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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Beautiful and Feature-rich Music & Video Player with Youtube Support, Built in Flutter⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agreed, I cut myself off before the diatribe became a screed, but if I had kept going I would have touched on that point. You did it a lot more succinctly than I would have. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Beautiful and Feature-rich Music & Video Player with Youtube Support, Built in Flutter⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I realised I had bitten off far more than I could chew so I dragged in the slop bots. I could have opened the project up to other contributors and or stepped back or even away entirely and let the project continue but it made more sense for me to let big tech splooge all over it.

  Maybe I am being unfair, but fuck that so sick of this slop code shit ruining everything because people are too fucking lazy to write their own code, too proud to get help, and too dumb to utilise the appropriate free software license.

  And before one of the AI fucking collaborators chimes in “erghh local models” its all still built on theft of the community commons, and once the AI industry shits itself to death and the VC funding dries up development will stagnate, who is going to pay out the mega dollars to train new models, so your local models will see some minor updates but that’s it, I’d be really careful about lobotomizing yourself because an LLM can think for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification for Steam rolls out in Australia requiring a Credit Card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What alternative do they have? There’s no fucking way I am presenting my ID to any website/online service. It’s bad enough when a credit card gets leaked online at least you can change your CC number. The Australian government isn’t going to pay for cosmetic surgery when your biometrics get leaked, and they will only cover the bare minimum in terms of the disruption when your Drivers License leaks. I trust Steam would at least three quarters arse their data security but the companies they end up dealing with to do local verifications… Pfft assume they follow a Swiss cheese model for data security practices and you are still giving them too much credit.

  Government could do something about that, but they won’t. Make the ID verification companies pay to change every bit of compromised info (they leak someone’s home address they have to pay for a new house on top of getting the maximum fine for each individual breach, I think it’s $850k per breach).

  The government should have hit that Discord breach that happened around when the age verification laws came into effect with the maximum fine when they had a few thousand IDs insecurely stored $8.5 billion would have sent a clear message, of course it would have also led to zero compliance from every other social media company with their bullshit laws which is why they wouldn’t then and they won’t now.

  So we get the worst of both worlds, the government shoving this bullshit through on one hand but having no interest in mandating proper data security on the other. It’s just going to lead to Meta, Apple, Google and Microsoft getting more personally identifying data they “grudgingly” hoover up, and them being willing to share it with all the governments of the world as the quid pro quo.

  I almost hope to see a few politicians and their immediate family get details leaked so they understand how fucked it is when you aren’t you any more because some fucker stole your identity. I talked to a guy who went through it in his 20s and he told me it made him genuinely suicidal at stages when the banks would get ahead of stuff only to have another CC application land on his credit file.