#slashdot

[yourkingmob]

"IF A CIVILIZATION HAS ANY OBLIGATIONS – ANY AT ALL - THEN CARING FOR THE VULNERABLE IS THE FIRST AMONG THEM.

ANY SYSTEM THAT CAN'T - OR WON'T - CARE FOR THE VERY YOUNG, THE VERY OLD AND THE PHYSICALLY INFIRM DOESN'T DESERVE TO CONTINUE." - Anon

[snakegirllovehandles]

god slashdot is such a tire fire. openly transphobic comment moderated to "+5, insightful".

I don't know why I even bother to look at comments there anymore. There's so much blinkered conservative rightwing rhetoric on there that it's difficult to find the interesting stuff anymore.

[expressivegirl]

The Sims 4 Paired Poses #3

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[codesandrobots]

Oh Tumblr is on Slashdot lol

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[wingedcatgirl]

AI failed to deduce what was in your photo

do i win

having fun with the google vision API tool, i love panopticon world...

[manyblinkinglights]

Haven't had anybody on here tell me this yet, so you all get Slashdot directly instead of some reblog.

[ralfmaximus]

Ubisoft has come under fire from players who claim the company has revoked access to a game they had previously purchased. Users attempting to launch "The Crew" on Ubisoft Connect are met with a message stating, "You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?"

Holy shit. Although, I bet there's language in the TOS protecting UbiSoft from legal repercussions that the players 'accepted' during purchase.

Ubisoft's subscription boss, Philippe Tremblay, recently stated that players will need to get "comfortable" with not owning games.

Philippe Tremblay should get comfortable with the idea of roasting in hell for all of eternity.

[yesterdays-xkcd]

Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible)

Limerick [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball sits at a computer, typing.] Cueball (typing): I used to find slashdot delightful, Cueball (typing): but my feelings of late are more spiteful; Cueball (typing): my comments sarcastic Cueball (typing): the iconoclastic Cueball (typing): keep modding to plus five (Insightful).

[levysoft]

Jeep ha introdotto annunci pop-up che appaiono ogni volta che il veicolo si ferma. Questi annunci a schermo intero promuovono servizi come la garanzia estesa Mopar e compaiono sul sistema di infotainment ogni volta che l’auto si arresta, ad esempio a un semaforo rosso. Gli utenti devono chiudere manualmente l’annuncio per accedere alle funzioni del veicolo.

Stellantis, la società madre di Jeep, ha confermato che questi annunci fanno parte di un accordo con SiriusXM e ha suggerito agli utenti di toccare la “X” per chiuderli. L’azienda sta lavorando per ridurre la frequenza di queste interruzioni.

[protoslacker]

Daniel Supernault, the creator of Pixelfed, published a "declaration of fundamental rights and principles for ethical digital platforms, ensuring privacy, dignity, and fairness in online spaces." The open source charter contains sections titled "right to privacy," "freedom from surveillance," "safeguards against hate speech," "strong protections for vulnerable communities," and "data portability and user agency."

Daniel Supernault quoted in an article by Jason Koebler at 404 Media. Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Via Slashdot

Tumblr's algorithm posted racist memes about the LA firestorms in my feed today. It's was depressing to me. In the news today it's reported that China is evaluating a plan to sell Tok Tok's US operations to Elon Musk. I left Twitter. I doubt that anyone even noticed, but I still felt sad about leaving. Leaving Facebook is going to be harder.

I am pretty dense when it comes to tech, but the Fediverse seems a better route forward.

Pixelfed

Digital Platform Charter of Rights

[maddiebiscuits]

Time to Glaze/Nightshade all your art or just leave the site I guess.

[weatheryear]

DO NOT WORRY ABOUT FLAMEWARS

One of the oldest rules of the internet.

The old internet was a wild-wild west. Back in high school, my high school was next to a university, so we had access to the internet before... pretty much anyone else did. I was told that it was impossible to search for porn on it.

Before this, I had found a way to hack the library's computer system. I didn't do anything with it, but it gave my computer access to more network power and priority.

So, when I found out about the internet thing, my first instincts were to try and break them. Impossible ended up being 3 clicks from the schools webpage. Did I ever do this again, at school? No. But this was my introduction to Pamela's Andersons's implants. It was later on that porn figured out the business model for online businesses, so most websites were:

hosted on someone's computer

entirely volunteer

works of passion

Before porn, the most used website was Slashdot, "News for Nerds, stuff that matters."

This was home to the Slashdot Effect. Which was an accidental DDOS. Like I said, most websites were hosted at home. A megabit connection was something epic, that only the biggest corporations had. The average clock was so slow that increasing the clockspeed would ruin games, we had a button to slow it down.

When a news site with thousands of users links to you, your usage rate increases several thousand times. The world wide web was so small that you could - literally - visit every - single website on a topic.

So, what did nerds do on a worldwide communication tool?

Well, what do you think?

e-mail/bbs

Computing Science

Nerd Out

Dodge Nuclear Weapons

We argued, about anything and everything. One of the biggest topic was gay Star Trek erotica, because women have to ruin everything.

in a nerd environment, arguing is not just considered normal, it's considered good. If you don't have an impassioned argument on the internet about (nerd topic), do you even care about it? The answer is no.

Thanks to the near exclusivity of the nerd, (ior erotica), community, there was no fear about people bringing stupid human emotions into your passionate nerd debate.

Well, then someone put Pamela's Anderson's implants on the internet, and all of a sudden normies had a reason to come here. And now when you call someone a paedo gayfag who doesn't know the meaning of xor, and they go crying to the police. And then gayfags made it against the law to call them gayfags, instead of pulling up their goddamn big girl panties and arguing about which Star Trek ship is better.

To be fair, we now have vtubers. So, silver linings.

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[balketh]

Pining For The Chjosts

It has been 44 days since Cohost closed, and the world is still worse for it.

I still think about it. I still think about chosting. I still think about the networks that formed and were forming there, and how those tethers, effectively, were severed.

I still think about how Discords aren't it. About how Reddit-likes aren't it. Forums weren't it. How it has changed over the years, as innovations continue in digital social circles. How Cohost wasn't perfect, but it was great.

Many folks tried their best to band together after the closure announcement, and small communities emerged from the fallout, but there's a reason that all the Cohost Leaver Discords got filled up, and then, for me, completely muted: Discord sucks. Chat rooms suck, once you get past a certain age - they're just too fast; channels are too big/prominent to be single threads of discussion, the threads feature sucks visibility-wise, and all the other forum-like features require allowing Discord even further privacy invasion.

And, IMO, forums are not the savior many folks think they are. They died out for reasons too. They also suck, in similar ways to Discord. People think forums would be great because 'you can read them when you want', and 'it slows things down' and 'they'll always be there unlike Discord'. But only the middle one is true: forums are just Discord servers in slow motion.

Whole subforums become too fast in posting, topics/threads get muted/ignored, and each individual topic is still singular in its focus, moreso than Discord due to the sometimes-days-long post-and-response cycle, just spread out in more layers of obtuse forum pages. Subforums are spun off, cliques form, social hierarchies come, fallout happens, rinse and repeat.

They were good! Don't get me wrong. They were good. It was great to be able to find and read threads, convos, from years ago, easily accessible with no fucking app in your way. But that element eventually split off to become the Diggs and Reddits and Slashdots of the world.

What remained is the desire for the social circle. And forums are just another small social circle, even if they have several hundred active users and a couple thousand lurkers. They were good, but they died out because we realised they weren't it.

And, trust me, they still get deleted. The drives they're stored on still die, and in a much less reliable timeframe than you'd hope for. Forums only persevere on the backs of peoples' effort and care, and that wanes with time, or drama. Plothook, an incredibly old RP forum with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of posts, games that had been running for 5-20 years, some peoples' whole creative lives, suddenly vanished, along with all its data, around July 2015. An entire, massive, old community, just... Vanished. Severed.

Even back then, in the height of 'things on the internet are forever!', things never were. Forums aren't any more the solution to community than Discord servers are. They're just an attempt at a structure to make it work, and so far, our attempts as a collective internet have been found wanting.

Cohost was better. It wasn't perfect. It wasn't a forum. It certainly sucked ass in discoverability. But it was better. Even after its first unexpected boom, when the quality of a social media platform usually begins a hard dive, Cohost stayed... Good. It was all the elements I wanted out of Social Media save for the forum-roleplay/games content (but, frankly, that's better served by the semi-automation and chat-like format of MUXs than forums.)

There was a feed, it was filled with tags you liked and people you followed. You could search for tags, but not post contents. (Because of that second part, there were discoverability issues from day 1.) (Someone made a global feed tag as a joke, and many despised it, including the staff, but I'll die on the hill that we wanted it and we made it real and not a joke, and it drove most of the discoverability on the site, which made it work for many people. You cannot convince me it wasn't worth its troubles - troubles that would still exist entirely unhindered without it.)

You could post, reblog, comment, and like. Likes were private. No numbers except total number of unread notifications. There was some really brain-warping logic around reblogging and how it affected tags/etc - I didn't understand the implementation, but it seemed to work reasonably well. Less issues than Tumblr. There were asks. There was an artist's alley for artist-paid self-made adverts. There were CSS Crimes (taking advantage of the shockingly lenient CSS allowances Cohost had to create the most incredible post customization, interactivity, and meme content I have seen online in a social media community at large, to date, bar none). It put even animated forum signatures to absolute shame.

It wasn't perfect.

But damn if it wasn't great.

... Now I'm thinking about MUX again. Fuck.

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