Yeah, I don’t really get these “this has always been possible” comments whenever it is about AI. Yes you could do this before, yes you could manipulate or even completely and convincingly make up photos before AI.

The point is that now is that it actually took some time, skill and effort to do that before, but now this has basically been made easily available to everyone, taking no effort or time. So that now any malicious moron out there who wants to do something destructive and evil are actually capable of doing it on the spur of the moment.

The “quietly” is aimed at Microslop. They didn’t grandly announce it on every platform like they do with everything else.

It is perfectly fitting in this context.

I made the deliberate decision years ago not to play multiplayer games even though having almost exclusively played those. It was just to get away from all the toxicity and competetiveness.

So from then on I have only played singleplayer games, and it have been such a positive change for me. Much more entertaining and no stress at all. And the bonus was of course that it made switching to Linux gaming so much easier, since I didn’t miss out on anything I wanted to play.

As someone who was using internet forums back then, it was so bizarre to experience the facebook breakthrough in real time.

“So you are using your real name and posting photos of yourself for everyone to see?”

“Relax, everybody is doing it. It is no big deal, and it makes it so easy to find old friends.”

This has nothing to do with any of that. twitter is a fascist run fascist social media. You don’t go there because you don’t go hang out with fascists.

Nah, in the 80s we had hundreds probably thousands of games for the commodore 64 and later the amiga 500, all of them pirated. The piracy scene was huge, and often the games were free as we just copied them from friends