WraithGear
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- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
and they would need a birth date WHY? they would need to populate that information from here, WHY? especially since this was not brought into being because this was it’s use case, but because a state improperly demanded it, at the same time they are demanding other authoritarian surveillance over the populous right now? no i don’t think so. User name is more then sufficient
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
by your claim, the field can have any series of numbers, that there is no way to determine if it is accurate, and the law that this was done to appease is bad, as in not able to obtain its expected result. and so the data is useless.
if some api/program/government wishes to get my information, they can ask me so that i may decline. there is no use case that these fields are a benefit to the user. and as such must be wrenched out with the fervor reserved for denying a fey creature your name.
if the argument is that these entities can get my name by other means anyway, then this data is redundant and useless.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
let’s also talk about that then. we need to remove that immediately
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
the discussion happens right now, because i said so, because others are talking about it. and the data is useless when anything can be put in, it’s not used for anything, and it can’t be verified. it fails all three tests in gushing usefulness
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
the laws are bad, and you can push fighting for anonymity and freedom down the road because letting the camel stick its nose under the tent don’t bother anyone, and it’s too easy to just ignore…. but the laws are made for a purpose, and they will change. and uh oh, the camel has flipped the tent, you can’t fight to remove it because now systems are built around it being there. now it’s a much harder fight because we didn’t fight when it was easy.
again after seeing everything that has happened you call sounding the alarm for this as a slippery slope… i am sorry, but i question either your motives, or your foresight.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
- black and white may be colors, but a tv is mono chrome because it is referring to information that is transferred. the flattening of the picture to only two colors, no matter what the chosen colors are is a loss of transferred data.
- no cleaning happens in isolation, and no cleaning is perfect, the towel absorbs not only remaining filth, but also the environment the towels is in, being consistently damp, in a facility where one does other activities. It will accumulate filth that prevent perpetual use of a towel.
- the nurse can be trusted up to and until a death. due to the available options of casket providers, the nurses main strategy assuming contradictory motivations from the patient, would be to assist the survivors in the choice of casket. there will never be a shortage of a need of caskets, there need only be the approachable advertisement.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
because it’s too late at that point, which is the whole point and issue!
if the field is necessary, but the data is useless, then it shouldn’t be there. if the data becomes required then it should be there. so the result, it should not be there
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
with mass adoption of enshitification. and with the world in general. calling things a slippery slope fallacy is a long and losing gamble.
if the field was put in because of a law, then it’s for a reason, if the data isn’t important, or enforced, then it is useless and should not have been added.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however 3 weeks ago:
no no no, you misunderstand, this is malice, but the reason backing it is stupid and short sighted. i mean, unless the game plan was to run off their customers like a movie troupe
- Comment on Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD 3 weeks ago:
i don’t recall that weed was ever used for those things, other then just as a copeing mechanism, i think the argument is that it was better then the other narcotics by a country mile.
unless you are talking about charletons, but like we got people saying magic rocks cure cancer so like why would we need to validate their nonsense?
- Comment on British journalist releases video accusing PM of lying about British non-involvement in Iran 3 weeks ago:
oh! that sounds proper journalism, i haven’t seen that in ages
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 4 weeks ago:
i mean, yea sure. but you could say that of any game that has like updated content.
the ai voices, even though the voice actors were paid for explicitly training an ai, and to allow on the fly changes and extensive callouts, were a point of contention with a sizeable part of the comunity, so this seems like a good thing all around to me. the voice actors get work, the voice lines they replace stop having that ai inflection. a win win.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 4 weeks ago:
or hear me out, they can build it themselves so they don’t have to chase hallucinations. as a matter of fact, let’s cut the ai out of the project and it to summarizing emails.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 weeks ago:
and the latent belief that others should be subservient.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 weeks ago:
that opinion involves other women. they can make what ever choices about themselves but the belief that others are to be subservient is evil.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 5 weeks ago:
good question, it’s not been going well for me
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 month ago:
well they also see what products are doing well on their site, then making exact copies to sell at a loss to kill the original maker, then once the captured competition is killed take their place and inflate the price
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 1 month ago:
and what is going to happen is that some engineer will band aid the issue and all the ai crazy people will shout “see! it’s learnding!” and the ai snake oil sales man will use that as justification of all the waste and demand more from all systems
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 1 month ago:
innocent before proven guilty is only a thing where the crime is actually being investigated. because it’s not, nearly any actions and considerations by individuals is fair game. technically it always was.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
actully, it specifically CAN’T work the other way
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
neo libs must choose… either there is not enough progressives to demand a progressive candidate so they are not a large enough block to have changed the outcome OR they are large enough bloc to demand progressive cannidate and the democrats ignoring them cost them the election.
and they always pivot talking points
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 1 month ago:
i am not going to defend the government, but in this case, it was problem laziness from the private sector. instead of relying on actual identification forms they used the ssn to shortcut paperwork
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 1 month ago:
ssn was never intended to be a form of identification. it was specifically decided that it would not be used as a form of identification by the administration that controlled it
- Comment on An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
and they stole the music to train the ai as well.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 1 month ago:
that’s not true, a child and an adult are not the same. and ai can not do such things without the training data. it’s the full wine glass problem. and the only reason THAT example was fixed is because they literally trained it for that specific thing.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 1 month ago:
you are as helpful as a discord support chat, congratulations, you can sit there and be smug that it suddenly means you are right in your head
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 1 month ago:
the rant was basically summed up as: “i think forums are archaic and i feel the ability to search them was bad
i think that discord has a much better system because the devs can answer people’s questions directly.”
except my experience with these discords results in: me asking the question, a bot or some person states that the devs no longer answers questions due to having to answer the same questions over and over and to use the search function. the search function pulls up every time the key word is mentioned but not the context or resolution, and i end up having to read the time line, including random people chiming in with their own questions and now i am tracking who is talking to which person in tandem on the same chat, and some times they cross, some times other people come in to give their 2 bits, sometimes it’s starts an argument or is wrong, it irrelevant. an absolute fucking nightmare.
with a forum, i am usually directed there via a google search, it’s a sub division of the topics forum specifically created by the person with the question, the responses of everyone are for the topics exclusive benefit, and if there is arguments or wrong info, everyone can easily point it out without missing it in real time. and when the topic is either resolved, or given up on the topic ends. it’s not used for other people’s problems at any point.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
what? if you have something to add please do. i do not see the benefit of federation in my voip
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 1 month ago:
i HATE when i have to connect to other discords for that purpose. finding information on discord is the worse of all possible outcomes. if i am running into trouble i much prefer a searchable forum. as for different friend groups, i think team speak has the ability to save multiple friend groups servers.