played some satisfactory tonight

all of a mathematician, a programmer, and a furry: "vectors are nice"

an epidemiologist: "what the fuck no???"

i have a unique urge for some heist content that payday 3 instilled into me. i need something that'll make my spine tingle from anxiety. give me your best movies, shows, games, anything. i'll be waiting

and it's incredibly invasive! "clips" are exactly what they sound like, short snippets of a stream that the streamer in question can save and share. the catch is:

• it captures both stream and call audio, so anyone in the call will have their voice recorded
• it's enabled by default "if [the streamer's] system has high end hardware"
• there is no way for users to opt out of being recorded, nor are there any settings for server admins to turn them off (per-channel or per-server)

which feels like a privacy violation! to constantly have your voice recorded and saved at any time, if a single person has a feature enabled, feels like a massive invasion of privacy. i get that it's not incredibly hard to capture call audio anyways, but it's at least a crime to do so in many US states (without two party consent, of course). this shit is ridiculous. i maintain two different servers that i frequently hang out in and the fact that i can't disallow all calls to be recorded is, kinda scary! kinda sucks a lot!

i know this whole platform's kinda been on the descent for a long time now, but i feel like this steps over a line that i didn't even think had to exist. i haven't seen anyone talk about this, and i'm not sure what the best method to approach it is, but for now: if you use discord, disable clipping. to do so, go to settings, and there (might) be a tab titled "clips" - click that and there's an option at the top to enable clipping, turn that off if you can. this fuckin sucks

so discord now shows a popup when you join a clipping-enabled call, which is good! it also shows an option before streaming allowing you to disable the feature. this is also good! putting the option front and center allows users to make a more conscious, informed choice about whether they want to use the feature.

however: it still doesn't explain what clipping is (outside of the short-lived popup text or the settings menu), or allow you to opt out without just outright leaving the call, or give admins any tools to disallow clips to be made. this still kinda sucks! i'm still having to tell friends to make sure to disable it! this is still a privacy violation! discord still sucks!