smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I guess he's seeing the existence of trans women as proof of his theory.

"Trans women are trying to replace RealTM women" is a surprisingly common TERF talking point.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 60 points 5 months ago (6 children)

tar -xzf

(read with German accent:) extract the files

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

OK im gonna stop commenting now.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Ah, I think my edible just hit, that explains it

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 23 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Oops, might have gone a little off topic there.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 64 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Oof yeah. Finding a reddit thread with your exact query as the title, getting excited to see a comment, aaaaand... It's "This comment was deleted by EliteUltraEraser Premium TM. I value my privacy,...."

(I do get it though. And who knows, maybe this will actually help in the long run ~~and not just lead to increased usage of Discord communities so ask the same thing over and over and over again because they aren't fucking publicly searchable god I hate what Discord has done to the searchability of issues in the tech space~~?)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I FOUND A STACK OVERFLOW QUESTIONS RECENTLY THAT WAS LITERALLY THIS!

Nr. 1 accepted answer (lots of years ago): something something plenty of information available on Google, no need for this thread

Nr. 2 answer (way fewer years ago): seeing as this is now the first Google result for anything relating to this, here's how you do it.

(shame I can't remember what exactly the question was. Please still believe me? 🥺)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm nooo, I have no problem with you speaking, I'm just pointing out that what you speak makes no sense. That's just free speech :)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 43 points 5 months ago (4 children)

OK im starting to have doubts that this is legit. Looks like OP (or OOP, idk) just found a classifier which misclassified that image. Nothing I'm seeing indicates that it's the classifier used for her stupid app.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I... What?

If I were to plot all of your positions on the political compass, would that draw Rick Astley...?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 148 points 5 months ago (13 children)

This is hilarious, but also: how could anyone develop such a tool and not at least test it out on their own images? Someone with a public persona no less! Boggles my mind.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Additionally: word of mouth can turn into sales down the line, too, if the pirate liked the game and talks about it.

At worst, the developer isn't negatively impacted (by people pirating a game they couldn't afford / had no intention of buying), at best it leads to more sales.

I don't see the problem.

And I know that someone reading this will be foaming at their mouth, excited to say "But what if everyone did this? Then developers/studios/... wouldn't make any money and stop producing games/movies/...!", so I have to preemptively add the following:

  • obviously this is not the case. Pirates have existed for decades.
  • pirates pirate because the cost is either too high for them to afford, or higher than what they value the game/... at. If you consider yourself a "rational capitalist" (which, let's be real, is what most of the anti-piracy-crowd sees themselves at) then consider this as the market working as intended: demand simply isn't high enough at the price they're selling at
  • and once more, just to make sure this comes across, pirating a digital product incurrs zero (0) loss on the side of the developer/studio. No, you can not count "virtual" losses from what they could have sold if the pirates ever had the intention of buying, or pirating didn't exist (because, y'know, it does).

Edit: btw I say this as someone who has never pirated a game except for Minecraft when I was, like, 10. I love playing (esp. Indie) games and am happy to pay for them. I just want people to leave folks alone who can't.

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