drmoose
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- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 11 hours ago:
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 23 hours ago:
That’s very interesting TIL
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 1 day ago:
Yeah tbh I agree with you. These lessons should be left for adults no matter how you look at this issue.
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 1 day ago:
All bad things are equally bad?
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 day ago:
What a childish take.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 day ago:
What a childish take.
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 1 day ago:
Thats what soviets did too. There were classes for gun assembly and shooting practice and its not a new thing.
I don’t think military skill prep is a bad thing for small countries but coming from current ruzi administration is certainly is a bit on the nose. As in “training kids to terrorize country they invaded with semi-autonomous remote weapons” just doesn’t ring the same as “military prep in case of invasion”
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 1 day ago:
What a tasteless take.
- Comment on In Militarizing Push, Russian School Children To Build Drones 1 day ago:
It really is not cause nothing is as blatant as ruzi media
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 days ago:
Literally says “young men” in the title. Do you need a dictionary?
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 days ago:
What are you even talking about
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 days ago:
What a childish take.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 days ago:
Young adults needs stronger world frameworks that don’t feel forced on them.
IMO that’s a virtue system!
I’ve been a Stoic for over 20 years now and managed to convert dozens of people to progressive thought just by discussing virtues that are inherit to human nature (justice, courage, wisdom, temperance). People like abstract virtues because they’re easy to incorporate to their personal world models with very little friction and friction is the real thought killer.
Most people are truth seeking but can be very slow learners and some really rebel against strong friction so there’s a need for more abstract approaches like - using “colorblind” instead of arguing race, using “cosmopolitan” when argueing geopolitics, using “secular” when arguing religion etc etc. Every other argument can follow afterwards.
This is the way.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 days ago:
The world is not America - so how come this is an issue in other places?
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 3 days ago:
If you told me that I’d be cheering for space rockets exploding 10 years ago I would have called you crazy. Incredible how much damage that fiend has done to our society.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
I don’t think this precedence will ever get set because we don’t have universal global IP protections. The west will never set it due to fear of China winning the AI race.
In their opinion (which I agree with) this is the greater good and someone’s mastodon posts or similar being fed to AI training machine is a lesser evil compared to losing technological advantage to the biggest authoritarian state in the world.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
Listen man I’ve been working with web scraping for years though now I do the exact opposite (anti bot tech) and robots.txt is absolutely meaningless and there’s zero precedent in the US or elsewhere of it doing anything but providing web crawlers a map of your web site.
I can tell you the thing we tell to all of our clients - the only way to sue bots is to sue for direct damages not for automation. This has always been true and will continue to be true for foreseeable future in the US because you its impossible to set a precedent here as there are just too many players involved that benefit from web automation.
You can actually check out:
- Meta v. Bright Data
- hiq labs v. inkedIn
These cases are very recent and huge in web automation community and went all the way to the Ninth Circuit and settled at Supreme Court in favor of bots.
I’m telling you man copyright is so ruined that it’s really just a machine for feeding middle managers and lawyers. But hey it gives me a great job security and I can afford to work on actual free software which as you might know is invredibly hard to fund otherwise!
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 5 days ago:
Funny how all of that is straight up solved with any package manager or even git itself (with submodules) for free and yet gaming community is protecting some proprietary burning heap of garbage.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
Well it depends on the use. If its a movie that I copied then I can watch it, if it’s a picture I can print it and put it on a wall at my home. Even AI training currently its considered to be entirely legal to train on copyrighted data. You can even parse copyrighted data for analytics which is entirely legal as well.
So you can do a lot with copyrighted data without breaching the copyright, including AI training as it’s the article topic.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
Those are entirely different laws you’re thinking about like DMCA, EUCA, database protection laws (yeah lol it’s a real thing) etc. Copyright on its own is about distribution.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
No, there are several types of legal agreements on the web in this particular case there’s:
- click wrap where the visitor must explicitly agree with terms of service by clicking a button - that’s what you see when you register an account.
- browse wrap where the visitor implicitly agrees with ToS by just browsing the web.
The former is enforcable while the latter is almost impossible to enforce in free western countries because you just can agree with something just by browsing a public space.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
No that’s not how copyright works. Copyright prohibits distribution not copying.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
No it doesn’t because all mastodon data is public and does not require ToS agreement to be collected.
Mastodon could only argue damages but that would be impossible to litigate in any extent due to decentralized and free nature of Mastodon and Fediverse.
This is a good thing. Mastodon shouldn’t control anything related to the legality of data flowing in the fediverse - that’s the entire point.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 5 days ago:
As a software engineer i always found nexus simply archaic. Hot take but the molding industry might be better off with a new mod index.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 6 days ago:
I wonder whether Meta will try to lock down cross platform access now.
Currently Beeper still works everywhere and ED’S DMA (Digital Markets Act) still has WhatsApp as gate keeper which is required to interpolate with other chat apps. However “WhatsApp stories” are entirely different from chat so that means they can block all of that and this is probably how Meta will approach future WhatsApp updates - more shit to lock people in WhatsApp that isnt directly chat related.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 6 days ago:
Everything after # character in the URL is called an anchor as is not actually being sent to the website server (though can be seen using javascript). The anchor can point to any ID in the HTML of the web page and browser will scroll it into view on page load. You can find the ID of any element using right click -> inspect though not all elements have explicit ids.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Most games that dont scale into 100+ hours. I never reach that point anyway.
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 1 week ago:
What really triggers me is that digital products that are significantly cheaper, easier and safer (environment etc) than physical counterparts have significantly worse rights and protections.
Even if I agreed with the idea of copyright the economical implementation is so absurd.
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 1 week ago:
Yeah isn’t that crazy?
Copyright by itself only protects distribution but then laws like DMCA (US) and EUCA (EU) make drm removal illegal. Its hard to believe that these laws exist and should be opposed at every possible opportunity.
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 1 week ago:
We must be going to different ones because there’s loads of down-time in most games and people would have a smoke break and just hang out with food and drinks post games.
Board game cafes is my 1st choice for social connections when arriving to a new country and I make friends every time.
