“Because of the kids!”

It’s funny that it, using children as a form of gaslighting, is an attitude so obviously wrong it was the plot twist of Unbreakable, but when it’s happening in reality with people who are more openly nefarious people don’t seem to care. One thing that I consider proved beyond doubt is that most people can’t really be taught even when it’s easily digestible entertainment media, the core basic critical thinking skills to bridge the gap from one context to another just aren’t there, otherwise politicians wouldn’t be able to continue using the same form of gaslighting over and over and over again.

NFT just served as a training opportunity for the people behind it to learn how to get away with legally scamming people, not surprised the Reddit admin was all in on it when it came out.

For the people that don’t see how manufactured some of the attacks against Valve have been lately (not that this will help convince them regardless…)

So we can pirate books as well as long as we aren’t able to reproduce them verbatim from memory as well?

Judge Vince Chhabria either accepts whatever bribes and offers he’s probably getting offered and sides with Meta, or it will eventually go on to the Supreme Court where they most definitely will. That’s the part of this that will work the most under an administration of no accountability.

There are no regulators, they were the first casualty of the Trump administration.

The lesson: AI cannot bridge an air-gapped backup. This could all be prevented with a crappy portable hard drive from costco.

I’ll let you troll up with your drug buddy.

The best prevention is not letting it happen in the first place. If your backup is a crappy portable hard drive from costco, you get what you buy, I wouldn’t have much faith on that either.

Just have them add a disclaimer or have the hosts be liable for what their chatbots say, stop adding bureaucracy just asking to get selective prosecuted and abused.

You already have one. It’s called your payment provider.

Disable your laptop webcam and microphone, use headset instead. I’ll be looking to see if I can switch to Teams web.

I remember how a subcontractor’s company called me with a lot of private information I assume the subcontractor had spoken to them about. The subcontractor had no clue about it, which completely changed how I had been perceiving the situation. The problem is companies are using the excuse of keeping tabs on their workers to perform outright continuous surveillance on them and try to see how they can exploit any and all information they can salvage for their benefit, which becomes a problem when there is no clear division between personal and professional space.

I don’t take any particular downvote personally, I just have a problem with the whole unregulated concept of downvoting is, and I think there’s a reason why the same networks that brought it into popularity over the predecessors that didn’t have are also the ones rampant today toxicity, cult-on-demand bubbles, circlejerks, and the like. Lemmy is the one platform where downvoting really isn’t worth anything - well, at least unless the piefed guys have a say in it, from my understanding. If it ever became popular to try to act like the upvote/downvote ratio means something in Lemmy, it would be far easier to manipulate and take advantage in contrast to non-federated platforms, and I already commonly see accounts with almost no comment or post participation since a few months just being used to slap upvotes and downvotes on an hourly basis.

It would just be so simple to improve, but people just keep trying to clone the same flawed systems that made them leave other platforms.

That’s the beauty of downvotes: no f-ing context on why people disagree with you or if they even do and are just holding a vendetta from somewhere else, since they aren’t forced to indicate why.

The account enjoys making a lot of very questionably inconsistent downvotes over their far fewer upvotes and even comments their own suggestion on how to sabotage Flock surveillance cameras in the thread yet doesn’t seem to be an edgelord in their own comments, so who knows. Unlike upvoting, where you presumably agree with a comment, downvoting provides no context as you have no clue why or how much they disagreed with something. Presumably the statement was too simplistic to resonate with their refined tastes, which to avoid the downvote should presumably have been stated with the collection of words they would favor as an argument, if they ever bothered to make it.

Fuck centralized surveillance.

Funny considering how much of Google was built on open software.

Honestly, the “Be excellent to each other” rule is just asking to be abused by selective enforcement.

Free advertising for Windscribe if their claims are true. Also a lot of people in the thread spreading fud about it without any real evidence. I know because I actually tried to search for it. They are based in Canada and as such part of the Nine Eyes group, but they have a heavy no-logs focus towards privacy. What was seized was one of their Dutch proxies running on ram drives. They could put all the effort they want into preserving power, it doesn’t mean much if all they don’t have any logs except the vaguest of statistics. It doesn’t matter how mature they are if the privacy practices are there.

Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears

It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.

AI will reach true intelligence when it is able to tell its users they probably shouldn’t be providing them that information.

Doesn’t help they literally said they would stop producing chips and that they have done so.

Part of the problem is lack of interference, they are not regulating the cartels behind this and with Trump they won’t be because all it takes is a bribe.