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  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • I use discord to chat and play with friends, many servers have an nsfw channel to share things that you probably don't want to suddenly be on your phone screen in public. It will also filter images in dms.

    It's not the end of the world, but it's ineffective at tackling the actual problem, if anything adds appeal by making content "forbidden". I'm certainly cancelling my cheap nitro I've had for a while because I'm not giving any company arbitrarily implementing identity verification any of my money.

    I'll also probably look into setting up my own matrix server later...

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • If they want to be spammed with gdpr takedown requests sure...

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • If there is an image scan then yea it'll be a problem, otherwise rhe server being 18+ is just a setting you have no reason to turn on, and as long as you don't write nsfw in the channel name, discord won't know something's an nsfw channel either.

    In any case still really unlucky this happened right after you switched lol

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • Tbh for that use case this changes nothing, it's a horrible change for all the usual reasons but it's only implementing the stuff that was already the case in the UK for everyone. So age verification is needed for servers that set themselves as 18+ and for nsfw channels (and there might be some ai image scanning bs to determine if sent images are nsfw?), but for just talking to people you can supposedly still use it without age verification.

    Still, it'll probably get worse eventually.

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • You seem to think I don't hate AI techbros with a passion. I very much do. I'm just utilizing the tool that came out of this in the few ways in which it is actually useful, all while still getting a headache every time some manager at work talks about how AI will code everything in a few years because they believe the bullshit coming out of the mouths of the likes of altman and musk.

  • They're in every multiplayer game

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  • This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that's definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.

    There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn't use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).

    Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.

  • Pick European Chocolate

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  • Funnily enough palm oil is, in isolation, one of the more environmentally friendly oils (based on land and water use). This is probably in direct relation with it being cheap. Switching to other oils is still better because the deforestation of rain forest being so much worse overall, but the real solution as is so often the case has to be lower plant oil use in general.

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • Being misinformed by it is, as I said, a user issue. But the amount of times that googling for half an hour did not get me an inch closer to the solution and then I asked chatgpt and it just lists me a bunch of ideas one of which inevitably sets me off on the right path (sometimes it's even completely right in its solution, but that's more 50/50) is greater than 2. It's a tool that has its uses. Claiming it doesn't because most people are too skill issued to use it as such doesn't change the narrow but very useful use case these things have. Far too narrow to sustain this bubble, but that shouldn't be news for anyone here.

    There's an insane degree of irony in calling me a slopper or whatever while you're displaying a fundamental unwillingness to critically engage

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • It really isn't but sure. If you're dumb enough to assume what it spits out is gospel it's dogshit for that purpose too, but that's a user issue. Not like random stackoverflow answers are always exactly what you need either lol

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • Research in the sense of researching a problem you're having or getting an idea of how to start an implementation for something is a great use case and pretty much the only one I regularly use them for. Search engines usually fail to produce anything useful when describing the problem requires complec grammar.

    Research in an academic sense yea they're horrible.

  • Merz’s party vows to clamp down on Germany’s ‘lifestyle part-time work’

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  • This isn't really anything special about germany btw, the very concept of retirement depends upon this - even when it's entirely private retirement funds. The difference with those is mainly that instead of everyone not getting shit, a lot of people just don't get to retire at all so the ones that were able to save up money can. Which is almost what we have now anyway, except all retirees at least get some small amount. Money in your account is only worth something as long as someone else is willing to work for that money, and that will always depend on the size of the workforce. It's not a germany problem, it's not even a capitalism problem (just the inequality created by it is).

    Later retirement age is the one thing I'm not vehemently against, in part because it seems inevitable, in part also because medical science advancing makes it more feasible (and also increases the time people have after retirement).

  • All Games Are Going Somewhere or Cleaning Something

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  • It's some capital G Gamer take from the same people hating on walking sims, has been a while since I've seen that though. Loud fringe idiots, as usual.

    Fuck the generalization but I highly suspect it's mostly just a tumblr thing/kinda general meme to lead with

    <obviously overgeneralized group>

    will...

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Switched almost exactly one year ago. I have a win 10 dualboot for some things (mainly occasional lol/tft, and osu tournaments because for some reason that stutters under wine on my pc even though it runs perfectly fine on my laptop).

    The nicest thing is not constantly being annoyed by my OS. I'm forced to use win 11 at work and my god I hate it. Whenever I boot into win 10 at home I also want to rip my hair out, granted it was a lot better on my previous install where I bothered to debloat it.

    I'm not really a fan of how "hidden" program installs (at least through package managers) are, but it's all in the same place and windows programs have been moving there anyway, putting everything in appdata, and to make it worse it's often split up and there's random registry entries. So I'm not really bothered by it.

    I also have some minor issues with kde, like it deciding to regularly reorder search results (seriously I search for "disc" and always launch discord, but the top spot rotates between discord and discover, so I misclick whenever it changes). Also ever since plasma 6.5 my clipboard has been semi-broken, "copy to clipboard" buttons in the browser don't work, and screenshots don't automatically go into the clipboard either until I click the button for it. If anyone has a fix for either of those things I'd love to hear it.

    I also didn't know i needed a dropdown terminal until I had a dropdown terminal and now I can't live without it.

  • On Inspiration

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  • The ending animation of season 2, ep1 of which aired this week (or last weekend or something)

  • 'No such thing as a better colonizer': Inuit emphatically reject U.S. takeover of Greenland

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  • They can all be shit but one can still be more shit than the other. I don't want to lose one eye but I'd rather that than go fully blind.

    Though the argument here is more that "we are the better colonizer, trust us bro" should never be taken as a reason to want a new colonizer to take over.

  • Brand new bag

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  • Easily, if it's a large enough backpack. For 3 days of clothing, it doesn't even need to be large. I mean what do you need, some assortment of care products (available in small packs, usually, so don't take a ton of space), maybe a razor and hairbrush, toothbrush (negligibly tiny anyway) and then 3 days of clothing don't take that much space unless you change your pants (not the british kind) or sweatshirt every day. And even then a large-ish backpack could fit it.

    I went on a 5 day trip with just an average size backpack and laptop bag, and that included bringing the laptop. And headphones. It was pretty tightly packed but worked Clothing doesn't take that much space if you fold it and compress a bit.

  • ai generated logo

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  • That's not even artistic ability, that's just basic tool use.

    ...but yea that still applies

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  • Sadly yup. Not quite everyone the same way, but psychology is still pretty scary. Thankfully the manosphere mostly isn't anywhere neae what actually works with their bs

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    "Oh..." by @okaminuki

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  • It's just her character design, she's a genshin character (yoimiya).