avian august: underrated birds edition day 05: black swan
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@arionwind.bsky.social
Adult, Great Lakes Coast, US, if you need to know anything else, you probably do already or will soon.
Copyright is one aspect of this, but Google Spreadsheets hold a boatload of private information. I'm sure some org's using it as a password manager.
i love saying "her charm points ^_^" in reference to a trait a character has that would make her insufferable to be in the same room with
While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate
The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
if it's layoffs on ship no matter what, never pay that company for anything. why would you. your money will never reach anyone who worked on what you bought, or respected those people. you'll not be investing in anything in any sense software is on the honour system and these people have no honour
Halo Studios Hit by Layoffs After Campaign Evolved Launch insider-gaming.com/halo-studios...
quoting this (with kindness) to address it because it's a common sentiment. everyone says "but unbeatable's art style is all hand drawn! it SHOULDN'T require t" no it does. how do you think the hand drawn pictures get to you? it's a lot of pictures, and they all have to be in memory at the same time
ok the gpu and cpu aren't that restrictive but 16gb of ram for minimum requirements feels a little insane for UNBEATABLE...
there are reasons you don't see a lot of games that look like ours does! it's not just demanding to create this kind of thing but it can be demanding to run it. anyway thank you for your time and thank a you so much for a playing my game
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LRP is an example of why legislating away GenAI (even if it were possible) will not solve our problems: companies doing this at all is the issue and if we target technology not conduct, they will just keep fucking doing it until they are actually held to account.
"TikTok’s algorithm pushed him thousands of videos about suicide, sadness, hopelessness and loneliness, right up until he killed himself." The company did this "by design" to test the effect on "daily active users" "one of the top data points by which Wall Street judges social media companies"
If they haven't figured out why I'm always lying to my mom than clearly I haven't been trauma dumping enough and it's time to pretend we are going to play Catan again
my sparkledog days may be over but i carry her in my heart.. (2010,2011,2012,2026)
Ex sparkledog
Words cannot properly express how absolutely stunning this comm I got from @ymr18.bsky.social is !! She did such an incredible job and it really feels like she reached into my brain and grabbed this composition, I am SOOO in love with it 🥹 #zenztli #EztliComms