[–] 1 point 1 week ago

The anti-porn group (CS) has had experience petitioning for things like this before. They usually petition the store (steam or itch) but were told to pound sand instead, so they went to payment processors. Keep in mind, Patreon has had a similar problem with nsfw work in general because of payment processors. These companies are ok with censoring adult work, iirc there was a provision for it. CS posted their letter on their website that they sent. Patreon blamed it on KOSA and project 2025.

https://www.patreon.com/outsiderartisan/posts/some-final-on-135199925

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    https://outrungaming.com/mastercard-addresses-nsfw-game-censorship-statement/

    Payment processors got petitioned (from an anti-porn group) to ban games with rape, incest, and sexual violence*, and it went from there. Steam and itch couldn't tell which games had the suspected content in them iirc, steam delisted in batches while itch had to manually review everything. Public perception played a factor in why the payment processors acted the way they did. Then you had the backlash to the treats being taken away, even gog gave away some nsfw games (but none of them had rape, incest, or sexual violence so weren't being currently boycotted). Now it's harder to get a nsfw game approved on steam. Also this anti-porn group has gotten other games like rape simulators (No Mercy) delisted before. So they had experience.

    *I should have also noted that CP was a part of it. I did not see that on steam but the other stuff was 100% in steam's library.

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    Thing is, my specs are really good. Again, my laptop is a beast and it ran like 100% CPU, 100% GPU, and 100% of my 64gb of DDR5 Ram! Seeing it and how hot it made my computer

    Local llm usage depends on your VRAM, your GPU. It sounds like you tried to run a model your laptop can't handle. If you also need your RAM, then it is going to be super slow no matter what. The number each model has is important to determine if your GPU can handle it, also the quantization. If you run something significantly smaller like 2B* rather than say gemma 31B, then a laptop might be able to handle it. Your laptop is not a beast (for LLM usage) unless it has more than 24 GB of VRAM on it so don't assume you can run any model on it. Look for smaller numbers with quantization. Running a local llm for me on my desktop is similar to running a video game, it doesn't slow to a crawl or cause 100% on CPU or RAM because only the VRAM is touched.

    *or 4B even, just depends on your GPU

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Most likely the latter. I live in a rural area and am usually restricted on the amount of doctors around. I was told every patient has to do this bland diet and then liquid diet combo at the hospital. I do think everyone should get their prep done, but I'd be lying if I said I would gladly do it again.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Just going to copy-paste my experience:

    I had a much different experience. First, there was a restricted diet a week prior that was hard to eat around since I am vegan and the instructions were geared for non-vegans. Then a 4 day liquid-only diet. I had diarrhea for at least two days. The actual salty solution was very hard to stomach. And I used the bathroom so much that I felt extremely cold and ill, and almost didn't finish the gross salty solution because I didn't want to use the bathroom anymore or have to taste the solution and just wanted to go to sleep. I didn't have flavored prep, I know some people got gatorade by reading online, but fml my prep was hell and they found nothing, someone in the comments said theirs was 12 hours (?!). What the hell, and I had mine earlier this year too. I've had food poisoning 2 or 3 times but it was nothing like this.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I had a much different experience. First, there was a restricted diet a week prior that was hard to eat around since I am vegan and the instructions were geared for non-vegans. Then a 4 day liquid-only diet. I had diarrhea for at least two days. The actual salty solution was very hard to stomach. And I used the bathroom so much that I felt extremely cold and ill, and almost didn't finish the gross salty solution because I didn't want to use the bathroom anymore or have to taste the solution and just wanted to go to sleep. I didn't have flavored prep, I know some people got gatorade by reading online, but fml my prep was hell and they found nothing, someone in the comments said theirs was 12 hours (?!). What the hell, and I had mine earlier this year too. I've had food poisoning 2 or 3 times but it was nothing like this.

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  • Workshop: Trolls (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
     

    It's no secret that the fediverse has trolls. Trolling is IMO antisocial and disruptive. We have a few on dbzer0, with one casually saying they have 100 alts. I have to say, I'm unsure how to deal with this. I'm unsure how to deal with someone this dead-set on bullying people, even wanting to recall admins. I have been told this troll probably has ASD (as offensive as that is to me) and that I can't impose my beliefs on others. But I have never banned people for disagreeing with me, my problem was that I and others were trolled and harassed. You could tell trolls things like "please leave me alone" or "stop replying to me multiple times" or even "stop following me" and that does not get actioned because it is not against the rules to harrass people this way. Look at the disengage rule, it doesn't apply to these situations. And try hitting the search button for "troll" on the rules.

    I've been told yes these trolls are annoying and disliked by many (if not most) people and yes they drive away people like me from participating at all on lemmy or matrix, but that is not enough of a reason to ban. There are also trolls who report everyone they argue with and use their account solely to argue and troll. I don't want dbzer0 to be known as the place that houses trolls that get anyone who argues with said trolls banned. Report abuse was not ok in other forums, but it is rarely actioned here. The trolls I am talking about have their accounts housed on dbzer0 btw, a place that is not supposed to be freeze peach.

    I know many of our users like to tell off right-wingers and libs. That can be fine if it doesn't get out of hand ("kys" is explicitly banned). I could say, let's not allow people to troll, but maybe some only want leftists to not to be trolled. For instance, one group of trolls we have is antivegan. Is that considered an example of leftists that shouldn't be trolled (and I do mean trolled, harassed - not just disagreeing)? Right now, there is a lot of room for trolling all sorts of people. One reason for our zionist rule is because we had zionist trolls that weren't breaking our other rules even though our code of conduct does not allow supporting genocide. Our anti-AI rule was because others were harassing some of our stable diffusion mods. People have been sent nasty PMs as well. You can troll on this instance and get away with it as long as it is not explicitly stated as not allowed in our rules. I have been told it has to be explicitly stated, one of our trolls is a rules lawyer who believes they were given permission to troll before their account was made.

    So tell me about your experiences with trolls. How do we fight them? How can we change or add to our rules? Which trolls have been bothering you?

    This meta post was finally posted in response to my comment here:

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/25902072

     

    How do you gals feel about something like this? This hasn't gone through clinical trials so still early stages.

    I had such bad reactions to the Mirena IUD and minipill, I've been on the oral combo BC since then. I wish I didn't need hormones but they help with heavy/painful periods (even skipping them), birth control, and the estrogen helps with acne. I'm not sure if I can give myself a shot 😬 I'm pretty squeamish around needles and bad with pain.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/26490389

    The technology uses tiny crystals to achieve both long-term effectiveness and the convenience of injections.

    -EDIT- Fixed URL - sorry all

     

    I love the app so far but I am having trouble with opening Lemmy links from other instances. When someone links to say a Lemmy.world post, I am hit with a window saying I have to have a Lemmy.world account in order to vote and such. This is incredibly inconvenient, I don't know how voyager does it but voyager just lets me view the post and vote/etc. in my instance without forcing me to change accounts. Anyway to get rid of this behavior so it is more like voyager? I want other Lemmy links to be opened in my instance so I can vote and such.

    Also unrelated but just now I was unable to upload a picture from summit and had to switch apps to upload the photo.

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