Capricorn_Geriatric
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- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 2 days ago:
I associate them with religious pundites and discrimination of payments. A payment is a payment, for christ’s sake! If it’s illegal, report it to the relevant authorities.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 3 days ago:
It is. Free for Trump to do as he pleases.
- Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act 4 days ago:
Especially a UK one.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 5 days ago:
With SKG going as well as it is, wouldn’t an ECI on chat control be in order?
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 6 days ago:
Sure. Let them whatabout. But to us, consumers, it shouldn’t matter.
We know the stores aren’t responsible, so we shouldn’t attack them.
The processors are. For Visa and MasterCard it’s pretty obvious. Itch, as you said, puts direct blame on Stripe, and I think we can trust that.
As much as processors need banks, banks also need processors. It’s a sort of symbiosis. Damage to one actually trickles onto the other. So pressing onto processors isn’t a mistake. It’d be foolish at best and malicious at worst to suggest that.
Now that we have leverage as users and consumers, having started a push which made way and caused a response (first the prepared phone statement and now a press release), the absolute wrong thing to do is bacl down and say “sorry, we were wrong, it was B after all and not you, A”.
And look at it this way: There’s less payment processors and they’re smaller than banks. If you suddenly turn to banks, you won’t accomplish anything because to them, a few consumers who aren’t their customers doesn’t cause them even an itch. But if payment processors come to them it might.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 6 days ago:
It never was about the laws. If it were, Mastercard wouldn’t have been doing it for quite some time now.
It’s truly idiotic. They backed down to 200 phone calls from CS. They probably cited that rule, saying doing what they do (processing payments) will damage their brand.
Lo and behold, once they stopped processing transactions their brand got damaged. And due to the ego damage already associated, they won’t back down and backtrack not that they actually have a problem on their hands. What with their brand being seen as discriminatory, weak to undue influence and excersizing undue power against their own clients. Very “good brand” of you, Mastercard.
If Mastercard wants to display Christo-fascist family friendlyness they can slap a cross onto their logo and change the font to Comic sans.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 week ago:
Damn. Never knew batteries catch on fire when angry.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 1 week ago:
For what? Being decent human beings?
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 week ago:
Nor did you read between the lines.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
And often times it isn’t. In fact, name-brand can ofter be worse for a multitude of reasons.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
moral.doctrine@mastercard.com
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
Since it ‘figerprints’ you, changing your fingerprint by blocking parts of the signal with pieces of foil doesn’t seem like a terrible idea.
Now, the question is: is such a tactic like wearing gloves, or like using super glue?
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 week ago:
“Opt out of” or disable/block?
To me, “block” or “disable” seems like it blocks/disables the feature machine-wide, when it just says “pretty please, make me black after you take that screenshot”.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
What a title. Made me think installing the browser blocked the feature machine-wide.
- Comment on WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version 2 weeks ago:
Why would anyone care about it being uglier?
It’s WhatsApp ffs. Ugly is their visual identity.
If they changed their app into a neon citylight barely anyone would even notice, let alone complain.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t they ban NSFW a year ago?
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 2 weeks ago:
The thing with “this one” is he was president for 2 terms, unlike the previous one. The others before him in this millenium were a bit less off the rails, hence less ridicule.
Bots do sway the results towards every current president, but this one is a bit… Specific.
But whatever the next one may be, short of insane choices like Kim K, Elon, Kanye, MTG, etc. The ridicule will be much less than for Trump.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 3 weeks ago:
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 3 weeks ago:
And please show me where I didn’t say that.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 3 weeks ago:
Then treat your employees like humans, not human resources. That means sick days at the very least. If you want to be respected more, then start respecting your employees more.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
Lucky for you, you can get around with English in most places.
Ireland didn’t leave the EU, so that’s an option.
In most big cities you can get around just fine. In some you can actually live very comfortably.
As far as laws go, as an EU citizen one is entitled to communication with any public institutions one may come across in their preferred “official language”. Stuff like paying your utility bills, registering health insurance, similar bureaucratic stuff, as well as getting stopped by the police. You can insist on doing it in any one of 28 languages, including English.
Usually that’s a bit overkill, and whoever you’re dealing with will be happy to speak to you in English or find someone else who does if they don’t. I assume the same goes for non-citizens. German and French are also quite popular, but English is by far the most ubiquitous.
- Comment on If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation 3 weeks ago:
It is to show that I suffered with you for a bit. Only one third of me, to be fair, which I created specifically for that little exercise.
- Comment on Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles 3 weeks ago:
They’re right. They are the ‘Right’, after all.
The conspiracy is called ‘rising levels of decency’.
More like a disease than a conspiracy, really.
And unlike actual diseases, I assume they’re well-vaccinated against this one.
- Comment on blursed 3 weeks ago:
The Curse of No Cancer
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
Exclusive BREAKING NEWS: After careful cobsideration by the World’s top scientists from 1000+ top Universities, it turns out that WATER, H2O, the Wet Wet is, in fact, wet.
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 5 weeks ago:
Of course they would. Not only would they get their hands on data users fully voluntarily give them by using their platform, but they’d get their hands on verified IDs and quite reliable family tie information. The potential loss of users is definately worth it for them (from their perspective).
- Comment on $219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that illegal?
The content (i.e. text, tables, images, etc. ) of the book is under copyleft, while the only thing the publisher can argue that’s theirs is the design (cover, font, copyright claim text, etc.) There are things like page layout and stuff that may’ve been created by the author or the publishers so it’s in a grey area.
All in all, I think scanning the book and OCRing it, removing stuff like page numbers and those first few pages of junk would remove all “infringing” elements.
Or, as always, you can email tye author and they’re 99% sure to give you their manuscript directly if they didn’t publish it somewhere else already.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 1 month ago:
No it doesn’t because all mastodon data is public and does not require ToS agreement to be collected.
ToS are legalese bullshit. They mean next to nothing since most stuff if it comes to court, gets annuled.
ToS kind of does protect you, but holding tge service hostage or not (as in you can’t watch one little youtube video without selling your soul to Google) doesn’t make a big difference - rrasonable expectations are that users own their content (as is the case in youtube’s case - youtube doesn’t ponce on your videos afaik), although they do own rights to distributing it (obviously), and using sane technological measures to prevent what they don’t want. In youtube’s case that’s watching e.g. privated videos, and in another case it can be AI scrapers.
Robots.txt is, just like a ToS, a contract. It just isn’t legalese as it isn’t meant to scare people, but be useful to programmers making the site and those using the scraper. They’re programmers, not marketers or lawyers, of course they won’t deal with legalese if they csn avoid it.
Again, law is not leagese.
A robots.txt file is a contract by use,like when you park in a charge zone - entering the zone, you accept the obigation to pay.
When you scrape a site you first check for robots.txt in all the reasonable places it should be, look for its terms, and follow them… If you don’t want to riskgetting sued.
Similarily, entering a store, you are expected to pay for what you take. There is no entry machine like on a metro where you, instead if swiping a card, read the store’s T&C’s, but know that it’s common sense security will come after you, if not the police. Yet you clicked no “I agree”? How come you don’t just take what you want?
And robots.txt is a mature technology and easily a “standard”. Any competent lawyer will point that out to the jury and judge, who will most likely rule appropristely. The Internet is not the Wild West anymore.
- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 1 month ago:
Or maybe it’s trained on some SF. Any agents like ScubaGPT are always self-preserving in such stories.
- Comment on I've achieved comedy! 1 month ago:
Press the Start button. The React Native app doesn’t… React.
The ship’s main computer and all its systems crash - every single fancy monitor shows the same BSoD.
Since the doors are all electronic, due to safety concerns on Earth that have gotten overlooked while making the craft, all the doors release and open.
You see the smiley faces and QR codes dissapearing as the monitors get yanked out into the void.
You soon follow.
The end.
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