[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

If you disagree, feel free to discuss, no need to be dismissive for no reason.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Really? The internet is always so quick to jump to extremes. Someone making a mistake at work doesn't mean they need to be fired. Yes they are responsible, but if they didn't do it on purpose then why do they deserve to lose their livelihood over a stupid email? Some compassion could be in order here, they will probably never hear the end of it at the work water cooler anyway and to me it seems like enough of a punishment. Assuming this was some deliberate dog whistling is just bad faith.

Fact is it wasn’t sent in Germany where Nazi symbols are a criminal offense and that tells you whoever did this knew.

Does it? Somebody wrote the email, then the email was sent to translators for different markets. The German translators noticed the problem and decided not to send the email, but didn't report it back, or reported it back too late. What makes you so sure the person who wrote the email was made aware of this? Maybe they were, I don't know, but you can't just act like you are sure. I worked at bigger companies enough to know that things fall through the cracks all the time and trying to reach a department in another country is often a multi-day effort with no guarantee of success.

the company is run by Nazis

Be real, again I agree this is an egergious mistake, but do you honestly believe the company is run by literal Nazis and they secretly send Nazi symbols on purpose as part of their secret Nazi agenda? Do you actually believe this? Isn't it a much more reasonable explanation that an employee was incompetent and a big company has broken processes and didn't catch it in time, something that commonly happens everywhere? No, the more likely explanation is that the company is run by Nazis?

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How is this a history of transphobia?

Link 1: They made a pun using a trending hashtag without checking what the hashtag meant. They apologized when it was explained to them. This is an example of cluelessness or laziness on the part of whoever was running the Twitter account, not of transphobia.

Link 2: In their video game, containing themes like murder, rape, torture, and the abuse of society by megacorporations, they included a megacorporation misusing an image of a trans person for advertising. When asked about it, they confirmed it's part of the evil fictional world that they have created, and obviously they don't condone it, just like they don't condone murder even though the game features a lot of murder. Is it transphobic to include themes of transphobia in a game, even though it's shown as a bad thing?

Link 3: They didn't like a fan's assumption that only men work for the company, and used the "Did you just assume their gender" meme. They apologized when they were told it can be offensive.

I don't see a single example here of them being transphobic on purpose. And speaking of Cyberpunk, it features a major trans character whose struggle you are supposed to emphatise with, so they clearly care about the community.

I agree they should be more careful about what their post, but I think there is a big difference between being transphobic, and accidentally posting something transphobic without meaning it 8 years ago and then apologizing for the mistake.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

The point is, the game portraits a terrible world. The game contains people killing each other, that doesn't mean the developers condone people killing each other in real life. The game contains megacorporations misusing images of trans people for advertising, that doesn't mean the developers condone that either.

I think it's usually well understood that something being in a work of media doesn't mean it's representative of the views of the authors, in fact it's very common for media to contain themes like violence and abuse, not because the author is condoning it, but because the author is building a dark world for their piece of fiction.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

So you do agree it's seizing, which is all I said. I didn't say anything about it being a realistic proposal.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

I zoomed all the way in and I don't see anything wrong with the text. I even drew horizontal lines on a screenshot to confirm they do in fact sit on the same baselines correctly.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml -5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He wants to take over 50% of the companies without paying them. If that's not seizing then I don't know what is.

Edit: If the downvoters want to tell me where I'm wrong, I'd be glad to be corrected.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

I just photoshopped my fake name onto a picture of an ID and they accepted it as proof.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

I don't think "correctly label FAT32 as FAT32 instead of a versionless FAT" is "lowering ourselves down". In fact I'd say it's the opposite, let's be technically precise and correct, instead of a simplified label that confuses everyone.

And on the other issue, what do you have against file managers being able to mount a network drive? Yeah I can do it in fstab but if I could do it faster right from the file manager I would.

Why is making things better a problem? If Gnome add the mounting feature to their file manager in the future, you will be against it, talking about the good old days where real men edited fstab uphill both ways? Whom does that help?

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago

Taking back half of their stolen profits seems like a step in the good direction though. Let's seize their assets, starting with the half here, and then close them down.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 118 points 2 years ago

I'm sure Temu collects all information you put into the app and your behaviour in it, but this guy is making some very bold claims about things that just aren't possible unless Temu is packing some serious 0-days.

For example he says the app is collecting your fingerprint data. How would that even happen? Apps don't have access to fingerprint data, because the operating system just reports to the app "a valid fingerprint was scanned" or "an unknown fingerprint was scanned", and the actual fingerprint never goes anywhere. Is Temu doing an undetected root/jailbreak, then installing custom drivers for the fingerprint sensor to change how it works?

And this is just one claim. It's just full of bullshit. To do everything listed there it would have to do multiple major exploits that are on state-actor level and wouldn't be wasted on such trivial purpose. Because now that's it's "revealed", Google and Apple would patch them immediately.

But there is nothing to patch, because most of the claims here are just bullshit, with no technical proof whatsoever.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 126 points 2 years ago

It lets you have analytics in your game (how many players do X, use y feature), without the backlash of analytics.

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