girsaysdoom

@girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The article isn’t about the new animation but about how the old clip has resurfaced and is retreading its origin and how it relates to recent events.

  Now coming back to Miyazaki’s thoughts on AI, a widely shared video from 2016 shows the legendary animator reacting with disgust to an AI-generated animation demo.

  The animation in the clip reminded him about his friend’s disability and how the creators of the animation didn’t regard ableism while making it. Later in the clip, one of the creators had expressed that they would like to create a machine that could “draw pictures as humans do” and Miyazaki was depicted as displeased after this statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s reasonable. It’s a good idea to have additonal protections and if you have the knowledge, something like a pihole can go far.

  In a perfect world the parent(s) would know the needs of the child and adjust. Curiosity should be encouraged but the guardians should be the ones to prepare the kids for the world, as far as home life is concerned.

  Access to porn and gambling is impossible to guage the best age for granting access to in the legal sense; it’s a different situation for everyone. That’s why it really should be up to the guardian to dictate when is appropriate.

  Unfortunately, instead of teaching with an open mind, what gets passed on usually is the parent’s frustrations and dispositions. To even things out, I also think public education is helpful, but that’s a different topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all dumb. If you’re worried about kids surfing porn sites then the legal guardian should act accordingly. There are so many methods to blocking porn sites that it’s almost hilarious. Web filtering; most ISPs are able to support website filtering on their supplied gateway or DNS. Parental controls on device; most devices come with opyional locks built-in at this point especially if it’s aimed towards children.

  Sure, it’s not perfect but it’s better than removing yet another layer of web anonymity. We see how well browser fingerprinting is going, let’s not make it easier to track who is browsing where than it already is. But that’s the real point behind these bills, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely understand. That’s good to hear there hasn’t been a direct pipeline to selling fingerprint data established yet.

  Thanks for checking it out. Hopefully there is a best of both worlds in what they are advertising but I get that technology isn’t magic either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re definitely right that it’s a game of one-upping each other. Unfortunately, it’s now directed in a path that infringes on privacy of the users it aims to serve.

  Since you’re working in the internet security industry, what’s your take on something like Altcha as opposed to more invasive means of protecting against both attacks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shit take. What’s the point of having user-agents if it’s just a race to the bottom for only supporting a smaller list arbitrarily? It’s not like the bots aren’t going to just spoof as Chrome on Windows 11 anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post with 22k upvotes mentions Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unfortunate that people still think Brave is a good privacy alternative. Ungoogled-Chromium is a better alternative but also unfortunately requires manual upkeep. The best alternative is to use Mull or LibreWolf currently and some form of abstraction if you’re concerned about security as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong about it being easy to set up and use, but the reason it’s still the defacto is because of its earlier monopoly. Now, they are slowly killing what made it the best Enterprise option either by its greedy licensing schemes hiding things you used to use behind new and additional licensing or breaking them with untested patches that go straight from dev to production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me make everything confusing. There’s a company named Finalspark that uses synthetic human biocomputers to process AI workloads. They state that they use dopamine and electric pulses to reward wanted behavior and reduce unwanted behavior. This isn’t far from how our brains operate on a daily basis.

  Here’s my take on this. If something exhibits a level of intelligence, then that should be factored into any actions that may impact it. This can go from microbiology, plants, animals to large and complex systems. If you look hard enough at anything living, its just micromachinery. Everything should be respected as if it had some level of consciousness, as we don’t know where that line is. Even if we find a hard line in the future, it’s easy to cross it so we should have a reasonable buffer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lewd noodles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know right? I keep thinking it needs a blanket too but then I realize that it’s cold blooded. 😅