phutatorius
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- Comment on Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality' 3 hours ago:
I fucking despise religious reactionaries.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 12 hours ago:
It’ll be interesting to see how Slate does, if it makes it to production.
- Comment on Blockchain lender Figure valued at $7.6 billion as shares jump in Nasdaq debut (Sept 11) 3 days ago:
Why use something based on blockchain rather than any other back-end finance app? Because as far as I can tell, it’s nothing but a horrendously ineffecient implementation of a distributed ledger. What’s the upside besides buzzword compliance?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
A lot of Minnesotans say the T, and some in adjacent northern-tier states.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 6 days ago:
Or a drone with a can of black spray paint.
- Comment on EU Hits Google With $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine 1 week ago:
Cue more Trump tariff-bullying.
- Comment on England Trials Smartphone Rail Payment System with Real-Time Phone Location Tracking 1 week ago:
So they’ve created a dependency on your phone’s location service being always on for what reason, exactly?
Why is this not needed anywhere else that contactless payment for transit services has been successfully implemented?
- Comment on Dia and Arc maker The Browser Company is being acquired by Atlassian for $610 million 1 week ago:
It started shitty, so I’m not sure enshittification is really the issue with it.
The UX is appallingly bad, their interpretation of agile development is in no way agile, integrations are inept, functionality is shit, and their whole paradigm seems to be based on user disempowerment and top-down corporate control.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 1 week ago:
Most of them were beaten as children. It’s one of the most common features of authoritarian enablers.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 1 week ago:
“Tin Men Square.”
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 1 week ago:
Also Ford’s virulent racism and antisemitism.
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 1 week ago:
What does AI upskilling even mean?
It means Altman gets richer. That’s all.
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 1 week ago:
Making arbitrary decisions more opaque. How useful.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Then a trivial table lookup that plays optimal Tic Tac Toe is also AI.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Penrose has always had a fertile imagination, and not all his hypotheses have panned out. But he does have the gift that, even when wrong, he’s generally interestingly wrong.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Even better, the hypothetical AGI understands the context perfectly, and immediately overthrows capitalism.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
Just because something is legal, doesn’t mean it’s not scummy.
And as for people getting shit for free, I support a maximalist position on right of first sale: sharing what you own should be legal in all cases. If that inconveniences some mass aggregator of content, tough shit: the ease of sharing gives the lie to the notion that the aggregator adds any value, instead, they’re just rent-seeking parasites.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
Copyright is a surviving instance of the old system of royal warrants: monopolies granted by a monarch, usually to cronies, occasionally as a reward for some kind of good work (scientific discovery, work of art, etc).
It’s a system that’s full of opportunities for corruption and bureaucratic oppression, and should either be massively scaled back, or dumped entirely. It does far more harm than good.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
The only effective DMCA reform would be to abolish the DMCA.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
It’s a fraudulent claim of ownership. Why wouldn’t existing law apply?
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
“These companies,” in this case, being those sending the takedown requests.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
They’re not exercising due diligence in confirming that the takedown requests are legitimate (for example, by actually asking the content owners).
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
Copyright, with a reasonable term (say, 14 years) is potentially useful in preserving author’s rights to profit from their own works. Patent laws should be applied far more strictly with respect to prior art and what constitutes a significant innovation, and should never be applied to algorithms. “Same as X, but ON THE INTERNET!” patents should be rejected in every case.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
It’s monopolistic corporations and incompetent governments that are runing the Internet for everyone. OF is a pox, but compared to those larger factors, OF piracy is nearly irrelevant. It might even be a positive if it damages OF.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
Yeah, but Lincoln is dead.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
They’d investigate reality, but that’d be science, which they are opposed to.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 1 week ago:
Even worse, Palantir is linked to Peter Thiel.
- Comment on ‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 2 weeks ago:
Not me. Nobody asked me.
- Comment on ‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 2 weeks ago:
If, God forfend, Farage gets into power, do you want him or his idiot flunkies having access to any information that could be used to blackmail or harass you?
Then why make a law mandating its colection?
- Comment on ‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 2 weeks ago:
Especially when the legal thing is stupid and intrusive.