kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on In heat 3 days ago:
They’re an ad company that just happens to offer search as a way to show ads.
Their ideal scenario is one where you search forever and never find what you were looking for.
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 5 days ago:
I look forward to the documentary.
“Mastodon: Victory Through Technical Superiority”, available soon on Laserdisc and Betamax
- Comment on This is real 5 days ago:
He has a legal status similar to refugee, but not technically the same because he didn’t apply for asylum within a year of entering.
So yeah, not an illegal alien. Legal resident.
- Comment on There are two root-reasons why people laugh about something that was said. 1 week ago:
But… I don’t think that’s true, and yet it didn’t make me laugh.
- Comment on Trump pardons crypto exchange for money laundering, possibly preventing them from even being investigated again 1 week ago:
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Do you know the muffin man in my ass
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
IP law does 3 things that are incredibly important… but have been basically irrelevant between roughly 1995-2023.
- Accurate attribution. Knowing who actually made a thing is super important for the continued development of ideas, as well as just granting some dignity to the inventor/author/creator.
- Faithful reproduction. Historically, bootleg copies of things would often be abridged to save costs or modified to suit the politics of the bootlegger, but would still be sold under the original title. It’s important to know what the canonical original content is, if you’re going to judge it fairly and respond to it.
- Preventing bootleggers from outcompeting original creators through scale.
Digital technology made these irrelevant for a while, because search engines could easily answer #1, digital copies are usually exact copies so #2 was not an issue, and digital distribution made #3 (scale) much more balanced.
But then came AI. And suddenly all 3 of these concerns are valid again. And we’ve got a population who just spent the past 30 years living in a world where IP law had zero upsides and massive downsides.
There’s no question that IP law is due for an overhaul. The question is: will we remember that it ever did anything useful, or will we exchange one regime of fatcats fucking over culture for another one?
- Comment on The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive 1 week ago:
Fourth week of getting NixOS running on an aarch64 laptop here… If I could get the adsp running by the time I get to userspace, you better believe I’d play a tada.
(In all seriousness, it’s not that bad. But it does make you very aware of just how delicate the whole stack of software is.)
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 2 weeks ago:
It’s okay, Let’s Encrypt only provides SSL certs for… 63.7% of the market?
Okay okay, that is a lot. But what does a CA need funding for anyway? It doesn’t take much bandwidth to send out new certs.
The only thing that could be expensive is if they had to rapidly invalidate thousands of certs to protect the security of the entire internet.
But haha, that’s a pretty outlandish scenario that would never happen.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 2 weeks ago:
Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 3 weeks ago:
Theiy’re*
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 weeks ago:
But people want the freedom that comes with having a horse. Maybe if we could put horses on the tracks and hook them up to each other.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 weeks ago:
It’s kinda weird that between unicorns, centaurs, giraffes, and horses, horses are the only made-up ones. Like come on, it’s a centaur with a dumb face, but instead of a chest and arms it’s just more neck?
- Comment on Call it an excuse. I call it therapy 3 weeks ago:
Careful about rewarding yourself for getting upset.
- Comment on Will big tech be caught in the crossfire of trade war? 3 weeks ago:
“The ACI allows the European Union to suspend intellectual property rights, it allows some people to use software for free, for example licence fees on things like streaming services or software could be suspended,” said Conall Mac Coille, Chief Economist at Bank of Ireland.
Fucking do it!
This is what Cory Doctorow has been telling Canada to do for months now.
Also worth noting: tech companies would not be “in the crossfire” — they are the primary fire.
On Democracy Now:
And if they do remove these laws, if we do allow domestic tech competitors all over the world to reverse engineer, modify and erode the high monopoly rents extracted by these American tech firms, we do something very effective in this trade war, because the only thing keeping the S&P 500 afloat are these tech monopolists. If you take the Big Tech stocks out of the S&P 500, you’ve got a stock market that has been in decline for a decade. And when you decompose their balance sheets and you see where they get all their money, it’s from price gouging on repairs, service, parts, consumables, software.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 3 weeks ago:
I know devs like everything to be perfect, but if your business can work around it for 15 years without fixing the bug or replacing the system, I dare say it doesn’t qualify as a major bug.
- Comment on Out of context Arcane spoiler 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get it
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 3 weeks ago:
There are only two reasons softwares goes for decades without being replaced:
- It’s so unimportant that nobody uses it
- It’s so important that the last major bug was squashed 15 years ago
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 3 weeks ago:
“If something you see is really difficult then you can leave your desk, but at that moment you have to remember to put on your computer that you are on ‘wellbeing’,” explains Eyvazzadeh. “But if the supervisors think you are using wellbeing more than you should, they will intervene. They would say: ‘Your ‘production’ time is a bit lower than expected, you have been on wellbeing a lot.’ So you are pressured to increase your time on ‘production’ by decreasing your ‘wellbeing.’”
It’s bad enough we make overseas workers spend all day pulling the lever of a slot machine that yields mis-flagged puppy videos and gruesome beheadings with equal likelihood, but then we stack NDAs, legal obstacles, surveillance, and KPI admonishment on top of it.
If you wrote this in a sci-fi novel, your editor would say “that’s a little cartoonishly evil, isn’t it?”
- Comment on Get cancer screening guys 3 weeks ago:
Oh cancer shows up in bloodwork? I thought you needed a scan for that.
- Comment on Get cancer screening guys 3 weeks ago:
What prompted the screening? How does that even work? Like “Doc I don’t feel right, can I get a cancer-check?”
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 4 weeks ago:
those who used ChatGPT for “personal” reasons — like discussing emotions and memories — were less emotionally dependent upon it than those who used it for “non-personal” reasons, like brainstorming or asking for advice.
That’s not what I would expect. But I guess that’s cuz you’re not actively thinking about your emotional state, so you’re just passively letting it manipulate you.
Kinda like how ads have a stronger impact if you don’t pay conscious attention to them.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 4 weeks ago:
Guy on the right should be pointing at the dumb fuck
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 4 weeks ago:
And then say that source is discredited, without providing a source for that claim.
- Comment on Qualcomm has complained to antitrust regulators in the EU, the US, and South Korea that Arm is hurting competition by restricting access to its tech. 4 weeks ago:
Arm could’ve just coasted off of unnecessary license fees for decades, but they’re over-extending and making themselves an unattractive business partner.
Bad timing with the EU ramp-up too — a RISC-V future has never looked more likely.
- Comment on House flipped 4 weeks ago:
2004-era RealPlayer stream artifacts IRL
- Comment on Disappointing coyote attack 4 weeks ago:
It’s been 6 and a half years
- Comment on Open Technology Fund, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save funding from Trump cuts. 4 weeks ago:
Let’s Encrypt handles over half of the certificates on the web.
If there’s another Heartbleed-style attack, CAs need to be ready to do mass revocation of certificates. That will take a ton of resources.
Defunding them places the entire internet in a precarious position.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 4 weeks ago:
Xhrome and Stardroid, but yeah.