I just had déjà vu

Are you sure there wasn’t a video at the top or bottom of the web page? What you were listening to is kind if irrelevant, since if some other media starts playing it’ll pause whatever media was playing before.

I saw that on the main page. That was the best line

Some of us are normal…

Well, normal for lemmy standards

Problematic undercurrents of homophobia aside, the trend paints a troubling picture of a future filled with photorealistic and eerily believable AI slop.

What a fucking incredible line

Have you heard of the experiment with swimming rats and how much longer they swam when given hope? We need hope to survive.

Though they don’t say we will solve it, but that we can solve it if we start now.

Those are class 1.111B domains. I actually buy them a little cheaper, but have to do it one year at a time. It’s only 6-9 digits though, not any string of digits

Cloudflare sells domains at cost

The files are pre-internet encrypted. Shouldn’t matter who gets the backup file

I mean, I just use the scheduled backups and back it up to a locally hosted server. Though the scheduled backups just go to a folder on my phone

We’re basically at least 50 different countries. It depends on which sub-country you’re in to know how strict the regulations are. However, what is illegal on paper is very different from what is often enforced.

It’s not really shilling since you aren’t benefiting for them in anyway. I got it too. It’s a powerful blower, for sure. It’s expensive, but I got it on sale for like $70 USD and I’d say it was worth it on sale.

Project Farm? Did you get the WOLFBOX air blower?

Hopefully they’re shitty shoes. People will steal shoes too

A multimeter is still more practical for most use cases. Measuring resistant, continuity, amperage, and who knows what else are far more practical for an average persons day to day life. Especially around the house. Not to mention most people don’t have a need to know the exact waveform for their purposes

MC and Visa go, oh, hey, you’re violating our guidelines

No, that is not how that would work. People cannot buy games that violate MasterCard’s and Visa’s policies using MasterCard or Visa. If someone buys the game using a different payment method, crypto or a direct bank link, it would not violate MasterCard or Visa’s policies because they had no part of the transaction.

Being mad at Valve is shooting the messenger.

Being mad at Valve is reasonable, because they did not have to ban all games that their payment processors disagree with. They would need to remove the option to pay with those for certain games, and the process of filtering them out and deciding would take a lot of time, money, and labor. It’s easier for valve to just ban it outright, but it is not the right thing to do. Valve is not the reason it started, but there is reason to be mad at Valve as well.

As of July 16, Steam’s new guidelines state that game publishers should avoid releasing titles that may violate the terms and conditions of its payment processors. In other words, the storefront is asking creators to not only follow the platform’s rules but also submit to potential oversight from companies like MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal.

and from the petition

MasterCard and Visa have increasingly used their financial control to pressure platforms into censoring legal fictional content

Steam is enforcing MasterCard’s, Visa’s, and PayPal’s policies. From Steam’s Rules and Policies:

What you shouldn’t publish on Steam: … 15. Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

Point number 15 was not there in a Snapshot from February on the wayback machine. If anything, the solution should just be to remove the payment method for those games (which would still hurt the creators substantially).

There is a line that is confusing:

In response to this censorship, some fans have launched a petition on Change.org urging Valve to revert its policies

There may be petitions about reverting Valve’s policy, but it’s not the main petition against Visa and MasterCard (which is the one they linked).

American Public? Public American?

While not the same as phone bills, still today electricity changes in cost depending on the time of day. Electricity costs less in the middle of the night. It makes sense to have higher cost during peak demand when charging by usage and there is an impractical bandwidth limit.

And if anyone magically finds them, they’ll dismiss it as a crazy conspiracy