todd_bonzalez
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 week ago:
God, I wish I could afford LTO-9.
You could fit all this stuff on 5 tapes. You could just walk around with them in your cargo shorts or something.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 1 week ago:
Elon Musk parody accounts no longer required to advertise themselves as parody, since they really are Elon Musk now.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 week ago:
127TB of data. That’s almost exactly 20 LTO-6 tapes. Good for 30 years when you’ll need to transfer them to something better.
It’ll cost you less than $300 and it’ll all fit into a shoebox.
Become an archivist. The future depends on it.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 1 week ago:
Very true. If it could happen to Google, it could happen to any one of us.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 1 week ago:
This is a tech company blog, not a news website.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 1 week ago:
I dunno. If an axe isn’t getting the job done, I don’t know that a window punch is going to be any better.
These windows were designed this way, because Tesla’s “safety” features for the cybertruck are for delusional men who think they need to survive a highway gunfight, rather than to be able to escape the car in the event of an emergency.
- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Skinheads aren’t racist by default. It’s largely an aesthetic subculture.
There are anti-fascist skinheads. There are black skinheads. It was originally a punk subculture.
“White power skinheads” ruined it for everyone, but I usually try not to use “skinhead” as a pejorative, having progressive skinhead friends that fucking hate that shit.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter, that’s not what we are talking about here. You don’t have to use a face of a real child.
Oh, you wanted to pretend it is? Cheating doesn’t work with me.
Despite your shit attitude, AI nudification is, in fact, what we are talking about. It’s what the OP article is about. Actual children were exploited and harmed.
You have decided to change the subject to “what if the child porn is 100% synthetic?”, which is a different thing than what everyone else has been talking about, but is fucked up just the same.
When confronted with the near universal attitude that CSAM is morally reprehensible, you have decided to lash out in anger and act like nobody knows what you’re talking about.
Don’t worry, we get it. You make fucked up pedo shit with Stable Diffusion on your gaming PC, and you get scared every time you see the very real consequences. You think you can change our minds about it by talking down to us, as if being against child pornography was a remotely controversial take.
And you are downplaying the very real crime against very real children the OP article describes because you are compelled to defend your own disgusting habit.
Seek help, and don’t fucking look at child porn. You’re doing irreparable damage to yourself. There are resources available to you: troubled-desire.com
- Comment on Author Contributions 2 weeks ago:
Clearly not. They don’t even clarify which SSB they played, or on what console.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 2 weeks ago:
Big “but what was she wearing?” energy here.
I don’t give a shit if she’s doing Shein bikini hauls on Youtube. If you use AI to nudify her pictures, you’re manufacturing child pornography, and deserve the full consequences for doing that.
As for OnlyFans, they are quite strict about age requirements. Children aren’t running OF accounts. You just hate women and needed to bring up OF to slut-shame.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the reason Musk is an issue is because Twitter is a privately owned, for-profit company. The issue is top-down leadership. Bluesky is absolutely doomed to the same fate.
Bluesky is a for-profit corporation backed by Venture Capital and run by Crypto assholes.
Jack Dorsey launched the initiative in 2019 as a proof-of-concept for a federated Twitter, which never happened. After dumping Twitter, he re-launched it as a standalone social media service and flagship ATProto instance, before jumping ship and letting it be run by committee. He now endorses Nostr, because BlueSky wasn’t friendly enough to Nazis.
The current BlueSky CEO, Lantian Graber, started her career running shitcoin/scamcoin exchange (SkuCoin), manufacturing ASIC mining rigs, and developing for Zcash. She masquerades as a progressive techie, even as all of her past experience leans Libertarian/Anarchocapitalist, and all of her other ventures’ websites are plastered with GenAI slop.
Bluesky is growing faster than ever expected, and with virtually zero real federation going on. It’s going to fail catastrophically when the new user base realizes they signed up for the same shit they were trying to get away from.
It isn’t that hard to realize that a FOSS product developed by a nonprofit (eg. Mastodon) is the correct answer, not more centralized, corporate, for-profit social media…
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 weeks ago:
You’re always welcome to go back to Reddit if you don’t like it here.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 2 weeks ago:
“Would you like to see us leverage AI to help address societal issues such as racial justice, climate justice, gender justice, etc.?”
Absolutely fucking not.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 2 weeks ago:
The people who use the machine are undoubtedly the same people terrified of a national gun owner registry. A machine that scans your whole face from multiple angles every time you buy ammo…
- Comment on It was rigged? 2 weeks ago:
Nobody was hurt
I mean, they both also won just a little bit of CTE.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 weeks ago:
We live in hell
- Comment on Oopsies 3 weeks ago:
Personally, I don’t really see that much value in the affirmative consent of the dead. Viable organs are hard to get, and save lives. I think it’s worth it to keep it opt-out.
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 3 weeks ago:
Cool downvotes, but anyone actually got any evidence that the claims I am critical of are false?
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 3 weeks ago:
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are not the ones bombing Gaza. The only logic you’re following here is that being Israeli means you’re fair game.
Remember how in post-9/11 America violence against Arabs residents and businesses skyrocketed, despite their only connection being country of origin, ethnicity, or religion? That’s what Jews around the world are experiencing because of Gaza - because of people like you.
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 3 weeks ago:
One person tore down a flag.
The next day, dozens of Israelis were attacked, regardless of their association with this person.
They were attacked for being Israeli. Most Israelis were born in Israel and have no other citizenships. Generally you don’t get to choose what country you were born in…
Every day, the pro-palestine left proves that it has fallen for antisemitic propaganda. You have an excuse now for committing violence against any Jew or Israeli that you want.
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 3 weeks ago:
A day before the match
So a whole day later, and people organized an indiscriminate attack against Israelis…
Sorry, you can’t support this unless you believe that violence is an appropriate response to another person’s national origin.
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 3 weeks ago:
I have seen one video where someone tears down a Palestinian flag, but mostly I’ve seen videos of people on mopeds attacking people on foot.
I am not ruling out that Israeli fans were the initial agitators, I’m just waiting to see more than one video of vandalism before I try to justify what happened here.
- Comment on Nvidia to cap game streaming hours on GeForce Now instead of raising fees 3 weeks ago:
The government of China has legal limits on how many hours per week minors are allowed to play video games. A US based company putting a time cap on the amount of cloud GPU you’re allowed to use is not even remotely the same thing.
- Comment on So who's the third party? 4 weeks ago:
This mf heard “third party” and just went for it.
- Comment on So who's the third party? 4 weeks ago:
You
- Comment on Mushrooms 4 weeks ago:
In the Paul Stamets TED talk, he never says that humans specifically are genetically close to fungi. He said that between all the different kingdoms of life, animals and fungi were more biologically similar than any other two kingdoms.
That definitely explains why we can borrow useful defenses from fungi, like antibiotics, but it’s definitely not a reason to believe that our immune systems would have any difficulties differentiating between certain fungi and our own bodies, at least not for reasons related to direct genetic similarities.
- Comment on Mushrooms 4 weeks ago:
The part about them being too closely related to Humans sounds like BS, but there is a mushroom that is perfectly safe the first few times you eat it, and then eventually makes your immune system attack your blood cells.
- Comment on American Politics 4 weeks ago:
lmao, yeah, they held elections a year early in preparation for COVID…
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 4 weeks ago:
And an infinite amount of time.
This “rebuttal” is forced contrarianism. It’s embarrassing.
A thought experiment has rules, you can’t just change them and say the experiment doesn’t make sense…
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 4 weeks ago:
How is the infinite monkey theorum “misleading”. It’s got “infinite” in the name. If you’re applying constraints based on the size or age of the universe, you are fundamentally misunderstanding the thought experiment.