One of the lemmy devs is a huge tankie, like “stalin did nothing wrong but if he did they deserved it” tankie

So we’re just using the word fascism to mean whatever the fuck we want this day, huh?

They still benefit from having volumes of money flowing through them, or at least can bendfit if we allow them to be a for profit business.

It comes to America
A bunch of Americans start using it
The provider sees a growing market and likes money.
Some pastor from Iowa sees tits on the Internet and gets offended.
Religious network of nutnobs pays for boycott ad campaign.
Provider silently or not so silently bans everything that can possibly offend christian pastors from the US.
We still need a sane payment provider

I don’t know if this is the best applicatioon of their genius tbh. If you’re not spending time fighting with tools, you spend it making stuff you want to make.

I started with Ubuntu in the days of apt-get, and boy am I happy I got to use packman now and never add another custom repository ever again

This conspiratorial thinking is harmful and dangerous, be better

For example, neither batshit tarrifs, nor insane dissolution of trust, if we’re talking purely about international economics.

They are a monopoly. They don’t care and they don’t have any financial incentives to care. Making good platform that people want to use is hard, making it a monopoly and populate it with slop that other bots are clicking through way easier, and brings basically the same results. People who don’t want to click on slop will continue to do so, but now they’re spending more time looking for it, which is even better for ad revenue. What else are they gonna do, watch Vimeo? Go outside? Don’t be ridiculous.

It was already fully automated years ago, with the bullshit oriented at small kids. It was multibillion endeavour even then, YouTube did nothing to it, why would they, it’s their dream business model. The one now, when bots generate slop that is watched by other bots, is just a continuation of that

Following the Firefox example I see. Their community was too big and supportive for their taste, I guess they needed to reduce it a bit

I’m switching to neovim. I enjoyed vim my whole life, but I wasn’t crazy enough to make it my main tool. People are saying that neovim is easier in that regard, I guess that’s the push I need to switch

Stupid interview questions show you nothing about how people think. Might as well ask them their astrological animal and blood type

Well, if you’re a citizen, the country is yours, and the government is there to manage it, but some assholes in power managed to convince people that it’s the other way around

I don’t see the value of running tally to see which ethnic cleansings are more or less good. If you do genocide, you do genocide. China is doing things right now, actively, that put them firmly on that list, even before the start questioning their official reportings. It’s not about things that were done in the distant past, it’s about things that are happening right now.

For me, this specific issue is more of a personal level, it’s not about me waging a war against slopgenerators, it’s about trust. Trust is gradually built item by item. My trust in a company consists of their actions over time. They make a good game - trust goes up. They commit to provide good working conditions to the workers and actually do that - trust goes up again. Them starting using slopgen reduces that trust. It reduces it enough so I don’t trust what they are saying anymore. It’s not that I’m starting war on them or whatever, but they lost enough of my trust so when they just say something, I don’t believe it outright, the way I do with any other company, because for a company the line going up is way more important that anything else, and honouring words demonstrably doesn’t put the line up. Before this shit, my trust in Larian was high enough so I might believe them publicly declaring something, but as it stands right now, I don’t anymore, and that’s kind of the extend of my approach to it.
All the previous games of theirs I preordered, early accessed, bought the second the buying option was available. This one I wouldn’t.

Can’t remember, but it worked after I checked off the other ones without restarting.

If you only disable the first one, the points in menu are still there, so I don’t know what exactly does it do but not that. At least it was like that last time I tried to get rid of this annoying shit.

Some of them are bots made of flesh and water

My point is pretty simple: they said they only use LLM “for good”, but the more they get, the more insensitive they get to lie, so your “but they said [bla bla]” argument can’t hold. If they started using it for something, the only thing stopping them from using it for everything is their reputation and the desire to make a good game, and the more money is on the line, the less value that desire holds in the face of immediate profits.
I love everything Larian did before, I’m a huge fan of the Divinity series, BG3 is still my top 5 favourite games of all time, but this doesn’t mean all that can’t go to shit, wouldn’t be the first.