hooverd

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901.
by hooverd 3y ago
This isn't identity proofing! I believe websites shouldn't be allowed to discriminate based on software stack. Who decides what software stack is blessed? If it's about piracy and ad blocking, say it with your chest, don&#x27
902.
by hooverd 3y ago
Attention means that websites de facto control user's machines. If everyone uses it and they will you don't have a choice.
903.
by hooverd 3y ago
Sure, if you have a fundamentally different view of the Internet as approved dumb terminals rather than devices communicating over protocols. Say it with with your chest. Saying you'll still be allowed to run your own programs here is
904.
by hooverd 3y ago
Much like the Patriot act it was for your safety and security.
905.
by hooverd 3y ago
So the problem was that it didn't steal enough control away from users?
906.
by hooverd 3y ago
Well, Washington was our first president, so he can get away with that. If chapters of the Audubon society want to rename themselves, I say let them. The living shouldn't be beholden to the dead. It's nothing but a name at this po
907.
by hooverd 3y ago
Well, the Democratic party isn't named after a particular person for one.
908.
by hooverd 3y ago
Judges hate the "oopsie whoopsie did we do that? ;)" defense.
909.
by hooverd 3y ago
I see SOAP has entered the chat.
910.
by hooverd 3y ago
My local co-working space isn't VC backed. They're the 2x dog I guess.
911.
by hooverd 3y ago
Nah, you see this belief that baristas and grad students are the real elite. It goes back to thinking class is a cultural thing. So your rural landed gentry is working class because they own a truck.
912.
by hooverd 3y ago
What are you going to do about a police work stoppage, call the police?
913.
by hooverd 3y ago
Indeed, I studied in the engineering and not the gender department (we barely had liberal arts IMO), and I too learned how to read. Maybe the cultural elite, like starbucks baristas and people who work in HR.
914.
by hooverd 3y ago
Wild how the Real America always ends up being exurban jet-ski dealers.
915.
by hooverd 3y ago
Copyright for me and not for thee, huh.
916.
by hooverd 3y ago
Huh, there has to be a better way to do this than with a proprietary SaaS service.
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by hooverd 3y ago
It's like a signed message. The image is the clear text. The point is verifying authenticity.
918.
by hooverd 3y ago
The people using generative models didn't develop their internal model though?
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by hooverd 3y ago
Then the Stable Diffusion model should hold the copyright. And using generative models doesn't make you any more of an artist that commissioning a human does.
920.
by hooverd 3y ago
I think DRM would be acceptable if we chopped copyright down to 20 years and forbid the use of DRM on content after that. That or require any application of DRM to support all devices it's used for the duration of the work's (so 9
921.
by hooverd 3y ago
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll stop at just games.
922.
by hooverd 3y ago
The open internet was fine, it's all the centralized orgs that done exactly that.
923.
by hooverd 3y ago
Industry is desperate to destroy general purpose computing.
924.
by hooverd 3y ago
Techies will post about how draconian that North Korean Ullim tablet is and then try to recreate it at home, for the children of course.
925.
by hooverd 3y ago
The difference is people will still be complete assholes but they also know where you work.
926.
by hooverd 3y ago
Eh, as long as they have source material they're okay.
927.
by hooverd 3y ago
18F too. Although their name is unfortunate. Maybe they'll open a Cali office someday.
928.
by hooverd 3y ago
Unfortunately the federal government is allergic to doing anything in-house.
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by hooverd 3y ago
Up there with hits like "being charged with destruction of property because your blood splatter from being beaten got on a cop's uniform" [0] [0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-day-ferguson-cops-were-cau...
930.
by hooverd 3y ago
Paradoxically, if the government did more it would spend less. All civil servants without in-house expertise know how to do is RFP and spend money.

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