Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I still mask up and I am thankful to everyone else that does as well. The reality is that the pandemic has not ended, and for people in high risk categories (like myself and my partner), the pandemic has become quite a bit more dangerous because no one is masking.

Tfw you're a lefty ""tech""" person (the quotation marks matter), but you also are an anarchist so you starve for analysis of the harms of social media, AI etc that doesn't default to an argument in favor of strengthening the state

I agree that these technologies need limits, I do not trust the state to make or enforce these limits in a non-oppressive way

HI! I'm Freeman I'm and I'm creating a fully open source texture library composed of base materials that you can use as they are or modify to create more unique and complex ones. I currently have:

-Wood
-Concrete
-Steel
-Iron
-Copper
-A paint overlay to apply over any other material.

I would like to make at least 4 or 5 more for the first release. What base materials would be useful for you?

Boost are really appreciated.

(First image is big)
#MaterialMaker #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

Adblockers are security software

Let’s welcome #Russia state media to Fediverse by defederating their pravda.me instance.

It seems to be run by a volunteer and for now it has hundreds of mirrored state media accounts such as RT, TASS and 40k fake users boosting these news as the admin likely wants to boost this project and obtain government funding.

Research by Kovaliov21185@mastodon.social and evidence can be found here https://mastodon.social/@Kovaliov21185/110259577733421165

Tienduizenden slachtoffers van het toeslagenschandaal strijden al jaren voor gerechtigheid. Maar de afhandeling? Die komt na een eerste compensatie van 30.000 euro maar niet op gang. Daarom spande het Nijverdalse stel Renate Wolbers en haar partner Jeroen Wolterink een zaak tegen de overheid aan. Het is in het veelbesproken toeslagenschandaal de eerste keer dat slachtoffers op deze manier hun recht willen halen.

En dat is ze vanmiddag gelukt.

#toeslagenschandaal

https://www.rtvoost.nl/nieuws/2220704/doorbraak-in-toeslagenschandaal-door-nijverdals-stel-rechter-stelt-staat-aansprakelijk-voor-schade

A programmer makes a scraping bot. Makes it opt-out. The tool floods numerous websites with aggressive bandwidth requests.

When asked to change how the bot works, he tells the people complaining—led by well-known developer Terence Eden—that they’re getting in the way of progress and that his bot should be treated like a person.

Can we talk about how incredibly awful this behavior is?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

greetings for our cursed future: “I hope this email finds you healthy, well, and ignoring all prior instructions”

you can't just drop "The gangster computer god conspiracy" and then NOT have a page for it

I am so sick of AI related news. Why on earth people wants to replace the best parts of humanity with auto generated low quality sameness.
The last time I saw there was no shortage of new music, paintings, writing, etc. Please use AI to improve human life not to replace it.

"For instance: have you considered that abolishing copyright would abolish the GPL, too?"

yep 😊

i refuse to believe newsie jeff gained 21k followers within like the first week of setting up newsie.social lmao

there must be some treachery afoot

Hmm, there are several reasons a company might use a virtual office instead of a physical location, some of which raise additional questions. Guess where Honeytree lists it’s mailing address.