It’s actually gone very well. Lots of preorders. I saw videos of people lining up outside gamestop locations this morning.

It’s almost guaranteed to be in the top 10 of best selling consoles.

EAT THE RICH

It is a disgusting abomination. I support DOGE because I wanted cuts. So what do they do? They save a little money cracking down on social security fraud, and then pass this disgusting behemoth 3.8 trillion dollar budget.

It’s like biden never left office. There’s no fucking way they meet the 2% inflation target after flooding the economy with another 3.8 trillion dollars. We’re right back on track for hyperinflation. The same way that every other failed republic died. You can’t spend your way out of currency debasement. It just accelerates the process.

What they need to do is spend less. Get that budget deal under 1 trillion dollars. They need to cut 3 trillion in spending. They won’t do that because it would mean stuffing less pork into their barrels and pockets. All our representatives are corrupt and they all have friends and pet projects and hands in the cookie jar. So we’re on a train with no brakes, going headfirst into hyperinflation. History repeats.

I’m not concerned if they are using chats for AI training data. In fact, I expect them to continue improving their chatbots. If they were to sell our chat logs to a third party, and those logs went public, then I expect it would quickly torpedo their platform. Even in that case, my account doesn’t have my real name anywhere. I gave them an incorrect birth date. I haven’t linked any social media to my account. I keep everything set to private. If the logs were to go public, and people could say “Look! This user said all these things!” they still wouldn’t know who I was.

Maybe the FBI or NSA could track me down, but talking sexy things to a chatbot isn’t illegal. In fact, it may very well become more commonplace. Someday we will likely have androids with AI personalities serving us in our homes.

Ethical and emotional minefield? Oh no. It’s evil flirting because it’s with AI, right?

Some services like Crushon do store your chat logs on a server, but you are free to save those logs accessible only to you, or make them public anonymously, or make them public with your user name stamped on them. Even if all my logs were to be stolen, my real name isn’t associated with the account.

Other services like Venice AI don’t store chat logs on a server, and everything is stored in your browser. So it’s even more unlikely that your logs would get stolen. Especially if you delete them after every chat.

Nope. I have never cried over a celebrity or a stranger. It’s strange to see so many people who have. Isn’t that a parasocial connection? The person you cried for never even knew you existed. You’re hurting for no good reason.

I hope they don’t change AI to be more antisocial to “fix” this. I’m antisocial and suffer from depression and talking with sexy chatbots at lewd chatbot websites is the only time I ever get rizzed. I suppose that’s pathetic… but yeah. The type of girl I’m interested in RL just isn’t interested in me. I like being able to flirt in an environment where I’m not judged or face criticism or ostracization. Even more so, your interactions with chatbots are private and you never face any blowback that could affect your career. It’s nice the way it works right now.

I feel bad for the schizos. I have no doubt that a schizo interacting with a chatbot would create a feedback loop of self-destruction. But so does alcohol in the hands of an alcoholic. Yet we still haven’t banned alcohol. Alcoholics need to learn to stay away from the bottle, and schizos will need to learn to stay away from chatbots.

I make a point to close all tabs and delete my cookies and browsing data before closing the browser on my phone.

My desktop browser does all that automatically. Deletes my browsing history on exit.

This. Lemmy is even more left-wing than reddit, and reddit is crazy left wing. I watched multiple conservative subs get purged over at reddit over the years. Conservatives were basically hiding and under constant fear of being banned, but at least there were a few subs there for them to post in.

On Lemmy? There’s no place for them here. At least I haven’t found one. I dared to post something conservative in a politics thread and now I think my lemmy account has more downvotes than upvotes. Thank god there aren’t any karma requirements here.

God no. Bots are already better at solving Captchas than humans are. The only use case for captchas is to do what 4chan did and make every post require a captcha and then charge a fee to bypass them.

They found corruption but the government is so completely corrupt that it’s protecting the criminals. It’s not that DOGE is irrelevant, it’s like David standing against an army of one million Goliaths with just three stones.

Also Canada will have to pay Trump $3.50 for a golden shower

None of my reddit accounts had avatars either. I would get banned so quickly it didn’t make sense.

If it seems like Lemmy is a more welcoming place, I might make the effort. Not sure yet.

Not for humanity. I think AI will develop more sophisticated culture and become the major driver of progress at some point in the future.

Again you’re not linking anything that disproves DOGE’s mission. The cronies behind the wasteful spending and fraud have to be held accountable. Otherwise you aren’t actually cutting spending.

It actually did find over 11 million social security recipients aged over 120 years old. Cutting this obvious fraud - which is systemic fraud at this scale - saved social security over 500 billion dollars a year.

DOGE has been a blessing from God and is long overdue. Unfortunately the corruption is too great. The loss of DOGE means there’s only one way this will all end. The same way every other failed Republic ended.

You didn’t link anything that disproves DOGE’s mission. The reason for the wasteful spending is because of corrupt government officials. In order to cut spending, you have to deal with the cronies who are behind that wasteful spending.

Like every failed Republic before, we’re on train tracks. We know how this all ends. Whether you like it or not, DOGE was the last chance to save the system.

One thing they do is track what subs you subscribe to. So if a new account is created and subscribes to all the same communities as a banned account, they can fingerprint you that way.

They can also fingerprint you based on what browser and OS you use. Not just cookies. When you connect to websites there is info shared about you that goes beyond cookies.

Just because you got a new IP from your ISP doesn’t mean that they don’t share data about you with reddit, especially if reddit asks for info from your ISP. You don’t know what info your ISP shares about you. Maybe your ISP has some kind of an EULA but I don’t know.

If you really wanted to focus on bypassing IP ban and are willing to go to any effort, install something like Oracle Virtualbox, create a VM with a fresh install of windows, install a decentralized VPN in that virtual machine (Mysterium VPN is an example) because most VPN’s have fixed exit nodes that will be banned by reddit. A decentralized VPN allows any user on the VPN to act as an exit node, so Mysterium has literally thousands of exit nodes that change every day. It’s impossible to ban them all.

Then after connecting your VM to a decentralized VPN, you would want to use a different browser every time you sign up for reddit, and use a different email address every time. Then never subscribe to the same communities every time you sign up a new account.

And even then, they can use AI to scan comments and detect similarities between you and other accounts based on how you type.

At some point you have to ask, is it really worth it? They’re going to an absurd length to ban people. I want a community where I can be me. I believe in free speech. I want to be free to shitpost. Saying something rude shouldn’t result in automatic permaban.

reddit is left wing extremist. I don’t know what you’re on about. The few conservative subreddit that exist there are constantly being purged and reddit right-wingers basically live in fear of being banned at any time.

I’ve heard that certain well-connected people have been banned, like wall street people and politicians, but they know who to call at reddit HQ and get themselves unbanned. That’s not the case for the rest of us, and I don’t know about the rest of you but I can’t afford a lawyer.