M1ch431

@M1ch431@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not doxxing myself so you can be paranoid. What’s next? Suspecting (e.g.) US citizens for being foreign agents and then sicking the FBI on them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is back then, I didn’t have to wait 2 years (give or take) for it to go on a proper sale to enjoy it. I’d just wait until a month or two passed and ask around, go into Gamestop, find used games at yard sales, etc.

  We pay $70 to not play at release due to server issues and critical bugs and we enjoy zero QA and do it for free for these big corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, really. Like a lot of games refuse to let me bind “1” through “0”, “[”, “]”, “;”, “'”, “,”, “.”, “/”, ""

  Like c’mon. I need those keys. It’s feels like laziness and is sometimes the result of a console-focused development cycle (with PC as an afterthought). They add all the major keys, but those special characters? Nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve encountered a few games that do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but I left Windows. On Linux/Wayland, it’s a bit more difficult and less powerful with current tools. AHK can’t be beat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m left-handed and while key rebinding has gotten better in some ways, it has recently regressed in gaming in the past few years.

  I make custom layouts for every game I play. IJKL to move, Semicolon to sprint, Quote to crouch, etc. I find many games where “I” is hard-bound to inventory, some bindings overlap keys I’ve bound, some keys are unable to rebound entirely in-game, some keybindings menus require jank to actually work, and so forth.

  It’s very frustrating. I can only imagine what people with physical disabilities and assistive devices deal with if it’s this hard for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This will release private info likely, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For most people, the best case scenario is vacuuming their floors with offline options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s likely in everybody’s best interest that this is a wild success. Not only will game developers be incentivized to actually optimize their games for reasonable setups; this will unseat Nvidia’s monopoly over gamers with their ridiculously overpriced graphics cards and also Microsoft’s monopoly of a gamer’s operating system.

  Nvidia’s partnership with Palantir is incredibly concerning and any blow to Nvidia is a welcome one. Encourage these developments and hype this all up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse needs "instance health" badges: stop hiding moderation deserts behind decentralization⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fediverse needs a button to report accounts to instance owners for being obvious bots, like OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans BY DEFAULT do not want to commit violence towards other humans, otherwise things like Killer's Remorse and PTSD would not exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the truth is in between, it’s because we’re arguing different things.

  Not necessarily! Sometimes truth can emerge from two or more seemingly paradoxical or conflicting statements or ideas - or in other words, through dialectical reasoning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans BY DEFAULT do not want to commit violence towards other humans, otherwise things like Killer's Remorse and PTSD would not exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You make valid points, but I feel the truth lies in between your comment and the people in the chain that you are responding to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t think it’ll ever be anything close to 99% effective given that this is a website. I explained why previously.

  Thanks for engaging though - I do understand and appreciate the necessity of bot prevention and I’ll be sure to keep an eye out as a user. As another user suggested to me, there could be government-run social media that requires ID at sign-up.

  Maybe a service like that would appeal to you if our government (apologies if you aren’t US-based) wasn’t labeling certain speech as terrorism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I trust instance owners to sort this out - until I don’t. I don’t support violations of privacy and I appreciate some level of pseudonymity and anonymity in social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there was an actor behind a handful of accounts that are mostly run by LLMs that mimic human input and interaction or are in some form manually operated to avoid detection, it’d be easily viable for state-level/professional actors to pull such an operation off and successfully manipulate a small platform like the fediverse. Even taking believable selfies of real people that fit the profile is possible and can be anticipated.

  I’m not entirely against instance-level detection that attempts to understand user patterns and prevent or flag abuse to mods and admins, but I do believe that humanized input and interaction can already be effectively emulated and will only advance as time passes.

  I believe that increased scrutiny of users in a centralized manner is a privacy violation. I use my instance and I give some level of trust to the instance owners, but I wouldn’t consent to them (or the software they choose to use) handing over my PII or usage patterns to a third-party group that suspects me. I would discontinue using the service in such a scenario.

  To support my point that bot detection is mostly futile on the fediverse, I’d like to your attention to a parallel to this situation in gaming with humanized aimbots - which are already incredibly viable and are implemented in a variety of ways. There are usually actual human actors guiding input to some degree, but the aimbot/etc. is designed to mimic human input to achieve believable results. I believe this could be advanced quite a bit and there are new methods popping up as every day passes.

  Ultimately, I feel it boils down to just blocking instances that you disagree with the operation of to curate your experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with the notion that we need to centralize such a list or that such a list is desirable. Again, I trust instances to sort this out, but people are free to scrutinize and investigate users to the best of their ability.

  As LLMs and deepfaking technology advance, the likely result will be completely undetectable bots that effectively mimic human behavior, even with advanced and potentially automated defenses.

  See: theintercept.com/…/pentagon-ai-deepfake-internet-…

  I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to have to e.g. take a selfie in a specific way to be able to use the fediverse and have access to reaching a broad audience just because I am suspected. Such a list will also likely chill participation, as an unintended effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of that data proves anything besides identifying potential bots, and that’s the heart of the issue with your idea.

  It’s just an exercise in group paranoia - and would likely be abused by actual state/professional actors attempting to silence users/create bubbles.

  Myself? I trust that the mods and admins will sort the actual bots out. As for the bad actors, we can counter their propaganda with our good faith participation and our efforts to lead others to the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re suggesting a public blacklist with thorough vetting, I just thought it’d be fair for you to step forward in such a hypothetical scenario. But you’re right, it’s not feasible - nobody can prove definitively they are an independent actor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you volunteer to be vetted first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend that new users join geographically local instances⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha, I suppose I was reading into this a bit too much:

  pick an instance that is located close to them geographically

  Definitely agree with your idea in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend that new users join geographically local instances⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a US-based person, just no. It is not desirable to host anything here or to trust any US-based service for a number of reasons.

  It’s not just the US being an undesirable country to host servers - plenty of people live in countries that are hostile to privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I feel nothing will change for the better and I feel frustrated about it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, thank you for saying this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I feel nothing will change for the better and I feel frustrated about it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very important to understand that the people we are currently giving power want us to feel doomed, hopeless, powerless, disassociated, angry, hateful, and disconnected from the rest of humanity.

  The people in power want to dominate every aspect of the human experience — putting us all into bubbles. They want us to be divided like how language once divided us in the past with their strategies and techniques (e.g. algorithms that dictate what we see, partisan media, anti-science denialism, and the use of religion and spirituality as a vehicle to manipulate broad groups of people).

  The people in power aren’t winning, but they are convinced they will survive a societal collapse unscathed and in power — don’t let them believe this and rest easy with your defeat and doomerism or in other words: your passivity, and subservience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, now split into at least 4 different companies and compete with each other if we want the illusion of a free market and competition to exist in the minds of those living under capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be wise to make openly manipulating social media with AI illegal, immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  name one bad thing about it.

  Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers. The cost of bananas in first-world countries is ridiculously low, and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you personally invested in the AI/LLM space? I’m wondering why you are unable to engage with any of what I just said. Is your account a troll account?

  I was pretty clear, there is no intelligence. AGI is an absolute pipe dream and it will also be a far cry from actual intelligence if you look into it.

  The copyright issues are an extreme issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except the technology, with current methodologies (at the very least), is flawed. That’s why people are warning of the bubble bursting: we can’t properly scale AI on our current grid in the same capacity as China. Our technologies are incredibly energy-intensive compared to their technologies.

  The hallucinations are likely fundamental, the cases of people being given dangerous or harmful advice are rising, and the sycophancy/bias confirmation is still present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the way things are now is still better than they’ve ever been.

  Untrue, and again, it’s whitewashing. You make a lot of big claims, but they don’t hold true in reality. The advancements you tout are as weighty as a corporate slogan for real people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For every pretend step taken, the actual reality is hidden and moved out of sight for those in the first-world.

  People live in better conditions today

  I see way too many poor, chronically ill, and visibly distressed people. This isn’t normal, not even a little bit.

  even just considering social acceptance

  Social acceptance has been nonexistent for me as a gay, autistic male - people frequently tell me about their similarly horrible experiences.

  and not technology

  Technology has advanced, sure, but it just serves to enslave, manipulate, and spy on us in increasingly dystopian ways as the years go by. Mass surveillance, centralized databases, and unregulated AI have been normalized.

  or medicine

  As a chronically ill person, medicine has significantly caused me more harm than good because doctors are too overworked to identify side effects and complications - and I have nearly died several times due to medical negligence/iatrogenic illness. No, I’m not exaggerating. There have been many key advancements in medicine, but our healthcare industry is very sick - even in countries with socialized healthcare. There are people experiencing relief that previously wasn’t possible - I’m not denying that.

  Most societies are at least in theory democratic, where people get some input towards the ruler.

  Democracy is largely illusory, especially here in the states. Consent of the ruled is not present in many “democratic” societies if you’ve been paying attention.

  There are legal protections against slavery

  Slavery has exploded overseas to support first-world needs (even child slavery), prison/slave labor is incredibly pervasive in the states, and before Trump became Führer an estimated 40%~ of US agricultural workers were undocumented immigrants - modern slaves.

  misogyny, homophobia, racism, transphobia

  The legal protections are effectively nonexistent to prevent discrimination in practice. Two-party consent laws for recording are really terrible for those subject to abuse.

  Trade unions have successfully campaigned so that now people work less than they have since the start of the industrial revolution

  Unions are largely nonexistent, people still work significantly more than they need to, productivity has risen but wages have largely stagnated, people are largely in significant debt and they cannot afford a house or a car, they cannot afford to reliably access healthcare (and even if they can “afford” it, it isn’t timely), higher education is inaccessible and college debt is unreal, etc.

  in unprecedentedly better conditions.

  Yes, and no. There are many careers that harm you in ways that only modern society can. Like plastics workers being exposed to a greater risk of cancer. I have known many people in various careers that have been denied access to necessary PPE in multiple fields.

  Have we taken some steps? Sure. But we’ve taken many, many, many more backwards while people are oblivious in their bubbles. Pop your bubble, please. More people than ever before in history are suffering silently in ways that only can happen in modern times.