steelplatedmech

This seems overly simplistic focusing on the positive and choosing to omit info that could shed doubt on Andy.

She left the FTC in 2014 and worked 4 years at the Internet Association lobbying group which the EFF opposed.

The group claims that surveillance-based advertising technology, which slurps up and broadly spreads consumers’ personal data without their knowledge, should be exempted from the CCPA.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-association-weaken-california-consumer-privacy-act

Even if someone had a past that was good. Choosing to then work to weaken privacy on behalf of lobby group that represented companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook should have normal privacy focused companies like Proton hesitate to make public endorsements of a person with conflicting history. What other privacy companies even bothered to make that type of endorsement?

Andy’s support was also not only her, but his support of JD Vance with ties to Peter Thiel/Palantir and Republicans was under the public cloud of Epstein allegations, global tariff threats, threats of removing checks and balances with Project 2025, intention to ignore courts, and aligning with tech billionaires like Elon with questionable spying allegations and discrimination at Tesla. Most PR companies would have recommended not touching the subject matter if not necessary to do so.

Even Mullvad and Brave didn’t make political endorsements through the company, so it takes someone with a really strong alignment with a group to make an unprompted company endorsement and not a personal one.

You aren’t getting the point. There’s useful communities even on Facebook, but the overall demographic is tech and privacy illiterate which results in companies being able to get away with the things they do.

Somehow you extrapolated that to mean reddit has no valuable subreddits. When I never said that.

And why do you use words like cope? Coping about what? If you look at my past comments you see I often recommend people to use redlib instances to use reddit in contrast to people asking to completely stop.

Seems you are the one upset at criticism over reddit and hallucinating a criticism to mean I don’t find reddit useful.

I’d personally put more value in pushing people out of their comfort zone towards watching entire performances done by the actors and learning to read subtitles quicker.

Kind of funny that I watched Dark in German, but if it were an english production German people would be watching it dubbed.

I refuse to watch live action dubs. That is what piracy is for if a country refuses to provide the original source material.

I’d still prefer subtitles, since verbal is half the acting. And even tone can convey emotion that turning it into simply a visual one leads to missing half the actor’s performance.

At that point it is better to watch dubbed animation.

That’s why you don’t delete your account. You rewrite then delete and keep your account to monitor it.

Either way, it is new content that people mostly use reddit for that is keeping the site alive.

You misunderstood what I am saying. I’m talking about the general users of reddit and the most popular subreddits that are basically twitter and facebook topics.

Niche subs are still useful, but the masses are what has made reddit worse because they are the largest userbase that willingly puts up with all the reddit changes. So everyone else gets dragged along.

There is a reason long time reddit users stay away from /r/all and stick to their subscribed subreddits.

I didn’t even talk about leaving reddit, but about the shifting demographic as the userbase grew.

You can tell reddit got dumber because of posts complaining about ads, which is the bare minimum level needed for tech literacy.

Which is why reddit has turned into being reposts of twitter, tiktok, and facebook as the general userbase became the bulk of the audience and biggest sign is the anti science demographic sharing the space that amazes you that they can even type.

It’s also why reddit has been able to get away with their changes.

This is a good reason to delete posts and stop contributing to reddit.

If people want old info they can use old archives that harvested all the content. It’s easy accessibility of content that has led to people putting up with reddit becoming anti user removing third party apps, making UI worse, and login requirements.

If using reddit just lurk and delete content. Don’t contribute.

When you use AI for visuals and text which is hard to argue is as complicated as writing code it makes people wonder if the chunk of text you submitted is even worth reading and isn’t just something you copy pasted from a bot.

It also gives off a very cheap cutting corners vibe and not quality which isn’t great if the product relies on security, since if they can’t even write or draw do they really understood lines of code used to make their product?

Yeah, art and writing is one area that really screams cutting corners, since that is something anyone can do without AI. And something many of us do on a daily basis.

So if someone relies on writing simple sentences with AI it does send off an image of cheap and cutting corners using it for something that isn’t even complex like coding.

Andor is great since it feels like a war series that happens to have a Star Wars back drop, but would be a great series on its own too. Covers regular people as opposed to force users doing jedi stuff, so can be enjoyed without the Star Wars baggage. Feels relevant too with it covering facism.

It’s a scifi series much closer to the Expanse than Star Wars.

My nostalgia of Star Wars got ruined by the terrible new trilogy movies and terrible tv shows. Sole exception being Andor which was amazing, but definitely an outlier.

Competitive multiplayers aren’t the only game that use anticheat but coop too. And who’s to say that drm doesn’t take the opportunity to start requiring EAC v2 type protections for single player games.

There’s a reason people recommend AMD over NVIDIA for Linux use.

Someone on reddit wondered if this is the embrace phase of embrace, extend, extinguish.

This is what most people arguing in favor of this don’t get. This changes the entire ecosystem via some kind of peer-pressure once more and more game developers implement EACv2 (from the side of both developers as well as players). And other AC vendors like BattlEye will likely also follow suit. Imagine letting Tim into your kernel… I’m not even letting Gabe into my kernel.

Also RIP custom kernel modifications/tweaks for the sake of performance or new features if you want to play any future game which will implement EACv2. Also RIP applying in-development or bugfix patches, especially AMDGPU ones. And RIP OOT modules for niche hardware that’s not packaged by the distro.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1xgm7qi/comment/19rq81f8dnsyt/?context=3

There’s some more comments I’ve been reading on /r/linux_gaming and there has been some saying it is getting root type privileges and skepticism behind it.

Your reply doesn’t make me sure if it is running on a similar privilege level to root.

I don’t use Linux to give that level of trust to anticheat, and I don’t see the benefit at that point of dual booting Windows instead.

So are you saying it doesn’t get root type privileges? And can be as trusted to not be as invasive as anticheat is on windows being able to look through your entire system?

This seems worse than just dual booting Windows, which you’d end up having to dual boot Linux if the reason you got into Linux was to get away from sketchy permissions.

I don’t like the normalization of this type of anticheat for Linux, and if other games adopt this it seems like this would lead to a worse situation than having games not support Linux if more Linux games start adopting this EACv2 requirement.

Yep, I remember that was what caused me to stop watching LTT after they decided to keep promoting them due to trust is such a big part of VPNs. Convinced me none if their opinions are worth listening to and they are modern day infomercials.