BlameTheAntifa
@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 2 hours ago:
People are downvoting them because no one is beholden to the laws of a state/province/jurisdiction/etc that they have no relation with. Foreign authorities do not get to force their will onto foreign entities.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 9 hours ago:
Already done. I moved everything to Codeberg a year or two ago. I strongly recommend it to anyone looking for safe, non-corporate, community-oriented version control. It’s also German and non-profit.
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 1 day ago:
The way it’s portrayed online you’d think the Netherlands is the most civilized society ever formed by humankind. I know that nowhere is perfect, but it does seem like a really nice place to live. If only the language weren’t so silly.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 days ago:
What are you considering as alternatives?
- Comment on Great Advertise 2 days ago:
There is a mathematic perfection that our brains easily recognize even if we can’t articulate it. The human brain is unmatched at the task of visual pattern recognition.
- Comment on heaven 3 days ago:
The torture for the true sinners probably happens, but at the hands of the normal people who didnt make it to heaven.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 days ago:
So Valve says the processors - such as Stripe and PayPal - pressed the issue based on pressure from MasterCard (and possibly Visa). MasterCard says they had nothing to do with it. Itch says that Stripe was directly responsible in their case with a blanket ban on anything generally sexy, but that Stripe blamed their banking partners.
So Stripe, at least, is directly responsible but insists they are under pressure from banking partners. This means the pressure is coming from one or more actual banks. Since we don’t have names, we have to do some research to find out who Stripe works with. The possibilities I was able to dig up on a quick search include:
- Citigroup
- Wells Fargo
- Barclays
- Goldman Sachs
- Evolve Bank & Trust
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 4 days ago:
Alexa has ads since the beginning and I can’t imagine that would change just because they are replacing the backend with AI. The first time Echo wasted my time trying to selling me something in my own home was also the last time. I don’t understand how anyone can be okay with that.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 5 days ago:
Aha. Sorry, I misunderstood. I saw the first line about Proton Pass already supporting MFA and I wasn’t familiar with Ente Auth. I did just look it up and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before. It’s even AGPL-3.0, be still my beating heart! Thank you for pointing it out!
ente.io for anyone curious.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 5 days ago:
You really should not keep your MFA codes in the same place as your passwords, especially if you are syncing those passwords between devices and/or a cloud service.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 5 days ago:
Getting certain Windows apps to run on Linux is still impossible, unfortunately.
What I don’t understand is that file syncing is well supported. While I would never condone using a Google product, Celeste and Insync both support Google Drive. Aside from those, Dropbox has a native Linux package, and a self-hosted NAS is always a sound investment.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 5 days ago:
It’s a shame that generic desktop apps don’t have the same level of support that games do. That would be an enormous boost to Linux adoption.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
What was AI 50 years ago is now AGI,
You’re not wrong, but that’s also a bit misleading. “AI” is all-encompassing while terms like AGI and ASI are subsets. From the 1950s onward AI was expected to evolve quickly as computing evolved, that never happened. Instead, AI mostly topped out with decision trees, like those used for AI in videogames. ML pried the field back open, but not in the ways we expected.
AGI and ASI were coined in the early 2000s to set apart the goal of human-level intelligence from other kinds of AI like videogame AI. This is a natural result of the field advancing in unexpected, divergent directions. It’s not meant to move the goal post, but to clarify future goals against past progress.
It is entirely possible that we develop multiple approaches to AGI that necessitate new terminology to differentiate them. It’s the nature of all evolution.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Who supports it? Fascists. It’s about controlling access to information and robbing the populace of privacy at the same time. An oppressive, authoritarian police state needs tools to maintain control. These are the tools.
- Comment on Can no longer access my old instance (lemmings.world) because I'm from the UK. I made several communities there. Is there any way I can mod them again or do I move them to this instance? 1 week ago:
Use a VPN. Even if the current environment of aggressive puritan censorship weren’t happening, everyone should use one.
Here are two of the best.
- Comment on Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 1 week ago:
How dare you suggest that having a publicly accessible, unencrypted database is not a best practice. The nerve.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
Meme photo of two astronauts in space, one holding a gun to back of the other’s head. It is overlayed with the text “Always has been.”
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
To correct one thing, the left-right political spectrum is based on authority. It goes back to the French Revolution, in which the nobility - favoring top-down power hierarchies - literally occupied the right side of the assembly hall while the revolutionaries - favoring true equality and egality - sat on the left.
This cannot be separated into distinct domains since power is wealth and wealth is power. The political compass fallacy is, and always was, nothing more than rightist propaganda to muddy language and ideology in an effort to hold on to their wealth and power.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
and then go outside and go fuck yourself Trump.
He is a big baby, so he might be into it.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 week ago:
It wasn’t Itch.io’s fault, but the fact that payment processing has been globally monopolized and can force it’s own arbitrary will on anyone without recourse.
Blame Visa and MasterCard and the christofascist scum from Collective Shout.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Steam has no power. They are beholden to a very particular monopoly that can get away with anything it wants and is currently being manipulated by unethical evangelical fascists.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Moral judgement or suppression of fiction/artistic expression is deeply and profoundly unethical. How you or I or anyone else feels about something that isn’t “real” is inconsequential. If you allow any line to be crossed in this, then every line can and will be crossed.
- Comment on For anyone else who has shed a tear today after hearing about Ozzy's passing... 1 week ago:
Julian LeFay, creator of The Elder Scrolls, died of cancer yesterday. He also deserves to be remembered.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s been evolving quite a bit, though it has stalled out the last few months. The developer recently wrote a blog that the next update will be enormous as it reworks almost everything in the game, hence the lack of incremental updates lately.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There are alternatives like Manor Lords that can scratch that itch. Ones that aren’t by a predatory, anti-consumer company and aren’t infected with Denuvo malware.
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 2 weeks ago:
At this point, I don’t think there is a single streaming service worth the subscription price. What’s more distressing is that, rather than learning their lessons, these companies will collude to scare people into subscribing with repeats if the copyright crackdowns and corporate empowerment of the late 90s and early 2000s.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 weeks ago:
Waning interest in Ubisoft. Everything they touch is painfully generic and uninteresting. But sure, blame the consumers for your lack of vision, passion, and technical acumen. See how that pays off, Yves.
- Comment on If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store 2 weeks ago:
Civ 7 shipped with Denuvo malware. No matter what they may eventually do with it, it’s not worth touching. They’ve shown how much contempt they have for customers and that’s all that matters.
- Comment on The night water 2 weeks ago:
That’s too close to accurate for an RFK hot take.
It’s because water absorbs gas from the air, especially at warmer temperatures. Since the uncovered cup of water shares space with people, who exhale carbon dioxide, it’s the carbon dioxide, increased acidity, and other absorbed gasses you taste. Exhaled carbon dioxide is breath leaving the body. So, ghosts.
- Comment on The good old days 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, username is satirical.
