wizardbeard

Apologies in advance, I may have just discovered my personal inner schizo.

Don't forget that there is a massive, coordinated campaign to get us to eat our own by overemphasizing life differences in the range of poverty to upper middle class while shrouding the realities of life in the 1% amd underemphasizing the difference between "can send my kid to private school" and "could build a private school for my kid".

On its face it sounds absolutely absurd to lump in Ivy League Greg with Trailer Park Steve, but they both have far more in common with each other than they do with multi-millionaires. The knee jerk almost primal rejection of that idea that comes quickly to most people is fucking intentionally taught into us.

Even when dealing with bullshit like this, trying to "rules lawyer" online when a moderation group has made their stance known loud and clear rarely works out well.

Also, just in the rare case you didn't know, Lemmy is more than just .world. It's not like Reddit where you're just stuck with the Reddit admins.

You could register an account on any instance you want. The overwhelming majority of them would still allow you to interact with content from .world, but the worst the .world admins could do would be to ban you from a .world version of a "subreddit".

I've been very happy with the admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com, a former mod (I think former head mod) of the piracy subreddit that resigned with the API mess. Doesn't seem to take action lightly or capriciously, content to let the community make decisions through open discussion and polls rather than just iron fist their wishes through.

You do realize, even for an opinion piece, this is astoundingly poor quality and taste? You can tell by having two brain cells to rub together.

I expect this sort of shit from a tabloid, not from any organization claiming journalistic integrity. A shitty piece is still a shitty piece, even if it's hiding behind the opinion column banner.

"Cranking your hog" could be used as euphemism for male masturbation, but the "joke" is that it's probably the most ridiculous way you could refer to jerking off.

It also could be used to mean cranking the throttle on a motorcycle.

So THE PACK (the "wolf" pack) is kind of a mix of taking the piss out of: edgy/hardcore biker t-shirts/culture, ridiculously over the top support groups, occasional "wife bad" boomer humor, and the fact that a lot of "strong male" branded stuff is just a hair away from being extremely homoerotic. They're also legitimately just a fun group of general positive supportive posters.

I DON'T MIND DOING THE DISHES BUT I'D RATHER BE CRANKIN MY HOG WITH MY BROS

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Can anyone provide any more context besides a github that only has a multi-page code of conduct as the readme?

I thought homeassistant rolled out voice control features around the end of last year/start of this one.

My daughter isn't even two yet, but I'm definitely trying to plan a balance with this. It's a huge part of how I learned, and I don't think I would have learned nearly as much or as well otherwise.

At the same time though, I can't help but feel like ads and the internet are far more insidious than they were when I first went online in 2000.

Malware is much more sneaky. There's more spare resources for it to use without impacting performance. Ads have likewise had plenty of time to develop/advance/get worse.

Thankfully, ad blocking, anti-malware, and recovery tools have also advanced.

I think for the early days I'll have her on an isolated, locked down, pre-protected device for learning the basics of using a computer (mouse, files, the type of stuff they used to teach in elementary school).

Then slowly take off the training wheels.

Always wanted my car seat to resemble a wrinkly scrote.

I've got a tyke under the age of two. I always let my wife eat first while I feed our kid.

If my daughter is being tough, by the time it gets frustrating my wife is done eating and I can tap her in. If my daughter is being easy, I can get her taken care of and whatever mess she makes eating cleaned up first, so I can eat in relative peace.

Unless the charming little gremlin decides she needs some of my food. "Daddy daddy, bite please! Yum! Yum! Please!"

Regardless, I can avoid feeling rushed, or like I'm putting off something.

According to the itch.io owner on bluesky, a forum was created on itch.io for discussion of Funko Fusion (a licensed Funko game that just released on the Switch, per Funko's twitter).

Funko uses a third party (Brand Shield) for IP protection and issuing DCMA requests, as most big companies do to help shield from bad PR.

Brand Shield uses an AI based system that flagged the forum as infringing. Instead of contacting itch.io directly through proper channels for DMCA claims with the site itself, they contacted itch.io's DNS registrar iwantmyname. These are people that connect "itch.io" to the IP address of the server, so you can get to it easily online.

iwantmyname forwarded the complaint to itch's hosting service, who forwarded it to the owner.

The itch.io owner took down the forum/page that was flagged as soon as they recieved notice about it, as they say it's not worth trying to fight this sort of thing when it's just a basic DCMA flagging. They informed their hosting service, who confirmed the page was taken down and itch.io was in the clear. They also informed iwantmyname, who did not respond at all, and instead stopped pointing "itch.io" at the itch.io IP, taking the site down.

itch.io's owner starts posting on bluesky and x about the event, and within about half a day the registrar reinstates the site.

Someone (so far unidentified but clearly associated with Funko) contacts the itch.io owner's mother and makes some threatening comments to her about statements on her son's social media accounts, scaring her into texting him a "please call me" type text. He screenshots this and posts it to twitter.

Funko makes an "apology" post on twitter that distinctly lacks any actual apology, shifts all the blame to the third party IP protection company, and states that the flagged page was impersonating an official development page for their game. But they're "happy" the issue is resolved.

Funko publicly stating the page that was flagged was impersonating an official page is a pretty serious claim, especially along with the very obvious scare tactics of contacting the itch.io owner's mother. Make no mistake, those are both big fucking threats.

That seems like pretty fucking cut and dry harassment. Guy didn't make any libellous claims.

I hope they can get a damn good lawyer with some help from EFF or something. Would love to see Funko get torn a new asshole over this, especially since he claims it wasn't even copyright infringing material but a fucking fan forum for an official funko branded game that got the site improperly flagged.