits that’s still going to be the same line count.
I guess you could push not yet functional or used code to lessen the line count change, but that seems in bad taste. I’ve always gone off the working repo should always be in build or clean state and a push or commit shouldn’t break that.
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on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026
is it auto reject, or just doesn’t auto approve and leaves it open for manual review
It seems weird that you can’t do a pr at all with 1000 line changes, any moderate size feature addition could hit that mark
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on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
I kinda get that for premium games but, huge offenders of this are free to play gatcha style games. Which all transactions are off platform via their own launcher system. I don’t think steam gets a cut on those. The monopoly thing has a lot of merit though, they have been super concerned about that ruling the last few years.
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on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
Yeah, which is why I think it doesn’t make sense that Steam allows it in the first place. Like, it’s actively letting a direct competitor use your platform. You get none of the benefits and all of the upkeep.
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on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Fully agree. I think that Steam should make it a platform requirement that external launchers cannot be used on the platform.
It makes zero sense for me to hit play just to have a third party launcher open, and I have to hit play in that third party launcher as well. and I have to hit play in that third party launcher as well. At that point, I’m better off just buying it through the third party launcher.
The whole third-party launcher update process is also obnoxious… Every gatcha game does it. what’s the point of using steam at that point
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Even then, the prompt could be as easy as a “recheck” button that the user sees on age restricted media. Kind of like how their age verification bucket was going to be. Database side all they need to know is a boolean of true or false of if they are a minor or not. or /maybe/ a trinary (0,1,2) system if that wanted a distinguishment of < 13 13-17 and 18+ It doesn’t have to check daily, it only has to check when the user requests access to age restricted stuff.
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I agree with Matrix Sucking, it needs very heavy work on both frontend and backend implementations to be taken serious, that’s why I stopped pushing it to my friend groups, the people I convinced to join ended up needing features it just doesn’t support yet, like an actual permission system instead of the numeric based > x style, or actual custom emote capability that isn’t a patchwork decided by the software and the huge barrier of getting started. People don’t want to have to pick through 30 different frontends to find one that works perfectly for a server.
Matrix works amazingly for the techies, or for people who want a limited IRC style feature set. But for for the casuals who are used to what discord provides, it just isn’t a good competitor. It’s complicated to get going, isn’t unified and lacks features. Most people I have tried to suggest it have bailed due to that not long after joining.
XMPP being difficult though? I hard disagree. It’s well maintained, it’s super established, and for the most part unlike matrix whom decided frontend needed to make decisions on feature-sets, everything on XMPP is backend based. You have the same issues as matrix client wise but, for the most part client feature-sets are universal due to how long it’s been out. I would push XMPP long before I go back to pushing matrix again. I have had better luck keeping/maintaining people on XMPP than I have with matrix.
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Yea this right here. People don’t remember, the only reason everyone left Skype in the first place, wasn’t because of skypes enshittification, although that didn’t help.
It was because during skypes implementation of said enshittification, their uptime was almost non-existent. Cloud servers crashed constantly, the linux program for it was unusable and required reinstall every time you opened. Messages weren’t sending and people weren’t getting notifications or history. People were forced to go elsewhere in order to remain in contact, so people moved to discord. The more people who moved the faster the transition become. Eventually everyone realized “Wow this is such a better product” and decided to stay.
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
yea, that’s exactly why they don’t do that. They know the only main feature that they offer that people who subscribe actually want is the emotes everywhere, they won’t offer a super cheap tier offering only that as the jump would be people on the 1$ tier and then people on the 10$ tier. Nobody would do nitro basic.
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Google Wallet users can share a passport ID pass; Google sends Discord a birthdate, and Discord derives age from it without retaining that date.
… if google wallet is determining it anyway, why can’t google wallet just reply yes or no to the “is over 17” query… it seems like discord wouldn’t need to know exact age at all in that flow.
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on Gaming Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Tetromino’s as a design implementation is not trademarked, but the concept and names are. The Tetris Company owns the rights to any use of Tetromono’s and Tetris in the gaming sector. Being said, the patents to such concepts have already expired, so unless they were using trademarks naming I think they are fully allowed to use it. I don’t know if the Tetris company has any legal standing here.
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
If it wasn’t $20 to join, I might have tried it. But considering they haven’t even finished their core case saying whether or not they’re even allowed to use the branding yet, and they’re trying to get $20 or $40 out of every new user, I’m going to pass.
I will check back at a later date to see its progress, but right now I don’t think it’s worth it.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
To me it was worth the 10-12$ a month for the ease of access and not needing to find alternative frontends for youtube, especially with smart tv’s. It’s just the company started getting too greedy for their own good and I felt it wasn’t worth the value it was providing, which was ultimately why I cancelled. When it hit 13 a month I looked into student discounts and found it it, but then when it moved to almost 12 again with student discount I thought “man this isn’t going to get cheaper” and just cancelled like I mentioned.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
darn, okay, well thanks for the response lol
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I have never used morphe so I couldn’t tell you, but I like how grayjay let’s me make playlists and download offline across multiple platforms while still allowing sign in, plus, I know a lot of people won’t like this, but I do like the ability that it still allows to give me personalized results, which is something that I noticed the other YouTube front ends don’t do without workarounds. it also gives me those personalized results across all platforms.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Nor will it, to be honest. I don’t see Google shooting themselves in the foot like that.
Netflix did something similar with the password crackdown a few years ago and while it worked out in their favor, I don’t foresee YouTube having the same results. YouTube isn’t really providing much of a service aside from removing ads, so chances are if they crack down on that, it’s not going to equate to people in other households buying a membership to continue it. It’s just going to be less income/revenue. YouTube would need to bet on at least two of the people running family plans are going to convert over to a YouTube premium account. Which I don’t think is a safe bet for the prime canadates that went out of their way to set up the family plan, because if they were going to do that they would have done it in the first plac
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I attempted this because it is a good deal, but unfortunately the rest of my household didn’t care that they got ads, and my mom was too much of a penny-pincher to get anyone in her household to want to do it.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I had been paying for YouTube Premium for about six years because I fell for the trap when I bought my S9 at launch. (in fairness, I do spend an extreme amount of time a year watching YouTube so at the time it did make cost-effective sense) They gave two years of YouTube premium as a benefit of getting it then I never cancelled. I finally canceled about five or six months ago because the price I had been paying originally was close to $10 a month. I had over the years jumped up to almost 18 a month and a little while I had survived ongoing on a student discount. But when the student discount plan jumped to almost $12 a month, I said screw this, cancelled and installed grayjay and tizentube/tizentube cobalt.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I have to ask, how are you getting around Google’s identity verification system? The last couple times I tried to make a fake Google account, it’s wanted an actual phone number. Not a virtual number, an actual phone number. So I’m curious what you are doing.
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I think the window of compromise has long since passed. Flock as a company went in with a guns blazing, anti-privacy, record everything, give the information to anyone style business style, and then chose to double and triple down on the style when the controversy/outcry first started. Once you’ve hit the stage where there’s people starting to protest and riot and cities have started to go out of their way to ban the product and retract contracts due to the fact that they’re concerned about public support. It’s too late. That’s a fire that’s not being put out.
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on How often do y'all use a VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 23 Aug 2026
if you include my intranet vpn daily, if you include external vpns generally only if I’m going to a hotel or a location I expect would be insecure.
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on Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I think this will depend less on the FAA and more on local jurisdiction. the FAA doesn’t really have that much restrictions in place for low altitude drones (< 400 ft) they require it to be registered due to commercial but, the 2026 modifications for usage removed a lot of the safety barriers and controls that were in place for them. Now it’s basically as long as its registered and the lights are bright enough to be seen, it’s allowed unless there’s a local law forbidding it.
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on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
I personally think that the GOS team is intentionally not wanting to, not due to the requirements, but due to the water so to speak.
There was a lot of bad blood between a company that Fairphone closely partners with, so therefore they don’t want to even think about the concept of it. I think that shows quite well when you look at their post considering that their post goes into detail on the supply chain aspects of it and who they’re partnered with instead of focusing on the actual issues with the device.
Being said, I understand their points on the software updates and the hardware requirement. But, ostensibly I don’t think they are rejecting it due to those concerns.
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on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Honestly, the only thing that stopped me from going them this time around was the ip55 rating. I do too much stuff that involves my phone getting wet. So, realistically, I can’t look at anything that has less than IP68 because I need that full immersion rating. The quest for repairability doesn’t need to compromise that, you can have an IP68 rating with a battery that is removable by screws. The Samsung X-Cover Pro proved that. It’s just not financially incentivized for consumer devices, which is why you normally only find it for dedicated corporate device lines
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on Bethesda is sending DMCA notices to a Ukrainian fighting the war in the frontlines to take down a classic (Fallout 1/2) engine emulator which doesn't use game files, ROMs, game code, textures, or music (you have to own the game to use it). in c/games@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Neither, this time it was one of those stupid third parties they hire to try and search for infringing content.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
likely because they know no one would pay for it. YouTube would die overnight(in terms of content creation). The only people remaining would be the people like Markiplier or the huge content creators that made it big way early on, and even then, I think you would expect heavy resistance against the big content creators just because they’re gonna be the ones that are fronting the majority of the bill just due to how many videos they have uploaded.
YouTube would have better chance of survival requiring a subscription to watch the platform than if they were to try to get content creators to pay for storage, it would be content source suicide.
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on Paperweight v0.5: Map your digital footprint, with pii analysis, and GDPR tracking in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Aug 2026
it sounds promising but, ultimately I’m put off by the change to GPL to MIT you did back in july. I’m seen too many projects burned by that change. Generally the flow ends up being project becomes MIT, project gets acquired, project gets moved to be closed source/w payment model, creating a fracture of two different products, one that is owned by the company and one that is maintained by the community. In my opinion, It isn’t worth the time contributing or learning a system that has the potential to just be rug pulled once it gains traction.
Don’t take me wrong, I firmly get why the change was done but, it doesn’t change my thoughts on it
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on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
I should clarify. I don’t understand why it’s been tolerated for as long as it is. I do understand why it happens, but I don’t understand why it’s allowed to happen.
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on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
I’m not sure I’m understanding the point of your comment. It sounds like you are making the case that somehow Ublock origin announcing they are no longer blocking ads on facebook because it’s too cumbersome, somehow will not cause companies to be like “oh facebook figured out the ad blocking problem, what did they do” and then try to implement similar systems.
Yes more people could contribute, but you know what else would help the cause as well? Not announcing to the world the solution to break your product. They have now put in writing that the solution to making the “problem” their product creates go away, is to just make it super obnoxious/tedious for the team to try and find filters on. This is going to act like gas on fire and only cause more work for them than if they had just silently let the filters phase out and use the excuse none of the maintainers are on the platform anymore.
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on Google's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
they need to be sued for deceptive marketing practices to be honest. The ways it tries to sneak you resubscribing to it without your knowledge is super deceptive. My gramp has accidentally subscribed at least 4 times now when he goes to place a normal order they have like 3 different locations that toggle on where you need to keep telling them no you don’t want a free trial, and then we don’t actually find out about it till months after because he is very old fashion and doesn’t always check things.
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on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Considering that despite my grandfather having an ad blocker, he sees constant scams in their advertising. I would have to say, yeah, it’s already a dangerous place.
Honestly, I don’t understand why more companies don’t get charged criminally for the blatant scams they have in their ads because all of the FANG companies do it.
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on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Honestly, I would use that even if it meant an additional gig and a half to two gigs of ram usage to run the browser. I’m already having to allocate one to four gigs for the browser anyway, so might as well.
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on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Not that I use Facebook myself, but I think this was a misstep in the U block team.
All this did was tell the major companies out there that the only thing they have to do to make it so u block origins no longer works on their site is to make it extremely tedious for the team working on the project to make filters. So I expect that now that they’ve officially dropped support for Facebook, the other major sites are going to look at how Facebook is doing it, and they’re going to adopt a similar systems
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on Bernie Sanders tells OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to pause AI development or face Senate action in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
It’s a one participant race. They’re throwing fears about Chinese LLM because of the fact that many of their models end up being open-source, and they know if they don’t get people cemented into their models before some open-sourced Chinese alternative manages to meet(or even exceed ) their performance. No company is going to pay them money because they’re just gonna run it themselves for way less than subscription costs.
right now, they acknowledge that the non-US alternatives for the models are gaining traction and are getting pretty dang good, and that scares them, so they’ve moved over to customer lock-in hoping that the effort it would take to move from a subscription model over to one of the alternative models wouldn’t be worth it for a company. A US only pause would almost certainly leave them dead in the water.
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on Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
the 90 9 1 rule is the rule of activity. its basically saying that 90% of users are lurkers, 9% contribute some, and 1% are major contributors.
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on Google's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Amazon has done something similar as well. When you search an item on it it now defaults to running it in their AI and then you need to click “show results” if you don’t wanna see the preview.
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on The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact. Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
EDM based or fantasy style AI generated music I’ve noticed tend to work better than the other genres like D&D style fantasy music has become super popular among AI composer artists
I have to say I haven’t noticed them lacking a soul, but I also don’t think that they are full AI songs. I think there’s still someone making the lyrics and then just using AI for the actual music.
That would make sense, although I think it’s unlikely that it embeds itself into the mods. It would probably replace itself. Since in order to embed itself into the mod, it would have to know how the mod is made/structured but I guess it would be possible if it was able to completely replace the existing mods with the worm.
edit: Yeah, a post-work summary was posted today, and it basically did exactly that, it replaces all workshop mods created by the user with a copy of the worm, which then spreads. Honestly, I feel like this is also a vulnerability on Steam’s behalf as well because I don’t see any realistic use case of why it shouldn’t require either a 2FA or some form of validation before pushing an update to the game, especially one that changes the entire mod out for something else.
This one happened to be allowing C-sharp integration, which is how the original infection happened, because that allowed for compilation at runtime. However, this vulnerability could technically happen with any Steam Workshop-enabled game. It’s really concerning that there’s no check system in place. The Steam depot should not allow you to be able to do a full mod replacement using a session or with token.