Dojan
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- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 1 day ago:
Ah so she’s a pedo? Guess it fits.
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 1 day ago:
Oh gods. He can have her. 🤮
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 2 days ago:
Is that another child he’s raped?
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 4 days ago:
Thank fuck for that.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 4 days ago:
Aren’t they though? Take the example from the article:
I phrased it a bit different in another comment, and perhaps that nuance is warranted. In a vacuum most people wouldn’t be against it.
It’s not in a vacuum though. In this case one of the people funding this is a man whose product is manipulating people into killing themselves. I don’t think I personally should have a say in whether or not this kind of tech is pushed, and I definitely don’t think some rogue billionaire elite class should have a say either.
At least on paper, this is specifically what the company that the article is about claims its focus is; the stuff no one disagrees that it’s bad to be born with. Like it isn’t very arguable that it’s good for babies to have ammonia in their blood and need liver transplants.
Yes, and then once that’s out that sets a precedent for fixing further. Why would they stop at these conditions? You could expand to touch up the genome, maybe prevent other conditions, like Down Syndrome.
It’s dehumanising. We have real people alive today that are already marginalised by society and don’t get the support or visibility that they need.
One time a doctor was speaking to my sister and I was awake. He told her that she should contemplate letting me go because of my quality of life. This was so upsetting to hear because I was right there. He didn’t respect me enough to speak to me or involve me. Felt like I was not a person but a thing.
There are absolutely devastating disabilities out there that completely hollow out someone’s quality of life. There are also lots of people out there living with disabilities, where the struggle is less because of the disability, and more because of the society we have around us. Fixing society seems to me the more humane option.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
They are terrible.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 4 days ago:
Yes. Throw respect out the window and enquire directly about the status of their genitals too.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 days ago:
Bruh. I wish I was sucking Satan’s cock for breakfast. That at least implies some kind of reward coming down the line.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 days ago:
That’s kind of a bold claim to make about someone you don’t know.
I can believe that there are good motivations for this kind of thing, and possibly even good applications, but you have to ask who gets to make the decisions on what to remove and what to leave, and what impact will it have?
Could we solve lots of problems? Absolutely. But is it the right tool for the problem? That’s a bit more nuanced. Sure, if we could edit out Alzheimers, or hereditary cancers, I’m sure most anyone would be on board with that idea, in a vacuum at least. But what about when the goals shift? Should we edit out autism? What about homosexuality? Hell, if we homogenise humanity and edit out racial differences, we could solve racism as well.
That’s obviously a bit extreme, but take blindness for example. I’m sure most sighted people would prefer to not be blind, and even among people born blind you’ll find supporters, but there’s also entire cultures and languages that have come about because of people being blind. Who gets to decide if that’s worth keeping or not?
That’s just one example, but you could replace blindness with deafness, or dwarfism, or any number of things.
Then there’s the question of what it’d mean for people who can’t access that kind of technology. What kind of future would this sort of thing create?
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 days ago:
I’ve been an androgynous (cis gay) man most of my life, and when I was young I was mistaken for a girl a lot. Hell I even had my own doubts for a while.
There’s lots of people out there that think that they can tell if someone is trans or not. Hell I have met LGBTQ+ people that think they can just tell. The truth is, they can’t.
You will have met trans people that you didn’t know are trans, and if you go around making assumptions, you’ll meet cis people you think are trans, but aren’t.
A couple of months ago I found out that this person I’ve been casually following on YouTube for almost a decade is a trans woman.
Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 days ago:
Because it’s an extremely nuanced topic.
Like sure, at face value eliminating let’s say HIV from being inherited or transmitted (and ultimately eradicate the disease) would be excellent, I don’t think anyone would ever argue against that, but that’s not so much the case with everything.
Say, eliminating dwarfism, or deafness, or blindness (mind you these are umbrella terms and not a single thing) might look good on paper, but there are entire languages, cultures, and communities out there that people created, which would be lost should the need for them cease to be.
Then who decides what should and shouldn’t be cured? What about neurodivergence? Homosexuality? Personally if someone says that they can “cure” homosexuality or gender dysphoria, I bristle. I don’t want anyone to “fix” my trans friends, because they’re not broken. Take it further, what about race? Should we fix that too? We could eliminate racism altogether.
There are a lot of minorities out there already being marginalised, and it’s not exactly exciting to see the idea of us being literally bred out of existence.
I think the core idea of wanting to “cure all disease” and whatnot is ultimately a good one, but as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intention.
- Comment on Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis. 1 week ago:
the United States as a country that won two World Wars
Contributed to winning two world wars.
The U.S. didn’t carry the allies. Soviet and Chinese casualties far outstripped any American ones, and the amount of Indians thrown into the meat grinder on behalf of England during both of the World Wars is barely even mentioned. Then there’s civilian casualties. Was the wartime rationing bad? Sure, but it’s a piss take compared to Churchill’s Famine.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 1 week ago:
I thought it was a reference to Ama no Iwato. Amaterasu hid away from the world because she was upset at her brother being an arsehole and fucking people over.
It kind of fit.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
Usually Questions and Answers.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 weeks ago:
There is evidence, and there’s been conspiracies around it.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 2 weeks ago:
Calm down there, Okarin.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Don’t buy rockstar. Just get it through alternative means.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
You’ll agree that Proton doing better would require them to move to a different country, right?
I’m okay with this. Sweden isn’t exactly known as a bastion of freedom. Our current minister of equality (Liberals) is pushing for a porn ban. The EU proposal colloquially called “Chat Control” was originally put forth by the Swedish EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson who belongs to the Social Democrats.
Also Mullvad doesn’t offer email accounts, does it? Seems that they couldn’t have a ‘no user data’ policy if they did since the emails would be exactly that.
You’ll forgive me if I don’t feel like it’s productive to repeat myself, but if you genuinely care for a response you can view it here: https://pawb.social/comment/18804733
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
But like Proton, their VPN is incapable of logging access.
Mullvad’s VPN is incapable of doing so because their infrastructure is entirely built on volatile memory. This obviously doesn’t work with email because the emails need to persist, but this is isn’t a very big problem as that storage is encrypted.
My problem here is that access logs don’t need to be stored permanently. That could definitely be stored on a volatile medium, and then authorities could come over and confiscate it as much as they want. That sort of software architecture is entirely possible to set up, but Proton has made a decision not to.
“No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first.” ~Protonmail.com
That is a choice. They could’ve chosen to not comply, they could’ve chosen to let the authorities raid their servers, and had their servers been set up in such a fashion that no data could be obtained, there wouldn’t be a problem.
They’ve chosen instead to log and give up information on a climate activist; not a ring of traffickers, or a terrorist group, but some dude or dudette that thinks that climate change is a bit of a problem and that the people in charge aren’t doing enough about it.
You’re being dishonest, is what’s not getting through.
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. Do I realise that this creates legal problems for Proton? Yeah. So what? They’re a corporation, they get to deal with it. What this incident has shown is that their word doesn’t mean a thing. What happens when the fascist American regime starts demanding information on dissenters? Are they just going to fold and serve up whatever they ask on a silver platter, too?
What’s dishonest is saying “we don’t log, except when we do, and only when they’re serious criminals, or climate activists.”
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
I’m comparing Mullvad (a company) to Proton (a company) not their products. They both have a no-log policy (that’s a company policy) only one is actually no logs, and the other is “we sometimes log.” I don’t think you’re stupid either, so I don’t get what’s not coming through>
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
So Proton’s no-log policy is an apple and Mullvad’s no-log policy is an orange, is what you’re saying?
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
They both have no-log policies. One is “we never log” and the other is “we log sometimes” do you see the difference?
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Proton said that had their user actually bothered to use any VPN, even Proton’s, there wouldn’t have been anything to give to authorities except for an exit node IP.
“She shouldn’t have dressed that way.”
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Right, because corporations are widely known for going to prison when they break the law. Where exactly did they imprison Facebook for interfering in elections? Running illegal experiments on people? Pirating books and pornography? Surveilling children and selling their data?
Look at Mullvad. They’ve denied access to their data multiple times, they got raided, and nothing of use was recoverable. That’s what respect for privacy looks like. Proton could set their infrastructure up in this fashion, but instead they’ve chosen to just hand out user data freely.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
What data? Here it is the IP address and only under order by authorities.
Whatever they gather. It says as much in the article; they started recording IPs once a request by the Swiss government came through.
ProtonMail can’t directly share data with foreign governments. In fact, doing so is illegal under Article 271 of the Swiss Criminal code. The police gained access to the IP address because Swiss authorities chose to cooperate with the French government. ProtonMail also points out how Swiss authorities will only approve requests that meet Swiss legal standards.
Under Swiss law, ProtonMail should notify the user if a third party makes a request for their private data and if the data is for a criminal proceeding. However, there’s a big catch/ loophole here. On its law enforcement page, ProtonMail highlights that the notification can be delayed in the following cases:
That’s based on the currently available laws. So if a law gets drafted that says “if we suspect someone to be complicit in criminal activity we want you to gather more data” we should just be fine with that because the authorities say so? Because the authorities are always infallible and incorruptible, right?
The details of this individual case isn’t the problem, it’s the precedent it sets that is. When Mullvad got raided for their logs there was nothing recovered because they don’t store anything. Proton stores things based on if the authorities ask them to, and when they find out that it wasn’t a terrorist or child-trafficker they go “woops we had no idea the account belonged to a climate activist.”
The authorities aren’t infallible. Some years back here in Sweden we had police raid, physically abuse, and kidnap a guy they suspected was a pedophile because he’d sent images of him and his 30 year old boyfriend having sex via Yahoo Mail. There’s no reality where this man should’ve been fucking beaten up and traumatised the way he was, but it happened, and there was no recourse for him. Nowhere down the chain of responsibility did anyone get reprimanded or investigated for misconduct.
Complying with the law is such a bullshit fucking excuse.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 weeks ago:
- Authoritarian regime decides that being critical of the regime is illegal and makes laws to support this.
- Activists use Proton for privacy.
- Regime demands that they give up data on activists.
- Proton complies with the laws.
That’s the issue.
- Comment on Meta: Pirated Adult Film Downloads Were For “Personal Use,” Not AI Training 2 weeks ago:
Oh no it’s totally cool according to them. You can pirate at least 80tb worth of books, and then sell material based on it. It’s cool.
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 2 weeks ago:
Paradise Lost is a fun read.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 2 weeks ago:
I’m stuck on Windows 11 at work. It’s not a bad laptop, but Windows is insanely slow. Opening the commandline isn’t instant. Explorer takes well over a second to open. It’s like treacle.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 2 weeks ago:
The point still stands. Email is a terrible operating system and should be murdered.