Alphane_Moon
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
- Comment on Digg's new app is basic, but a great start 10 hours ago:
“human at the core and tech at the edges”
Funny stuff, this how you know they have zero respect for their users.
- Comment on Digg's new app is basic, but a great start 12 hours ago:
If you are going to use a platform by American criminal types (Ross’ last roject was a “NFT collection” pump and dump called Moonbirds)
- Comment on China's "overcapacity" was always deliberate: US experts stunned by Chinese AI, declare race is over [07:40 | AUG 20 2025 | Inside China Business] 1 day ago:
Are US experts also stunned by the shit-tier, agenda-driven tabloid title (and wall of text spam) in this post?
- Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’ 1 day ago:
Does this include any crimes committed by Milei, his wife and inner circle?
Or is this system only for plebs?
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 1 day ago:
Is that really AI (in the colloquial sense of the word like it is used in the article? From memory such features were marketed in an industrial context around ~10 years ago.
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 1 day ago:
AI technology for home appliances?
The best home appliances have no smart functionality in them; it’s merely another avenue for something to break.
- Comment on Digg’s new app is basic, but a great start 2 days ago:
Do pixelated images of Kevin Ross’s previous NFT scam count as worthwhile content?
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 2 days ago:
You need really need genAI for a country to become authoritarian.
My bigger point is that it’s counterproductive to think of a government as an external black box. At the end of the day it’s a reflection of society (at least to some degree).
What to do about it is another question. But IMO the first step has to be recognition of “how things got to be this way”. If you can’t do that, the discussion around the impact of genAI are IMO moot.
Take russia as an example. In the 90s they had a relatively open media landscape, chaotic and influenced by oligarchs, but critique was allowed and it was very prominent.
But the russians elected a KGB goon in 2000 and then reelected him in 2004 after he shut down most independent media in his first term.
To this day, the russian opposition continues to look for scapegoats (90s liberals, Yeltsin, etc.) and reject any responsibility of society more broadly (revanchist, supremacist ideas, imperialism)
If you can’t even do that, then how are you going to deal with the impact of genAI.
My bigger point is that, IMO, genAI is almost a red herring. There will always be tech that can be used to enable authoritarianism. There is no magical tech solution to what is fundamentally a social issue.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 2 days ago:
An arguement could be made that good governance is the responsibility of citizens/voters.
So it’s up to us (in the broad sense) to elect goverments that do not engage in cover-ups and do not shape the world as they see fit.
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 3 days ago:
Fascinating article. I never that there was this sort of opposition to the walkman.
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 3 days ago:
Out of the drying pan and into the fire.
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 3 days ago:
Someone should post this in one of the tankie instances. Should be some good content for !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 days ago:
Why is leadership always so vapid and disconnected from reality?
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 days ago:
- Comment on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 6 days ago:
It does seem a bit overkill especially for home desktop use. I think with laptops an argument could be made that there may be some benefit even for home users.
But for gaming anti-cheat specifically, it’s definitely overkill.
- Comment on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 6 days ago:
Interesting article on how secure boot functions. Thanks!
- Comment on What PeerTube instance should I use? 1 week ago:
I follow several content creators based on this instance:
It seems nice enough and functional.
- Comment on SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes 1 week ago:
NYT honestly never paywalls me (I don’t live in North America/EU), so I can’t figure out if the article is free or not.
I usually add an archived version if know there is a paywall (going to do that).
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
What are you on about?
I never mentioned anything about capitalism and communism.
At any rate, tankies are supporters of genocidal, authoritarian state-capitalism, so whatever you’re trying to imply is moot.
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- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
Childish take. Perfect example of why western online leftism will always be a failure.
You wouldn’t be writing this shit if your family had to leave their due to a russian invasion and then eight years later having to deal with another full scale invasion (with a shad part landing in the house next to yours).
Grow up!
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 1 week ago:
And why exactly is it a use case if you can already buy erotica/porn via specialized payment services without monero?
What’s the benefit here? Be clear and specific. Don’t randomly bring terms like “privacy”, “uncensored” and “freedums”.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 1 week ago:
This does not make sense.
What you’re saying is that it’s impossible to buy porn/erotica online without monero. This is clearly wrong.
You most definitely could do that before blockchains were a thing.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 1 week ago:
No, it’s not a viable use case.
Developers of such games what the broadest market possible and consumers want easy accessibility and stable updates/support.
The groups outlined above are interested in the product and not promotion of some cryptocurrency.
Both these goals are best served using real currencies, not monero. Such payment systems (using real currency, aimed at content with erotica/porn) are widely available and haven in use for 30+ years.
If you don’t want to deal with such payment systems directly (e.g. setup an LLC and other such matters), there are multiple easy to implement distribution approaches that one can launch in ~15 minutes.
This is why I don’t trust crypto promoters.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
What’s wrong with calling genocide white-whitewashing, pro-russian genocidal imperialism individuals scum.
The funny thing is the tankies don’t even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never lived in Ukraine or russian.
Literally scumbag roleplaying as communists.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 1 week ago:
What about it?
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
It’s got its issues (for me the main one are the tankie scum devs), but it seems to be the best platform there is.
The good thing about it is you can move to clients like Piefed and still access all the content / communities.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 1 week ago:
bottom up
built by the people for the people
Love your style!
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 1 week ago:
I was rude because I found the notion that monero is a great tool for “victims of domestic abuse” and “activists and political dissidents” distasteful.
Shilling some crypto coins (even if does have technical privacy features) under guise of concern about “victims of domestic abuse” if pretty fucking low. This is scumbag level of polemics.
Privacy is a social political issue. A social and political issue cannot be solved via technical means (even though this is a very common propaganda argument).
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 1 week ago:
Where did I say I believe that everyone pays taxes? Why bring this random acquisition.
Ironic to be talking about going dark when posting via an internet connection.
If you need the protections that privacy coins provide, both sides of the transaction will find a way to make it work.
This is a fantasy. With respect to specific transaction you can make anything work. You can dried fruit in such a transaction too. Doesn’t mean it’s viable to live purely via exchange of dried fruit.
I am not talking about what the xkcd comic alludes. I referring to the fact that a world exist outside of the monero blockchain and believe it or not, one has to interact with the real world.
Monero is a red herring. It is not simple to cash out monero and it provides a false sense of security.