[-] aev_software@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Not to mention bandwidth. I pay for bandwidth, for my own consumption. Not for an ad broker to keep pushing data at me in an amount that only deteriorates the experience for which I pay. The ad brokers are stealing my bandwidth from me. Let's sue.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Who would turn off the safety protocols?

We would. We do it all the time. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

AI isn't safe because we aren't, either.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Free Schlep!

Arguably the most capitalist and exploitative undertaking of the decade, Roblox is making serious profit. Its moral choices expose a concerning lack for the well-being of its target audience. Going after the whistleblower is a common trait in organizations lacking ethics.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

If it doesn't start with refusing to let nazis participate, it ain't gonna help.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the Chinese government deems USA computer chips a security risk. It's tit-for-tat, as the USA government has claimed the same about Chinese computing products, both hardware and software.

What may concern is the impact on European computer chip and semiconductor production. With the USA also selling to China, supply goes up, price goes down. Market will change.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 20 points 6 days ago

In the mean time, sites are getting DDOS-ed by scrapers. One way to stop your site from getting scraped is having it be inaccessible... which is what the scalpers are causing.

Normally I would assume DDOS-ing is performed in order to take a site offline. But ai-scalpers require the opposite. They need their targets online and willing. One would think they'd be a bit more careful about the damage they cause.

But they aren't, because capitalism.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Am I just dumb, or is this common practice among corporations? Shell companies are used for all kinds of purposes, including shady ones.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Oh, it gets worse. I watched a TED talk once in which a researcher explained how a conversation was reconstructed from the mirror image projected through a window, of the vibrations of the metal foil of a potato chips wrapper that laid on the floor in the same room where the conversation was being held out of sight. Can't make this stuff up.

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Yet another company rolling over to please the Lord. And people wonder how Germans so easily rolled into nazism?

[-] aev_software@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Will your games eventually support mobile-first concepts? I've tried the first handful of your framagames offerings and none of them work on a mobile phone. If that is indicative of your overall work, I fear the only users you'll attract will be staunch keyboard and desktop users. While that was the norm 20 years ago when you started, the landscape has changed. Today, most users' primary and only compute device is their mobile phone. Please consider expanding your reach and accommodating the needs of today's audience.

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