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WaxedWookie

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WaxedWookie ,

But prison is so much more expensive...
Looks at political donations from prison companies
Ah - that'll do it.

Why bother with representation and good policy when you can have corruption, graft, and all the wonders of late stage capitalism.

WaxedWookie ,

Who will pay their bribes to secure a healthy pipeline of human suffering because that's good for their investors donations to encourage more great policies and responsible governance.

‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)

A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...

WaxedWookie ,

The internet made photos of trump and putin kissing shirtless.

And is that OK?

I'm going to jump in on this one and say yes - it's mostly fine.

I look at these things through the lens of the harm they do and the benefits they deliver - consequentialism and act utilitarianism.

The benefits are artistic, comedic and political.

The "harm" is that Putin and or Trump might feel bad, maaaaaaybe enough that they'd kill themselves. All that gets put back up under benefits as far as I'm concerned - they're both extremely powerful monsters that have done and will continue to do incredible harm.

The real harm is that such works risk normalising this treatment of regular folk, which is genuinely harmful. I think that's unlikely, but it's impossible to rule out.

Similarly, the dissemination of the kinds of AI fakes under discussion is a negative because they do serious,measurable harm.

WaxedWookie ,

Strange of you to respond to a comment about the fakes being shared in this way...

Do you have the same prescriptions in relation to someone with a stash of CSAM, and if not, why not?

WaxedWookie ,

What's hard to understand is why you skipped the question I asked, and answered a different one instead.

The creation of the CSAM is unquestionably far more harmful, but I wasn't talking about the *creation *- I was talking about the possession. The harm of the creation is already done, and whether or not the material exists after that does nothing to undo that harm.

Again, is your prescription the same as it relates to the possession, not generation of CSAM?

WaxedWookie ,

cedega

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d92fb659-85a4-4ba0-8201-adf4ae13c55a.gif

WaxedWookie ,

I think you mean:

Wine is not an emulator ^is ^not ^an ^emulator ^^is ^^not ^^an ^^emulator ^^^is ^^^not ^^^an ^^^emulator ^^^^is ^^^^not ^^^^an ^^^^emulator ^^^^^is ^^^^^not ^^^^^an ^^^^^emulator ^^^^^^.......

WaxedWookie ,

Canva's UI is somehow more fiddly than Word for making edits, but they've always seemed like a pretty decent company to me.

...of course that only holds true until it doesn't - I'm looking at you, Google.

WaxedWookie ,

It's also the key to driving the hell out of your sales teams without having to pay them those pesky bonuses.

WaxedWookie ,

Why would anyone want the cybertruck? Yet at present, it'll take them over a year to clear their backlog.

Some people are just dumb - that applies doubly for those that love Musk because he speaks the Nazi conspiracism Truth™.

WaxedWookie ,

Because they know that using AI-generated nonsense to train their own AI-generated nonsense is a great way to turn their models into a gibbering mess. These models need quality content to emulate.

WaxedWookie ,

We love our hierarchies, folks.

WaxedWookie ,

You forgot to make the point - you just vaguely gestured at examples of problems with those calling themselves anarchists... as though every last one of us hasn't personally experienced problems with strong hierarchies.

I understand that relying on a point rather than implied threats of violence may be new territory for someone advancing the position you appear to be, so I'll give you another try - try steering clear of transparent hypocrisy this time too.

WaxedWookie ,

What's this got to do with your apparent love of rigid hierarchies, exactly?

WaxedWookie ,

Nailed it.

WaxedWookie ,

I'm in a similar boat, but I haven't really switched because my watch history is all in Plex. Have you solved for this, or just lived with it?

I've tried jellyplex sync (I think), but config got to be a bit much.

WaxedWookie ,

The whole tablet UI switching had huge potential - particularly for 2-in-ones and to a lesser extent, mobile devices, but Microsoft absolutely butchered it in its infancy with atrocious execution, and by having the hubris to hobble their primary use-case (desktop) for the sake of pushing their half-baked nonsense into the mobile market. Users didn't do themselves any favours by not understanding that you could just hit start then type the first couple of letters of what you want to launch (what kind of website double-clicking weirdo clicks through the whole start menu without pinned links or search anyway?).

To me, it all reeks of designers/PMs/devs putting forward a super-promising concept, which was ruined by a bunch of overpaid MBA dipshits that thought they knew better.

WaxedWookie ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/83dbba72-cc31-4120-adb7-e9a28d2b8794.png

WaxedWookie ,

Welcome to Lemmy - where everything is made up and the points don't matter.

WaxedWookie ,

Is this the most terminally online possible way of saying "gender is a social construct and I'm a gender abolitionist"?

WaxedWookie ,

People - one of them paralysed are using hospitals as hospitals?
Guess it's genocide time!

Here's a test: Can you identify a way in which Israel differs meaningfully from Novemberpogrome-era (Krystalnacht) Nazi Germany in terms of rhetoric, policies or action? The answers from you fucks tend to be about as stupid as they are monstrous.

WaxedWookie ,

So all of the 10,000+ children slaughtered by the IDF are Hamas?

WaxedWookie ,

You realise the propaganda I was spouting (Hamas use hospitals, so genocide is good, actually) was yours, right?

Zero defence against:

  • Using hospitals as hospitals as a justification for genocide

  • Disguising as medical personnel and civilians to raid a hospital and execute high-threat paralysed people.

  • The fact that there's no meaningful distinction between Nazi Germany and modern Israel.

...and no explanation of the propaganda you've vaguely gestured toward.

Top marks, Rudolph Jitler.

WaxedWookie ,

What portion of the population do you think finds their job more fulfilling than the specific activities listed - let alone being able to spend your days as you please.

...ohhhh - "We'll make sure you can't afford to do as you please, let alone survive, so you'll have to work, but making sure the workers are responsible for it means we can keep our bullshit and economic vandalism up."

WaxedWookie ,

Hey now - Texas has the state guard too - do you think the entire weight of the Pentagon, it's carrier strike groups, and multiple branches of well-funded modern military is any match for ~1,600 good ol' boys?

WaxedWookie ,

Oh no!

...Anyway.

Hoists Jolly Roger

WaxedWookie ,

Sus Fing.

It's honestly sad that he still has a following - the Russian coma he was put into to get over his crippling benzo addiction while he was telling people to clean their room before worrying about external issues clearly cooked his brain.

WaxedWookie ,

Yeah - that was a pretty clear change post-coma (unless the coma cost him the ability to hide it).

Given his hypocrisy, dishonesty, and the agenda he was pushing, I just can't find any sympathy for him whatsoever.

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

WaxedWookie ,

We need time get comfortable trusting games companies that have the track record they do not to fuck customers that have trusted they'll continue to provide access to their games rather than arbitrarily removing them, adding game-ruining monetisation, fucking with subscription prices gating access to their libraries and generally acting like shady arseholes?

Suuure - sign me up.

WaxedWookie ,

Expected incognito functionality sits in the gaping chasm between actual incognito functionality and TOR. When I'm being told I can go incognito - you know, sneaky, in disguise, I don't expect to have all of my activity broadcast back to those that say I'm incognito.

Of course, trusting current Google is foolish, but that doesn't make it less deceptive.

WaxedWookie ,

I don't use Chrome because I don't trust Google. I assumed they were tracking users based on previous reports.

I'm saying that i think a reasonable person would expect that their incognito browsing traffic wouldn't be monitored and passed to Google. This reasonable person standard is the legal standard for advertising and marketing claims in my country and many others.

The disclaimer explicitly calls out that your activity might still be visible to sites, you visit, your employer or school, and your ISP - they notably say nothing about Google. That kind of thing is very misleading.

Where in that disclaimer (or otherwise) would I get the impression Google will track me?

WaxedWookie ,

To be clear, I was aware of the risk thanks to previous reports and my work in the cybersecurity space. I'm talking about the average user.

The name is deceptive, and explicitly calling out a list of parties that may see your traffic without naming themselves is deceptive.

It's akin to a guard saying beware doors 1 and 3 - there are dragons behind them. If you hear this from an authority that would know, you'd probably assume there's not a dragon behind door 2, or they would have said so.

The perception of "the man on the street" is a common legal standard that I'd argue Google has fallen short of here.

WaxedWookie ,

No thoughts on the perception they seem to be crafting very deliberately?

WaxedWookie ,

That lack of delineation is also an issue, but a separate one. That said, I'd think an average user would think doing a Google search from an incog tab would be anonymised and not tied to them because of the privacy incog grants (or more accurately, doesn't). There's reasonable arguments to be made on either side of this point, but I think that Google have been intentionally misleading - which is now creating problems for them, motivating this change.

Again, all the information Google present when opening an incog tab would lead someone to the conclusion that Google won't track them. Unless I'm mistaken, when this came up years back, Google explicitly denied tracking people in incognito mode, and they're only changing their disclaimers now in response to a multi-billion dollar lawsuit.

WaxedWookie ,

You don't visit the site when you punch a query into your browser search bar.

Ultimately, Google are making the change they are because they know how deceptive they were being. Google knows it, I know it, Google seems concerned the courts know it, I'm not sure why you'd choose to dig in on this one.

WaxedWookie ,

Thought slime has some mixed-quality takes, but is, above all else a wokescold crybully, making them incredibly toxic and counter-productive.

WaxedWookie ,

I haven't watched their content in a couple of years now, but there was a series of bad takes on Twitter, a hell of a lot of cringe, toxicity, self-centeredness, and performative self-victimisation, The main drama I saw was with Xanderhall and Vaush. On the other side of it, they've done a string of collaborations with varying levels of success.

Their videos were generally OK, if a little basic with some flawed analysis. They chose some interesting subjects, but their content took a meaningful dip not long after they came out as NB (I hope I don't have that wrong?). Hopefully the dip was just a short-term product of some of the stress and distraction, but their content wasn't strong enough to get me through it and I checked out.

If you like the content, you like it, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's not horrible, I just thought it stopped being worth watching (though hope that's changed).

Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

I've been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I'm looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will also...

WaxedWookie ,

Because the AI isn't needed, and would be computationally expensive.

Extensions like ublock origin and sponsorblock work just fine.

He's a lawless, fascist murderer. (slrpnk.net)

after St. Louis police unions instructed officers to publicly display The Punisher's insignia (the mark of a lawless, fascist murderer) the comic book community was quick to point out the stupidity, and the frankly horrifying message sent by supposed peace officers endorsing a maniac. So it's a good thing The Punisher personally...

WaxedWookie ,

He's definitely a lawless murderer, and the types of cops that display his insignia certainly seem to lean fascist, but what makes the Punisher fascist?

WaxedWookie ,

There's 2 reasons for that:

  • They're attacking one of the most densely populated areas in the world

  • They're committing a genocide - when they want to wipe out the entire population, journalists are going to get killed in their indiscriminate attacks.

They're far-right too, so they're a half-step from flat out executing dissenting journalists (and how are journalists in Palestine likely to be aligned?).

WaxedWookie ,

Vetting of the app downloads should fall on the app stores.

Vetting of the platform usage should fall on the platform owners.

The app isn't the problem any more than a web browser is - it's a dumb front-end for the platform. The platform is the problem.

WaxedWookie ,

Where I'm from, the median house price has risen 600% relative to median income since the 70's.

That means that we're dropping more than the entire value of their home as our deposit, while we compete against capital-heavy boomers that benefited from that growth looking to downsize.

There's a reason they could have a house and 12 kids on a single summer job income - they were handed a strong economy that they ransacked for their own benefit before blaming the poor schmucks that are inhereting the stripped wreckage they've left behind. Couple that with the cost of the massive environmental pivot we'll need to make to survive as a species, and I'm sure you'll forgive me for wanting to drive the nose of the next boomer that preaches about smashed avocado toast and bootstraps through the back of their skull.

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