matlag
@matlag@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
I don’t see the beginning of anything to rein in the power they get from just being overrich assholes.
Ironically, the only countries on Earth that control tightly (some of) their billionaires are Russia and China. I rememer Vietnam also executed one for tax fraud. Something for which they are barely slapped on their hand in western countries.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
But there will be more satellites, and not just from SpaceX. They are already disturbing astronomers work, and it will only get worse.
There was no real debate about whether the world population is ok with it. Big corp has money, big corp acts for its interest and nothing else.
And I’m not denying the benefits of low-orbit satellites and having vast but lowly populated areas at last getting access to a fast Internet. I’m jùst pointing out that this whole thing is happening mostly out of control (or very very few control).
If you add that now international laws was shot and its body discarded in the toilet, also note that getting too much dependent on these satellites makes you very vulnerable to a military strike. I have no doubt that Russia, China and other countries (Iran?) are actively working on satellites destruction, with or without creating debris and giving us a Kessler syndrom. If you look at climate change, on-going life mass extinction, water scarcity, etc. there is little doubt that world leaders will make the worst possible decisions in the name of pragmatism (or religion, but it doesn’t really matter).
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 1 week ago:
I wasn’t serious. More of a satire about the absurdity of our “modern” world.
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 2 weeks ago:
Until throw these fucks in jail this shit will continue.
You think? Send Zuckerberg or any of these billioraires to jail.
1.They will use their lawyers army to be moved to a for-profit prison. 2.They will buy that prison. 3.They will make changes inside, turning them into a resort for them, but an absolute shithole for all other prisoners, guards, etc.
- Comment on Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say 2 weeks ago:
“Robots will replace all jobs and work for us!” – Who realistically thought they would be in the “us” here?
Robots belong to companies owned by shareholders, but mostly oligarchs. In their view, when robots work for “them”, human population has been culled with 99.9% of the population died by starvation and/or stopped reproducing, and the 0.1% billionaire families survivors enjoy a cosy life where robots do everything.
Until the system crashes and none of these idiots know how to fix anything.
That’s one more human extinction scenario to the list…
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
GrapheneOS is not a company doing business. If they’re banned, that just means Motorola can’t sell pre-installed phones, but that doesn’t change anything about the phone compatibility with GOS. You’ll have to install it yourself, just like today.
- Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Actually the reason is the US uses 3M$ anti-missile missiles to intercept 20k$ drones. It was obvious from the start they would run out of them way while Iran would keep producing more of their drones (plus the ones they get from Russia).
It’s quite unbelievable they the US were so confident in their capabilities they didn’t bother to learn anything from the war in Ukraine, where swarms of cheap drones have replaced advanced but costly missiles for years now.
So the money may be genuinely used on weapons (and well, lobsters and steaks…). It’s just spent stupid.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Facebook introduces private messages. They’re private. Ah, no! They sold these messages to Microsoft, Amazon and Huawei! – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Facebook has all interest to work for the benefits of its users. Ah, no! They literally experimented on people to see if they could make them more depressed or more happy. – They trust me, dumbfucsk!
Facebook has an active moderation. Ah, no! They knowingly let disinformation spread and lead to a genocide because engagement numbers were good. – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Instagram minds kids and their sensitivities. Ah, no! They have algorithms to exploit their insecurity because engagement numbers were good, who cares if a few of them end up depressed and kill themselves. – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Whatsapp has E2E because they value privacy. Ah, no! The app sends home a copy of the private key on demand, rendering the whole thing pointless. – They trust me, dumbfucks.Meta’s glasses would never take a picture without their wearer’s explicit consent.
Fortunately for them, some people are really really really dumbfucks to a point Forrest Gump would look like a genius next to them.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m totally going to chill because I can’t see a LED… not. Hell yes, I’m still going to call out creep-glass wearers.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Go ahead and test yours. Repeat after each update and check if it’s location and/or time dependent.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
If you orientate your phone with cameras towards people, they’ll assume you’re taking pics or filming. Otherwise, it’s a general purpose device.
If you wear creep-glasses designed to secretly take pics or film people, a lot of people will assume you’re secretly taking pics or filming.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 2 weeks ago:
I’m wondering if it’s really the vaccine or if what makes you vulnerable to the antivax idea also makes you more prone to neurodegenerescence.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 weeks ago:
It is genuinely useful for people with limited programming experience to write simple scripts that will never be released in the wild.
That market is way too niche to justify the billions needed to achieve that result. Companies should just have professional human coding assistants.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 weeks ago:
Altman knows. He still has devs in his company, and he didn’t lay them all off. OpenAI is set to go bankrupt in around 1 year. He needs to keep the hype to get as much more money in, and himself generous bonuses, before it goes down.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
You still fail to understand you don’t need to be continuously filming to monitor what’s going in front of a camera.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
You’ll understand when you’ll be surrounded by parents wondering if you’re secretly filming or taking pics of their kids.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
You obviously know nothing about fascism.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
In this case, the ratio is probably of 100:1 or 1000:1 people in my favor. So if it comes down that, see you outside!
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Let’s say hypothetically that he assaults you, you sue him, then he raises 200k$ for his defense through crowdfunding because I bet the majority of people don’t want creeps to record them secretly. You’re still confident in your odds?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
When you say “fascist”, you do realize that fascism involves crowd control and these glasses are a dream for a fascist regime? All the speech about “cameras everywhere is ok” falls right in the authoritarianism thinking, that’s just a step from fascism.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
It’s absolutely legal to film them as you said, and it is absolutely legal to speak up. If that makes them uncomfortable, that’s entirely their problem, isn’t it?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Nope. These things can certainly take pics regularly and still last.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
But everyone here advocating violence seem to have forgotten how to do democracy.
A lot of changes in democracies happen following violent events. Violence is unfortunately one of the very few effective method to raise attention on an issue.
The law hardly change spontaneously.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
If you use a Meta smartglass, the “sharing” is out of your control.
It’s actually going to be interesting when a smartglass wearer has to explain a judge they didn’t know it was recording and uploading pictures or videos.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
He won’t even know he’s doing it. Why would anyone assume wearers have any control on these smartglasses and what they upload?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
If I spot one in a public place, and I start filming them while shouting “Are you recording a video right now with these smartglasses?”, I guess that would be totally fine, right? No reason to make them uncomfortable, because they’ll be in their right.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
The proliferation of cameras in public is not a good thing. I am yet to see data showing it reduces criminality (supposed to be the intent), meanwhile it’s a massive surveillance system.
And the fact that a given situation is bad is hardly a good argument to promote making it worse.
Meta collects data on everyone: from contact info in cellphone through their apps, uploaded photos, videos etc. If you don’t have an account nor consent to anything, they will just not show the data, but will still build the profile combining different sources and feed it to its algorithms.
It has been a well known practice for many years.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
Most likely either the glasses are in a state of recording, or the wearer has no idea what it’s doing. Damned! After so many scandals, people still assume Meta will do what it claims and not trick its users! Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! Fool me 42 times, more, please MOOOOORE!
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 3 weeks ago:
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