Pretty good work with the design on the original spec species, the idea of adapting it into something like Normal/Poison feels sound.

Any particular reason why you used the G2 Pokédex style (and limitations)?

What are those benefits? The only potential one I have direct experience with (besides speed) is that the connector is reversible, but even that’s small-time and a flat out objective downgrade compared to the circular connectors of the 90s, which could be plugged in regardless of orientation.

Sure, if you want; as long as whoever does that retrofits all my USB-A devices.

Wow hadn’t seen that image in a good while!

It changed my economy game.

Now I have to buy an USB-C to USB-A adaptor to plug USB-C stuff into my already standing devices. Honestly, no idea why didn’t they make it connector-compatible. Wasn’t that the entire point of the “U” in “USB”?

effectively forcing their own personal feed preferences on everyone who uses Lemmy

But… that’s how voting literally works. Hence one of the smartest ideas I saw once for Lemmy (and for the Fediverse in general) was to substitute upvoting/downvoting for “voting on tags”, such as being able to tag a post as “fake news”, “inspiring” or “AI generated” and have people vote on those instead of on the psot / comment proper. Alas, I don’t know what ever happened to that proposal, and could never find it again to track it down.

But, see, that’s the thing and that’s why there’s an important difference between blocking and downvoting:

If I block something bad, like say fake news or fascism or AI, I block it only for me, it’s only protecting myself; but if I downvote it, I also help protect my peers. If we want to make community, that’s very important. And like any measure, it can be gamed, but so long as it’s the one option we have, we gotta use like that. I expect AI slop to be batch-downvoted; if I didn’t, I’d be back at Reddit.

punishing people for downvoting AI slop

Now that would be quite the turn… Downvoting AI slop is the basic human decency I’d expect from Lemmy.

isolate your identity! avoid leaks! avoid payments! don’t use tracking! avoid analytics!

come join us in our Discord!

…something… does not compute.

Why don’t you speak what you truly believe instead of copy-pasting the same gaslighting everywhere? We already made you, anyway.

Ok, but I would say that these concerns are all small potatoes compared to the potential for the general public gaining the ability to query a system with synthesized expert knowledge obtained from scraping all academically relevant documents.

If any of that was actually true, yeah. But it’s not, it can’t be, and it won’t be.

As with all world-changing technology, “the general public” will never truly obtain its power, not until it has been well squeezed by the elites for gains. Not only that, “the general public” obtaining this power would be devastating on the simple physical principle that this kind of technology depends on ruining the ecology. And this whole “synthethized expert knowledge”… man, that’s three words that mean absolutely nothing when chained together because it’s all illusion: it’s not actual knowledge, it’s not expert, and it’s not even synthetized, at best it’s emulated. It’s all a tangle of lies and make-believes sold on bulk with zero accountability.

But sure, nice dream. I want a Lamborghini, too.

This puts a whole new spin on “running out of IPv4”.

Establishing an continuing a precedent is important.

Now that you mention indie games, I think it’s important to distinguish intents and showcase how publishers are shooting themselves in the foot.

Someone who pirated an indie game (why tho?) and liked it, is more likely to pay for it because indie publishers also provide better medium to pay for the actual software, or contribute to the actual developer, with fewer middlemen and rent-seekers. If someone pirated an AAA game and liked it and wanted to buy it, their options are still limited due to one of the main reasons of having pirated the game in the first place. At prices of, like, US$ 60 lol, hey’d have to wait until a Steam supersale or smth…

Certainly this whole leak thing has been A Gift.

They could steal your personal data without you knowing.

Hah! Like the “legal” services are much better than that!

but feel the punishment does not fit the crime.

Agree. Was too soft. She went in and charged to vandalize and attack asylum seekers. Maybe some exile will teach her some empathy on how those people were already feeling.

Technically the media conglomerates should be the ones to be sued: they provide material to be pirated in the first place!

You can be ordered to log however.

Zero-knowledge protocols are important.

Nice try, fed.

It’s impressive. Any other country in the world that was bombing two (2) (Dos) countries at a time nowadays would get hell of flack.

But not the 21st century Nazis, not them!