jMyles

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by jMyles 1y ago
It's so frustrating that "just call the cops" is the answer, at the very same time that the cops are creating a massive disruption to our society. And even if this were a viable answer: legal process _where_? What's to
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A simple way to end the discussion: No matter what the state says, or what legislatures pass what laws, we're going to continue to live out our right to general purpose computing, including sending only what we choose to send over the
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Clearly the system by which "grandma" owns a small part of a criminal organization is flawed. Whether criminal liability needs to flow to individual owners I don't know, but I'm sure someone has done the thinking here ab
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No flushing is necessary; it is conceptually fading on the internet whether the state acknowledges it or not. It'll be great if some solemn elder-statesmen step up and read the writing on the wall instead of throwing more tantrums, but
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I have always used the word "plaintext" to mean content that has not been subject to encryption or hashing, whether it is text, arbitrary bytes (including multimedia formats), or even abstract ideas which can be somehow subject to
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Being able to instantly know the locations of our friends and of threats to them (whether in the form of other people, natural disasters, fires, anything!) is such an obvious benefit to public safety in the information age. It's one of
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Yeah, I see this argument all over HN. And in a sense it's true that the affront here isn't against math per se, but against general purpose computing. But ultimately, the right to general purpose computing (ie, the right to run
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It's great that signal / open whisper engage in the political situation and the pressure on these states. We also need to be sure that signal / open whisper / matrix / telegram / everybody continues to make end
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The shared knowledge base with my agent has some graph-like areas, some table-like areas, and some that seem to evolve back and forth. So far, I'm using postgres and helping the agent develop MCP functions for it. As we find some opti
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Bluegrass is a highly technical, musically complex, urban form of Appalachian country music. It is distinct for sharing the rhythm among stringed instruments (stemming from the constraint that the trip down from the mountains into the citi
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I was doing that for a while, and running a seedbox. However, on occasions when the seedbox was the only seeder, clients were unable to begin the download, for reasons I've never figured out. If I also seeded from my desktop, then fa
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> Not sure why very nice people on the internet are apologizing for laws that prohibit ripping off other people's work. These laws are very important. FYI, I'm a bluegrass musician. And I don't know who you think these la
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I'm so sorry that we live in this weird temporary state of humanity where some of us put others in cages over the copying of bytes - one of the most obvious proclivities of the internet we've invented. Thank you for your work.
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Yep, I put everything on bandcamp. https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/ Even better though, is a P2P service that is censorship resistant. But yeah I like Bandcamp plenty. > artists who actively support freedom. The blueg
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> it’s just piracy in today’s drm world ...which is more important / needed than ever. I encourage every who asks to get my music from bit torrent instead of spotify.
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This is a very reasonable, thoughtful answer. array_key_first is a gaslighter and not worth your time.
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> Do other apes want to kill themselves when their photos with no clothes on are taken? If not then it's some kind of sick culture that makes humans think in this manner. Fix that. /thread
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> Fix... The patriachy? You want me to fix the patriarchy? Uhhh, yeah. Instead of crippling society by suggesting we remove our eyeballs or brains (or their electronic equivalents), let's fix the actual problems. Your use of the &q
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So... are we all just working on various ways of using Claude Code in docker with git worktrees? Is that like, the whole world's project this month? :-)
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Is that true? There are many level of exercise of political, social, and economic power that happen in the commons. The camera is a primary tool of defense against injustice in this area. Restrictions (especially with the force of law, bu
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...we have evolved eyes, brains capable of retaining visual memory of what they capture, and communications media capable of describing and depicting those captured photons. If you believe in the basic right of general purpose computing - n
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...and how does that work when we complete the abolitionist struggle and no longer have a separate segment of society assigned to "police activity"?
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> Young girls are killing themselves every day over something you're saying "who cares" about ...I think this advances the point GP makes. We have allowed obsession over body image to take on religious proportions (fallin
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> I find it interesting how the winds have changed on this topic. My very very strong gut feeling is that this is an influx of bots muddying the waters of discussion in concert with the unleashing of the secret police force that is ICE.
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> Basic human decency. While I think we all agree that this is crucially important, for many of us the affront to decency is not the capture of photons that have previously bounced off someone's skin, but the very idea that that per
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The article doesn't directly talk about robot-to-human violence, but presumably if root access at the software layer allows absolutely any command, it is possible to cause the described botnet to physically attack humans. I realize tha
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Well, maybe the word "plausible" is doing too much work in my statement. Most abuse happens from people known to the child, and of that portion, most are family members. It seems like there is sufficient opportunity in-person com
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The prevention has to be in the underlying layer of physics / math / the internet such that the state is _unable _ to make (or at least enforce) such laws. We need to accept and celebrate a world in which the capabilities of state
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> Well, what is "the problem"? Is it children being abused, or is it the distribution of CSAM? It seems obvious that it is entirely the former and not at all the latter. In other words, N is positive infinity. Am I missing so
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> You're seriously suggesting that any policy that doesn't 100% eliminate a problem is a joke? I think a more charitable reading is that any policy that doesn't 100% _target_ a problem is a joke. This policy doesn't

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