salawat

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811.
by salawat 2y ago
Allowing assholes to continue being assholes is the crux of the problem. Companies ignoring DNT on as a default should have been met with massive punitive fines and liability. Instead, we're not doing anything to curtail the behavior.
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by salawat 2y ago
It is hard to get a man to understand that which his salary depends on him not understanding. -Upton Sinclair
813.
by salawat 2y ago
Why are you (and others in this thread) teaching these models how to essentially lie by omission? Do you not realize that's what you're doing? Or do you just not care? I get you're looking at it from the security angle but at
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by salawat 2y ago
Teapot Dome 2.0 ladies and gents.
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by salawat 2y ago
Skype was destroyed the moment Microsoft bought it and converted it to a centralized, interceptable platform at the behest of the U.S. government. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/nsa-docs-boast-now-w...
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by salawat 2y ago
Cancel culture == ye olde time honored practice of blacklisting which is specifically called out as a form of unfair labor practice. Welcome back to the days of the Gilded Age; repeat and relearn. Those who do not learn from history are do
817.
by salawat 2y ago
I have none, nor will on grounds that I'm not bringing children into this world on ot's current trajectory, but I will damn well stand up to try to help and prepare every child brought into the world otherwise, including by workin
818.
by salawat 2y ago
Then impose punishment for doing so. Parenting is hard, and not called "being your kid's best friend" for a reason. And mind, I'm not against using legislation to cut down on the exploitive and addiction ridden field of
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by salawat 2y ago
Garbage in, garbage out.
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by salawat 2y ago
Don't. Stop normalizing and/or making simple these groups actions. Look. Not all things need be made. In point of fact, some should pointedly not. Systems that don't respect the sovereignty of the user are exactly the types o
821.
by salawat 2y ago
An ideal operated as a verifiable, legally sanctioned Ponzi snd Congressional slush fund. Great idea, sadly co-opted by other interests.
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by salawat 2y ago
Constitution says nothing about barrel loading, smooth bore muskets. It says "arms". It's a fairly timeless umbrella term for "weapons or objects usable as such". The only people who have trouble understanding this
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by salawat 2y ago
Ah. The old Hughes Amendment trick that should have been rendered invalid years ago but is still considered valid because people are too dumb to see past the first two layers of indirection.
824.
by salawat 2y ago
People are becoming more aware of the Shadow State that is the financial/mercantilist class. The people that the government outsources everything it can't do on paper to. I would not be surprised to see other forms of insurer come
825.
by salawat 2y ago
Developers are users. Stop forgetting that.
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by salawat 2y ago
Surprised Supreme Court let that through. Passing laws directed at particular individuals is not kosher under the article 1 Section 9. Clause 3. >No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. Then again, the bill is creating
827.
by salawat 2y ago
> think ordinary people want to express themselves and generative AI is a promising technology to help with that. Ordinary people aren't training AI, and building bots to rip training datap from ever nook and cranny of the net. The
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by salawat 2y ago
Difference only in magnitude, not in kind. It's memory holing no matter which way you cut it. If the message has deliberate barriers erected to being recieved, i.e. the messages receptibility is infringed upon, it's clearly censor
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by salawat 2y ago
That's rather what all of these AI salivators are all about.
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by salawat 2y ago
Some . Not everyone here did. Some of us watched from the sidelines and tried to tell people they shouldn't do that. But ya can only do so much.
831.
by salawat 2y ago
Null is shorter, and given the nightmarish queries I've had to read/write, I'll take any mercy that comes my way.
832.
by salawat 2y ago
Also known as "eliminating the fail state" or "rendering invalid states unrepresentable". Unfortunately, also very attractive to being used corruptly in the political arena (see nudge theory, newspeak). Can also be downr
833.
by salawat 2y ago
Chattel, as I'm using it is in reference to the usage in distinguishing an "ownable piece of property" from an employee". Namely, a magic, technologically reproducible box that can be applied almost as effectively as a h
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by salawat 2y ago
You're not going to get an answer you find agreeable, because you're hoping for an answer that allows you to continue to treat the tool as chattel, without conferring to it the excess baggage of being an individuated entity/l
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by salawat 2y ago
Welcome to why we've always warned people to learn to sustainably self-host. After a while, the deep pocketed will begin to use disintermediation and deplatforming against you. It's hard. It seems like it shouldn't be necessa
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by salawat 2y ago
CALEA is a mandate from the U.S. Government to backdoor all telecom infrastructure for U.S. LE and intelligence purposes.
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by salawat 2y ago
Child positive growth only serves to further the Ponzi-esque post New Deal-esque Social Security apparatus. It is no more stable/sustainable than reliance on H-1B's. Until we break the Ponzi structure, all we're doing is gasl
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by salawat 2y ago
Actually, they're called by a different name. Shareholders.
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by salawat 2y ago
>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, Woefully out of date. We don't even politically understand the concept of freedom anymore. Hell, just look at how much of our jurisprudence is pinned on the "Interstate Commerce&qu
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by salawat 2y ago
Why are you pasting huge chunks of potentially crown jewels code into a 3rd party service where prompts are going to most likely be turned into training/surveillance material?

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