Troll post or shill, same account recently asked “why do people dislike google, they’re only doing legal data saving for stuff you search” and then ignored every bit of legitimate croticism that was handed to them.
Makes no sense to interact with such an account.
Jesus. Is there no vegitation around the sidewalk to spend at least a little shade? :(
Hab gelacht. Scham.
“Legal” doesn’t immediately mean “moral”. Everything is legal as long as there isn’t a law specifically banning it, and those laws often only get created as a result of someone abusing their legal right to something.
Google collects also way more data than you pointed out, in every avenue possible. Ever solved a captcha? You likely helped Google train their image recognition AI. Got an android smartphone (a brand that previously had committed itself to being open-source and linux based)? Have fun with pre-installed unremovable Google Spyware. You’re forced to create a GMail account to interact with the whole App ecosystem of the market.
Google can remotely (without your consent) download and delete apps on your smartphone, read your personal data (including stuff you have saved on your SD card) and accesses your camera, pictures and GPS-Data regularly.
I just read an article to prepare for writing this comment and feel actually sick now, I wanna jump ship and get an independent OS, screw the AppStore…
Wouldn’t be surprised if mod tools never come at all.
If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that gaming companies will promise you anything to get on your good side. Take statements like these with the biggest grain of salt.
Here’s a fun suggestion, how about you unlock the desired players by playing the game? Could even put it into an immersive context, you beat brazil and subsequently unlock their players for your team.
What’s so fun about buying a chance to get your player? Is it possibly the shiny colors and the happy soundeffects that are specifically designed to make your brain addicted?
Personally, I block anything related to news&politics on the fediverse (same on reddit).
Humans have a structural problem with any system that allows voting on the visibility of headlines. It encourages outrage, populism, attention grabbing headlines while discouraging more refined factual discussions. Kinda like tabloid journalism.
Reddit has the same problem and way worse, but with enough time it will happen here too.
Most users read the headline before giving their own opinion, not many take their time to read a majority of other comments and the least amount of users actually read the linked article (which is to be honest also often the fault of the quality of an article, i.e. being too long, boring and partially ai-generated).
This results in the most lukewarm most agreeable opinions being top comments, while they’re also oftentimes being uninformed.
This is just what I gathered from my own personal experience with social media, I don’t have any good sources to back up my claims.
No thank you, AITA is a toxic guilty pleasure, that I want to seek out actively if I’m in the mood for it, not see it on my feed regularly. It is the worst kind of form social media can take. If I see it anywhere on the fediverse, I’d immediately block it.
finally a decent use of this dumbass meme format.
I hate how the majority of the time this is used, it can be summed up with “girls boring, boys fun haha”.
Thought we left that sorta thinking behind in elementary school?
Anyway, fuck gender stereotypes, we’re all just humans trying to wing it.
Remember that anime with the girl with the big bahoongas? It had a great take on mint.
Ever since I realized that people just make shit up on the internet, my life got a whole lot better.
Good luck on the canoe mini game then!! Was often one of the hardest for me to get the 100% lol
The HD version on WiiU or the SD Version on GC/Wii? Are you gonna go for 100% or just a casual playthrough? :)
Personally TP has to be my favorite Zelda title, I replay it casually every 2 years or so.
Have the same issue personally. I hope blocking those communities makes the frontpage better.
Definitely a step in the right direction. If your car takes up more space, is louder AND more dangerous for everyone else, you should pay more for it.
Or better yet, have a different car in the first place. Maybe one that goes on rails.
“Hey, we already have 30 million users in just 3 days! Look everyone how relevant we are!!”
Sure buddy.
counterpoint: DDOS’ing has been around for a while and is something every mid-sized or bigger online service has to deal with eventually.
If you release an always online product in order to sell your shitty microtransactions and take away control from the player, then you should at least make sure the always online product can stay online and incorporate some DDOS protection.
While this super sucks and is a loss for the wider Emulation community, I think this is the first time where I can actually see where Nintendo is coming from in one of those legal dilemmas.
(Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, some of this is hearsay. I’m only an avid reader, but haven’t actually ever done any switch emulation myself. Keep your salt grains ready and correct me if I share wrong information please.)
Yuzu appearently raked in 30k USD per month on their patreon. And many of these patreons were most likely not just donating out of good will and with a “Thank you” mindset, but they were actually in it for the supporter/early access builds, which were time-gated behind these subscriptions. This automatically raises an eyebrow for me.
Second problem, one of these early-access branches appearently had optimizations for running Tears of the Kingdom, even before it officially released (the game got leaked 1~2 weeks early). This meant, for a short period of time, the yuzu emulator was the only way to play Nintendo’s game (besides using a homebrewed switch) and I think this put them in a direct competition against Nintendo.Correction: I just found out, official yuzu builds never ran TotK pre-release. It was modded versions through 3rd party devs.That is just an absolute no-go when you’re trying to provide legal and safe emulation. This basically invites pirates with a big welcome mat.
The core idea of “good” emulation is video game preservation and the right, to do whatever you yourself want with your property.
The yuzu devs in this scenario seemed like they were trying to make a profit off of giving early access to someone elses copyrighted work. And that does sound pretty illegal to me.
What Nintendo is trying to argue in their writing doesn’t super resonate with me though. yuzu emulator needs a file from the switch OS called “prod.keys” in order to decrypt and to actually play switch games. Nintendo argues that any attempt at extracting this file is “circumventing digital copyright millenium act”, and therefore yuzu is facilitating piracy because it ONLY works with this file. This also seems to be the reason why they went after the tool that is used to extract prod.keys, called “Lockpick” earlier last year.
I don’t think using a program to obtain your own keys from your own property should be illegal. While sharing those files might very well be.
Overall, very iffy topic, just a reminder to any Emulation Devs to always take the safe route whenever possible. In my personal opinion, I don’t think developers should even try to emulate any games that are newer than ~1 year, as a show of faith that there is no monetary incentive.