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  • Trump plan to end free elections in 2026 and 2028 revealed

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  • It's roughly how it works elsewhere. I was surprised to see that you don't need an id or a document to vote there.

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • We're sneaky. I call it effective authoritarianism, it's a sugar coated baton

  • "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal

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  • No one will lament the removal of No Mercy from sale on Steam, but whenever a net like this is thrown over an entire area of perceived problematic content, there will be well-intentioned games caught in the net too. Specifically, LGBTQ+ games are under threat - games that don't align with the Christian values underpinning the pressure group Collective Shout.

    In the article that you claimed to read...

  • "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal

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  • Unironically it will bring more people to dark corners of the net, foul content was always free. Now i'm not going for these games, but also comparing the entire nsfw genre to specific games is disingenuous. At the same time violence and shocking real life images are fine, right?

    Nsfw involves adult themes that aren't sexual.

    That means censoring the self expression of consenting adults.

    This creates a huge bottleneck that eventually just leads to this growing in the back of the visible. Porn addiction is a problem, sure. How did pre-teens gain access to this content? Didn't parents give them a fully capable computer at all times?

    Back when i used a computer, I only had access to research and office, also flash games. Other than that I had other devices and offline games, on cd.

    Modern devices have better parental controls but nobody uses them, old computers had virtually none. Turns out you can do your parenting.

    The dangers of this privacy invasive solution is the exposure of personal ID to questionable places, while bringing people towards bad places, that don't ask for things.

    Kinda like pirating a game as a kid, because you couldn't buy it, but you only got viruses afterwards. Same deal.

  • Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

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  • It's meant to be read like a boris skit, than it works flawlessly.

  • Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

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  • It was due to the actual active minefields in certain region of the EU. But i was always so confused by that name. 'Prato fiorito' does it mean that if I step on the flowers i explode? This is what i thought back than.

  • Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan

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  • You have the level of understanding of a redditor.

  • Which of theses games should i play?

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  • Luanti is good for the user made games. So many of them, there's one decent backrooms game too, I know there are rare finds.

    But, minecraft is unkillable and unreplacable. I play with a tombstone and a minimap addon. I also have a herobrine mod that isn't from the fog, and apparently herobrine likes to charge creepers so the early game was difficult.

    There is an lotr game for luanti you should check it.

    Luanti has a questionable menuing is awful. Survival craft has a better system and that's one game you completely forgot. I personally like it but it's mostly actual survival, like hunting and trying not to die to feral beasts. The night in survival craft is terrifying.

    But vintage story is where you want to be. It's gaining momentum.

    If you want to play old minecraft either try multimc or betacraft launcher, that version of the game is also unique.

  • Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan

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  • Apparently the platform operated as some sort of gossipping/reporting system where unaware men and guys could be posted, so they could basicallly do the same thing that happened to them, all on one if the most unsafe system possible.

    Honestly I see this as a consequence of their own actions mostly the database was unprotected. Their purpose was to document men behind their back. Turns out it backfired.

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • I absolutely don't go asking around if you believe. And i can't legally carry swords. Or battle axes. Or even knives in general.

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • Having public social media can be useful. And it was always possible even before (oh yes MySpace). My issue is having this eternal access as a proof of existance on you all the time. I am fine with the idea of having a public life, what triggers me is the normalisation of surveillance from subjects who never had the concept of being surveillance actors in the first place.

    Not to mention, how many abusive partners are already using this feature already? I guess many more than just jealus couples. Airtags had the same problems, but thera are apps to let you spot them, even than they're an invasive technology. Position sharing can be invasive too. Even voluntary sharing is probably worse than we think.

    There are few cases where i can think this as a useful feature, like incidents or other unspecified situations.

    The one thing that stands out is that this is active constantly. It's not situational. The article doesn't do a good job at detailing the possible abuses of the function but they're there, they were the same with gps trackers and airtags. Gps devices are notoriously expensive relative to these alternatives so nowadays only a certain person would use them.

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • If there's an emergency it will be known regardless. Levels of paranoia that are not justified; how many emergencies have you been in where an Internet connected device is so important in the shortest amount of time? Or at all. No. You might need a phone. But not an app in particular.

    And for long term emergencies an fm/am radio is a better tool than the Internet.

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • a common way to keep tabs on friends, family and romantic partners so I allow the app to alert him each time I reach my front door. In a disappointingly heteronormative and retrograde move, I’m more interested in knowing when he goes out – where’s he off to now? – and set up my own notifications accordingly. Having grown up with the internet, gen Z are, generally, more comfortable sharing their data online; Snapchat, the social media platform notoriously most popular with younger users, has long incorporated location sharing with its Snap Maps feature.

    Does anyone even have a private moment at all? Also if I were to cheat I'd leave my phone in a very specific spot if I can. Faux location services may work, but mostly switching to a feature phone seems to be secret trick that shuts down these app fueled nightmare.

    Oh, sorry, the battery is down I had to switch to my old phone for a moment! When did we stop having private moments and thoughts? I like tech when it aides me, but recently it has been feeding off my personal time and even some order of thoughts in ways it didn't do before. It almost feels like it tries to fix and set up human emotions in ways that are forced.

    Do you want technology to replace normal communication and socialisation skills? Or does it even matter to you that it is what happens now. Remember that only a few years before nobody followed you all the day, and even the internet access was relegated to a computer room. How far have we come from that?

  • Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

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  • You know by now you might have to use crypto for yer sinful games.

  • Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US

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  • My theory is that if you're cute you're socially protected and the same applies to states and countries. Switzerland is quite the nice place and there are cultural hubs of historical importance, so it has the cute look now doesn't it.

  • Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US

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  • I know this and i know that political systems in Switzerland are really unique. I think this kind of thing can pass despite the robust involvement of the civil society, mostly because it's an update on a preexisting law. But this is something I can't tell as of now.

  • Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Clocks Up 114,000+ Concurrent Player Peak On Launch Day, But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews

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  • It's at 21% positive score on steam. Apparently it doesn't run it crawls.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • Female Peasant

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  • The one thing that went down would be international travel, because the Roman infrastructure was left to rot or became dangerous to use. On the other hand naval travel became more important, the gold standard was replaced by silver, with the exception of the Islamic empires of the time that still used the gold coin as the default.

    The years following the fall of the Western roman empire up to the year 1000 were arguably the most unstable and maybe this is where a certain imagery comes from. Even than there had to be local markets.

    The evolution of language and culture alone is interesting enough on its own. Than, there's the whole deal with castle and fortresses. Castles were not these in the fairytales, early castles were settlements reminiscent of your minecraft builds. A set of enclosures, walled of course, with a central building followed by lesser houses and activities.

    The kind of castle you're thinking of used to belong to higher ones like princes or important people, the kind of thing you imagined in the Ivanhoe. The average feudal settlement was the aforementioned set of enclosures, that also served as an administrative layer.

    Feudal Lords were absolutely vile in the way they used their right over the people under them. Occasionally even inbred. That is somewhat true. Also the more sophisticated castle were not funny places to be in if you weren't the right person.