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AeonFelis

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AeonFelis ,

Post title is incorrect. Women's clothes don't have pockets.

AeonFelis ,

For extra irony, sell him an NFT to the source code.

AeonFelis ,

and fits on your back

AeonFelis ,

Pretty sure that was a joke...

AeonFelis ,

I had one in my mind for quite a while now. Time to write it down:

A famous-but-secretive order of women pulls the strings of all known civilization. They possess special powers, that allows them to do so, but even more than their powers they rely on their reputation and their vast network of connections. There is an important in-lore reason why the order accepts only women - the powers they use are defined by their gender, and the male version has some terrible aspects to it such that letting a man connect to it will be disastrous.

And yet - the order has a prophecy about a chosen one - a man that will use the power to unify humanity and lead it. For generations, the order's secret agenda was to track the bloodlines that will lead to his birth, all in order to ensure he is born under their control and guidance.

But as stories go - that doesn't work out. In the last generation, just before the chosen one is born, a member of the order betrays that goal. The chosen one is born outside the order's control (though not entirely outside its influence), and grows up training under a master swordsman.

We reach the first book. Boy leaves happily with his big happy community - which, of course, gets attacked and destroyed. Accompanied by a member of the order he manages to escape the massacre , and eventually reach the desert. There they meet up with the Bedouin themed desert nomads. These nomad are very isolated and xenophobic, but of course they eventually accept our protagonist. We learn a few things about them:

  1. While they are known through the world as fearsome warriors, in their past they were pacifists.
  2. Their women can also use the same power the order uses. They just... use it for their own tribe's businesses instead of interfering with governments.
  3. They also have a prophecy about a chosen one that would lead them. And surprise surprise - it's the same chosen one the order was going for. What are the odds?

Well, chosen one or not - there is a tradition to be held. So our protagonist goes through their tests, becomes their great chieftain, takes a chieftain's daughter as his lover (which won't stop him from marrying a more conventional princess), and goes on to use them to do his chosen one business and take over the entire civilization.

AeonFelis ,

That was completely voluntary though

The problem with power imbalances is that they allow enforcing "completely voluntary" practices.

AeonFelis ,

This... is not how I imagined the Apple car to look like...

AeonFelis ,

Are we doing the switcheroo thing on Lemmy? How does it work? Do we link to Reddit?

AeonFelis ,

Even worse. The police has both the authority and the budget to:

  1. Test candidates before they hire them as cops.
  2. Train their cops.
  3. Discipline the violent cops.

Protest organizers can't do these things. Anyone who wants to join the protest just needs to arrive at the appointed time and place, and if they behave badly - the ones allowed to punish them are not the protest organizers but the police.

AeonFelis ,

Jesus' version or Roman version?

AeonFelis ,

Yes, but you don't want to make it a primary source for government funding.

AeonFelis ,

Does it matter? He's still a judge with a judge's authority. If their policy is to obey the law then the political views of the judge don't change the fact that his order was lawful.

AeonFelis ,

Depends on what you mean by that:

  1. A Russian/Chinese judge ordering the disclosure of data about a Spanish citizen? Then no, because judges from one country should hold no jurisdiction over citizens of other countries (unless it's about things these citizens did in the judge's country - which is not the hypothetical case here)
  2. A Russian/Chinese born person who became a judge in Spain? Then yes, because the judge's ethnicity should not be a factor on whether or not their authority is respected.
  3. A Russian/Chinese judge ordering the disclosure of data about a Russian/Chinese (respectively) citizen? Then this depends on whether or not Proton Mail is willing to stop doing business in Russia/China (again - respectively). Though I'm not sure if that will save them, since it may still be possible, even after the cut ties with that country, for the government to go after them using international treaties.

At any rate, my point is that the decision of whether you obey the law or protect your users should be about the country as a whole, not about any specific judge employed by it. Choosing to obey some judges of the country while ignoring the warrants signed by other judges of the same country is just stupid. The country will not trust you to respect their authority and will not permit you to do business there, while the users will not trust you to keep your promise to protect them and won't use your service.

AeonFelis ,

At least he didn't try with a cylinder.

AeonFelis ,

This is a silly thing to argue over because we don't get to pick seasons and have to live through the one currently on.

AeonFelis ,

Declare that future student loans are also automatically forgiven. You take a student loan tomorrow? You don't have to pay it back. This, of course, will mean that no one will want to give student loans - which will force the tuition down.

AeonFelis ,

I think the problem with OOP is something you can see whenever legislation is linked with prestige (it happens a lot in real life). The number of good possible rules is quite limited, and the number of people who want to make a name for themselves by championing them seems to be infinite. If you can't find a good rule to claim as your own, you have to pick a bad rule and try to gaslight people into thinking it's a necessary and beneficial. Enough people do that, and we end up with modern OOP.

AeonFelis ,

That's how he gets you.

AeonFelis ,

No, this is Patrick!

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

AeonFelis ,

Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean Musk won't do it. On the contrary.

AeonFelis ,

https://i.imgflip.com/8lyzvo.jpg

AeonFelis ,

Yes, but you accidentally shared the one with the porn.

AeonFelis ,

https://c.tenor.com/fHz7wfvakO8AAAAd/tenor.gif

AeonFelis ,

Which one should have taken the other to kourt?

AeonFelis ,

Very unrealistic. How come he's still alive after talking back to a cop while being black?

AeonFelis ,

You mean "bonus points" flags?

AeonFelis ,

The flag needs a longer pole so that American drivers can see it from the top of their SUVs.

AeonFelis ,

Being gay is a pain in the ass

AeonFelis ,

Cat domestication is mainly about making them small enough so that when they randomly decide to slap your face with their clawed paws you wouldn't die.

AeonFelis ,

But no legal implications.

AeonFelis ,

I can think of a few other reasons other than the technology being new. But considering the general enshittification our civilization is going through, I can agree that this may be where it's headed.

AeonFelis ,

Which means companies have zero incentive to implement such mechanism for their DRMs.

AeonFelis ,

We are talking about the topic you brought up - digital rights management. The thing that prevents you from using software (or, nowadays, even hardware) without a license is not some magical karma woven into the fabric of the universe. It's code that the companies put in their product. No matter how much blockchain technology improves and not matter how much popular it gets - you still need these companies to actively implement NFT based DRMs. Why would they do that? Why would they relinquish control over their product? I jokingly said earlier that it'll happen because the trend is to make everything worse, but companies that make their product worse do it to gain more control over their users and extract more money from them.

AeonFelis ,

It can be used to make things worse, and it can be used to make things better. But they way it can be used to make things better:

  1. Requires a cooperation from companies.
  2. Is against the interest of said companies.

You are trying to argue that the very same companies that nowadays do all sort of convoluted things to take control and ownership away from their customers are going to use the blockchain to give control and ownership to their customers. I say it is much more likely they'll use it for MTX gacha.

Also - blockchain based DRM is so easy to bypass. Just make a public wallet which only contains the key NFTs and share that wallet's credentials around.

AeonFelis ,
  • You claimed that decentralized DRM will be good.
  • I explained why it won't happen.
  • Your counter point was that I originally claimed that the technology would catch but makes things worse and now that you explained that it would make things better I suddenly "changed" my argument to claim that the technology will not catch.
  • I did address that counter point, saying "It can be used to make things worse, and it can be used to make things better".
  • The "some new argument" I brought up is also a response to the DRM topic you brought up.
AeonFelis ,

He has had the US government given his business tax breaks

You are right about the subsidization, but how are tax breaks even relevant in a Libertarian system that has no government that collects taxes?

AeonFelis ,

Not with that attitude!

AeonFelis ,

For president, or away?

AeonFelis ,

Sorry, but no. Lemmy is an echo chamber. If one server likes pancakes and another server likes waffles, they'll just defederate.

AeonFelis ,

Why wake up if at the end of the day you are just going to end up going to sleep again?

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    AeonFelis ,

    At the very least, they switched places with Microsoft.

    AeonFelis ,

    And I can't believe that there are people like you that still underestimate how gullible people can be.

    AeonFelis ,

    If God is real then he's a sadistic psychopath who would make it a reality show format.

    AeonFelis ,

    Would the Roman empire promote Christianity had it preached such a tenet?

    AeonFelis ,

    Murder and theft were always recognized as wrong when the people were doing it to each other - rulers always had different rules for what they are allowed to do, and preferred to promote the religions that solidified these privileges.

    AeonFelis ,

    Leaving the fact that you were working for a charity organization - is it even legal to make a donation-of-opportunity when you buy something on behalf of someone else, using their money?

    AeonFelis ,

    So 2025 will finally be the year of the Linux desktop?

    AeonFelis ,

    Natural selection

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