todd_bonzalez
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 3 minutes ago:
Copyright is a mental illness
Well, I happen to have a great deal of respect for and routinely offer my support to those who suffer from mental illnesses, so maybe find a better way to say this that doesn’t denigrate disabled people.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 21 hours ago:
So I can pirate as many movies as I want as long as I’m only watching them?
Let these rich guys keep talking for a sec. I can get behind this somewhat.
- Comment on This cute pink blob could lead to realistic robot skin 3 days ago:
Hear me out…
- Comment on Why is this the only working proxy for Twitter... 3 days ago:
I think there might be a connection between poast-dot-org and poa-dot-st. The latter is a Neo-Nazi Pleroma instance. I haven’t seen any proof that the domains are connected. Might not be.
- Comment on The internet connects people 3 days ago:
It connected all the conspiracy weirdos too, fwiw.
- Comment on Thanks, Google 3 days ago:
Every time Picard asks Data a question.
- Comment on App development 4 days ago:
Look, you’re the one who set the Louvre as the standard for what is or isn’t art. If you want to keep moving the goalpost, by all means, explain what you actually think makes something art.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 4 days ago:
I’d say it is a bit more complicated than that for car doors.
Car doors work fine on every car but a Tesla. They aren’t some new technology invented by Tesla where design flaws like this are understandable. Tesla just does things so badly that they invent brand new dangers that only exist with their vehicles.
You don’t want it to fail and come open
That isn’t what “fail open” means. It doesn’t mean that the moment the battery dies all the doors fly open. It means that when the battery dies the doors aren’t latched shut like a bank safe.
At a minimum, the key should offer a way to open the car from the outside when the battery is dead. It’s completely asinine to put the only emergency latch on the inside of the car where you can’t use it, especially since it is hidden so deep most people can’t find it without the manual.
What’s controversial or unpopular about what I said?
You’re giving Elon Musk’s awful cars the benefit of a doubt by pretending that this isn’t a completely reckless design flaw that should never have existed in the first place, and you are deliberately misinterpreting what “fail open” means to make it sound like a ridiculous solution instead of the industry safety best practice that it actually is.
Also, you’re complaining about downvotes, so expect even more now I guess.
- Comment on App development 5 days ago:
If inclusion in the Louvre is an obligatory status to be considered art, then makeup is absolutely art.
- Comment on He remains at large 5 days ago:
Nobody said anything anti-gun. This is a legitimate statistic.
If it feels anti-gun to you, it’s probably your conscience asking you if this is an acceptable side effect of unlimited gun rights. Maybe listen to that voice and think of an answer to that question.
- Comment on He remains at large 5 days ago:
Somebody really needs to do something about this kid.
- Comment on App development 5 days ago:
The author of the article is right not to believe this claim. The author can say that their software was intended for whatever noble uses they want. We know from experience that software has mainstream off-label use.
Is BitTorrent really a tool for downloading community content like open films and Linux distros? Because that’s what the creators say it’s for. It’s not untrue.
Is Jellyfin or Plex a tool for organizing your ripped collection of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays? That’s what the developers say. It’s not untrue
Is Tor a tool for protecting dissidents? That’s what they say it is. It really is that. But is that all it is?
This tool might be useful for identifying sex trafficking victims, just as a nudifying app might be useful for identifying victims of involuntary pornography.
But on the other side of this is that nudifying apps are more likely to be used to create involuntary pornography, and makeup-removal apps are more likely to be used to harass women.
No reason to ban AI technology or anything, but no reason to pretend that tools like this aren’t used for off-label and sometimes nefarious purposes.
- Comment on App development 5 days ago:
I’ve edited people’s makeup and faces as part of the process of learning Photoshop, so I understand what you’re saying. There are perfectly normal applications for this.
The issue is intent. A lot of men think that women are “lying” when they wear makeup. They think that the most valuable quality a woman can have is natural beauty, and treat makeup as trickery.
There’s no shortage of men who think “You’d look better without makeup” is a compliment too.
An app like this would inevitably be used to help streamline the process of harassIng and negging women online.
There’s also the matter that women can put great time and effort into their makeup, and having someone remove their hard work from an image and throw it back at them is quite insulting. A makeup artist is still an artist and they likely don’t want their peers wielding tools designed specifically to nullify their work.
It shouldn’t be illegal or anything. No law against being an asshole. But it isn’t an app that will be used with good intent in most cases, and we should definitely pay attention because the “modify pictures of other people’s faces and bodies” use case for AI appears to have the potential to do a great deal of harm.
- Comment on He remains at large 6 days ago:
Toddler is 1-3 years, so they are just about done.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 6 days ago:
The headline rambles a little bit, and by the time I got to “, died”, I thought the toddler was dead.
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- Comment on Not to mom shame... 1 week ago:
- Comment on ‘Blue screen of death’ at the ballpark: How the Mariners tapped a tech nerve in viral rally video 1 week ago:
So obvious in fact that nobody was under any other impression, making this comment essentially a “the sky is blue” kind of thing.
- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 1 week ago:
RIP to the only VPN that reliably let you watch streaming services overseas.
Here’s to enabling the OpenVPN / Wireguard feature on your router.
- Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds 1 week ago:
It’s never too late to take up shitposting on LinkedIn.
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 1 week ago:
You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid.
Don’t you tell me what to do.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Honestly pretty funny to call the site “Jetflix” and advertise it as nothing but aviation videos. Nobody would know what you’re up to until they pay you.
How much you wanna bet a aerospace nut subscribed to this because they love Jets, and immediately reported this site to the authorities because he got the avengers movies rather than Airbus maintenance videos or something…
Pretty stupid though to run this site out of the USA. Terrible opsec. They really just seemed to trust that nobody who cares would ever figure out what they were doing. Plenty of similar sites out there that don’t even need to hide what they are because they are well outside of American jurisdiction.
- Comment on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs 1 week ago:
I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they’re the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car’s in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.
Boomers hear that message, it turns out.
- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st 5 weeks ago:
Is that where you draw the line on sympathy, or are you one of those people who is physically incapable of talking about anything but Israel/Palestine?
- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st 5 weeks ago:
They didn’t exactly say no, they just said they want more data. It might not be that crazy not to rush things with a patient that needs re-implantation when you’re trying to test the next revision of the implant and have willing patient who only requires an initial implantation.
As long as these patients are properly informed on the risks and limitations of this experimental tech, I don’t see a problem. There’s no evidence that they are treating their patients badly, or failing to fulfill any promises in regards to the efficacy of the implants, or commitment to support these early test implants insofar as they agreed to provide to their patients (to my understanding, they are informed that the implant could be a total failure with no opportunities to re-implant.).
- Comment on Americans will find a new way to ruin their tastebuds every single day 1 month ago:
This is probably one of those mustard and Oreo things that makes sense only after you eat it.
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 1 month ago:
Nobody goes hungry if the Human race is extinct.
- Comment on NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code 1 month ago:
Lots of stupid people asking “how would they know?”
That’s not the fucking point. The point is that if they catch you they can block future commits and review your past commits for poor quality code. They’re setting a quality standard, and establishing consequences for violating it.
If your AI generated code isn’t setting off red flags, you’re probably fine, but if something stupid slips through and the maintainers believe it to be the result of Generative AI, they will remove your code from the codebase and you from the project.
It’s like laws against weapons. If you have a concealed gun on your person and enter a public school, chances are that nobody will know and you’ll get away with it over and over again. But if anyone ever notices, you’re going to jail, you’re getting permanently trespassed from school grounds, and you’re probably not going to be allowed to own guns for a while.
And, it’s a message to everyone else quietly breaking the rules that they have something to lose if they don’t stop.
- Comment on Country music 1 month ago:
Waiter: “…served with a country-style…”
Me: “What country?”
- Comment on My favorite photo from my vacation! 1 month ago:
This is the only thing AI is good for.
