“These riots are clearly not ‘peaceful protests’ as you can see from the photos of these horrific wounds,”

When you use force to deny peoples rights, they fight back and you end up with wounds. Back the fuck off and you don’t get injured officers.

Noone is 100% trust worthy. I’ll still appreciate when they fight for the right things.

“I’m tired of listening to people complain about their or their friends lives being uprooted and my indifference to those problems”

I see far more people screeching about AI than actual AI generated content at this point.

Good, it’s working. People are shying away from creating/posting AI content, knowing it’s very vocally unwanted.

I’m actually going to make a separate point from my other comment:

Art is a matter of perspective.

Maybe you don’t care about how your toothbrush was designed; but someone somewhere sat down and made decisions about how to best shape it, what materials to use, what kind/how many/what thickness of bristles, how to color it, etc. Those were decisions made from experiences that person had which they chose to factor into their designs.

Someone else out there is interested in what led to those design choices, perhaps to design their own with improvements or changes, perhaps just out of curiosity. They can’t ask an algorithm why it made the choices it did and have a discussion about the details; but they could with a person.

What some find disinteresting, others immerse themselves in. AI destroys those opportunities for human connection. Human connection we already struggle to find as a species.

You might not care how this site was created, but some do. The use of an LLM has made it impossible to discuss the choices made, because there weren’t any decisions, just an algorithm spitting out letters one after another…

True; however many of the current use cases for AI aren’t utilitarian, but are instead forcibly replacing artists while stealing their work to do so. Ontop of this, the infrastructure behind/supporting these tools is destructive and measurably making a significant amount of peoples lives worse.

These factors have jaded people against AI as a whole; as support for AI is seen as support for the destruction and instability it’s brought with it.

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2042849/i-ve-finally-understood-what-my-beef-with-ai-is

I came across this post the other day, and this person has put into words what I have simply failed to.

In short; AI makes the world feel empty and hollow. Many people enjoy the process behind the things we create or encounter, even if it wasn’t us to go through that process. Replacing it with AI removes the human touch/connection that made that thing interesting. I don’t want to know about the faceless algorithm that spat out what I’m seeing; I want to know about the person that created this and their experiences that brought them here.

The only thing in there I find surprising is the battery info. I’m not sure what legitimate use a website would have for that one. And perhaps that the gyro isn’t behind a permission. There’s pages that use it for 360 video for example, but you should have to allow that one.

Your IP address is a fundamental part of communication over the Internet, obviously the servers you speak to are going to need to know where to send their replies. There are ways to mask that ofc; proxies, vpns, etc.

Timezone+Language are needed for localization.

Display information and preferences, to render things correctly/as desired. Desktop web pages look like crap on a mobile display (and what type of mobile? Tablet, or phone?), plus they can’t (well, shouldn’t) show things in darkMode unless you tell them that’s what you want…

Cookies: it does say 0mb stored by others for me, but that’s not entirely true. Sites are typically given independent storage so they can’t read eachothers cookies, but they can work together to have one site read its own cookies and pass that on to the site you’re currently visiting, on request, all embedded in the original page you were viewing. Just because they can’t read eachothers storage directly doesn’t necessarily mean thay can’t get the data. 10gb per site seems like an absurdly high limit for this though. You could store whole movies in that space.

Visibility is one I’ve known but never really liked. The only ‘legitimate’ use for that I’ve seen is pausing media when it leaves your screen (or waiting to start media until its entered view), but half the time that’s undesirable anyway. Why should a site know if, when, and how long I’ve looked at a particular portion of the page?

😂 Yeah, it was pretty good for that too. I always thought it was really cool being able to play multiplayer games like SOCOM via AD-HOC networking. No server, no internet/wifi, not even a link cable you had to remember to bring; just two devices talking to eachother and creating great memories.

Ah, the PSP… First personal device I owned that had a web browser.

So much porn, lol.

Not a lot of anti-air defences at a data center. Maybe this type of protest should become more common…

You don’t.

Seprate your work life and your personal life.

There’s nothing wrong with advocating for FOSS alternatives; but you don’t get to decide what you can or cannot use on work devices, that’s up to your employer. You should not be entering personal info/performing personal tasks on work devices.

If you’re unwilling to perform work with the tools (software) your employer provides/requires, find a new job. Refusing to do the work or tampering with the equipment provided is a great way to get fired.

For school; personal laptop. Or again strictly school tasks on their devices.

We’re not saying Americans should move somewhere else; we’re saying Americans (collectively) need to fix their broken ass country, looking at others for inspiration.

Easier said than done OFC.

Revanced has had that for YEARS

They were going to have to let someone through; the US doesn’t manufacture networking equipment…

In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains

Bahaha, Fuck Off. The world doesn’t recognize your authority.

What kind of moron puts a Microsoft product on a spacecraft computer? These astronauts will be lucky to make it back to earth.

Not everyone can afford big guns and heavy armor; nor have the training/licensing required to cary/display them.

3D printed whistles are a cheap and easy aid. Every bit of resistance helps.

a whistle won’t stop these goons from harming you.

No it will not, but it will alert everyone around you to ICEs presence so they can have an opportunity to be somewhat prepared.

You’ll at least give your neighbours a chance to put some pants on, hide, barricade, or even arm themselves; before ICE tries to kick in their door.

It also calls others to your aid; quickly forming mob that out numbers ICE, forcing them to focus on crowd control instead of targeted kidnapping.

it’s on by default

It may well be on by default now. I just know I had to enable it the last time I looked at this.

what do you mean by lockscreen bypass software

Tools such as those provided by Cellebrite and similar.

Lockdown mode is mainly to disable biometrics, to prevent someone on the street forcibly using them to unlock your device. It’s not going to stop an entire agency with more sophisticated tools.

Or at the very least; turn your phone entirely off (shutdown) whenever you expect or encounter police contact.

Biometrics only work when the device is already running. Mobile devices are in their most locked down/secure state when ‘at rest’, ie shutdown.

In android; there is also a ‘lockdown’ mode you can quickly activate from the power off screen, that disables Biometrics until next unlock with a pin/pattern, but doesn’t fully shutdown so you can still quickly access things like the camera. This has to be explicitly enabled in settings first and will not offer much protection from various lockscreen bypass software available to law enforcement.