Yeah, because the AI will look at everything with cold logic and rationality and come to the conclusion that even though the best chance of survival is for everyone to keep their fingers off the button, all it takes is for one actor to do it for the whole system of mutually assured destruction to collapse into nuclear armageddon, in which case the best chance of survival is to be the first one to launch your nukes and take out all your enemies capabilities to retaliate.

A human being who isn’t psychotic can clearly see that the resulting survival and new world order would not be particularly a pleasant one to live in. The AI doesn’t care about its own comfort, though, so it will see this as the best outcome that minimizes variables.

This is why AI should never be allowed to make decisions.

What could possibly be more important than the patient?

Why, the shareholders of course, silly!

This is fantastic news! Not because I actually give a shit about sticking with Discord after getting slapped in the face with this insulting age verification nonsense, but because Discord has basically no competition and 6 months will be plenty of time for a real contender to emerge in time for them to shoot themselves in the foot again.

I don’t think Discord actually appreciates how much market share is going to slip away from them in the next 6 months. They were probably better off going through with their clandestine spying plan now while some people might be complacent enough to just comply and provide their ID to get handed over to the fucking Feds.

The lesson here is to take the carcass home first before you fuck it. Nobody would have cared if he was going to eat it.

Would this not be grounds for a massive class action lawsuit? FSD was marketed as a feature when the cars were sold.

Put it on polymarket or something, I want to make some money off of such stupidity.

Over my dead body. These services can go fuck themselves and die.

It does get tiresome going to steam threads and seeing the same copy pasted “don’t ruin the game with woke shit” post up voted to the top.

There’s a pencil thin line between farming clown emoji and overt bigotry getting pumped to the top of the reviews section by bad faith actors.

So they haven’t walked anything back, they’re just adding in a motherfucking clanker as a middleman. What could go wrong?

Big corporations have absolutely laid waste to the internet. There’s nothing left unspoiled at this point.

Im surprised as how many people discount this feature. Sometimes I sit in voice chat in my small Discord server alone for hours because nobody would show up if nobody was around.

We’re all adults with jobs and responsibilities and shit, we don’t want to have to dial people in to shoot the shit late at night. That would feel like a chore.

An alternative with no drop in voice chat is a non starter for my group.

I think it’s great that acting like a cunt online can have consequences.

It doesn’t seem to have deterred you at all…

I use Slack for work and I kinda hate it. I can’t really explain why. Something about it offends my senses on a subconscious level.

I haven’t used it in over a decade so I’m not surprised it has new features. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

I think Discord does a lot of things that no one other program can also do. There are certainly better programs out there for voice chat, for text chat, for screen sharing, etc. but none of those programs that do it better can do all the other stuff.

If Discord dies, you would need like two or three other apps to replace all of the features you’ve lost.

For people who only use Discord for voice, it’s easy to say “Let’s just got back to using TeamSpeak or Ventrillo”, but if you also used Discord to stream your games to your friends, you now need to find another alternative for that since TS and Vent don’t have that function and likely never will.

It sucks because I think the Discord app is great for what it does. Yes, it creates information silos when everybody uses it for their support/documentation, but before Discord it was Facebook/Twitter and I didn’t use those platforms either. I like that Discord is packed with features and the most basic ones are free to use. Finding an alternative will be tough.

Guilded is dead. Their website redirects to a thank-you page of some sort. I remember trying it out ages ago and I thought it was pretty decent competition for Discord and had a lot of the same features, but ultimately it would have been susceptible to the same kind of fuckery that Discord is giving us right now. These private companies only want to extract value out of their users.

It’s okay though because Zuck greased the Trump admin’s palms with his Presidential Library bribe, so they’ll get a slap on the wrist at best.

Literally anything but FOSS, huh?

Out of the frying pan and into a cold frying pan.

Step 1. Commit crime act of civil service, Luigi-style.

Step 2. Submit yourself to ICE using a false identity for voluntary deportation.

Step 3. Allow the U.S. government to smuggle you out of the country where they no longer have jurisdiction to prosecute you.

Step 4. Laugh as the crypto-fascists get up on stage and boast about how tough on crime they are.

edit: formatting because phones are stupid.

I miss my Blackberry Pearl…

I fear that that design of phone layout/UI will never make a comeback.

So, these idiots didn’t learn their lesson the first time with the colossal flop that was Stadia and now they want to convince us that, this time for sure, we really don’t want to own our own hardware and cloud computing is the future?

These guys should not be getting a single bent penny for convincing people to switch over to cloud computing when their AI slop machines are responsible for the scarcity that is causing hardware prices to be completely uneconomical.