Venia Silente @ veniasilente @lemm.ee

Hi I'm a non-AI person, 100% human or at least furry. Also ''venia_sil'' on

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I took the liberty of reading the article but I'm gonna say the title is quite... tendentious. Makes it sound like it's yet another one of those FUD / nutjob clickbait that have been coming at the privacy community for a few days with sensationalist titles such as "The CIA will stop funding Signal" (never has been) or "FBI wants to sell Wikipedia" (never has been).

What is going on?

EDIT: Cosmic Cleric has provided the definition of "tendentious", which I have linked.

To be fair something like the dialer or the gallery or the notes, you can just sticky the current version you have. It's unlikely to ever see major / important changes, I mean all the dialer has to do is to dial numbers, right=

Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this…

And this is why I never pay for apps. You never know what changes (external or internal) are going to enshittify it next.

I know there's Pegascape but 1.- it requires a stock V1 Switch, of which there's extra-limited supply and lower TTL 2.- stuck in low firmware and 3.- it's a volatile entrypoint anyway. So I never count it.

Nature is healing!

It’s 100% possible to put pirated games on the Switch - in fact, it’s as easy as it could reasonably be.

I wish it was that easy! So far, the only way I know of is a hardmod, which already DQs for any remotely sensible form of DIY, and means a very real possibility of turning the Switch into a fancy paperweight.

As if you were speaking for me.

The easy solutiont o that is getting rid of the oligarchs then.

2.1 mili homes

I'm... quite sure they do worse than that.

Trademark is not ownership of the word. Anyone and everyone can use the word "Portal" to speak about the game, its mods, its lore, fan content, likes and subscribes, etc.

The video was originally titled in the already common pattern across all industries in the media: "Work title: Work subtitle - Official Announcement". It's honestly not hard to parse, and it does not constitute in itself any judgment on whether it's Valve's Portal or the Portal of anyone else who can and is allowed to use the name (think eg.: I write my college thesis and announce it as "Portal: Why the Game is Good - Official Announcement").

I do be fair and mention I come from the Pokémon fandom, where (until the series went into Yearly Crunch) the amount of fan content more than 7x-ed the amount of "official media" so one learns to parse announcements and titles faster. I guess I'm trained by a different internet than yours. However I don't get why you think I'm somehow "flinging insults", but I guess that just strengthens my point that elementary education should be revisited.

I mean... yes?

Okay, monday morning. So, where is it?

The meaning is contextual.

Exactly: and it says "official trailer" — separated from the rest by a fancy hyphen just like what I have used. The context is quite clear that it's the trailer that's official, and thus the meaning is quite clear as well.

The title and thumbnail is quite clear that it's the trailer that's official. Nowhere does it says it's a Portal from Valve. Even more there is no reason for such assumption: Valve does not hold copyrights or ownership over the world "portal" on the dictionary.

What we are seeing here is a failure to follow elementary school education.

Why is this on !upliftingnews?

implying I'm from the US

good try, asshat.

Good catch! This is something I've never seen the"reddit report" complainers process adequately or offer a counterpoint to.

Been wondering about that.

A few years ago I took on the practice of (as a writer) posting on FFN only to announce that my stories are on AO3. Try and drive the reader engagement from the bad site to the cool site and all that. Presumably what is intended here is that eg.: if I find a post / subject of discussion that I want to comment on on Reddit, what I do is post in an equivalent Lemmy community (or Kbin magazine, for that matter) and point to it in a Reddit post? Kinda like "read my comments on this subject here [link]"?

Interestingly, that'd be not too different from how one does with a blog, yes?

I like the model in that it's kinda instant awareness - there's almost no way to miss that the link goes to a different domain, among other things. What I wonder however is how much effective would it be at drawing in people vs being disregarded as (and even being modop'd away as) an ad.

Not if you ascribe to Woolseyism.

It looks unprofessional

Are you complaining about this for free software when some software and platform thatcost around $44B (or $8/mo) are literal Nazi stinkholes?