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PiraHxCx

@ PiraHxCx @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Americans rarely refer to the US as America

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  • In my country you can know someone's politics just by knowing if they call people from the USA americanos or estadounidenses.

  • Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

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  • I mean, wikipedia is all maintained by unpaid volunteers, and from the 184 million dollars they got from donations last year alone only about 2% were spent on running the service, and they can't do what one guy on his garage does for free for the whole world and now they want to play the high horse? Fuck them.

    The guy is being targeted by very big actors, they all reference a single blog, and check if the people associated with The Pirate Bay or Wikileaks had any good time when they were targeted by those actors... yeah, surprise surprise the guy is big antisocial and acted antisocial, giving a 404 to the media links wouldn't change what is already out there, and using his resources to target the blog bandwidth to try to force it offline after having his requests denied was... questionable... Streisand effect blah blah blah, but didn't hurt the users, and apparently not even the blog, I think the choice is very clear: Siding with one guy that has been doing fantastic preservation work for the whole world for free for more than a decade VS Siding with random blogger that tried to uncover his identity and, after having his article used to harass the guy, still decided to not take it down temporarily.

    Oh, the antisocial weirdo said some childish and questionable shit, time to cancel him! Don't worry, some perfect beacon of morality PR posterboy approved by the HR sensibility training will show up to pick up the work... not.

  • Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

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  • This is hilarious hahaAnd turns out a lot of tech genius doing very important work for public good aren't very well in the head, and that's ok,

  • Morals and aesthetics are the same thing, just differing contexts. Both are a sense of rightness.

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  • "I really like the 60s [ ] of this apartment""His actions made me question his [ ]"

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • Yep, hate when I want to follow some project and they link you to X, Reddit and Discord lol

  • The last thing people want is to stop wanting

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  • There is a whole religion based on wanting to stop wanting.

  • Your Linux PC is NOT private out of the box

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  • The other day I was writing in my notebook and then I opened it later to check, and everything that I wrote was there! If someone could get their hands on my notebook, they could read all my notes!

  • Can't Unsubscribe from Newsletter, anyone else?

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  • Oh, I got the Alone in the Dark trilogy the other day yeah and I don't think I ever got a free game on GOG before. But I'm pretty sure I unsubscribed from their newsletter when they sent the email this Thursday. I did it again, I hope it works this time, else gonna have to contact support.

  • Can't instances and communities set a default language for posts/comments, and are language tags available for everyone in the Threadiverse?

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  • Also I just tried to comment on a post on lemmy.world and got an error message saying language not allowed.

  • Favorite movie

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  • Well, I consider "classics" the ones from the '40s and '50s. My grandparents had a bunch of them on VHS and I'd always watch them when I was a kid, and back then I had no idea they were that old (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp...). They are all beautiful pieces of animation, and Fantasia is quite interesting from a technical standpoint.But my favorite cartoons are probably the ones from the '90s: Mulan, Tarzan, Hercules... - The Lion King was also a great feat of animation. Two other movies I watched a lot as a kid were Oliver & Company and The Aristocats.However, as an adult, the only Disney movie I actually like and would rewatch is Cruella (2021)...

    If we count Pixar, Wall-E was also cool, and I watched the first Toy Story tons of times.

  • Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy!

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  • To people downvoting: are you also mad that Valve/Epic/PSN/etc have to follow GDPR data regulations for EU citizens and keep representatives there, or is sovereignty only bad when a non–first-world country dares to claim it?

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  • plot twist: it isn't the same guy in every panel.

  • Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy!

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  • Countries do this way more often than you think... they have always done that with movies preventing official releases or releasing edited versions, and as for games tons have localized versions since ever, from censorship of nudity in Japanese games in the USA market to censorship of Nazi flags in games in Germany and even LGBT references in tons of Eastern countries. I'd love if piracy exploded because fuck them billion dollar companies, but they usually just change a few art assets and that's it.

    What type of content you fear your government may consider risky? Is someone there in a paranoia of video games causing violence?Unless they would be banning stuff like GTA, Call of Duty and Battlefield entirely because of violence, I really doubt gamers would go out of their way in enough numbers to cause any ruckus just because they absolutely have to play the version of the game that has an LGBT flag in some building or certain character is transgender.

  • Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy!

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  • That's a very common and very reasonable request, and given the size of Turkey, I don't think they'd prefer to lose the whole market there instead of having a lawyer in the country to deal with local legal requests.

    Only when it's companies run by manchildren, like X and Rumble, they go on the internet to cry about censorship and shit when they pikachu-face-discover they have to follow a country's laws to operate in that country.

    ps: You are already not buying games when you pay for them on Steam.

    edit: To people downvoting: are you also mad that Valve/Epic/PSN/etc has to follow GDPR data regulations for EU citizens and keep representatives there, or is sovereignty only bad when a non–first-world country dares to claim it?

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    In a few years, the western liberals who claim to want a world led by countries outside the west are gonna get what they wished for, and realise that means western liberal values lose

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  • I have read it here: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/01/30/two-chinese-men-detained-over-ai-generated-picture-of-pandas-engaging-in-same-sex-behavior/

    at least three similar incidents have occurred in Chengdu recently, all involving netizens posting on social media linking Chengdu with homosexuality, resulting in legal repercussions. This isn’t just about giant pandas. I think the local police’s reaction was somewhat excessive,” said Renn Hao, a Chinese queer activist. “The content was actually praising Chengdu’s inclusivity, and there was no need to punish them with regulations like ‘maliciously spreading false information.’”

    “This situation reflects the strict censorship of LGBT related content in the area,” they added. “This censorship makes LGBT-related content increasingly invisible, and people are even more afraid to post or mention it. This not only impacts the LGBTQ+ community in China but also hinders public understanding and awareness of this group.”

    more context I've read from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/21/china-gay-panda-chengdu/

    Wang Xuetang, a lawyer with J. Tongue Law Office in Shenzhen, says the suspects in the “gay pandas” case were penalized not for rumormongering, but for the AI-modified news photo they produced.

    “This case has been described as a stigmatization of Chengdu, because many netizens joked that homosexuality is so widespread in the city that even pandas there turned gay.

    Officials appear to be trying to erase Chengdu’s unofficial queer capital status, he said.

    Wang noted that most of the Chengdu cases were defined as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vaguely-defined criminal offense that has often been used to control speech and deter dissent.

    “There used to be a vibrant gay scene in Chengdu, and LGBTQ people there were highly visible and welcomed,” said Kenneth Cheung, a Hong Kong-based activist who founded the LGBTQ+ rights group Rainbow China. “Now, that culture increasingly faces challenges,” especially following the recent detentions, he said.

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  • Just yesterday I was reading about those two guys arrested in China for using AI to make images of gay pandas having sex... great prospects for all furries and LGBT fans of China (which also has such wonderful scores on feminism). It also works for the people praising the establishment of more dogmatic conservative religious groups in western countries because it's so progressive to do so, but you can't mention this on Leopards Ate My Face...

  • Censorship is a much greater crime than insult.

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  • Insult isn't even a crime :P

    edit: Shouldn't be a crime.Unpopular Opinion: Adults that can't handle insults are overgrown children. Most of the time insults are to the detriment of the person insulting anyway.

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  • You know that thing on video games that stuff is only rendered when the player is looking at it? A simulated universe could probably save a lot of energy by implementing something like that, like particles behaving like waves until observed.

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  • A simulated universe would probably have some hard caps introduced to reduce computational needs, like some minimum temperature things can reach or max velocity.