HarkMahlberg

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is effectively how Kakao argued against Tachiyomi: they provided extensions to websites where pirated manga could be hosted, even if they weren't running the sites themselves. They facilitated piracy, even if they didn't host any pirated content.

I have a profound respect for how RPCS3 has been able to stay above water. They police the community heavily, AND they have a list of games that are persona non grata to even talk about, let alone ask how to get them to work.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm kind of impressed by the amount of research they did to figure out why this guy's bill was so high, then immediately offered a resolution, and then immediately offered another avenue if the resolution wasn't good enough. Shout out to the customer service rep.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ich bin ein kbinner?

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The car or the account?

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Por que no las dos?

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Poor Duolingo. Once upon a time I used it to learn Japanese, but by the time I could start reading kanji and noticed that duolingo was still constructing sentences entirely out of hiragana, I knew I had outgrown it and moved on to Anki.

Using AI to learn a new language has to be incredibly frustrating - you can either tell where's messing up, or you can't tell at all and then you learn incorrect information..

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

None? I don't debate that Blue Sky is corporate-owned while Bitcoin and the Fediverse aren't. Rather, I'm saying the thing they all have in common is that they like to think of themselves as "decentralized" federations of independent systems and users, but in reality they are all "centralized" systems with shared weaknesses. This is the "ideological contradiction" I thought you were referring to.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Venture Capital

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

This is the same criticism that was made of cryptocurrency's claim to fame regarding decentralization, consensus, and resilience to authoritarian takeover.

"If you take all these different parts of your identity, all the games you play, all the things you buy, all the groups you join, and stick them into one system, that's a central system. It doesn't matter how many servers that system spans, you've pooled all that data in one place."

And ultimately we can make the same criticism of the Fediverse itself. It's nice that there are different platforms, different instances, different communities... but it's still just one entity at the end of the day. This is especially apparent with the spam wave we just saw. Misskey, Mastodon, Lemmy, even kbin was not invulnerable. You don't need to attack them individually, you can attack them all at once, and then they will naturally spread your attack to other instances for you.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Almost makes me nostalgic for the way clothing used to work in Cyberpunk 2077.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 57 points 9 months ago

"We have Fandango at home."

Fandango At Home at home:

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