Or a side effect of censorship. ,

edit: or if you want to be just a little bit paranoid, like i am, they’re making the official chatbots sound less natural, so they can continue to use AI mascarading as humans to influence people and parasite social media.

I wish the US had a left wing party.

Yeah, same principle as pinhole glasses, but these look way better.

Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

Bro nobody in the history of mankind ever thought too hard.

Honestly I don’t think I’m technically adept enough to check this myself. I was following firefox privacy guides, and the (much more competent) people writing them were puzzled about those two.
Of course it’s not necessarily malicious, but it has became hard to be trusting.

In the end I kind of just gave up on privacy, I take mitigation measures as a symbolic gesture, but still assume someone’s watching over my shoulder whatever I do online. Not a good feeling to be honest.

How would I check exactly what data firefox is sending home?

firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net

There are unexpected connections to these two domains that cannot be disabled using firefox options.

Easily? How?
AFAIK no matter what you do, firefox still calls home sometimes.

From what I can tell, the idea is to make you feel like, with a little bit of effort, the privacy thing would be achievable,
but when you actually try, it’s a whole different ordeal.

And/or US gov and their allies. Centralization makes surveillance and manipulation easy.

I don’t think it’s spez. Transparent and decentralized social networks go against the interests of many people.

So much for the luck of the Irish, right.

Where I live it’s much more complete than google maps, especially in the countryside.

I don’t see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
You’ll rent computing power or storage space, you’ll only pay for the interface.

Why wait?

Close enough

Best post of the day.

Trying to find some that haven’t been talked about yet:

Echo. It’s a fantastic experimental infiltration game with an AI that adapts to your way of playing. The setup is very impressive.

Pathologic: one of the three playable characters (the Changeling). It’s a bizarre russian game, with an unique world, and messy gameplay. Can’t recommend it enough.

Va11 Hall-A: chill bartending game in a cyberpunk setup.

The Blackwell series: comfy, kind of amateurish point and clicks by Wadjet Eye. I like them very much.

Transistor: weirdest game by Supergiant. You play as a redhead with a talking sword. I don’t remember much about it except that it was good.

The Fall: (pushing it a little bit, since the protagonist is an AI, but I’ve always seen here as female.) Criminally underrated puzzle games, disguised as metroidvanias.

Eliza (by Zachtronics): the only visual novel I enjoyed. It’s hard to explain, it’s about AI, burnout, whether tech dehumanizes people, and solitaire.

Hedon Duology: for something completely different, it’s a slightly kinky retroshooter, with amazon Orcs fighting demons.
It may sound a bit dumb, but it’s excellent. Huge levels, interesting worldbuilding, and a gameplay based on exploration, puzzles as well as shooting.

There’s probably a ton more, but that’s all I can think about at the moment.

This looks amazing. Almost better than the original in some ways.
But playing Doom in 1:1 aspect ratio is masochism.

I can think of a way to help with the problem, but I don’t know how hard it would be to implement.

Create some sort of trust score, where instance owners rate other instances they federate with.
Then the score gets shared in the network. Like some sort of federated whitelisting.
You would have to be prudent a first, but not do the whole task yourself.

You could even add an “adventurousness” slider, to widen or restrict the network based on this score.