FriendlyBeagleDog

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[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good to see Khoshekh on this site!

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.

It's absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not as though the existence and mechanisms of piracy are a coveted secret. There's a decent chance that they'll learn about and attempt it independently, and the method they learn about online might expose them to greater risk than if they did it with more consideration.

On that basis, I think that knowledge transfer is at worst harm reduction. If it's immoral, which I don't believe it is, then at the very least your intervention could prevent them from being preyed upon by some copyright troll company when they do it despite your silence or protestations.

Those titles don't, the person you're responding to is being sarcastic because the article sorta implies that removing the microtransactions from an indie title is somehow novel.

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not configurable through the UI, but if you're the admin of an instance you can change the character limit with some fairly simple source code tweaks.

This data is for South Korea only, which unfortunately itself has the highest suicide rate of the OECD countries.

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It felt like it happened practically overnight when Let's Encrypt released.

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's especially likely that you'll find consistently interesting, well-reasoned discussion through any platform bringing together anonymous strangers in an ephemeral manner.

I think consistently interesting discussion has shared stakeholding as a foundational aspect - participants need to actually care, either because the discussion is a product of some commitment they've each made (e.g. reading something for a book club), or because the participants are familiar with each other and the outcome tangibly matters (e.g. a physical town hall meeting).

Otherwise, I think you're more likely to get what you're looking for from adopting some tangential hobby and having those discussions with the friends you get through that.

Ah, of course - that's unfortunate, but thanks for the pointer.

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Not well versed in the field, but understand that large tech companies which host user-generated content match the hashes of uploaded content against a list of known bad hashes as part of their strategy to detect and tackle such content.

Could it be possible to adopt a strategy like that as a first-pass to improve detection, and reduce the compute load associated with running every file through an AI model?

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The rule of the 196 community is that you're supposed to post a submission of your own before leaving, and it's customary to include the word "rule" in your post in reference to that rule.

[–] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like you'd be interested in the Web Monetization API, if you're not already aware of it.

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