harmonea @ harmonea @kbin.social

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Corollary: are there really that many people who don't know their own tastes well enough that they can avoid browsing the general pages for recs like someone who doesn't know what to have for dinner?

Pornhub gets maybe one visit every three months from me, and I jump straight to a favorite search term even then. The rest is in niche subs or more specialized sites. I have zero surprise this is happening, but no, I hadn't seen any porn of it.

That's what I mean by not being open to being alerted to problem posts. For many subs, there are too many reports to sort through, and the mods welcome modmail to point out something that has slipped under the radar. This sub doesn't allow that, so they won't be able to work with their subs' members for a fairer application of the rules.

If the mods admit that they would have removed the posts had they seen them (implied by the "we can't see everything" response) - yet they're not open to being alerted to problem posts (implied by the "checkmate" sass) - how can they fairly expect users not to be frustrated by the unequal application of the rules?

The correct mod response here would have been "we understand you disagree, but we don't feel the posts you linked violate the rules" or "you're right, we missed those too," not "we didn't see those but also we're banning you for telling us about them."

They breed the hostile environment they complain so much about, and the cycle continues.

Was funnier without the whole fig circle tbh

Well, we can agree on that! Make paying contributors the cheaper option.

I won't hold my breath though. :')

I did already say I don't expect this to ever change, so "sorry mate," but you're not exactly telling me anything I don't know here.

But I suspect this was a knee-jerk rant typed before bothering to read past what you quoted. Oh well. Good thing I can still stand against something even if I don't expect it to change much.

Paying individual users isnt feasible

Sounds like their problem to solve, not mine.

Framing this solely as fear is extremely disingenuous. Speaking only for myself: I'm not against the development of AI or LLMs in general. I'm against the trained models being used for profit with no credit or cut given to the humans who trained it, willing or unwilling.

It's not even a matter of "if you aren't the paying customer, you're the product" - massive swaths of text used to train AIs were scraped without permission from sources whose platforms never sought to profit from users' submissions, like AO3. Until this is righted (which is likely never, I admit, because the LLM owners have no incentive whatsoever to change this behavior), I refuse to work with any site that intends to use my work to train LLMs.

It's a context thing, not a language thing. People will usually assume your title (hydrox) has something to do with the thing you posted (oreo knockoffs).

So because backups exist, everyone should be okay with buying bad hardware?

I know you're not actually saying that, but countering "this is a known firmware fault" with a reminder that backups should be done sure makes it look like you're saying that. There's still value in making sure consumers' money goes to products that last.

Did you just call Hydrox an Oreo knockoff

My dude, the better-entrenched brand is not always the original.

Disinterest is the default position until something sparks interest. Asking why I'm not interested is, with respect, a nonsense question that can only have one answer: because I haven't seen anything about it that sparks my interest. "It folds" is not enough to make me feel any desire to own one; I don't care that it folds. I don't need it to fold. To me, this is like installing a microwave in my vacuum cleaner. Like, sure, now my vacuum cleaner objectively does more stuff and "is better," but that's not exactly a feature I'm looking for in a vacuum cleaner, and size-changing is not a feature I'm looking for in a phone.

If you want one, you should get one. I'm glad the option exists so that people for whom "it folds" is enough to spark interest can be happy and have neat toys.

The phrase "what's stopping you" implies we're all interested, but hesitant.

This is a really, really bad assumption.

The standard "come prepared with a good question" is simply not as hard for a savvy user to meet as you're making it out; certainly it's far easier than scrying between the lines and derailing the topic on purpose, and it strikes me as arrogant that anyone would trust their own attempts at mind-reading more than the clear words on the page. I've got a very good idea why you're taking this all so personally that you're replying to it three weeks after any of it was active.

Well, at least the very fact that you're taking it personally means it dug deep enough that you're aware it's a problem, even if you still have a bit of a journey before you accept it needs a change.

Hey, thanks for that link! I'm really glad to have the details so I can verify for myself.

However, with that, I can REALLY confirm this is not an issue inherent to the DODI repack. DODI's is what I'm using and I have none of that on my system -- I checked with that powershell command, then also followed along with the comments to check other files and scheduled tasks that were mentioned.

That said, I got my download from torrentleech. I suspect a tainted version of the repack got onto certain other sites. It wouldn't be the first time (which is why I specify trusted sites and uploaders in addition to release groups).

Speaking only for myself, if I want to know the best way to do Y, I ask about how I can do Y. If I'm at the stage where I've moved on to asking about how to do X, there's a reason I want to approach the problem that specific way -- personal preference, limitations of my setup, learning a new approach, whatever else -- and I'm not there to get into some asinine argument defending my choice, I'm there to find out how to do X.

So while I'm well aware of the thought process behind it, I will never not find it incredibly disrespectful to disregard the question being asked in order to make snarky little guesses at intent and answer a totally different question.

For the RUNE release, it probably has more to do with what AV they're using and how sensitive it is. Cracked games flag AVs all the time, you have to pay attention to what it's alerting you about. If you're being careful and clean about the sites, uploaders, and release groups you trust, that "trojan" is usually nothing more than an injected hook to defeat DRM.

The DODI repack is based on the RUNE release which I believe is clean. Another commenter claims a found Trojan but there are others who found nothing, and imo it's probably just the usual crack shenanigans.

Edit: See replies! It seems there are tainted versions of the repack out there, but there are clean ones too. Remember to keep a critical eye on your sites and uploaders in addition to your release groups. There's a useful link in a reply to me below showing what you might see if you've downloaded a bad one.

You've just described literally everyone whose fashion ever went beyond jeans and basic shirts. Hell, even some of them have embarrassing haircuts.

They don't want ludicrously high quality productions using better models. They want Chun-Li. And under their control.

This isn't my thing, but I mean, you like what you like. It's like asking why anyone reads porn when video is available. They just don't scratch the same itch, and you like what you like.