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- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a related, interesting example for BlueSky, on generating disguised links and preview cards (with content the url doesn’t actually contain) for anyone curious: github.com/qwell/bsky-exploits
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 2 weeks ago:
The article mentions there are aleady a few issues, some quite old. The article is useful for raising awareness and hopefully getting the fix prioratized higher.
- Comment on The best censorship is creators' self-censorship. 3 weeks ago:
Reading the sources you’ll see the puritanical conservatives pushed to ban sexual depictions of minors and rape on one website, and changing the names of such tags on the other two.
Not exactly deserving sympathy like in cases of credit card companies not allowing usage to pay sex workers.
- Comment on The best censorship is creators' self-censorship. 3 weeks ago:
I recoginze pixiv from them hosting one the largest mastodon instance, pawoo. Which is widely blocked for child porn.
Wasn’t surprised reading the article on pixiv’s policy change:
The prohibited content includes (but is not limited to): “Sexual exploitation of a minor, incest, bestiality, rape (or any other non-consensual sexual behavior),” and “non-consensual mutilation of a person or body part.”
Oh the horror.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 4 weeks ago:
Deepfakes are being used to personalize political messages in India, here’s a fun article on it which also points out an instance all the way back from 2020: aljazeera.com/…/deepfake-democracy-behind-the-ai-…
It also mentions using deepfakes to target constituencies speaking different languages, to defame opposing parties, and even creating deepfakes to cast doubt on legitimate videos:
Ahead of the state election in November, the caller requested that Jadoun alter a problematic but authentic video of their candidate – whose party he did not disclose – to make a realistic deepfake. The aim: to claim that the original was a deepfake, and the deepfake the original.
- Comment on Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service 4 weeks ago:
I’ve a few times shared personal information to people I am friendly with in public chats, accidentally or while not putting much thought into it. I imagine there are others like me who wouldn’t want to be doxxed.
- Comment on Here is my dog, Oscar. 4 weeks ago:
Looks just like mine! I find it adorable when he chants the 15 muted praises for the bound ones. His little eyes rolled back, mouth drooling ☺☺☺
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
What does it even mean to bruteforce creating art? Trying all the possible prompts to some image model?
The approach people take to learning or applying a skill like painting is not bruteforcing, there is actual structure and method to it.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
Being able to put out lots of works isn’t the same as being able to come up with good, meaningful art?
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 1 month ago:
When it comes to the U.S (it doesn’t seem to mention employment rate) Mathematics was 11th place in the highest paying majors 5 years in according to an NY Federal reserve study last month: cnbc.com/…/highest-paying-college-majors-5-years-…
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
You defend cookies in general. But the person youre replying to might have meant third-party cookies by “invasive cookies” ?
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
In the case of Google, the effect on advertising bringing in “slightly less money” is an understatement :)
- Comment on y'all get gamer leg too? 2 months ago:
Would be nice if you could mark this nsfw, it’s pretty disgusting.
- Comment on DO NOT MERGE 3 months ago:
I use it sort of as a “read page later” list. I never seem to get to reading them though.
- Comment on gatekeeping 5 months ago:
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- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 5 months ago:
Hahaha how original and not playing on something totally made up.
My gender is attack helicopter??!!
- Comment on Title 5 months ago:
So if we arent open to understanding something as important to being human as gender, why not toss out all other fields that study human social lives. Bye to anthropology, sociology, etc.
- Comment on Show some respect. 5 months ago:
SMH they snuck trans agenda past us
- Comment on 2 way communication is key 6 months ago:
Ah yes, “wife bad”, a staple of boomer humor.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
This is the definition Ive found people use when they bring up cultural relativism. Whether informally with stuff like “you cant judge them, its just their culture” or when more fleshed out. As far as I can tell, no, ethicists for and against cultural relativism are discussing something quite in touch with reality.
The author who is an important figure in metaethics, its much more likely theres something you missed than him being wrong about a basic definition in a field he is an expert in.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
I’m not really sure what to reply with.
“Skywalker theory” (so far identical to error theory) isnt what the post or the discussion is about. The meme is pretty clear it is about cultural relativism and clear about what it means by cultural relativism.
If you want to bring your own objection to moral realism, sure, but it makes little sense hijacking the definition to mean something entirely different and being unhappy this wasnt what the term others were using meant.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
Cool down.
You are thinking of nihilism (specifically error theory it seems - that there are no moral facts and people are wrong for thinking there are) because relativism (whether relative to subject or culture) doesnt deny that there are moral truths, just that they are only correct for the individual or culture that holds them.
Cultural relativism: The view that an act is morally right just because it is allowed by the guiding ideals of the society in which it is performed, and immoral just because it is forbidden by those ideals.
Ethical subjectivism: The view that an act is morally right just because (a) I approve of it, or (b) my commitments allow it. An action is wrong just because (a) I disapprove of it, or (b) my commitments forbid it.
Same book as the other comment of mine you replied to.
So, no, I didnt get it wrong. And the consequences I pointed out do follow from cultural relativism.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
Sure but what Matt is suggesting would mean we can hold something completely wrong or even absurd as a moral framework but just so long as we use it consistently.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
If that consequence is unacceptable, that probably just means you think cultural relativism is bullshit.
I can share a link to get the book, the context is quite short.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
When I asked if slavery was right for them, I wasnt trying to describe their attitudes. I am saying that a consequence of thinking cultural relativism is true is that you must admit that they were correct in the attitudes they held (because their culture agreed it was right).
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
I shared that quote to show that OP’s seems to know what moral relativism is, and their objection is something actual ethicists point out. I dont see what its got to do with how many people in the comments here are relativists.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
Believe what?
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
OP worded it badly, but you should be arguing against what they probably mean, not a strawman. Consensus obviously cant mean every single person agreeing, its about what the widespread view in the culture is.
So, how would you reply? Was slavery correct in the past because thats what the cultural view was? If a society is mysognist are they right?
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
No they understand just fine. Here’s a quote from an ethics book that gets at the same issue:
The extreme sexism at the heart of honor killings is but one of many examples that raise doubts about cultural relativism. After all, societies are sometimes based on principles of slavery, of warlike aggression, of religious bigotry or ethnic oppression. Cultural relativism would turn these core ideals into iron-clad moral duties, making cooperation with slavery, sexism, and racism the moral duty of all citizens of those societies. The iconoclast—the person deeply opposed to conventional wisdom—would, by definition, always be morally mistaken. This has struck many people as seriously implausible.
Russ Shaffer-Landau - The fundamentals of ethics p.293 (“Some Implications of Ethical Subjectivism and Cultural Relativism”)
- Comment on Philosophy meme 7 months ago:
If the standard you use isnt true (or is relative), no matter how well you use it in figuring out what to do, all your moral judgements will be wrong (or just relative)
My point being it has “objective” in there but not in the way that matters.