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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My interpretation of this might be different, but I agree wholeheartedly with my interpretation.

  Being morally just doesn’t just mean “not causing harm” directly. It means striving to not cause harm both directly and indirectly. As someone who lives in the USA, our entire society is built off of exploitation. The less expensive something is, the more heavy the exploitation likely is. The cheapest manufacturing is done in countries where labor is exploited or even enslaved, where the manufacturing process can pollute and poison the area with little consequence (to the manufacturer), and where the powerful can force deals on the government to let them extract valuable resources and pay a fraction of its value - depriving the locals and nation prosperity. Even when buying US food products, the food industry mostly relies on extremely poor conditions for the animals it keeps, taking advantage of farmers it buys from or employs, and may even employ migrant children for dangerous slaughterhouse labor.

  Avoiding these kinds of practices throughout most supply chains is sometimes impossible and usually more expensive the more thoroughly you manage to avoid the practices. Even then someone has to check in and constantly verify that the practices are legitimately avoided and not just greenwashing or fraudulent.

  It’s really quite depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for being so detailed!

  I use caddy for straightforward https, but every time I try to use it for a service that isn’t just a reverse_proxy entry, I really struggle to find resources I understand… and most of the time the “solutions” I find are outdated and don’t seem to work. The most recent example of this for me would be Baikal.

  Do you have any recommendations for where I might get good examples and learn more about how do troubleshoot and improve my Caddyfile entries?

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that's an interesting question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid my mother’s boyfriend bragged of doing exactly this. He heard them having a conversation in another language at a gas station, approached them, and started speaking to them in German. When they were confused he allegedly said exactly the phrase. You are in America, speak English. He thought it was hysterical.

  He may have been full of shit, but the fact that he felt it worth bragging about said enough about him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I replied to the following statement:

  I could look up my dad’s name and all I get are articles about a serial killer who just happened to have the same name

  I countered this dismissal by quoting the article, which explains that it was more than just a coincidental name mix up.

  You response is not really relevant to my response, unless you are assuming I’m arguing for one side or the other. I’m just informing someone who dismissed the article’s headline using an explanation that demonstrated that they didn’t bother to read the article.

  Nothing is wrong with the tech (except it doesn’t seem very useful when you firmly know what it can’t do), but everything is wrong with that tech being called artificial intelligence.

  If the owners of the technology call it artificial intelligence and hype or sell it as a potential replacement for intelligent human decision making then it should be absolutely be judged on those grounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ChatGPT’s “made-up horror story” not only hallucinated events that never happened, but it also mixed “clearly identifiable personal data”—such as the actual number and gender of Holmen’s children and the name of his hometown—with the “fake information,” Noyb’s press release said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also the corpo verified id route. In order to avoid the onslaught of AI bots and all that comes with them you’ll need to sacrifice freedom, anonymity, and privacy like a good little peasant to prove you aren’t a bot… and so will everyone else. You’ll likely be forced to deal with whatever AI bots are forced upon you while within the walls but better an enemy you know I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Laws only matter if you're not rich.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I honestly agree with the theme, the difference is that Meta wasn’t looking to share them with others, at least not in their original form.

  I can download terabytes of content to train my AI (hypothetically) and I don’t think anyone but my ISP (and not because of IP issues, more for being a disproportionate consumer of their resources) would notice me, including and whatever industry I was using content from. It’s the sharing that incurs the real damages.

  Admittedly, Generative AIs are basically going to “share” the content (with someone, likely for a fee) as well but not in its original form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if we focused on resolving systemic issues that might provide motivation to prevent crime? What if we focused on rehabilitation instead of punishment for that that commit crimes anyway?

  Sure, you can take any idea to an extreme and shriek things like “authoritarianism!” but that means nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, like another commentor said they’ll just get fired for not being profit-driven enough for their investors.

  I don’t mind that it’ll likely cause their quality of life and general mental well-being to suffer, but we need to change the system as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we could eliminate it if literally everyone put in a fairly minor effort - getting vaccinated, masking, washing hands, avoiding gatherings for a while.

  Even in countries where the culture is to wear a mask when you are sick I guarantee significant minority selfishly ignores those practices - more than enough to spoil it for everyone else.

  Also, masking helps lessen but doesn’t prevent the spread in all cases. Many of the cultures that mask when sick do so because they are going to work or are out and about while sick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think their point is that, with effort, it can be become a thing of the past.

  However, so many are unwilling to put forth the effort because it’s either too inconvenient or they’ve been brainwashed into believing it’s a hoax.