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 Sam Altman’s World launches Mini Apps 1.2, lets devs build-to-earn 8 hours ago:
What the fuck is this shit?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 8 hours ago:
I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s very easy to manipulate American oligarchs. However, they are relatively provincial and lack the capabilities to deal with truly complex challenges.
They operate in an environment with no real risk. They’ve never dealt with any real challenges. The US judicial system is a joke (even in China, Alibaba’s Jack Ma immediately regretted going on a public chimp out). US society is either openly supportive of corruption and criminality or lacks the capability (true desire and risk tolerance) to address corruption.
This is not to underestimate American oligarchs. They are extremely sophisticated and absolutely committed to their “number go up” fetish, but you also have to be real about what they are.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 8 hours ago:
Let’s just hope they move fast and aren’t afraid to break things.
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- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
Good to hear.
No of course I am not down with tracking BS.
But I do use some smaller niche sites (for some of them I have subs or patron) and I would not want them to be hit (no clue what ad providers they use).
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
Because this will cause problems for independent website operators.
Blocking ads is one thing, but this risks fucking up their digital advertising accounts.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
This is an excessive approach that risks collateral damage to 3rd parties who are not involved.
I have no issues with blocking ads (internet is unusable without ublock origin + Pihole), but actually simulating clicks is IMO not the right approach.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
IMO, this is a bit much.
It’s one thing to block ads, it’s another thing to essentially participate in an ad fraud scheme. If this simply hurt Google, I would have no issues (they are corrupt criminals, an American oligarchic institution), but you also risking harming independent sites that have done nothing wrong.
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 2 days ago:
Do you think I want to consent to an arbitration agreement
In many countries mandatory arbitration agreements in a B2C context are invalid. They have no legal power.
- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 66 comments
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
Bread and circuses
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
I completely agree. I don’t mean to imply it is a competition. As I said, being better than russia is not much of an achievement.
But I do think the correct term for the US as it is today is proto-fascist. It’s also important to not ignore the transition into full scale fascis.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
It pains me to see the US go down this path. I am well aware of how bad things are going in the US (I have close friends who live there). I agree with you regarding nationalism, street arrests by security, demonization of minorities and so on.
However, I am comparing my experience living in russia (as an expat who happens to speak russian fluently), my experience living in the US under Obama and US as it is today.
US still has competitive elections. The US centre right opposition is not a formal front for the regime. Compare that to russia were elections are a formality and the so called “opposition parties” get direct orders from the regime and exist as circus performers. US isn’t at that stage yet.
Same with the US judicial system. It is definitely corrupt (and this was true even before Trump) and it is getting even more corrupt. However, the US judicial system has some level of independence and at least on some level you can have your rights be respected. Again, compare that to russia were the judicial system as such does not exist and has no authority whatsoever.
Security services in the US are increasingly becoming unhinged and acting more like crooks, but it’s no where close to russia where they have zero liability beyond not respecting key regime interests.
US still has a measure of political de-centralization. You can elect mayors and governors and they have a measure of independence. While russian does have some regional independent power centres, they are still all aligned with the regime and its ideology.
I know, comparing your local political system to russia isn’t really a sane approach. But I do think it is important to note that the differences do exist.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
I will speculate this is going to happen anyway, sooner or later.
While I am not American, I have lived in the the US and have many close friends there. From my understanding, American oligarchs have gone full in on a proto-fascist state (US is not yet fascist in the formal definition of the term, thing can and likely will get worse). This includes Hoffman and not only.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
This would actually be a great outcome.
While most people would likely move to Digg v2.0 (I am just being realistic), this will help fuel growth in the threadiverse. And at any rate, the major instances would simply not be able to handle 1 million MAUs immediately moving to Lemmy.
- Comment on Space Pirates Are No Longer Confined To Works Of Science Fiction 6 days ago:
The real irony is that TV is largely dying and the whole notion of “hacking a broadcast” is almost quaint.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 6 days ago:
The funny thing is OpenAI’s image generator didn’t really do a good job with making a Ghibli stylised version of Altman.
- Comment on Huawei says its AI phone has 'emotions' trained by DeepSeek 1 week ago:
Not a fan of Chinese tech products either.
My hope is recent developments in the US can give some breathing space for platforms/companies that are not Chinese or American.
US products are less risky in the short time, but by using them one is simply kicking the can down the road.
There is a very high possibility that the US will de facto permanently become a proto-fascist oligarch-run plutocracy. And it’s not even a Trump thing, oligarchy was there before him.
No disrespect to sane Americans, I do wish you all the best and I hope I am wrong. However, I hope you understand that the topic at hand requires a sober, cautious evaluation of the situation.
- Comment on Huawei says its AI phone has 'emotions' trained by DeepSeek 1 week ago:
The much more important point is that they have a phone fully running on their Harmony Next OS (that has no connection to Android). This is a pretty big milestone.
I wouldnt be surprised if in the next ~10 years China will essentially replace Windows/Android/iOS with homegrown alternatives.
While I am no fan of the CCP, this is a smart move. The United States is unreliable, petty and extremely corrupt; not the qualities you want in home country of your main technology platform providers.
- Comment on Intel report says China aims to displace U.S. as top AI power by 2030. 1 week ago:
What is the formal definition of “AI Power” and what metrics or/and index system is used to create rankings?
- Comment on Napster to become a music-marketing metaverse firm after $207M acquisition 1 week ago:
I doubt anyone will use this except for crypto bagholders who have no interest in music (or anything really) and are just looking to dumb their bags the next mark.
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- Comment on Netflix's Adolescence Is a Trojan Horse for Online Censorship and Surveillance 1 week ago:
That’s the way.
- [The Retro Collective] Storing Data in Bubbles - The Weird 1960's Technology used by NASA and Konamiwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
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- Comment on What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? 1 week ago:
That’s the optimistic timeline, we still have to actually get there first.
I am sure you can come with what a pessimistic timeline would look like.
- Comment on The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism. 1 week ago:
Edward Zitron is always a fun read. Looking forward to checking out this post when I get back home.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
Thanks for letting us know! 🥰
- Comment on Mastodon Spam 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, they are just into you. It’s your one in quadrillion personality and your big heart!
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
Their custom domain business can’t be big, I am assuming they merely get some referral commission from sending business to a registrar, that can’t be a lot of money.
Or am I missing something?