Millie @Atatra@computerfairi.es

https://alterspring.org/@maple #notgpn

i am looking for a database of video games, or a way to scrape to build one

initially, i need:

• title
• genre
• platform (aiming for DS for starters)
• release date
• region
• boxart is a nice-to-have i can figure out how to get separately

i have looked at: gametdb, thegamesdb, launchbox, rawg. for different reasons (the biggest one being erroneous data) they don't work for me. the most accurate data come from sources i can't easily scrape (like mobygames)

suggestions and boosts welcome

The new health minister is back from processing…

🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨

The UK government's online safety consultation closes TODAY.

We must push back against more and more online ID checks. Making every adult hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers is itself UNSAFE.

Let's take on Big Tech business models instead!

Have your say ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

#onlinesafety #privacy #ageverification #bigtech #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol

it's still fat shaming if you're talking about someone reprehensible

next year computer fairies will be 10 years old and in 2 years lesbiaboard will be 10 years old

they're both kinda frumpy and broken around the edges but that's longevity you can't say for a lot of web spaces anymore these days

my wife's windowsill garden is pretty and she posts about it on a forum not controlled by big corporations or reliant on cloudflare infrastructure and you should look at it https://forums.transbian.love/?page=post&id=2668

Too real

“Get rid of the police? But what about domestic abusers?”

I guess they’ll have to get new jobs

Everyone wants to wear the V for Vendetta mask, but none of them want to wear the straight-black wig with bangs or cook me lunch.

bad advice reaffirms the parent/child power dynamic.

if your child has a problem, and you give them GOOD advice, they might get better at solving their own problems. then, they'd have fewer problems for you to cluck over and be disappointed by.

if you give them BAD advice, they have more problems and less idea what to do about any of them, so they 'need advice' again (whether they ask for it or not), and you have more opportunities to be superior.

of course you can only get away with telling your child to do exactly the wrong thing so often. the best bad advice is merely useless, impossible to follow, or causes your child to doubt themself.

and always remember: if your advice doesn't work, it's because your child applied it incorrectly. that's the whole point of giving bad advice!

my favorite kind of AI/LLM criticism media is when the person begins with a huge hedge like "I'm not an AI hater. *of course* AI is a useful technology and it will doubtlessly have transformative effects on the way we work" and then they spend the next 8k words/45 minutes showing how AI isn't actually useful and won't actually transform the way we work. it's like... it's okay to just say that AI sucks