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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't judge here. :)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
(And Russian)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, just a glitch in my memory
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Memories rot over time. Apparently he’s not. Well, South Africans have Shuttleworth and de Raadt for this to not be a final nail.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, he’s Danish
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Well, about parts of the world which worry me the most (Armenia and Artsakh) the EC is the source of calling ethnic cleansing “voluntarily leaving” and the perpetrator “a reliable partner” sanctioning which “would be counterproductive yet”. So maybe addressing that is more important.

And if it’s not for somebody, then I’m sure that person understands the subjective weight of their opinion for me (about half a turd).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

I am 100% fine with censorship of known falsehoods.

Known to whom? You unilaterally give your side (in any argument) right to decide what’s a “known falsehood” and then to use force to censor it.

That’s literally why gun ownership is a necessity for a healthy society.

Let them appeal it in court.

Bullshit. Nobody is obligated to prove their right to a voice.

Even the tools behind 1/6, besides the biggest tool at the top, won’t even risk perjury and probably contempt, in court, with the risk of jail, unlimited fines, and permenant censorship from mass media on the line.

I often write and say such, less easily comprehensible than normal, sentences in my native language, but sadly I am not proficient enough in English to understand yours. I think I get the general emotion which kinda proves that you are even openly dreaming of abusing such a system.

I would prefer the falsehood to left up, colored a deep red and shrunk down to like 8pt font with a pop up on your curser that comes up when you hover over it, stating the fact of what it is; such as ‘unproven’, ‘demostrably false’ hyperlinked to evidence, ‘conjecture’, or ‘MTG - Jewish Space Laser crazy’.

I think there are browser extensions for this kind of thing exactly, and with today’s widespread use of various AI’s these can be even more satisfactory to all your goals except those which should be countered with gunfire.

Pick up social issue, it doesn’t matter your stance on it. Chances are, there is a science behind it that clearly takes a position. Facts over feelings.

Usually that position would be taken with hostility by all sides relevant in the society, or distorted to fit their narrative. Facts are always stronger than feelings in the outside world, while feelings are always stronger than facts in your head (or mine).

Changing your mind when given new information is a strength, not a weakness. Doubling down on error…? That’s some flat earth, you are definitely going to an old folks home now, kind of shit. That’s how it looks. Onset dementia.

This paragraph of yours is quite close to how onset dementia looks like IRL.

I apologize to those with real onset dementia, we know you didn’t choose it, you’re still worthy of respect.

Well, then surely you are going to visit a doctor after my advice?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
See those downvotes? Yes, that’s because those times were conditioned by the Internet being a niche thing. You can’t expect such adequacy today even here.

That aside, legally fighting “misinformation” is outright obvious censorship, not even trying to pretend to be something else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

AfD in Saxony-Anhalt

Yes, I’ve heard of that. I’ve also heard that they vary much in, eh, ideological climate in different states. So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.

I would provide a source, but it’s in German

That’d be fine, I can’t write and speak in German, but a wee bit better at understanding texts.

They speak like Nazis,

Not really, I’ve actually took a lot of interest in how Nazis really spoke when I was 15 years old. It was a weird time in my life, so wanted to know more closely things surely known to be evil and good to recognize evil and good in my surroundings.

(Thinking of Klemperer’s book.)

“Antisemitic and xenophobic” statements are not limited to Nazis, while some specifically Nazi traits of speech I can see being more popular, but really not limited to AfD and the likes. Even here one can encounter such.

they act like Nazis.

I don’t think they’ve started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.

doesn’t mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would “water down the term ‘Nazi’”

You may be right, but parties and entities more similar to Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn’t send the same signals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Anything is worth differentiating from a thing which is, well, different from it.

Kemalists are not the same as Young Turks, for example (however, saying that Kemal and Kemalists are not a direct continuation of Young Turks for all intents and purposes is something only a clueless European would do, trying to whitewash them because Kemalist Turkey joined NATO early).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
He can go to Afghanistan and offer his kids (if he has any) for bacha-bazi, right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too?

Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.

I’m not saying actual honest-to-God Nazis are not coming back. In fact, I’m sure they are, no evil is ever defeated forever. Time to cast away stones and time to collect stones.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
People obviously learn by doing real things, so competitive skilled labor won’t be more available than it is now.

They just have to get projects through one by one, then with time there’ll be more competent people.

But yes, some effort in schooling won’t hurt.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’m too young, but I think I’ve read that we’ve already been there, when expert systems written in Lisp were all the rage, and you would write them questions. Of course, the percentage of humanity to ever see such a system was slim.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It could. In fact it will make that part of the Web yet another step closer to a bot-populated SEO-infested graveyard where a living human will find nothing useful.

If only my friends would stop using VK to communicate, and my family FB for the same.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I meant something with peerflix inside, to stream torrented stuff.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Not only pedos, in general sadistic people tend to try and get jobs which would give them the feeling of power over someone, and not all of them can be dictators, warlords, just politicians, even lowly prison guards or policemen, also cowardice is a factor. So - child-related jobs.

But, to be frank, I’m not sure background checks are going to do that much good. People of this kind tend to bunch together, help each other, and can either get past the radar rather easy or utilize these checks to discredit anybody who’d be a threat to them.

It’s a complex matter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
In my humble opinion until the producers of such appliances learn honesty through pain, it’s much better to have a pirate streambox (with something like torrentflix or Popcorn Time or whatever, I just download torrents and watch on my laptop, so don’t use these things).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
No shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they're 'ruining the internet.' Here's the spicy drama.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
If it were for me to decide, they would be down in hiding. Cause being up in arms would mean legs broken, and also fingers or their hands to prevent further use of computer keyboards and mice.

Also an abbreviation which is expanded into “search engine optimization” by the very fscking name means that they are ruining the Internet, or the Web as its part, more precisely.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by online dating, AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable foster kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
And if it’s based on algorithms more fit for dating, kids with most problems would be the least likely to find adopting parents.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests AI-generated comment summaries and a chatbot for videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s because platforms as a paradigm have failed. Their Achilles’ heel has been found, end of story.

Not only in the Web, IRL too. The world is going to be P2P (which is the same as imperial, because an empire is a P2P network united by philosophy, I think I’ve even seen some passage by Mark Aurelius with this general idea). Call me mad or just scroll further if this looks nuts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests AI-generated comment summaries and a chatbot for videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I get it, why stream the video if you can generate summary, why find creators if you can generate content, why attract people if you can generate comments, generate, generate, generate …

I think I have a question concerning where do humans fit in all that, except for clicking ads.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battling Anti-Israel Hate with AI Bots - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
At this point where they say this that openly I think I’ll stop all the efforts at arguing online unless the opponent is quite clearly not a bot.

Lem’s “Bomba megabitowa” comes true in everything.

I like Lem and one may find some solutions in his approaches. But I also liked the Web like 20-15 years ago, it was nice.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Yep, the reason Macs are more usable is not that they are usable in general, it’s that they can’t keep the pace with Windows.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Argued Safari Is Three Different Browsers to Avoid Regulation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s false again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple slides from 2013 skewer Android as “a massive tracking device”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I live in Russia and I remember when most people used Rambler as a search engine (I’m not sure if my memory deceives me, but it maybe even was the default in IE after install), and also Yandex.

I was really enthusiastic when Google came to the Russian-speaking Web as a search engine, and also when they rolled out a browser of their own (I was still using Opera, but it was very nice). Google Earth I just loved, simply used it to look at various parts of the world for the process itself, ha-ha.

There was something about the general spirit of Google, with them supporting XMPP and RSS, and with services like Google Code, and events like GSoC.

I think that this push at looking good and geeky from those years was connected to Sun Microsystems still being alive or just recently dead, and thus having to compete with Sun’s image of a really humanitarian company while also really important for the industry.

No Sun - no need, Apple always was elitist and their “geeky” part was always perceived as fake, Microsoft was always perceived as evil, and in general nobody had the bar as high as Sun’s. So they didn’t have to try that hard to seem the good guys anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’d like to point out that not everything generative is a subset of all the ML stuff which is called AI now. So prejudices in datasets do not affect everything generative.

That’s off the topic, just playing with such a thing as generative music now. Started with SuperCollider, but it was too hard (maybe not anymore TBF, probably recycling a phrase, for example, would be much easier and faster there than in my macaroni shell script) so now I just generate ABC, convert it to MIDI with various instruments, and use FluidSynth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I actually really like how he is behaving similar to some 00s web forum owners (I imagine mostly forum text RPGs, cause that’s what I was on as a kid).

Then you could jump to another such forum, and still seamlessly keep contact (via ICQ or something else in other countries) with everybody. Cause the forum was one thing, and chatting with people was a separate thing, not controlled by the same people.

Want that back. And the first 2 HP games. And the web browser being a lightweight program as compared to many other things we’d run.

And Opera 9.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple warns Armenians of state-sponsored hacking attempts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, Azerbaijan/Israel doing that is not something new.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple slides from 2013 skewer Android as “a massive tracking device”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
In 2013 they to some extent still targeted geeks, developers, Linux users.

Also it’s the elitist part of their image, it was somewhat culture-oriented, and that culture involved sci-fi, cyberpunk etc.

And the “anti-utopian” part is classic for Apple advertising.

We so quickly forget that at some point both Apple and Google weren’t perceived as hostile to computer geeks or various high causes and actually as geeky themselves. People would simp for them, not very stupid or ignorant people.

It’s amazing how things come clear with time.