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TwilightVulpine ,

You are underestimating how much bulshit people are willing to put up just to not have to make any change.

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    TwilightVulpine ,

    Except that the UK is also obstructing proper avenues to get them too.

    Transgender patients facing a years-long wait for NHS gender care are being handed a "death sentence", says the mum of a trans woman who took her own life.

    Data obtained by Newsnight and analysed by the BBC found it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in gender care.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68602939

    Mind you that gender affirming treatment can be the difference between life and death for trans people. So, they can't rely on public services, and they can't take matters into their own hands. So, the idea here is "be rich or don't be trans"?

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Always lovely when people pull the "it's a tiny percent of people so whatever happens to them doesn't matter". So are disabled people. So are people with rare illnesses.

    But who do you think is even going after gender-affirming hormones in the first place? It's an unbearable risk for everyone else but whatever happens to trans people without it doesn't matter. Funny how that is...

    TwilightVulpine ,

    The very first thing I showed you is that the legitimate channels are unusable.

    But hey, it wouldn't be the first time "illegal drug sales" are used as a pretext to attack undesirable populations.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    ...what part of the comparison you have issue with? That trans people are a marginalized group, or that what they are seeking is not nearly as harmful, yet authorities making an issue out of it regardless.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    And here you are talking about homemade surgery when the topic of the day are pills and disability aids. All you have said in this thread is bait and switch.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    At this rate he might be applying to become a Terf Island Government Regulator probably

    TwilightVulpine ,

    I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can't simply afford to market themselves without it.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    It's an incredibly ironic stance to take

    TwilightVulpine , (edited )

    No?

    The way you are speaking it's as if they mean to close down the whole thing. There is a whole rest of the world for them to operate in. Sure losing the US market would be a huge detriment, but the owners still might rather have it everywhere else, than keep it running in the US in someone else's hands.

    Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

    Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Windows 11 made my girlfriend's laptop so slow, even she asked me to install Linux, and she is not even a techy type.

    Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

    Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Wild that since the rise of the internet it's like they decided advertising laws don't apply anymore.

    But Copyright though, it absolutely does, always and everywhere.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    But it doesn't. Nobody who is harassed or has their prospects undermined because of AI fakes is helped by repeating that. Especially because as the technology advances the only way to verify its legitimacy will be to compare it with real intimate pictures, which the person cannot show without being exposed to the exact same treatment.

    It also doesn't help that gossip can do all that harm as well so the point is moot.

    Trying to point out that this is illogical and that nudes shouldn't even be such a big deal is an uphill battle against human emotional, social and cultural tendencies. It would take much more than some offhand comments to affect it at all, and I wouldn't count on that shift happening before the harms of AI fakes spread.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    This is a consideration that a lot of people are glossing over. Schlubby dudes might not even be affected to it at all. It's not going to be widespread for everyone.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Does it seem to you that people are becoming more likely to verify sources?

    Nevermind, like I just said before, how exactly do you verify fake porn with the source? Who is going to be volunteering their intimate pictures as reference? Or, do you really think all that it takes to avoid all issues is for the victim to say "that's fake, it's not me"?

    Frankly, that sounds like pure wishful thinking to me.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Well, of course. They aren't banning Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. That's exactly how they want it.

    TwilightVulpine , (edited )

    As someone who's neither chinese nor american I want nothing more than these countries to keep their hands to themselves. I don't like China doing it, and I don't want the US doing it because China does it. Are y'all gonna hand a piece of your companies to every country they operate in? I'm guessing "no".

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Who knew firing most people keeping it running would have negative consequences 🤔

    TwilightVulpine ,

    The movie industry can't bother to provide and preserve the movies they make, they should shut the fuck up.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Haven't I been hearing that since the rise of computing and the internet? And it's probably been around even longer. Seems like this sort of stuff only gets going when a lot of workers start putting up a fight.

    But hey, maybe 41% jobs lost might be the tipping point. Because people aren't just gonna sit on the sidewalk and starve.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Now even using quotes and specific sites isn't guaranteed to get what you are looking for...

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Oh so human rights just end when some armed folks feel like and that's all fine and dandy?

    And why ought Palestinian civilians be subjected to the disregard of human rights that the IDF and even Hamas have? Sounds like you are thinking of the Palestinian people as interchangeable with Hamas, such as the people may be punished by their acts and they can't complain about it.

    You speak of nuance but if anything you are erasing nuance. "Both sides bad so it's all fair". Nevermind relative civilian death tolls, infrastructure and household damage. Nevermind the whole history of this conflict going back decades.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Cool evasion bro. You're sure dedicated to the nuance you are calling dead.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    It all went downhill when they decided that companies could just tell you to waive your rights without any scrutiny or negotiation.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Sure but experimental technology is still pretty risky, especially with Musk's companies tendency to cover up any issues. Ending up brain damaged on top of blind and paralyzed would be a nightmare.

    Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

    Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

    TwilightVulpine ,

    People will always want to create, but if they can't make a living creating, that's going to put a roadblock in their artistic development, because they won't be able to dedicate themselves to it full time.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Adapt and overcome how? Using AI? By the nature of the matter, less artists will be needed using AI, some will not make it. So, what then? Dropping their artistic career to go carry boxes for Amazon? What a shitty path we are making for humanity if we need to drop careers of passion to do menial jobs.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    We can argue that when Disney ceases to be one of the biggest corporations in the world, and most people can live with part-time jobs, that leave them plenty of time to create art. AI is not going to make it so all art is made for fun rather than money, it's just going to make it so media corporations get all of the money, without having to pay any to actual artists.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Right. This is only "right" because tech corporations were allowed to undermine the meaning of ownership without any attempt to protect customer rights. The concept of "buying a license" is fundamentally contradictory, because without the transfer of ownership, nothing was "bought". Yet they still present this licensing process as if it was a purchase, which is deceptive.

    Many take it for granted that this is just the nature of digital purchases, but the digital market simply created the opportunity for companies to redefine purchases with less resistance. Now they are trying to do the same with physical objects: physical media, technological devices, vehicles, so forth, trying to establish that people didn't own what they bought.

    And the basis of all of this is simply that they wrote some text that they said so. Can you imagine if customers tried something like this? They would be laughed out of the room. It's a sham. The flimsiest possible pretense of legitimacy. Yet it's treated as valid because they have the lawyers to defend it while the average customer does not, and governments often neglect their role to advocate in favor of the public.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    It shouldn't be, but fighting Microsoft in court would be hellish, and not even a guaranteed win given how much undue influence corporations have over the justice system and politicians.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    I see people going "this is what you get for buying digital", and that's what they are not seeing. This is not about digital being more unreliable than physical. This is an attack at the concept of customer ownership itself.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Ok, I really don’t get Epic hate. Sure, they’re using shitty practices to attempt to compete with the megolith Valve is, and it sucks.

    Meanwhile GOG attempts to compete by offering features that other platforms don't offer, like DRM-free installers and a multi-platform game launcher.

    If Epic got to #1 place, what guarantees there are that they would stop using exclusivity deals to hinder their own competitors? It might just be that we end up with a more anti-competititve market leader, and then what would be the benefit of having overtaken Steam?

    TwilightVulpine ,

    I can agree that GoG doesn't have a large share of the market, but I'm still unconvinced of the benefit of this call for competition for competition's sake when it's introducing anti-competitive practices. Usually we want competition to push back against anti-competitive practices.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    No company is good but that doesn't mean they are all equally, identically bad.

    We have seen what Valve did when it was not the market leader because it didn't spawn in such a place. What they did is lock their own games to their own platform, which is something most other PC storefronts do or did at some point.

    We did not yet see what Epic would do if it would got to the top. Is it even guaranteed that they would continue to take less revenue?

    And really, if all companies are bad, what's the point of rooting for Epic to overtake Steam?

    TwilightVulpine ,

    They don't owe Epic any respect or reasons to dislike them either. For all this "all companies are bad", you are being a bit picky over when they can or can't be judged.

    I gave you my reasons why I don't like them. They are not jumping into the game client market in the early 2000s, they are did it 2018. They have had the blueprint ready, with many examples, but they didn't care to match the other alternatives in the market. Which in itself wouldn't be such an issue, but it does leave a bad taste when they make themselves the only option where to buy certain games. I don't hate them because it's cool, I hate them because they inconvenience me.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    What you call "building the ecosystem" I'd call selling products to users that should be allowed to make their own choices. They could very well choose to stick with Apple, but why does Apple get to decide that for them?

    TwilightVulpine ,

    It's definitely disingenuous. They are using their legal defense as marketing, "you guys don't get it, we are just sooo much more secure as a monopoly".

    Hanlon's Razor shouldn't be used for business and politics because there are big incentives to be malicious and play dumb there.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Absolutely do not support this view of "the company sold the product but they still own it". Tim Cook isn't handing out iPhones as a favor.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Our society is long overdue giving con men the ass kicking they deserve.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Fair enough

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Considering how this is being pushed by petty micromanagers at expense of profits, they might as well see it that way.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    These days "free speech absolutist" is used more as an excuse to defend hate speech than actual opposition of censorship. Elon was always inclined to censor whoever he finds inconvenient (company whistleblowers, plane tracker), and many of his fans are similarly inclined, say, against LGBT people, socialists, and other groups they dislike.

    Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

    Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    I wouldn't count on the user realizing the limitations of the technology, or the companies openly admitting to it at expense of their marketing. As far as art AI goes this is just awkward, but it worries me about LLMs, and people using it expecting it to respond with accurate, applicable information, only to come out of it with very skewed worldviews.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Well, we are seeing what happens when they randomize it. It doesn't always work.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    They had a brand that was so powerful it was used as a verb, and he gave it up for the letter that is used as a generic placeholder, just because he's obssessed with it for whatever reason.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    I think even that goes back around to business interests. We can't store that many physical copies in shrinking, expensive housing. Digital purchasable media is somehow just as expensive despite having tiny manufacturing and logistical costs, on top of being unreliable due to DRM.

    Subscriptions so far seemed like a better value proposition but between splitting and vanishing libraries, increasing prices and the addition of ads, that's becoming more questionable. Even average people aren't so thrilled of having to subscribe to a dozen different services to watch, listen and play what they want.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    I so wish we had some affordable, high-density storage technology that we could record and then forget it in the attic for 20 years.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Yeah but I don't have a climate controlled storage for it

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