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by dcow 2y ago
Based on what we now know, this simply isn't an accurate assessment.
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by dcow 2y ago
> Transhumanists simply believe in augmenting their bodies beyond their natural capabilities. The rest is just misrepresentation. I have trouble with this characterization, because if you use it, then 99% of the human race is transhumani
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by dcow 2y ago
This is not factually true, it’s a philosophical statement.
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by dcow 2y ago
And like why not just scrub the `sub` and issue a generic id token (solves idp privacy issues too)… if your service can auth with the claims in the generic token great. if you need more then step up. surely VDCs as a concept have had enough
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by dcow 2y ago
really? that’s a shame kerberos is old and clunky but conceptually it got so much right. I’m so sick of the modern idea that i should wake up and babysit my machine through N different oauth dances to log in to all the services i need on a
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by dcow 2y ago
Doesn’t this require the server to consult the IDP on every log in, though, to make sure the id token is valid? One of the staples of ssh from a UX standpoint is that it’s peer to peer.
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by dcow 2y ago
I am really receptive of transhumanist goals. I think it’d be cool as shit to upload my consciousness into the internet and download it into a robot. I’m not worried about an AI super event killing us all. Mechanical wombs seem like they’d
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by dcow 2y ago
I think you’re giving transhumanism an elementary treatment. Everybody believes to some degree that it’s okay to “modify themselves” or, more generally, to apply technology to humans to achieve better outcomes. If you apply aloe vera to a s
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by dcow 2y ago
I don’t think you fundamentally understand what makes a transhumanist. The differentiating line is not improve vs harm. Everyone wants to improve life with tech save maybe the Amish. It’s human vs not. A transhumanist is willing to entertai
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by dcow 2y ago
It’s one thing to say “most of us don’t believe the extreme worldview those few crackpot members of our community are spewing, transhumanism is actually… <proceed to refute the whackos>” It’s another thing to tacitly agree with the cr
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by dcow 2y ago
Yes, but this sounds too (deliberately) naïve to me—like you’re trying to convince a kid that hard drugs are all harmless because caffeine is a drug. The dichotomy is not that Humanists refute technology while transhumanists embrace it. T
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by dcow 2y ago
There are more Trump supporters here than you probably realize. They just aren’t ones to wear their political affiliation as a badge for approval, and aren’t as loud, generally.
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by dcow 2y ago
I appreciate your insight but this explanation seems overly simplified (or needlessly complicated). It’s very possible that the demagogues are seen for what they are irrespective of city vs country and people across the board don’t like hav
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by dcow 2y ago
In any event, the GP’s comment still holds. The narrative that Trump is just a populist for the uneducated masses is really really… toxic.
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by dcow 2y ago
The situation laid out in the article doesn’t really indicate in any way that people are just mad at Trump and fleeing to EU alternatives. Yeah that’s obviously part of the acute response in 2025, but everything indicated by the data and th
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by dcow 2y ago
Apple have been the best in my experience. On apple devices all 3rd party passkey providers are shown at the same time in the same UX where you’d choose iCloud (their native provider) Google Android may be good, but Chrome is not doing ri
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by dcow 2y ago
Platform/vendor lock-in != device bound
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by dcow 2y ago
I was referring to device bound discoverable credentials and saying all implementations that an average Joe will run across have a sync fabric deliberately. Platform lock-in is a different thing. AFAIU the attestation referred to here won’t
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by dcow 2y ago
Nailed it. 2FA is about businesses doing risk management.
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by dcow 2y ago
FWIW no consumer implementation of passkeys is device bound for exactly this reason. The threat of a user losing a device is much bigger and pressing than getting phished. All passkeys are backed up in a sync fabric.
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by dcow 2y ago
Funny how that always happens. Passkeys were supposed to be great and what you ended up with is platform players abusing their position to push lock in to their own passkey solutions over fair access to arbitrary 3rd party providers. When t
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by dcow 2y ago
I mean, it doesn’t bring any actual value to the conversation so probably not. I was trying to be nice about it.
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by dcow 2y ago
You forget that because the company cannot enforce copyright, I can just take whatever bits the company distributes to me and do what I please with them. I wouldn’t he opposed to a broad law requiring software companies to make buildable so
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by dcow 2y ago
We already have systems that work better. None of them depend on copyright. Crowdfunding [generally commissions], patreon-type platforms, sponsored content, live performances, etc etc etc.
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by dcow 2y ago
They don’t have a right to extract art from artists… commission means pay for a piece up front, not after the fact. And on top of that you can only make digital copies cheaply. Again they would not be “stillborn”. We’ve figured out crowdsou
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by dcow 2y ago
This has been my understanding too. The cultural reasons arose because until recently pigs gave humans parasites.
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by dcow 2y ago
The GPL is considered by its author to be a “hack” on the copyright system to perpetually enforce source availability. Most consider it unnecessarily restrictive and would prefer a world without it, Stallman included. But since Xerox used c
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by dcow 2y ago
No they really wouldn't. Companies and fans would commission art. We pay our damn food service staff on “would you like to pay a little extra today” tips method. Don’t tell me, especially with zero justification, that creatives depend
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by dcow 2y ago
I believe the correct answer is “nobody deserves the copyright”. It’s a big fat myth that creatives would starve if copyright disappeared tomorrow. Think of all the countless hours society has wasted arguing about who owns creative expressi
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by dcow 2y ago
It already is automating parts of developing quality code. You’ll just have to believe me on that one, I guess.

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