wizardbeard

OT: Anybody up for making convincing fake book cover/jacket art for "Don't Build the Torment Nexus"?

It just occured to me that having that as a fake book that's actually just a container for shit would make for a great addition to my desk at work, and I'm not finding any suitable pre-existing fake covers myself, surprisingly.

Y Combinator CEO is launching a "dark money group" (not super familiar with the term, I guess they mean political lobbying group) becuase completely fucking over the entire tech startup space through VC shenanigans and manipulation of tech sphere opinions through controlled social media with HackerNews wasn't enough.

Lemmy thread that made me aware: https://lemmus.org/post/20140570

Actual article: https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-garry-tan-california-politics-garrys-list/

Nope. Ring cameras are part of Amazon Sidewalk which is effectively an automatic, invisible, and not end-user-controllable wireless mesh network "meant to keep devices working during wifi outages" or in other words to ensure the data makes it back to the cloud at any cost.

Their are more and more device manufacturers starting to use techniques like this to ensure connection regardless of owner intent.

Damn, I had figured this had simmered down, but this is some damning stuff.

That's one of the things I like about yt-dlp-nis on android. You can select all the options you want through the UI and grab the resulting yt-dlp cli command.

Yeah, pipes was awesome. The LTT shop has a button up with it as the pattern, but I can't justify $50 + shipping for a single button up shirt. And the drama from years ago as reported by GamersNexus etc makes me hesitate to give them money anyway.

Another one I love is the old 3d maze from Windows 95 or 98. I swear I remember details about it that it doesn't actually have though.

What were your favorites? I feel like we lost an entire genre of art now that nobody uses screensavers anymore.

Edit: And music visualizers too, but a good chunk of those have been saved by (I think it's called) Milkdrop, so you can still use them in modrrn FOSS music programs.

Flipping the switch gives you 1, 2, or 4 deaths. It will always end up looping those three numbers, so after an infinite amount of time it has to be one of those three options.

All three of those options are less than 5, and they occur after an infinite amount of time instead of (relatively speaking) immediately.

From both a pure numbers perspective and a theoretical minimizing or delaying harm perspective, pulling the lever is the right move.

Don't think that's caused by the dinners specifically here.

You can't seriously be saying that in the comments of a post linking to leaked internal documents showing that one of these companies is aware of the dangers they pose and damage they are doing. Did nazis falsify internal documents and this leak?

Did you somehow miss the Cambridge Analytica scandal with Facebook, where they manipulated the emotional content of users' feeds and gathered scientifically significant measurable responses in the emotions of the manipulated users?

Have you missed where each of these companies has had many public job postings for positions requiring applicants have psychology degrees?

People like to think of 4chan as the website that drove people to suicide, but every single one of the major social media sites has a fucking body count at this point, and almost every one is in the double digits.

Beyond all that, lemmy's userbase trends older. I saw the tail end of the satanic panic into the moral grandstanding about the dangers of violent video games. I'd wager most of the users here lived through it.

I know firsthand what a moral panic looks like. They didn't have the amount of research papers (that hold up to peer review) and leaked internal documents we can point at. They didn't have body counts even remotely similar.

Keep on fighting for opressed teens to have more ways to get away from opressive parents. To have access to factual information that their parents don't want them to have. It's a good cause with not many people fighting for it.

That doesn't mean though that anything you think challenges or opposes it is a nazi plot.

Teens are resilient and have astounding amounts of time on their hands. They'll find a way to communicate, ways to make their own underground social platforms if they need to. The cat's out of the bag. It's the fucking internet. Corpos, government boots, no one can truly stop the signal. They couldn't back in the days of dial up BBS. Good fucking luck now that you can get a device orders of magnitude more powerful for $50.

Don't bother replying for my sake. I'm blocking you so I don't get increasingly shitty towards you. Your mind's made up on this, and so is mine. No point going back and forth if we're just going to get more frustrated and exasperated at each other. Best of luck in your endeavours.

Some important context on this user before anyone else gets dragged into a discussion: check their post history, multiple to a "Youth Liberation" community.

No shade meant by calling it out, but I think that makes it much more clear how strong your opinions are on this. There's nothing to be gained in trying to talk to you about this when your opinions are set so strongly. You aren't going to see the dangers that the rest of us see because your focus is on allowing freedom from oppresive parental figures.

Edit: they also "won't give an inch on this"

Teens and children, and the pushback you're seeing is because a lot of people, even terminally online people, believe that limiting or preventing children (and teens) from accessing social media as they currently exist is part of making that happen.

You have to slow the bleeding first. You can't just ignore the broken leg and start physical therapy.

Teens vary wildly in maturity and are likely to be unfortunately caught up in rules for children. There's no easy cutoff age before 18 for when one can be trusted to be online without guard rails. I can speak from experience that teens will find a way whether its legal or not, so I'm not really super concerned about the ones who need access. They'll find a way.

And for every person like you that says they are still alive because of unrestricted internet, there's another one who is dead because of it. 4chan, tumblr, reddit even (remember when they "totally figured out the boston bomber"?), and more direct cyberbullying all claim lives. There were 3 suicides in my highschool growing up, two determined to be cyberbullying caused and the third just rumored. I almost lost one of my younger cousins to cyberbullying as well.