Aesthesiaphilia
@Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
- Comment on Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact 1 year ago:
Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/
No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.
- Comment on Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people 1 year ago:
Funny thing is, kbin shadow bans almost all nsfw content.
- Comment on Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people 1 year ago:
I don't know about you, but I only notice when it's a wildly different pic, usually nsfw. Probably just bias, I bet it happens all the time with pics that seem somewhat related or it's a topic (and picture) you don't care about.
- Comment on 😲😲 1 year ago:
What a strange and beautiful land
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Literally every opinion I hold is morally right, and I have the right to gather other like minded people and oppress anyone who says otherwise
- ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM
2023
[transcribed from lip reading via telescope, as he was too high on his horse for the rest of us to hear]
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Also targeted at lower middle class people willing to put the majority of their paycheck towards a truck for 30 years
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
It's just the one but he's all over the place
Dude has a serious fixation on calling everyone a groomer
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
I normally agree with xkcd, but this is a huge straw man.
It's not the government oppressing you, but you are being oppressed. It's not the government restricting your speech, but your speech is being restricted.
People complaining about their speech getting restricted aren't saying "...by the government" and it's a cop out to pretend that's what they're talking about in the first place. That's not the conversation when it comes to canceling and deplatforming. That's not what people are complaining about. When people say "the right to free speech" in this context, they aren't talking about a specific legal, constitutional doctrine. They're talking about the social contract. They're saying, "hey, we generally believe in freedom as a concept, why are other people shushing me for voicing my opinion?"
Note I'm not a "free speech absolutist", I don't think we should give everyone a megaphone and tell em to have fun. Sometimes canceling is the appropriate response. There's a lot of social media assholes out there stirring up shit and they should get muzzled.
But this particular argument is bullshit.
The argument we should be making is this: what you are saying is itself so heinous and dangerous that it is a violation of the social contract. The government is not silencing you, but we will.
And we should also keep in mind that just because the government isn't silencing someone, that doesn't mean it's perfectly fine that we do. Mob mentality is a thing and sometimes we (the mob) can go too far. We should be measured about canceling and deplatforming.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
I'm still seeing no ads
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Yeah but Mozilla isn't tainted by it? Come on, that's ridiculous. He's not building some anti-gay code into the software, the homepage of Brave (or Firefox) isn't "lol fuck the woke".
Dig into any company, or any CEO, you'll find something to get angry about. People are people. Products are products. Open source products especially so.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Such a brave article
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- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
It's the whole fediverse
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
He's probably done some horrible thing
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
A lot of people on lemmy don't care about bigots, crypto, or anything else until something they dislike because it's not en vogue is doing it.
Some dude at Firefox donates $1000 against prop 8? I sleep
Some dude at Brave donates $1000 against prop 8? REAL SHITI'm not trying to get into the "everyone is equally bad" thing here, but with projects as large as these if you dig into the history of everyone involved you WILL find some distasteful shit, it's just statistics.
There's a lot of "Brave bad" going around the Fediverse, and people trying to find reasons to support that emotional belief, and stuff like that annoys me.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
That has nothing to do with the software. And that's a tiny donation. I'm not going to stop using an excellent tool because one of the guys in charge is a bigot. If that were the case, I wouldn't be able to eat, drink, breathe, make a phone call, or do anything really. There's a lot of people out there. Some of them are bigots. We should work to reduce their influence but we can't boycott literally everything. Every alternative to Brave has at least one bigot involved in it, I guarantee it.
Brave’s replacement for ads doesn’t reward users in a meaningful amount
Not enough > 0, which is what you get without adblock. And I'm fine with occasional non-targeted and unobtrusive ads to help fund a service I use.
Brave’s BAT was built around the cryptocurrency ecosystem
Who gives a shit except crypto bros? And who gives a shit about crypto bros anyway?
Brave was also caught up in a privacy scandal in 2020, when it was revealed that the browser was adding affiliate codes to some URLs typed into the address bar.
Are these affiliate codes tracking you? No? Who gives a shit? It's more money for Brave, same webpage for you.
That should have been enough to swear off Brave as a privacy-centric browser forever, considering the entire point of affiliate links is to collect data about the user and traffic source. For example, when you click an Amazon affiliate link in a web article, the publisher can see the exact products you purchase in the timeframe the tracking cookie remains active
Brave blocks cookies by default. Unless they specifically made an exception in their own browser for these codes, then this carefully-worded paragraph is just bullshit.
Much like the rest of this article. Bunch of poo-flinging. "Brave is involved in crypto, here's all the bad things crypto has done, that's why you shouldn't use Brave". Stupid guilt by association and a lot of hot air. Bringing a smoke machine to make people think there's fire.
There's a lot of effort going into making Brave seem like a bad browser and I don't know why.
- Comment on Hopsital 1 year ago:
The mildly infuriating part is how obviously fake it is
- Comment on Kevin Spacey cleared of sexually assaulting four men 1 year ago:
He didn't get off on a technicality, a jury found him not guilty.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Prior to capitalism, the homeless would just die every winter, so I think any number >0 is actually an improvement
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Thank you for pointing this out before I bothered reading that long-ass propaganda piece
Ignore this shite and move on, folks
- Comment on FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users 1 year ago:
Ah the age old bullshit.
"Hey, I kinda care about my rights--"
"FUCK YOU, YOU'RE AIDING TERRORISTS AND PEDOPHILES"
- Comment on FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users 1 year ago:
Some spaces approach like 99% private. Tails + encryption for example. Still can't ensure against governments monitoring tor exit nodes but other than that you're pretty well golden.
- Comment on Child Safety on Federated Social Media 1 year ago:
Because it's another "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" hysteria bait post.
They found 112 images of cp in the whole Fediverse. That's a very small number. We're doing pretty good.
- Comment on Child Safety on Federated Social Media 1 year ago:
We do know they only found, what, 112 actual images of CP? That's a very small number. I'd say that paints us in a pretty good light, relatively.
- Comment on Hur hurr is surr smurrth 1 year ago:
Needs more jpeg
- Comment on I can't code. 1 year ago:
Coding is the future
Yeah according to coders lol
Fediverse just skews tech heavy. The average person doesn't even know what a file is.
- Comment on The U.S. Constitution is like a legacy piece of software written by hand and published in 1787. 1 year ago:
This is like Read Another Book but for software devs