What made you a user of dbzer0 and moderator in this community? Dbzer0 is a self-described anarchist instance with rules like “no tankie shit” and I’d expect support for exposing an imperialist government (or any government) from an anarchist.

In your own community’s side bar, the latest article at the first link is on Russia’s disinformation. You also link to Media Bias Fact Check, which marks all of the sources linked from KremlinOps at the time of your comment as either “least biased” or somewhat left-biased and ranging from “mostly factual” to “highly factual”.

That’d be a lot better than all the “vibe-coded” recompilations. GOG itself is guilty of using gen AI, as evident from its store banners.

Yeah, given Andy’s message in those very screenshots and how different he is in public compared to those Slack chats, they carefully craft their image on the internet and specifically on reddit.

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Tone policing? When you’re essentially abusing your employees by treating them like that, you’re going to get subpar results. People unhappy with their work have no incentive to do it exceptionally. And that’s not even getting into the how of Yen’s growth strategy also discussed in the recent 404 Media reports that my post and their reply directly tie into.

From a scroll through their list of blocked instances, I’m not so sure. Judging by the names, it’s mostly not serious instances and the tankie instances known for harassment. One search for “lemmy instance no email” leads to reddthat, and that’s not blocked by .world despite being among the most active (thus more likely to attract spam or abuse according to that theory).

What’s the selling point of Proton in your opinion?

It’s a toxic culture and we have to ask for better.

On the negative side:

• All votes are public on Lemmy but that’s not made obvious to the users.
• Your whole history is public with no control over that. If someone wanted to pull that data via the API, then feed it to AI and build a profile on you, they easily can.

On the positive side:

• Not every instance even requires that you give your email address to the admins. Some require it but allow to remove it after the fact (so if your account gets hacked or there’s a leak, that data might not leak).
• While AI can be trained on your comments and build a profile on you, it’s not a given that it will be. On reddit, that’s done by default, with no way to opt out.
• Every instance being independent means that even if the admins of one abuse their power or do things you disagree with, you can just switch to a different one.
• Practically no access restrictions. You can read without an account. You can use a VPN. You can have countless alts. You can use any app of choice.

This case of admin power abuse by Rooki.

He’s not the CEO as far as I’m aware, but it’s still a valid reason to stay away from Mullvad.

Reminds me of how Lemmy.world handled Rooki’s misconduct. They made a statement and even admitted some wrongdoing but kept Rooki as a moderator. If I were working at Proton, none of that would make Yen less toxic and more tolerable.

PSA Lemmy does not have private profiles, so there’s no illusion of that here.

Why would they need to decompile it if they legally own it? Chances are they have the source code. The game isn’t so old that it would have been on a lost floppy disk or something.

Whenever I see “AI-assisted”, it means it’s entirely from prompts to an LLM. If lucky, it’s then reviewed by someone competent, but usually not.

I was about to say I haven’t heard much from the developer in a while, but apparently it has a new name and it’s behind the new Silent Hill Townfall. Looking forward to playing that at some point, as I too enjoyed Observation.

Summit was alright when Boost wouldn’t display images on my end before that was fixed. I tried out Summit again more recently but it’s just not the same experience and the difference is even bigger if you use light themes. I could never set up Summit in a way that would match my Boost experience.

Also your city and ISP, but that information isn’t mentioned, so it’s evident it wasn’t to catch all. Nothing in the way it’s worded is consistent with your rationale, and the actual policy is significantly more broad. They’re not specifying the information shared with law enforcement would be limited to the IP address or data that can be gathered from it. It’s a completely separate row.

I don’t see how an auto-update feature would need any of those things either. The request is made by the remote user to the Audacity update server. Of course, Linux servers typically keep logs, but that would be one line saying that in order for the app to check for updates or to be updated, an IP address and connection timestamp may end up on the update server.

It wasn’t about “shoddy tech reporting”. Why would a FOSS audio editing app need to know your country, any personal “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)”, share it with a wide network of people and potential buyers, as well as their “main office in Russia”? There should be no telemetry of any sort. Any logs kept should be strictly local, which would allow users to send them to the support team voluntarily.