leraje
@leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone
Atheistic satanist - justice, compassion, science.
- Comment on UK government starting to think about leaving X 3 days ago:
I’m no fan of Starmer, even less of the OSA but Grok is literally producing deepfake CSAM and other non consensual images. The UK government, like I would hope the vast majority of people, think that’s appalling and don’t want it to happen. They asked X/Musk to stop Grok producing non consensual deepfakes and all they did was limit its availability to paying subscribers - essentially making the creation of deepfake CSAM a premium service. All Musk really demonstrated is that X can act swiftly, despite the numerous times it said it can’t, but doesn’t want to deprive its paying users of the ability to create CSAM.
It’s totally insane to me that this is being framed, by US Republicans as a free speech issue but I guess a country that can murder a woman driving a car is fucked up in plenty of other ways too.
- Comment on Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn 5 days ago:
Agree with one side, not the other.
- Comment on Looking for Castopod opinions/experiences 6 days ago:
Could you DM me a link too please? I’ve got no issues paying for something that makes my life easier!
- Comment on Looking for Castopod opinions/experiences 6 days ago:
Yeah, things going wrong is a concern. From the very brief look I’ve had at the repo, it looks like PHP and a standard MySQL/Maria DB runs Castopod so I’m hoping that side of things would be minimal and similar to self-hosting a WP instance.
The VPS side, I’m reasonably OK with. I’ve been running static sites for a few years with zero issues so far but I am less familiar with this side of things.
In terms of bandwidth, based on (basic) stats up until now I would guestimate we have about 100 downloads per month and each episode is approx 90-100mb in size so the package I have my eye on, which offers 24TB bandwidth per month should easily cope with that.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
- Comment on What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design? 1 week ago:
For the threadiverse in particular I’d add transferable user created Communities (between instances).
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- Comment on Why have so many people stopped posting on social media? 1 month ago:
Constantly having the right-wing views of weapons grade cunts shoved into your eyeballs will do that.
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- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 3 months ago:
Lack of audit is not great I agree. I can see from a basic web search that security is an issue but I’m not sure ’nightmare’ is warranted. The lack of audit seems to be main focus of concern and I’d say thats a judgement call for each person depending on threat model. I was hoping for something more conclusive than that. Its certainly adequate for a more privacy-centric way of communicating than an app that doesn’t cater for Apple users at all.
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 3 months ago:
Could you link me some resources for that? I may need something to demonstrate that to others.
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 3 months ago:
Seems pretty similar to Jami except that it lacks the iOS and desktop clients that Jami already has.
- Comment on PHP is the English of programming languages 3 months ago:
It’s also easy to learn and ready-to-go on just about every shared hosting package on offer.
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 4 months ago:
Everyone knows what they did. That's not the issue that people have. The issue is proscribing them as a terrorist group when they quite clearly aren't a terrorist group in a monumental trivialisation of what terrorism actually is and an obvious attempt to silence people.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi music festival cancelled after backlash from locals 4 months ago:
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Iconography clearly 'designed' by coders.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 4 months ago:
It would improve the society
No. It would create a society in which the powerful have decided which genes are the ones they like when in reality, its diversity and complexity that is what's 'best' for humans.
and people quality of life
That is not how eugenics works.
I don't understand why is it bad
Then take a biodiversity and ethics class.
Just to Godwin the thread, eugenics is the province of nazi's and other totalitarian regimes. Even though it could never work in the way they want, all anyone who advocates eugenics really wants is to eradicate other people different than them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It's not a bad idea at all - more people should try things they're curious about. As long as everyone involved exercises informed consent its your call what you do.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 4 months ago:
The first step in implementing a military coup is to secure your base.
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 4 months ago:
On behalf of the saner members of the UK, sorry about Murray. Sadly, we're overrun with pedants of this nature which is largely why we've become such a backward set of mouth breathers since 2016-ish.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 4 months ago:
ABMN is not just Black Metal, they're YT channel (findable on Invidious too) is divided in to playlists by subgenre.
SNH also a huge mix of sub-genres and non-metal genres such as EDM, Noise, punk etc.
In terms of non-metal, there are similar projects for neofolk (which also has a tendency to attract the fash), the LeftFolk collective features some great music. The Riihimaki Collective feature hardcore, and DIY Conspiracy are a punk collective.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 4 months ago:
Luke's List (Google spreadsheet)
Antifascist Black Metal Network (not just Black metal)
- Comment on AI to help police catch criminals before they strike 4 months ago:
This will be fine. After all, a government that understands technology so well it implemented the genius tech regulations in the OSA coupled with a Police force with officers so intelligent they never get the law wrong or have a growing reputation for violence against women can easily be trusted to not take the UK down a dystopian path where the non-white and/or poor and/or disabled will be targetted simply by living in an area where a crime once happened.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 4 months ago:
"We need an excuse to carry on increasing the surveillance of our citizens."
"Just say sex offenders and terrorism. If anyone protests we can then call them a sex-offending terrorist, thus winning the argument instantly."
"Hmmm...we have used those excuses quite a lot over the last few years. Don't we risk-"
"The phrases becoming essentially meaningless? Well, yes, but it doesn't matter. By the time the populace finally realise that, we'll have total control." - Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 4 months ago:
The two examples the US uses - 'chilling online free speech after the Southport attacks' (translation: not giving credence to the lies Farage and the extreme right invented about the immigration status of the perpetrator in order to avoid people being burned to death in hotels) and 'prohibitions around silent prayer outside abortion clinics' (translation: stopping christofascists from trying to intimidate service users and providers) speak volumes about what fascist America sees as the only important free speech.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 5 months ago:
Again, I would have to check, but I think that might've been where Bruce got the idea.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 5 months ago:
I'd have to double check but I think it was a New 52 run. You're right to say he has no set, specific plan but his best work-in-progress is using her own warrior tendencies against her by making her constantly fight an unbeatable opponent.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 5 months ago:
He has a few possibles for Diana, largely centred around trapping her in a virtual world with an unbeatable enemy she is forced to fight until she dies of exhaustion.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 5 months ago:
All the DC billionaires think Superman is dodgy. Lex is a xenophobe who wants to destroy anything more powerful than him, Bruce sees a potential threat to humanity but respects the man. Oliver just thinks he's a pompous dick.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 months ago:
Lots of reasons.
They pay their artists an an absolute pittance with a model that vastly favours the big labels. New artists, those artists striving to establish themselves and/or independent artists are screwed over.
At the same time they pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pricks like Joe Rogan.
The 'fake artists' controversy where Spotify pay stock music production companies to produce pretty bland 'playlist' mood music, then created an internal team to seed these tracks on their uberhyped suggested playlists.
Getting caught heavily promoting AI Bands who have been trained on actual musicians work, without paying them for it, which in turn allows Spotify to pay out even less royalties to actual musicians.
Daniel Ek recently investing in 100m Euros into an AI weapons company, which has triggered an artist boycott.
You have zero ownership and zero access rights to the music you stream.
In short, if you care at all about music and the people who make it then streaming in general is not a good model for their future and Spotify is poison.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification in the UK 5 months ago: