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Cake day: October 15th, 2024
  • Arkthos@pawb.socialtoGaming@beehaw.org•Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union
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    12 hours ago

    These seem to be the four major points:

    clear and transparent pricing and pre-contractual information;
avoiding practices hiding the costs of in-game digital content and services, as well as practices forcing consumers to purchase virtual currency;
respect of consumers' right of withdrawal;
respecting consumer vulnerabilities, in particular when it comes to children;

    First one actually seems pretty well covered by Warframe already. Second point can be met just by displaying the real currency price next to the plat price, calculated based on what people on average give per plat when purchasing through the Warframe website. Third point… Yeah that’s going to be a point of contention for sure. That’ll require a redesign of the plat system. Fourth point I’d also say Warframe does. Their ‘oh shit’ moment when they ended up creating a slot machine with, what was it, kubrow skins? Demonstrates them actually caring about this already. Basically they saw people interacting with a new mechanic much like one would a slot machine, and then soon after rolled it back and refunded everyone who had spent money on it.

  • Arkthos@pawb.socialtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025English
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    3 days ago

    I’m not quite following. From my recollection meta ethics deal with the origins of morality, with absolutism being that morality is as inherent to nature as, say, gravity is, and relativism that morality is a social construct we have made up.

    Is it hypocrisy to acknowledge something is a social construct while also strongly believing in it?

    If I grew up in the 1400s I’d probably hold beliefs more aligned with the values of the time. I prefer modern values because I grew up in modern society. I find these values superior but also acknowledge my reason for finding them superior ultimately boils down to the sheer random chance of when and where I was born.

  • Arkthos@pawb.socialtoBuy European@feddit.uk•Boycott USA Flyer
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    25 days ago

    I would be cautious to trust an American company just because they are non-profit. We know that if they get sufficiently big they can just transition into being for profit (see OpenAi), chances are regulations regarding this won’t become stronger later.

    Signal being open source of course helps, but it’s usually the ecosystem that people grow to rely on that keeps them in place, not the technology. Just look at how big Reddit is compared to Lemmy for a good example of that. If signal was federal that would be quite different since jumping ship would be easy.

  • Arkthos@pawb.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.world•Please, don't!English
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    30 days ago

    You can offload them into ram. The response time gets way slower once this happens, but you can do it. I’ve run a 70b llama model on my 3060 12gb at 2 bit quantisation (I do have plenty of ram so no offloading from ram to disk at least lmao). It took like 6-7 minutes to generate replies but it did work.

  • Arkthos@pawb.socialtoVirtual Reality@lemmy.world•Apple describes a way to make Vision Pro much lighterEnglish
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    1 month ago

    An external cartridge processing and providing battery power seems like a much better idea than the current solution of wearing the computer on your face. A small shoulder strapped device weighing a few hundred grams with a headset with more of a BSB sort of profile would be ideal for me.

    I’m glad to see Apple experimenting with some ideas like this, not so much because I want an Apple headset, but because if it turns out to be a popular idea others will jump on board.