GloomyBoots

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by GloomyBoots 11mo ago
Sometimes I’ll search something benign on Google, DDG, or whatever. And I won’t have disabled safe search. But it will be on moderate by default. And yet, horrifyingly , sometimes I’ll see results that are NSFW. I mean criticize AI all you
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by GloomyBoots 1y ago
Not the same ethically. I’m not arguing that. But it’s the same mechanics. Browsing a dump floating around on the Internet isn’t the same as stealing someone’s personal info. The data is already there. You’re not depriving anyone else of it
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by GloomyBoots 1y ago
This feels like a very dated metaphor. When my older brother introduced me Napster, was I actually rifling through Lars Ulrich’s wallet and shaking out mp3s? In this case, a clone of the wallet has been preserved for all and sundry to perus
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by GloomyBoots 1y ago
This is one of those situations where it becomes abundantly clear whose dedication to abstract ethics overrides their acknowledgment of material reality and respect for others in terms of real-world safety.
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by GloomyBoots 1y ago
Even that is an incredibly vague and ahistorical definition. It’s strange how much ink is spilled over redefining ‘fascism’ in as vague a way as possible (thinking of Eco here, who remains perennially popular among those who tilt at hooked
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by GloomyBoots 1y ago
Any explanation for ignoring parenthetical text? Is this maybe indirectly inherited from RFC 822?
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by GloomyBoots 1y ago
Pretty sure in this niche a MITM is called a Lucky Pierre.
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
Well that seems to open up a loophole. Send them the password-protected document. Don’t send the password since it wasn’t explicitly requested. Could even use a one-time pad for good measure since it is just a really long password.
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
I assumed they were describing ytmnd
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
This is very nitpicky, but “Nazi” always seems out of place to me in historical discussions. It’s a derisive nickname mainly used by their opponents. It’s convenient, sure, and more recognizable than “national socialist” in popular culture.
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
What I saw were claims (and screen recordings) of being instabanned, not mass-blocked, for statements like “there are only two genders” which is a pretty basic conservative stance. One of the sources was that End Wokeness account, so not ex
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
I’m not logged in. This is based on what I see as a potential user checking out the site for the first time.
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
No it wasn’t. The video didn’t make any attempt at believability, and Musk posted it with the text “this is awesome” followed by laughing emojis. The joke could not have been more telegraphed. You may as well complain that SNL is misleading
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
> It's because we've reached a point where the average conservative rhetoric is toxic, harmful and generally flat out incorrect. Yes, but not particularly. > Political lines are now about acknowledging facts or not Political
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
I'm not signed in. Maybe that's why. Right now I opened the home page, paged down through the top 20 or so bloots or whatever they're called, and got: - An MSNBC video about fighting back against conservatives - A post celebr
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
Honestly, I've thought about signing up for Bluesky on a similar basis, that a lot of the people I want to follow for my hobbies are there. I'm not sure what you mean about the rape threats. Is there a documented increase in such
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm criticizing him for. Musk posted an obviously satirical deepfake of Harris. It was clownish. It was unprofessional. Jack wouldn't have done that. And yet, the response to this from liberal
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
Every time I've opened the bluesky homepage it's been highly political. Not even in the sense of "here's a topic I feel strongly about". It's just "fuck conservatives" over and over. At the same time,
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
That was true previously as well. The most substantial difference between Jack and Musk is that the former was better at maintaining a professional demeanor. His biases were no fewer, his tenure at Twitter was markedly more censorious, but
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
There’s also the phrasing “compatible with Jewish origin”. That doesn’t mean that he definitively has Jewish DNA either, especially given that there are no specifically Jewish haplogroups. This whole thing seems very premature until autosom
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by GloomyBoots 2y ago
I’m ambidextrous as well, but always was I guess. Most things feel more natural to do with one hand or the other, and I just do that. I never felt like ambidextrous was accurate, so I say weird-handed. The reason I write right-handed is tha
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I’ve run into similar “features” like copilot refusing to complete anything that includes references to gender.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Is this true? I’m not saying it isn’t, but I buy Blu-ray’s pretty regularly and my player is offline but hasn’t had any issues. I mainly buy older films, so maybe I’ve just been lucky in avoiding protection used for new releases.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Are you fine with desecrating the bodies of others against their wishes?
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
If people speaking a certain dialect tend not to work in a particular role, an LLM is only being accurate in deprioritizing that occupation when guessing what they might do. It does make it not bias when an LLM is accurately representing re
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
They’re pretending that an LLM recognizing patterns that exist in reality reflects a problem in its training data. So much of the conversation around “reducing bias” really means intentionally introducing biased data to “socially engineer”
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> Sex doesn't have a goal, neither does biology more generally. I’m trying to take this in good faith, but I’m struggling, and it feels like a convenient way to divert this conversation into meaningless hair-splitting about whether
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> Read this from the perspective of a woman, but especially a slut. You have invented a whole philosophy based on the idea that women have some sort of numerical rating That’s the nature of the world today. Everything is quantified, ever
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Florida recently passed HB 269 in which acts that are generally uncontroversially categorized as speech were criminalized. There are also anti-BDS laws, etc.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I accidentally linked the trailer. The full documentary is here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM

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