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Careful with those laptops though, they run really hot. I have the same one and my dedicated GPU is broken, possibly from overheating but I will admit I can’t know for sure.

Thanks, here’s the link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1851280/Samurai_Bringer/

Unsure if it’s my style, but it looks interesting

Does anyone know the game in the thumbnail?

I’ve never asked ChatGPT to fix a syntax error because I use Copilot

If you are going to be this pedantic, I’ll have you know Copilot is a ChatGPT model in a Microsoft skin.

Even though it’s not in line with the rest of the page, I like the contrast of the icons with the blue more than the green.

Off-topic but Patreon’s logo got really ugly. What the hell

Personally I like ❔ like the top 2 of this image:

But that’s just 1 opinion.

I agree that this is very green! Perhaps adding some icons of the platforms will help break it up a bit:

https://en.liberapay.com/about/logos

https://www.patreon.com/en-GB/brand

https://docs.opencollective.com/help/about/introduction#media-logo

Crypto is a bit more difficult, I don’t think there’s a universal crypto logo/icon. Perhaps Bitcoin will suffice.

0.6 / 3 devs funded*

Currently the information is shown when hovering over (“Based on a median European €50,000 software developer salary from developersalary.com”), which is behaviour expected when you hover over an (i)-icon (or a question mark). If you put in an asterisk, there should be somewhere on the bottom of this element that refers to said asterisk to indicate the extra info. It’s not intuitive to having to mouse-over an asterisk, imo.

4 months remaining

I imagine this is referring to current balance. I’m not saying there should be a sense of urgency communicated but it might hurt donations if there’s is shown that you’ve got 4 months left anyway.

Yeah, signing up to a bot instance isn’t going to be a fun local experience. I blocked that instance a while ago because it doesn’t add any value to the fediverse (imo)

Lemy.nl is just news outlets and traditional media having bot accounts and posting their content. There are almost no discussions or human content on that instance

Edit: see for yourself https://lemy.nl/

I haven’t used the Reddit app in over a year, so I honestly had no idea!

Forgive my ignorance, but isn’t that already how it works? Or do you mean tap and hold on a post from the feed, and then swipe up?

Why not both? Filter support would mean you’d have to update your list continuously based on current politicians and depend on certain words being used in the title/body.

A tag would still mean you’d have to depend on OP to select the right one (or perhaps on a mod to assign the right one), but at least the amount of variables would be infinitely less complex

That looks amazing, thanks for sharing sag!

There are plenty of legit things to get upset about. Malicious bots, prolific scams, CSAM, customer support having an abysmal rep, and that’s not even talking about how foundationally incompatible Discord is with FOSS.

So no, I’m not here to defend a proprietary company. I’m here to address the pointless fear mongering that distracts from the real issues.

You see a couple of orange lines. You think, well that’s okay, it’s up most of the time? This isn’t helpful. Discord needs to be up all of the time if it wants me to take it seriously. I understand that writing code is hard, and I’m aware that I sound demanding here, but I just cannot adopt Discord for communicating if I cannot rely on it to be available when I need it now. If it’s down for half an hour, that’s not a long time in the big picture, but it’s a long time in the moment when I have a message that I need to send right then.

(emphasis mine). Ah yes, another blog by a user that thinks everything revolves around their experience.

I would love to act in good faith, but you’re not making it easy linking this drivel. Because I don’t want to make you feel like I’m fishing for sources, let me expand some points in the original link to talk about:

Discord contains features which allow integration with other spyware platforms

Discord contains the opt-in spyware feature known as “social media integration.” This allows you to sync your persistent user identity on Discord with your persistent user identity on other spyware platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. In its privacy policy[1], Discord has confirmed that if you opt in to this spyware feature, Discord will obtain an undisclosed amount of access to information obtained about you by the spyware platforms that you choose to sync with.

Ah yes, very scary. Connecting your account with other platforms to show your profile.

Discord uses its process logging for advertising

That the process logging features of Discord are now being recorded on Discord’s servers as a form of telemetry (spyware), and removes speculation about why this feature exists. It is clarified by Discord that this spyware feature is used for advertising to its users.[8] This means that Discord is recording the programs you have open to build a statistical model of what programs you might buy/license in the future.

The “advertising” in question:

We use certain information to personalize our services. This includes features like customizing your experience on our discovery surfaces, highlighting activity on Discord that may interest you, and surfacing Discord features and promotions from us and our partners that may be of interest to you. For example, we may use information about who you interact with to rank a Friend who you interact with often higher in the “Active Now” section of your Friends List.

Discord tries to force some users to give their Telephone numbers

Discord will lock users out of its service and will not allow them to continue using it without giving their phone number or contacting Discord support. This is especially true for TOR users. This kind of feature is designed to extract very personal information out of its users (phone numbers). The criteria for locking out users isn’t known

Usually this is a server (community) - side setting, but Discord also forces it when they think you are a spammer or malicious actor. Pretending it’s to collect phone number is a bit out there. Also, 2FA has been a thing since forever.

Lastly, there’s probably the argument of selling our personal data:

We don’t sell your personal information. Our business is based on subscriptions and paid products, not from selling your personal information to third parties.

We make money from paid subscriptions and the sale of digital (and sometimes physical) goods, not from selling your personal information to third parties.

We do not sell the personal data of our users or share personal data for targeted advertising purposes.

No sale or “share” of personal information: The CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that sell or “share” personal information. We do not sell or share the personal information of our users as defined in the CCPA.

This is a legal document that they will get in trouble for if they were lying. They’ve already been fined hundreds of thousands of euros for GDPR violations but that curiously did not include a fine for “took people’s personal information and then sold them without consent whilst explicitly saying they didn’t do that”

Discord further has no third party advertisements which they can use to “sell” your data by allowing those advertisements to target you.

Which got worse? Feel free to show me an example. I’ll try to investigate and find out its merits.

It must be said that that site also considers browsers like Firefox and Vivaldi to be at a high level of being spyware. I think it’s important to understand that Discord doesn’t do things much differently than other platforms, other than not having any 3rd party ads.

These articles are very old and not super relevant any more. Sources of 2018 and 2019, while a lot has changed over the years.

I’m not here to “defend” Discord and pretend it’s all gravy, but if you want to make a compelling argument, I think it’s a good idea to stick to current, factual information.

I rarely downvote but this deserves one.

If you want to be able to edit and delete comments from others you might want to look at hosting your own website where you can rule however you like.

Judging by the tags, is this originally a Mastodon post? Trying to figure out how all this works

I can’t follow your train of thought completely, but downloaded PDFs show in the download folder for me on Firefox mobile. What version do you have?