argv_minus_one

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argv_minus_one,

“Pirates? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the gazillion sales we’re about to make.” —Bethesda, probably

argv_minus_one, (edited )

Such an on-device feature would either be trivial to break (if it’s an ordinary API) or be impossible to implement in an open-source browser and OS (if it’s some locked-down DRM-like thing), and the latter is not privacy-preserving because proprietary software tends to be spyware.

If these moralizers would just shut up, go away, and stop trying to ruin the Internet, that’d be great.

argv_minus_one,

Fascist shutdown of public discourse, step by step:

  1. Find out where public discourse is.
  2. Post child porn on an obscure corner of it.
  3. Take screenshots of the posted porn.
  4. Send law enforcement to seize all the things.
argv_minus_one,

So, basically, they plan to install a dictatorship in which separation of powers, states’ rights, and meaningful judicial review do not exist.

Sounds about right.

argv_minus_one,

They’re conscripts. Nobody asked them whether they’d like to die.

argv_minus_one,

… the founding ideas are promising, and something I dream of.

Hard disagree. The founding idea of cryptocurrency is to trick people out of their real currency. It’s an elaborate fake-money scheme. Good riddance.

argv_minus_one,

I don’t know why I worry. Kids are practically immune to bullshit. It’s always adults who repeat their crooked leaders’ lies.

argv_minus_one,

No idea what that guy’s talking about. I bought a bunch of furniture from Ikea 15 years ago and all of it is still standing. Even the flimsy-looking chairs.

argv_minus_one,

That’s because a lot of Americans are under the impression that poor people are poor because they’re lazy, and not because they’re victims of oppression. They even cling to this absurd belief when they themselves are the victims of similar oppression. Must be lead in the water or something…

argv_minus_one,

I have rather serious doubts that this is legit. More likely some joker pretending to be from the Linux Foundation sent Redbubble a takedown request.

argv_minus_one,

Taking money for a 30-year-old movie is pretty much government-assisted stealing, if I’m honest. Copyright in the USA originally had a term of 14 years.

argv_minus_one,

If you think robots.txt is going to stop them, I’ve got a great deal for you on some ocean-front property in Colorado.

argv_minus_one,

“Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip,” said no one ever.

7-Zip is excellent. It’s the de facto standard archiving and compression tool on Windows, and for good reason.

Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah (www.techdirt.com)

The city of Bountiful, Utah voted to build a $48 million fiber network to provide affordable gigabit broadband for its residents and businesses. Regional internet providers Comcast and CenturyLink opposed the plan and tried to force a public vote through a taxpayer group they fund. However, communities often build their own...

argv_minus_one, (edited )

In a sane country, the mere attempt at blocking the establishment of a competitor would have been grounds for a Ma Bell-style dissection of both companies.

argv_minus_one,

Climate, real estate, price gouging, enshittification, health care, voter suppression… There’s an awful lot to distract us from.

Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber) - LowEndBox (lowendbox.com)

William Weber, a LowEndTalk member, was raided by Austrian police in 2012 for operating a Tor exit node that was allegedly used to distribute child pornography. While he was not arrested, many of his computers and devices were confiscated. He was later found guilty of supporting the distribution of child pornography through his...

argv_minus_one,

I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Home routers are trivial to compromise, and compromised home routers can also be used to distribute illegal content.

argv_minus_one,

Don’t care? They know it and they want it. The cruelty is the point.

argv_minus_one,

Global warming is upon us. If something doesn’t drastically change, now, our entire species is going to die.

argv_minus_one,

🎼The Internet is for porn!🎶

AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)

“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...

argv_minus_one,

Note that humans do not exhibit this property when trained on other humans, so this would seem to prove that “AI” isn’t actually intelligent.

argv_minus_one,

Takeaways:

  • End-to-end encryption works.
  • The only trustworthy computer is your computer. Don't use cloud storage.
  • The only trustworthy software is open-source software. Proprietary software serves the interests of the proprietor, not the user.

All of this was already well-known, of course, but it's always nice to get confirmation.

argv_minus_one,

They also promise to help you, then send a squad of goons to your house to kidnap you and confine you indefinitely in a mental institution (read: torture chamber).

Suicide prevention organizations have been inhumanly cruel for many years, so there's nothing surprising about their cooperation with Facebook.

argv_minus_one,

An infamously vicious predator walks up and bares its fangs at us, and half of you want to pet it instead of fleeing for your lives.

It's hard to overstate my disappointment right now.

Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political! (cdn.masto.host)

Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me. Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order. I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you? I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.
argv_minus_one,

Hate is mainstream politics now, sadly. So yes, not hating is political as well.

argv_minus_one,

Jerboa has bad UX because it needs work. Official Reddit app has bad UX because the developer wants it that way.

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