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Damn this looks really impressive. I’ve just started with walls, roofs etc but progress is so slow. Eventually I’ll drop some screenshots too, but at this rate it won’t be for a while.

How many hours have you got? My save is just 60 hours old and I just unlocked trains.

Oops, I blocked all the blue people. I found it massively distracting on my Lemmy client.

It would be piss easy to prove your phone is always listening to you. Stop being obtuse.

I’ve said this elsewhere but it would be piss easy to prove. I think it’s weird that we’re talking about how something can be true because it hasn’t been disproven, but not that something can’t be true because it hasn’t been proven.

Of course a researcher is never sure something is 100% ruled out. That’s part of how academic research works.

My eagerness stems from being tired of anecdotes presented as evidence supporting a weird privacy conspiracy. This takes away from the actual issue at hand, which is your digital footprint and how your data is used.

It was an ad partner’s pitch deck, not much to do with Facebook itself. And it didn’t really explain how it would be listening anyway.

Besides, if they were recording, processing and / or transferring audio, that would mean there’s data usage, battery usage, etc - stuff that’s easy to prove.

The truth is a lot simpler (and scarier) and you will find that in the links I provided.

If they actually prove something, I’d be happy to give them a watch. 40 minutes of some dudebro’s podcast with a phone in his hands doesn’t count

No, they don’t: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtfU9AsUmc4

Again, no, they don’t: https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188

If you don’t trust a 4 minute YouTube video or an independent (?) study, try a Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/q1u71q/comment/hfhynid/

Yeah I don’t get why they would want to risk this. Go remake/demake some game by a company that won’t try and kick you in the nuts.

That’s fucking sick! I’m still grinding coupons to unlock all the pretty things, so until then my factories are still just foundations and walls and random looking nonsense.

I just connected stators, motors, and automated wiring to my storage (+ buffer overflow for awesome sink) so I was thinking it’s probably around time to start “decorating” my base.

It doesn’t add any functionality but I like my stuff to look cohesive. Your transport belt looks like a mountain trail path, really cool.

Iirc he’s a comedian

I knew I would get a reaction like this. You’re attacking the strawman you created that downvotes are hurting people’s feelings and this is why people would want them disabled / hidden. This is not what I said.

People will consciously or subconsciously let these numbers influence them. Whether it’s positive or negative doesn’t matter.

You’re right that they hold no real weight as the range of motivators is extremely diverse, but we will still try to infer value from the patterns and act accordingly.

That’s hilarious, but I needed the explanation too. Thanks!

Oof, the context is rough. If you made the joke 5 years ago no one would have batted an eye.

The problem is that it’s publicly shown. Let me pull an old comment:

When you have an upvote/downvote structure, there is an incentive to not go against the grain and just post stuff that’s considered “acceptable” in the local community.

Not everyone treats the votes the same way as well. Some people downvote because they don’t agree with the content, the poster, just because they sound disagreeable or simply because the post is too much to read. You can apply the same myriad of methods to upvotes. Not one motivator is the same.

If we’d ditch showing the numbers and just have them work under the hood, discussions might start looking a lot more genuine.

aren’t they the instance admin themselves?