Image manipulation has always been a thing, and there are ways to counter it...

But we already know that a shocking amount of people will simply take what they see at face value, even if it does look suspicious. The volume of AI generated misinformation online is already too damn high, without it getting more new strings in it's bow.

Governments don't seem to be anywhere near on top of keeping up with these AI developments either, so by the time the law starts accounting for all of this, the damage will be long done already.

Yeah. If you're on a public forum accessible to anyone, which the whole fediverse is, then you should never assume privacy.

Honestly transparency in this regard would be better - they're already visible to much of the community, so they might as well be visible to everyone.

Votes should absolutely be public. They were on KBin, and it made people more civil for it because you could be shamed if you were dislike trolling or liking all of your own posts/comments to make them look better (which is something you actively have to do on here, unlike Reddit).

Given this place is pseudo-anonymous anyways, and people comment far more personal and identifiable info here anyways (which tbf you should be careful about), I think public votes would do much more good than harm.

Too many people end up in debt spirals with these BNPL companies because there's no consistent safeguards against it, so we absolutely should be regulating them better. We shouldn't be leaving financially vulnerable people to the wolves.

Sounds great until you realise these rules, with respect to POWs, are broken so often that they're barely worth the paper they're written on.

To be fair to the developers, they do elaborate a little further in the comments:

Hey everyone, We appreciate the sudden enthusiasm for our game. When we launched it in 2015 into early access and 2016 into full, we were at the vanguard of asymmetrical games. It was exciting, but it was also our first step down the Dunning Kruger curve. QL has bugs that we cannot fix, shaky net code and overall sloppy design. We left the game up for this long so that players who had friends that wanted to play, could still get a copy. However it has been 9 years with minimal to no activity. So we felt it was right to remove it now.

I don't know enough about this game or it's community to comment much, but the devs don't seem to be bad guys - seems like a story of naive developers making a mistake, but doing their best for their community with what they had. For a niche online game with no DLCs, 9 years is hardly a bad run.

I always get my hair cut at least a week before any special occasion purely for the reason that guy haircuts just need that grow in period. I've never met a non-bald guy who actually liked their hair cut straight out the barbers.

Tell you what Albania got the breast dreams going

Russia started this when they ~~invaded~~ "performed a special military operation" on Ukraine - therefore Ukraine has the right to do whatever it needs to make Russia fuck off.

Hungary's and Slovakia's leaders are salty because they kept suckling on Russian oil rather than switching towards alternatives like other EU countries did - and now it's biting them hardcore in the backside.

It's a tale as old as time for the right-wing... in the words of Bono, "Well, tonight thank God it's them instead of you".

The right-wing doesn't know empathy past their nose, so as long as it's innocent Palestinians being killed in droves and not their own, they won't care two shits.

To be fair you could call this "search optimisation" and the people on Linkedin would eat this up