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  • A block on Twitter doesn’t say anything unless you know why they were blocked and know the person. Blocking can be more than warranted and justified. Be it spam, toxicity, harassment, or similar things. “I saw a screenshot of someone being blocked on Twitter” is not a good foundation for an argument.

    They talk about malware in npm packages. One example isn’t enough to make a general claim that all software with political opinions or voices becomes malware.

    When a platform follows sanctions, and the law, I don’t think you can claim them to be political and activism decisions. If you want to make that argument and want to do so in an absolutist fashion (not assess and reduce risks but evade them entirely), then you can only self-host and I guess on your own servers? No platforms, no services?

    Nowadays, there are many teams who buy popular apps and browser extensions to inject malware.

    … which has nothing to do with political views and especially not political views of the original authors and sellers.

    As you can see, the “opinion” or “political view” of a company is not only a way to hype on sanctions and curry favor with investors, the government, and consumers, but it is also a clear signal about potential threats. It signals that your sensitive data may be hijacked, sold, or wiped anytime if the political compass spins tomorrow and recognizes you as an enemy.

    No. None of what was written before showed me any of that.

    Some of the red flags I actively use to reject software:

    Direct political opinions in a product’s blog, like “we support X” or “we are against X”

    “We are free software and we support free software” -> REJECTED! (?)








  • Kissaki@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.orgLet's discuss: The Sims
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    2 months ago

    I only played one The Sims many years ago. I wonder if it was the first or second.

    It certainly was a good game with good mechanics and content.

    I’ve only seen a little bit of how it evolved in videos. I wonder how much EA is reiterating and republishing the same content and mechanics, and how much has evolved and changed? Did the products warrant regular and many releases and DLC?






  • I assume you don’t mean keyboard text predictions, which would be a different thing, but the platforms.

    It’s a new convenience feature. Something they as a platform can shine with, retain users, and set themselves apart from other platforms.

    Having training data is not the primary potential gain. It’s user investment, retention, and interaction. Users choosing the generated text is valid training data. Whether they chose similar words, or what was suggested, is still input on user choice.

    It does lead to a convergence to a centralized standard speak. With a self-strengthening feedback loop.