“We’re going to be guided by our community”
Bullshit. Hopefully they get a clue because I have trouble imagining 5 years of the game continuing in the state that it’s going to be in. Anybody with accessibility needs that aren’t met by Blizzard will be unable to properly play the upcoming expansion, for starters.
I am not doxxing myself because the paranoia will likely continue in such a scenario.
And what’s next? Suspecting US citizens of being foreign agents and then sicking the FBI on them?
Unlike you, I’m not going to be cheerleading the return of McCarthyism.
Rude
The article is clearly written with a tone that is attempting to influence that reaction.
Here is their source for the claim in the their title:
See the difference between how the two articles are written and framed?
I’d invite you to watch the interview this is all comes from, as well. Yazan has zero hostility and is likely speaking from their intimate knowledge of the data to support this statement.
This will end up releasing private info in some form, right?
For most people, the best case scenario is vacuuming their floors with offline options.
It’s likely in everybody’s best interest that this is a wild success. Not only will game developers be incentivized to actually optimize their games for reasonable setups; this will unseat Nvidia’s monopoly over gamers with their ridiculously overpriced graphics cards and also Microsoft’s monopoly of a gamer’s operating system.
Nvidia’s partnership with Palantir is incredibly concerning and any blow to Nvidia is a welcome one. Encourage these developments and hype this all up.
I just don’t think it’ll ever be anything close to 99% effective given that this is a website. I explained why previously.
Thanks for engaging though - I do understand and appreciate the necessity of bot prevention and I’ll be sure to keep an eye out as a user.
As another user suggested to me in the past, there could be government-run social media that requires ID at sign-up. Maybe a service like that would appeal to you if our government (apologies if you aren’t US-based) wasn’t labeling certain speech as terrorism.
I trust instance owners and software developers to sort this out in a privacy-respecting way. If a specific instance breaks my trust, I might find it necessary to block it.
I don’t support violations of privacy and I appreciate some level of pseudonymity and anonymity in social media.
Who is going to vet the vetters? What if they become compromised or were compromised from the beginning? What recourse is there for users if there are data breaches?
If there was an actor behind a handful of accounts that are mostly run by LLMs (which mimic human input and interaction) it’d be easily viable for state-level or professional actors to pull such an operation off at scale and successfully manipulate a small platform like the fediverse - especially with some level of manual input or confirmation. Even taking believable selfies of real people that fit the profile is possible and can be anticipated if the actor or the organization behind them are resourceful.
I’m not entirely against instance-level detection that attempts to understand user patterns and prevent or flag abuse to mods and admins, but I do believe that humanized input and interaction can already be effectively emulated and will only advance as time passes.
I believe that increased scrutiny of users in a centralized manner is a privacy violation. I picked my instance intentionally and I give some level of trust to the instance owners, but I wouldn’t consent to them (or the software they choose to use) handing over my PII or usage patterns to a third-party group that suspects me (even through purely automated mechanisms). I would discontinue using the service in such a scenario.
To support my point that bot detection is mostly futile on the fediverse, I’d like to draw your attention to a parallel to this situation in gaming with humanized aimbots - which are already incredibly viable and are implemented in a variety of ways.
There are usually actual human actors guiding input to some degree, but the aimbot/etc. is designed to mimic human input to achieve believable results. I believe this technology could still advance quite a bit and there are new methods popping up as every day passes.
The key difference between gaming and the fediverse, is that the fediverse is not software running on our computers at the kernel-level (as with most anti-cheat) - it’s a website running in a browser.
Ultimately, I feel it boils down to just blocking instances that you disagree with the operation of to curate your experience - which is already available on Lemmy.
I disagree with the notion that we need a centralized list or that such a list is desirable. Again - I trust instances to sort this out.
As LLMs and deepfaking technology advance, the likely result will be completely undetectable bots that effectively mimic human behavior, even with advanced and potentially automated defenses.
See: https://theintercept.com/2024/10/17/pentagon-ai-deepfake-internet-users/
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to have to e.g. take a selfie in a specific way to be able to use the fediverse and have the ability to reach a broad audience - just because I am hypothetically suspected. Such a list will also likely chill participation, as an unintended effect.
None of that data proves anything besides potentially identifying bots, as you suggest.
It’s just an exercise in group paranoia - and would likely be abused by actual state/professional actors attempting to silence users/create bubbles.
Personally, I trust that the mods and admins will sort the bots/vote manipulation out. As for the bad actors, we can counter their propaganda with our good faith participation and our efforts to lead others to the truth.
You’re suggesting a public blacklist with thorough vetting, I just thought it’d be fair for you to step forward in such a hypothetical scenario. But you’re right, it’s not feasible - nobody can definitively prove that they are an independent actor.
Would you volunteer to be vetted first?
Okay, now split into at least 4 different companies and compete with each other - if we want the illusion of a free market and competition to exist in the minds of those living under capitalism.
They could just call it what it is: an astroturfing “business” revolving around fraud, spam, and abuse.
a legitimate new business
Interesting framing by Futurism.
I agree, just was trying to recommend something that may be marginally more performant. Mint and Bazzite are solid options. I can’t wait until COSMIC matures and I can safely recommend PopOS.
I’d definitely suggest CachyOS if you’re looking for speed and none of the downsides of Bazzite and other immutable OSes.
But only if you’re looking for a bleeding edge, gaming-focused Linux OS. There are plenty of options in the Linux ecosystem and really all are valid unless they are significantly out-of-date.
Have you considered that your setup can’t handle a 4K monitor?
Your setup really isn’t that bad, it almost makes me think something is wrong with your computer if a Steam Deck is less powerful than your Ryzen 4560u and Bazzite et al. run perfectly fine on it.
I trust deaf users reporting that their needs are not being met, but I do not currently play and know the nuance myself. I’ll remove the claim if I’m wrong upon further research.
Edit: Upon further research, it seems like there is a lot of reliance on WeakAuras in the deaf community (visual cues for sound-only events that may relate specifically to combat, raid communication), and many rely on rotation helpers for understandable reasons (like neurological conditions or physical disabilities that require more focus to be put into movement). It seems like colorblind or visually-impaired users will also suffer due to the lack of ability to color-code or highlight specific buffs and debuffs.
Nameplates seem to be one of the areas where users can no longer modify with addons, I’m unsure if this also affects unit frames in some part.